OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[DetroitDad08]

Word, I have been to one in Indianna and 2 in N. Ohio, Just didn't feel right!

[LightninBoy]

I recently stopped into a Meijers in Indianapolis. I have so many memories of Meijers from growing up in Grand Rapids that it felt like a homecoming to me. I almost posted about it in the "things that make my day" thread.

[-Deborah-]

Meijers (as we call it) was my favorite place as a kid. The one in Canton had a play area in the middle of the store that was awesome. Of course, people would be crazy to leave kids in such a place unattended these days, but back then it wasn't a big deal. I'd go play while the folks shopped.

Then again, maybe they were trying to ditch me. My parents recently told me when I was an infant, they put a sign out in their yard asking for a babysitter and took the first person who offered. Ha.

When in Ludington, I did 90% of the shopping at Meijers but 10% at Walmart. When the same lunchmeat is a dollar cheaper at Walmart, it's hard to resist. The Walmarts down here, though, are crazy busy and not worth the hassle. Meijers it is!

[DetroitDad08]

Touche... My mom lives in Sterling Hts, at 17 & Dodgepark. So three or four times a year I'm there for a little VaKay.. I prolly go to the Meijer at 16 & Van Dyke, just about everyday! Plus they got a RedBox which is the heat!

[Coop]

Meijers Thrifty Acres is what I remember as a kid - the first one in Kalamazoo had the same play area that Deb remembers and I have many memories as a kid spent there as well.

[CGVT]

I am moving (again) next week and will have to change my internet provider.

What is faster, DSL or Cable?

Of course, I have to weigh out cost vs speed, but I need a general idea of what I should look for...

[LionsFanInJapan]

I am moving (again) next week and will have to change my internet provider.

What is faster, DSL or Cable?

Of course, I have to weigh out cost vs speed, but I need a general idea of what I should look for...

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/dslvscablemodem/a/speedcompare.htm

Cable is faster...but if a bunch of people in your neighborhood are accessing the internet, your speed will drop since it's shared bandwidth.

I know over here the DSL speeds have a lot to do with how far you are from the base.

[bimmer84]

Cable.

[Sweatpants Murphy]

cable is generally faster and more reliable...at least it is in my area.

[CGVT]

Thanks guys. After I posted my question, I did a little reading. It looks as if cable is the way to go.

[Panoptes]

Coop:

Apple `stunned' to find iPhones show too many bars
Apple `stunned' to find iPhones overstate signal strength; holding it wrong still a problem
*Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer, On Friday July 2, 2010, 9:45 am EDT

NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple Inc. said Friday that it was "stunned" to find that its iPhones have for years been using a "totally wrong" formula to determine how many bars of signal strength they are getting.

Apple said that's the reason behind widespread complaints from users that the latest model, iPhone 4, can show a sudden plunge in signal strength when they hold it in a way that covers a small black strip on one edge of the phone. Users online have jokingly called this the "death grip" for the phone.

That drop seems exaggerated because the phone can wrongly display four or five bars of signal strength when it shouldn't, Apple said.

"Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place," the company said in a letter to users.

Apple launched the iPhone 4 on June 24 in the U.S. and four other countries.

Some outside engineers and users have blamed the iPhone 4's apparent reception problems on the novel design that incorporates its antenna into the case. But the company said that any phone will show reduced reception if held in a way that covers the antenna, usually mounted at the rear and bottom of a phone. It maintains that iPhone 4's wireless performance is better than previous models. And it said the incorrect signal-strength formula existed in the original iPhone, launched in 2007.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Apple-stunned-to-find-iPhones-apf-1175483258.html?x=0

[DetroitDad08]

lol.... I hate apple...

[Coop]

I do wonder if Jobs understands the concepts of quality control and product testing. For all the attention that stupid antenna got at WWDC did none of the product "testers" try actually holding the phone?

quite a PR embarrassment but Apple repeats the same mistakes every year with iphone product releases.

[Drew]

That's because they're in such a money-grab hurry to the thing out on the streets.

[Topweasel]

I have to say this even as an Anti-Apple person at heart. It is a software problem for the most part.

The connectible communication rate is very very very poorly shown on the phone. Over 50% of the signal, from best to lowest possible and still be connected, is displayed as a 5 bar signal. Which means that the single loss that all phones have when a person is holding their phone (that admittedly is worse on the Iphone 4but not enough to make a deal of it) could go practically from 5 bars to 1 dependent on low in the spectrum of a 5 bar signal you have. The reverse end is that when a person isn't bridging the antenna's it has one of the best signal rates.