Very interesting. My iPhone4 from ATT is still thinking it is the wrong time, SO very annoying. Also I am running 4.3.

Hey Gary… don’t worry.

Had it myself for the first time just over 6 weeks ago for major surgery.
It’s not like sleep at all: no dreaming, no tossing & turning etc.

In my case, the anaesthetist was in a small room off from the main theater. I was wheeled in on my bed. Some lines were inserted into my left hand and forearm, he disappeared behind me to check something… we chatted for a few seconds and then… I woke up in a large sunny room.

It will seem like a handful of seconds will have passed since the anaesthetist induced full anaesthesia and waking up in the recovery room. Depending on the surgery they will have already put you on post-op pain relief and you may just feel fine and dandy like I did. Upon awakening, they will probably ask you a few simple questions to ascertain your mental state.

Afterwards, you may be thirsty — don’t gulp water, though. It can leave you feeling nauseous. If you can manage it, it’s also quite nice to have something a little starchy yet easy to digest like half a banana or a cookie, if doctors allow you to take food.

Afterwards, I was on a morphine drip for 5 days and oral painkillers for the entire time in hospital — I’m still on them now but a much-reduced dose…

It’s important to mobilise yourself as soon as the nurses let you. Take little gentle walks around the place — gets the circulation, respiration and digestive system up and running.

Hong Kong, Japan & a few other countries have been using technology like this for a while. Hopefully it’ll start being mainstream in Western countries soon.

Hong Kong uses a SMART type card for everything, transport, vending machines, etc etc.

Japan uses their mobile phones, AFAIK

Push Notifications are when your phone automatically checks for updates, alerts etc. without you having to open the app right? I guess it’s just misleading to me because when I hear "push" notifications, I think of something that happens when I push the app or open it up.

Thanks for the fast response!

A push notification is sent from the server to phone automatically. Thus, when something changes on the server in regards to your Facebook account, the information is pushed to your phone if you have subscribed to receive that type of notification. In short, you don’t have poll for the information because the information is being pushed to you.

is that thing besides the ethernet port the "Kinect port" they mentioned on the spec sheets ? just why couldn’t the do it with an usb port exactly

At this point price is the only thing that concerns me. Hoping apple keeps the same price point as Snow leopard and the upgrade coming in at $29. or $49 on DVD

$29, Not a chance. Probably at least $79.

If you have been using a computer for the last 20 years, there is no question that Word currently is the way to go, it seems to be perfected.

The future for Pages is much brighter then for Word, bit of a learning curve, but looking forward to Pages 2 (and Apple getting another $79)

I have to agree with most here that Pages didn’t live up to my expectations. However, I can’t agree with you that Word has been perfected. Word is complete nightmare in certain situations. Its non-intuitive and not very user friendly in many cases (especially the windows version!). I do prefer it to Pages, but its by no means the best that can be done.

Keynote on the other hand is fantastic, and considerably easier to use and prettier than Powerpoint.

I think we can see it all around us that people are switching. Im a recent switcher myself and have had 2 Macs now in 12 months.

What im interested in though, is what effect Vista will have on the rate of switchers. Its fairly easy to get a casual PC user to switch on eye candy alone. Will this work when Vista out eye candys OSX?

Get Jaguar, and all your problems will be resolved!!;)

1. Real men ride Harleys.

And Mac users consider themselves as computer savy, LOL! They prefer a simple OS that a monkey could use. Now that’s savy.

If a person is looking for the best overall experience, even if they lack technical skills, if not luck, it could be a very savvy decision.

*sigh* Okay I give up.

I don’t think you are fearful and defensive.

As if security concerns weren’t bad enough if your phone gets stolen.., If this is used to pay automatically for services and merchandise, what’s to prevent a thief from running up a huge balance by using a stolen iPhone’s RFID? Here in the UK we have to enter a PIN when using a credit card, and that seems to deter thieves. However, there are some places that require only a signature for some bank cards – my ex’s purse was stolen in London and within the thirty minutes it took to report this to the bank 300 GBR pounds were charged to her bank card. Using a mobile phone for payment is not new – it’s just a stupid idea.

Worst Apple ads ever. You attract more flies with sugar than vinegar, and Apple’s all about the vinegar.

Not Microsoft’s market… yet.

They want that peice of the pie. Give them time, they will try to take it.

I’m embarrassed for him at the moment, for the way he’s acting like a spolit 10 year old kid, going on about Obama’s birth certificate and college degrees. Has he got nothing better to do?

no, he doesn’t. and thankfully it should mean that he’ll have no chance of getting anywhere near being President.

Worst Apple ads ever. You attract more flies with sugar than vinegar, and Apple’s all about the vinegar.

Meh, it was effective enough to get in the LA Times…

…the only reason why I didn’t like the campaign at first was because I thought it was dull and everyone would pass it by as if it were just another commercial. But according to this article, it sounds like it has generated some definite interest…which, imo, is a good thing.

Yes, the best at multiplying it’s installed base number by just the fact that it requires so much redundancy.

Let’s not even get into licensing… CALs, Per computer, Per user, Per what now ?

still cheaper than a lot of the competition. before we went to sql 2005 we looked at Oracle. by the time you bought the add on packs it was almost $1 million for our installation. SQL was 1/4 that.

AD might be a bit expensive but the AD forests people created in Windows 2000 can be upgraded every version with minimal issues and it works out of the box. with other products you first have to spend months creating your schema, pray it doesn’t break when used with other products and upgrading can be a big PITA. AD is the apple of corporate IT. you don’t need a team of geeks toiling away for months to code a ldap schema, it just works out of the box

You bring a fresh perspective to these boards. Actually discussing an issue rather than getting worked up in a tizzy and shouting platitudes.

well that’s too kind! I like it here because people seem pretty well informed. Maybe Jobs’ pretentious claim that Apple is "the intersection of the Liberal Arts and Technology" (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1976935-4,00.html#ixzz1JLMouV91) isn’t too far off the mark.

…I’ve only had one bad experience w/ general anesthesia, but it was an unusual situation so I don’t give it much weight…
Same here, the only time I had a problem was when they had to keep me under longer than expected because the idiot stand-in denist took the wrong two teeth out realised and went back for the right two!

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Capacitive home button sounds believable as apple has gone away with buttons on the MacBooks trackpad. Apple likes touch, not clicking. Lol

I don’t buy it. What a nightmare that would be if just touching that area of the iPod took you back to the home screen. (Even the MacBook trackpads require a physical ‘click’ in order to register.) This would be a usability disaster.

Can’t imagine how pricey those cards are gonna be!

This is the stupidest POS news. AM I RIGHT? Can’t buy an iPhone ONLINE in NY for a day and something is interesting about this? I can’t believe CNBC is so anxiously awaiting tablet and new iphone news that they think this is significant.

It’s jailbroken. And the video says its 4.0 on the about screen. If this was iOS 5, it would be an embarrassment.

Cripes… it helps to *read* around a bit before loosing your rag…

Bloggers always go overboard on this stuff. It is clear that Apple is trying to protect their "iPod" brand, not attack "podcast" per se…

See the Zdnet dicussion of this, which includes an excerpt of a letter from Apple which specifically excludes "podcast" as a term they are seeking to protect…

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1252

To many people jump on bandwagons before they check their facts…

So the fact that AT&T can currently know everything about you from miles away is ok, but if they add a chip that works for 30 or 40 feet…that’s a problem?

I like your point, but just to emphasize even further… The RFID that we’re likely to see in use in an iPhone wouldn’t have that far of a useful range. We’d be talking 2 feet max. See previous post.