Jason.Tapp

With all the reports lately of Apple’s Antennagate, there have been videos floating around showing that all phones suffer from this apparent death grip attenuation.

To try and deflect the attention that the new iPhone 4 has been receiving for its poor signal quality Apple posted video that it claims show the problem happening on other devices. So I was shocked to see that the Blackberry Bold 9700 was one of them. I have had this phone since the first week it came out, and aside from the abysmal service in the Cornwall, ON area I have not had a problem with this phone.

I followed that same steps that Apple takes in their videos. Step one 1 show the phone normally with a light grip. Then step 2 show it with a death grip. AS you can see in my video the phone does not even loose a bar the whole time.

Apple Video

My Video

But let us get back to the main topic. It should not matter how many bars you have, as long as the phone can compete a connection to a tower it will hold the connection; unless there is actually a problem with the phone or tower. I have been in many areas that I get 1 bar and the phone still can make calls and receive email. Give a listen to This Week in Tech or Macbreak Weekly and you’ll hear that the problem is not the dropped bars but the dropped calls. If you cannot make a clear call and keep it then the phone has greater problems then a mathematic formula shown bars.

Peace out.

Jason.Tapp

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via Poll: Fox most trusted name in news – Andy Barr – POLITICO.com.

This was disturbing.

Very Interesting Read.

via Only in Canada: Harper’s prorogation is a Canadian thing.

So we are into week two of the H1N1 vaccine program, and honestly I cannot believe what I am seeing.

First rule of a Pandemic, DO NOT ASSEMBLE IN GROUPS, Second rule of a Pandemic, DO NOT ASSEMBLE IN GROUPS.

What have we learned here? And if you do not know why you should not assemble in groups, simply think of the spread.

But not only are they getting people to assemble in groups they are getting people to assemble in groups outside in the cold. So while you and your family stand beside the person that is spreading the flu to you, the cold is lowering your immune response allowing you to absorb that flu even quicker.

What we need to remember is that this is a flu, only difference is that it spreads fast. A few years back we had the SARS outbreak which if that had become worst it would have been really bad, at least SARS is a disease that is something we should fear and it kills. The flu kills when you have an underlying illness. The news stated that 100 people have died this year from H1N1 but 100 people probably died during that news program from natural causes. The media has over blown this to the point that the general public is scared out of their minds. My question is what are the world governments hiding that they needed to scare the whole world with a “FLU”.

So everyone knows I am not much of a fan when it comes to the Alberta Conservative Party, but this time I thinks others are going to be on my side.

Last year, MLA’s approved themselves a wage increase of 30%, something no one in the public would ever see from their employer. But now since Stelmach and his government were not able to keep a balanced budget even when the money still flows, they have come up with the brilliant idea that there should be a two year freeze on all wages.

Now I have lived in Alberta and know that it is very expensive, cost of living is through the roof, when a simple duplex home will cost you over 350,000 which is way outside the means of first time home buyer, how is the general public supposed to take the announcement that their provincial government believes that they should actually loose money over the next two years because of the economic slow down.

What you must understand if you do not receive at least a pay increase equal to inflation you will earn less money the next year. For employers that do not provide raises based on at least inflation; you should be ashamed of yourselves.

The moral of the story is Stelmach is incompetent everyone knows this, the problem lies with the fact that there is no other other, the other parties just don’t have the make up to run the province, not that I am saying that the Conservatives do because they have done more harm to that province than good.

So I don’t watch TV, but I do watch Video Podcast and listen to Audio Podcast. I am wondering what everyone else is watching and listening to. I have compiled a list of all the feeds I subscribe to, add your list in the comments.

• GeekBrief.TV | Extra Large Format
• ROFL (HD Quicktime)
• Midwest Teen Sex Show
• Know Your Meme (HD)
• Scam School (HD Quicktime)
• HD Nation (HD Quicktime)
• MAKE Magazine: MAKE Podcast
• Onion News Network (Video)
• Uploads by kicesie
• this WEEK in TECH – MP3 Edition
• MacBreak Weekly
• Windows Weekly
• This Week in Photography
• Diggnation (HD Quicktime)
• Film Riot (HD Quicktime)
• Tekzilla (HD Quicktime)
• Cranky Geeks H.264
• No Agenda
• plugandplay
• CO-OP (HD Quicktime)
• A-Z of Bushcraft & Survival Skills
• RockLabel TV
• MOTORZ HD
• Rocketboom (HD)
• CNET News HD
• CNET Live HD
• Delicious TV Veg
• Loaded HD
• Start Cooking HD (720p for AppleTV)
• Living in the Future
• LabCAST HD
• The Wood Whisperer (HD)

I was so excited when I got my invite to only find when I click activate I get this.

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad QX9300 2.53GHz (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit Edition) with Service Pack 1
VIDEO CARD Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280M, 2GB – SLI® Enabled
LCD PANEL 17-inch WideUXGA 1920×1200 (1200p)
MEMORY 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
HARD DRIVE 512GB – 2x 256GB Solid State Drive – RAID 0
OPTICAL DRIVE Slot-Load Dual Layer Blu-ray Combo

Really who is going to pay all this money for a laptop that is only going to get 30 minutes of battery.

If you are wondering this is Alienware’s new M17x