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  • FCC re-examining iPhone RF levels after controversial report

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    maestro64 said:
    I said this before when this topic keeps coming up. Before you freak out about radio waves from phone, keep in mind every day just walking outside your are bombarded with radio waves from DC to light and you are hit with all levels of intensity. Just living every day you are at risk of being hit with radiation. There are lots of sources of radiation which will not go away.
    Keep in mind the inverse-square affect on signal intensity.  The article had that correct.  A 100watt transmitter 100 feet away will have no where near the affect on the body as a 1 watt transmitter at 1 foot.  And the article was talking about millimeters for their test cases.   It is completely unlikely that a non-radio-professional will ever find themselves bathed by as much RF energy, as they will with a hand-held transceiver, unless you lay your head down on top of your MIMO WiFi base station.  Don't do that.   Looking down the throat of a police radar gun at point blank range is another thing not to do.  If you have a 2-way radio transceiver (CB, ham, fire, etc.)  with external antenna, don't make adjustments to the 2-way radio's antenna itself while transmitting from the radio.  That's also a no-no. 

    dysamoriajbdragonwatto_cobra

  • Editorial: No Bill Gates, Windows was not iPhone's 'natural' nemesis

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    One thing the article didn't mention, and I didn't see in any of the comments so far, is that Bill Gates's empire was built on the backs of stolen computer hardware.  If the courts hadn't taken away IBM's personal computer design, or if IBM hadn't lost it (whose fault it was is an interesting question), Microsoft wouldn't have had a market for it's license of it's Disk Operating System, i.e. MSDOS/IBMDOS.  IBM was just one of many, perhaps the biggest of many, computer vendors of its day.  IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple, Apollo, HP, Sun, PR1ME, Sperry UNIVAC, Burroughs, PerinElmer, Radio Shack, Commodore, and countless others were playing on a field based on the idea that hardware designs and software designs were paid for and profit was made by selling the products of one's design labors.  The computer technology was surging. It was great fun to watch.  And then IBM's published it's schematics and interface design in a bold move to try to get 3rd parties to build add-in cards.  The operating system licensing was already out there from Microsoft.  Several companies, Compaq, Phoenix, and maybe others, decided that IBMs deal wasn't enough and went off to clone the one thing IBM kept close to its trademarked and protected vest, the BIOS.  In furious court battles, IBM lost the exclusive on the key element of it's personal computer hardware, and the clone market was born. 

    In my opinion, this completely stifled computer hardware innovation for decades.  Instead of a dozen companies throwing their all into out-high-teching each other in hardware design, the clone market wiped most of those companies out of the computer business entirely, wiped some of them out of business completely or rendered them so worthless that they were acquired at pennies on the dollar (or worse) and left Microsoft holding the $$.  Microsoft didn't win on software innovation.  It won by being the sole supplier of software for the clones.  If Apple and IBM hadn't survived this debacle, Microsoft might never have brought us MSWindows.  

    The reason Microsoft wasn't able to compete in cellphones against Apple may be that they'd never competed on a fair playing field ever.  
    1st

  • Everything new with Messages in iOS 13

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     Since they have the contacts broken up into groups, I think Apple should make it so that Messages can be automatically sorted into the same groups.  That way I can find all my coworkers messages and all my college friends messages and all of my weird hobby friend messages trivially without having to sort through my entire history of all the people I’ve ever messaged to.   The same should be available in the mail app.  
    watto_cobra

  • Apple restricts online Apple Store access to newer versions of Safari and macOS

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    Rajka said:
    It's time for two guys in a garage to build the next great thing. Apple is done. I don't really have anything nice to say about it any more. Talk about a love / hate relationship. Unfortunately, the love has been gone for quite some time now.
    That kind of thing happens all the time. But I wouldn’t look for it to happen in desktop and laptop computing. It’ll happen in flying cars or 2 wheeled personal transport or electronic walking sticks for the blind or pharmaceutical belt buckles or mate-finding ear-rings or something.  
    StrangeDays

  • Apple restricts online Apple Store access to newer versions of Safari and macOS

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    7 years doesn't seem like a long time.  
    I'm a l little annoyed at the idea of a computer needing to phone home in order to operate completely, yet home tells them to drop dead when they call?   Or at least they threaten that they will no longer be providing good answers.  I wonder if Apple could farm that out to a pay-for-support company or something.  What if I have a file on an IDE HD that requires some program which runs only on a PMG4 to access it?  Let's go back to Leopard and run it.  Where's that pesky Leopard install DVD.  Oh. right here in the CD wallet.  
    I like having that power and Apple provided it.  Will they do so when El Capitan is 15 years discontinued?  Will there be a way to take a long side-lined 2008 Mac Pro and bring it back to life with the last supported OS?  I don't think I have a DVD install disk for El Capitan.  Should I?


    arthurba