Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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Vortex - Apr 19, 2010 2:04:22 pm PDT #13661 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

(Though there are also rumors that there will be a Verizon version, which could maybe point to an LTE version at some point.)

I keep holding out, I just know that the second that I cave and upgrade, there will be a Verizon version.


§ ita § - Apr 19, 2010 2:19:59 pm PDT #13662 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's a Verizon vendor near me that has a sign up in their window encouraging people to pre-register for their iPhone. I was surprised to see it that concrete.


beth b - Apr 19, 2010 8:14:01 pm PDT #13663 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

ok My phone is dead.

DH and I went looking at Droids and iphones.

2 arguments against the iphone were 1) At&t coverage in our house is bad. Verizon is much better 2) DH likes the idea of the more open Droid platform.

Now you are telling me that verizon is going to have the iphone?


omnis_audis - Apr 19, 2010 8:37:39 pm PDT #13664 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

if it does, it won't be for a couple months at the earliest. If you need a phone, and AT&T has bad coverage, I say go for a non HTC google phone. And that comes form an iPhone loving Apple die hard.


le nubian - Apr 20, 2010 2:51:28 am PDT #13665 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

no point in getting a phone that doesn't work in your house.

can you get a phone that doesn't lock you into a contract at least until Apple makes an announcement about timing and features of the new iphone (which will be in June sometime).


Tom Scola - Apr 20, 2010 2:55:18 am PDT #13666 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

All the rumors I have heard say that while there will be a new iPhone in June, there won't be a Verizon iPhone until the fall.


Jon B. - Apr 22, 2010 4:33:20 am PDT #13667 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

For anyone using Folders4Gmail, it looks like it's broken again. [link]

However, Google Labs has its own version (called Nested Labels) which seems to work just as well. The only catch is that you need to have labels named for the top level folders. So, if you want a set of folders for all your friends, you still create labels named "Friends/Tom", "Friends/Dick", "Friends/Harry", etc., but you also need to create a label named "Friends".

t edit Also see this: [link]


Jessica - Apr 22, 2010 4:36:04 am PDT #13668 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Thanks for the tip, Jon. Hopefully the labs version will be a little more stable. (Not that it's F4G's fault.)

[eta: Nested Labels also doesn't like spaces surrounding the slash. So I'm having to edit all my labels.]


meara - Apr 23, 2010 12:01:21 pm PDT #13669 of 25501

I need help with the whole Smart Panel/hub/ethernet outlets thing, Liese and anyone else who knows what that's about.

Now that I'm actually in the house and (finally!) have internet set up: So I've got a cable modem. And hooked up to that, a wireless router. Those are downstairs. The smart panel is upstairs. I have a hub. What do I hook into what, where? What I attempted: having a cable go out of the wireless router into the ethernet jack in the wall, and then putting the one that seemed to be labeled "living room" (where it is) into the main thingie in the hub, and having the rest of the ones in the smart panel being going into the....rest of the hub thingies. But currently, no working ethernet out of the jacks. So, either mislabeled, or that's not the way to do it. Help?


Jon B. - Apr 23, 2010 12:21:54 pm PDT #13670 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

meara, you might try checking things one step at a time. First make sure the router works by plugging directly into it. Then, after plugging it into the wall, go upstairs and try plugging a computer into the "living room" labeled jack and see if that works. And so on.