DelFang

If it's actually true,

I'm forming a position based on the logical thought that the company releasing those numbers, has a complete and total reason to lie about, or obfuscate those numbers. I'd trust the numbers if they came from an unpaid 3rd party, but considering they are numbers coming from the prime manufacturer and party most likely to suffer from large numbers of bent phones, they are untrustworthy.
 
By your logic, we should trust the opinion of every single company out there, that their product is better than every product from their competitor.
 
It's called considering the source, you should learn about that.

By that logic, my claim as to having a 12 foot long penis is accurate.

Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists would very much disagree, assumptions are what enable us to make informed decisions and projections.

The simple fact is Apple is reporting that data and is free to do whatever it wants with the data it receives.
I originally didn't even bother discussing "9 incidences" when this first came about because I thought it was a baseless point and not worth discussing, but here we are and it somehow has leverage.
 
Is 9 reports of a bent iPhone 6 good or bad? I'd say that's great. Unrealistically great. I'd expect there to be at least 9 bent on the day of release based on the volume pushed and the fact that people use them. 9 cases is isn't even a practical number for a "best case scenario, phone designed by Jesus himself" accounting.
 
Furthermore, how do you even quantify this? How does Apple determine that a bent iPhone 6 is their fault? What stops the employee under the boss under the boss under the boss under the boss under the boss under the supervisor under the boss under the manager under the supervisor under the boss under the manager under the manager from saying "sorry, your iPhone 6+ broke due to your lack of care with the device and is not our concern, this will go in as misuse, that will be 300$ for a repair unit"
 
How does someone realize this is Apples fault instead of thinking "darn, I must have not taken care of my phone" instead of "darn, this phone is faulty, I better report that it's bent to Apple, furthermore it's not my fault"
 
If there were only 9 reports, how did they quantify that in the first place. Did different people have to write down "bent phone" in the comments box in the Apple complaint box in the basement under the stairs? Is there a box that an employee must check to indicate a bent iPhone? If the number was only 9, why was the checkbox even there to begin with if the number is so miniscule and ignorable? Who counted this number? Did some guy send an email asking Apple store managers how many units were report bent? Did a store manager or two accidentally fat finger a number on his compact keyboard's number pad before hitting enter, causing it to read as "03" instead of 0? Did an employee tell another employee about someone reporting a bent phone on their way to the bathroom and the manager overheard it? Did Apple just crawl through social media websites for "bent iphone" and contact them directly and write each one of them down as a case?
 
Hell, with handling and manufacturing tolerances even 9 if the phone was damn near perfect is barely believable.
 
Like I said, I'm at a loss for words and I cannot even begin to explain how silly this situation and logic is. The fact that they put out numbers gives me a surge of emotion ranging from bewilderment to frustrated giggles to a point where it could be mistaken for lunacy.
 
 
 
On another note, we should go back to Windows XP because there were only 11 error reports submitted, so I guess nobody else has had any problems through it's entire lifetime and we can write that off as uncorrectable flaw and error.

i find this ad funny

Now they can get back to Starcraft: Ghost

maybe hes just trying to get in good with your mum

As a native Chinese, let me tell you what happend in the area of cloud storage in China and the details.This is called "Cloud Storage War in China"
 
First of all, you should know the top cloud storage companies in China: Baidu, Tencent, Sina, Kingsoft, Qihoo 360, Huawei,115
 
Before, China’s free storage services are mainly focused on storage capacity under 15GB. But in Aug 13, 2013, Kingsoft Cloud officially announced that the company has received $ 20 million investment.Supported by the financing, Kingsoft Kuaipan, a service under Kingsoft Cloud, offers a 100G free storage service to personal users.
 
Then Qihoo 360 said that they offer users 360 GB of permanent free space.
Then Baidu said: Pay 1 RMB, and you'll get 1TB permanent space.(6.1 RMB=1 USD)
Then Qihoo 360 said: we'll offer users extra 666 GB of free space (360GB+666GB=1026GB, more than 1TB)
Then Baidu said: we offer users 1TB free, and if pay 1 RMB, you'll get extra 1TB.
Then Tencent said: we offer users 10TB of free and permanent space.
Then Qihoo 360 said: we offer users unlimited space, free and permanent.
Then Baidu change its service to: we directly offer users 2TB for free, no need money, and claimed that it will give back that 1 RMB to users that payed before.
 
And Sina said: we offer users 100GB of free space, and will offer more latar. It also said: if you share one file to public, you will get the same size of free permanent space.(so called: unlimited)
And Huawe said: if you share one file to public, then you can delete this file, while the file is not actually deleted on server, you can also download it.( so called:unlimited)
And 115.com said: new signing up users can get 15GB, while old users can get extra 100GB, and all the uses can get 1TB every year, increasing to unlimited size. 
 
More information about those companies:
 
Baidu(NASDAQ:BIDU), the largest search engine in China.
Tencent(700.HK), its instant messaging product "QQ" has over 700 million active users and 160 million users online at the same time by 2012. Its mobile App "WeChat" is worldwide popular, having hundreds of millions of users.
Sina(NASDAQ:SINA), its product "weibo", same as Twitter, has over 500 millions of users.
Kingsoft(03888.HK), mainly worked on security software products
Qihoo 360(NYSE:QIHU), is a software company known for its antivirus software
Huawei, the largest Communications Equipment Company (instead Ericsson on 2012)
115.com, just an ordinary cloud storage company
 
Below is a link that Tencent Weiyun offer you 10TB (in English):
http://www.weiyun.com/act/10t-en.html
And the cloud storage site is (in English): http://www.weiyun.com/disk/index-en.html
 
Below is a link that Baidu Yun offer you 2TB (in Chinese):
http://yun.baidu.com/1t
And the cloud storage site is (in Chinese): http://pan.baidu.com
 
Others, you can open their offical site,
Sina: http://vdisk.weibo.com/
Qihoo 360: http://yunpan.360.cn/
Kingsoft: http://www.kuaipan.cn/
Huawei: http://www.dbank.com/
115:http://www.115.com

This was a fun photoshop project

Or a penis

Or something for Samsung and Apple to sue each others guts out. 

Why? The Brits have to deal with more cameras on them than we do. Why flee to an even bigger nanny state?
 
On topic, can't say I'm shocked. The only people Americans have to blame are themselves for believing the hype of this scam-artist for not one, but two election cycles. GG Should have gave the old guy Ron Paul a try instead of being 3edgy5me "we're not racist, we voted for a black guy!"

Well I'm not surprised in all honestly, the whole meeting with all of the top tech companies is just a joke...
Well there goes "Democracy!"
 
Also a little "Good in the article" But honestly it will probably get rejected
 
*Facepalm

Heres the full Article (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/us/politics/report-on-nsa-surveillance-tactics.html?_r=0
 

Its actually quite funny that a currency that is meant to be free from manipulation from governments is being manipulated by governments.

if / when the pirate bay falls, there will be a new home port (badum tsss) .... there will always be a need for this so there will be a replacement in no time

Well looks like this ship will sink soon *Badum tiss*

Exactly. Which means the disparity between rich and poor is larger, and this is why the Human Development Index exists, to point out how progressed a society is.
 
HDI quantizes all the big and small things that add up to quality of life for countries' citizens.
 
FYI, this is the non-equality adjusted, on the equality-adjusted HDI, USA plummets to (I believe) 28th place.

Let me put it in perspective, your wife is sleeping with another bloke and old mate bloke B who knows you finds out and tells you. Who is the tosser here, your cheating wife or the bloke who told you?

Snowden is showing how America isn't the "best country". Never has been, and never will be.

When you introduce a kid that young to gaming, you get them something a couple of gens old that can be found for cheap like an N64 with tons of games. This idiot probably used the kid as an excuse to justify getting the Xbone for himself.
 
Also, "computer console " bothers me.

I guess that 4 year old can hang that picture on his wall and remember his dad is a dumb ass.

Regardless of where the outlet is positioned it's still school owned and so up to the school as to whether "the public" should be allowed to use it. Considering that it was near some tennis courts and a parking area I'd hazard a guess that it'd be used for lighting, perhaps. Or maybe that's the area where they hold fairs, and so they'll need power for that (and it'd be cheaper than having to rent a generator).
 
If I leave my laptop on my front doorstep then I'm an idiot, but it's still theft if someone takes it (although not breaking and entering).