Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year

Many readers are submitting coverage from around the Net, all based on a Bloomberg piece quoting two anonymous sources who insist that Verizon Wireless will offer a CDMA iPhone in January 2011. No one at Verizon or Apple would confirm, of course, and no one at AT&T would comment. "The iPhone, which has been the sole domain of rival AT&T in the US since June 2007, will give Verizon a boost in its competition for smartphone customers, UBS AG analyst John Hodulik said in an interview. Verizon customers, who numbered 92.8 million at the end of the first quarter, may buy 3 million iPhones a quarter, he estimates. ... 'Apple is going to dramatically increase the number of devices it sells in the US when exclusivity at AT&T ends,' said Hodulik. ... 'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'"

 

(via Slashdot)

 

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1. I'll believe it when i see it. Still pretty skepti that Apple will make a CDMA phone.

 

2. Does anyone really think that Verizon's infrastructure is so far better than AT&T's that it won't have the same problems AT&T is having now? I mean, don't get me wrong - I hate AT&T as much as the next iPhone user - I just don't expect much more from Verizon.

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Apple: job post for an antenna engineer (this is real!)

I can't copy and paste it for you because I'm at work and Websense is blocking it, but here's the link to se the ACTUALY APPLE POST for an antenna engineer. No joke.

 

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=55852&CurrentPage=1

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Best IT Support Business Card… EVER!

If you work as an IT support specialist, you may consider having a similar card made for yourself, so that the next time a client calls in for support, you just tell them to look at your card. Brilliant!

 

(via geeks are sexy)

 

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You bet your ass my business card would say that if I worked in IT!

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Oh You Think You're Sooo Tough: What You'll Really Do During The Zombie Apocalypse

The latest in zombie apocalypse pie-charts, this one shows what you'll most likely be doing in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

 

(via geekologie)

 

HILARIOUS. I would be in the red, obvi.

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Post/Send a YouTube video that starts somewhere in the middle

Change the Starting Position

Sometimes, you’ll want to make sure your friends see exactly what you’re talking about. To start the video at a specific spot, you can append “#t=MMmSSs” to the end of the url (link). You’ll replace the uppercase Ms with the number of minutes and the uppercase Ss with the number of seconds in the video where you want playback to begin.

For example, if I want to jump to the 2 minute, 39 second point in a video, then I would add “#t=2m39s” to the end of the URL (example:  )

This trick also works for embedding a video. Although, when embedding use “&start” instead of “#t” and it’s in seconds only. (example ). Try playing the following video, it will start near the end.

 

(via Broken Secrets)

 

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This is GENIUS. And you're welcome that I found it for you.

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Soccer Penalty Kicker's Cues Betray Shot Direction

 

Those of you following the World Cup know that at this stage there can be no more draws. Ties are broken during overtime play, or in a penalty kick shootout in which a goalkeeper’s ability to anticipate the ball’s flight can mean the difference between victory and elimination. Now, scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [Gabriel Diaz et al.] have discovered how a kicker’s body can betray whether he’s aiming left or right.

In a penalty shot, it’s kicker versus goalkeeper. And with the shooter standing just 12 yards from the goal, that ball can touch net in about half a second. That’s faster than a keeper can launch himself from the goal’s center to either post. Which means that a goalkeeper has to start moving before the kicker’s foot meets the ball. And he has to guess correctly which way to dive.

To figure out how good goalies might up their odds, scientists attached motion detectors to college-level penalty kickers. And they found a handful of indicators that reliably predict kick direction, such as the angle of the kicker’s hips and how he plants his supporting foot.

Good goalies may be able to read those subtle cues. Meaning that they use their hands, and their heads.

 

(via Scientific American)

 

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SWOON. Soccer AND science? How could I possibly be happier?

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Cartoon: When commenters attack!

 

(via RWW)

 

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I find this especially amusing, having had an obnoxious troll comment on one of my posts (which I promptly IGNORED because everyone knows that like a stray, rabid cat,  trolls will linger forever if you feed them once).

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