Nosmo King

Because Android users are already used to having a phone that can do Hotspot and Flash. It's hard to give up nice things that you already had on a previous phone.

ATT is giving some of their iPhone users more grief:

AT&T shames unauthorized phone tetherers, gives ultimatum

Nosmo King

From a source in Japan:

It is looking very likely that the U.S. Navy will send over a 450-man radiation team to help (read ''solve'') the crisis for the Japanese, with big political dividends for both sides.

gloopy

Of course its a better product. They can rage with impunity on all kinds of demographic discriminations and as an added bonus they are subsidized on their end with flush oil money and on our end with predatory financing terms that favor them over us. They can then "invest" some of that slush into their prescious product and "win" like Sheen.

And no one will dare challenge them because they might get together with their neighbors and take our prescious nation building bases away even as we borrow from them to finance their so called defense. Its almost funny, almost.

Nosmo King

My understanding is, distance helps a lot when figuring the risks of contamination. The problem with the reactors/spent fuel rods is if they start throwing Iodine and Cesium particulates into the air. That is why the authorities want to know if the rods have melted/are melting in the spent fuel ponds and if the containment vessels have been ruptured in the active reactors.

I'm not saying people in California should be worried, but comparing it to nuke tests is not appropriate either, especially since Cali was probably upwind while the people in St. George, Utah were not.

Iodine-131 half life - 8 days
Cesium-137 half life - 30 years

If you would like a relatively unbiased article on the Japanese Nuclear Crisis go here:

Understanding Japan's nuclear crisis

gloopy

That very same law of unintended consequences also still has ALPA's EF'nA and the ivy league geniuses of Wall St and airline board rooms completely baffled. They will come up with a meaningless "bargaining credit" or quarterly bonus number of a transient short term paper gain, while not even being mentally capabile of addressing the repercussions that financially harm the pilot group and the company.

Carl Spackler

You're right. I shouldn't have posted such an unflattering picture...I apologize. Here he is all gussied up in a much prettier dress.






Carl

tsquare

I still wanna know why after 40+ years as dictator he is still only a Colonel..

KC10 FATboy

Ditto. I had an original droid phone that broke two days ago. I thought I would buy the new VZW iPhone. The clerk said to me, "Can you wait until tomorrow?" "Why do you ask," I said. He said, "The new VZW 4G Thunderbolt goes on sale. Trust me, you don't want to buy anything else."

The next day, as I waited in line, there were several folks trading iPhones for the HTC phone. However, a majority of the people were upgrading from an existing Android phone. A small discussion between folks waiting in line sprung up. The iPhone people were annoyed that most of the apps for the iPhone cost money, whereas, most of the apps in the Android market are free. Toss in the tethering and wifi hotspot capability with 4G, makes the decision practically a no brainer. The only reason why I could foresee someone sticking with the iPhone is that syncing to iTunes is very simple.

This HTC 4G phone loads webpages faster than my Dell and the Apple computers that I have recently used. My original Droid phone would lag, pause, and slowly load a page. Not this phone. You click a link and BOOM, it's loaded.

full of luv

I agree, what kind of death and destruction do you have to conduct to advance in the Libya Army?

DeadHead

If you ask me this is bullcrap on ATT's behalf.
Every other carrier allows this feature/ability for free.

I think ATT is getting a little greedy with this whole tethering feature fee.
Maybe they should concentrate more on improving there call-dropping network because it has really started to go down hill over the last year.