Better than expected

I'd read all the review and watched all the videos and thats what made me buy the IPhone even though I'd just upgraded my old phone on T-mobile to a Nokia 6300.
One of the reasons for the change was that I do access the WWW, email etc and my last T-mobile bill was £120+ mostly made up of data transfer costs.
With the 02 unlimited data download, the IPhone will pay for itself in a couple of months and I have to say I am extremely impressed so far even though I've only been activated a few days.
I assumed there were bound to be some teething problems with such a jump in technology, but everything I have tried to do with the IPhone has worked and passed the test with flying colours.
Kudos also to you guys on this forum for all your help. I've read quite a few of the posts and you do a great job in providing help where needed.

You find it amazingly faster. Honestly, I just don't see it. It doesn't matter as I'm just I've gotten to on to what I really see as their architecture for future development and progress. I also gather their implementation of 64 bit is way better than Windows 7 for some reason.
At this point in time, my computer is plenty fast with Leopard or Snow Leopard. Its just a couple of pieces of software that's the problem vexxing me and other users - Entourage 2008 and the problem with Apple's sync services (I see Apple implemented a diagnostics capability in Snow Leopard to assist with sync issues) and Intuit with Quicken still being stuck at 2007 and PowerPC. I had to install Rosetta for Quicken 2007 only and honestly from what I've seen of Intuit's Quicken beta, if the next beta (due in a couple weeks) isn't a major step in the right direction as they're going for release in Feb 2010 I might be with Quicken 2007 for quite a while. These two things are the unfortunate thing for me at the moment.

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The Nano is better than expected

I just loaded music and audiobooks. Art came through. Sound is better than other ipods (by my ear). It is easy to find your spot on audiobooks. This ipod advances audiobooks a few minutes at a time and there is time bar to see where you are. Other ipods jump to the next song. Clocks, calendars, look good. Color is excellent and detailed. I have not tried photos yet.
Nano docks in Bose speaker and Altec Lansing speaker without using the adapter.
The only problem I had was after the computer (windows) said the update was complete, the "do not disconnect" screen on the nano would not go away. I did a reset per the instructions and this fixed the problem.

USB 2 is about as fast as Firewire (at least in bursts: FW has much faster overall through put); but with the Flash memory in the Nano, you are only going to get about 20mbs anyway (even the fast compact flash is 80mbs which is way slower than FW or USB2).
I suspect that there are at least two reasons for the lack of FW on the Nano:
1. USB 2 significanlty faster than the flash can support, and FW users would be disappointed that FW wasn't any faster; in other words, FW isn't needed.
2. There is very limited real estate inside the Nano, and an additional interface likely means that something else had to go.
3. Add firewire would have increased the cost..
I believe the Nano is an incredibly nifty product which changes the game again. What are those Nomad guys going to do now? I mean, after they stop crying.
Ed

EDGE coverage is better than expected and a question...

Hi there,
I bought an iPhone on Friday, and its awesome, even though I had seen the video's etc I was/am still really impressed by it!
I was interested to see how much of an exaggeration this '30% of the UK have EDGE' rumour was that the press had been so keen to comment on.
Its obviously not as bad as the media would have you believe because I live in a relatively small-mid size town in the Midlands, about 30 mins from Birmingham and I get full EDGE coverage no problem. And Its actually not that slow!!!!
Also I have a quick question, its no major issue if this is not possible, but is there a way to empty the trash in Mail? I know you have to delete emails one by one but can you empty the trash or do you have to delete those individually too? Sorry if this has been detailed elsewhere, and Im not going to have a rant and moan if its not possible, just curious!
Thanks

Hi,
If you go into settings -> mail and then go in to each of your accounts and select "advanced" from the bottom of the list, you can change your preferences for emptying the trash bin, which I think as a default is set as "never". There is an option to empty it every day, so this should avoid you having to manually delete each email from the trash bin.
Rgds,
Jose

Is the reception of iPhone 5c better than 5s.

Was advised at a Telstra store that the reception of the iPhone 5s was worse than that of the 5c. Am thinking of upgrading from 4s.
Has anyone experienced this?

Not sure about the 5C but the 5S is hugely worse than the 4S for data. And tethering is a dead loss in poor signal areas where it would work reliably with the 4S.
However it's not that simple - the 5S voice call performance seems BETTER than the 4S. I did a 45 minute call yesterday during a drive through several known blackspots where my 4S and indeed other non-Apple phones reliably drop the call, and not only did the 5S maintain the call but I didn't even have any dropped audio at all.
But despite the audio being solid I couldn't get ANY data out of it at all - and yes it was on 3G so should have been able to do voice and data simultaneously.
So my guess is a serious bug in the firmware or baseband around data handling rather than inherently poorer hardware in the 5S. Or at least that's what I hope as one wouldn't expect a newer phone to be worse than the previous model especially after the bizarre mess of the iPhone 4 and antennagate!

Is Intel better than Power PC?

Hi
Is Intel better than Power PC?
The reason I ask this is that Iv been transferring data from my old 350 G4 to my new Mac Book Via Fire wire (G4 in target mode) and Iv had some crashes with the Finder. This pretty much never happened with my old Mac. Force quitting does not save me like it use to if an app crashed. It just goes into a spin and stays there, thinking. Reminds me of Windows XP.
Any Ideas. Thoughts. Etc.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1G Ram

Daimon,
I would say it's a subjective answer based on use. Be glad that you have a machine that supports target mode. My B&W is a nightmare for transfers. The only irritating crashes I've had are the same as with any of my machines (Safari), which is probably due to a plugin.
I have had the experience of force quitting not quitting an application. A kill -9 doing the same thing. It looks like force quitting does quit the problem applications (processor usage drops back down), but they stay active in the dock. A restart functioned normally for me and that went away. The only applications this happens with were popcorn 2 and toast 7.1. Both of those are PPC apps that just made the intel transition and basically device drivers..so I would almost expect them to have been problematic. Everything else has been basically fine.
As to what's better. Security wise, there might be some concern about the Out-of-order execution distribution system of the PPC vs x86. PPC could be considered slightly more secure as it is difficult to gain data from the stack w/o being able to accurately predict the position. However, this is trivial first and is probably remedied a lot by the dual core setup....and it requires a level of access that Mac OS X doesn't just give up to anyone. When you get to performance...to me it's night and day.
I like to put a lot of my video content on my machine in a highly compressed state. It makes it convenient to watch movies or a series and you don't need to have a loud optical drive spinning around. If I was to use something like Handbrake or Instant Handbrake: http://handbrake.m0k.org/ to encode to h.264 on a G5 it would take long enough that I would have to go do something else. On the dual core chips it's almost unbelievable. It's not that the 950 chipset does hardware h.264 encoding (I know some ATI 1xxx cards have this capability, but the only intel data http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/ I've seen indicate MPEG-2 playback is the highest video optimization ), it's that SSE(1,2,3) on a dual core processor with an application designed for multiple cores/processors (not the same physically, but application wise it's close enough), flies. We're talking something going from 7 fps to 48 fps (better than real time).
There is definitely a Wow factor to these machines. Maybe you just need to try something like that to find it.
I think the instability is due to transitional software. Another thing you may want to consider is that many included applications and parts of Mac OS X aren't pushing the chips anywhere near the limit. Many things just use 100 of 200% . Wait a while and more things will be introduced or updated that make your new machine fly.
I haven't had a finder crash that I recall. Nor a beach ball I couldn't get out of. If it is just limited to the dock (as it appears to be for me), then it's a minor issue. There have been comments about the Rosetta process translated quitting (IIRC), and I will add that twice I have experienced a situation where PPC apps bounced w/o launching. A restart fixed that.
Windows isn't that bad. Even on a core duo (not a centrino duo Tiger is still easier to stabilize/ 'more stable'.
I think a lot of the issues you are having are just growing pains and transfer of apps or files that, while they may have been updated to 'universal binary', aren't designed for the chips in these machines from the ground up.
Give it some time and try some of the things that make these machines better, because subjectively...I think these machines are better.
Another idea...running PPC apps takes a LOT of memory for speed (otherwise you're paging like a maniac) so either up your machines memory or run one PPC app at a time.
Good Luck,
-j

Better than DVD-quality on .mac - but which size?

Hi, that was what Steve Jobs said that there is the possibility to have better than DVD-quality movies on .mac Is this only with HD-cameras and material because they can´t be burnt at that resolution onto a DVD? Or is it also true with standard cameras? And which file sizes are we are going to expect while up- and downloading such movies? Are they even playable for the average internet user?
Thanks in advance for clarifying - Christoph

Steve may have left out the word "current" when he mentioned better quality than a DVD.
DVD's (currently) use MPEG-2 format and only the newest players can handle high definition.
Your Web based files can use high definition formats. Just like those HD trailers at http://apple.com/trailers
You can also publish larger dimension SD video.
Obviously the file size of these larger dimensions would require a fast Internet connection and a very patient viewer.

Why this Query is taking much longer time than expected?

Hi,
I need experts support on the below mentioned issue:
Why this Query is taking much longer time than expected? Sometimes I am getting connection timeout error. Is there any better way to achieve result in shortest time. Below, please find the DDL & DML:
DDL
BHDCollections
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BHDCollections](
[BHDCollectionid] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[GroupMemberid] [int] NOT NULL,
[BHDDate] [datetime] NOT NULL,
[BHDShift] [varchar](10) NULL,
[SlipValue] [decimal](18, 3) NOT NULL,
[ProcessedValue] [decimal](18, 3) NOT NULL,
[BHDRemarks] [varchar](500) NULL,
[Createdby] [varchar](50) NULL,
[Createdon] [datetime] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_BHDCollections] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[BHDCollectionid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
BHDCollectionsDet
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BHDCollectionsDet](
[CollectionDetailid] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[BHDCollectionid] [bigint] NOT NULL,
[Currencyid] [int] NOT NULL,
[Denomination] [decimal](18, 3) NOT NULL,
[Quantity] [int] NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_BHDCollectionsDet] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[CollectionDetailid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
Banks
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Banks](
[Bankid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Bankname] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
[Bankabbr] [varchar](50) NULL,
[BankContact] [varchar](50) NULL,
[BankTel] [varchar](25) NULL,
[BankFax] [varchar](25) NULL,
[BankEmail] [varchar](50) NULL,
[BankActive] [bit] NULL,
[Createdby] [varchar](50) NULL,
[Createdon] [datetime] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Banks] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[Bankid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
Groupmembers
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[GroupMembers](
[GroupMemberid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Groupid] [int] NOT NULL,
[BAID] [int] NOT NULL,
[Createdby] [varchar](50) NULL,
[Createdon] [datetime] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_GroupMembers] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[GroupMemberid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[GroupMembers] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_GroupMembers_BankAccounts] FOREIGN KEY([BAID])
REFERENCES [dbo].[BankAccounts] ([BAID])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[GroupMembers] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_GroupMembers_BankAccounts]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[GroupMembers] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_GroupMembers_Groups] FOREIGN KEY([Groupid])
REFERENCES [dbo].[Groups] ([Groupid])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[GroupMembers] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_GroupMembers_Groups]
BankAccounts
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BankAccounts](
[BAID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[CustomerID] [int] NOT NULL,
[Locationid] [varchar](25) NOT NULL,
[Bankid] [int] NOT NULL,
[BankAccountNo] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_BankAccounts] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[BAID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[BankAccounts] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_BankAccounts_Banks] FOREIGN KEY([Bankid])
REFERENCES [dbo].[Banks] ([Bankid])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[BankAccounts] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_BankAccounts_Banks]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[BankAccounts] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_BankAccounts_Locations1] FOREIGN KEY([Locationid])
REFERENCES [dbo].[Locations] ([Locationid])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[BankAccounts] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_BankAccounts_Locations1]
Currency
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Currency](
[Currencyid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[CurrencyISOCode] [varchar](20) NOT NULL,
[CurrencyCountry] [varchar](50) NULL,
[Currency] [varchar](50) NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Currency] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[Currencyid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
CurrencyDetails
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CurrencyDetails](
[CurDenid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Currencyid] [int] NOT NULL,
[Denomination] [decimal](15, 3) NOT NULL,
[DenominationType] [varchar](25) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_CurrencyDetails] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[CurDenid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
QUERY
WITH TEMP_TABLE AS
SELECT     0 AS COINS, BHDCollectionsDet.Quantity AS BN, BHDCollections.BHDDate AS CollectionDate, BHDCollectionsDet.Currencyid,
                      (BHDCollections.BHDCollectionid) AS DSLIPS, Banks.Bankname
FROM         BHDCollections INNER JOIN
                      BHDCollectionsDet ON BHDCollections.BHDCollectionid = BHDCollectionsDet.BHDCollectionid INNER JOIN
                      GroupMembers ON BHDCollections.GroupMemberid = GroupMembers.GroupMemberid INNER JOIN
                      BankAccounts ON GroupMembers.BAID = BankAccounts.BAID INNER JOIN
                      Currency ON BHDCollectionsDet.Currencyid = Currency.Currencyid INNER JOIN
                      CurrencyDetails ON Currency.Currencyid = CurrencyDetails.Currencyid INNER JOIN
                      Banks ON BankAccounts.Bankid = Banks.Bankid
GROUP BY BHDCollectionsDet.Quantity, BHDCollections.BHDDate, BankAccounts.Bankid, BHDCollectionsDet.Currencyid, CurrencyDetails.DenominationType,
                      CurrencyDetails.Denomination, BHDCollectionsDet.Denomination, Banks.Bankname,BHDCollections.BHDCollectionid
HAVING      (BHDCollections.BHDDate BETWEEN @FromDate AND @ToDate) AND (BankAccounts.Bankid = @Bankid) AND (CurrencyDetails.DenominationType = 'Currency') AND
                      (CurrencyDetails.Denomination = BHDCollectionsDet.Denomination)
UNION ALL
SELECT     BHDCollectionsDet.Quantity AS COINS, 0 AS BN, BHDCollections.BHDDate AS CollectionDate, BHDCollectionsDet.Currencyid,
                      (BHDCollections.BHDCollectionid) AS DSLIPS, Banks.Bankname
FROM         BHDCollections INNER JOIN
                      BHDCollectionsDet ON BHDCollections.BHDCollectionid = BHDCollectionsDet.BHDCollectionid INNER JOIN
                      GroupMembers ON BHDCollections.GroupMemberid = GroupMembers.GroupMemberid INNER JOIN
                      BankAccounts ON GroupMembers.BAID = BankAccounts.BAID INNER JOIN
                      Currency ON BHDCollectionsDet.Currencyid = Currency.Currencyid INNER JOIN
                      CurrencyDetails ON Currency.Currencyid = CurrencyDetails.Currencyid INNER JOIN
                      Banks ON BankAccounts.Bankid = Banks.Bankid
GROUP BY BHDCollectionsDet.Quantity, BHDCollections.BHDDate, BankAccounts.Bankid, BHDCollectionsDet.Currencyid, CurrencyDetails.DenominationType,
                      CurrencyDetails.Denomination, BHDCollectionsDet.Denomination, Banks.Bankname,BHDCollections.BHDCollectionid
HAVING      (BHDCollections.BHDDate BETWEEN @FromDate AND @ToDate) AND (BankAccounts.Bankid = @Bankid) AND (CurrencyDetails.DenominationType = 'COIN') AND
                      (CurrencyDetails.Denomination = BHDCollectionsDet.Denomination)),
TEMP_TABLE2 AS
SELECT CollectionDate,Bankname,DSLIPS AS DSLIPS,SUM(BN) AS BN,SUM(COINS)AS COINS FROM TEMP_TABLE Group By CollectionDate,DSLIPS,Bankname
SELECT CollectionDate,Bankname,count(DSLIPS) AS DSLIPS,sum(BN) AS BN,sum(COINS) AS coins FROM TEMP_TABLE2 Group By CollectionDate,Bankname
HAVING COUNT(DSLIPS)<>0;

Without seeing an execution plan of the query it is hard to suggest something useful. Try insert the result of UNION ALL to the temporary table and then perform an aggregation on that table, not a CTE.
Just
SELECT CollectionDate,Bankname,DSLIPS AS DSLIPS,SUM(BN) AS BN,SUM(COINS)AS COINS FROM
#tmp Group By CollectionDate,DSLIPS,Bankname
HAVING COUNT(DSLIPS)<>0;
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Is the iPhone 5 better than the Samsung Galaxy S4/Lumia 1020?

Is the iPhone 5 better than the Samsung Galaxy S4/Lumia 1020?

Like almost everything in this world is a matter of choice, but, if it is to logically make a choice here are a few criteria you should consider before picking up a smartphone:
Do you really need it? - if not, the money will stay better in your account;
Set up the budget and consider the fact that smartphones get upgrades faster than computers and laptops, will you be able to upgrade?
Which operating system are you familiar with?
What are your needs and expectations from the smartphone?
What type of person you are (email/chat/SMS/Social Media-man aka. communications, multimedia, productivity, gamer, etc.) this will help you chose the appropriate hardware and check out what are your options regarding the existing applications for your needs;
Are you always on the run or work in an office? - this will help you decide from the battery life point of view;
If you own a tablet you might just need a simple smartphone.
Samsung does not really innovate in terms of functionality and usability, they only copy what others do and make it their own way. Android is not a mature operating system, yet. I like some of its features, of course, but I can rely on it when it comes to productivity as I'm a person who sends 100's of emails per day and need to easily manage the messages.
You can have the best hardware in the world but that's useless if you operating system is bad at managing those resources, you will not be able to exploit the device to the fullest and you might cry over the money you've spent :-) Nevertheless Samsung has a large market share, makes good phones, but not quite smart, they are rather... intelligent, a smartphone is smart from the day you buy it, you don't have to put it in training mode :-)
As about Lumia, I don't have much to say, it's what iPhone had at the iPhone 4 version minus the 40MP camera and the operating system. If I want a good camera then I buy a camera, a Canon or Nikon :-) Yes, the Krait CPU, so what? That CPU is managed by a Wi*dows OS and that should say everything. I'm not against Micr*soft, they had/have their part in technology progress, but I'm more into stable operating systems, I'd chose Android over Wi*dows, yet Nokia were always great at hardware and batery life. Bad choice for Nokia, look at their sales and you will understand.
That's just my two cents, but iPhone is the choice of millions when they chose their first smartphone: is user friendly, solid, great hardware specs, lovely screen, wonderful support, high-level security, multimedia at its best, a design that catches the eye, looks and feels great in your hand, it's light, you have millions of verified apps in the store and a nice community to tell you all these :-)

E3000 - 2.4 g range better than 5.0 n?

Just bought a E3000. Other than not being able to disable the guest account in the web setup, I'm very pleased. I have the 2.4 GHz channel pushing G-only with WEP security and the 5.0ghz channel pushing N-only with WPA2 Personal security (separate network names, etc).
When I log into a device that recognizes both networks, the 2.4 g network has much better range than n. I was expecting the opposite. Any ideas why, or how I can improve the n channel?
The good news is that the G range is massively better than my old g router, so I'm happy overall - but kind of disappointed with N.

The lower the frequency the higher the range. 5 GHz will in general have less range then the 2.4 GHz band. That's normal.

Something is better than nothing.

Congrats! keep it up !

Recvieved my first credit card from Capital One in October of 2012 following Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. They started me off with a limit of $300 and auto increased me to $500 six months after. Over the past three years i've gotten no increases from them until tonight. I hit the luv button expecting a denial but was surprised to see a $100 increase. While it may not be a lot, something is better than nothing

Is there a way that i can downgrade my iOS 7.1 on my iPhone 4 to iOS 6xx? battery life not good, and performance isn't better than iOS 6.. Please apple i am really disappointed with iOS 7 on my iPhone 4

Is there a way that i can downgrade my iOS 7.1 on my iPhone 4 to iOS 6xx? battery life not good, and performance isn't better than iOS 6.. Please apple i am really disappointed with iOS 7 on my iPhone 4, it can runs great on iPhone above 4 such as 5/5s/etc.. iPhone 4 just good with iOS 6...

No.

Why does a DVI or VGA look better than HDMI for 2nd Monitor

Why does a DVI or VGA connection for a program monitor look better than HDMI. I've tested this on several systems with CS5x and CS6. The full screen output from premiere definitely looks worse with HDMI.
I can often see visual differences with the Windows GUI as well, over sharpening of text and lines, harsh rendering of gradients. It looks like a VGA signal displayed on a television.
I've looked at the NVidia stetting and it appears to be set to 1920x1080 at 60hz either way, DVI or HDMI. On one Acer 20 inch monitor the was VGA, HDMI, Composite, Component, and Digital Tuner, but no DVI. The program monitor has always looked blah from the HDMI. So I recently switched the connection to a DVI to VGA adaptor, and now the video looks so much better.
Any thoughts or explanations?

Just because the monitors accept a 1080P signal doesn't mean their native resolution is 1920x1080. At 20 inch they very likely can scale that signal down to the native resolution of the panel which may be 1600 x 900 or another resolution that is 16 x 9 resolution. That scaling can be done by the GPU or firmware on the Monitor depending on the video driver options and the firmware options. That scaling is also the most common cause to text and icon blurriness you are talking about. As an example there are Pro monitors that accept a 4K signal but scale it down to 2.5K or 2K on the actual panel. You might try going into your video card settings such as Nvidia control panel and look for the scaling options. Select GPU scaling and see if the preview is better. If that doesn't work select no scaling and see if it's better if the monitor firmware handles the scaling.
Eric
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Open DNS better than Comcast xfinity DNS?

Is OpenDNS better than using Comcast/xfinity's DNS? If yes, how do I switch over?
I go to into Airport Utility and enter in the 2 openDNS numbers, something like 222 and 220, but at the bottom of the page right now (because I am using Comcast's DNS) there's a web address something.comcast.net Do I need to change that info too? If so, what do I put in that field?
Thanks!

How did you add them?
If you are using a single computer: Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)
Sometimes reversing the order of the DNS numbers can be beneficial in cases where there is a long delay before web pages start to load, and then suddenly load at normal speed:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296
If your computer is part of a network: please refer to this page: http://www.opendns.com/start/bestpractices/#yournetwork and follow the advice given.
(An explanation of why using Open DNS is both safe and a good idea can be read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 /
Open DNS also provides an anti-phishing feature: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/anti-phishing/ )
Wikipedia also has an interesting article about Open DNS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS

How can we say if Join better than using Sub Queries ??

Hi all,
I am trying to understand the rationale behind "Is _Inner Join_ better than using _Sub Query_ ?" for this scenario ...
I have these tables --
Table1 { *t1_Col_1* (PrimaryKey), t1_Col_2, t1_Col_3, t1_Col_4 }
-- Number of rows = ~4Million , t1_Col_3 has say 60% entries non-zero -----> (Condition 4)
Table2 { *t2_Col_1* (PK), t2_Col_2, t2_Col_3 }
-- Number of rows = ~150Million, t2_Col_2 maps to t1_Col_1 -----> (Condition 1). This means for every distinct value of t1_Col_1 (its PK) we'll have multiple rows in Table2.
Table3 { *t3_Col_1* (PK), t3_Col_2, t3_Col_3 }
-- Number of rows = ~50K, t3_Col_1 maps to t1_Col_2 -----> (Condition 2)
Table4 { *t4_Col_1* (PK), t4_Col_2, t4_Col_3 }
-- Number of rows = ~1K, t4_Col_2 maps to t3_Col_2 -----> (Condition 3)
Now here are the 2 queries: -
Query using direct join --
SELECT t1_Col_1, t2_Col_1, t3_Col_1, t4_Col_2
FROM Table1, Table2, Table3, Table4
WHERE t1_Col_1=t2_Col_2 -- Condition 1
AND t1_Col_2=t3_Col_1 -- Condition 2
AND t3_Col_2=t4_Col_1 -- Condition 3
AND t1_Col_3 != 0
Query using SubQuery --
SELECT t1_Col_1, t2_Col_1, t3_Col_1, t4_Col_2
FROM Table2,
(SELECT t1_Col_1, t3_Col_1, t4_Col_2
FROM Table1,Table3, Table4
WHERE
AND t1_Col_2=t3_Col_1 -- Condition 2
AND t3_Col_2=t4_Col_1 -- Condition 3
AND t1_Col_3!= 0
WHERE t1_Col_1=t2_Col_2 -- Condition 1
Now the golden question is - How can I document with evidence that Type-1 is better than Type-2 or the other way ? I think the 3 things in comparison are: -
- Number of rows accessed (Type-1 better ?)
- Memory/Bytes used (Again Type-1 better ?)
- Cost ( ?? )
(PS - testing on both MySQL, Oracle10g)
Thanks,
A

So, is it right to conclude that Optimizer uses the optimal path and then processes the query resulting in nearly the same query execution time ?If the optimizer transforms two queries so that they end up the same, then they will run in the same time. Of course, sometimes it cannot do so because of the the way the data is defined (nulls are often a factor; constraints can help it) or the way the query is written, and sometimes it misses a possible optimization due to inaccurate statistics or other information not available to it, or limitations of the optimizer itself.
Is this the right place to ask for MySQL optimization ?Probably not.

Are the screens on white iMac 20" better than those on new 24"?

I have read so much about the troubles with the 20" and 24" Aluminum iMac screens that I'm afraid to buy one now, and was thinking of buying a refurb'd white (plastic) iMac from Apple. Is the screen tech in the white version better than that in the 24" Alum? I have an old 2.0 white iMac and have never had any trouble with the screen at all.

Pier Rodelon wrote:
Thanks for these pix. I have two more questions,
1) Previous poster suggests that specs for the white iMac screens were lower
than specs for ALU iMac screens--is this true and in what particulars?
Other than viewing angle and brightness, Apple doesn't publish any meaningful
screen specs.
The ALU screens are a little brighter -- entirely too bright -- and they don't have
sufficient adjustment range to reduce the brightness for comfortable viewing with
normal home lighting levels.
The 20" ALU viewing angle specs are much poorer than the white 20" or any of
the 24" models. In practice, the difference is easily noticable even to the most
casual observer.
2) Does the 24" white iMac have the same screen that the 20" white iMac has?
All 24" iMacs have expensive S-IPS LCD panels. That's the same basic technology
and from the same manufacturer as the Apple Cinema Displays. (As discussed
previously, some (many?) 24" ALUs have/had problems with uneven backlighting.)
Some white 20" units use exactly the same S-IPS panel as 20" Cinema Displays;
some others came with an excellent-quality S-PVA display. I believe all 20" iMacs,
at least as far back as the G5 PPC, used similarly high-quality (gorgeous!) panels.
The 20" ALU iMacs all have much lower-quality TN panels (from various sources).
The 17" white Intel iMacs also use the lower-quality TN panels.
To see what display you currently have, cut-n-paste the following command line
into Terminal.app -- then look it up in the panel database at tftcentral.co.uk:
ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/\[^<\]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
I don't know if the 24" white iMac refurb would be a better choice than the 20"
white (or the 20/24" ALU).
IMO, there's no contest in 20" size -- the white iMac displays are vastly superior.
If you're lucky enough to get a good display, the ALU 24" is very attractive; OTOH,
I have no performance complaints with my white 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo -- and it
was $600 less than my 24" ALU reject.
Looby

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