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UPDATE (7/4/13): I've slightly rewritten the historical matter below, based on helpful commentary from Mark Lungo and David Gerstein.
The idea of a stopwatch that can be used to manipulate time dates at least as far back as the novel THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH, AND EVERYTHING (1962) by sci-fi/thriller writer John D. Macdonald. This effort seems to have inspired similar notions to start ticking away in other creators' brains during the "Era of Fantastic Television." In October 1963, The Twilight Zone broadcast the episode "A Kind of a Stopwatch," which starred, remarkably enough, King Artie and Rufus B. Pinfeathers himself, Richard Erdman, as the bumbling nebbish who comes into possession of a time-stopping chronometer. I've never seen that one, but, thanks to Joe Torcivia, I was able to enjoy two fourth-season Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea adventures, "A Time to Die" (1967) and "No Way Back," (1968) guest-starring Henry Jones as Mr. Pem, a strange little man with a "time displacement piece" that he intends to use for evil purposes. Interestingly, these are the only examples of the genre of which I am aware in which the device was consciously constructed by a villain from the off. In both "Time Teasers" and "On Stolen Time," of course, the time-stopper was built by Gyro Gearloose, only to be swiped by a group of Beagle Boys. (I'm being nice to the Nephews, BTW, by classifying their "borrowing" of the Time Teaser from Gyro Gearloose as something other than stealing.) Mr. Pem's relatively speedy return in "No Way Back" -- which turned out to be the final original VBS episode broadcast -- suggests that he made something of an impression in "A Time to Die," especially since he supposedly died at the end of that initial episode.
The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything (1980) starring Robert "The Forgotten Tony Stark" Hays and Pam "Mindy" Dawber. The film was offered to TV stations in both a two-hour "movie" version and a five-part "cliffhanger" version (where have we seen that arrangement before?). It apparently features a rather politically incorrect take on female sexuality, so I don't imagine that it appears on TV much any more, but it does enjoy that nebulous thing known as a cult following. Given Anthony Adams' interests outside of his relatively brief career in animation writing, I think we are on fairly safe ground in assuming that he had at least some knowledge of some or all of the aforementioned versions of the "time-stop-watch" story when he wrote "Time Teasers."
DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES #24 (1992). Clearly, Keno Don would have had ample time (hyuck) to peruse the TV episode beforehand. For a long time, I assumed that it did influence him in some fashion, even if he would have been loath to admit it. Now, however, I lean more towards the theory that Rosa came up with the idea independently, or, at the very least, had no knowledge of "Time Teasers" when he wrote his story. That's not to say that the tales don't have some points of similarity beyond the simple (and, as GeoX points out, the completely logical) notion that Gyro would create such a device and the Beagles would try to use it to rob Scrooge blind. For example, both stories open with Scrooge tasking his relatives with a seemingly impossible assignment involving the sorting of his money: stacking bills in Donald's case, stacking all the coins by dinnertime (!!) in HD&L's. At least Rosa, who's never been accusing of giving Donald an easy time of it, didn't impose a specific time limit on Don's task. Adams, by contrast, seems to have the idea that Scrooge's fortune is a whole lot... well, smaller than we've traditionally been led to believe. And it won't be the last time that he gives that impression, either.
Greg correctly notes that this gives the early part of the episode a somewhat static, slow-moving feel, especially when the boys are finagling with the baseball game. The repetition of the time-stopping gags on the two consecutive pitches does tend to retard the ep's progress. (For my own part, I found the boys' foiling of the Beagles' attempted robbery and their "surprising" of the high-diving Scrooge to be the funniest parts of this whole business; they're over with quickly and include much better sight gags.)
Unfortunately, Adams messes up things in at least one instance; he never explains how Scrooge, HD&L, and Gyro were able to get to the docks in time to see the Beagle Boys leaving the country on the steamer. You might argue that the Beagles needed a very long time to get Scrooge's money from the docks onto the ship, but the non-Teaser-aided return of the money to the Money Bin, which is tossed off during the episode's extremely rushed final minute, seems to have taken no more than a couple of hours! Either Scrooge has a relatively modest fortune, or Scrooge and the boys managed to accomplish a moving task that compares favorably with HD&L's original charge to stack all of Scrooge's coins. This hastily-cobbled-together windup is arguably the one really major weakness of "Time Teasers."
In "On Stolen Time," Rosa literally and figuratively livens things up through his inclusion of the "ten-meter clause" (a direct consequence of the "five-second rule"?) and the stipulation that one has to briefly turn off the time-device before being able to move anything in the frozen world. This allows for the chase scenes between the Beagles and the Ducks, which are further enlivened by the knowledge that the Beagles will be able to short-circuit the Ducks' attempt to catch them if they can get outside the ten-meter radius. This represents a distinct advantage for Rosa's story...
* UPDATE (7/4/13): David Gerstein provides a reference to this 2003 post on the Disney Comics Mailing List in which Don Rosa claims that he never saw "Time Teasers" and that he got the idea for "On Stolen Time" from John Macdonald's story.
The last third or so of "Time Teasers" -- the point at which Adams and Rosa part company -- is stuffed with incident in the manner of a Thanksgiving turkey, which does result in the episode having what Greg called an "overbooked" feel, but this is also the part that helps boost the ep to classic status. All of Pete's appearances in the series are good, but this is the one that I would like to think HE enjoyed more than any other, and not simply because he's reunited with his peg leg for the duration. The sense of "gleeful menace" that has informed many of Pete's most memorable roles over the years has rarely been displayed to better advantage than it is here.
... but at least HD&L's *shudder!* breakdancing has the virtue of killing off some time before the Beagle Boys are ready to test their pipes. I can't say that I was particular wild about the boys doing this even back in the 80s, and the whole business seems horribly dated now, but at least we can draw a direct link between Scrooge's head-bouncing "sea monster" temper tantrum and Louie's ability to revolve on his head while standing upside down. I didn't realize that such traits could be inherited.
Beaglemania," part of the joke was that Frank Welker and Chuck McCann's performance of the Beagles' hit song featured more vigor than actual talent; the performance on the Disney Afternoon soundtrack CD was better, but only marginally so. Peter Cullen, Brian Cummings, and Terry McGovern, on the other hand, do so well that one winds up wishing that at least one of "I Want a Girl," "Sweet Adeline," or "Down By the Old Mill Stream" could have been wedged onto the CD as well. For sure, this one bit imprints itself onto one's memory far more successfully than anything Rosa included in the busy, busy world of "On Stolen Time." I'd love to know how Adams came up with this whole idea.
Cornelius Coot didn't mention anything like this in his diary, did he? Which river was that flowing into the sea -- the Duckburg, the Tulebug, or the Goose? Given that we saw a couple of Natives in canoes fleeing the scene when the steamer arrived in Duckburg Bay, can we infer that "Skull Cave" may have been some sort of Native shrine? What entity or entities disassembled that natural formation over the ensuing centuries -- and were there any protests? A serious "Donaldist" could probably mine a Master's thesis, at the very least, out of an examination of these questions.
After piling all of these incidents atop one another and then also including the Ducks' final efforts to use the Time Tub to transport the steamer back to modern Duckburg before the pirates can overrun them, Adams whooshes through the denouement with a haste that can only be described as indecent. At least the Nephews wind up paying for their attempt to "grease the skids" for the Duckburg Mallards... not that we seriously expected any other outcome, of course.
(GeoX) The Duckburg Mallards game is in the morning, for some reason. Also, "by stopping time with every pitch, we can help the Mallards win their first game EVER!" Look: I've watched plenty of really dreadful minor-league baseball teams in my day, and none of them have had anything close to a "perfect" losing record. This would only be possible if the episode were taking place early in the Mallards' inaugural season.
Charlie Brown would like a word with you. :-) Yeah, it would have been more believable had the Mallards simply been a really lousy team. Perhaps they're the perpetual poor relation of the Calisota Stealers mentioned in "Yuppy Ducks." I always imagined the Stealers as being headquartered in St. Canard, which I take to be a larger city than Duckburg. Large-market vs. small-market... you take it from there.
As for the fact that the game is in the morning, perhaps this is the Duckburgian equivalent of Patriot's Day in Boston. The Red Sox have played games with late-morning starting times on that date for a number of years.
(GeoX) I like how HDL apparently were initially under the impression that a frozen baseball game would be fun to watch. A bit slow on the uptake, eh?
I don't know... they were certainly quick-witted enough to cadge refreshments from SOMEWHERE in the frozen world they'd created. I suspect more "creative borrowing" was involved.
(Greg) Gyro opens the door and asks them to come in since he has the deliveries ready to deliver so to speak as they go in and we pan over to see Gyro's latest invention for the Invention Of the Month Club: a combination hair dryer/popcorn maker.
I don't recall Barks ever using the "Invention of the Month Club" idea, which seems rather surprising. Usually, Barks' Gyro worked out of his home/lab (cf. "Sir Gyro de Gearloose"), sold his inventions by pushcart, or was commissioned by the city of Duckburg to perform some task. BTW, Gyro's dryer/popper combo here was anticipated by Barks on a 1969 cover for an issue of WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES. I think that Gyro was correct in avoiding the use of a live test subject... and a notoriously volatile one, at that.
(Greg) So we cut into the office as the Beagle Boys are dressed as movers (check the blue shirts) which would be fine if they didn't [have] those stupid masks on. Gyro decides to demonstrate by invoking the Time Teaser and he disappears as we see some flashing off the coat rack and then Scrooge realizes that he has his top hat and cane OUT OF NOWHERE. One problem: There was no hat and cane on the coat rack. Logic break #3 for the episode as Scrooge calls this fantastic. No; I call this logic breaking from TMS.
Nope; here is the scene outside the vault as the Beagles approach it. The hat and cane are clearly visible.
Again, this is incorrect. Shown below is the shot of Gyro at the end of Act Two. He is clearly inside the vault (check the sliver of office space that you can see to the left).
No, he actually said that "That steamer and your money simply slipped into another century." He didn't specify which one. I love the way that Scrooge cries "Simply SLIPPED?!" here.
I don't think that you have to worry about the pirates picking up on what Gyro and the Ducks are doing out in the bay. For one thing, they're swaying back and forth with their eyes closed. For another, they're probably drunk by now... or at least, they would be if WDTVA sanctioned the use of alcohol.


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CarsonifiedApril 24, 2006
In case you've been asleep over the past year, the Carson Systems crew have certainly been active in the online space you and I inhabit. First came the Workshops, then came DropSend, then came the Summit, and now along comes Vitamin.
Launched last week, Vitamin is a brand new resource for web designers and developers, and judging by the quality of material they've published already, it's going to be a new favourite. I'm proud to play a part as a member of the Vitamin Advisory Board.
If you're one of those wondering when in the world I'm ever going to publish anything CSS-related again, wonder no more! There's a new article up this morning called "Stop CSS Hacking, or be Stopped" (that's what happens when you forget to title your article) and it's a mind dump of a lot of thoughts and conversations I've had on the issue lately, especially in light of IE7. Special bonus: audio of a half hour chat between Ryan Carson and I in London earlier this year. If you caught the Adobe interview earlier this month, it's more of the same, but much longer.
Oh, and we've only got a few seats left for the Chicago workshop in a few weeks. If you're planning on coming, I'd recommend booking your spot in a hurry, they won't last.

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"I certainly realize that these are very tough budget times, and we must justify every single penny that we ask for. But as General Cartwright told our Senate colleagues, diplomats and development experts are working side by side with our military troops in those countries to secure the gains we've made, and we cannot do the job with two of our three hands tied behind our back.
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When it comes to pregnancy, it obviously takes two to get there. Once you're there, however, there's only one person carrying the baby, and one person who's going to deliver the baby -- mom. With that privilege/monumental task comes the right to make most of the major decisions regarding the pregnancy. Sorry, guys.
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1. What she eats
Until you've experienced cravings so intense they make you feel insane, you have no right to judge our need for tortilla chips dipped in hot fudge.
2. What she wears
Maternity wear is tricky. The only answer to how she looks in anything the whole time she's pregnant is "beautiful!"
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3. The doctor she chooses
It would be great if you both had chemistry with the doctor, but ultimately it's got to be about who the woman feels the most comfortable with and who she trusts the most.
4. The baby's name
Dads definitely should get some say here, but if it comes down to a stalemate, then pushing a baby out of a vagina is the trump card (if we're speaking in mixed metaphors).
5. Bottle or breast
Again, dad's input is welcome, but when it comes down to it, they're a woman's breasts, and it's her right to decide what to do (or not to do) with them.
6. Who is in the delivery room
It's sweet if he wants his mother, sister, and great aunt Gertrude there to witness the miracle of his child's arrival, but it's mom who's doing the work, so she should get to hand out the final tickets of admittance.
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Look what we did on our summer vacation! World, meet Charlie. Born July 31st at 6:05 pm, he is the adorable handful that Dave and I are lucky enough to call our own. It's been a wild first few weeks what with the sleeplessness, the feeding, the massive mental shift of sharing our lives and our space with a bouncing, fussing, fully functioning new family addition. But really, we promise we're enjoying every second of parenthood… so far.
In Charlie's first few weeks of life, we got him up to speed on the important things, such as how to enjoy Maryland blue crabs at Eastern Standard's annual Crab Festival (ICOers Skip, Mark, CJ and Shore were all there to help him out and while it wasn't as wild as years past, it certainly gave Charlie a taste for Old Bay) …
… along with where to go when he wants to get the area's most incredible oysters. Yesterday, Charlie and I took a trip down to Duxbury so that I could be part of a shoot for the television show, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. While Charlie didn't quite make it out onto the water, he did get a taste of his first oyster via osmosis. (Physically, he was about 5 minutes away with my friend Jenn in Kingston – which gave mom enough peace of mind to spend her first few hours away from the little peanut and not fret the entire time.) The shoot itself was loads of fun – Andrew put the whole crew at ease and even beat Chris at a shucking contest. I may have even gotten a little plug for SHUCKED into the footage (the episodes airs in February… stay tuned).
Speaking of the book, all systems are go for an October 11th publication date which we'll be celebrating with a number of signings and book-related events. Get in on the fun by "liking" the book on Facebook or keep an eye on the blog where I'll be adding a calendar of upcoming events. We have signings scheduled for Boston, Duxbury, Hingham, Philly, and Wilmington, DE so far… I have the feeling there will be many more to follow.
Until then, if you'll indulge me, I'll keep posting pictures of Charlie and any other fun oyster-related adventures I'm on… now that I'm able to eat them again (post pregnancy), there will be no more excuses for blog neglect. Next stop: Oyster Festival.


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Exporting the iPhoneSeptember 12, 2007
It's been a tough few months for those of us on that other 95% of the planet that isn't inside the borders of the United States. Escaping iPhone news has been next to impossible, with no relief to be found in the form of announced launch dates in any other country.
The good news is that the situation has been changing over the past few months, and having been subjected to continuous scrutiny since the late June launch, it's mostly a solved problem. This afternoon saw a watershed moment when the first freely available open source iPhone unlock hit the scene.
What this means is that, with the minor exception of the visual voicemail feature, the iPhone's entire feature set is usable on any compatible carrier, anywhere in the world. (Compatible in this sense meaning GSM and not CDMA networks. In Canada, that means Rogers/Fido. Outside of North America, GSM is fairly common.)
But the methods that enable this are ever-changing, and the general process isn't for the faint of heart. If you're worried about owning a useless chunk of $400USD plastic, this isn't for you. If you're worried about legal formalities, you'd best avoid it. If you have any reservations at all, best stop reading now. That being said, here's how you too can have your own iPhone, no matter where you are on this planet.
There are basically three steps to follow, each of increasing difficulty.
- Buy an iPhone
This part's easy. You can walk into an Apple Store next time you're in the US and simply throw down cash and walk out with it, the same way you'd buy an iPod. You don't need to sign up for service or enter a contract to get it. As far as Apple is concerned, establishing a relationship with AT&T is entirely up to you. (This is how I did it).
Obviously the geography is a factor however, so you may need to pursue the other option. Check craigslist or eBay. With the recent price drop, there are a lot of sellers looking to recoup their losses, so you're not likely to find many good deals at the moment. Over time the prices will presumably even out a little. But if you can't make it to the US any time soon, you'll have to buy through someone else, which means paying at least some markup.
- Activate It
Activation is an iPhone-specific concept. A brand new iPhone is pretty but useless — in order to even see the basic menus and included applications, you need to first connect it to AT&T and activate it by attaching it to a contract.
This one's a bit harder to crack, but again there are some choices. If you have a mailing address in the US (via a sympathetic friend or family member), you can sign up for pay-as-you-go service through AT&T. This basically means a charge to your credit card, and credit toward a US phone number you can use while you're in the country. Handy if you're in the country a lot, and it also has the side effect of activating your iPhone. Though, make sure to read the terms of service to find out what you're getting into.
That's probably the easiest choice, but there are other methods which completely bypass AT&T. Even if you do it that way, you're most likely going to need one of the other software methods as backup while unlocking the phone later. There are a bunch of applications and processes out there that will make short work of the activation process. Some are described here, others you might need to do a bit of googling to find. Which one you use depends on your platform and your comfort levels, but I'd recommend doing some research and familiarizing yourself with the latest methods, as things are still changing fairly quickly.
If you stop here, you've activated everything except the phone. iPod, Safari, calendar, mail — it all ought to work over wifi at this point. Which is cool enough, sure, but if you want the whole enchilada, you need to keep going.
- Unlock It
The standard practice amongst North American wireless carriers is SIM locking consumer phones to their respective networks. In many (most?) other countries this is relatively unheard of, but since the iPhone originates on this continent, it's relevant to the discussion. Historically, unlocking a SIM locked phone to work with any carrier is usually possible, though it's not always easy, or even officially-sanctioned by the manufacturer.
Anyway, the iPhone has no official unlock method as of yet. In the past few weeks, some hacks have surfaced that allow unlocking. When I say hacks, I mean hope you like soldering. Then there was the slightly less intrusive TurboSim method which basically became unavailable after they (rapidly) sold out. But what most people have been waiting for is a less invasive software-only unlock method. A service launched early this week that was offering just that, for the low low price of a hundred bucks. But it's moot now.
The various gadget sites were ablaze with iPhone news this afternoon. It first came out around 4pm my time (GMT -8) that a free software hack was about to be released. Then came the files, and then finally instructions and confirmation from multiple sources that yes indeed, this was the real deal.
Right now, the most current method of unlocking the iPhone involves some pretty serious command line hacking. If you don't already know what ssh and chmod do, hold off. (If you do, even then you might want to hold off. It does work, but it's a bit hairy around the minicom part. )
There's work happening toward a much more automated unlock method that should make the process a snap. Given the speed at which things are happening at the moment, it'll likely be available within hours of this post. Monitor Engadget or Gizmodo for the latest.
The first automated GUI version is out now. In order to use it you'll need to accomplish a jailbreak, install BSD subsystem and SFTP (I did so using Installer.app), and SFTP into the phone from a computer. Still not exactly plug and play, but if you're determined and knowledgeable (or know someone who is) this ought to be a lot easier than the command line scripts I used last night.
owing to my reluctance to do anything on the Edge network I hadn't actually tried using wireless data until this morning. Turns out there's an extra step to get that working, which should be easy if you've made it this far. You need to go into Settings > General > Network > EDGE and replace the Cingular/AT&T information with that of your local carrier. You'll need to look up those settings, but in Canada you can find them here.
It's been over two months in the coming, but as of tonight I now have an iPhone that works on Rogers Wireless, my local carrier. And theoretically when I travel, I'm also able to buy a prepaid SIM card and swap it out to cut down on roaming rates.
There are a few gotchas you ought to be aware of before attempting. The biggest concern is, what next? Will Apple attempt to re-lock the phone in the next software update? No one knows. If you're the optimistic sort you could read into this recent statement by an Apple marketing person as leaning toward laissez-faire unlock management from the company (though it's already been clarified…) They do make money no matter where the phones were bought after all, it's only AT&T that's missing out on most of the recurring revenue. Who knows how it will play out though. I'm going to wait-and-see as new versions of the firmware are released before upgrading so I don't break anything. The good news is that the development community is super active, so I'm betting that no matter what screwballs get sent out from Cupertino, there will be a workaround sooner or later.
More and more is becoming clear about how the unlocks and future firmware updates will interact. See the newer post iPhone + Icons for more detail.
There are also reports that some people have lost the YouTube app as a result of the unlock. That problem appears to be addressed already (see Update 2), but I didn't experience it myself, so it's sporadic anyway.
If you're an American iPhone owner, you probably still remember what June 29th felt like. To a lesser degree, that was what today felt like for the rest of the world.
I was probably sitting in the slightly nervous camp up until last night at the FOWA Road Trip, where I met a fellow attendee who was in possession of an iPhone. Actually holding one and using it (albeit briefly) certainly restored the excitement I felt when it was originally announced, and - as I'm travelling to NYC in November - I'm certainly considering getting one.
Dave, I think this article is one of the most useful "what you need to do to unlock an iPhone" articles out there. I know it's not a comprehensive technical how-to, but I think a lot of people are still confused about the actual methods one needs to take in order to unlock. Seeing your own success is also very reassuring!
Fantastic article. I'm in the UK and I am really looking forward to the release of the iPhone - as thousands of us are. The biggest question is whether it's worth going through this whole process, or whether we may as well just wait until November when it's likely the iPhone will be officially available over here. Dilemmas dilemmas…
One thing I just noticed was that the EDGE data settings are still set to use Cingular, at least according to the General -> Network -> EDGE settings and I haven't yet found the correct info to use for the Rogers network.
I don't plan on using EDGE much given Rogers' fantastic data rates, but I'd obviously prefer to avoid any international charges which would only compound the problem.
My biggest question about this is whether or not you'll be able to successfully activate your hacked iPhone on a Rogers plan once the iPhone is officially released in Canada.
I'm assuming you're being pretty careful about your data usage Dave, but if hacking the iPhone jeopardizes your ability to activate on Rogers version of the iPlan (whenever they decide what that will be), you'd probably have to buy a whole new iPhone when they're officially released in Canada if you want to take full advantage of the iPhone's capabilities.
I'm really not sure how much of a risk this is though. I'm sure you can revert your iPhone to the default firmware, but will the software on Canada's version of the iPhone be any different from the iPhone you bought in the States? Thoughts?
@Jonathan E - "I'm assuming you're being pretty careful about your data usage Dave"
No kidding. That's the single biggest outstanding problem. From comparing notes with other iPhone owners I get the feeling that if I play it carefully, I ought to be able to make my 25MB/mo go pretty far. But I'll still have to be fairly stingy with it until I get a sense of how much I can do with about a meg a day.
"you'd probably have to buy a whole new iPhone when they're officially released in Canada if you want to take full advantage of the iPhone's capabilities."
Yeah, that's definitely a possibility. Given the nature of SIM unlocking I ought to be able to keep using what I have indefinitely, but if by some miracle Apple causes an unlimited data plan to happen up here, it's up in the air whether Rogers will allow existing iPhone owners to take advantage of that.
I've weighed the tradeoffs though, and given the total lack of information about when that may happen and how it will happen, I'm willing to risk it for the sake of having one over the next 6 months or so that it won't be in Canada, since I think it will keep working just fine after the official launch.
Also, we're talking about a $400 phone here that will no doubt be revised at least once before it actually launches in Canada. There's a good chance I'll want to upgrade in a year or so anyway, and the price point is low enough that it shouldn't be too painful.
"… if by some miracle Apple causes an unlimited data plan to happen up here …"
I'm really curious about what your opinion on this is Dave, do you think this has a chance of happening?
"I've weighed the tradeoffs though, and given the total lack of information about when that may happen and how it will happen, I'm willing to risk it for the sake of having one over the next 6 months or so that it won't be in Canada."
That's the price you pay to be on the bleeding edge I suppose.
"Also, we're talking about a $400 phone here that will no doubt be revised at least once before it actually launches in Canada. There's a good chance I'll want to upgrade in a year or so anyway, and the price point is low enough that it shouldn't be too painful."
And, it's a business write-off for you :)
@Jonathan E - "I'm really curious about what your opinion on this is Dave, do you think this has a chance of happening?"
I really don't know. On the one hand, the utter lack of competition between carriers here means I have little faith that any drastic progress is possible, no matter how desirable the product. On the other hand, the growth opportunities have probably stalled out given the ubiquity of mobile phones in the country at this point, which I think we're seeing play out with the intense focus on marketing value-added features like video and music downloads.
Can a compelling product like the iPhone shake things up to the point where one of the carriers will actually be willing to compete? We may see it eventually, but probably not all at once. I expect the introductory plan to have a generous helping of bandwidth, but I'm highly doubtful it will be unlimited right off the bat.
"And, it's a business write-off for you :)"'
Exactly! Like I said to Derek yesterday, anything with a web browser in it is a business expense, which is getting awfully convenient these days…
First reaction when I read the free software unlock news yesterday was "This is it, I want an iPhone now"
However, after reading some more on the ins and outs of daring to have an iPhone working overseas, I'm just more than a little concerned about the required signup with AT&T to activate it. Not just because of their ball-and-chaining contract terms, but also of how much you'd have to keep shelling out (not to mention having your int'l CC compromised) just for the sake of activating the damn phone. So it seems like paying a big extra for minutes you're not likely to use if you change carriers. What do you do if you don't travel to the US often? Or am I missing something?
Until I get to find out more info, I'll probably, regrettably wait until a workaround (or a decision on Apple's part) that can spare you from going through AT&T for activation comes out.
Either way, it's a pity Apple had to bow to the retarded locking practices of American telcos to release and sell the iPhone - specially when, judging by the worldwide reactions, it would sell like hotcakes everywhere. Then again, the U.S is also one of the three countries or so in the world that still cling to their own weird measuring system instead of the metric standard that everyone else uses. That may explain something.
"I'm just more than a little concerned about the required signup with AT&T to activate it."
But that's just the thing, you don't. AT&T doesn't have to be any part of this process, they're completely cut out of the loop.
I wrote about the pay-as-you-go activation method as one option, but maybe it wasn't clear enough that there are plenty of other choices. I updated the wording a bit, hopefully it's more clear now.
Be very, very careful with how you use data over Roger's EDGE network - what they don't tell you is that theIr "mobile internet" data plans cover only WAP data, and only to a very small list of allowable domains.
Here's the list of allowable domains:
I believe their MyMail service allows HTML browsing as part of the data usage but I can't find the information on their POS web site. There's mention of this, however, in this PDF I found:
For the mobile Internet data plan all HTML usage is charged at 5 cents PER KILOBYTE. Sigh.
Still, the news that unlocking is now possible means I'll probably buy an iPhone sooner rather than later…
I don't see any reason why a carrier wouldn't want to let you activate a phone with a new contract. They might have technical difficulties (no official iPhone SIM sans phone to give you). The unlocked phone could just as easily be a used phone from the US - shouldn't they be able to activate that as well? The biggest problem with unlocked phones is that Apple's leverage with the telcos may be seriously limited by this.
@Neil - "what they don't tell you is that theIr "mobile internet" data plans cover only WAP data, and only to a very small list of allowable domains."
Not true. I just called and verified with two different departments. The 25MB/mo I pay for covers WAP and EDGE, no restrictions.
I've been using my Treo to browse normal sites all along; Bloglines, Twitter, this site etc. I don't pay per K, it's all included.
It may depend on the plan you have. I'm in the "business data" class or whatever they call it, the ones that actually advertise the amount of transfer included instead of bury it as a footnote.
@Dave - You're right - I was referring to the mobile Internet plans that include either 5mbs or 10mbs of data… but the business data class does include HTML.
Once I get my iPhone I'm going to look into if it's possible to create an iPhone app that can automatically disable EDGE browsing once usage reaches a certain amount. I think with such meagre data transfer allowances such a beast would be really useful…
"[Apple] do make money no matter where the phones were bought after all, it's only AT&T that's missing out on most of the recurring revenue."
Key word being "most". Apple does get some of the recurring revenue ($11/month?) from AT&T. So they're not going to be ecstatic about people using the iPhone with other services (for "free").
You're absolutely right Dave. Today does feel like June 29th to me.
I've yet to add Roges' EDGE settings to my iPhone though. I'm to afraid of the resulting data charges.
@Neil: I'm on the mobile internet plan and it's definitely not restricted to WAP data only…I've used it on my Treo for ages (using various browsers) and have tethered it with my laptop to surf as well (albeit very limited due to the cost). It's working just fine on my iPhone as well but as everyone has said, it's off much more than on. I'd love that app your talking about making! Although it's pretty easy to just disable EDGE via the settings by adding some extra characters to the APN address. The usage meter on the iPhone tells you what your in/out data usage is (even though Roger's doesn't on their site).
@Dave S.: Do you have YouTube working (wifi)? I activated my iPhone on the Pick Your Plan (AT&T) and did the software unlock method yesterday and lost YouTube…I did backup my lockdown files so it should just be a matter of putting them back to reactivate it. That or use one of the enabling scripts.
I called Rogers today and was transfered to someone in their Data department.
Rogers currently has a promotional data plan that allows you to use unlimited data for 3 months for $60 per month. You don't have to sign up on a contract, and you can keep the plan for 1 to 3 months.
Now after those 3 months, $60 will only buy you a pathetic 25mb of data, so I likely will be canceling.
I was standing in the Apple Store in Syracuse on June 30th. iPhone in hand, and almost bought one. The staff said they already served many Canadians, optimistic folk because there were no hacks of any kind yet.
Now I could buy one and actually use it in Canada. But since I don't use the voice part of my current cellphone very often I still am hesitant to get one. I use a pay-as-you-go plan now, because normal plans are just way too expensive with all the hidden charges (the ridiculous "System access fee" and voice mail, call display, data, everything costs extra). Plus there will probably be a newer model available when the iPhone gets introduced in Europe.
I still remember when Fido had an unlimited data plan for $50 a month. But that was before Rogers bought them. Let's see if Apple can negotiate a deal with them. And if not, we probably will never see a legal iPhone in Canada.
I currently have an unlocked Treo on Rogers and I shut the internet completely off, since I'm both petrified and incensed over Rogers' scandalous data rates. I would very much love an iPhone, but there is absolutely no way I would activate one on Rogers at this point. With all the stories of American's getting $3K roaming charges due to persistent data pings, I can only imagine what Rogers would ending up billing.
(I still can't understand how Rogers et al. are allowed to get away with this disgraceful, noncompetitive practice: http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/04/09/canada-worse-than-3rd-world-countries-when-it-comes-to-mobile-data-access/)
Rogers is the company I love to hate (especially with my continually growing monthly bills, bandwidth shaping, and there need to continually make me chase ports for VNC). Rogers will have to want the iPhone REALLY bad to bend to Apples will. Rogers is in need of heavy reforms and perhaps Apple is the company to bring about such change… but I doubt it.
In all honesty though, is it worth having an unlocked iPhone on Rogers at this point? I mean if you really have to watch your data usage that closely? If there was a way to really stick it to them I would be all game for that! ;)
I have been pining for the iPhone for 9 months but I do not want to take the chance of getting it and having Apple wipe it out with an upgrade or deal with Rogers punitive data rates. So I have pre-ordered the iPod Touch. It has WiFi and a browser and all the other features of the iPhone except the phone of coarse and email. But Gmail will stand in its place until there is an easy hack to port over the email client. If I thought the iPhone was coming to Canada within 3 months I would probably wait. But I think we will be lucky if it comes out in 6 months and my hunch is it might be a year before the iPhone arrives. In my opinion the iPod Touch is a great substitute for Canadians wanting the iPhone experience. And living in Vancouver I will be able to find hundreds of free WiFi throughout the city….I just wish I drank coffee…Too bad most Pubs do not have WiFi.
It's nice to finally have a fellow Canadian discuss this.
Fortunately for me, I broke my iPhone the day before these free unlocking solutions were released. Now my iPhone is on its way to a friend's place in NYC so he can walk it down to the Apple Store and get it fixed for me.
I've never seen an iPhone this broken before: http://vimeo.com/302436
If one could get a totally unlocked iPhone I would jump across the line this weekend and pick-one up. But as it is this "hack" is a little to complicated for my likes. I think for the next year or so I'll have to stay with my old pay-as-you go phone AND an iPod Touch! With the iPod Touch I can have web-mail. Cheap phone and Free email. For me this will be a good combo. Because if there is one thing I dislike it's having to pay out money to Telco Operators. Both TELUS and Rogers stink. I will never sign a long term contract with any of them. period. I am planning on going with a Rogers (GSM) SIM enabled phone (unlocked) and dropping TELUS now that we can carry our mobile numbers with us. As the fellow at ING says: Save your Money!
I have to chime in on watching out for the data prices. I've been dinged $60 by Fido/Rogers for a paltry 1Mb of use, though I understand you can get 25Mb for the same amount monthly.
Though the phone is indeed unlocked, the economics of mobile communications are still broken badly in Canada. Apple is hopefully wooing Rogers into the 21st century with a plan on par with what iPhone subscribers are getting from AT&T.
Thanks for the post.
Glad to see more Canadian info regarding the iPhone. I'm getting a friend to pick one up this weekend. I've been on the fence for so long now, waiting for the unlock to happen. But i'm excited again about the iPhone, and how i can donate the $450 unlocked Nokia e61 (purchased last christmas) to charity.
ROGERS DATA PLANS are a complete ripoff. It's cheaper for Cingular/At&T customers with the international data plan to use the rogers network than rogers own wireless customers.
$25US for 25mb is not great but, sure beats $10 for 10mb, scary after 10mb.
My e61 does have wifi, but vancouver doesn't have enough public wifi outlets, so i'm pretty careful on data usage. IMAP email header only retrieval helps alot.
"My biggest question about this is whether or not you'll be able to successfully activate your hacked iPhone on a Rogers plan once the iPhone is officially released in Canada"
My unlocked e61 works fine fido or rogers, and fido/rogers still carries the handset.
I'm baffled. What is it about this lump of metal that makes sane adults go all Beatlemaniac? It's just a telephone, people!
Disclaimer: I'm notoriously luddite. I drive a crap old car, use a crap old pay as you go phone, use a beige no-name Windows PC and have never fantasised about sex with Steve Jobs.
My buddy was over here the other day activating his iPhone he got while in Detroit. He has a Telus phone though which apparently doesn't have a sim card. He's going to see about a Fido card though and then hacking the phone to work in Canada. Almost makes me want to ditch my Samsung D807 and splurge on the iPhone now.
Here's a question, not just for Canadian iPhone owners mind you: is it possible to disable data transfer (aside from calls) over EDGE. I'm strongly considering getting a phone and I'm on Rogers, so I don't want to get hit with any huge overage charges for data transfer.
I did some poking around on Apple's support site, but wasn't able to come up with an answer to my question.
You can ask Rogers to disable it.
@Jeff Smith - "is it possible to disable data transfer (aside from calls) over EDGE"
Yeah, easy. In the post I noted I had a problem with EDGE on Rogers initially and I had to change the server settings. If you just remove them completely, you likely won't use any data.
The EDGE server setting is in Settings > General > Network > EDGE
@Dave S. - Perfect, thanks. I think that pretty much seals the deal for me. Time to get my hands on one so I can stop using this horrible Razr.
Bought, activated,and unlocked on Tuesday. Love this thing. EDGE data rates on wireless are high, but if you're in the downtown coremost WIFI hotspots are wide open. The iPhone defaults to WIFI anyway, so most EDGE charges can be avoided if you're smart about it.
Through unlocking, EDGE is actually disabled, as it does not change a specific line of code required for EDGE. Enabling it requires a bit of noodling with some .plists…
Today was the second coming for me. The first was the wait from June 29th to when my US-sent iPhone arrived. I have to agree with most everyone's concerns. As a Canuck with an iPhone, I'm not only an early adopter but one with more risk than any American user.
I'm taking the situation as it comes, though. I don't expect that we'll get affordable, practical dataplans but I'm hopeful. Hey, I was cautiously optimistic about an unlock for two months and here I am, making my iPhone my primary pda/phone/media device.
I hope that Rogers will realize the mistake many companies make: pricing at a premium generates less profit; they can make a profit off people en masse that will gladly pay an affordable fee for data usage rather than the begrudging amount a much smaller group of consumers have fork over now. Data wants to be free! Or at the very least, cheap to come by.
One more thing: kudos to the iPhone dev team who made this all possible. Hopefully this will remain a win-win-win situation.
I'm planning on picking one up in NYC at the end of the month. I'm not afraid of a little scripting. And now knowing how easily EDGE is "disabled" there's no worry of "accidental" network usage. The only real concern is having to be more careful of updates. And that'll only suck if cool new features get added, and even then its just a waiting game for our friendly hackers to work around. This kind of cat and mouse has been going on in the Console world for years.
I've just been trying to find clarificartion on an issue. the iPhoneSIMFree soluton required a live internet connection to unlock, but does the iUnlock method require it is well? I'd hate to get my shiny new toy then wait week before I can activate it because of some silly hotel internet connection (yeah I'm impatient I know)
Sort of. Right now, part of the process requires a wifi connection so that you can log into your phone remotely and also transfer files to it. (i.e. Your computer needs to see your iPhone on the local network with an IP and therefore be able to connect to it.) The wifi connection does not have to connect to the Internet per se.
The iPhone wiki in addition to various other sites has all the steps outlined.
Hi - having lived through Rogers' _NEGATIVE BILLNG _ period here in Vancouver when they offered Cable service. Rogers will NEVER get another cent from me. Ever. My question is: Can I get an unlocked iPhone and be able to use the SIM card with another provider other than Rogers?
@Victor: "making my iPhone my primary pda/phone/media device" How well is this working out for you? is the pda function robust?
iphonesimfree transfer to iphone:
I had to use a program called ifuntastic ver 3.03 (for itunes 7.4) to successfully move the iphonessimfree software to my iphone via usb/dock cable instead of ssh over the wi-fi connection. As for activation, I used a program called iNdependence to jailbreak the phone and activate it. I put it in jail again, "freed" it forever with ifuntastic, transfered the simfree file and installed. Took forever because i am in iraq and had to download the 1.0.2 firmware multiple times. Now I can use iraqna for call, wi-fi for data, and the ipod for the gym. perfect. now if only i can update to 16gb of flash memory in the near future…
Well after sitting on the fence until now, I'm glad have picked up and unlocked my iphone. Using the Modmyiphone.com guide. GUI Installer worked great.
Has anyone had issues with the voicemail button after popping in a Rogers sim card? I get the red dot over the voicemail icon and phone icon, but voicemail button doesn't call the rogers VM number.
Tried the VM fix http://modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_voicemail_to_work_on_unlocked_iPhone
But can't seem to SSH into my phone.
Strange. But everything else works great.
I put the Rogers EDGE info in and I surfed for a second or so to test it - works fine.
I then went back to General>Network>EDGE and erased the Rogers settings.
Hit the Safari button and it was still working on Rogers! Aaaaargh!
I put some gobbledegook in the settings and tried again - now it was off. Phew.
Be careful to put something in the settings, so that the last input isnt held in memory and you unwittingly go straight to Rogers special 'drain your bank account' system.
The iPhone is great - I live in Langley area, commute to Vancouver, ipod music as I drive - much more of a relaxed commute, and if I get a call, music fades, take the call, music fades back in. Love it.
No more missed calls in the car. Headset seems very good quality to me (I have an Etymotic $200 set with my ipod - Apple seems the equal of that.)
I find lots of wifi places in Vancouver if I need to get/send an email or check a website. LOVE this phone - anyone want a new RAZR?
@nulens: After about a week of constant, usage, yes the iPhone holds up reasonably well as a PDA but it is still lacking. This is where I hope the possibility of officially adding 3rd party apps will be a reality in the future.
It would be a good strategy. As John Gruber speculated in one of his posts that holding back something can be a good strategy for Apple. I imagine adding new features to an existing product (with a mere firmware update) would generate renewed interest when product sales start to slow?
In any case, there are a few things that I miss on my PDA that were on my Treo. Having Notes (or in Treo's case, Memos) syncing to my computer. I like the convenience of accessing or creating bits of important information in either location and syncing. The second issue is cut & paste. *sigh* I often copy/move information around between Notes, Contacts, Appointmens, E-mails, etc… that major convenience is lost on the iPhone. (Think of receiving a Fedex tracking number and having to manually enter it into MobileSafari without a pen or paper.) Lastly, as I alluded above, 3rd party apps. I use To-Do's/Shopping Lists and a Winelist app a lot on my Treo.
I would like to see the iPhone developer community as prolific as the Palm one. It has the potential: the major (only?) barrier is that Apple hasn't opened up the platform. A Safari-based API is not a solution. People are not in constant network/wi-fi proximity. I wish Apple would see it a bit from the PDA point of view that an offline scenario is maybe more common than they might surmise, and also very debilitating to their 'application' platform.
Here's a fix for the Rogers Voicemail, found it posted at ehmac.ca
Key in: *5005*86*+16044183471# and dialed. Now it works!
To dial the "+" just tap and hold "0"
VM Retrieval Numbers
+1 (604) 418-3471
Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba:
+1 (403) 561-3172
+1 (416) 274-2817
+1 (416) 357-3229 (my favourite….not that it matters)
+1 (416) 357-1041
+1 (416) 358-1549
Quebec & Maritimes:
+1 (514) 827-1251
beware! heads up!
"Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed."
Hmm… Somehow I fail to see how *software* modification would cause *irreparable* damage –any chance that this is just FUD?!
guess again… there are iBricks to be had a-plenty after updating.
some problems have even arisen in non-hacked iPhones. i would to hear from those of you with hacked iphones. are you bricked? have you found a work-around?
Just a quick question. I'm from vancouver but studying in Sydney, Australia. I'm very keen to get an iphone from the US when I get back to Vancouver for christmas. Whats the closest place to get an iphone minus the At&t contract across the peace arch?
If i bought one, what is the best method to unlock it, and once doing so, could I use it in Vancouver initially (cause i'll be dying to try it out) then use it when I get back to Sydney?
If someone could help me out that would be great.
The unlocking process has gone from relatively complicated to no-brainer over the months. I think the iPhone Dev Team are working really hard.


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I am such a good wife and mother - you all knew that right? I'm joking of course but I am giving myself a pat on the back for braving the Minnesota State Fair this week with my husband and two boys - who all really wanted to go. The State Fair is kind of a big deal here or at least it seems that way if you live in Saint Paul where the fair takes place.
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I also loved the Creative Activities building which housed the displays for all our favorite pastimes - baking, embroidery, sewing, knitting, quilting, woodworking, preserving. You and I know all the hard work, trial and error and time that goes into these things and the years and dedication it takes to master these skills. So, to see them all proudly displayed and to see these highly skilled craftspeople being recognized kind of warms my heart.
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I'll leave you with a shot of my boys riding the ferris wheel (probably should have brought the telephoto lens for that shot, I know). Check out that perfect blue sky - what a way to say farewell to Summer, right?
Looking ahead to September there are some fun things happening at So September (I can't say what exactly because it's a secret right now) - I hope you'll stop by and take a peek!


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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Guess What? I Am Imagining If Something Living Had Qualities Of Machines, or Vice Versa!
218 (not that it's bad in this case - I like this one a lot)
I'm not going to count 237 because he might be talking to a person on the other end. If it were a computer, though, then it would be on the list.
285 (also pretty funny)
327 - as I've stated elsewhere, one of my least favorite of all time.
329, but any joke about the Turing test would be on this list so I can't hold it against him.
371 - textbook example of this category.
DAMN that's a long list. I had a fairly broad interpretation but still...damn.
Like all these collections of worst offenders, I actually wrote it way after the date it says, but I didn't want it on the main page.
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Just curious, what do you do for a living? As a developer, I looked at the ones you disliked the most, and thought, "hey, these aren't Randall's worst comics!"ReplyDelete
I actually enjoyed the one about the Mom naming her son something that would delete the Students table from the database.
I agree some of his comics could be better...but I'd choose different ones to dislike.
It's like the Far Side, or Dilbert...as time goes by original humor gets very hard to keep up. Sometime in the future, like all comics, xkcd will end. I don't think the time has come yet though.
It's a fair question Aaron but I hope you don't mind if I'd rather not answer it. Just an privacy on the internet thing. I am not, however, a computer programmer. I don't think it affects my judgment of the comics as much as some people think, but you are not the only person to tell me that Bobby Tables is very very funny.ReplyDelete
I agree of course that it's hard to keep up the humor - but I think that rather than keep going, Randall should just stop and be happy with what he's done, and not force himself to keep going.
I have to agree with Aaron. I've really liked a lot of these - though I understand that the repetition can become droll.ReplyDelete
Then again, I'm also a computer scientist, so I suppose I'm in the target market.
Overall, though, I agree with some of what you're saying. xkcd has become less entertaining, is certainly repetitive, and I'd love for Randall to fix it.
It's good that someone speaks up - xkcd is too often treated like a sacred cow.
- AnonymousJune 22, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I object to 174 being put on this list. It's completely irrelevant to computers or machines, as far as I can tell.ReplyDelete
Huh - yeah that is a mistake. It is gone...now!ReplyDelete
I think I meant 175.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 7, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Shouldn't this list include the gyroscope and the toaster with a knife?ReplyDelete
How about the mutant sporks going crazy and killing people?
I'm not sure those really fit the category - gyroscopes strikes me as more like just a wacky robot (not particularly human, for a robot) and the sporks are just deadly. Close though. I can see why you suggested them.ReplyDelete
- Person #1July 23, 2009 at 2:00 AM
why is this not on the repeat offender list?ReplyDelete
Because you touch yourself at night!ReplyDelete
It was, but you'll note that he actually has stopped doing it that much - only 2 in the last 200 comics or so. So it seemed a little unfair to leave it there. Not to mention that it would look kind of pathetic to say "Argh he does this ALL THE TIME let me prove it" and then have my data here prove that he doesn't do it all the time anymore.ReplyDelete
Dude, bashing on xkcd for "People as computers" is like reading Cyanide and Happiness and saying "Gee, a horrible pun and characters with a complete lack of morals or social taboos. Where have we seen this before?", followed by a link to every single C&H ever.ReplyDelete
I'm confused by the accusation of unoriginality. Yes, there's lots of human-computering going on here; it's a nerd comic. But there are a variety of jokes about lots of different computer-related stuff. Putting the Wikipedian Protester, Python Guy, and Arcade FPS guy in the same box for the sake of calling Randall uncreative is disingenuous. It's a theme, not a straitjacket.ReplyDelete
...Also, you didn't understand the zealous autoconfig strip? I barely understand how my computer connects to the Internet, and I laughed. That strip's a pretty good example of what's wrong with your groaning about reused themes; yes, you have a computer talking, but the joke is about taking autoconfig to its illogical conclusion, not about the theme itself.
Nun, Math - the some of these are good comics. I'm not saying they are all the same, and I'm not saying they are all bad. I'm just saying that it seems like he returns to this fairly narrow theme pretty often. In fact, on this one, I don't even think he has been doing it that much recently, that's why I stopped linking to it from the main page. No need to get defensive on this one, it is merely here to be a catalog of which comics do this.ReplyDelete
Ok, I can see that position. I just reacted badly to the combination of your comment on the subject in 612 and the "this gets old fast" comment at the top of this page. Sorry.ReplyDelete
It's not a fairly narrow theme. It's an extremely broad theme, unless you think that "Wall-E," "The Matrix," and "Frankenstein" are similar premises. In fact, it was really Mary Shelley who made that a principal question of the last 2 centuries with the publication of her novel in 1818. Go back through these comics and see how incredibly different they are in theme and style. And good work proving the two truisms: "some xkcd comics are good; others, not so much" and "there is something really lacking in polish about this art that is purposely lacking in polish."ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
No, no your eyes aren't deceiving you. That is none other than Guiding Light matron Bert Bauer - smoking!
These days, the moment a character whips out a cigarette in film or television, you know that they're up to no good. Or are French. Or it's the beginning of A Very Special episode.
But back in the 1950s, when Guiding Light first made the transition to television, the late Charita Bauer recalled, "Even though my character was a wife and mother and basically a good character, she was allowed to smoke. Now no one smokes. Since the Surgeon General's report on the dangers of smoking, the Procter & Gamble shows don't allow people to smoke."
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Sitting next to Corday in the photo above is Lucy Rittenberg (also smoking, FWIW). Rittenberg was with Guiding Light from the beginning, starting as an assistant to the director, and ending her career there as GL's Executive Producer in 1976!
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- dana said...
Cool pictures, but really is there any hope of the Bauer expanding in 2009? The recent articles that have been posted are great but at the same time make me sad because during the past 4 years the Bauer family have been virtually wiped out. I pray that is one of the things fixed next year.
- chuck197007 said...
Did AOL take last week off for Christmas,since there have been no "new" episodes posted for Another World,Texas,Edge of Night and Search for Tomorrow. Will the episodes be posted this week?
There are a lot of us who enjoy watching these classic soaps(some for the first time)and we get concerned when there are long delays in the next episode being posted.
- supersage21 said...
Dana, I was wondering the same thing. Would be nice to connect present day Springfield with the past.
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By EconMatters The Energy Department reported that natural gas in storage grew by 26 billion cubic feet to 3.189 trillion cubic feet for the week ended July 20. The inventory level was 15.8% above the five-year average of 2.754 trillion cubic feet, and 18% above last year's level.Low natural gas prices in the U.S. this year has not only tanked the stocks of many gas-weighted producers, but also dragged down profits of U.S-based oilfield services companies as a result of reduced gas drilling activity (See Chart Below). However, since hitting a 10-year low of below $2/mmbtu in April, Henry Hub benchmark prices has surged 69% hitting $3.214/mmbtu on Monday, July 30, the high of the year.Source: EIA, July 18, 2012
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Hi, a couple of times now I ran into misunderstandings by students regarding a common visualization style of property domain/range relationships in ontologies. Actually, it is quite common to draw diagrams of ontologies in a style similar to ER diagrams, where classes are represented as ellipses, and properties that have these classes as domain/range are represented as arcs between these ellipses (e.g. [1], which is meant to describe the domain and range for foaf:holdsAccount). However many "newbies" to RDF and ontologies are confused by this, because the triple foaf:Agent foaf:holdsAccount foaf:OnlineAccount . is actually not contained in the ontology. It's hard to explain them the difference between this way of representing ontologies and the graphical representation of the actual triples. Thus I ask everyone to reconsider the way you visualize ontologies in publications, tutorials, etc. to make them consistent with the "normal" way of graphical RDF notation. [1] <http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/schandl/2009/06/domain+range_bad.png> [2] <http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/schandl/2009/06/domain +range_better.png> Best, BernhardReceived on Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:59:43 UTC
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