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Chris, I would check into the Apple store for some help. AT&T doesn't know what they are doing when it comes to the iPhone. - Justin Korn

So, iPhone 3G get's a "Status: FAIL"? - Outsanity

iphone 1.0 here still. glad i didn't upgrade :) - Chris Harris

Apple needs to just put up its own towers and have the iPhone on its own network. Its like putting 3rd party ram in a Mac, its nothing but problems :P - Scott

That SUCKS. So far, my 3G has been working fine. :D - joey@jwvmods.com

Unlucky man, as Justin pointed out, it may be worth going into an Apple store and see what they say. - Gaurav Patel

Have you tried DFU mode? I had this happen to me and it was guessed to be a bad sector on the flash drive. Apple will replace it... they did for me. - Douglas Porter from twhirl

I've had nothing but problems with the iPhone 3G. Fail! - Matt Singley

here's to HTC Dream + Android!!!! - andy brudtkuhl

I was considering getting a new iPhone but after this and all the other fiascos...maybe I'll hold out for the new touchscreen BlackBerry. - RottNKorpse

You've just been the worst case iphone scenario Chris from the beginning.. hope it gets straightened out! - Eric Gonzalez

Did you do anything *other* than install and remove 3rd party apps on the thing the entire time you've owned it? From what I've witnessed you downloaded and installed every app in the store. Your usage certainly isn't typical. And you really shouldn't be dealing with the AT&T store for an Apple hardware product. For one, the service at Apple is 1000 times better. - Adam Turetzky

Daamn... Hearing this just makes me NOT want to buy the iPhone any more. It's like the cursed phone. I think you have an isolated problem Chris, because I haven't head of this anywhere else. - Oliver

You may want to try Leo's fix. Format, start from scratch and then only install Apps from iTunes. Just a suggestion. It worked for most of my friends at school when I told them. - Zane

One of the things I would do is delete every app you have on the phone (other than what it came with of course) and start over again from scratch. Go little at a time reintroducing the apps to your phone, until you get to the ones that may be causing trouble. As someone else pointed out, you've been downloading and trying out alot of apps. Many of them have proved buggy. Maybe just start over again and don't put apps back for awhile. - Lisa Lee

Ow. - Toastpaint

The majority of citizens polled say they'd rather elect a gay than an atheist. I'm guessing at least 3 more presidents before we even elect an agnostic (maybe he'll/she'll be gay!) - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

I'm 33 and don't imagine we'll elect a non self-described Christian in my lifetime. - Michelle Jones

very sad, but you're probably right, Leo. - Anthony Citrano

At least we're moving in the direction where it doesn't seem so impossible anymore - Herb Hernandez

That's a stupid thing to say, Leo. - David Risley

Well, we are a christian nation. At least according to an abc poll 83% of americans claim to be christian. - Steve Helder from twhirl

Leo, dang I personally miss the TechTv days... alas, the powers that be are absolving all reference to the Great I AM, but HE's got that covered too, Amen? - Dan from twhirl

why is that bad? we were founded on Christian Beliefs even if freedom of religion is guarenteed. "In God We Trust" is in our country's DNA - John Head from twhirl

John, you've just shown you know absolutely nothing about what this country was founded on. - Jeff Jones

Jeff, I disagree, John is right. I've studied our history and we are founded on the Bible... - Douglas Porter from twhirl

doubtful considering the constituents, though perhaps a non-christian president in your lifetime. - xero

John, Douglas, please reread the Constitution. Nowhere will you find a reference to Christianity or the Bible. At best the majority of the founding fathers were deists. Then read Jefferson's writings from that period. These days he'd be considered a non-believer. BTW-"In God We Trust" was added to coinage and paper money in 1954 as a reaction to the Communist threat. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

@Jeff Jones, I have to agree with @John Head. Christian morals and beliefs founded the USA. However, they felt tolerance of other religions (mainly other denominations) was important. Very few of the founding influential would even publicly consider atheism as viably PC at the time; the populace just wouldn't have it. If those governing the public did not answer to anyone other than themselves, the public would have felt the system corrupt. 1st amendment must be read in concert with the constitution. - xero

@Jack Carlson, privately deist perhaps (many were mason's after all), but publicly Christian en masse, at least in legislative writing. You'll be hard-pressed to find a reference to "a god" or "whatever god" except when speaking specifically cross-religion. You'll find "God" and "our God" on many more of the public documents they wrote. Given, our fear of communism did change many things we see today to include a reference to "God", such as the coinage and pledge. Good point btw, and TJ was an exception - xero

Quote seen on http://www.netalive.org/topics... "Deism says it is rationality and reason that leads to God. To the Deist, the evidence is the creation and the idea of what brought about the evidence is the Creator." It seems that, like an atheist, a deist is also an anti-religious rationalist, only having reached a different conclusion. I once called 18th century deists "the athiests of their day" and after reading some more about deism, I think I still stand by that. - Pierre Houston

Tell me about it. But in reality it makes sense. Only about 4 out of a thousand people in the U.S. identify themselves as Atheist, 5 more of the same thousand identify as Agnostic. That doesn't serve well for democratic elections.:) - Dereck

we have trouble electing non-protestant christians (exactly one catholic: john f. kennedy has been elected president). baby steps leo. baby steps. ... @xero, "God" and "our God" doesn't mean "Christian." it just means believer in God. - tiffany

... and someone please explain what values you are defining as "Christian" - tiffany

"God" is the basic Christian/Jewish god, why not "god(s)" or "Allah" or "Shiva" or "Zeus" or "the Creator(s)" or even better, why even bother mentioning a deity or creator? Given, references are mixed, but they really didn't need a reference at all, ever. - xero

A better question might be to speculate whether the United States will still be around at the end of our generation. Ina form we'd recognize, at least. - Chris Baskind

To those asking if one would want a non-Christian president: One does not need to be a Christian to have Christian values - or, indeed, the values held up by any religion. - Christian Leonard Quale from twhirl

One advantage to being publicly identified as an atheist; neither party likes you very much, they tend to leave you alone. Dem's are as theistic as Rep's. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

If this were my world, then the 3 best Rugby Front Rowers would form a Trinity of Political Power, making decisions for everyone. These decisions would consist of Meat Pies and probably copious amounts of Ambrosia (or "beer" as some people would call it). We Aussies know how to make good pies. - Stu Andrews from twhirl

For those claiming the US was founded on Christianity and the Bible, please show me more similarities between the Constitution vs. the Bible as compared to the writings of Thomas Paine. - Jason Carreira

personally, i think we may be confusing being Founded On The Bible to being founded in the context of Christianity. and +1 Jason Carreira - idnan

All this religious stuff is bullshit. What a waste of time. Why don't we start talking about investing in the infrastructure in this country instead of Iraq, education, healthcare, Mcain's 10 mansions @xero; Christian morals and beliefs founded the USA? Really? So enslaving people, killing off an entire race of people, and making money are Christian values? - PC Easy

@PC Easy: Actually, making money is one of the more highly-regarded Christian values. Google 'Puritan Ethic'. Or visit a cathedral. - Derrick Burns

Why is it that there are people who, regardless of religious background or belief, do not accept that the Judeo-Christian morals and values are what drove the writing of the US Constitution? "Thou shalt not kill" is a basic tenet of the US legal system, is it not? Do you have to be a member of a Judeo-Christian religious group to believe it is wrong to murder someone? - MVB (Grinch of FF) from twhirl

@Mark VandenBerg - Whoa, so are you saying that you need to have "Judeo-Christian morals and values" to believe that murder is wrong? Maybe I missed your point, but I hope that's not what you're saying. - Herb Hernandez

No, that wasn't what I was saying. That murder is wrong is widely accepted as a Judeo-Christian tenet, and also accepted as morally wrong in the US. I made a (poorly worded) co-relative observation. Other societies have the same stance. Can we agree on those two points? If we can, is it a stretch to say that the morals and values of Judeo-Christianity have influenced the US society? - MVB (Grinch of FF) from twhirl

Influence? Sure.. However, that's quite different than saying we were founded on those beliefs. - Herb Hernandez

As I wrote, "poorly worded." It's early, lack of coffee, yadayadayada... I'll reword my question: Why are there people who adamantly refuse to accept that the norms, mores and values in the US society today have been influenced by past religious-based regimes such as (but not limited to) the Roman Catholic Church which ruled most of Europe for centuries? I don't see the connection... more... - MVB (Grinch of FF) from twhirl

@gregory lent More importantly: Why are there such factious lines, politically, in the US that the religious beliefs of an elected official are of any more than limited importance? If the the values of the society itself were originally influenced by Judeo-Christian religious institutions, doesn't the society in general have the same base of values? Why is it abhorent to some that an... more... - MVB (Grinch of FF) from twhirl

abhorrent to have an elected official be religious? There's only a handful of federal elected officials who are NOT! Why is it abhorrent to the majority to have an elected official who is NOT religious? Can they not separate morality and ethics from religion and see how someone could be moral and ethical without being religious? Freedom of religion should mean freedom NOT to believe, as well, but so far not in this country. - Jason Carreira

@ Jason Carreira Exactly! The corollaries are almost always true, and I was remiss for not stating so. I share your lament that, apparently, the average person can not seem to make the distinction that you worded so precisely. That the average person is so shallow philosophically is demonstrated by the elected officials put forth by this society, and especially by the ineptness of those very officials! - MVB (Grinch of FF)

I absolutely love twhirl for it's design (looks slick IMO) and for the very fact that it allows me to tweet so much more efficiently. I like the AIR platform as well, so it's a plus that it was built on that. I do agree with others who have complained about it's network issues, but I'm not sure how much of that is twhirls fault and how much of it is twitters. - Ian Mikutel

I like Thwirl, but I distaste the huge memory requirements of Air apps - Alexander Kucera

I used to love twhirl - but that was back when Twitter was online - its friendfeed interface sucks.. - Riaz Kanani

Twhirl is a really good program and definitely makes FF and Twitter (and to an extent Seesmic) a much, much more efficient tool for me. The audio isn't a problem ... I simply turn the volume off for Twhirl (thanks to Vista's per application audio mixer) - Soulhuntre

@Soulhuntre did you just praise Vista? Heresy! - Jon Price

Yes, Chris. Just you. You always knew it was just you, and it is. Happy now? :P - Neal Jansons from twhirl

You like turtle wax and that's just as cool - Dennis Bjørn Petersen from twhirl

On the Mac, I have huge problems (sometimes, the app's window coordinates go wrong and the app is drawn off-screen, have to erase preferences file to restore) with Air applications. That's a show-stopper for me. - Guillaume Lemoine

No, you're not. It's basically crap. People just like it becaiuse it's the best, not because it's good. - Andrew Garrett

Demon: I cast thee out!! - john conroy

No. I hate Twhirl. In fact, I hate everything that runs on Adobe AIR. :P - Rom Feria

Yes - Curtis "Billy" Cross from twhirl

To be honest I hate pretty much ALL Twitter clients. I use the web page when I need to dip into it. But both the Twhirl and Twitterific UIs are awful IMO - Jamie

What is it you don't like about Twhirl? (I like that it enables me to use Twitter and FF so easily, even though it does have a few annoying characteristics) - Lisa Creech Bledsoe from twhirl

Hi Chris.. I use twhirl, i hate it in the past time but now, i reaaly like it... perfect really good now with the new version and i reaaly dont have any trouble whit it... - Victor Hugo Mendez Muñoz

I don't see what the problem is with Twhirl. I've tried most of the other Twitter clients--and I rarely use the Twitter web page--but I always come back to Twhirl. I turn off the notifications so it's unobtrusive, but it's there when I want it. I love being able to mark tweets as read, and I like the way it incorporates FriendFeed. I'm a Twhirl fan. - Jim Milles from twhirl

its the only twitter app i found that lets me keep multiple accounts open easily... but it needs a TON of usability work... - Jeremy Toeman

I love twhirl, works with friendfeed too! - Douglas Porter from twhirl

Yes. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I think it's pretty good, a little annoying when your "like" an article and it immediately jumps to the top of the list but still good. I tend to use the real thing though. Twhirl starts to eat up my computers resources so gets switched off. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

it would be better if it scrolled like snackr and didn't refesh with 20 new tweets at a time - Greg Bond from twhirl

yes - Thom Allen from twhirl

If someone started lolhumans.com, this should be the first image - Outsanity

did it taste good? - Richie Keith

um. EW - Mona Nomura

Ball mouse? Scary... - Dennis Laumen

ewww digusting - Victor from twhirl

I dare you to do the same but this time with a mouse from a public computer on an international airport :) - George The Writer

I was hoping that was old, that shirt is old school :) - Douglas Porter from twhirl

Who needs lolhumans when there's already a lolgeeks? http://lolgeeks.com ;) - Nathaniel Payne

+1 to lolgeeks.com ! - Candace

strange. look at the glasses! haha - Ryan

All hail geeks!!! - Roberto Bonini

Not as funny as when you did this... (video) http://drop.io/0rxlag7... - Jim Williams

You ate a mouse? hehe Well, for 2008, you'll need to bite into a wireless one. ;) - Daynah