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• The ONLY feature I want to see is user-replaceable battery -- the sole reason I have never even considered getting an iPhone. I'm torture on batteries, and I have to replace the battery in my iPod every six months or so, and the battery in my cell phone every four months or so... and while it's annoying to have to go to an Apple store every few months for a battery replacement in my music player, it's an absolute deal killer to be without a phone three times a year while it's "in the shop" for a battery replacement. In reply to: "Top 5 iPod features you'll never see"

  August 27, 2008

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• OK, PS3 setup experts, how do I fix this fundamental problem: In order to get high-res audio tracks, which the PS3 can't output in bitstream, I have to use multichannel PCM to get the audio to my receiver (old reliable Onkyo SR605). However, setting it up for multi-channel audio output means that my PS3 is _always_ outputting 7.1 channels of audio -- if if the input is a DiVX video with stereo audio that I'd much rather have my receiver matrix into 7.1 channels.
  
  Of course, the Onkyo can't do that, because it's already receiving 7.1 channels from the PS3, so there's nothing to matrix -- even though 5.1 of those channels happen to consist of dead silence. This infuriates me UNBELIEVABLY, which is why I always find it inexplicable that CNET consistently says there's no benefit to having your Blu-Ray player send DolbyTrueHD in bitstream format. OF COURSE THERE IS! If it sent everything bitstream, then I could have my receiver accept the TrueHD format and decode it, AND the PS3 would send stereo audio bitstream, and the receiver could matrix it... rather than just having the PS3 constantly send 7.1 channels of audio even where there's not a 7.1 channel source, and preventing my receiver from actually, you know, doing its job and using all the speakers.
  
  Anybody have any suggestions? Other than "change your audio output settings before changing every single media you play on the PS3 so that your receiver gets the proper information to process for that particular source"... the kludgiest solution alive. In reply to: "PS3 Blu-ray settings: Ask the Editors"

  August 23, 2008

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• Again, just my opinion -- the actual details of what's proper and not get decided by judges and ethics committees. It's a very grey area when you're talking about what's proper and what's not in terms of attorneys getting clients. But it's pretty clear, as far as I'm aware, that there's no two ways around the fact that an attorney can't pay people to get him clients. Attorneys get disbarred for that.
  
  Now, with the way the site seems to be set up now -- neither the potential plaintiffs nor the attorneys pay a fee, and revenues come from advertising or whatever -- that doesn't appear to violate that. But if the site said to the attorney "you pay us $1000, we'll give you a case," that's just not something attorneys would be allowed to do. Either way, any time you deal with advertising for attorneys, it gets very sticky as to what falls inside the bounds of acceptable behaviour and what doesn't... and websites like this would be very well advised to get approval from state bar ethics committees before opening up for business. I mean, up until twenty or twenty five years ago, attorneys weren't even allowed to put ads in telephone directories in some jurisdictions, and the general restrictions on attorney advertising have been eased very slowly and with great pains... the requirements are a whole lot different for lawyers than for regular business people. In reply to: "Your matchmaker for class action lawsuits: SueEasy"

  August 23, 2008

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• To clarify: I'm not accusing anyone of illegal conduct, and certainly not criminal conduct (as I don't believe there's any actual criminal conduct involved) just expressing my personal, nonlegal opinion that this particular service violates the attorney code of professional responsibility in the State of New York. In reply to: "Your matchmaker for class action lawsuits: SueEasy"

  August 22, 2008

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• As an attorney in New York, I can tell you that this service is illegal, at least in New York. Not for consumers / potential litigants trying to find lawyers, but for lawyers to use this would constitute serious ethical violations, and would subject them to severe disciplinary action. It would also be illegal for the website operators.
  
  Not sure about other states, but in New York, it's a violation of the attorney code of professional responsibility to pay someone for clients, or for anyone who's not an attorney or law firm to collect a referral fee... and it might be improper solicitation as well, depending on how the system works.
  
  These people really should have checked with bar association ethics committees before they started this website. In reply to: "Your matchmaker for class action lawsuits: SueEasy"

  August 22, 2008

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