Computers & Technology

At 22:40 EDT I saw the commercial for iPhone that involves a pilot of a plane whose flight was delayed due to weather, using iPhone to check the weather and communicate to control that weather had cleared. (on NBC 4 New York, at 22:40 EDT on 3 Nov 2007)
It upsets me that pilots get to use their iPhone to connect to the Internet when a flight is delayed, while the rest of the passengers sit in the cabin not being able to use any electronic devices!  I did not purchase iPhone to become a netizen with a first class communicator device with third class communication.
I directed this feedback to Apple and the airlines that I have flown recently.  This commercial feels like rubbing salt on a wound.

Eduardo.

Aborting an installation often prompts a new dialog window to be displayed, that reads "This program might not have installed correctly" and gives you three options: Reinstall using recommended settings, This program installed correctly, or Cancel.

I understand the good intentions of this dialog and the programming behind it, but it seems like it's poorly implemented.  If during an installation of a program I decide to abort the installation without completing the installation, I should not see this dialog.  Of course, how would the software know that the software was aborted because of my choice or because the software really did not "install correctly"?  Well, that gets to the point of this dialog:  that is what the dialog claims it is doing by being displayed, it knows that the installation didn't complete successfully so it offers me to reinstall or tell it that it installed correctly.

It is not clear that the cancel button may mean, "I aborted this installation, everything is OK".

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