LIScanner101
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Maybe AZ is bipolar and keeps forgetting how many times he keeps saying he's done with "us"? and Jay - well, he's just avoiding reality.
These guys might get a couple's discount on therapy LOL!
Let's try this area for the 536 App discussion plus other random thoughts
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Maybe AZ is bipolar and keeps forgetting how many times he keeps saying he's done with "us"? and Jay - well, he's just avoiding reality.
These guys might get a couple's discount on therapy LOL!
The bolded parts are the smartest things you've posted here. Good job.
I agree that the radios should have been held until they were fully ready. I can't explain why they weren't. It's not for me to understand, as I don't know what corporate deadlines Uniden was up against. Maybe there was an internal edict to get them out the door before Whistler (or perhaps even someone else we haven't heard about yet) made their product announcements. Maybe someone had to get them done before going on vacation. We don't know, we likely won't ever know, and I will sleep well at night even if I never find out. The radios are released, for the most part they work great, and I'm optimistic that the things which don't work or haven't been released, will ultimately get fixed. Have I been disappointed by that optimistic outlook in the past? Of course. Uniden radios still, to this day, for some reason, omit the 5th digit past the decimal in a frequency. Activity Log within Analyze Mode on the HP1 is full of bugs (mainly typographical, or half-finished features). Frustrating as hell. Does it accomplish anything by complaining non-freakin'-stop about it? Not one bit. I've raised these concerns with the appropriate people and let them go. Either they'll get resolved or they won't, but I've done my part. If the issues become significant enough that I choose to go to another manufacturer, I will (though it might be hard to find one).
If you, or anyone else, wants to give Uniden a hard time for their handling of the app release, or the headphone jack issue, or the silk-screening issue on the 396 (I forget if it was the T or XT model), that's your right to do so. But you and LI took it to a level it never should have gone, with name-calling and insults to those of us who don't consider it as big of a deal as you do. Never before - even with the silk-screening problem, which generated a huge amount of complaints as I recall - has this forum seen as much ranting and complaining as it has over the past few months. And we're all poorer for it.
LIScanner101
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Jay - stop interacting with "us" if it bothers you so much.
And tell your pal AZScammer the same thing.
Your choice.
And tell your pal AZScammer the same thing.
Your choice.
AZScanner
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Yep, that's it, you're right. Golly, you sure told me. I'm going to go home right now and rethink my life. :roll:
They have discounts? I didn't know that! I've never gone to couple's therapy like you obviously have. Maybe you and Dafe1r could refer Jay and I to the couple's therapist you guys have been using.
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AZScanner
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What the firetruck do you care what I say, Nancy? You have me on fake ignore, remember?
Jesus... What a maroon.
-AZ
Dafe1er
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Yeah, we are the ones who were doing that.
Did you once again NOT READ my postings? I have said in a NUMBER of threads all over the site that members need to stop the belittling, mocking and name calling. The worst I have said is pull your heads out of your own asses (which many have not) and that in Canada they must do things differently then we do down here is the good ole' USofA.
Never called Paul a name you a name or anyone else a name. I might have said the new name I will call Uniden is Undone. Which you have to admit (not literally) is true given the way things rolled out.
Dafe1er
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REALLY?????????
Now we need to bring me into your personal attacks with another member?
Leave me out of it please!
AZScanner
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No, not at all. I just figured since LI and you were having fun making jokes I'd join in - I love to tell jokes. Someday I might even be lucky enough to do it for a living. Speaking of jokes, that quip you just made about Uniden changing their name to Undone is actually pretty good! I LOL'ed.
Look, I've had a bunch of fun in here today and in retrospect I probably got a little carried away. My apologies to anyone who I inadvertantly upset. If you're a fan of Ron White like I am, you'll know what I mean when I say "sometimes I just gotta go kill some chickens". This was one of those times - it was just hanging there begging to be plucked.
-AZ
Whatever. Like I said before, it's not keeping me up at night - none of this is. (Except maybe listening to the radio itself.)
Even though I said, early on in my participation in this thread, that you can't fix stupid, I tried. I should have stuck with my first impression.
Eject eject eject!
Dafe1er
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No worries. I know I do enough damage on my own that I do not need to bring people down with me or go down with them......lol
Ron white is a great man! Funny and drunk the way to live life.
My favorite saying is this:
I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
Dafe1er
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Saying Mr. I wanna keep breaking Ball's is name calling to you? That is what you have and are doing so the name fits!
Just like this is the second time you called me stupid since you cannot fix it. Or is it your are the latter and no one can figure out how to fix you? Happy now?
AZScanner
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Yes! On this, we can agree 110%. Or should I say "110 proof" lol...
I'll have an extra drink tonight in your honor, as one fellow Ron White fan to another.
He's coming to Phoenix this weekend, wish I had the $ to go. It's on my bucket list to go to a show and meet the guy eventually. I'll probably outlive him though, so I might want to hurry LOL...-AZ
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Dafe1er
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Yes! On this, we can agree 110%. Or should I say "110 proof" lol...
I'll have an extra drink tonight in your honor, as one fellow Ron White fan to another.
-AZ
From you statement in bold, you should not have spent so much on a scanner....lol
Drink tonight? Oh that's right we are three hours sooner than you here on the East Coast. I will have a little extra Crown for you now until you can catch up later.
AZScanner
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LOL, my wife says the same thing every time I complain about not having money for something. I keep telling her "but that was EXTRA MONEY I spent on that" like that makes any difference whatsoever. But it IS true. I got a nice severance from my previous job which made the purchase possible. No way I could have spent $500 in one shot on a toy for myself otherwise.
Ugh! Now I'm jealous! I still have 4 hours to go until "miller time".
-AZ
Dafe1er
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My wife thinks I am nutz
having these scanners. She deals with it though. For 15 years strong!
Over the years I have worked her enough to get at least one new scanner a year due to them being expensive but hey, at least our wives let us get them. I am sure there are plenty of folk's sitting there begging for a new one from their old ladies....lol
having these scanners. She deals with it though. For 15 years strong! Over the years I have worked her enough to get at least one new scanner a year due to them being expensive but hey, at least our wives let us get them. I am sure there are plenty of folk's sitting there begging for a new one from their old ladies....lol
AZScanner
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Heh, yeah they are expensive these days. But I could probably afford more of them if I didn't smoke and buy so much good booze. But what fun would that be? I don't care how cool a scanner is, it can't get you buzzed, right?
We've really derailed this thread now. Back on topic....
-AZ
We've really derailed this thread now. Back on topic....
-AZ
Dafe1er
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Heh, yeah they are expensive these days. But I could probably afford more of them if I didn't smoke and buy so much good booze. But what fun would that be? I don't care how cool a scanner is, it can't get you buzzed, right?
We've really derailed this thread now. Back on topic....
-AZ
Agree on both. Even though there really is nothing more to discuss since UPman came and crashed the party....lol
AZScanner
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I think there's still room for some discussion. The fact that the app still isn't ready tells me there have been a lot more problems then Uniden anticipated with it. Did they over extend themselves trying to make the ultimate scanner? Maybe. But now they're committed to delivering the app, so they're in a bit of a rough spot right now. It'll take time, but I'm reasonably confident that an app will appear soon.
I tend to agree with folks who say these scanners were rushed to market, but I also remember that we as a group were quite impatient to get our hands on them. While I'm sure that didn't sway Paul's decision on when to release the scanners, I bet his upper management was all over him to get the scanners out now, now, NOW while there was so much interest and buzz on the internet about them. I've worked for a large Japanese company before (no, not Uniden, this particular company makes cars), and they seemed to operate under the model of "when your boss says jump, you jump, even if it's right over a cliff". So Paul really didn't have a choice in the matter if it was his bosses making him push the scanners out the door before they were finished. After all, the guy who signs the checks gets to make the rules. Everyone else gets to do it his way or hit the highway. That's just how it is.
For some folks, that's a reasonable explanation. For others, like our friend who has me on supposed ignore, no answer is good enough. For a while there, you were starting to sound like him, so I had some fun with ya over it. Thanks for being such a good sport about it. Our aforementioned "friend" could use a few lessons in that regard. A few shotglasses full of chill-out juice would probably help too.
Happy Friday!
-AZ
I tend to agree with folks who say these scanners were rushed to market, but I also remember that we as a group were quite impatient to get our hands on them. While I'm sure that didn't sway Paul's decision on when to release the scanners, I bet his upper management was all over him to get the scanners out now, now, NOW while there was so much interest and buzz on the internet about them. I've worked for a large Japanese company before (no, not Uniden, this particular company makes cars), and they seemed to operate under the model of "when your boss says jump, you jump, even if it's right over a cliff". So Paul really didn't have a choice in the matter if it was his bosses making him push the scanners out the door before they were finished. After all, the guy who signs the checks gets to make the rules. Everyone else gets to do it his way or hit the highway. That's just how it is.
For some folks, that's a reasonable explanation. For others, like our friend who has me on supposed ignore, no answer is good enough. For a while there, you were starting to sound like him, so I had some fun with ya over it. Thanks for being such a good sport about it. Our aforementioned "friend" could use a few lessons in that regard. A few shotglasses full of chill-out juice would probably help too.
Happy Friday!
-AZ
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