If it's just for the cute little plane thing, why don't they just have a second radio for that and split the systems entirely?

The one time I do not have mod points.. which does not resemble the way dolphins send out two pulses in quick succession to cancel out background noise.

Do we know this for sure? The wiki page about that references an Ars Technica article which doesn't manage to actually show that there is more than one chip (the pin-switching one) there. The main argument trying to prove cable-DRM is Apple's MFi program to whitelist manufacturers for the cable.

The closest to circuitry analyses below neither mention a "security chip", much less discuss the internals of one.
http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/23/boom-pins/ and
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/25/apples-lightning-connector-uses-adaptive-technology-to-dynamically-assign-pin-functions/

In an environment with ~150 i-Devices with lightening cables and tens of devices using dock adapters, we have had 2 dock adapter ends bent off, one lightning cable cut by a drawer closing on it, and one iPad with the internal dock adapter broken and the device rendered useless.

This is an environment full of 8 to 11 year-olds.

What on earth is your wife doing??

Also more on-topic: We have just tested a few third-party cables. Even the ones that heat up a lot with use are accepted by the devices we are testing them with. I do not know what ones Apple are blocking but they must be really shitty.

Clearly you donâ(TM)t use Tumblr. That maxes out my internet connection for hours at a time (All. Those. Gifs.)

Thereâ(TM)s also Vine, Youtube binges, getting the latest episode of GoT/Breaking Bad⦠Running a server just means the data goes in the other direction.

All you need is one worker who lives at home with his parents, has no rent and shares health insurance with his family, to set the bar for everyone else to have to sink to to be 'competitive'. Sometimes the problem isn't just the company, it's the other workers.

I know this might sound low-tech but what about coloured smoke?

This would leave the way open for any OS with SATA and AHCI support to do whatever it prefers to get the best performance

Like a Fusion drive on the Mac OS.

I find this process of "mix and match" confusing and frustrating when trying to keep a budget down. Sure if you've got money to burn you can choose whatever perfect component to fit in every little part of the machine. But if you are restricted by price or by operating system, then that becomes a labor of research. Balancing between different components becomes rapidly tiresome and in my case I throw in the towel and purchase a pre-configured solution.

I waste more time researching what the 'best' parts are than if I just worked my job and bought something someone else made.

The problem isn't that they will survive and get to the top, it is that they will do this at the expense of others, whether those in their way or exploitable other parties.

If the role of a banker was to get rich off everyone, then it is no hindrance. If the job is to look after someone else's money while being economically compensated for their time, then it is a hindrance.

If we were talking loan sharks or con men, then such an illness does not hinder economic performance at all, but social cohesive performance will be similarly hindered, with the (socially cohesive) upside of legislatively upheld penalization for such actions.

It's less selective when there are prep schools involved. Sure the new intake might be smart, but some rather idiotic individuals might make it through to engineering, law or medical courses in college.

In my country the expensive schools have shorter terms and achieve better academic results. I don't think it's a simple case of how much time you spend, but how you spend it.

It's an interesting point that due to its size, its power output has been very consistent (presumably areas of higher output than the norm are cancelled out by alternate areas of lower output).

Alas regarding Global Warming, we pay more attention to areas of lower temperature than the mean as proof that GW doesn't exist, than the average itself which is steadily rising higher. Which is strange since the energy entering the system isn't rising to a similar degree at all.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but does a School not have a duty of care towards the students - and thus all mature and most social media sites should be blocked, not just to prevent access by the majority, but to avoid offending the minority who might see over another student's shoulder.

Also I hear a lot of "have the computers facing the teacher" comments, but nobody is discussing one-to-one laptop programs where the screen is a lot easier to hide.