Bah. The magsafe connector is a gimmick. The advantage of the magsafe connector was supposed to be that it would release easily from the laptop in the event of a snag. This does work most of the time. Not always, but most of the time.

What is falsely implied is that other laptop connectors don't come out under such conditions. In my experience, this is not true - I've had two other laptops where the connector slipped out easily under a relatively small amount of force.

On the other hand, the magsafe connector is more complex and I've already had to replace it because the connector split apart, which I've never had happen on any other laptop I've owned.

That being said, Apple does, in general, make solid laptops. What I appreciate is that I can carry my laptop around open and not have to worry about the display flapping around.

The hardware integrates well with the software and OS - I've yet to come across a Windows laptop where the hardware vendor took the same care for the details.

You could say the same thing about the prison system.

On the other hand, (pure speculation), I wonder if temporarily reducing the effects of poverty can have a long term effect by increasing the ability of impoverished parents to help their children get a good education and reducing the need for parents to work two to three jobs to make ends meet using time that might be better spent being good influences on their children.

Also, 65% of peple are bad at typng.

Yeah I wasn't really commenting on the success or failure of Motorola as an organization. Was only saying that no matter how well or poorly Motorola was doing, they are owned by Google and therefore have a lot of contingency available in the event they lose money.

Which, upon further investigation, they seem to be doing.

Do they?

http://investor.google.com/ear... seems to suggest that they are losing money:

"Motorola Mobile Segment Operating Loss - Motorola Mobile segment operating loss in the fourth quarter of 2013 was $384 million, or -31% of Motorola Mobile segment revenues. This compares to segment operating loss of $152 million, or -10% of Motorola Mobile segment revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012."

Hmmm... did I misread something? Please enlighten me. As for posting anonymously, meh. I try not to get too hung up on stuff like Karma or whatever else people worry about.

Ah, I see what you're getting at. We also have carriers that use both CDMA and GSM here. Wikipedia suggests that the North American model of the Nexus 5 supports:
2G/3G/4G LTE
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Model LG-D820 (North America)
CDMA band class: 0/1/10
WCDMA bands: 1/2/4/5/6/8/19
LTE bands: 1/2/4/5/17/19/25/26/41

I would then guess that the Nexus 6 would do the same.

My understanding is that technologies are converging and the technical divide that used to separate two groups of carriers is disappearing.

If I can properly decode your sentence (which I suspect got fragmented because you tried to change the way you expressed it three to fours times before hitting submit), you are expressing a suspicion that it will only be available for AT&T and T-Mobile.

However, according to http://www.google.com/nexus/6/ one might be lead to believe it will be available on Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular also (based on pre-order logos). Not intimately familiar with the US cellular market, but I don't think exclusion of other carriers is based on fragmented spectrum.

It's amazing how companies can manage to survive when they are owned by Google.

RE: Seatbelts - a smaller Canadian airline says this in their safety video: 'Now that you've done it, we'll show you how you did it' recognizing that by the time you're watching the video you've probably already fastened your seat belt.

I find the complaints by the flight attendants a little insulting - I was just as able to ignore the safety video before as I am now.

See what you do to calculate the area of a square is you take the square of the length of one side. So 11 x 11, IIRC, is 121 square miles. 121 square miles * 640 = 77,440 windmills. So, you're right, it is a bit more than a square 11 miles on a side, but it's pretty close.

So a company released a beta version, and then a stable version that didn't add features to the beta? Wow. That really *is* news for nerds!

Nerds eat pancakes too!

I think that's between Boeing and Honeywell, no? Honeywell didn't supply the jets with the displays in them - Boeing did. Now if the displays weren't up to the spec under which they were sold, then Boeing probably has a good case to go back to Honeywell and demand compensation. On the other hand, if being unaffected by wifi was never part of the specs or the deal, then that's Boeing's fault and they should have to eat it.

Either way, the airlines should have to deal with Boeing and not with Honeywell.

I remember when I read in the summary that the FBI chief was all for needing a warrant. I guess the point is that the FBI wants to be able to snoop through a phone with just a warrant and not a warrant *and* cooperation of the phone's owner to provide the decryption keys.