You don't want this. Ever see what the warranty is on aftermarket head units? One year - two years tops. That's because they aren't built to last, they are built to be as cheap as possible.

OEM head units go through, minimum, one full year of electronic and environmental testing. If it's a completely new design they'll do two years of testing. These are covered by the car's warranty - which usually lasts at least three or four years, five years on some makes.

Source - I designed test software for aftermarket and OEM head units for three years.

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OS image size is 30k, including a bunch of stuff IoT probably doesn't need (pre-emptive multithreading, multiple network support, multiple platform support, etc...)

Depends on how many language tricks they use to get the code size down that small. Ever see RSA implemented in a single line of Perl regex?

We use re-usable K-Cup filters with good coffee. The machine itself is more efficient as it doesn't need to keep one or two carafes of coffee hot as well as the large hot-water boiler, it just keeps a few cups of water hot at a time. Also you don't get the wasted, burned coffee at the bottom of the pot.

Of course I'm talking about an office environment where we go through intermittent bursts of large amounts of coffee ingestion :)

Last year: Hey Apple, you can't collude with other companies to prevent poaching from each other!
This year: Hey Apple, you can't poach other company's employees!

Well which is it? Either you can hire other company's employees or you can't.

I'd imagine everyone who worked on the Manhattan project has a hefty FBI file.

La Guardia is right next to the Triborough and at the top of the BQE. You can get to midtown via taxi in 20 minutes in heavy traffic. It takes ten minutes from the time you are off the Jetway, down the escalator, at the luggage carousel, and to the cab stand.

Granted, landing and taking off can be... exciting. One day we had a nasty tail wind, so the pilot had to gun the engines as we were making the turn onto the runway to get enough speed - something I've never seen anyone do before.

Otherwise, I'd give up useless amenities for expediency.

The images for 5.0 on Nexus went GA in mid-November of 2014 for Nexus. Reports started coming in about OTA upgrades at the end of that month. I didn't get my OTA upgrade until February.

I thought the whole point of Nexus was that it would be a first-tier Google device. If Google is going to hold back on pushing updates to appease partners, why bother having them in the first place? They are *great* tablets (except for the new 9" model which, IMHO, is a dog.)

Yes, it is Google's fault. My Nexus 7 2013 got 5.0 OTA three months after it's release. That's the *Google branded* device. And it was buggy.

5.1 came much faster - took a few weeks, and it's much better.

When iOS 8 was released, it was available on our iPad Air the next day.

Stop all federal funding for new construction projects in all of Hawaii. Cancel everything. Close all federally funded operations. Close Pearl Harbor and move the base back to the mainland. Cut all federal spending for Hawaii, including energy, roads, and education.

There, now Hawaii is protected.

Would this ever happen in normal operation? I would think that every few hundred hours of flight time the plane would be pulled out of service for maintenance where everything would be shut down for a couple of days.

What on earth are you talking about? It's a "wingnut" position that the professional organization for psychologists probably shouldn't be advising the government on torture techniques? Please explain your logic.

Same difference. There are libraries filled with books you can read for free. It's a sunk cost. What specific problem are ebooks going to solve?

Exactly. Now take the money wasted on ebooks and fund that instead.

So we're blowing money on e-readers when, last time I checked, libraries still exist? How about $250 million worth of more free pre-school for underprivileged kids, which has been proven to lead to better outcomes?

I'm sorry I forgot to put the /h after Watt.

Seriously, I've never seen mechanical energy expressed in BTUs, and I'm in the US. I know a few automotive engineers and they use W/h when calculating engine efficiency.