Actually its not REALLY an 8 core, but four high speed high power cores, and four low speed low power cores. It dynamically switches between them based on your processing needs. It presents as a four core CPU to the OS.

Agreed on the specs though, very lackluster.

"The device boasts active updates, which translates into display notifications on the screen rather than a vague flashing LED that doesn't really tell you anything."

Awesome. So instead of blinking a little LED to tell me the phone has gotten a message or something else of note, it leaves the screen lit up, wasting my VERY valuable battery life on these phones?

"Moto X owners can activate the built-in camera with two quick flicks of the wrist."

The phone getting jostled in my pocket activating the camera sounds awesome. Bye battery, hello pocket pictures!

"Once it's launched, you can snap photos by pressing anywhere on the touchscreen rather than hunting for a dedicated shutter button"

And how is focusing accomplished?

"It was previously leaked that the Moto X will ship with a 4.4-inch display (1280x720), 1.7GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8960 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, 10MP rear-facing camera, 2MP front-facing camera, and of course Android 4.2 Jelly Bean."

Lower res screen, slower cpu, same ram, lower MP camera, and same OS as a Galaxy S IV. Unless it is like a Maxx type with super battery life, I can't imagine it being any kind of contender for a "Superphone"

The difference is Shakespeare is dead. No one is getting money for his thoughts.

If you go to this movie, you will be giving some small portion of money to OSC. He will use this money to live and lobby to have the rights of a certain (fairly large) percentage of the population removed in some manner.

If you go see it you aren't ignoring where it comes from, you are, in some small way, helping spread this message yourself.

Yeah then tough luck. If you can't be somewhere where your phone can be off, stay out of the movies, get the big screen you can likely afford, and watch movies at home.

One of the main ideas of the car is the kids have their own back seat compartment and the parents don't have to listen to them. This one has a normal back seat and just a tiny bubble thing in the back that no one could fit in.

Most of the stuff is just tacked on visually but it still looks pretty funny.

What is funny is, and I'm sure you know this, many many cruisers are older people on VERY fixed incomes or simply depleting sailing kitties and for many the fees are exorbitant. Esp if you chose to use a catamaran!

In many cases the people are very rich, but I'd go so far as to say in MOST cases that is simply not true. Many older couples have sold their houses are are sailing on their pensions/social security, plus a bit of savings.

I don't think any smart money is on an iPhone announcement at WWDC since they haven't done that in quite some time, and it would be a lot less than a year since the i5.

They will talk about their products, how great they are, some of what is coming up in new iOS, and maybe OSX, announce new laptops, and call it a day.

Yeah QU-BD is fairly famous for low quality machining and low quality over all in the reprap world.

Makergear makes a nice one, makerstoolworks makes a nice one, a few other people.

Now you just can order a complete, assembled print head which includes a stepper, gearing, hob gear, etc.

Here is an example of a nicer one: http://www.makergear.com/products/plastruder

And there are others. Finish it! They are very damn interesting to play with.

Phones are still $700-$800 for a high end phone. I personally buy mine outright then just sell it and buy new one when I'd like, but for most people the thought of laying out $800 rather than $200 then paying the monthly fee they would anyways is abhorrent. It isn't like (at least in Canada) there is an extra "phone charge" when you're stuck in-contract. Their monthly bill is the same as it would be otherwise, they just don't have the option to pay it or not.

I find I save my money not being in a contract is by jumping from small carrier to small carrier when the really good deals come up, then just porting my number. Here I hop from Koodo, to virgin, then back etc whenever a better plan comes along. Now I'm on just about the best one I can get. $56 for unlimited everything but data, which is 2GB. Long distance, voice mins, sms, mms, etc. I rarely use my 2GB and overages are cheap enough ($10/GB) so basically I pay $56/month. I probably wont do better than that for quite some time.

So yeah there are definitely some advantages to no contract, but for the average schlub just wanting phone service and a nice phone, subsidies allow many to be able to afford much nicer phones than they could otherwise.

Then again my $300 Nexus 7 with 3G makes me wonder about the cost of phones in the first place.

If I wanted a phone only for a camera maybe. Me, like almost everyone else on earth, has no interest in windows phones considering the horrible things MS has done to their past customers.

Actually, assuming a fixed sensor size which is usually the case since your lens package determines this, the lower the pixel count, the larger the pixels are, and the more light you will get per pixel. This means, for a certain ISO, you will get a much brighter picture, the lower your megapixel count is. Esp on a phone, I'd take a 4MP with good low light over a 41MP with okay low light any day, any time.

Yeah. HTC one would be my #1 phone to go to right now if their battery was removable. Not because I want to swap batteries (I'm used to my iPhone and not having that ability) but because I'm sick of charging all the time and like the SIII, there will be kits for the S4 so vastly increase your battery at the cost of some thickness. If I had this option with the One, I'd be all over it like a fat kid on a cheeseburger.

Still might go that way since I like the design so much more than the S4. Have to weigh my options when I buy I guess.

Lost wax, like PLA, is generally just burned away out of the mold. You just blow the ashes out. Recycling in this case isn't the main concern.

Assuming the distances are given in normal miles not nautical miles, and the capacity, this would run though the 1.3 million liter tank in 93 days, giving a fuel consumption of 152.8 gallons per hour. OUCH.

Given the average US diesel price at $4 or so, this is $611 per hour or $14668 per day of travel. Total tank value around 5.2 million bucks.

Or to put it how most car drivers would want to see it, about 0.0903 miles per gallon. Also ouch! That would make me want a big sailboat instead! Then again if you're Google's CEO I guess this gets affordable, but even then $14k per day seems steep.