Comment Please use my affiliate code link (Score 1) 182
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I purchased Lightning to USB cables on Dealyup.com last week during a sale for a whopping $2 each, and guess what - as of right now, even after the latest update, they work fine for both charging and syncing.
If Apple is on the warpath about anything, it's the actual wall charger. The woman that was electrocuted in China three weeks ago was killed by a shoddily made third party wall charger that exposed her to full outlet current - not 5 volt USB.
Linux is a philosophy. Windows is a product created and sold by a company headquartered and registered in the United States, and as such, is subject to all laws and regulations of the U.S. Government.
Of course Windows contains back doors for law enforcement and intelligence authorities. Why should this be so surprising?
I have theorized for decades that the "zero day exploits" that hackers keep finding in Microsoft Windows are merely security holes created for government agencies. By dumb luck or determination, skilled hackers stumble across those exploits. Microsoft hires talented coders and engineers, and some of the security flaws revealed in Windows exploits are simply too egregious to be explained as "sloppy coding."
..the launches will be controlled by a repurposed Senior Care Autonomous Robotic Employee (SCARE) built by Hitachi Heavy Industries, that simply requires a ROM to be reflashed with its launch program, taking only two minutes and a WiFi connection.
It will look glorious, hooked into the launch control board, with its vacuum nozzle attachment and pill dispenser hanging off the side, as it guides the majestic rocket through the night sky.
You apparently missed the "Bloom County" comic strip from the 1980s in which sleezebag attorney Steve Dallas advises Opus the penguin, who has just been punched in the nose by actor Sean Penn, to sue Nikon - the maker of the camera he used. Because, deep pockets.
Bloom County won a Pulitzer 1987. If newspapers today ran full comic pages with new Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side, I'd subscribe to a newspaper again.
This smells like a counsel-advised plea for mercy prior to sentencing with the hopes of Mr. Manning breathing fresh air while he still has a few years of life left.
AppleTV and its tight hooks into anything iOS or OSX related will give you features not present in the ChromeCast stick.
My AppleTV is connected to a flat screen via HDMI, but the audio is being AirPlay'd through my AirPort Express router, with a set of Klipsch speakers connected via the 3.5mm headphone jack on the back of the router. As with all things Apple, It Just Works.
The process for displaying photos or video via AirPlay to an AppleTV, from OSX or iOS devices is tightly and seamlessly hooked into everything.
I love Google for creating ChromeCast, but it's a completely different animal, and lacks the polish that exemplifies Apple anything.
.. and it's called "William Shakespeare."
Protagonist? Antagonist? Complication in the third act? All the "Save the Cat!.." author did was write a Dummies version.
"Duke: Well, our chefs have been experimenting for many years to find a sauce most likely to tempt the crocodile. In the past, we've concentrated on a fish based sauce, but this year, we are reverting to a simple bernaise.
Loothesom: The British team are worried because Olympic regulations allow only the competitor's heads to be sauced. Gavin Morolowe...
Morolowe: Yes, well, I mean, (clears throat) you know, four years ago, everyone knew the Italians were coating the insides of their legs with bolinaise, the Russians have been marinating themselves, One of the Germans, Biolek, was caught actually putting, uh, remolarde down his shorts. And the Finns were using tomato flavoured running shoes. Uh, I think there should either be unrestricted garnishing, or a single, Olympic standard mayonnaise."
In order to create a truly shark repellent suit, designers need to mimic the colors of the shark's most fearsome predator - the mottled reddish-brown paint scheme on the hulls of commercial fishing fleets harvesting the sea for Fillet-O-Fish sandwiches.
It would be smarter for Tesla to license the technology to companies already servicing fuel resupply (gas stations) and let them absorb most of the costs.
Just drop 2 or 3 "battery swap" stations off to the side of your local BP, Shell, Citgo, Marathon, 7-11 et al station and call it done.
Filling stations already exist by the bajillions across the U.S. - They already have huge brand recognition, advertising, distribution network, close proximity to high traffic areas, offer car wash stations, attached convenience stores, loyalty card programs, etc etc. Tesla owners typically have a few gasoline cars at home that they routinely take to their favorite filling station already. We are creatures of habit.
Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new construction, or renovation when the established fuel resupply players would love to gently transition to the new energy economy? Partner with 1 or 2 of the existing petrol companies, and let them pick up part of the check for the cost of the battery-swap robots.
Tesla owners tend to be higher income, higher wealth customers anyhow, and who wouldn't like a steady trickle of them through your store.
Everyone wins. Tesla gets a cheaper buildout option. Existing fuel station owners guarantee relevance and the ability to sell you overpriced milk at 1 AM.
We are still animals, we are driven to mate, to prize health and vitality in prospective partners, and outward appearance and youthful appearance continues to be one of the visual indicators of health and vitality.
I'm sure you will all be really surprised - nay, shocked, awed and stunned to discover that beautiful people sell more products and services than their average looking counterparts,
http://psysociety.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/beautiful-people-beautiful-products/
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/news/funny/beautiful_money/
Sorry, we're all stuck in meat suits being driven by genetic operating code millenia old. Are you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9p8LXD5UDs
I prefer this old gem:
"World War 2 was won with American manufacturing, British intelligence, and Soviet blood."
Some statistics:
B17 Flying Fortress: 12,731 units produced - 14 to 16 units per day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress
B24 Liberators: 18,400+ units produced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator#cite_ref-Ethell_1995.2C_p._214_6-0
P51 Mustangs, all variants: 15,486 units (1 per 24 minutes)
Willys Jeep: 640,000 units
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep#World_War_II_Jeeps
M4 Sherman Tank, all variants: 53,362 units
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/usa/tanks-medium/m4-production.asp
WalMart has outsourced the production of plastic flower pots and patio furniture to China for decades - the Chinese are simply reversing the process! By letting U.S. taxpayers fund the billions of dollars per year we pour into military R&D, they save massive amounts of money and man hours, and are guaranteed the best designs that 17 year old Chinese Red-Bull & Cheetos-fuelled hax0rs can steal.
Take a copy-catted F22 Raptor, paint a Chinese air force insignia on it, and * VOILA! * Fifth generation air superiority fighter MINUS the 20 years of research and testing.
What you say? Their copy is only 85% as good as ours because they made shortcuts in the radar, or avionics, or missile systems? That's OK, our congress will keep paring down the final platform order until our air force ends up only getting 200 F22s, while the Chinese will manufacture 1,150 of theirs.
The current US military philosophy is starting to look more and more like WW2 era Germany, with absolute faith placed in a relatively small number of extremely expensive, extremely high quality weapons systems, which ultimately were smothered and overrun by a developing nation (the U.S.) with phenomenal industrial capacity capable of running M4 tanks, jeeps, B17 bombers, and numerous other things off assembly lines faster than the Germans could destroy them.
The comparative ironies to today's military situation are incredible.
Battery Life
Camera quality
Display quality / size sweet spot
Build quality / hand feel
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White
