It sounds like this is just something they're going to use for product testing. Or if you can buy it you'll find a bare bones service at a higher price point.

This. The wave particle duality is the whole point of the double slit experiment, and it is mindblowing when you go down the path that led up to that experiment.

Swipe left on the songs to bring up the delete button. Be careful not to do this on a song that is currently playing or it can get stuck on your phone.

The summary says 3G only on the x3 and x5 models. You only get LTE on the x7 model.

Is it common to make new chips that only support 3G now? Being HSPA+ also means they won't work for Verizon/Sprint or anyone else who zagged when the world zigged. I'm guessing those are intended for light use appliances? E-Readers level of downloading maybe? It just feels weird that they wouldn't squeeze in the LTE modem while they're at it. I guess maybe Intel built these to budget and simply ran out of silicon? Are they going to be like the early generation GMA adapters that were just total crap and were only there because Intel had a little extra silicon available on each chip?

It's probably using some existing outbreak model and imputing parameters for a particular kind of "zombie". Most of these "scientific zombie studies" are thinly veiled pandemic modeling scenarios.

On a LAN I usually try to go for the most primitive video mode possible (raw UDP frames) and it usually works, even Multicast. It's not efficient, but my LAN is usually way faster than it technically needs to be anyway.

I'd be a little wary of USB/Serial adapaters. I've found a lot of them are really only designed to let you console into a Cisco or something. Start blasting them with Zmodem and they have an obnoxious tendency to lock up or even bluescreen your machine (even a Windows 7 machine). A better solution would be to find a medium-old desktop with a real Serial port on it an use a Null Modem cable there.

PCMCIA Ethernet would be by far the best solution (although good luck on the drivers) if you can find someone who has a dusty old card sitting around on a shelf somewhere, preferably with the still hopefully good driver floppy. Look for cards that don't have the bumps on the top of the connector.

They remind me of an icon set that someone might have designed for an open source file manager 15 years ago. I'm actually ok with them, they seem to convey their meaning just fine, but the look is definitely a bit retro.

This is my #1 complaint with modern UIs: Elements that don't convey any hint of their function in their form. Buttons that are just text with no border. Dropdown menus that are just text or a uselessly generic icon (like Firefox's hamburger icon). Radio buttons and checkboxes that are just text. Invisible dividers that don't do a good job dividing different parts of the screen. It's the box of chocolates style of UI. Just tap everywhere and see what happens. I can't wait for this fad to pass. I'd love to just look at an interface and be able to discern how everything operates immediately like the old days.

I see that no so much that the i7s were insane as desktop CPUs have hit a wall and per-core performance just doesn't increase much year over year. This is why Intel has been more aggressive about power savings and secondary features than scalar performance.

If you drive near the border you will see Aerostats already flying. The downside of Aerostats is that they're in a more or less fixed position so people can simply go around.

Kind of. Exchange's system works great if you are sending mail to someone else on your domain, but send mail to someone on a different domain or even just some guy on the internet and it gets really complicated in a hurry.

I do both. 30 minutes to cycle about 5 miles to the nearest metro stop, then another 15-20 minutes to ride into work, followed by a 10 minute hike to the office. The hike is actually the hardest part, as it is all uphill in the morning. Works pretty well, but my wife is less enthusiastic about the extra 30-40 minutes my commute takes since it means less time with the kids in the evening. Also, this winter has not been kind to cyclists with lots of exceptionally cold days and snow.

By the time the Dreamcast came out, SEGA was already a dead man walking. The 32x and Saturn failures had taught developers that if they developed for SEGA hardware they wouldn't get sales and the platform would be abandoned quickly. The Dreamcast was a perfectly capable box but it was surrounded by the stench of death from SEGA HQ.

Meanwhile Sony was following up their tremendous success on the PS1 with what was hyped up to be a technological tour-de-force with the PS2. Third party developers couldn't wait to sign up and sell a million copies of whatever they put out.

The final nail in the coffin is that SEGA's first party development teams were just kind of bad at their jobs. A problem that exists even today. Sonic titles are just a solid stream of garbage since the end of the Genesis days. Nintendo has a similar problem with third party support on their consoles, but it doesn't matter too much because they put out a handful of really excellent first party titles each year to keep the platform alive. If SEGA had been putting out a killer Sonic game every year they probably could have kept the Dreamcast going and maybe made some headway against the PS2, although the PS2 was such a juggernaut that it would have still had an uphill battle.