I see nothing at your link which differs from information here.

You just have people arguing about the same two Verge/Wired stories on the tab casting.

Regardless that Wired didn't notice any issues with it, it is still a poor solution. Wired used it to play a TV show MKV, likely lower resolution so they may not have noticed the problems. They spent a whole 2 and half lines of text covering the feature.

Verge has more extensive coverage, including how it works. It plays the video locally on your computer, then uses WebRTC to essentially send screen caps to the device.

This is the critical part: it needs to recompress the video again in real time to send it to the chromecast.

That is bound to destroy quality for most people and cause hiccup on higher resolution materials.

That is a very poor workaround, that plays the video locally then does some messy screen casting to give you compression artifacts/chop/stutter and lip sync issues:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/24/4553368/hands-on-googles-35-chromecast-a-streaming-tv-stick

WD TV, Roku aren't that expensive and handle local streaming flawlessly.

Here is the ending to the article:

" In May 1980, during an interview at Oregon State University, Linus Pauling was asked, "Does vitamin C have any side effects on long-term use of, let's say, gram quantities?" Pauling's answer was quick and decisive. "No," he replied.

Seven months later, his wife was dead of stomach cancer. In 1994, Linus Pauling died of prostate cancer. "

It implies Linus died a premature death from the side effect(cancer) he denied. Which is just as bad, or worse than his own assumptions about the benefits. There was no such evidence that Vitamin C increased his chances of prostate cancer. I also don't believe there are any studies that have ever suggested such a link.

It also neglects to mention he was 93 years old when he died, so he wasn't exactly cut down in his prime by his mega-dosing.

Just because IBM eventually successfully migrated to a new business model, is no guarantee that Microsoft will.

They will have declining stock values to match declining revenues, until they show some clear signs of reversing that trend.

The traditional PC market has had 5 consequential quarters of decline. This is Microsofts core market, where it makes much of its money.

On top of that Microsoft has essentially failed to gain any traction in the the new growth markets of smartphones/tablets.

So it is understandable that like the PC market, which is adjusting to some new smaller number of annual sales, Microsoft which makes it's income from those sales will adjust down to some new lower level of earnings, and a correspondingly lower stock price.

I lasted about 5 minutes with Yoleo and gave up. I don't like the layout and it doesn't seem to be configurable and it failed to import many of my reader feeds.

If nothing web based turns up that is half decent I will go with "newsfox" add on for firefox which does a half decent job. But I would prefer a web based client like reader.

Steam is OPTIONAL on a PC. You aren't forced to use it and I don't.

Also some people do complain and choose to avoid steam. This scheme on Xbox One is Standard, you can't escape it, unless you skip the whole Xbox HW platform.

Further to this, AFAIK the only western country that taxes foreign income is the USA. If Apple was headquartered in any other country it could bring home foreign earnings free of extra taxation. So only the USA has this problem of it's companies keeping their money out of the home country.

All the foreign "loopholes" actually only help Apple avoid paying foreign taxes, those aren't about US taxes at all. These seem more about adding to the political theater of the government going after tax dodgers.

The entirety of Apples foreign cash horde earned on foreign sales, is subject to US taxation. Not one of those foreign shell games protects those earnings from US taxation. In fact they make the cash horde larger, making it potentially sweeter for US taxation.

But here is the one "loophole" that really counts. US Taxation doesn't come into effect until Apple repatriates the cash, which there is no requirement that Apple (or any other US corporation) ever actually do.

This is why US corporations have 1.45 Trillion dollars parked outside the USA.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/03/19/u-s-companies-stashing-more-cash-abroad-as-stock-piles-hit-record-1-45t/

It is a complete waste of time to argue about individual anecdotal MPG results. Conditions/routes/driver habits are completely inconsistent, and thus results are too variable to be of any real use.

Which is why I suggested using Consumer Reports as a Sanity check. They have the largest consistent database of Fuel economy testing outside of the EPA.

But you shouldn't need to drive 55 MPH to meet EPA Highway numbers.

Consumer Reports tests at 65 MPH averaged in two directions, and nearly every car beats the EPA highway number.

Here are some Hybrids as an example (EPA ratings vs testing at Consumer Reports 65 MPH):

Toyota Prius: EPA 50 MPG, CR 55 MPG, Difference: +5 MPG
Honda Civic Hybrid: EPA 44 MPG, CR 50 MPG, Difference: +6 MPG
GM Tahoe Hybrid: EPA 20 MPG, CR 25 MPG, Difference: +5 MPG

Note that every hybrid here easily beats the EPA rating. Now the Ford Hybrids:

Ford C-Max Hybrid: EPA 47 MPG, CR 38 MPG, Difference: -9 MPG
Ford Fusion Hybrid: EPA 47 MPG, CR 41 MPG, Difference: -6 MPG

Not only does it not beat EPA number like just about every other car in existence, while competing hybrids are averaging 5 MPG over EPA, the Fords are averaging 7 MPG UNDER.

In the comparison of results, Ford stands out massively as an outlier here. More than any car ever before, more than Hyundai BEFORE they were corrected for cheating.

Ford is either cheating, or has managed to game the test to the extent that I would still consider it cheating.

First the current 5 cycle EPA test isn't limited to 60mph, it goes up to 80 MPH:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/fe_test_schedules.shtml

That isn't the real problem. The real problem is that 85% of "EPA Testing" is actually done by the manufacturer themselves. In effect this is a Take home test.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-truth-about-epa-city-highway-mpg-estimates
"While the public mistakenly presumes that this federal agency is hard at work conducting complicated tests on every new model of truck, van, car, and SUV, in reality, just 18 of the EPA’s 17,000 employees work in the automobile-testing department in Ann Arbor, Michigan, examining 200 to 250 vehicles a year, or roughly 15 percent of new models. As to that other 85 percent, the EPA takes automakers at their word—without any testing—accepting submitted results as accurate. "

Since EPA MPG plays a big part in overall advertising campaigns, and potential EPA penalties, there is strong temptation for manufacturers to cheat.

Two years ago Hyundai had an ad campaign featuring how all models of many of it's cars got 40MPG highway without needed special models. Hyundai scored big increase in sales. But later testing a Consumer Reports showed a few of Hyundais models got less than 40 MPG in CR testing. This is ODD because CR testing is more straight forward and the vast majority of cars beat their EPA Highway rating when CR tests them on it's own test. So the CR testing is something of a Sanity check for catching cheaters. Eventually Hyundai was found to have a systemic "mistake" in their testing (AKA cheating). They had to roll back mileage claims across the board and give payouts to customers.

The discrepancy between CR and EPA for Hyundai models before they were caught cheating was 1-3 MPG.

Fords new Hybrids are now falling short by 6-9 MPG and Ford has a new (successful) Ad campaign targeting Toyota, claiming better fuel economy. These new Ford hybrids are the first to make significant sales inroads against Toyota. If anything MPG advertising has even more effect on Hybrid sales.

It isn't hard to see how Fords interests are benefited by high test scores, on a test they administer to themselves, even more than they were for Hyundai before they were caught cheating. It certainly smells like something rotten in Dearborn Mi.

I looked up the recycling efficiency of Aluminum in this case and found it was about 15%. This is worse efficiency than the lowest number you see for an Gas Engine. So using something like this for day to day usage seems out of the question.

But with the right packaging it might be a decent range extender in addition to a Lithium main battery pack.

This company failed becuase it had a poorly engineered product, with outsourced drivetrain, and outsourced production. That product was one of the most unreliable cars produced in the 21st century so far in an era when cars are getting more reliable.

Mr. Fisker most likely departed because he wanted out of a sinking ship. There was no investing to save this turkey.

Neil Young is an aging rocker with hearing damage. There is no way he can tell the difference except in his own mind.

Even among people good hearing, only a minority can detect a difference between lossless and properly encoded higher bit rate (~200K+) lossy.

The hubbub over this is almost all placebo effect and snobbery.

It doesn't sound like it equalizes to me:
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/uncategorized/pedestrians-3-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-when-clocks-change-study-says-509042/