They could but that would make the process into a serial process. Why waste the time bringing the picker back and forth from the shelves to the belt? If you have enough or fast enough robots, it is more efficient to have them timed so that another shelf arrives just in time for the previous shelf to be removed.

The real question to me is why corn is used for Ethanol instead of say algae?

It's not really the ads themselves, or even ad-based apps. ( Though I do prefer paying directly for my apps versus being the price for them. ) It's that once an app that was originally a paid app is redesigned to be ad-supported, the focus and quality of the app tends to change. If I really wanted to block ads that way I'd could just tweak my DNS server.

Biggest one for me is when a formerly paid app switches to being advertising base. What I've found is that even if they offer a way to remove the ads by paying again, or grandfather the original purchases into an ad free mode that the apps tend to suffer redesigns that are motivated to support advertisers and that many of these redesigns impact the use of the apps even for paid users. I've already uninstalled a bunch of apps for this reason, such as Quickoffice Pro, OneTap, etc. and have been considering uninstalling apps like The Weather Channel.

Yes. As someone that works in telephony industry the amazing thing to me is how many modems are still in use. And the fun of making sure that modems, faxes and the like continue to work even when the device plugged into a VoIP line ( SIP, H.248, or MGCP ) and/or going over IP trunking. There are actually protocols designed to recognize fax data and process it differently so that it still works, see T.38.

Just click the big blue circled arrow to the right of the names in recent calls list to views the contact entry to send text, pick different numbers etc. Seems like Apple made the right choice here. 99% of the time I want to call the recent callers back, but if I need to send a text or call a different number it is easy.

Likewise, for messages there are the "Email", "Facetime" and "Contact>" buttons at the top of the window. You might need to scroll to the top to seem them if you have a long conversation.

There are two levels of creative cloud memberships, one includes subscriptions to a bunch of apps ( that's the $49.99 / month ), and the basic level which is sort of like an icloud / dropbox service for storing files ( which is free for 2 GB worth of storage ). The feature that requires creative cloud is that dropbox-like service.

Also the descriptions on appstores are written by the developers, so is what Adobe is saying, not what Apple is saying. I just checked on my Nexus 10 and the description is pretty much the same in the Google Play store.

Um there are tons of programming apps available in the iOS store, including apps designed to teach programming. For example Codea.

What Apple restricts is easily exporting/importing code written by others into those apps. They have required developers of such apps to disable iTunes file drag and drop input/export as well as other easy ways to move code about. Though stuff like iExplorer can be used to move files and works even if the tablets are not jailbroken.

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I also store my passwords in an encrypted keychain, but sometimes it's nice to be able to get some passwords without having to look it up. For example both iTunes and Windows RT require me to enter passwords when buying new apps or add-ons. Switching to another app to cut & paste in the password will often cancel the sale. So I memorized those passwords because it's simpler. Likewise when administrating machines at work I don't want to have to dig up my keychain just to log into the server farm, especially if I'm logging in at someone else's desktop—which won't have my keychains—to fix a toolset problem.

I tend to use random passwords myself. The trick I've learned to memorizing them is to take advantage of the fact that the human brain is good at seeing patterns even when there aren't any. So I just look at the password for a bit, let myself come up with a pattern or way to describe it and memorize that. I'll often think of a password as chunks of 3 or 4 letters and just remember the junks normally associated with a thought phrase. If I can't come up with something I'll just hit regen again til I get something that my brain clicks onto.

For example I just now used a generator to create the password: zyZtgQkAJH2)rw

My thought process would be something like:
Hmm there two Z's... I can use that to help me remember....Oh I can use the word zygote to remember... so the first two letters.... change things up so cap the Z and reuse the tg from zygote backs.... okay I have zyZtg memorized.... now I need to think of a quick way to get .... oh I can use Quick to remind me. AJH... that can be an acronym for "as just happens." Got a number 2) so I think "list" and twice to behind to just happens... rw that's obviously read/write... So I just have to remember "zygote Quick As Just Happens twice list read/write" ( I mentally imagine shouting the parts of the words for caps ) and I can turn it back into the password zyZtgQkAJH2)rw...
then I just force me self to log in a few times while thinking that phrase and I'm all set.

I wonder how much Christmas played into those little bumps. It's almost like people head off buying expensive new phones during that period, possibly in hopes in getting them for gifts. Possibly to afford more gifts. Would have been nice to see back one more year. Because otherwise looks like JavaME is steadily losing share, but had a bump the last two months.