they often tear at high velocity, and require significant refurbishment after every use

some of them crash and burn

fixed that for you

this sort of assholery is why I don't bother with slashdot.

It is, in general, a very negative experience. Good riddance, right? ok. whatever.

wow, this sinks to a new level of cognitive dissonance

no, female side definitely still wears

couple things:

* you need to buy a quality Qi charger. Lots of the cheap ones on Amazon are aweful. Having purchased 11 and shipped back 7 to Amazon, I personally recommend the Gmyle Qi black pad, but they are out of stock of the microUSB port one in black (useful if you want to rapid charge faster). A good charger does 750mA screen on, 1A screen off. There are some apps with the ability to monitor current draw, set to log when screen off so you can track performance. Many of the cheaper chargers will start at 1A but after a weak peter out to 400mA or so which, I agree, is too slow. Usually replacing the wall-wart with a solid supply is all that's necessary, or just buy a better Qi charger.
* you have one at your desk at work, and at home at your computer, and by your night stand. For $10 each that's cheap convenience. You leave it on the pad any time you're at the station.
* your current solution of just using the quick charge still wears out the microUSB port. I mounted a pad inside the CD tray of my car using rubber feet as guides. Pretty convenient, but most trips are short enough that I need to use a rapid charger.

oh, ok.

There was a china one just a couple months ago, then this one, and then one in the last few years I thought.

Also, on every single A-320 flight I've been on, during takeoff and once during landing, there has been a violent, high frequency vibration/shudder throughout the entire plane, right as the plane nose-ups and leaves the runway.

It doesn't worry me, but I do think it's ridiculous that they allowed that past QA. I'm not making this up, and it's not just me, I've recognized it at least 4 times. I use this to fuel my anti-european sentiments.

3 in the last year or so? that's completely unacceptable.

you sure about that?

that's what the headlines said, yes; look into it deeper.

servers are not cheap to run BTW.

frankly, I think it's awesome and support the nose-thumbing at these european cuntries full of cunts that love to rant about how much better everything in europe is but for the life of them can't product planes that don't regularly fall out of the sky, simply do not have San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Redmond, or Dallas; and have no idea how to produce entertainment. Actually, I take that back. When I was Firenze/Venice/Rome the soaps had the most awkward, poorly illuminating camera angles. On the bright side the news was covering the garbage workers who were striking and letting trash pile up all over, which was plenty entertainment in between the marionettes and concerts.

so how much better was it?

if dungeons can explain why this funny. something about d being next letter after c?

shouldn't it be possible to automate the optimization based on architecture constants? number registers, execution width, matrix dimensions, and depth of ooperation? I feel llike if, someone with MLA experience profiled it they'd have no trouble dimensionality reducing and coming up with some tunables.