I just don't get this bridge thing... I know cars drive on them but how does that relate to anything!?

I used to think that reliability was also a reason for the non-removable battery, however the new Samsung S5 claims to be certified for dust resistance and water to 1m.

For the daylight readable screen I've never seen any phone with one (or ebook reader or tablet for that matter), so I suspect there is just a lack of technology. We've seen prototypes and demos, but there may just not be high volume manufacturing in place for these screens.

Tether my laptop

Have you investigated the virtual network operators? Cricket was just bought by ATT and will remain relatively independent, but borrow their towers.

But yes, I agree, whenever a new phone comes out that looks exciting I think how it does not help me, although the Samsung S5 is coming to Virgin Mobile so I may move to that depending on price.

Keep in mind that teardowns of the S5 put the manufacturing cost ~256USD. While this does not take into account a lot of costs like design, if the OnePlus One is selling at zero profit to gain market share they could with similar specs to the S5.

http://www.gadgetcluster.com/2014/04/it-takes-only-256-for-samsung-to-produce-a-galaxy-s5-handset/

When the Leaf first was introduced, people in the electric vehicle industry were floored that the Leaf relied on air cooling for the batteries, and at that it is passively cooled. I cannot imagine continuing this with a larger pack; while the load per cell goes down, if you are trying to make a denser pack you will need to include liquid cooling to pull heat out. Liquid cooling is more expensive than air cooling to develop/produce, so it will be interesting to see what Nissan comes up with in the final implementation.

Easy enough to leaf through, colorful enough to justify printing. I keep one in the map pocket of my car for waiting at airports.

I thought HL2 ep2 was awesome, and ep1 was fun also, I'd suggest checking them out (only 20 hours if you milk them) if you enjoyed HL2

Probably not a major factor to the whole study, but there are two issues for detecting the game being played by time played:

1. The time played started being recorded a couple years ago. Games played before that default to zero. For example, I put on probably hundreds of hours of Counter Strike 1.6 in High School, but it is listed as unplayed in my Steam profile

2. I didn't see how they handled game expansions, which are often listed as separate games, but they are unplayed. For Borderlands, I have four additional "games" with no playtime

With Intel fabs in Oregon (slowest state by far) and Arizona (one of the faster states), you feel the difference when traveling for work.

The easiest way to switch off of Windows would probably to move to Google Docs. Still costs money (I don't know what business accounts cost), but you can keep employees on Windows in the nearterm and transition only from Office to Docs, then introduce Linux relatively painlessly.

We should build a dino-chicken right now! Just not one that weighs 250kg.

https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken

This is a good watch, although it is not in relation to the shadow detection of insects. It is discussing the laser based insect control but it is still frequency based for identification:

https://www.ted.com/talks/nath...

For years now we have heard that the high diesel emissions requirements here in the states have been preventing the direct importing of the plentiful European diesel cars. I've heard that the diesel emissions are a large contributer to this smog, particularly NOx.

Does not change my opinion that we need more diesels on the road.

I don't know about the DRM server bit, even with disks games still require DRM servers.