I see them on sale in the UK and they are sold as smartphones in general, rather than cheap but respectable. I think sometimes people don't notice that this is a market that is growing a lot, has a lot of potential for more people to buy devices and apps and the market can still change radically from one year to the next.
Just because Nokia and Microsoft were late to launch something that compares well to iPhones does not mean that as of 2013 it's all hopeless for them. There's plenty of people in the whole world who are in the market their 1st or 2nd smartphone and/or are not deeply committed to iOS or Android.

Now if Apple decided to go loco and sell a truly low end device, similar to what they did with the 5c but for £200 unlocked, then it would turn the market upside down... again.

On the upside they will all become really good at playing tennis!

If your angle is that of the guy in China who produces these things, you should be OK. The drones will not be serviceable at a reasonable cost by anyone in developed countries. The drones will be replaced rather than repaired, just like what happens with so many other gadgets.
The drivers' jobs will be lost all over the world and the manufacturing jobs will be created in China. If we can all live comfortably without having to have jobs, it's all fine.

I am Tiger Woods.

auto-felch? hmmm, this thread is getting very technical. I'll check in the dictionary what felching means.

erm... OK... no chance I'll be buying this car!

The whole idea is that the chemical weapons are destroyed FIRST...they are being destroyed AT SEA, not "destroyed" by simply dumping them into the ocean.

The fact that the other blog entries hosted at the same site as TFA include:

- Rihanna Displays Illuminati Hand Gesture at Latest Music Award Performance

- SSDI Death Index: Sandy Hook 'Shooter' Adam Lanza Died One Day Before School Massacre?

- 15 Citizens Petition to Secede from the United States

- Will U.S. Troops Fire On American Citizens?

- Illuminati Figurehead Prince William Takes the Stage with Jon Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift

- Has the Earth Shifted â" Or Is It Just Me?

- Mexican Government Releases Proof of E.T.'s and Ancient Space Travel ...should give you a hint as to the veracity of the content. (And yes, I realize it's simply a blog site with a variety of authors and content.)

As should the first comment, from "LibertyTreeBud", saying:

"Why not add it to some new vaccine? Or, perhaps add it to the drinking water and feed it to the live stock? These creatures will do anything for profits. Lowest bidder mentality rules."

What "creatures", exactly? The international organization explicitly charged with the prohibition and destruction of chemical weapons? What alternatives are people suggesting, exactly?

If you want a real article discussing this situation factually, not the tripe linked in the summary, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25146980

yes, but do they run linux?

I'd go for a mix of 2, 3 and fear of being hit in the head with bombs.

The Peugeot 3008 hybrid powers the front wheels with a 2.0 HDI (diesel) engine and the rear wheels with an electric motor. The diesel engine powers the battery as well so it can work all EV for a limited range.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqjuYMqtvI

This HDI engine is used by Peugeot, Citroen, Ford and Mini (BMW).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_HDi_engine

It's not a truck but shows that it can be done and sold by Ford.

You know, the total cost of ownership may make a lot of sense but there are differences in terms of affording a better car, be it EV or not.

If I take the starting price of the EV car and compare with he starting price of my used Peugeot + fuel, they break even after a few years. The difference is that if I lose my job or if there is any other significant change, I can just stop paying for more fuel for the Peugeot, keep it off the road and stop the insurance until I'm back on my feet. The Nissan Leaf I compared with still has a monthly price for the battery rental and/or for financing the initial purchase.

I can't make considerations about the compared maintenance costs, other than there's plenty of mechanics out there who deal with Peugeot 206, while the alleged low maintenance costs of the EVs are based on the reduction of the number of moving parts. Who can maintain them and at what price when something does go wrong?

As of 2013 I think that the EVs are like many other high tech devices, good for those who have enough money to be early adopters. For me, maybe my next car will be a used hybrid. It will take me more than 1 car lifetime (mine are 5 because I buy old cars for £2500) before I can take the plunge and go a bit more upmarket.

that's not an equation.

Hi,

When you say that it is not properly sandboxed and using admin user permissions, does that apply to people using IE11 (Windows 8)? I thought the defaults on Windows 8 were not as careless as back in the day of XP pre-SP.

All those are relevant considerations that nobody seems to have when producing and selling more and better weapons. There's nothing you said that would be wrong in the context of rifles, cannons or fighter aircraft.

This is a great assassination tool! Make it strong enough to carry a small anti-personnel bomb. Say for example a wad of C4 explosive about the size of a walnut surrounded by B-Bs or small ball bearings. Use the camera to get it close to your target. Use the novelty value of the device as a way to allow it to get close to the person who needs killing. Then when within range, BOOM! using a radio controlled detonator.

    Think: " Black Sunday " (a 1976 film with Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller about a massive terrorist attack on the NFL SuperBowl) using this device focused on an individual instead of the Goodyear blimp.

    I'm a German-American blond male. Of course, I think like this.

That's two different things, IMHO:
1) RT needs to be different from Windows Phone because MS needs Office to run on tablets. They cannot have underpowered hardware for tablets messing up that selling point. Even though Intel is releasing x86 mobile chips, it is expected that ARM and other mobile CPU specialists will carry on building really good products with a much lower power consumption than that of the high end phone and tablet market segments. Windows Mobile OS needs to exist so that Windows OS and devices can compete in a small device market (watches, hats, motorcyclist suits, whatever..).

2) Windows RT needs to be different from Windows x86 because of what that article says about giving the OS away with hardware. Unifying Windows around x86 compatibility would make it hard to sell Windows x86 bundled with hardware at a price MS likes; while unifying Windows around RT and bundling it with hardware would lead to lawsuits for anti-competitive behaviour.

Must be that fragmentation that they talk about in the news...