Basically just a teaser, bu this is what i found:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/micr...

the Digital currencies already have a partial solution. they allow transactions via bluetooth, nfc, and qr-code. all that has to happen after that, is sync the wallet via the p2p network they work on, and in a few minutes, it becomes a confirmed transaction.

this technique really is only effective against $50+ denominations. everything lower get spent out as change, or cash back, or loaded into the ATM (The ATM in our store doesn't scan the bills)

Free, Right. I looked it up a few times, and it is anything but free. Suppose one makes $10/hour. In most rural places in the country, this is enough to rent a decent appartment, and maybe have $100/month for extras. well, Obamacare wants $90/month for that pay grade for health insurance. opt-out? $200/year penalty fee.

Sorry, not interested.

in my experience, the it's pre-caching a ROUTE. I used it to get to the museum in Milwaukee, and we took a turn early because of construction. google maps got confused, and tried to connect to the server to update the route. Since the tablet had no cellular capabilities, it locked up maps, and exited the app.
Granted, its been years since i last tried Maps for gps duty, but i dont think it changed that much as far as that is concerned.

that label is referring to "Peak Power", or the most power it may use at any one time. this may refer to it on start-up, when it spikes at 500w for .5 seconds, then idles at 35w for the remainder. Kinda like buying a Power supply for a pc, you need the 700w version to start the spinning disks, but once started, consumes only 100w continuous.

We have a fallback manual Credit card machine where i work, used mainly for when the power goes out or the CC machine decides to take a dump (either can happen about twice a year) when the power comes back up, we can either

A) Manually enter the CC# into our cash till (type the cc info into the machine by hand) or
B) call our CC handler and read off the CC# over the phone.

either way, the customer sees it as a normal swipe transaction on their bill. I don't see either way being anything less than worse security than the standard way.

happened a few months ago to me trying to update XBMC on my HTPC. ended up reinstalling the whole OS. all i wanted to do was "Apt-get upgrade xbmc". doing a standard "apt-get upgrade" would tell me it was held back. even on my current install, i have about 15 packages that are held back because of this kind of package snafu

I don't know, It got me a few months worth of dates with a nice girl. We were on our first date, wandering walmart waiting for the next showtime for the theater, and we passed a LG 3D tv display. she complained the picture looked odd, i grabbed the 3d glasses, and placed them on her. she looked at the image, slack jawed a bit and said "this is cool!". (her first time seeing 3d) I mentioned my tv had this, and from there, we had Friday movie night at my house, 3-4 months to get through my collection at the time, and she would stay over usually.

look at the previous "3D" fads, and usually it was those god-awful red-blue goggles, no preserving image quality there. at least now, with theaters and some tv's, it's just a polarization trick, my tv is the active shutter glasses, and that gives me eye strain after a hour and a half.

here's one for you, take a ps3 and load netflix. watch the 3d version of "Wild Ocean: IMAX" (I think that's the one, netflix in the web browser doesn't tell you which movies are actually in 3d)(8mb/s required minimum for 3d stuff, my connection falls short, saw it at my parents) THAT is cool to watch!

i like my slider phone, I think it offers the best of both, full size screen, and a keyboard when you need it.

When i was in high school, I bought a copy of BeOS. I thought it was really cool. it flew on my k6 with a matrox video card. it came with cool demos like dragging videos onto a 3d cube and playback all sides. really i think it had much more polish than Linux or windows of the day visuals-wise (my opinion linux still drags behind on this). even today, a modern OS struggles to load itself from power off in under a minute, where BeOS loaded itself in under 15 seconds. I would have loved to see it survive, but after Palm bought it, and gutted the company (all they wanted was the IP) it kinda died slow and horribly.

I've checked in with the development of haiku, and other than re-creating the system in open-source, it seems fairly stagnant. I'm gonna be rooting for them, if they can get some modern chip set support, it could bring back relevance.

Is this the re-emergence of the "woodie" style car?

if nobody rides, some politician would cut funding to boost his career. "I saved the state $XXXXX a year during my time as a senator!" (and to funnel money into his own pet project)

Typically, these programs are funded to 75% through taxes, and then it is up to the management to set fees and such to make up the difference.

So for example, the train maintenance is covered, and tracks, and new tunnels, but gas/fuel, and wages come from the tickets. (not a informed breakdown on this exact case, but i have family in the accounting side of government, and i base these figures on past conversations with them)

Agreed, I love my Chromecast. I stream Netflix and my Plex server content to it. Doesn't need a constant connection from the phone/tablet, (in fact, once the stream starts, it can glitch out and ignore the commands from the phone, making it hard to stop a show and switch to the next. so far only a Netflix issue)

Chrometab isn't a big feature for me, but i could see putting the NFL.com team page on a second tv during the game.

With my Plex Server is where i think this thing shines. I have it plugged into my bedroom, grab my phone, que up a tv show, and enjoy!

As much as i liked hulu in the past, they really piss me off now. You watch a show and and they give your a list of shows you might like, yeah, cool. click on it. "oh sorry, we only have seasons 2,3,5, and 8 and the most recent season only has episodes 1,4and 5. but we have episodes 1&2 from season one to give you false hope and addict you to it anyways"

Netflix did this a few times to me, but at least with them, it's by season and not by episode.