wrong Linus

It lets you switch between up to eight paired devices (two at a time), which is a legitimately great feature.

On the other hand, they were caught collecting information about user listening habits, because we live in a dystopian hellworld. The app for their latest model (Bose 700) requires you to set up a Bose Music account and presumably opt in to this collection.

Iâ(TM)ve been following this story for a while and this is the first time Iâ(TM)ve seen anyone saying theyâ(TM)ve removed ANC. The usual claim is that itâ(TM)s noticeably less effective, which can be very subjective.

Personally, I choose to believe that the firmware made the noise-cancelling a little bit better.

Bose has been so unable to reproduce the problem that theyâ(TM)re sending techs to peopleâ(TM)s homes to take measurements in situ. Independent third-party reviewers using actual test equipment have been similarly unable to detect a difference with the firmware update. It seems likely that the problem exists only as a memetic illness, spread between credulous audiophiles. A social media disease, if you will.

Neither Bose nor independent third-party reviewers have been able to actually measure a difference in ANC with the firmware update. Given that audiophiles are extremely suggestible, my money is on the problem existing solely between the earcups.

This is intuitive, but a baseless folk etymology. It most probably comes from a term for zinc ore, and the miners who stole it (Cohen 1989).

The current Galaxy Nexus and several other phones handle both AT&T and T-Mobile's 3G frequencies. You are right, however, in that a lot of phones won't.

Those are pretty much your only options on the GSM front. T-Mob has a 30 USD/month plan for 100 minutes and unlimited text/data, but all of their other plans are more expensive than straighttalk for smartphones (probably featurephones as well).

I can back this up - even brick and mortar stores in America are FAR cheaper than in australia. We pay top prices for budget lines of Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren...etc.etc I was in the US recently and I purchased a Calvin Klein suit for $250 @ macys. Went to the Calvin Klein store in melbourne aus and sure enough it was $1000 for the exact same suit. Why is there such a huge difference?

I know firsthand that at least the top two banks are not penalizing customers who either overdraw or are now subject to late payment fees.

i'd say the identity management offerings from Novell are what Microsoft are after. Novell's idam system is superior to pretty much anything bar TIM/TAM or OIM/OAM.

*raises hand*
Degree in CS, loves problem solving, dislikes heavy coding.
Why? I burn out quickly via coding. I don't burn out nearly as fast doing other things (Sysadmin work, help desk stuff, even QA).

Not everyone likes to code day-in-day-out, especially with how most of the industry is ran. Has nothing to do with the instructors I had in school and everything to do with my brain being bored. For some people, coding is interesting. It is very interesting to me as long as I keep it to brief snippets or the small full project here and there. If I start working on something large and long-term, I start to burn out.
Thus, I got out of code monkeying and started working in other areas of IT.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/products_uploaded/product Large_9528.jpg
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KT2525
They also sell fuel cell's separately!