Comment Re:Gives new meaning... (Score 2) 78
I was hoping for a sabre toothed chicken, as seen In the Chicken Museum.
Comment ...except the one that makes the busses (Score 5, Informative) 419
Page 2 of TFA:
Buses in the Shanghai pilot are made by Germantown, TN-based Foton America Bus Co, which uses ultracapacitors manufactured by Shanghai Aowei.
Comment Re:All headphones are hand-made... (Score 1) 353
Easy answer: Go to a good stereo shop and listen through the HD-650.
Comment Re:All headphones are hand-made... (Score 1) 353
My HD-600s had a connection problem a good while after the warrantee ran out. Sennheiser repaired them for free. A minor hack -- heat shrink tubing around the earpiece connectors so they hold in place better.
Comment Re:Don't knock the Amiga (Score 1) 225
Too true.
Submission + - China copies iPhone; makes it even better (popsci.com)
An anonymous reader writes: China duplicates a lot of well know products; now they are duplicating the iPhone. Yet apparently they are making it better. From the article "The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers." The cloned iPhone uses a Linux-based system. "The cloners hire a team of between 20 and 40 engineers to begin decoding the circuit boards. At the same time, coders start to develop an operating system for the phone with a similar feature set. (The typical cloner either uses off-the-shelf code, writes something entirely new, or modifies a publicly available Linux-based system.) "
