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Comment Re:Gives new meaning... (Score 2) 78

by GPool on Thursday March 20, 2014 @02:44AM (#46531507) Attached to: 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest

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

by GPool on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @01:37AM (#29804413) Attached to: Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop

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

by GPool on Monday March 23, 2009 @05:17PM (#27303875) Attached to: How $1,500 Headphones Are Made

Easy answer: Go to a good stereo shop and listen through the HD-650.

Comment Re:All headphones are hand-made... (Score 1) 353

by GPool on Monday March 23, 2009 @05:15PM (#27303835) Attached to: How $1,500 Headphones Are Made

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. :) (Invisible unless you pull the connector out.)

Comment Re:Don't knock the Amiga (Score 1) 225

by GPool on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @04:24PM (#27055773) Attached to: Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic

Too true. :(

Submission + - China copies iPhone; makes it even better (popsci.com)

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on Friday August 10, 2007 @02:59AM

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.) "

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