Not choosing sides, but for all we know Apple has some 1mm thick magic cable ready to come out in a year that is 100x faster. Devils advocate. I think we can all agree that the thinness of phones is one of their most desirable selling features. It's not inconceivable that a rollable or simply thinner phone will need a new connector.

Apple has a habit of adopting newer connectors long before other companies. If they have to keep the same "old" USB-C or whatever is agreed upon for 2 or 3 years after a newer connector becomes available I can certainly see customers being annoyed and the state of the art in phone design flagging.

Apple Pay may incorporate something like this at some point if Apple's "anonymous" web site sign in service takes off. They seem to be the only large tech company that tries not to harvest your data, all the others have a financial incentive to never allow you to buy anonymously.

I used to post on a number of forums regarding audio equipment. I'd say about 50% of the people were open minded and logical, 40% were set in their ways and would take light offense if you disagreed, but they had good things to say often and 10% were out to completely destroy everyone's opinion -- trolls. I make a living in audio and consider myself an expert in the field, in the same way an experienced high level mechanical engineer might, and I have a lot of practical experience to back it up. Even with well thought out explanations, and with cases where there were irrefutable answers to questions, those 10% of people would inevitably shout incorrect answers or make personal attacks and derail everything. It was just a question of the loudest and most frequent yeller. Have you seen the movie Idiocracy where the main character is trying to convince the government that plants need water, not Brawndo? Exactly like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vw2CrY9Igs

I stopped posting on all these forums because it's just not worth it. Those people have way more free time than any productive person. It's a real shame though, because when people like me are driven away, the majority of people who just want an honest answer are getting completely screwed by these yahoos. There's no accountability so even if you call them on an argument, they just shut up until the next post a day later. Their energy to cause shit seems to be endless.

It basically looks like Chrome with facebook grafted on the left and right sides. The only problem is that the layout is not nearly as good as the full facebook page. It's actually much easier keeping another tab open with facebook then to use the Rocketmelt interface. The friend list didn't even recognize my groups settings and the icons of most of my friends have nothing to do with their actual face so it was just a bunch of useless things down the left side. The news feed on the right loaded noticeably slow - i.e. it wasn't just "there" when i wanted it. What's the point of having to wait when I can keep the page open in the tab?

It only takes one really good reencode which is then uploaded. That's 2 hours per blu-ray. I know it's not 10x or 20x read but it's still insignficant for one person somewhere to invest the 2 hours and produce a nearly indistinguishable copy.

So you record the stream from the player to the display. No big difference.

It will be obvious to anyone who has driven with a German driver in Germany that the reason why they can drive fast and not die. The vast majority of German drivers are highly skilled, highly respectful of the laws AND are motivated to get from A to B as quickly as possible in a purposeful manner. They also fastidiously maintain their cars which are generally very well built to begin with. American drivers by comparison are unskilled, disrespectful of basic laws (like stop signs), distracted and they drive inferior automobiles in worse condition. I'd rather see an advanced driving test instituted. You pay $50 to take it and if you pass you can drive as fast as you want. Your car gets inspected once a year. Done. Privileges for those who are skilled and responsible.

The problem is most likely that your hand creates electrical contact with the steel or bridges the 2 antenna parts on the lower left. Either way you just coat the steel with plastic resin or something transparent/matte and the problem is solved. I'll be the factory has already done this on new models.

We have already tapped all the easy forms of energy available to us. Your argument doesn't apply. If the Romans didn't have anything else to find after they used up all the trees, then they damn well should have rationed them. By conservative accounts, we've got 50 years of oil left at our current use, solar and alternative energies will never provide more than 10-20% of world consumption. Even if we were to conserve massively now, there would have to be a major population reduction. Damn right we should be rationing right now. The majority of us live in complete luxury, with artificially cheap everything but there is nobody consuming rationally. It's not in our nature.

No, actually the ISPs will make all the money. Small shows like Pioneer will continue to be given away, while large producers will have exclusive deals with the ISPs (or will own the ISPs) to take a percentage of bandwidth revenue.

I think in the next 10-15 years the large internet providers are going to put a strangle hold on subscribers and basically charge out the a$$ for bandwidth. If content producers can't charge for content (realistically), they can get the equivalent charges from the raw bandwidth. Notice how the content producers are making closer and closer ties to the service providers? Vertically integrated markets here we come.

3D gives me motion sickness. Surely the day will come when I and many others won't be able to watch a regular 2D movie in a theatre. If you ask me, it's 1 step forward, 2 steps back from an overall marketshare standpoint.

Everything moves, thus everything has time. The trick is in the measuring. One must observe, which on a large scale is easy, but as you get to basic particles the energy of watching is always slightly greater than the energy of movement so you will always be behind in measuring "time". You can certainly predict what might happen but I don't think it's ever possible to see it happen or measure it at this scale.

Or, it's some basic cultural misunderstanding where he thought it was appropriate to celebrate with firecrackers on Xmas. If this the biggest terrorist threat of the year then America can sleep soundly.