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Because an $8 one won't work, right?

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter...

Since there are two in that item, its only $4 each.

Looks like they already have a $7 third party option. I am not affiliated with the brand that I've never heard of, nor Amazon. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0...

I can see some interesting use cases for that TouchBar, but dear God, when that Photoshop lady was demonstrating using the mousepad & TouchBar at the same time, I cringed. I mimicked it on my keyboard in front of me and my wrists cried out in pain -- I can't imagine how it'd be if the keyboard was in my lap (i.e. on a laptop).

Anyone that is doing much more than casual, every once in awhile Photoshop work...already is using something like a wacom tablet and pen.

Not having looked at the market in a while, I see that there is starting to be some competition for Wacom in the "Pen Display" category like the "XP-Pen Artist22" or the "Yiynova MVP22U" which are a fair bit less expensive than the Cintiq models from Wacom - but it looks like the reviews have them a bit less feature-rich than the Cintiqs are. With pricing though, many might find them "good enough".

XP-Pen - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...
Yiynova - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...

I can see some interesting use cases for that TouchBar, but dear God, when that Photoshop lady was demonstrating using the mousepad & TouchBar at the same time, I cringed. I mimicked it on my keyboard in front of me and my wrists cried out in pain -- I can't imagine how it'd be if the keyboard was in my lap (i.e. on a laptop).

Anyone that is doing much more than casual, every once in awhile Photoshop work...already is using something like a wacom tablet and pen.

Not having looked at the market in a while, I see that there is starting to be some competition for Wacom in the "Pen Display" category like the "XP-Pen Artist22" or the "Yiynova MVP22U" which are a fair bit less expensive than the Cintiq models from Wacom - but it looks like the reviews have them a bit less feature-rich than the Cintiqs are. With pricing though, many might find them "good enough".

XP-Pen - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...
Yiynova - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...

If you're interested in this, there's an excellent book called The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers , by Tom Standage, that talks about the telegraph and the culture that sprung up around it. Many things we recognize from modern online culture are present: e-commerce, the use of encryption, online chat slang, and even online romance. Steampunk fans should especially appreciate it!

Maybe it wasn't for fun: https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Ha...

For the occasions where I do need peace and quiet, well Bose QC35s live up to their model number, unfortunately at $350 and given the quality of sound they also live up to their brandname.

I have a set of Bose QuietComfort 15 headphones, and they do a good job of reducing, but not completely cancelling noise. I will use them whenever I need to really concentrate.

The price for a Wacom screen of that size is about $2800, and that one's only 2560x1440. $1400 for a decent-specced computer in that form factor is about what you'd pay with anyone else.

Did you add in the price for Apple's touch screen and digitizer? No? Oh, right - they don't have one.

Do you really think that Apple, as one of the leaders in touchscreen technology, hasn't experimented extensively with a touchscreen iMac?

There are fundamental problems with the concept when it comes to desktop and laptop use. Believe me, we wish it wasn't true, but our repeated and lengthy testing has clearly shown that it is.

That's why Apple makes both purpose-built Touch-Driven Tablets and Smartphones, with a purpose-built Touch-based OS, and mouse and trackpad-driven Desktop and Laptop computers, with a more conventional, non-touch-based OS.

But if you really want to add touch to an iMac, you can easily do so for only $200.

From the actual article -- "includes a 28" display with 13.5 million pixels at a 4500x3000 resolution"

The standard 4k resolution mentioned was a comparison, not part of the spec of the Surface. As for the price comparison, please add in the cost of a high-definition screen-based digitiser to the Apple iMac spec and get back to us. Oh, the iMacs don't have a built-in screen digitiser as an option? Oops.

Still a significantly less number of pixels than the 5k iMac.

And do we know the resolution of the digitizer? Does it actually meet or exceed the resolution of the display?

And I would bet that real graphics professionals will still want to use a dedicated graphics tablet, rather than get a bunch of hand-prints all over their screen to use a half-baked built-in digitizer.

Oh, and the price of a multi-touch digitizer for a 5k iMac? Howabout $200?

Now I have no idea how good that is; but considering the number of 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon, I would bet that it is at least as good as the typical crap that MS has been building into their other Surface products, like the Surface Pro 4. Which is to say, not so wonderful.

when I bought this book https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Y... I believe the cd contains a program that could turn part of a photo like a building into a 3d object.

Just like the 1 button mouse.... or black and white displays, or completely removing SD card slots from all mobile devices. Not! Meanwhile, the future will prove that Macs4all is a stupid motherfucker. You're a 60 year old limp-dick asshole who's dumped so much of your retirement savings into Apple shitware that you couldn't possibly dig yourself out. I bet you want to be buried underneath Steve Jobs and rotated 180 degrees so you can lick his asshole in the afterlife. Go fuck yourself, deluded zealot.

Seriously? A one-button mouse meme? In 2016?

And Macs moved on from B&W displays in 1986; so again, we're talking pretty damned ancient history.

And as far as SD slots, Apple still sells at least one laptop with an SD slot. They have removed them because their research showed that only a tiny percentage of users (mostly photogs) used them on anything even remotely resembling a "regular basis". And since you can get a macOS-compatible USB 3.0 SD card reader/writer for the princely sum of $6.99 on Amazon, I would imagine that those who want/need the occasional SD card accessed, can do so without significant hardship.

Anecdotally, my MacBook Pro has an SD slot, which I was happy for. Wanna know how many times I've used it in the 3.5 years I've had that laptop? ONCE. And that was more to see if it actually worked than any "real" need for it.

Before that, I had a USB card-reader. Wanna know how many times I used that in the nearly 10 years I had it before I bought the abovementioned MBP? TWICE.

Same thing with my MBP's Optical Drive. Even though I chose that model partially because it was one of the last Mac laptops with a built-in Optical Drive, I can count on one hand the number of times I have used it in 3 years.

Note that it uses 7A max (measured), so 0.84kw on maximum setting and about 60l/day.

What, pray tell, do you think is coming out of those towers? It's 100% pure dihydrogen monoxide in the form of steam in order to turn turbines which then generate electricity. Although I really am curious, what do you actually think is coming out of those towers? Gluten? I honestly want to know how you think a nuclear reactor generates electricity. Where do they get these people? Probably the likes of Harvard Business School, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, MIT, Texas A&M is also a great school for advanced study in Nuclear Engineering. I really truly want to know what was or wasn't going through your head with such bold and self-assured statement. Also: Some light reading on the subject

But seriously, what is it that you though you understood?

Your suggestion, in a thread about relative costs of systems, is to buy a custom piece of hardware, from a vendor who's website doesn't actually list a price.

Y'all got Amazon where you live? Or access to any of the vendors they list on their website?

But it's not like Windows can backup to thin air. You have to have something on the other end of that CAT-5, so it's probably a wash hardware-wise.

Do you know what I think when I see a website selling a product but not listing a unit price.

"Huh, I wonder if Amazon has them?" would have been my first thought, but apparently it wasn't yours.

I agree, it's a genuine possibility. I've ordered enough things off Amazon to be genuinely concerned about the state of cheap Chinese chargers being sold through there. There's no good reason to allow a vendor to sell a product that is unsafe, uses counterfeit labeling to bypass US electrical safety inspections and regulations, and easily threatens the safety and welfare of consumers. We can hang Samsung out to dry when its batteries catch fire, but we can't do the same to Amazon for selling us this junk?

My own anecdote: Our school district ordered 10 HDMI-to-VGA adapters recently from Amazon. They were Chinese-direct w/ Engrish instructions and the like, but I knew I was going to get that. What I didn't know I was going to get were incredibly, incredibly cheap 5V 1A chargers, only one of which was spot-on 5V, three more were within +/- 5% of 5V, five were about 5.5V (which still worked, but is not as safe and out-of-spec), and one that would start at 5V for about a minute, then float up to about 20V, before floating back down to 5V. Needless to say, the video adapter paired with the one that floated up to 20V had its display glitch out every-so-often, and even after I tried using a good 5V power adapter, the video adapter was permanently glitchy at that point.

About a month prior, I bought some other video adapters that also were powered by 5V 1A power adapters, but the stickers on the power adapters said they were 9V 1A adapters, even though my multimeter said they were running at 5V. (Sticker also said they were UL listed. Probably just as truthful as the 9V spec was.) I didn't trust those adapters worth a dime, but I wanted to see what was inside them. Unlike the wall-warts of yore, most cheap adapters now (including these) can be opened with a single screw. Inside was a little PCB stuck to the inside plastic cavity with simple double-sided tape. Most shocking to me: The PCB boards were hand-soldered, as evidenced by two of them having etches scraped into the board where solder appears to have overflowed onto other joints, plus that some joints were cold, some were gigantic blobs, and it was generally very sloppy solder work. Also concerning: the wires connecting the plug to the PCB were also hand-soldered on both ends, and more-than-half the joints were cold. One of those wires was also rusted out, and broke off the plug as the device was opened. (There was no tugging on the wire; just twisting it snapped the wire off.) Finally, one of the transistors had leads about 1/2" long off the PCB, and the transistor was bent so hard that one of its leads was dangerously close to a capacitor lead, all on the high-voltage side of the PCB.

This explains why Amazon can make a profit selling 5V USB adapters for $1.50 each, or 5V power adapters for $2.50.

I agree, it's a genuine possibility. I've ordered enough things off Amazon to be genuinely concerned about the state of cheap Chinese chargers being sold through there. There's no good reason to allow a vendor to sell a product that is unsafe, uses counterfeit labeling to bypass US electrical safety inspections and regulations, and easily threatens the safety and welfare of consumers. We can hang Samsung out to dry when its batteries catch fire, but we can't do the same to Amazon for selling us this junk?

My own anecdote: Our school district ordered 10 HDMI-to-VGA adapters recently from Amazon. They were Chinese-direct w/ Engrish instructions and the like, but I knew I was going to get that. What I didn't know I was going to get were incredibly, incredibly cheap 5V 1A chargers, only one of which was spot-on 5V, three more were within +/- 5% of 5V, five were about 5.5V (which still worked, but is not as safe and out-of-spec), and one that would start at 5V for about a minute, then float up to about 20V, before floating back down to 5V. Needless to say, the video adapter paired with the one that floated up to 20V had its display glitch out every-so-often, and even after I tried using a good 5V power adapter, the video adapter was permanently glitchy at that point.

About a month prior, I bought some other video adapters that also were powered by 5V 1A power adapters, but the stickers on the power adapters said they were 9V 1A adapters, even though my multimeter said they were running at 5V. (Sticker also said they were UL listed. Probably just as truthful as the 9V spec was.) I didn't trust those adapters worth a dime, but I wanted to see what was inside them. Unlike the wall-warts of yore, most cheap adapters now (including these) can be opened with a single screw. Inside was a little PCB stuck to the inside plastic cavity with simple double-sided tape. Most shocking to me: The PCB boards were hand-soldered, as evidenced by two of them having etches scraped into the board where solder appears to have overflowed onto other joints, plus that some joints were cold, some were gigantic blobs, and it was generally very sloppy solder work. Also concerning: the wires connecting the plug to the PCB were also hand-soldered on both ends, and more-than-half the joints were cold. One of those wires was also rusted out, and broke off the plug as the device was opened. (There was no tugging on the wire; just twisting it snapped the wire off.) Finally, one of the transistors had leads about 1/2" long off the PCB, and the transistor was bent so hard that one of its leads was dangerously close to a capacitor lead, all on the high-voltage side of the PCB.

This explains why Amazon can make a profit selling 5V USB adapters for $1.50 each, or 5V power adapters for $2.50.

The dehydrated water looks pretty real to me https://www.amazon.com/Future-...

but i've heard it's not as good as real dehydrated water http://www.edietshop.com/dehyd...

I trip it ALL the time. My wife does it, too. My daughter does it as well (she's a 3 year old).

I will not be upgrading to a new MacBook if MagSafe is dropped, because for the amount of money I'd spend on a MacBook Pro, I might as well get a more powerful laptop that isn't made of bendy metal (which BTW sucks!), and run Linux on it.

Here. Your worries are over. Upgrade at will...

And if you want to run Linux on your MacBook Pro, you can do that, too. I wouild suggest doing it with Parallels Desktop of VMWare Fusion, so you can keep macOS around so you actually have access to decent software; but whatever.

They already sell these on Amazon. Look for "breakaway usb-c cable"

Oh yeah, right! Like those breakaway headphone cables I've seen.

Kinda pricey; but looks like it would be much cheaper than a new laptop!

Oh, and speaking of accessories for the new MacBooks, this might be becoming more popular, too...

They already sell these on Amazon. Look for "breakaway usb-c cable"

Oh yeah, right! Like those breakaway headphone cables I've seen.

Kinda pricey; but looks like it would be much cheaper than a new laptop!

Oh, and speaking of accessories for the new MacBooks, this might be becoming more popular, too...

Yes, we will have to go back to the USB SD Card reader to transfer files. Except, no, wait, we will also need a USB-C adapter to hold the USB SD card adapter. I am guessing there are not too many USB-C SD card readers out there

Your guess would be incorrect. In fact, USB-C is fast becoming "The New USB" as far as Popularity goes.

I see one major problem with eliminating USB 3.0 ports. Currently there exist very small USB 3.0 sticks (example: Lexar S45) that can fit in the current MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops and increase the total storage capacity. These drives are so small that it's not necessary to plug them out when carrying the laptop around in a backpack, a fact that makes this setup an attractive way to save hundreds of dollars that would be necessary for buying a laptop with a 256 GB SSD instead of 128 GB let's say. The USB stick can be used to store music and photos for example, without affecting the overall perceived speed of the machine. There is no equivalent solution with USB-C AFAIK.

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter...

5$.

You'll go to Amazon and buy one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/HooToo-...

It'll cost you $25, though, sorry.

If buying a new computer also means buying a new cell phone, mouse, keyboard, speakers, digital camera, printer, scanner, etc. then people probably aren't going to be lining up to buy that new computer.

Buying a new computer with USB-C interface means, at worst, buying (for $6.99) a pair of USB-C to USB-A adapters, you dimwit.

Or, you buy a USB-C hub with power delivery for about $25, and plug all your USB-A devices into that, and your USB-C power cable into it as well, so you can charge & connect all your devices.

Then, as these devices wear out, you can replace them with decent wireless alternatives or USB-C alternatives instead.

Jesus fuck. This is like arguing that installing solar panels on your house means you have to buy a new car, new appliances, upgrade the landscaping, and also paint your fucking house. It's incomprehensibly stupid to make this argument, yet here you are, making it.

If buying a new computer also means buying a new cell phone, mouse, keyboard, speakers, digital camera, printer, scanner, etc. then people probably aren't going to be lining up to buy that new computer.

Buying a new computer with USB-C interface means, at worst, buying (for $6.99) a pair of USB-C to USB-A adapters, you dimwit.

Or, you buy a USB-C hub with power delivery for about $25, and plug all your USB-A devices into that, and your USB-C power cable into it as well, so you can charge & connect all your devices.

Then, as these devices wear out, you can replace them with decent wireless alternatives or USB-C alternatives instead.

Jesus fuck. This is like arguing that installing solar panels on your house means you have to buy a new car, new appliances, upgrade the landscaping, and also paint your fucking house. It's incomprehensibly stupid to make this argument, yet here you are, making it.

Well, then, the author of this book must also be a moron. Should I beg a thousand pardons for reading it?

My oh my... the goal posts seem to have been moved again.

I never claimed it was an OPEN standard.

No, but earlier I referred to 3.55mm jacks being "a widely used standard had won out as anyone could implement it", which does sorta meet the definition of 'open standard'.

You then brought up MFi, claiming "Sure you can! What do you think Apple's MFi Program is for? It is PRECISELY for OEMs that want to design Lightning-Compatible devices."

Which as you acknowledge now... isn't actually 100% true.

But then, neither is Zigbee.

Who said anything about Zigbee?

Both are licensed.

Just because a standard is open, doesn't mean it's cost or license free for all to use.

Going to make some DRAM? Probably going to be some license fees to be paid (for royalties on the patents that cover the underlying technology).

Going to make a USB device? Probably going to be some license fees to be paid (ie getting your own VID).

Going to be making a network adapter? Probably going to be some license fees to be paid (for a MAC address range).

Going to be making a PC motherboard? Probably going to be some license fees to be paid (see above).

Let me say this again, and I'll try to use small words as you are clearly having comprehension issues.

An open standard allows anyone to build a product that meets the specification. Sometimes, there are licensing costs associated with it.

MFi, is not an open standard as Apple at it's sole discretion (too big of a word? option? choice?) can veto any product which it thinks would compete with it's own lines... which includes host devices.

But honestly, I don't really see a proscription in the wording of the document you linked against creating another "host" device that supported Lightning.

Read it again, it refers only to devices which plug into iPhones, iPods & iPads.

For example, I believe I saw an article for a Lightning memory stick, but I might be mistaken.

And unless they are like this one and also include a USB port, will only work with a Lightning compatible devices (ie iPhones, iPods & iPads).

In fact, there are quite a few such a devices... it's as if most of them know that because Lightning isn't a standard which will likely ever be available on non Apple hardware, that they have to add a standard plug on it as well so people can use it on devices adhering to a more common standard.

But if approached by the right entity,

If such an approach requires being the right entity, then no, it weakens any semblance of openness of MFi wrt host devices.

Apple really might let a Lightning connector exist on a competitor's device.

Might? And what possible evidence is there of such a thing?

Yes, I believe that could happen.

No doubt you also believe in unicorns and that 9/11 was an inside job.

Apple tore down the walls of its own garden a few YEARS ago, when they started allowing full-blown Sideloading of any ol' iOS App the User wanted.

So we should just ignore the rules of the store (though shall not compete with any of our apps/services)? Or the fact that to develop for their platform, you need to already buy into their platform? Ex: You can use a Linux box to build a Windows, MacOS or Linux app pretty easily, and per all of the rules, however if you attempt to do something like... build a Xamarin app in... Visual Studio on Windows, suddenly you require an MacOS device to do the building. Not for technical reasons, but for legal ones.

when a large percentage of audio equipment was still shipping (and some still does!) with 1/4" jacks?

Stationary maybe, not portable.

Thinking back on just my own purchases... I do not recall ever owning a portable cassette (boombox or Walkman), CD or MP3 player which had a 1/4" jack, only 3.5mm.

Hell, even the original Sony Walkman back in '79 only had a 3.5mm connection.

Because, JUST LIKE APPLE, the headphone manufacturers INCLUDED AN ADAPTER. So, pray tell, how is this ANY different?!?

And over the years I got many of those adapters... even later airplane ones, never used any because mini-stereo, a widely used standard had won out as anyone could implement it. PCs, portables, autos, airplanes, you name it. Can't say the same about Lightning, can we?

And don't bring up the ridiculously-overblown bug-boo about "Charging while listening".

So all of those people who actually have that as a problem are wrong... because *you* are ok with adapters and think the battery has enough capacity for your type of usage? Good for you! Not all of us are so easily sold.

Some of us may use our devices heavily when not in a location we are able to charge, but once we reach our car want to add some juice while listening to audio from the device.

Second, there are about a dozen adapters, some as inexpensive as $10, that allow doing just that.

Yup, none which have the ease of what existed before (ie not having to deal with a dock or some small brick hanging from your device if you happen to pick it up). I continue to be surprised no one has released anything as simple as this one, but for lightning as it gives you the benefits of a single cord, and puts any clutter of the mini-stereo cable away from the handset.

If you have spent $700 on a new phone, one would think that $10 wouldn't be that much of a financial hardship, eh?

Maybe... it's not about the money?

Heck, if you are so quick to dismiss the legit concerns about "charging while listening"... perhaps you should do a better job understanding the concerns?

Personally I usually have a pair of earbuds in my pocket... they work just fine with my cell phone, tablet, laptop, even my gaming controller. If I owned an iPhone 7, I could simply carry that adapter with me all of the time and use it where needed... however that gets into a lot of hassle. Or I could drop $10 per location I usually plug in some audio device (home, work, car, work area in garage, etc)... but then I am participating in a sort of balkanization I have zero willingness to join in on.

Oh, and the reason that Microsoft APPEARS to be moving in a more "Open" direction? THEY ARE SCARED TO DEATH. Period.

You really should look into the Satya kool-aid a bit more, it's not as simple as that.

That's all fine and good but what you are proposing will only stave off the inevitable for at most a year or two. Automation is coming, it is already here and covering more ground faster and faster. Read "Rise of the Robots" it is an enlightening read.
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Ro...

How would you propose penalizing anyone that overlooks the long-term unemployed/discouraged? Who would you propose get penalized? What would be the mechanism for detecting and punishing these despicable beings?

Not anymore:
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Ro...

Except that it is a technology problem and that cheaper labor is a temporary substitute for eventual automation. Anything that can be off-shored can and will be automated, so especially the countries that are benefiting from offshoring will have a hard and quick fall due to automation. This is well explained in the book, "Rise of the Robots". https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Ro...

You are sitting comfortably on your high (but rapidly disappearing under you) horse decreeing that no one but those able to find the very few jobs left will be able to eat and live. How will you feel when your job is automated out? No, seriously, it can and will happen no matter how skilled you think you are. Your friends, your family, your neighbors, all their jobs automated out. Will you still be have such a cold-hearted view when everyone that you care about that is around you is in dire straits? When the job-less crisis is a world-wide phenomenon?
What will you contribute when everything you could possibly produce can be produced better, faster, cheaper, with more creativity and flair by a machine? See: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Ro...

You can't just move to AWS and say you are HIPAA compliant.

You can't just lay down physical servers and say you're HIPAA compliant, either; and AWS can provide HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.

It takes just as much effort to make HIPAA compliance, which means it adds the same amount of effort. If it takes you 15,000 hours per year to manage your VMware data center and 5,000 hours per year to manage HIPAA compliance, that's 20,000 hours; if AWS IAAS takes 5,000 hours per year to manage infrastructure, that's 10,000 hours.

"(a) we (the electorate) have busily shaped the societal and legal environment in which Wall Street could become what it is now."

No we haven't. The vast majority of the population has been too busy working 2-3 jobs to make ends meet. The concentration of wealth created by Wall St has become self fulfilling, since that wealth makes it possible for banking interests to influence politics directly through lobbying, or bribery. The democratic process is significantly distorted and representation is no longer proportional.

This is part of the problem.

Ideas like those here are part of the solution.

The (2012) version looks interesting !

In future Moscow, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

I've ordered the Blu-Ray

Moon People? Oh no...

Right up there with Lay's WOW chips and Haribo sugar free gummy bears (read the reviews, they're hilarious and disgusting)

https://www.amazon.com/Space-C...

Because the eccentricity of the Mars orbit is so much greater than that of the Earth orbit, the distance between the two planets varies from one opposition to the next. It ranges from 35 to 63 million miles approximately.

Yes. Amazon sells classified cloud services to fedgov too. https://aws.amazon.com/federal... https://aws.amazon.com/securit... http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-c...

If they can outsource their intelligence and analysis, of course they can outsource their data processing!!! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

CIA Chief Information Security Officer Sherrill Nicely: "“Cloud has been a godsend for folks trying to implement systems quickly and for us to secure workloads better. Our agency and other [intelligence community] components are busily working to move their workloads into the cloud, and off legacy and into the new.”

Unless $30K workstation guy is playing the ancient game of 'convince my boss to buy me cool shit I don't really need but want to play around with it'. That I can understand :-)

Yes. Amazon sells classified cloud services to fedgov too. https://aws.amazon.com/federal... https://aws.amazon.com/securit... http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-c...

If they can outsource their intelligence and analysis, of course they can outsource their data processing!!! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

CIA Chief Information Security Officer Sherrill Nicely: "“Cloud has been a godsend for folks trying to implement systems quickly and for us to secure workloads better. Our agency and other [intelligence community] components are busily working to move their workloads into the cloud, and off legacy and into the new.”

Unless $30K workstation guy is playing the ancient game of 'convince my boss to buy me cool shit I don't really need but want to play around with it'. That I can understand :-)

I'm sure every kid has the means of buying the hard-covers...

For the incredible low low price of $9.95 a month*, ANY student can afford** to own their own mint-condition Encyclopedia Britannica Special Hard Copy Edition!

* For 100 months
**Requires a low-interest payment plan and credit check

or you can buy this:

https://www.amazon.com/Encyclo...

For some hilarious reviews about milk sold on Amazon, see https://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-...

You have it backwards. When the USB charger voltage droops, the phone (or other recharging device) will dissipate more heat as the phone's charging process becomes less efficient. Apple's USB chargers generally don't sag like some cheap equivalents do.

It's easy to monitor this using simple and cheap USB tools like this one which report both voltage and current:
https://www.amazon.com/PortaPo...
(or many other equivalents)

Charge control is done within the phone, generally by a dedicated chip which also monitors battery temperature. In some cheap 'power bricks', the charge control is done via a microprocessor rather than a dedicated charge control chip, but this isn't common in more valuable products.

Li ion batteries have a separate protection circuit which monitors over voltage, under voltage and over-current (either direction). It opens the circuit when triggered.

Battery safety is controlled by IEC 62133, which was generated in the EU, but has been adopted in the US, too.

I think there's an InfoMagic CD-ROM set with this 386BSD version and also a pre 1.0 NetBSD on it. It's over there somewhere in that pile against the wall here.

The Jolitzes also wrote a book on the codebase that appears to still be available.

See this talk by Former national security advisor, their purpose is to keep the public misinformed and sow distrust so the public can't come together and confront corporate power.

See this talk by national security advisor the upper classes of the world are afraid of the political awakening of the masses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

Crisis of democracy PDF

Book

Education as ignorance

https://chomsky.info/warfare02/

You can bet patent trolls and corporations hoarding patents to intimidate rivals and startups will be outraged and harrass their congressman. WELL FUCK THEM. Give those patenters the Fargo Woodchipper treatment.

Want to know how bad software patents are? Read Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright & Software by Ben Klemens He describes how big multinational called up startup and said GIVE US FUCKING MONEY YOU BITCHES because you've violated patents 728917 9387128 and 823823 and insert more random numbers here. Startup went through them methodically and showed they hadn't. Multinational retorted WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF PATENTS SO IF YOU HAVEN'T VIOLATED THOSE YOU HAVE VIOLATED SOMETHING ELSE SO GIVE US MONEY YOU BITCHES. Startup gave up and wrote multinational a big check. https://www.amazon.com/Math-Yo...

Software Patents are a racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Joke's on him, as airplane travel is one of the times I need both the headphone jack and charge port at the same time. When you have nothing better to do but play with your phone and listen to music for several hours straight, you're going to need to charge.

I vaguely recall a Samsung ad about how useful replaceable batteries are in that scenario as well, but they seem to have forgotten about that...

Joke's on you mindless AC. Do some research first, next time.

Here's One of the MANY options for wireless charging while headphoning with standard headphones for Lightning-equipped devices. Here's another one for $11 (I'm sure it's not MFi-certified like the Belkin is; but hey...).

Oh, and that search took 1 second on Google, and 2 seconds and one scroll-wheel-flick on Amazon.

Hatetard.

Galaga, I agree completely.

And to Slashdot Mods and community members, this is the first time I can say in my 16-year membership here at Slashdot that I can say I'm honestly disappointed in its behavior. What I'm seeing displayed here is a mob-mentality peer censorship at play. And while I do not disagree one iota that this man does not deserve the criticism he receives on a daily basis from the public for what he has done, I think it's a rare and unique opportunity that we can actually engage in discussion with this man. He is a quintessential example of the dangers of capitalism, and I have no doubt that he would sell you the rope you would use to hang him with if he could. ** Understanding his mentality can be incredibly beneficial to our society and our community, and I urge you all to exercise a more civil attitude towards this interview.

Or, to put it another, more blunt way: Don't let this man drag you down to his level. He'll beat you with experience, and we're better than that.

** To inject a little humor into the conversation, if he did sell you something to hang him with, he'd probably insist on using this.