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I just got mine 2 days ago, a new Model B Revision 2 board...

they claimed it was made in the UK but when I opened the static bag and pulled out the board a huge "MADE IN CHINA" stamped all over it

here is photo I took of my new model B Revision 2 board - http://www.flickr.com/photos/qoaa/8233431330/

you can clearly see made in china

here is another angle with made in china at top - http://www.flickr.com/photos/qoaa/8233433632/

My original order was placed in July 5th, 2012 and I just got it on December 1, 2012 in the mail. I live in Georgia, US so I knew it would take a while to get "across the pond" but was a let down seeing it was made in china when they promised revision 2 boards were made in UK and they clearly are not.

and yes i confirmed it's revision 2

cpuinfo/free/uname info - http://image.dude-suit.net/albums/userpics/10002/raspi1.PNG

(Argh, I just lost a 20-paragraph post because I chose to change my post style to plain old text so it would format nicely. Thanks slashdot...)

I'll be brief this time. Disclaimer: I'm the author of morituri, a CD ripper for Linux with support for AccurateRip, modelled after Exact Audio Copy but command line.

I was in the same situation as you a few years ago. I had originally ripped my collection to Ogg/Vorbis, and thought that this time I wanted everything 100% lossless so I would never have to rip again, but just transcode from the rips. The main issue I wanted to solve, besides going lossless, is to make sure I had no bad tracks with skips in my collection. (You detect those skips over the years listening to the songs, not as you do the rip, and you're never sure if there are glitches in the tracks or not, and it drove me crazy).

But when I researched what it meant to get it right this time, my mind got blown at everything that could go wrong. Here's a condensed version of the results of my research.

The biggest eye opener to me was that the fact that each drive model reads samples with a different offset. That offset is always the same for that model, but different across models. I have no idea why it is so (does anyone know), and we're lucky that it's constant for a model, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to solve my main concern - the detection of skips and bad rips. Nowadays people use AccurateRip, a database of checksums for ripped tracks that people upload. If your rip matches several other people's rips, you can be reasonably sure that you have a correct rip.

Since at the time there wasn't a single Linux-based ripper doing this, I created morituri.

There are several other issues that make ripping a fragile activity. I recommend you get a drive that is able to rip Hidden Track One Audio (The audio in Track 01 but between Index 00 and 01). Maybe you don't care, but I have a few gems in my collection with good stuff there (two Soulwax albums and Luke Haines's Das Capital spring to mind). Some drives are simply not able to get at this data. Most software doesn't get it either. EAC can be told to do so, but it's a manual and fragile process. morituri's goal is to create a perfect image so that you can burn a bit-exact copy; so it rips the HTOA tracks always.

I suggest you rethink whether you really want to go quick and dirty. You're going to rip the cd's once and then listen to the result many times. Are you sure you don't want to get it right on the first try this time ? Is your time spent changing the discs not valuable enough to not have to repeat it ?

morituri is probably slower than less accurate rippers, as the focus is accuracy. I would argue that the time spent ripping and encoding really is not the biggest issue. The real trouble is having to change disks, which is going to take time no matter how much time it takes for your computer to do its thing.

I made a quick calculation of how much time I would be spending to put in my 1600 CD's, and decided to spend that time on creating a LEGO CD changer instead (I had checked the price of disc changers, and the cheapest I could find was around $800, with no real guarantee of whether I'd be able to control it from Linux).

Friends visiting shared their scorn and admiration in equal doses, but the robot was able to do around 20 CD's reliably in one go, so I would just load them up in the morning before work. 3 months later my 1600 CD collection was digitized.

morituri interfaces with MusicBrainz to get the metadata, and you can retag albums later on based on a different release id or when the data is updated on MB. There's also options to do an encode of lossless rips; I regularly run a simple shell command to transcode the flacs to mp3s, and it only transcodes what wasn't done before.

Give it a try, let me know what you think.

I worked with/on Hershey's Desert Bar. In 1990.

http://www.hersheyarchives.org/essay/details.aspx?EssayId=39
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/7290674224/

It was processing the egg whites to withstand structural changes at higher temps.

I put one in a flame on a gas stove. It burned, did not melt.

They were tolerable to eat, but not great. Much like last year's halloween candy.

It's obvious you know nothing about GIS and are just blindly defending Apple.

Well I spent a few years writing geocoding software to let people geocode assets on a map but I guess that doesn't count....

Apple cant even rectify their datasets properly. This is why tube stations aren't appearing where they should.

Tube stations DO appear where they should. Look closer. In the initial reports of maps errors where supposedly there was no tube station, there was - but only at a closer zoom level. Were you really fooled by that? You do realize that some people were making up errors because they thought it was funny, right?

Perhaps you shouldn't talk such a big game about things that you have no direct experience in?

Why is rectification so important. Well rectification is adjusting the co-ords of different datasets to match up.

Duh. Why did you say you were a GIS expert if that is your amazing bit of wisdom to share. A three year old could figure out if you have a location that is wrong you need the right one.

Seriously dude.

If Apple cant even get that right

Ok, do please show us where Apple has not got that right. Mostly they have. And in fact here's where you lack of direct experience hurts you again because what does Apple Maps do when you say a business or other place is in the wrong location? They have you put a pin where it really is. So they have millions of people doing very accurate rectification for them, which is why bad locations are mostly going to be corrected before too long.

Again, perhaps you should apply that old adage by keeping silent before removing all doubt...

You know that Yelp is Extremerly US centric?

Yes, but not as much now that it's integrated with Apple Maps as more people everywhere have reason to update it. Did you really not think that through? All you can think about is what was, not what is or what will be.

Google's data can find things in just about any country.

So can Apple maps for the european cities I have been in so far. It works fine in Amsterdam, for example.

And in fact Google rather sucked for me when I was in Berlin (including zero transit ability this past May), so you might want to squelch that international Google fervor a bit as it's been very hit and miss for me overseas. News flash: Both Google and Apple are U.S. based companies and thus more U.S. centric than not.

Sorry if it conflicts with your blind fanboyism, but Apple's data is at least 5 years off Google's.

That's funny because where I live the satellite data in Apple Maps is about two years newer, and unlike Google it properly locates a freaking Arbys. I guess what you are saying is that it takes Google more than five years to issue corrections... I bring up that Arbys because unlike a lot of Apple Maps goofs that have been raised, that was a real problem I encountered with Google Maps that wasted a lot of time for me (not shown: An Arbys in a whole different town Google ALSO got the location totally wrong for).

Google is ahead in placemark data, and in SOME (but not all) business location. I'm sorry your Apple Hater Nerd Rage totally blinds you to the truth and makes you post about things you know nothing about...

I'll let you have the last post because I can't see spending any more time correcting ignorance now that you'd laid out how little you know about what is going on in this situation just because you once took a GIS class and stayed at a Holiday Inn Express or something...

There's another category which is at odds with the environmentalist movement, which is where I sit. Yeah, we've got global warming. Is it important? I'd say no.

We can't predict when cold or warm cycles will happen with any good degree of accuracy. However they do come. What we do know for sure is that the continents will eventually drift to become Pangaea Ultima. In such a configuration, there can't be any polar ice caps, and the globe will be much hotter than it is now.

The earth was in such a configuration before in age of Pangaea, and life did quite well then. We had monstrous macro scale life, namely dinosaurs and very large dragonflies, and the earth was the greenest it has ever been. This is what the eco movement describes as a doomsday scenario for all macro-scale life, yet the fossil evidence tells us otherwise.

Many species will die, the rest will adapt, and new ones will show up. As for us...we've been pretty good at adapting so far. We've survived through periods much warmer than now, periods much colder than now, and we witnessed other species go extinct in time immemorial, such as the wooly mammoth. Due to the homeostatic nature of all life, we don't like change. But that doesn't really matter, it will happen anyways.

The only things we need to be careful of is making sure we don't contaminate the soil and cause any more species to go extinct than will otherwise happen. Things like cap and trade won't address that at all, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and water has a much greater impact on the greenhouse effect than any other gasses, (something like 33%) not to mention its atmospheric ppm is much higher than all others.

Also related to this, mildly off topic, and I'll probably get modded troll for saying this, but recycling paper is incredibly stupid. Paper isn't going to cause us to run out of trees any more than eating food is going to make us run out of carrots or tomatoes. For quite some time now, paper has been made from selectively bred trees that are grown on farms for the express purpose of making that and other fibrous materials. These trees grow very few branches and have some other properties ideal for paper that wild trees can't match. These trees are literally considered an agricultural product, and are ripe for harvest every 8 years.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonwild/2086083298/

Recycled paper is a waste of resources and is ultimately pointless. Unlike metals, paper becomes less useful each time you recycle it, not to mention it is expensive. People only recycle paper or buy recycled paper because it makes them feel good, other than that it has no practical purpose.

You think in a year, Apple is going to be caught up to Google who has been constantly working on their mapping data all this time?

Yes, because is some cases they are already ahead.

What you are missing is that there is no such thing as being "done" with map data. It's an ongoing effort, with data changing all the time. Google is at the plateau where they are probably as good as it is realistic to be. Apple only has to reach the same level where Google is, while Google is essentially at a static position.

Apple has started with a large data set nearly as good as Google, or in some places better (Apple Maps are already better at finding things than most of the third party maps, including MapQuest and the recently released Nokia app). Then on top of that they added Yelp for data on businesses which people update frequently, and also have a better system for map feedback than Google does currently.

Between Yelp updates and people submitting issues to Apple via the app feedback, Apple will have easily caught and in some cases surpassed Google within a year, because they have a lot more people working on updates for the system that are not just employees. They also gain the same advantage Google had to themselves for a while in that they know the common things people search for, so they can add them as placemarks. That's all it takes to catch up to Google, is a large volume of map users beating the hell out of your search and map data. As long as you start with a good enough data set that lots of people use it, that's all it takes... and there are a LOT of iOS users.

I imagine the OCR is overkill, but this invention could really make printed braille useful, and turn the fail I just linked to into a win (if you ignore the braille typo). I imagine the recognition would be a lot easier to do (to the likes of QR codes), and it would be really easy to retrofit to existing signs.

Here ya go, Prof Chomsky - here are some pictures of statues built in homage to Shivaji, India's own Robin Hood, who fought for the weak and the oppressed - a real actual person from history, and not a fictional multi-limbed mythological deity:

http://www.indialine.com/travel/maharashtra/shivajiheritage.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/subratomitra/6073279079/

http://500px.com/photo/5242560

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shivaji_Statue_Apollo_Bunder_Front_View.jpg

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27769369

Shivaji's dog:

http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/raigad-fort/picture-gallery/Statue-of-Shivaji-pet-dog-Waghya.php

Yes, he even made it to California:

http://ekmarathimanoos.blogspot.ca/2011/11/american-shivaji.html

Just please don't go around telling people that Jesus Montero was a central figure in the Bible, rather than a baseball player.

Not really, but if it looked like this he would definately have an issue...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4702368517_812af64a5a.jpg

From the article, it seems as if the TSA did the safe thing and called the bomb squad, which I guess is the right thing to do.

They have you nicely conditioned into thinking that a watch is something that it is OK to call in the bomb squad for.

Your defense might be that they used box cutters to destroy 3 planes, The fourth plane showed us that will not happen again.

And even if it were possible, that leaves the fact that they are unable to determine what is dangerous. So if this is a false positive, how many false negatives are there? Never heard of somebody who forgot something in his hand luggage and they said nothing? Happened to me. I forgot that my keys had a very small leatherman knife. So I put it in the bag with all the cables and chargers for my portables and phones. Lots of random metal in cables and such to trow off stoopid people.
They told me to open the bag and took out the water I also had forgotten. Drank that and walked on with my knife still in the bag onto the plane.
I have heard from others similar stories. Most of the times concerning lighters they have forgotten.
False negatives do exist and as we see here. False positives also do exist.
Proof they are unable to do their job.

And yes, in the eyes of the police (not of the law) everybody is guilty. Everybody is a treat.

I had this device discovered in my backpack during a TSA extra-gropey our-explosives-detector-machine-has-beeped secondary inspection. It was powered down, but it actually is a hacked-together, home-made gadget for triggering an external unit.

The TSA agents responsible were grumbling about having to work next to the ineffectual backscatter X-ray scanners (I'd opted out), and were interested in what camera equipment I had and what I'd recommend for a beginner. Many of the agents are human, and sick to death of the security theatre they have to work with.

(As a photographer who likes taking pictures of weird bits of crumbling infrastructure, I've had plenty of run-ins with security guards and the like. Oddly, I've never been arrested.)

I had this device discovered in my backpack during a TSA extra-gropey our-explosives-detector-machine-has-beeped secondary inspection. It was powered down, but it actually is a hacked-together, home-made gadget for triggering an external unit.

The TSA agents responsible were grumbling about having to work next to the ineffectual backscatter X-ray scanners (I'd opted out), and were interested in what camera equipment I had and what I'd recommend for a beginner. Many of the agents are human, and sick to death of the security theatre they have to work with.

(As a photographer who likes taking pictures of weird bits of crumbling infrastructure, I've had plenty of run-ins with security guards and the like. Oddly, I've never been arrested.)

By color ...

Oh you think you're being funny, but I have a co-worker/friend that has done just that.

I was probably about 4km east of you then. Cloud passed the sun with about 4 minutes to spare before totality.

Didn't get as many pics as I'd like as I was standing there in amazement trying to see if I could get my brain to believe what it was seeing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416042/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416212/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416534/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184417362/in/photostream

I was probably about 4km east of you then. Cloud passed the sun with about 4 minutes to spare before totality.

Didn't get as many pics as I'd like as I was standing there in amazement trying to see if I could get my brain to believe what it was seeing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416042/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416212/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416534/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184417362/in/photostream

I was probably about 4km east of you then. Cloud passed the sun with about 4 minutes to spare before totality.

Didn't get as many pics as I'd like as I was standing there in amazement trying to see if I could get my brain to believe what it was seeing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416042/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416212/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416534/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184417362/in/photostream

I was probably about 4km east of you then. Cloud passed the sun with about 4 minutes to spare before totality.

Didn't get as many pics as I'd like as I was standing there in amazement trying to see if I could get my brain to believe what it was seeing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416042/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416212/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416534/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184417362/in/photostream

Star Wars came up with the concept of movie merchandizing and licensing. The concept did not exist before that film.

I can prove otherwise by the amount of movie memorabilia and toys that predates Star Wars.

Lucas wasn't even the first artist in movies to put a clause in the studio contract accepting lower fees in exchange for keeping merchandising rates. Roy Rogers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Rogers did that back in 1940! "second only to Walt Disney in products featuring his name"

Where's the nationwide chain of "Star Wars" fast-food restaurants with "junior Jedi" like the Roy Rogers restaurants and their Buckaroo Club http://www.flickr.com/photos/guinnesssteve/2555809662/? Comic strips, adventure novels, fast-food tie-ins ... Rogers did all that merchandising long before Lucas.

And sequels to milk the intellectual property even harder? When Star Wars film episode C comes out then they'll have tied with Rogers' 100 films.

Now if only Lucas had done the same thing to Jar-Jar that Rogers eventually did to Trigger... (hint for you youngins: had him stuffed and mounted)

Those who enjoy and cherish HP calculators may be interested in the DIY4X. It's a homebrewed effort to recreate the HP 41 and 42 calculators with enhancements. Is HP watching? A few individual HP employees are, but it's not clear if HP is officially aware.

That remains to be seen, Nostradamus. So far they don't seem to be doing a very good job fulfilling your prophecy.

Yes they have. Maps already works fine in my area and they have been fixing errors.

Better than Google which had kept a bad Arbys location for years (and unlike complaining that Apple gets maps wrong in an area you do not actually care about, that error caused a problem for me on a real trip). I would have corrected that for Google but did not see a means to submit a correction.

That's because the Google app is basing it's recommendation from data for the roads, traffic conditions, and travel times.

And that's why it chose a SLOWER route? Apple takes into account all those factors too. There is no difference between the two routes in terms of traffic levels, Google's is just slightly longer. The route I have used for years and the one Apple decide to show me is simply the fastest way. It's slightly more complex in that you have to follow a road around a bend; I honestly think it's a small bug in Google's routing algorithm that it's not considering it.

So it's not showing you the "best" route, it's showing you the route you've already told them you prefer to take.

Again, I take the same route all the time. Google never once showed me the route I actually take. Apple did without even knowing I preferred it.

I thought Wales wasn't going to get the Internet until 2020: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samsmith/3619752897/ (Text version here if that is easier for you: http://www.morningstarr.co.uk/forum/underworld/25573-internet-reach-wales-2020-a.html)

A) Get a grid of garden mesh. This gives you a 2D substrate you can clip cables (and USB hubs, outlet strips, etc) to. You can mount this on the underside of your desk, hanging from the back of your desk, or in a cabinet if you want. (You can see my implementation at the right side of my desk, here http://www.flickr.com/photos/capybararancher/6705805105/ ). My approach was: simple cable runs to that one cabinet, which becomes the patch panel between devices. All slack for cables is taken up there, and cuffed (see below) to the grid of mesh. Only downside: I had to buy a 40-foot roll of garden mesh, and only used 21" x 21". B) Get some cable cuffs: www.cablecuff.com/ I find them handier than velcro ties; they're cheap and durable. You can get them by the handful at Home Depot.

There's all kinds of hardware. And all kinds of software. I wrote this (SdrDx), for instance, starting from a really basic program called CuteSDR; primarily, it uses the RSPACE SDR-IQ for HF and below, and the FunCube dongle for 50 mhz and above. There's a new one, just beginning to ship, the funcube dongle pro plus, that does 150 khz to above a ghz. Haven't used it yet, but it sounds good. Google around, you'll find all kinds of stuff.

When new technologies are being introduced, they are inevitably going to be expensive.

Yes, ok. Well, let's see. Electric cars were introduced in... 1828.

...

Ok, kidding. Yes, and I'm waiting. I'd really like one of these in electric, with a range of, oh, say 20 miles or more.

Yeah, it'd be something if they started putting those on Montana highways... but I'm not holding my breath.

And I do have gas fueled vehicles that can make the trip, so for the rare times we go, we're covered. I'd just like to have an efficient, reliable, comfy EV for running around town with right here. Not a luxury car, but not a tiny bubble with wheels, either. I'd pay some extra for a jeep / 4wd form factor, they're very practical here. I run around in this thing, which is a super-cheap 4wd, and it has served us extremely well for almost all of our needs.

I think the price is ridiculous because I can buy a decent car for a lot less than that, that's all.

Buying at that price make no economic sense; and that's one of the metrics I use when selecting an automobile. Pretty much that simple.

If someone wants to pay that kind of money for a car, they're using metrics other than economic to make their selection. That's why I say this is luxury territory. It's a luxury car, plain and simple.

As for used vehicles, thanks for the "cash for clunker" program of Obama there are considerably fewer of those vehicles around to buy and their price is currently quite a bit higher... if you can even find them.

Well... not that hard. I recently (January/2012) bought a full-sized pickup for $1000. Runs perfectly, probably has many years of life left in it. So far, my only investment has been a $2.00 pushbutton to serve as the starter relay drive in lieu of the ignition switch, which went nipples north one morning.

If it doesn't fit your budget, don't be complaining.

Not complaining. Just not buying, and indicating where I sit, and what would entice me to buy. That's why my post was titled "Exactly. 78k is luxury territory" As you might imagine, a car I have zero interest in isn't exactly in the running for my own candidates for "car of the year", lol

Kingdom Hearts.

On the other hand, I can't wait to see a Mickey Mouse jedi fight off with a Donald Duck sith lord.

Close enough?

Almost every level of a publicly elected official come with his own monkeys.

Obligatory 'toon

That's when you open the spillway

No they won't. I live in a mountain area, where there are a number of hydro plant, and the spillway is always a section/bypass, with nothing impeding the passage of water, which is lower that the height of the dam, and if necessary, with an open conduit built to prevent erosion.
In this photo, the building in the foreground houses the dam controls, the steel gate you see controls the level, and the spill access is to your right, further up lake, and has an unimpeded passage to a concrete spillway that reaches down to about 200 meters down from the dam itself. there are also one or two concrete pools to slow the flow at the end of the spillway.

The hurricanes last year put a stick on my roof. Possibly did knock a knot loose in my roof. Finally patched up the rot that caused Friday in anticipation for today's storm... And that's the most preparation ever.

Here's some random pictures of past hurricane 'damage' at my house inside the DC beltway, VA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/tags/hurricane

Now.... Even if I'm usually right on this, that doesn't mean I'm always right... But I hope I am, cause y'know, I don't want a tree to fall on me. Our cars are currently in the school parking lot, away from the trees....

It means that the Greek government can't print the smart ones poorer. Quadruple the currency and you've reduced the worth of the paper you're holding by 75%. The US dollar is a fine example of this they have however diluted it over such a long time it was not as noticeable.

"Fiat currencies always trend down."
http://budwood.hubpages.com/hub/US-Dollar-Purchasing-Power

Gold, while not a good investment is a hedge against such inflation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/survivalbros/5160598974/

That's an interesting range... but there isn't a huge amount of stuff up top, and you can buy an SDR for $100 or less that'll give you coverage from 50 mhz to about 2 GHz, if 2 GHz-plus hasn't got something of particular interest to you. The funcube dongle is one; there are others.

And if you're into ham radio, particularly the HF bands, and willing to build, take a look into the softrock.

Me, I use a Funcube for 50 mhz to 2 GHz, and an RFSPACE SDR-IQ, which is a high performance (almost)DC-to-30 MHz SDR that is a great deal of fun for me, as I'm both a ham radio op and a shortwave listener.

I use this as my operating software.

This Science Fiction Museum in Seattle is still open:

It's just a temporary exhibit (pictures) at what's really a rock music museum now. The permanent science fiction museum closed in 2011.

Hoard, not horde. Get it right. Sorry, I can't take anyone seriously who misuses homophones.

I gotcha Magic Finger right here.

And Here.

And here.

And (finally) here.

A lot of places, Kobnhavn and Amsterdam for example, have an extremely high density of parked bicycles (and city-sponsored parking) so a cop walking by with a RFID reader isn't anything like the police having to take 'custody' of a suspected stolen bike first.

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/fmzs/3911308473/

Now obviously the further you get from Centraal Station such bike density lessens, (as does bike theft), but you get the idea. A cop with a reader walking a beat can read a lot of RFID tags and possibly find a stolen bike or two.

But the manufacturer's site confirms that the only way to read the tag is to dangle the antenna down the seat tube. Do people in your country typically take the seat off their bike when parking? (some here do to prevent theft of the seat)? Surely the police don't pull the seat posts out of a rack full of bikes to read the RFID tags?

A lot of places, Kobnhavn and Amsterdam for example, have an extremely high density of parked bicycles (and city-sponsored parking) so a cop walking by with a RFID reader isn't anything like the police having to take 'custody' of a suspected stolen bike first.

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/fmzs/3911308473/

Now obviously the further you get from Centraal Station such bike density lessens, (as does bike theft), but you get the idea. A cop with a reader walking a beat can read a lot of RFID tags and possibly find a stolen bike or two.

In a cargo bike, of course.

I work near LAX, so I was able to watch the landing last month and walk out to see it on the ground today. They let the crowd get a lot closer to the shuttle than I was expecting: just one parking lot aisle away.

My own photos from both events: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/sets/72157631590634138/detail/

Oh I think you are on to something. If I join you and a bunch of others in Operation Dildo Want, we can finally convince Nintendo to make a WarioWare ShoveItUpYourAssGame for the WiiU (now that the old Wii's sun will soon set). Then, when Platinum Games gets wind of this, their horrified management will cancel their Bayonetta 2 exclusivity plan there, and they'll move it and the original to, say, Steam where I can buy 'em for the PC!

...what!? I can dream! About the games...and her butt...and they've been kinda talking about it too...

But the DO have both after a year or so...

Yea, and oil wells too...

Go out to Fl and Ca, and you can find cell towers designed as cacti/church steeple, or an oil well in what is in effect a shell designed to look like a small office building.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2564/4118297426_6f3fee3505_o.jpg

http://cutenessapproved.com/2008/08/cell-towers-in-disguise/

Congratulations, /., on 15 years of being inconsiderate.

inconsiderate? the friggin guy invited the slashdotting. i hovered to the link to see if at least had the decency/brains to put it on somewhere like flickr.

but no, we'll never know if there were g-adverts there or not to make reason to host it on his own drupal site(drupal blows, at least make a static copy if you intend to serve to slashdot).

aaanyhow, to not provide just a totally inconsiderate post, there's some pics at flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=makerfaire&s=rec (search "makerfaire" with recent).

I searched for an image of the X505. It has the same form factor, but... the keyboard is at the bottom of the base, there isn't a trackpad, it isn't silver with a black keyboard, etc. It looks different. It might be in the same form factor, but it will not be confused with a Macbook Air.
X505 comparison pic

Most Ultrabooks look like a Macbook Air. The X505 does not. Most have the same silver color, the same (typically black) chicklet keyboard, the same wedge shape, the same oversized trackpad, the same....
Macbook Air/Ultrabook comparison pic

So, Apple should have just put a lens cap on it instead of a purple color adding cap? Nobody wants "high-end digital-camera-quality (whatever this means what is digital camera quality?) images" with it. They just want accurate photos without the addition of a purple flare. I don't get your statement. Hey, there's a purple flare on light sources. Should have bought a digital camera if you wanted high-quality photos. Are we talking about the same problem here?

You say "just" "accurate photos" and "without purple flare" like these are easy things to achieve? You realise that many DSLR lenses suffer from chromatic aberration and lens flares too? This isn't because they suck (though some do more than others)... It's because optics is an inherently difficult thing to do well, and optics in a teeny tiny space is an impossible thing to do well. People keep saying "so why doesn't this happen with other phone cameras"... the answer... it does! here are a few examples

Why do you think you can endanger people's lives just so that you can get from A to B quicker?

I didn't say anything of the sort. What I did say was:

Nothing is wrong with giving 1 metre berth if the room is available, however in Halifax the space is not available. and the 1 metre is mandated by law and carries a fine and loss of points on a driving record if violated.

It is easy to pass a cyclists who is only traveling 2 KM/H going up hill. If the cyclists is at the side of the road the 1 metre berth is easy. When they ride in the middle of the road it can't be done.

'm also puzzled as to why you criticise cyclist for going too slow uphill and also complain that they "whizz by" in snowy conditions - which is it? Too slow or too fast?

When going up hill moving away from the harbor cyclists hold up traffic on the narrow streets and can't travel at any thing resembling a reasonable speed. When driving parallel to the harbor the road is relatively flat and when stopped at a light a cyclists traveling at 5 to 10 KM/H can easily past three or four stopped cars in a few seconds.

I think there are multiple issues with your understanding here or your being purposely dense. Cyclists can be traveling too slow in one situation and too fast in others kind of like how 50 KM/H is too slow for highway speeds (120 KM/H), but is too fast for a school zone (30 KM/H as of last month).
1) When I say hill I'm not talking about an ant hill. This image gives a good idea of the slope of the hill. Streets from the harbor up to the hill have that slope, some are steeper. Streets on the other side of the hill have a similar slope some are a little less steep. NO cyclist can climb that hill on their bike at what is a reasonable speed for someone in a car or even a moped, and anyone foolish enough to drive a manual transmission car will have trouble keeping their car from stalling when stuck behind a cyclists attempting to do so.
2) "wizz by" is a relative term intended to describe a cyclists passing two to tree stopped cars in the time it would take to move your foot from the gas to the break. When I'm stopped the cars in front of me must move before I can move. If they start rolling forward as the cars in front of them start moving and a cyclists "wizzes by" me, there is no time for the car(s) in front of me to stop or speed up before the cyclists overtakes them. Even looking in your passenger side mirror you wouldn't see the cyclist before they caught up to your car in this situation.

Also, for your information, it's often safer for cyclists to not "hide" at the side of the road so that cars can easily overtake them, but instead if they take up more room, it forces car drivers to notice them. It does infuriate car drivers, but I often take up more room than required if the road is a particularly dangerous one. I'd rather get into a shouting match with angry drivers than be in a hospital bed.

This is the typical arrogant bull shit that causes road rage and gets people killed. Roads are designed for cars and cyclists must share the road with motor vehicles, that means not purposely blocking traffic intentionally angering drivers because you don't want them to pass you. Cyclists are small enough to ride on the shoulder and provide plenty of room for cars to pass safely, which will mean fewer enraged drivers. As an experiment, next time you're walking down a busy narrow hallway, move to the centre of the hall and slow down to one step every five seconds, I bet there will be people that will push you out of the way because your slowing them down from a walking pace. This is similar to how a cyclists drastically slows a car down while providing no room to get by, and the other pedestrians in the hall with you will exhibit the same WTF symptoms as drivers exhibit. Except if the driver was to push past the cyclists and knock them over the consequences would be much worse.

Here's some great pictures of the place.

It is!

It should be obvious even by looking at the box.

They could have purchased TomTom, for example and had everything up and running immediately.

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. From Apple's mapping attribution page:

© 2006-2012 TomTom
Business listings data © Acxiom, 2012.
Map data © AND.
Property parcel data for USA. © CoreLogic Inc., 2012.
Satellite imagery data © DigitalGlobe, 2012.
Map and postal data © DMTI, 2012. This software contains Postal Code OM Data copied by Apple under a sub-license from DMTI Spatial Inc., a party directly licensed by Canada Post Corporation. The Canada Post Corporation file from which this data was copied is dated 2012.
Business listings data © Factual 2012.
Map data © Getchee, 2012.
© INCREMENT P CORP., 2012, http://www.incrementp.co.jp/gc01info/e/legal01.html.
Map data © Intermap, 2012.
Map data © LeadDog, 2012.
Business listings data © Localeze, 2012.
Mapping data for Australia and New Zealand. © MapData Services Pty Ltd., 2012, PSMA http://www.nowwhere.com.au/lic/NowWhereLic.htm.
Map data © MDA Information Systems, Inc., 2012.
Neighborhood data © Urban Mapping, 2012.
Map data © 2012 Waze.
âoeReviews from Yelpâ Yelp, 2012.
(CanVec)
© Department of Natural Resources Canada. All rights reserved.
http://www.geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html
(CGIAR-CSI SRTM)
CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information, http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset, Version 1.0, http://www.flickr.com/
(GeoNames)
GeoNames and contributors, http://www.geonames.org.
(GlobCover)
© ESA 2010 and UCLouvain, http://www.esa.int/esaEO/index.html

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, http://www.nasa.gov

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2012. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/

(OSDM)
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2012. This data has been used with the permission of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth has not evaluated the data as altered and incorporated within this software, and therefore gives no warranty regarding its accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose. http://spatial.gov.au

(OSM)
OpenStreetMap contributors, http://www.openstreetmap.org/
(StatCan)
Statistics Canada, http://www.statcan.gc.ca
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We've seen some humorous issues (though some of the things being stated as issues are actually made up).

But for every day things, most searches work right now. And Apple is shipping 3D maps on mobile while Google is not.

Lastly, already Apple finds some things Google does not. It's like everyone is blind to the fact that Google has plenty of errors still. Apple with Yelp integration, is going to find most things today that people actually want found when doing a general search on a map. The high-level issues people are seeing should be cleared out in short order, probably more a matter of months than years.