That is true, but pounding on CTRL-L at power on still works even when not in dev mode.
One can boot an alternative OS with legacy boot from USB, and use that OS to resize the chromeOS partition structure. That would free space for minimal/boot partition (on tiny eMMC based devices), or enough space for a full secondary OS (On devices with an upgraded NGFF ssd), then do a proper install beside normal mode chromeOS.
Just that the default will be "boot to chrome os", instead of "boot legacy OS". Can still have a fully functioning secondary OS deploy along side chrome, with chromeos in normal mode. Just pound the key sequence at power on.
I acknowledged that to do anything fun with a chromebook you DO have to enable dev mode.
The real message was that you do not need to KEEP it in dev mode.
Once you install the legacy boot firmware blob, you can put it back in regular mode. (naturally, it wipes out the dev mode deploy and restart fresh on the OS side, but the legacy package is in the flashrom, not in the ssd, so it will survive. Same with boot options to skip normal chrome boot/force legacy boot as default image.)
While it requires removing the write protect screw (which means opening the unit, and voiding warranties, (overrated, if you ask me, on a system with no moving parts.) but you use said script to:
1) Remove the bitmaps instructing to press the button combos to do the wipe, replacing with a black screen instead. (wooo.)
2) change the default boot target from chromeos to legacy boot, so that it does not even try to boot chromeos anymore.
3) On supported devices, COMPLETELY REPLACE the bios with UEFI coreboot
4) Install legacy boot firmware (does not require screw removal) to boot actual linux, like GalliumOS.
Really, taking this hardware back from google is a screwdriver and some CLI-fu away.
You can install legacy boot option rom without removing the screw Tepples.:P It's only if you want to muck around inside the rom parameters and other stuff that you need to remove the screw. Also, you normally dont need to disassemble the hinge mechanism to get to the screw. It is usually accessible just after removing the back of the clamshell.
It is true that you need to put the silly thing into developer mode to do anything "fun" to a chromebook, but the decision to LEAVE it in developer mode is up to you.
There is a custom firmware called MrChromebox, which is fairly painless to install. (you DO need to open the chromebook and remove the write protect screw temporarily to do a full system flash) However, in many cases, you can do a full system rom replacement, which completely removes "Developer mode" altogether. You get a pretty stripped down UEFI implementation of coreboot instead.
I recently did this to an HP chromebook for a coworker, who wanted to use her chromebook as a low-tier windows PC. (Her model has an actual NGFF ssd inside it, rather than the eMMC shit in most modern ones.) She loves the thing post-conversion.
Even if you dont do a full system replacement, you can add the "boot legacy OS" module on, then push some arguments into the flash rom to tell it to skip the key combos, effectively removing the thing you are objecting to. (This is what I have done with my Celes, which does not currently support full UEFI replacement.)
I am digging the shit out of GalliumOS. (A fork of xubuntu tailored specifically for hacked chromebooks.) It works like any other low-tier linux machine, and since my chromebook is x86 based, I am use WINE, and run some limited windows software, as needed. (mostly some older games, like DIablo II and the like.)
If you have a big enough eMMC/NGFF storage inside, you can even dual-boot chromeos and galliumOS. (Just be aware that you will certainly need to use a class 10 microSD card for/home, with tmpfs mounts on commonly written areas, like the browser cache, since the storage inside most chromebooks is in the "16gb total" neighborhood.) For systems with real NGFF SSDs, this can be a real treat, with no real trade-offs.
The basic point here being that you can open the lid on these tin-cans without leaving that "factory wipe" sword of damoclese hanging around. The choice to leave it is entirely on you, as the option to remove it is available.
I would just point out that there are very inexpensive, but not all together bad, smartphones in the 50$ range, that can be loaded with sensible service.
Take for instance, an LG Optimus Zone 3. It's a 45$ prepaid thing on Verizon's network. It *CAN* work on ATT's network after being SIM unlocked, and it can work just fine with something like FreedomPop. (which you can get the SIM card in the mail for 1$. Their lowest level service is literally 0$ a month, as long as you remain inside the 250minutes/500text messages/500mb data use scenario. This is VERY good for poor people, since you can have that cellphone, and the rate is very affordable. (the lowest paid offering is like 20$ a month, for unlimited talk and text, with 500mb data.) FreedomPop uses ATT's LTE network to do its thing, so supporting ATT's frequency band for LTE is all you need.)
The real question, is what is aimed to be accomplished by getting impoverished people on the internet (errr.. into the advertising revenue stream)? If you are thinking "education and business opportunities" then smartphone/tablet is not the platform that will accomplish that. That platform is almost exclusively created for the latter (Turning a user into a source of unique impressions to make somebody else money.)
The idea is to use the cellular machinery to create a "soup" of precursor molecules inside some larger structure, with appropriate sized orifices, then deliver the reactants in small quantities using ion channel driven pumps, so that the microbots are manufactured through self-assembly. The cell just does some heavy lifting of taking "Large organic food molecules", turning them into more simplistic reactants, and then providing the more controlled environment for assembly.
After that, it may drag them around with a small RNA tag or something to move them to the desired vacuoles.
The DNA side basically just says "Hey, fill this bubble of cell membrane with this aqueous mixture" through the expression of enzymes and proteins.
Given the size of the robots in question, and the means by which they are programmed/operated, it would make sense to create artificial gene sequences to use the cellular machinery inside a living cell already to manufacture, and control these molecular robots, as they would be very useful chaperons to enzymes and other proteins. (both are "huge" by comparison, if the statement given in the article is accurate.)
Since they are controlled via submersion in different chemical solutions, the insides of a complex (by this I mean, having real organelles) single celled organism sounds like the ideal place to use and operate these, since the organisms already create vacuoles containing various solutions for a variety of purposes.
Adding them to a cell's toolkit in this way would be a radical advancement in what can be done in petri dishes or glassware. Arbitrary modifications of existing in-vivo protein and enzyme interactions would open a lot of doors.
Hello anonymous chemist, I would think that the more useful application for this enzyme is to convert abundant plant derived fatty acids into suitable high weight molecular precursors for plastic synthesis in a post peak-oil economy, as the costs of crude oil derived hydrocarbons becomes more and more onerous.
Coupled with some of the other inorganic catalysts used in crude refinement (to increase the fraction of lighter alkanes, and thus improve fuel oil yields from paraffin rich crude sources, such as tar sand) it might even be able to partially bolster the demand for fuel oil, but you are correct that it is more economical to just burn the fatty acid in appropriate engines. (Trans-esters of fatty acids, processed with lye and methanol, are the bread and butter of existing biodiesel fuels.)
Firstly, to use a "buffer card" effectively, you plan your purchases. (Yes, that dreaded budgeting thing!) You then load the card, then make the purchase. You dont carry a large balance on the card, just enough to keep it active. It requires that you have some discipline with your online purchasing, but you get some extra protection that way.
If a retailer gets compromised, you lose just that min holding balance, and dont have to miss a day of work to file dispute forms to the sometimes hundreds of merchants claiming you owe them shitloads of money. (since you have to dispute each and every fraudulent charge, you can be there for a very long time doing the dispute process. Been there, done that. Sony Hack got me a few years back.)
Gift cards suck. Get a reloadable visa debit card for them instead. Unlike a gift card that ends up with some fractional amount of a dollar left on it that the company just pockets because you never ever spend it, the card can be reloaded with more cash, and used as a buffer for online purchases. (EG, rather than risk exposure from your retailer's delicious store of credit cards getting hacked and leaked, your real card number is safe. The retailer has the reloadable visa, and when it gets drained, it just gets denied. You dont end up with thousands of dollars of debt that you have to dispute.)
If you are gonna give something, give something with some actual utility yo.
Major advances in zinc-air rechargable batteries, and iron based batteries, suggest that high density storage with a low environmental toxicity are reasonably possible. Lead-acid is CURRENTLY the most inexpensive, but it is ALSO the most heavy, and among the least energy dense. Those two things make them very unattractive for the storage medium that replaces fossil fuel, the toxicity of the lead is just icing on that shit cake.
E. coli is also a normal lower intestinal symbiont.
Adding these genes to e. coli, and then shooting them up somebody's butt, would essentially make them high as a kite 24/7.
That was the first thought I had actually-- thinking about people grabbing at invisible objects, and laughing hysterically, because they have the psilocybin equivalent of auto-brewery disorder.
I don't see it making it hard to justify a large salary, what I see it being a complication for, is large yearly bonuses for management, while the rank and file get shafted.
Generalized higher pay grades, even really obscene ones, would not really be an obstacle as long as they 1) pay their proper % of tax, and 2) have that income as a steady, constant thing.
It is when the managers make up fairy stories about how "We gotta do triple shifts or the company will go under! OMG!", pay everyone beneath them peanuts, and then give themselves huge, fat bonuses at the end of the year for "Doing such a great job!!" that people will notice it, and then raise cain.
I personally would LOVE to see this level of wage transparency in the US-- It would make a great many HR, and management teams break out in cold, bloody sweats.
It is AOSP (Android Open Source Project) based, so it is genuine android OS-- What makes it different? It does not have carrier-mandated bloatware baked in, *AND* is functional *WITHOUT GOOGLE APPS*. In fact, the installed base package does not have google apps installed at all!!
That means that if one so wishes, they can sideload the Amazon app store, and give google the finger, in totality.
So YES, AC-- I *WILL* argue that-- because *YOU CAN*. iDevices? Shit no. Apple does not give out the source code, and does not allow custom compiled phone images to be created by anyone other than their internal development teams. You will never see a custom built iOS the way you will find projects like LineageOS.
It is possible to run an android device without google's application support framework (Gapps). One can use Amazon's store instead, for instance.
That means you dont need a google account to use the phone. Likewise, you dont need to download proprietary and beligerant software to manipulate the files on the phone. One can use any computer that supports MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) to manipulate the files in the device. This includes Linux and MacOSX. One can also do this directly with the phone itself, if an appropriate file manager is installed. (Again, can be done using a 3rd party app store, or even side loaded directly, using the MTP protocol to transfer the installer package.apk to the handset's storage, and installed using ADB.)
Compare to apple devices, which go out of their way to make any access to the device very restricted, self-manipulation of the device's filesystem by applications nearly impossible, and the use of a highly proprietary interface protocol (whatever the fuck iTunes uses).
In order to get iTunes, you need to go through Apple. You NEED iTunes to push the ringtone to the phone. There *IS NO OTHER PATH* unless you jailbreak the device.
Compare with android, where you can give google the finger, use entirely FOSS software to push the ringtone into the phone's memory, and even manipulate the phone's memory right on the phone on the go--
Allowing an excemption to antitrust rules is dangerous and stupid. If you have a problem with a powerful established competitor that is abusing a market dominant position, then seek antitrust against them. Dont abuse antitrust yourself.
But hey, maybe they know something the rest of us dont-- like how absurd it is to expect the congress cronies to actually give teeth to the laws on the books.
I am opposed to the basic principles of the Apple ecosystem--
Ever tried to make your own ringtone for an apple device? Be prepared to deal with proprietary audio formats, having to use the itunes backup feature to push the 3rd party re-encoded tune to the phone, and having to wade through literally thousands of paid endorsements to buy ringtones when you try to look up how to do it. OR-- you could just get an android phone, push any supported media file (which are industry standard formats) into the RINGTONES folder, then pick it.
Perhaps you want to do something else, like say-- play a gameboy game on your device? Oh-- sorry, no. Apple does not allow virtualized software to run on iDevices.:( It makes apple sad pandas, and they wont let those dangerous, nasty applications into the app store. It is for YOUR protection, citizen!
Why the fuck would I want a device that bends over backwards to STOP me from using it, EXCEPT in the shamelessly commercialized way the creators envisioned?
Nope. It will create increased demand for high capacity, high worklife battery technologies, which will then finally force automakers to go full-electric.
Currently, there are several novel battery designs out there that could conceivably satisfy this need in the power generation infrastructure, which are lacking the necessary R&D funding. The unreliability issue can be solved by calculating average load baselines, comparing to typical peak use curves, and factoring in the losses incurred by using the battery arrays. That would let the utilities know how much generation they need and how much battery they need to assure continuous, green power generation and delivery.
Many of the current solar panel designs do not use arsenic in the panel doping process. Much of the research has been in the development and use of inexpensive organic molecules, and even plastics instead.
This is one of the reasons why the price has declined so precipitously; It is not just China flooding the market with cheap (artificially price lowered) panels-- It is also ACTUALLY LESS EXPENSIVE manufacturing processes that do not incorporate toxic metaloids, like arsenic, which have costly refinement processes with expensive waste materials-- instead favoring organic molecules deposited with a simple chemical reaction onto pure crystalline silicon, or onto a suitable plastic substrate. In some cases, the photon collecting capabilities come from nanostructures generated inside the silicon using laser assisted vapor deposition, and other novel techniques.
If you had actually been following the research and science in emerging panel designs and technologies, you would know that-- but you were clearly too busy poopooing it instead.
You can do things in a processing line you cannot do on a feed lot. (and vise versa.)
Feed lot: You can never keep it free of feces. The animals produce and exrete it in copious quantity. This creates an environment rife with dangerous microbes.
Processing line: No feces. At all.
Feed lot: You cannot keep it even 70% free for microbiota. It is open air, open environment. Germs from all over get all over it.
Processing line: Microbes only get introduced at inlets and places where there are breaks in the closed environment of the processing system. One can keep much the intake free from microbiota by keeping inlets heated above 250F, with a cooloff section before it gets to the main processing line. If your culture system involves cultured whole blood as well as meat on scaffolds, then you also get cultured white cells in the mix, meaning microbes in the line are less of a problem.
Keeping the goop from getting contaminated is less of a chore than keeping the system from plugging up though. Fibronectin and whole platelets in the system (if fed on cultured whole blood) will have the same trouble that artificial heart valves and artificial hearts have: getting coated in blood factors and then having blood and other tissues adhere there.
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That is true, but pounding on CTRL-L at power on still works even when not in dev mode.
One can boot an alternative OS with legacy boot from USB, and use that OS to resize the chromeOS partition structure. That would free space for minimal /boot partition (on tiny eMMC based devices), or enough space for a full secondary OS (On devices with an upgraded NGFF ssd), then do a proper install beside normal mode chromeOS.
Just that the default will be "boot to chrome os", instead of "boot legacy OS". Can still have a fully functioning secondary OS deploy along side chrome, with chromeos in normal mode. Just pound the key sequence at power on.
I acknowledged that to do anything fun with a chromebook you DO have to enable dev mode.
The real message was that you do not need to KEEP it in dev mode.
Once you install the legacy boot firmware blob, you can put it back in regular mode. (naturally, it wipes out the dev mode deploy and restart fresh on the OS side, but the legacy package is in the flashrom, not in the ssd, so it will survive. Same with boot options to skip normal chrome boot/force legacy boot as default image.)
https://mrchromebox.tech/#fwsc...
While it requires removing the write protect screw (which means opening the unit, and voiding warranties, (overrated, if you ask me, on a system with no moving parts.) but you use said script to:
1) Remove the bitmaps instructing to press the button combos to do the wipe, replacing with a black screen instead. (wooo.)
2) change the default boot target from chromeos to legacy boot, so that it does not even try to boot chromeos anymore.
3) On supported devices, COMPLETELY REPLACE the bios with UEFI coreboot
4) Install legacy boot firmware (does not require screw removal) to boot actual linux, like GalliumOS.
Really, taking this hardware back from google is a screwdriver and some CLI-fu away.
You can install legacy boot option rom without removing the screw Tepples. :P It's only if you want to muck around inside the rom parameters and other stuff that you need to remove the screw. Also, you normally dont need to disassemble the hinge mechanism to get to the screw. It is usually accessible just after removing the back of the clamshell.
It is true that you need to put the silly thing into developer mode to do anything "fun" to a chromebook, but the decision to LEAVE it in developer mode is up to you.
There is a custom firmware called MrChromebox, which is fairly painless to install. (you DO need to open the chromebook and remove the write protect screw temporarily to do a full system flash) However, in many cases, you can do a full system rom replacement, which completely removes "Developer mode" altogether. You get a pretty stripped down UEFI implementation of coreboot instead.
I recently did this to an HP chromebook for a coworker, who wanted to use her chromebook as a low-tier windows PC. (Her model has an actual NGFF ssd inside it, rather than the eMMC shit in most modern ones.) She loves the thing post-conversion.
Even if you dont do a full system replacement, you can add the "boot legacy OS" module on, then push some arguments into the flash rom to tell it to skip the key combos, effectively removing the thing you are objecting to. (This is what I have done with my Celes, which does not currently support full UEFI replacement.)
I am digging the shit out of GalliumOS. (A fork of xubuntu tailored specifically for hacked chromebooks.) It works like any other low-tier linux machine, and since my chromebook is x86 based, I am use WINE, and run some limited windows software, as needed. (mostly some older games, like DIablo II and the like.)
If you have a big enough eMMC/NGFF storage inside, you can even dual-boot chromeos and galliumOS. (Just be aware that you will certainly need to use a class 10 microSD card for /home, with tmpfs mounts on commonly written areas, like the browser cache, since the storage inside most chromebooks is in the "16gb total" neighborhood.) For systems with real NGFF SSDs, this can be a real treat, with no real trade-offs.
The basic point here being that you can open the lid on these tin-cans without leaving that "factory wipe" sword of damoclese hanging around. The choice to leave it is entirely on you, as the option to remove it is available.
I would just point out that there are very inexpensive, but not all together bad, smartphones in the 50$ range, that can be loaded with sensible service.
Take for instance, an LG Optimus Zone 3. It's a 45$ prepaid thing on Verizon's network. It *CAN* work on ATT's network after being SIM unlocked, and it can work just fine with something like FreedomPop. (which you can get the SIM card in the mail for 1$. Their lowest level service is literally 0$ a month, as long as you remain inside the 250minutes/500text messages/500mb data use scenario. This is VERY good for poor people, since you can have that cellphone, and the rate is very affordable. (the lowest paid offering is like 20$ a month, for unlimited talk and text, with 500mb data.) FreedomPop uses ATT's LTE network to do its thing, so supporting ATT's frequency band for LTE is all you need.)
Said phone is really not that bad for the price.
4 core 1ghz ARM
1gb RAM
8gb internal storage
Micro SDcard slot
The real question, is what is aimed to be accomplished by getting impoverished people on the internet (errr.. into the advertising revenue stream)? If you are thinking "education and business opportunities" then smartphone/tablet is not the platform that will accomplish that. That platform is almost exclusively created for the latter (Turning a user into a source of unique impressions to make somebody else money.)
The idea is to use the cellular machinery to create a "soup" of precursor molecules inside some larger structure, with appropriate sized orifices, then deliver the reactants in small quantities using ion channel driven pumps, so that the microbots are manufactured through self-assembly. The cell just does some heavy lifting of taking "Large organic food molecules", turning them into more simplistic reactants, and then providing the more controlled environment for assembly.
After that, it may drag them around with a small RNA tag or something to move them to the desired vacuoles.
The DNA side basically just says "Hey, fill this bubble of cell membrane with this aqueous mixture" through the expression of enzymes and proteins.
May not need to.
Given the size of the robots in question, and the means by which they are programmed/operated, it would make sense to create artificial gene sequences to use the cellular machinery inside a living cell already to manufacture, and control these molecular robots, as they would be very useful chaperons to enzymes and other proteins. (both are "huge" by comparison, if the statement given in the article is accurate.)
Since they are controlled via submersion in different chemical solutions, the insides of a complex (by this I mean, having real organelles) single celled organism sounds like the ideal place to use and operate these, since the organisms already create vacuoles containing various solutions for a variety of purposes.
Adding them to a cell's toolkit in this way would be a radical advancement in what can be done in petri dishes or glassware. Arbitrary modifications of existing in-vivo protein and enzyme interactions would open a lot of doors.
See for instance, this rom for lumia 520.
https://forum.xda-developers.c...
Some of those old POS clunker mother fuckers can be made to run android instead. Not most, just a very select few.
Nothing official though. Look for roms at places like XDA.
Hello anonymous chemist, I would think that the more useful application for this enzyme is to convert abundant plant derived fatty acids into suitable high weight molecular precursors for plastic synthesis in a post peak-oil economy, as the costs of crude oil derived hydrocarbons becomes more and more onerous.
Coupled with some of the other inorganic catalysts used in crude refinement (to increase the fraction of lighter alkanes, and thus improve fuel oil yields from paraffin rich crude sources, such as tar sand) it might even be able to partially bolster the demand for fuel oil, but you are correct that it is more economical to just burn the fatty acid in appropriate engines. (Trans-esters of fatty acids, processed with lye and methanol, are the bread and butter of existing biodiesel fuels.)
Firstly, to use a "buffer card" effectively, you plan your purchases. (Yes, that dreaded budgeting thing!) You then load the card, then make the purchase. You dont carry a large balance on the card, just enough to keep it active. It requires that you have some discipline with your online purchasing, but you get some extra protection that way.
If a retailer gets compromised, you lose just that min holding balance, and dont have to miss a day of work to file dispute forms to the sometimes hundreds of merchants claiming you owe them shitloads of money. (since you have to dispute each and every fraudulent charge, you can be there for a very long time doing the dispute process. Been there, done that. Sony Hack got me a few years back.)
Gift cards suck. Get a reloadable visa debit card for them instead. Unlike a gift card that ends up with some fractional amount of a dollar left on it that the company just pockets because you never ever spend it, the card can be reloaded with more cash, and used as a buffer for online purchases. (EG, rather than risk exposure from your retailer's delicious store of credit cards getting hacked and leaked, your real card number is safe. The retailer has the reloadable visa, and when it gets drained, it just gets denied. You dont end up with thousands of dollars of debt that you have to dispute.)
If you are gonna give something, give something with some actual utility yo.
The problem is that some enterprising person could set up a PC to act as a relay between the networks, and it would be difficult to police.
Major advances in zinc-air rechargable batteries, and iron based batteries, suggest that high density storage with a low environmental toxicity are reasonably possible. Lead-acid is CURRENTLY the most inexpensive, but it is ALSO the most heavy, and among the least energy dense. Those two things make them very unattractive for the storage medium that replaces fossil fuel, the toxicity of the lead is just icing on that shit cake.
E. coli is also a normal lower intestinal symbiont.
Adding these genes to e. coli, and then shooting them up somebody's butt, would essentially make them high as a kite 24/7.
That was the first thought I had actually-- thinking about people grabbing at invisible objects, and laughing hysterically, because they have the psilocybin equivalent of auto-brewery disorder.
I don't see it making it hard to justify a large salary, what I see it being a complication for, is large yearly bonuses for management, while the rank and file get shafted.
Generalized higher pay grades, even really obscene ones, would not really be an obstacle as long as they 1) pay their proper % of tax, and 2) have that income as a steady, constant thing.
It is when the managers make up fairy stories about how "We gotta do triple shifts or the company will go under! OMG!", pay everyone beneath them peanuts, and then give themselves huge, fat bonuses at the end of the year for "Doing such a great job!!" that people will notice it, and then raise cain.
I personally would LOVE to see this level of wage transparency in the US-- It would make a great many HR, and management teams break out in cold, bloody sweats.
A fact you say? Really? Tell me more!
https://www.symantec.com/conne...
Yes I can. My phone runs LineageOS.
https://lineageos.org/
It is AOSP (Android Open Source Project) based, so it is genuine android OS-- What makes it different? It does not have carrier-mandated bloatware baked in, *AND* is functional *WITHOUT GOOGLE APPS*. In fact, the installed base package does not have google apps installed at all!!
That means that if one so wishes, they can sideload the Amazon app store, and give google the finger, in totality.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/...
So YES, AC-- I *WILL* argue that-- because *YOU CAN*. iDevices? Shit no. Apple does not give out the source code, and does not allow custom compiled phone images to be created by anyone other than their internal development teams. You will never see a custom built iOS the way you will find projects like LineageOS.
False comparison is false.
It is possible to run an android device without google's application support framework (Gapps). One can use Amazon's store instead, for instance.
That means you dont need a google account to use the phone. Likewise, you dont need to download proprietary and beligerant software to manipulate the files on the phone. One can use any computer that supports MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) to manipulate the files in the device. This includes Linux and MacOSX. One can also do this directly with the phone itself, if an appropriate file manager is installed. (Again, can be done using a 3rd party app store, or even side loaded directly, using the MTP protocol to transfer the installer package .apk to the handset's storage, and installed using ADB.)
Compare to apple devices, which go out of their way to make any access to the device very restricted, self-manipulation of the device's filesystem by applications nearly impossible, and the use of a highly proprietary interface protocol (whatever the fuck iTunes uses).
In order to get iTunes, you need to go through Apple. You NEED iTunes to push the ringtone to the phone. There *IS NO OTHER PATH* unless you jailbreak the device.
Compare with android, where you can give google the finger, use entirely FOSS software to push the ringtone into the phone's memory, and even manipulate the phone's memory right on the phone on the go--
FALSE COMPARISON IS FALSE, AC.
Allowing an excemption to antitrust rules is dangerous and stupid. If you have a problem with a powerful established competitor that is abusing a market dominant position, then seek antitrust against them. Dont abuse antitrust yourself.
But hey, maybe they know something the rest of us dont-- like how absurd it is to expect the congress cronies to actually give teeth to the laws on the books.
No. I would not buy one for 5$.
I am opposed to the basic principles of the Apple ecosystem--
Ever tried to make your own ringtone for an apple device? Be prepared to deal with proprietary audio formats, having to use the itunes backup feature to push the 3rd party re-encoded tune to the phone, and having to wade through literally thousands of paid endorsements to buy ringtones when you try to look up how to do it. OR-- you could just get an android phone, push any supported media file (which are industry standard formats) into the RINGTONES folder, then pick it.
Perhaps you want to do something else, like say-- play a gameboy game on your device? Oh-- sorry, no. Apple does not allow virtualized software to run on iDevices. :( It makes apple sad pandas, and they wont let those dangerous, nasty applications into the app store. It is for YOUR protection, citizen!
Why the fuck would I want a device that bends over backwards to STOP me from using it, EXCEPT in the shamelessly commercialized way the creators envisioned?
Fuck that noise.
Nope. It will create increased demand for high capacity, high worklife battery technologies, which will then finally force automakers to go full-electric.
Currently, there are several novel battery designs out there that could conceivably satisfy this need in the power generation infrastructure, which are lacking the necessary R&D funding. The unreliability issue can be solved by calculating average load baselines, comparing to typical peak use curves, and factoring in the losses incurred by using the battery arrays. That would let the utilities know how much generation they need and how much battery they need to assure continuous, green power generation and delivery.
You are still thinking of the 1980s there AC.
Many of the current solar panel designs do not use arsenic in the panel doping process. Much of the research has been in the development and use of inexpensive organic molecules, and even plastics instead.
This is one of the reasons why the price has declined so precipitously; It is not just China flooding the market with cheap (artificially price lowered) panels-- It is also ACTUALLY LESS EXPENSIVE manufacturing processes that do not incorporate toxic metaloids, like arsenic, which have costly refinement processes with expensive waste materials-- instead favoring organic molecules deposited with a simple chemical reaction onto pure crystalline silicon, or onto a suitable plastic substrate. In some cases, the photon collecting capabilities come from nanostructures generated inside the silicon using laser assisted vapor deposition, and other novel techniques.
If you had actually been following the research and science in emerging panel designs and technologies, you would know that-- but you were clearly too busy poopooing it instead.
You dont really need to..
You can do things in a processing line you cannot do on a feed lot. (and vise versa.)
Feed lot: You can never keep it free of feces. The animals produce and exrete it in copious quantity. This creates an environment rife with dangerous microbes.
Processing line: No feces. At all.
Feed lot: You cannot keep it even 70% free for microbiota. It is open air, open environment. Germs from all over get all over it.
Processing line: Microbes only get introduced at inlets and places where there are breaks in the closed environment of the processing system. One can keep much the intake free from microbiota by keeping inlets heated above 250F, with a cooloff section before it gets to the main processing line. If your culture system involves cultured whole blood as well as meat on scaffolds, then you also get cultured white cells in the mix, meaning microbes in the line are less of a problem.
Keeping the goop from getting contaminated is less of a chore than keeping the system from plugging up though. Fibronectin and whole platelets in the system (if fed on cultured whole blood) will have the same trouble that artificial heart valves and artificial hearts have: getting coated in blood factors and then having blood and other tissues adhere there.