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  1. Re:Goodbye Connectors! on Apple's AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Is In Production (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhone wireless charging uses the Qi standard. Why would a Qi charger work with only Android?

  2. Re:Unimpressed with wireless charging on Apple's AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Is In Production (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And because of the extra room in the case, the iPhone XR has positively amazing battery life. Best of any iPhone I've owned, by a long shot. I'm thrilled they made the phone thicker.

  3. Re:geekbench on iPhone XS, XS Max Are World's Fastest Phones (Again) (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    When thots post Instagram videos, they are transcoded before being uploaded. So yeah, that's a real-world performance example.

  4. Re:Microsoft's XBox is dead on Xbox One Adds New Achievement, Do Not Disturb Features In Previous Update (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine was, but I replaced the hard drive and now it's as good as new.

  5. Re:apples new face unlock will make it easy! on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    On an iPhone, this is accomplished by pressing the lock button five times in a row. A little more cumbersome, but still easy enough to do quickly if the need arises.

  6. Re:Seems like non-Apple people care more about loo on Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Not shown in this video: the fact that it's an optional view. The other option? Video zoomed out enough to not be cut off by edges and corners, with black bars where necessary. Since the phone has an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and most videos are 16:9, the unobscured view will be the default view most of the time anyway.

  7. The OP probably means "recompressed." The OTA feeds are 19 Mbps, but when they are redistributed on cable or satellite systems, the provider usually compresses them further, down to under 8 Mbps in some cases (Comcast). Some also convert 1080i and 1080p feeds to 720p.

  8. Re:Lame on Apple's iPhone Turns 10 (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    You're right, there was definitely never a consumer general-purpose computer that hooked up to a phone line before.

  9. Re:How funny. on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm going to have to disagree with your assessment. I work in the audiovisual department of a large multinational corporation. In my specific building, we have about 50 Crestron AV control panels that use resistive touch screens. Calibration issues run rampant with these; in any given week, I am re-calibrating at least 5 of the panels. Every single time it is the same: you will touch a button, and the actual selected area will be to the left of your finger. Every. Single. Time. Sometimes we have panels shipped off for repairs if they need to be recalibrate more frequently than the others, and even after that, sometimes the calibration will slowly slip in the same direction. So it certainly is possible that with the touchscreen voting machines, all of the panels that have calibration issues are doing so in the same or a very similar manner.

  10. Re:Of course on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    What's so "lololol" about it? It was a pretty good connector. To this day, I sometimes use a machine that uses it. The setup is super clean: the only cables I have are power from the wall to the tower, ADC from the tower to the monitor, USB from monitor to keyboard, USB from keyboard to mouse. Everything plugs in to the next in a chain and it works wonderfully.

  11. Re:Try it here on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    You failed to specify to which of the six I-495s you were referring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Hardcore pornography would be my recommendation.

  13. (Though not 100% sure why the radio station had power and the cell towers didn't ...)

    There are hundreds, if not thousands, of cell sites per provider in the same geographical area that an FM radio station covers. Thousands of generators that need refueling for cellular, versus two for FM (the studio and the transmitter). It's much easier, logistically, to keep FM up and running during disaster than the cellular network.

  14. Re:But the price... on Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps · · Score: 1

    I have a Fitbit Flex, and it includes a USB dongle to sync with a computer. As long as you have their background application running and the dongle in place, whenever you are within range of your computer it automatically syncs. You can then use the Fitbit website to see all the same data that the smartphone app would show you.

  15. Re:Questionable on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    6 months? Actually, Craig Kilborn hosted the show for two and a half years.

  16. Re:Gigabit wifi? on NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 · · Score: 1

    The iPhone 6 and 6+ support 802.11ac. Now, whether or not they can max out that speed is another story, but they do support the standard. I don't think the point is that any one device would use gigabit speeds, but if the router and backhaul do, then you could have 10 phones each sharing it and still getting 100 mbps each, minus overhead of course.

  17. Re:Enjoy the spotlight Moto 360 on Moto 360 Reviews Arrive · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why else do you think they rushed it out with software and hardware that, according to reviews, still needs some work? Just to get those few days of publicity before Apple pulls out the big guns.

  18. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Not always. I recently bought an Ikea coffee table, and was surprised to find that my laser mouse does not work accurately on it. It does work, to a degree, but the cursor skips around the screen a lot, so it's clearly not properly tracking the surface. I put down a mouse pad and all is well again, so it's definitely an issue with the Ikea table and not something else like Bluetooth range, battery charge, etc. The coffee table in question is the Lack, and the mouse is the Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, if anyone wants to try to re-create this.

  19. Re:Lies on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    This is true. And even if they did know it was electric, they may not know what an electric car sounds like. Until my wife bought a Prius, I had no idea myself; I had never been near enough to a running electric vehicle to hear their sounds.

  20. Re:Lies on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every professional editor in the world would add engine noise to a shot of an operating automobile. It's one of those things that you do without even thinking about, because generally you will receive footage (especially if it's b-roll) that has poor audio quality. The editor probably dropped it in like he/she would always do, without stopping to think "hey, that's an electric car, so that silence i'm hearing in the footage SHOULD be there." I would most certainly consider that an editing error.

  21. Re:Alternatives, if you like the game consept. on EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming · · Score: 1

    "Sim Shitty" was the obvious joke here. You really blew that one.

  22. Re:Too big on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Actually, 3840x2160 is used in "4K" TVs because it's exactly four times the resolution of 1080p (double in each direction), which makes scaling up existing content much easier. According to Wikipedia, 4K also covers a lot of different resolutions that are near 4000, from 3840 all the way up to 4096. Just like how a lot of TVs are advertised as "32-inch class" because they're 31.5 inches. Close enough to make general comparisons.

  23. Re:Fitting rooms on How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix · · Score: 1

    One of the primary reasons that Amazon prices are so low is because they don't have any retail buildings to staff and maintain. If they start buying up stores and stocking them with staff, equipment, and merchandise, they will lose that edge.

  24. No wonder everybody hates New Jersey.

  25. Re:Backwards on Ask Slashdot: Linux Friendly Video Streaming? · · Score: 2

    I went with a Mac. The Mac Mini is perfect for this sort of setup, and runs all the software I need it to (XBMC, Plex, etc) and plays all the formats I want (I use VLC), AND streams everything I want (Hulu, Netflix). Never crashes, has a built in IR reciever that I use with a Harmony remote, and uses very little electricity.