You're absolutely right, that is really really dumb. I wonder when they'll stop embarassing themselves with stuff like this, quit spending who-knows how much money on shite software and actually do something useful. Honestly, they've lost more money from crappy press and angered-hackers than from 'pirated media'.
If the MPAA was a fat kid I'd kick him and steal his lunch money.
Actually the varying of connection sizes & prong-count is so a user will not plug his/her phone into an incompatible charger and fry it. 250mA doesn't sound like a significant difference, but when you're dealing with a device powered to work at a specific DC current that's all the difference needed to break something. Yes of course profit is made from the accessories line of any electronics maker but why would they sell parts at cost? They're obviously trying to make money - they are a business. Manufacturers would/will be all over the idea of wireless charging. That will give them a great boost in marketing using the wireless pad to show off their new phone.
It's a great idea that is finally fesible and it's going to work.
I'm glad that piece of crap is finally getting even -less- recognition. Someone said over a million have been sold... more like over a million were sent to distributors ("sold"). Ick, horrid piece of hardware.
AMD all the way. Competition is the strongest force pushing consumer electronics. I've been an AMD fan for quite a while now but if Intel doesn't jump on it they are going to lose even more market share in the next few years.
Actually yes, the first cell phone call was made on April 3 1973.
I was referring to sattelite surveillance in general however, not phones specifically.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and guess that bronze was used figuratively incinuating strength given the density of the metal. Relating to the time period bronze was one of the strongest known substances at the time. But who knows, maybe they were giant robosauruses made out of erector set...
As far as religeous texts go, there are more intact (and consistent) greek manuscripts of the Bible than any other religeous book. Yet somehow the Bible gets all the flak because it is/was so widely translated. If you compare the originals to todays 'interpretations' they are definately agreeable enough (and I have compared them) and most of the mistranslations are menial compared to the big picture. The problem is that the vernacular had definitive words for each interpretation while our modern English language interchanges words like crazy.
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I hope so... they're awesome. I've been using them for years, business and personal.
Ahh the days of free adcritic. I must have used up their bandwidth limit laughing my ass off... too bad.
You're absolutely right, that is really really dumb. I wonder when they'll stop embarassing themselves with stuff like this, quit spending who-knows how much money on shite software and actually do something useful. Honestly, they've lost more money from crappy press and angered-hackers than from 'pirated media'. If the MPAA was a fat kid I'd kick him and steal his lunch money.
Actually the varying of connection sizes & prong-count is so a user will not plug his/her phone into an incompatible charger and fry it. 250mA doesn't sound like a significant difference, but when you're dealing with a device powered to work at a specific DC current that's all the difference needed to break something. Yes of course profit is made from the accessories line of any electronics maker but why would they sell parts at cost? They're obviously trying to make money - they are a business. Manufacturers would/will be all over the idea of wireless charging. That will give them a great boost in marketing using the wireless pad to show off their new phone. It's a great idea that is finally fesible and it's going to work.
I'm glad that piece of crap is finally getting even -less- recognition. Someone said over a million have been sold... more like over a million were sent to distributors ("sold"). Ick, horrid piece of hardware.
AMD all the way. Competition is the strongest force pushing consumer electronics. I've been an AMD fan for quite a while now but if Intel doesn't jump on it they are going to lose even more market share in the next few years.
Actually yes, the first cell phone call was made on April 3 1973. I was referring to sattelite surveillance in general however, not phones specifically.
FYI the US is not too far away... we intercept everything in space. My father did it in the Air Force for almost 30 years.
So wait... you can pause bees in mid-air? Or are there bees in the pr0n that we're pausing? Either way this sounds dangerous.
I am a CompSci student as well and I would be interested in reading about your anti-malware research.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and guess that bronze was used figuratively incinuating strength given the density of the metal. Relating to the time period bronze was one of the strongest known substances at the time. But who knows, maybe they were giant robosauruses made out of erector set...
As far as religeous texts go, there are more intact (and consistent) greek manuscripts of the Bible than any other religeous book. Yet somehow the Bible gets all the flak because it is/was so widely translated. If you compare the originals to todays 'interpretations' they are definately agreeable enough (and I have compared them) and most of the mistranslations are menial compared to the big picture. The problem is that the vernacular had definitive words for each interpretation while our modern English language interchanges words like crazy.