The Mac Mini does not have and has never had a magnetic power cord.
Beg pardon, you are right. But the early Mac-Minis used the same connector as the laptops, which was designed to come out easily, rather than pull the laptop off the table when you tripped on the cord. Benefit for laptop, bad for the Mini.
Newer Mac Minis have a built-in AC adapter, and the DIN connector is much more secure.
This is all familiar - NOKIA did it back in the twenty-zeros! Remember the N-Series Symbian phones? No audio jack! You could use bluetooth (on some models) or a headphone with proprietary connector. But the phone came with a dongle to let you use standard headphones.
Remember all the fuss back then? All the media attention on Nokia? Neither do I. But eventually, Nokia came to their senses and reinstated the 3.5mm socket. Nothing is new under the sun. Innovation? Ha.
You mean that magnet thing that drops out every time you try to move your laptop somewhere? Most annoying thing in the world!
You think that is annoying!? Try using a Mac Mini. The magnetic power connector gets knocked out easily when you bump the cord or unplug the ethernet cable, and there is no battery backup!
Ratio comparisons make no sense on a scale with an arbitrary zero-point. If you mean Kelvins, the universe has reached heat-death, so tomorrow will be the same.
A small nitpick, but sad to see a common but serious maths error in a technical article.
20% fewer bits is not equivalent to 20% more efficient, but 25% more . Efficiency would be the reciprocal of the bitrate. A ratio of 4:5 becomes 5:4 when looked at the other way around.
If you were to halve the bitrate, it would be twice as efficient, not 50% more. Or to put it in simple money terms, its like if two items are $100, one gets a 20% discount to $80, the other is now 25% more expensive.
As far as I know, tobacco products won't be banned for at least two reasons: 1- the huge amount of taxes generated for states and the federal government and 2- tobacco companies own enough congress people and state legislators to prevent the ban.
How about the complete failure of alcohol prohibition, and the War on Drugs? Is futility not enough reason by itself?
Funny that. You start a war on trumped-up allegations that kills a hundred thousand people, and voters soon forget. Put get caught pushing *one* reporter in front of a train and all hell breaks loose. Which is why it just happens in fiction. Modern democracy is an odd thing.
(the only people likely to click your link either don't know goatse, or want to have another look at it!)
Both will be disappointed. The joke *depends* on slashdot showing the domain.
The goatse.cx website has been shut down long ago. Go see for yourself. I dare you:-) Look at the reflection in a polished shield like Perseus, if you don't trust an random internet stranger.
That's so sad. You make Virginia sound like some violence-plagued 3rd world hell-hole. It must be awful to live in fear every time you see a stranger. Would it really be too dangerous for a 65yo lady in Virginia to go and tell them off (after phoning the police) ?
Why would police rush ? You phone in a report, they look up the plates. If the car is stolen they rush out, but most likely they knock on their home door in a few days. That's how it works in the civilised world.
How disappointing. Did not sound at all like a redneck hillbilly.
But how can someone be so casual about using a gun to destroy property? Any harm by the drone would seem to be trivial in comparison. It was not hovering by a window. She could easily have complained to the operators, or police as she could get their vehicle registration.
She really is not fit to own a gun and should have her license revoked before she kills someone for ignoring the "no junk mail" sign on her mailbox.
What? She doesn't need a license? Only in America.
X-rated theaters still exist and are in practically every porn shop with an 'arcade.' Even today in 2016.
Where is that? We still have "adult" shops around here, but I thought they mostly survived on selling sex toys, as the internet has totally killed the retail porn market. (Or it might just be our local puritan laws limiting retail.)
Who said anything about wealth? And who says lower class is trashy? We are talking "social class" here. Blue collar vs white collar. Motor racing costs more than golf. Source of money is more relevant than amount - blue collar, professional, or inherited wealth and investment? You are using the word in a different sense - honour, respectability?
Mentioning Saggy pants and how stupid they are, gets me labeled "racist".
Come to Australia, where it is much more socially acceptable to mock saggy pants, or made-up baby names, because most of the offenders are white. You might be just as much an arse/ass for mocking lower-class people, but the class-ism is more acceptable when not associated with race.
Google appears to be applying the rule to themselves. The worst "interstitials" to me are the YouTube ads ("skip in 5 seconds"),
So by this policy, you can avoid the youtube ads by finding the video in Google search! I just tried a whole bunch of video searches, and it goes straight to the video with no advert. But click another clip within youtube...
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the principle is much older. Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's probably galvanized steel, a mid grade steel plated with zinc to prevent corrosion.
Around here, zinc-galvanised corrugated steel has been mostly replaced by ZINCALUME® steel, which has a zinc/aluminium alloy coating. Much shinier than aged zinc galvo, and looks a bit like aluminium. Probably what Locke saw in in Sierra Leone. Lasts much longer.
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The Mac Mini does not have and has never had a magnetic power cord.
Beg pardon, you are right. But the early Mac-Minis used the same connector as the laptops, which was designed to come out easily, rather than pull the laptop off the table when you tripped on the cord. Benefit for laptop, bad for the Mini.
Newer Mac Minis have a built-in AC adapter, and the DIN connector is much more secure.
The dongle comes with the phone.
This is all familiar - NOKIA did it back in the twenty-zeros!
Remember the N-Series Symbian phones? No audio jack! You could use bluetooth (on some models) or a headphone with proprietary connector.
But the phone came with a dongle to let you use standard headphones.
Remember all the fuss back then? All the media attention on Nokia?
Neither do I. But eventually, Nokia came to their senses and reinstated the 3.5mm socket.
Nothing is new under the sun. Innovation? Ha.
You mean that magnet thing that drops out every time you try to move your laptop somewhere? Most annoying thing in the world!
You think that is annoying!?
Try using a Mac Mini. The magnetic power connector gets knocked out easily when you bump the cord or unplug the ethernet cable, and there is no battery backup!
Ratio comparisons make no sense on a scale with an arbitrary zero-point.
If you mean Kelvins, the universe has reached heat-death, so tomorrow will be the same.
A small nitpick, but sad to see a common but serious maths error in a technical article.
20% fewer bits is not equivalent to 20% more efficient, but 25% more .
Efficiency would be the reciprocal of the bitrate. A ratio of 4:5 becomes 5:4 when looked at the other way around.
If you were to halve the bitrate, it would be twice as efficient, not 50% more.
Or to put it in simple money terms, its like if two items are $100, one gets a 20% discount to $80, the other is now 25% more expensive.
As far as I know, tobacco products won't be banned for at least two reasons: 1- the huge amount of taxes generated for states and the federal government and 2- tobacco companies own enough congress people and state legislators to prevent the ban.
How about the complete failure of alcohol prohibition, and the War on Drugs? Is futility not enough reason by itself?
Funny that. You start a war on trumped-up allegations that kills a hundred thousand people, and voters soon forget.
Put get caught pushing *one* reporter in front of a train and all hell breaks loose. Which is why it just happens in fiction.
Modern democracy is an odd thing.
The real question is - do you have VOIP integrated with your cellphone and your phone number?
The old Nokias had VoIP fully integrated. With Android, it needs a 3rd party app, but is semi-integrated.
With LTE, aren't all voice calls packet-switched anyway?
(the only people likely to click your link either don't know goatse, or want to have another look at it!)
Both will be disappointed. The joke *depends* on slashdot showing the domain.
The goatse.cx website has been shut down long ago. Go see for yourself. I dare you :-) Look at the reflection in a polished shield like Perseus, if you don't trust an random internet stranger.
Its true.
That's so sad. You make Virginia sound like some violence-plagued 3rd world hell-hole.
It must be awful to live in fear every time you see a stranger.
Would it really be too dangerous for a 65yo lady in Virginia to go and tell them off (after phoning the police) ?
Why would police rush ? You phone in a report, they look up the plates.
If the car is stolen they rush out, but most likely they knock on their home door in a few days. That's how it works in the civilised world.
If you look at this from another perspective, Jennifer Youngman was just in the process of test-firing one of her just-cleaned shotguns, when a drone,
Ah, the "Its coming right for us" defense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
to fly their drone in a public recreation area, or drone park, instead of over private property, their loss could have been avoided.
The gunman even admitted it was blown onto her property by a strong wind. So no.
How disappointing. Did not sound at all like a redneck hillbilly.
But how can someone be so casual about using a gun to destroy property?
Any harm by the drone would seem to be trivial in comparison. It was not hovering by a window.
She could easily have complained to the operators, or police as she could get their vehicle registration.
She really is not fit to own a gun and should have her license revoked before she kills someone for ignoring the "no junk mail" sign on her mailbox.
What? She doesn't need a license? Only in America.
It's in fucking Australia.
Will Americans ever stop confusing Australia with Austria?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
X-rated theaters still exist and are in practically every porn shop with an 'arcade.' Even today in 2016.
Where is that? We still have "adult" shops around here, but I thought they mostly survived on selling sex toys, as the internet has totally killed the retail porn market.
(Or it might just be our local puritan laws limiting retail.)
And we know Ned Ryerson also uses Bing!.
Yeah, you already told us.
Wealth is not a indication of class.
Who said anything about wealth? And who says lower class is trashy?
We are talking "social class" here. Blue collar vs white collar. Motor racing costs more than golf.
Source of money is more relevant than amount - blue collar, professional, or inherited wealth and investment?
You are using the word in a different sense - honour, respectability?
Mentioning Saggy pants and how stupid they are, gets me labeled "racist".
Come to Australia, where it is much more socially acceptable to mock saggy pants, or made-up baby names, because most of the offenders are white.
You might be just as much an arse/ass for mocking lower-class people, but the class-ism is more acceptable when not associated with race.
Austrialia is a small principality between Montenegro and Slovenia, famous for its blue cheese and tax havens.
Bloody Americans know nothing about geography - tourists show up there wanting to meet Mozart.
Google appears to be applying the rule to themselves.
The worst "interstitials" to me are the YouTube ads ("skip in 5 seconds"),
So by this policy, you can avoid the youtube ads by finding the video in Google search! ...
I just tried a whole bunch of video searches, and it goes straight to the video with no advert. But click another clip within youtube
Sorry if this is not news :)
"Look at me I'm Sandra Dee, lousy with judiciary, won't go to trial 'less its legally vile, ..."
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the principle is much older.
Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
sacré bleu! 30 heures? Zees is full-time, no?
It's probably galvanized steel, a mid grade steel plated with zinc to prevent corrosion.
Around here, zinc-galvanised corrugated steel has been mostly replaced by ZINCALUME® steel, which has a zinc/aluminium alloy coating.
Much shinier than aged zinc galvo, and looks a bit like aluminium. Probably what Locke saw in in Sierra Leone. Lasts much longer.
So what the hell is a BTU - "British Thermal Unit" ? I asked a British friend, but he had no idea.