The Kickstarted project had a 26000 mAH battery, could output 2.1amps on each of four cables (enough to charge four iPads simultaneously at full speed), and was going to have built in, retractable cables supporting micro USB, 30 pin dock and Lightning connections.
The product you linked to takes two AA batteries. You suggest a battery with a MODEL NUMBER of 18650, but a mAH rating of 2400 mAH, for a total of 4800. 9600 if they bought the four battery model you suggest. It has *ONE* USB port, no built in cable, and can only output 1 amp, or roughly the bare minimum to charge one iPad.... SLOWLY.
For me, I'd have taken the Kickstart project. As it is, I carry a high powered battery. I find in hotels, when I want to charge things and lock them up in a safe, it's ideal. Battery and tablet in safe. Charged when I get back. I bought a 10000 mAH battery on Amazon for $50. Has three USB ports, 1 is 2.1 amp, the others 1 amp each. 10000 mAH isn't quite enough when you have a thirsty iPad plus an iPod charging, and maybe a digital camera as well. And I have to travel with lots of cables.
Your link may work to charge *A* cell phone, but that's not really the same target audience as someone who wanted a device that could charge a couple of iPads at the same time to 100% and still have ports left for a phone and an MP3 player.
Netflix = Windows and Mac OS X and i have none of them so i have to keep on pirating movies
So get a Windows machine. Or a Mac machine. Or a TV with built in Internet apps. Or a BluRay player with built in Internet apps. Or an Apple TV. Or an Android tablet. Or an iPad. Or just about any smart phone. Or a $50 Roku box. Or a $99 Google TV box. Or a Wii. Or a PS3. Or an Xbox. Or a TiVo. There are other options, but I think the point is clear. It's stupid easy to have Netflix, but if you don't have just about any modern, mainstream connected device, then I guess you'll have to go without.
Why would people get that when thepiratebay is 0$ per month, is accessible from anywhere, and there is no digital restrictions management involved? Or even better to keep that money and purchase a new dvd every other month? At least a dvd can be ripped to the hard drive and copied as many times as someone wants. Paying 9$ per month for getting no value in return is ludicrous.
Yes, because once EVERYBODY starts pirating, and NOBODY has to pay for ANYTHING, I'm sure there won't be any ramifications. People will keep making movies and TV shows for fun. Maybe we can develop some technology to blur out product placements, so we see NO advertising, ever. This way, we don't see commercials, we don't see product placements, and we don't pay for access to the content.
I need to find a way to steal my neighbors Internet too, why do I pay for Internet, when I could get it for free?
Some people (such as myself) pay for cable and Netflix because we perceive value in what we get, and would rather not just "take" it for free.
Except that Netflix (just like the BBC service offering their shows) hasn't studied the usage patterns of its customers.
You REALLY think Netflix doesn't pay attention to what people watch on Netflix? They have no studies? No analytics? No reporting? No analysis at all? Just because things are missing (hint: online content deals are hard to cut) doesn't mean they aren't paying attention. PS: Everyone was up in arms when Starz and Netflix failed to cut a deal and tons of Disney stuff disappeared. Now, they signed a deal with Disney direct, and cut out Starz. You don't think they did that because they knew how many kids wanted to stream Disney movies?
I can't believe you need this software AT ALL. Getting away from iTunes was one of the principal things that drove me to Android, and I've never looked back.
Discounting the iPod Nano/Shuffle (not iOS) what makes you think you 'need' this software? On an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can do the following without plugging into iTunes:
* Activate a new device or previously wiped device
* Update iOS on a device
* Buy/download/update apps
* Buy/download music
* Buy/download TV shows or Movies
* Download/stream podcasts
* Backup to iCloud / restore from iCloud
* Download/backup photos and videos
* Stream to compatible AirPlay devices
I have an iPhone 5 that's never been plugged into a computer, except occasionally for an emergency charge.
Seriously? Ipad has been mono until now?! What a piece of garbage. Hmm, stereo sound has been out how many decades, and they have saved what with keeping it mono? Frieking unbelievable!
Yup! Sure has been mono until now. Even the iPod Touch is mono. The Nano DOESN'T EVEN HAVE SPEAKERS TO PLAY MUSIC! It's almost like nobody gives a crap and everyone who listens to TV, Movies or Music on their portable devices uses speakers or headphones.
Wrote, past tense. It's not like it costs them any more for each tablet sold.
iOS 2? 3? 4? 5? 6? The one you know they are working on now? I remember an iPhone running an OS that couldn't handle Retina graphics, tablet sized displays, Bluetooth stereo, cut and paste, Exchange support, voice control, AirPlay, third-party apps, wireless sync, background operations, persistent notifications, didn't have driving directions or their own map content, folders, Game Center, MMS, high definition video, HDR, panorama photo shooting, video calling, 4G/LTE, and a few other things.
Each generation of iOS has a real, measurable (but not released to the public) development cost. Which needs to be recouped, and of course is a part of the cost of offering iOS devices.
It might help you realize how silly it would be to expect (for example) that a vehicle should should have the same markup as a toaster. That's dumb.
It might help you to realize that we're not comparing a vehicle to a toaster, but different models of vehicles from different manufacturers. I'd expect a Chrysler, GM and Ford vehicles to all have similar markups.
I wouldn't expect vehicles to have similar markups. I would expect a Chevy and a Dodge sedan to be quite similar, but if you look at all sedans (Toyota, Mazda, Chevy, Dodge, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Kia, Hyundai, Fiat and who knows how many more) you'd find several ranges of prices and margins. Some focus on low end, high volume, low margin (let's say.... Kia). Others focus on low volume, high end, high margin (let's say..... Mercedes). Some even hit multiple targets. A Camry isn't the cheapest car, but it's affordable and well built (iPad Mini). Their Lexus stuff is more expensive, and still well built, with some higher end features (iPad 4 with better graphics, higher resolution).
The only thing that really makes me mad... is that somehow I got pulled into a car analogy.
Also, for some reason, AMZN's model seems to be better valued on Wall Street, with a PE of >3100, in spite of the fact that they basically have no profits for like a decade. But AAPL, with huge growth of profits only has a PE of 13.
No doubt Apple executives everywhere (especially the millionaire ones) are so upset about that.
You could cite an example from your own experience, perhaps some company that you yourself in your moral superiority that you patronize.
Moral superiority? I mostly buy from Amazon, actually. Closest I can think of is I patronize a supermarket that has 23 locations (just two in my state), versus Publix or Winn-Dixie, the two large chains in my area. But again, that's not necessarily a "local" company, nor done because of my "moral superiority". They sell meat, fruit and vegetables cheaper and the checkout lines tend to be shorter. Plus their seafood is a bit more diverse in selection.
I just re-read my comment, I'm missing the part where I proclaimed (or insinuated) any superiority. Just asked a question.
Shop locally... Best Buy is not local. Sears is not local, Radio Shack is 50% higher and not local. Please identify these imaginary local companies. I would LOVE To support a local business owner instead of a company that is no different than Amazon.com
If nationally known chains aren't local, and you don't mention where you live, who could identify any local companies for you?
I like prime myself, I shop a lot online. But for a lot of people it is price gouging. The free books and streaming media collection suck, they are worthless. Two day shipping is a convenience, but not worth it to a lot of people. It is for me, even if I opt for standard shipping, Amazon ships though OnTrac, which is usually 1 day shipping.
That's not price gouging. That's something that is for some people and not for others. To me, the streaming is as good as Netflix for my kids. I buy enough that the shipping is a great deal for me. But it's not "price gouging".
Considering Amazon's normal two-day rates which are in the $6 to $12 range typically, if you want fast shipping and buy half a dozen items a year, it's a good deal at $80 even if you never stream any video.
If you pay $80 and buy one thing, once, that's not price gouging, that's you buying something you didn't need.
This is as strong as a case forever to stop paying attention to the media.
Sounds like you already stopped paying attention. Had you even checked the one link in the article, or even read the summary, you'd know it was a catastophy, and New York will not function "perfectly tomorrow like nothing ever happened."
Schools closed. Subways closed 4-5 days. 38 people dead. Market closed. Fire in Queens destroys dozens of homes. Power outages for millions. 7% of the US population in fact without power. Tunnels flooded (subway and car). NYU Tisch hospital evacuated due to flood related generator failures, including premature babies on ventilators. Just a small summary, of just one city.
I'm a former NYer. Have spoken to many friends and family. None expect normal life tomorrow. Some have considerable property damage. None lost a life, thankfully. I live in South Florida, incidentally, and rather well understand how damaging hurricanes can be. Wilma damaged my car, and cancelled my wedding day as the roof caved in on the place we were getting married in that Friday.
This is a rare strong case to NOT stop paying attention to the media.
Actually maybe you should read "Misquoting Jesus" by B. Ehrman - it is written by a blblical scholar, actually the farther back in time you go the _less_ consistent the texts of the new testament are - the exact opposite of what you would expect if they all derived from a common source - this coupled with the fact that stories similar to story of Jesus (except with Egyptian or other mediteranean gods as heros) had been floating around for years before the supposed birth of Christ and finally the lack of any historical Roman records of Christ's existence make even the statment that "Christ was a historical figure" that I hear from even many atheists and agnostic completely untenable - there is no evidence for a historical Christ
I'm not sure you understand Ehrman very well. Have you read Did Jesus Exist? If you are going to cite Bart Ehrman, a former Christian, a current professor of the New Testament, and the holder of a Masters in Divinity, why not quote the part where he's 100% certain the evidence points to there being a historical Christ. Ehrman has many doubts about Christianity, but one of them isn't whether Jesus was a historical figure.
I don't think they forgot that they won big in the 90's. They realize, however, that things are different in the portable market. Apple won big against Microsoft with music players, phones and tablets. And their notebooks are doing extremely well compared to historic marketshare.
It is wise not to treat ARM tablets like Intel desktops and 2012 like 1992.
And I'm sure they would simply love to re-encode the iToons library to support the new codec.
I'm guessing that this codec fails simply because Apple didn't write it and will, therefore, refuse to support it.
Have you met MP3 and AAC? The two main formats covering 99% of all music on iDevices, neither of which Apple invented? I'm sure the real reason is they control so much of the market, and most of those users, myself included, really don't care what's more space efficient, unencumbered by patents, royalty free, higher quality sounding, or easily incorporated into Windows Phone 8. Yawn!
More expensive, but not TOO expensive (these days) is a set of SATA cages and some SSDs, which will do the job far faster still (than conventional SATA drives).
24tb worth of SSDs? That's a lot of cages, and yes, it would be TOO expensive.
$100/mo does buy the equivalent of 7Mbit dedicated at a colo (100Mbit burstable connection). $60/month should be enough to buy 4.2Mbit (1.36 terabytes/mo). If you're paying more for a wired connection, you're being ripped off.
So a colo, where hundreds or thousands of customers convene in one centralized location, with massive amounts of infrastructure coming in at huge scales maps exactly pricewise to getting that same bandwidth and pricing to every single house in america.
Please tell me how Google "locked iOS users out from using Vimeo".
The same way that removing Youtube locks iOS users out from using Youtube. Hint: The answer to both is it doesn't. PS: Google already has said they'll have a YouTube app in the app store soon.
Apple going through the trouble of abandoning their old proprietary connector and MAKING A NEW PROPRIETARY ONE instead of going to a standard one like every other phone has had for years sounds at least a bit nefarious to me.
Is it possible that a standard micro or mini USB cable didn't do everything they wanted?
Most of us are agnostic atheists. Including Dawkins, Hitchens, and the rest. You may have missed that.
a-theist means without God. One who does not accept that God exists is an atheist. One does not need to also hold the positive belief that God does not exist.
I doubt that very much, in the case of Hitchens. Right now he's either nothing, or very much a believer.
If this is illegal, what the fuck is a DVR? What the fuck is a VCR? Both can be used to circumvent commercials.
I suspect they see a difference between the fact that they can't stop YOU from doing anything (hitting fast forward, hitting mute, walking out of the room, singing at the top of your lungs with your fingers stuck in your ears) with a rebroadcaster removing the ads automatically. You can take an action, they would like to think Dish cannot take that action for you automatically.
Personally, I don't want to see all ads removed. They are just going to raise rates to cover it. This is one time where status quo is better for me than the alternative.
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The Kickstarted project had a 26000 mAH battery, could output 2.1amps on each of four cables (enough to charge four iPads simultaneously at full speed), and was going to have built in, retractable cables supporting micro USB, 30 pin dock and Lightning connections.
The product you linked to takes two AA batteries. You suggest a battery with a MODEL NUMBER of 18650, but a mAH rating of 2400 mAH, for a total of 4800. 9600 if they bought the four battery model you suggest. It has *ONE* USB port, no built in cable, and can only output 1 amp, or roughly the bare minimum to charge one iPad.... SLOWLY.
For me, I'd have taken the Kickstart project. As it is, I carry a high powered battery. I find in hotels, when I want to charge things and lock them up in a safe, it's ideal. Battery and tablet in safe. Charged when I get back. I bought a 10000 mAH battery on Amazon for $50. Has three USB ports, 1 is 2.1 amp, the others 1 amp each. 10000 mAH isn't quite enough when you have a thirsty iPad plus an iPod charging, and maybe a digital camera as well. And I have to travel with lots of cables.
Your link may work to charge *A* cell phone, but that's not really the same target audience as someone who wanted a device that could charge a couple of iPads at the same time to 100% and still have ports left for a phone and an MP3 player.
Netflix = Windows and Mac OS X and i have none of them so i have to keep on pirating movies
So get a Windows machine. Or a Mac machine. Or a TV with built in Internet apps. Or a BluRay player with built in Internet apps. Or an Apple TV. Or an Android tablet. Or an iPad. Or just about any smart phone. Or a $50 Roku box. Or a $99 Google TV box. Or a Wii. Or a PS3. Or an Xbox. Or a TiVo. There are other options, but I think the point is clear. It's stupid easy to have Netflix, but if you don't have just about any modern, mainstream connected device, then I guess you'll have to go without.
Why would people get that when thepiratebay is 0$ per month, is accessible from anywhere, and there is no digital restrictions management involved? Or even better to keep that money and purchase a new dvd every other month? At least a dvd can be ripped to the hard drive and copied as many times as someone wants. Paying 9$ per month for getting no value in return is ludicrous.
Yes, because once EVERYBODY starts pirating, and NOBODY has to pay for ANYTHING, I'm sure there won't be any ramifications. People will keep making movies and TV shows for fun. Maybe we can develop some technology to blur out product placements, so we see NO advertising, ever. This way, we don't see commercials, we don't see product placements, and we don't pay for access to the content.
I need to find a way to steal my neighbors Internet too, why do I pay for Internet, when I could get it for free?
Some people (such as myself) pay for cable and Netflix because we perceive value in what we get, and would rather not just "take" it for free.
Except that Netflix (just like the BBC service offering their shows) hasn't studied the usage patterns of its customers.
You REALLY think Netflix doesn't pay attention to what people watch on Netflix? They have no studies? No analytics? No reporting? No analysis at all? Just because things are missing (hint: online content deals are hard to cut) doesn't mean they aren't paying attention. PS: Everyone was up in arms when Starz and Netflix failed to cut a deal and tons of Disney stuff disappeared. Now, they signed a deal with Disney direct, and cut out Starz. You don't think they did that because they knew how many kids wanted to stream Disney movies?
I can't believe you need this software
It didn't say I can't believe you once needed this software.
I can't believe you need this software AT ALL. Getting away from iTunes was one of the principal things that drove me to Android, and I've never looked back.
Discounting the iPod Nano/Shuffle (not iOS) what makes you think you 'need' this software? On an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can do the following without plugging into iTunes:
* Activate a new device or previously wiped device
* Update iOS on a device
* Buy/download/update apps
* Buy/download music
* Buy/download TV shows or Movies
* Download/stream podcasts
* Backup to iCloud / restore from iCloud
* Download/backup photos and videos
* Stream to compatible AirPlay devices
I have an iPhone 5 that's never been plugged into a computer, except occasionally for an emergency charge.
Seriously? Ipad has been mono until now?! What a piece of garbage. Hmm, stereo sound has been out how many decades, and they have saved what with keeping it mono? Frieking unbelievable!
Yup! Sure has been mono until now. Even the iPod Touch is mono. The Nano DOESN'T EVEN HAVE SPEAKERS TO PLAY MUSIC! It's almost like nobody gives a crap and everyone who listens to TV, Movies or Music on their portable devices uses speakers or headphones.
Apple wrote the vast majority of iOS.
Wrote, past tense. It's not like it costs them any more for each tablet sold.
iOS 2? 3? 4? 5? 6? The one you know they are working on now? I remember an iPhone running an OS that couldn't handle Retina graphics, tablet sized displays, Bluetooth stereo, cut and paste, Exchange support, voice control, AirPlay, third-party apps, wireless sync, background operations, persistent notifications, didn't have driving directions or their own map content, folders, Game Center, MMS, high definition video, HDR, panorama photo shooting, video calling, 4G/LTE, and a few other things.
Each generation of iOS has a real, measurable (but not released to the public) development cost. Which needs to be recouped, and of course is a part of the cost of offering iOS devices.
It might help you realize how silly it would be to expect (for example) that a vehicle should should have the same markup as a toaster. That's dumb.
It might help you to realize that we're not comparing a vehicle to a toaster, but different models of vehicles from different manufacturers. I'd expect a Chrysler, GM and Ford vehicles to all have similar markups.
I wouldn't expect vehicles to have similar markups. I would expect a Chevy and a Dodge sedan to be quite similar, but if you look at all sedans (Toyota, Mazda, Chevy, Dodge, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Kia, Hyundai, Fiat and who knows how many more) you'd find several ranges of prices and margins. Some focus on low end, high volume, low margin (let's say.... Kia). Others focus on low volume, high end, high margin (let's say..... Mercedes). Some even hit multiple targets. A Camry isn't the cheapest car, but it's affordable and well built (iPad Mini). Their Lexus stuff is more expensive, and still well built, with some higher end features (iPad 4 with better graphics, higher resolution).
The only thing that really makes me mad... is that somehow I got pulled into a car analogy.
Also, for some reason, AMZN's model seems to be better valued on Wall Street, with a PE of >3100, in spite of the fact that they basically have no profits for like a decade. But AAPL, with huge growth of profits only has a PE of 13.
No doubt Apple executives everywhere (especially the millionaire ones) are so upset about that.
You could cite an example from your own experience, perhaps some company that you yourself in your moral superiority that you patronize.
Moral superiority? I mostly buy from Amazon, actually. Closest I can think of is I patronize a supermarket that has 23 locations (just two in my state), versus Publix or Winn-Dixie, the two large chains in my area. But again, that's not necessarily a "local" company, nor done because of my "moral superiority". They sell meat, fruit and vegetables cheaper and the checkout lines tend to be shorter. Plus their seafood is a bit more diverse in selection.
I just re-read my comment, I'm missing the part where I proclaimed (or insinuated) any superiority. Just asked a question.
Shop locally... Best Buy is not local. Sears is not local, Radio Shack is 50% higher and not local. Please identify these imaginary local companies. I would LOVE To support a local business owner instead of a company that is no different than Amazon.com
If nationally known chains aren't local, and you don't mention where you live, who could identify any local companies for you?
I like prime myself, I shop a lot online. But for a lot of people it is price gouging. The free books and streaming media collection suck, they are worthless. Two day shipping is a convenience, but not worth it to a lot of people. It is for me, even if I opt for standard shipping, Amazon ships though OnTrac, which is usually 1 day shipping.
That's not price gouging. That's something that is for some people and not for others. To me, the streaming is as good as Netflix for my kids. I buy enough that the shipping is a great deal for me. But it's not "price gouging".
Considering Amazon's normal two-day rates which are in the $6 to $12 range typically, if you want fast shipping and buy half a dozen items a year, it's a good deal at $80 even if you never stream any video.
If you pay $80 and buy one thing, once, that's not price gouging, that's you buying something you didn't need.
This is as strong as a case forever to stop paying attention to the media.
Sounds like you already stopped paying attention. Had you even checked the one link in the article, or even read the summary, you'd know it was a catastophy, and New York will not function "perfectly tomorrow like nothing ever happened."
Schools closed. Subways closed 4-5 days. 38 people dead. Market closed. Fire in Queens destroys dozens of homes. Power outages for millions. 7% of the US population in fact without power. Tunnels flooded (subway and car). NYU Tisch hospital evacuated due to flood related generator failures, including premature babies on ventilators. Just a small summary, of just one city.
I'm a former NYer. Have spoken to many friends and family. None expect normal life tomorrow. Some have considerable property damage. None lost a life, thankfully. I live in South Florida, incidentally, and rather well understand how damaging hurricanes can be. Wilma damaged my car, and cancelled my wedding day as the roof caved in on the place we were getting married in that Friday.
This is a rare strong case to NOT stop paying attention to the media.
Actually maybe you should read "Misquoting Jesus" by B. Ehrman - it is written by a blblical scholar, actually the farther back in time you go the _less_ consistent the texts of the new testament are - the exact opposite of what you would expect if they all derived from a common source - this coupled with the fact that stories similar to story of Jesus (except with Egyptian or other mediteranean gods as heros) had been floating around for years before the supposed birth of Christ and finally the lack of any historical Roman records of Christ's existence make even the statment that "Christ was a historical figure" that I hear from even many atheists and agnostic completely untenable - there is no evidence for a historical Christ
I'm not sure you understand Ehrman very well. Have you read Did Jesus Exist? If you are going to cite Bart Ehrman, a former Christian, a current professor of the New Testament, and the holder of a Masters in Divinity, why not quote the part where he's 100% certain the evidence points to there being a historical Christ. Ehrman has many doubts about Christianity, but one of them isn't whether Jesus was a historical figure.
I don't think they forgot that they won big in the 90's. They realize, however, that things are different in the portable market. Apple won big against Microsoft with music players, phones and tablets. And their notebooks are doing extremely well compared to historic marketshare. It is wise not to treat ARM tablets like Intel desktops and 2012 like 1992.
And I'm sure they would simply love to re-encode the iToons library to support the new codec.
I'm guessing that this codec fails simply because Apple didn't write it and will, therefore, refuse to support it.
Have you met MP3 and AAC? The two main formats covering 99% of all music on iDevices, neither of which Apple invented? I'm sure the real reason is they control so much of the market, and most of those users, myself included, really don't care what's more space efficient, unencumbered by patents, royalty free, higher quality sounding, or easily incorporated into Windows Phone 8. Yawn!
More expensive, but not TOO expensive (these days) is a set of SATA cages and some SSDs, which will do the job far faster still (than conventional SATA drives).
24tb worth of SSDs? That's a lot of cages, and yes, it would be TOO expensive.
$100/mo does buy the equivalent of 7Mbit dedicated at a colo (100Mbit burstable connection). $60/month should be enough to buy 4.2Mbit (1.36 terabytes/mo). If you're paying more for a wired connection, you're being ripped off.
So a colo, where hundreds or thousands of customers convene in one centralized location, with massive amounts of infrastructure coming in at huge scales maps exactly pricewise to getting that same bandwidth and pricing to every single house in america.
Please tell me how Google "locked iOS users out from using Vimeo".
The same way that removing Youtube locks iOS users out from using Youtube. Hint: The answer to both is it doesn't. PS: Google already has said they'll have a YouTube app in the app store soon.
You don't win money, or a job? You win the chance to interview?
Apple going through the trouble of abandoning their old proprietary connector and MAKING A NEW PROPRIETARY ONE instead of going to a standard one like every other phone has had for years sounds at least a bit nefarious to me.
Is it possible that a standard micro or mini USB cable didn't do everything they wanted?
Let me guess, you only trust phones from RIM, a company that can neither market nor innovate!
I guess that's a better guess than Windows Phone.
Most of us are agnostic atheists. Including Dawkins, Hitchens, and the rest. You may have missed that.
a-theist means without God. One who does not accept that God exists is an atheist. One does not need to also hold the positive belief that God does not exist.
I doubt that very much, in the case of Hitchens. Right now he's either nothing, or very much a believer.
If this is illegal, what the fuck is a DVR? What the fuck is a VCR? Both can be used to circumvent commercials.
I suspect they see a difference between the fact that they can't stop YOU from doing anything (hitting fast forward, hitting mute, walking out of the room, singing at the top of your lungs with your fingers stuck in your ears) with a rebroadcaster removing the ads automatically. You can take an action, they would like to think Dish cannot take that action for you automatically.
Personally, I don't want to see all ads removed. They are just going to raise rates to cover it. This is one time where status quo is better for me than the alternative.