Meh football :(
But if you insist then this is much more entertaining : http://www.fantasyfwit.com/
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...that the point of wireless charging (*) is convinience and not having to mess about with wires.
Doh! Given the company involved I'm guessing they've been investigating ways to remove another blemish (port) from their idealised featureless black slab design (**) but were worried that they might add a millimetre to the device thickness and this would be seen as a backwards step by their fanbois^h^h^h^h^h^h^h loyal customers. Classic bit of form over function design.
(*) exception electric toothbrushes where its about keeping water out.
(**) They'll probably be sueing Stanley Kubrik for copyright infringement in 2001 when they achieve this.
There is another way to look at these than a particle/anti-particle pair appearing and then anhilating. An anti-particle on a feyman diagram looks the same as a normal particle travelling backwards in time. So another model is a single particle oscilatting backwards and forwards in time. I.E. Time travel, but heavily restricted by the energy-time version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and therefore useless for getting next week's lottery results.
Of course if this model is correct then it rather messes up the Hawking radiation theory, since I'm not sure how half of the pair falls into a black hole if its really a single particle. Just need the LHC to generate some quantum black holes so we can establish which is happening experimentally (by getting hawking radiation or not).
So many places where people have failed to think on this one:
1) The original failure. Why doesn't the mouse come with a charging dock in the first place? Every wireless mouse I've ever bought came with one. Never had a problem with running out of charge unless I've forgotten to put the mouse away for several days in a row (one of my wireless mice solved even this by having exchangable batteries despite having a charging dock).
2) A USB powered mouse charger? So the obvious assumption is the charger is powered off the computer? Except you want the charger powered when the computer is off and you're not using the mouse, not when the computer is on and the mouse isn't in the charger because you're using it. OK you can get a USB adaptor that plugs into the wall, but thats yet another thing to buy.
3) Why wireless? Whats wrong with a couple of metal contacts? Works fine on my wireless mice. A little more efficient that wireless charging.
4) If you are going for wireless power to the mouse then why use it to charge it? Why not power it directly? Put the charger in (or under) the mouse mat. At this point USB power starts to make sense too, since you need power when the computer is on (not when its off). Now take it a step further, if you've got a USB wire running to the mat to power the mouse then put the reciever in the mat too. Reciever is now much closer to the mouse (especially compared to a plug in the back of a tower under a desk), so less chance of signal problems as an added bonus.
...but pounds are a unit of weight (force due to acceleration by gravity). So it should read:
They now just have to empty Raffaello of "0 pounds [4.26 metric tonnes] of spare parts, spare equipment, and other supplies - including 0 pounds of food - that will sustain space station operations for a year".
That done, they'll then pack it with "more than 0 pounds [2.54 tonnes] of discarded station gear" for return to Earth.
Er, a few seconds thought:
Radio? FM and/or DAB. Maybe even TV tuner?
Intergral FM transmitter? Instead of buying an external one for the car.
More capacity? Its still a long way behind the classic on this (and the classic is overdue a capacity bump)
USB 3 for faster synching.
> And there's the development in 3D television. This will allow future consoles to present a
> genuine 3D experience which we're unlikely to see appear on a PC in the near future if only
> because few will shell out twice for a large and expensive 3D screen.
Er 3D in various forms has been available for the PC for longer than the consoles...
I'd also expect glasses free 3D screens to work a lot better with the relatively predicable viewing position of being sat in front of a PC.
Had the Dragon 32 version, which was black and white. On the plus side it did apparently have 2 extra levels. Not that they were much use, I could barely get past the first one :( Chucky Egg on the other hand, I was rather good at that :)
Penguin Icon? Dragon's cheat code: P P PENGUIN
...but I really don't see why so many downvotes. I agree the whole value of a social networking site is being able to contact your friends through it. Therefore the one which makes sense to use is the one which your friends use (even if it takes a few minutes occasionaly to sort out undesirable default settings). A new completelty separate social network that my friends aren't on makes as much sense as a whole new telephone network I can't call the phones on the existing network from.
The only way I could see multiple social network providers making any sense (for the user) is if they cooperated a bit and defined a standard by which they could all talk to each others servers and appear as part of one big system that the user picks their prefered supplier for (you know - the way email, usenet and the phone system work).
Seriously? That'll be why I used to see so many people reading paperbacks with the covers ripped off then. Oh wait, that didn't happen.
If its really such an issue, which it isn't, then a simple option to select 'Current Cover', 'Random Artwork' or 'Blank" would give something relevant for most people and a getout for the paranoid.