Podcast - This Is Only a Test
Episode 259 – Nothing But News – 5/29/2014
This week, Will and Norm catch up on big MakerFaire news, Gary’s big news, Apple’s big news, Dre’s big news, Google’s big news, and Microsoft’s big news. Enjoy!
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This week, Will and Norm catch up on big MakerFaire news, Gary’s big news, Apple’s big news, Dre’s big news, Google’s big news, and Microsoft’s big news. Enjoy!
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Norm’s reaction to the Beats purchase should be good.
And welcome back, and congratulations, Gary!
Ya Gary!
I’m looking forward to the intersection of Star Wars and SPACE ROCKS!
Yay!!! Video, thou has returned!! 🙂
I hope Dre’s big news is an announcement for the release of the Detox album!
I found it funny that it took a question from a viewer about their new Motorola E for that phone to even be mentioned on this podcast.
If Apple had released a fully unlocked iPhone variant that ran iOS7, and it only cost $129.00, you two would be talking about it for well over an hour! lol
It’s pretty clear you guys have never used Multi-Window on a Note device, it is anything but a poor experience.
Shared driver-less cars?
Sorry, you want to share a car with a messy pig? Food in the seats, wrappers on the floors?
A Jabba the Hutt Barge was made for Course of the Force last year. Nerdist/Lucas Film fund raiser.
Yeah, they had a whole bunch of videos filmed on it too..
I don’t either. But cabs get cleaned (or should get cleaned) every day. It only takes 1% of the user population to “mess” it up for everyone else. Tragedy of the commons. I love the idea of a self driving car, not so keen an sharing it with all & sundry 🙂
Today’s episode is full of having first world problems. lol
Could you get a DUI in a self driving car?
Does anyone know the name of the eyeglasses website mentioned?
There needs to be a red phone on the desk that is the direct line to Adam.
BTW… a good one on defining cool: http://qz.com/213643/how-do-you-define-cool-a-new-paper-tries-and-succeeds/
It’s called Warby Parker.
I like how Norm essentially suggests google should build Eureka. Perfect company to do it.
The old surface covers are still functional with the Pro 3, just will look a bit odd.
And to echo the Note user (definitely not the first time I’ve seen people praise that function on the Note), multitasking on Win8 is great if you actually use any Modern apps.
You guys seemed a bit confused about the significance of the SpaceX Dragon v2 announcement. Reusing the rocket (Falcon 9) itself is the biggest cost saver for SpaceX, but reusability is a big thing on the Dragon v2 as well.
Previous spacecraft have been reusable to an extent, but Dragon v2 takes it to another level. Capsules that land via parachute to the ocean get exposed to salt water, which means a lot of refurbishing before they can be reused. And then there’s the cost of recovering them from the ocean. NASAs shuttle landed on land but needed to be basically stripped and rebuilt after each flight.
Dragon v2 however is fully reusable for up to 10 times before any significant maintenance is required. On most flights it just needs to have its tanks filled and to be attached on top of the rocket. (On every tenth flight the ablative heat shield needs a new coating and the engines will go through a more thorough maintenance.) This means it’s considerably cheaper to operate than its predecessors, not to mention more comfortable for the passengers.
if you guys are headed to Humboldt, and are gonna be in eureka. You should give me a yell if you got time would love to take you guys to lunch or something.
Why is it TVs seem to have gone backwards in tech. Norms issue with dimming is that LEDs don’t dim very well and PWM is not an option with an LCD refreshing at a certain rate. CCFL tubes dim very well and as the internal primary light is not visible you don’t get a hue like with a white (blue with phospor coating) LED. Older TV’s also had some decent sound, no need for an extra purchase of a sound bar. End rant.