Clowns... the lot of them...
that is all the jerks* in NESTA...
* well maybe some of them aren't jerks, but there does seem to be a serious need to whack these idiots with a cluestick...
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"Dell does not conduct any business directly in any country identified as a state sponsor of terrorism, including Syria"
Which country currently provides the most aid to Al Qaeda? USA...
Which country is responsible for the vast majority of terrorism around the globe? Israel... (and most of that is in the form of 'false flag' attacks...)
deprived? There's still comet Lovejoy up there visible to the naked eye in dark skies...
http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2013/12/comet-lovejoy-is-the-real-show-now-comet-ison-is-dead-or-dying-2470978.html
http://www.webpronews.com/as-ison-has-fizzled-comet-lovejoy-remains-visible-2013-12
http://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-comet-lovejoy-c2013-r1-charts-photos
Cloud? Then you'll be constantly eating data usage charges for swapping out various media files for others unless you stick to using wi-fi for that. I like to have 32 Gig of micro-SD card storage attached along with having teh luxury of on-the-go USB...
My next phone will be a Galaxy S4 in April (or S5 if that's out) unless the S3 mini in SIM-free form has a massive price reduction in the next few months
em.. if their goods cost more to buy in our markets because of the tariffs we impose on them, then it does matter as it levels the field for local manufacturers
Don't forget that the Chinese have been cheating and waging economic war on the west for decades now by deliberately pegging their currency to the dollar and not allowing it to float to it's true high value. This makes their goods and labour very cheap and also makes our products expensive in their market.
I would expect it to have an emergency parachute system similar to the one used here only just this summer:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336815/Pilot-76-walks-away-plane-crash-just-minor-injuries-deploying-emergency-PARACHUTE-allowed-light-aircraft-float-safety-quiet-Cheltenham-garden.html
Just bought a whitebox Android 10.1 inch tablet for just £170... Good quad core processor, good display, decent memory, decent storage, takes up to 32 Gig of micro SD, has HDMI output, bluetooth and USB On The Go. Also has Android 4.2 (with a promised OTA update to Kit-Kat when available) and is officially blessed in having the full suite of Google apps as well.
Apple are on a hiding to nothing and have got to seriously up their game to remain relevant or else devolve into being just a litigation machine with what patents they have... Even Samsung have got to be worried by what's coming out now and in the near future...
unfortunately, as far as the existing corporates are concerned, it makes perfect sense to smother disruptive technolgies at birth before they can disrupt your existing very profitable business model which consists of ripping the customer off as much as they can stand...
Imagine if buggy whip manufacturers had managed to get internal combustion engines outlawed...