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@JoshRoss:

Very impressive indeed, but I wonder what the value of doing something that has not been done is: with all this technology, I think we have lost the sense of adventure.

I have much greater respect for those who dedicate their little spare time to their smaller adventures. Achievements made by nonprofessional athletes who make huge sacrifices to push their limits have much greater human and personal value. Professional and devildare should not be two words that go together IMHO.

In the end this will only be good marketing for Red Bull and the like, but it will not profit the BASE community that will be stereotyped in the wrong way in front of the general public.

I am on the Windows Server 2012 product page I cannot find a link to the Windows Hyper-V Server 2012... (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products.aspx) If I do a Bing or Google search, I easily find the page (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-server/default.aspx), but from the product page I cannot locate the link... Are they trying to hide it? Why?

@Maddus Mattus: well, normally there is a (small) brick attached to the cord anyway, so if the cushion is small enough does it make much of a difference?

@Bas: Given how power hungry modern phones have become and that they basically took the place of desk phones, charging at work is almost mandatory. But if the thing is small enough, why bring a cable with you on the go? Sounds like THE solution to me.

3 days ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

@giovanni: they will let you sell it with an adapter.

Corrrect, but I don't find the idea of having an extra adaptor with me very efficient. I just hope there won't be different standards for wireless charging as I see it being potentially a very good solution for all of this.

3 days ago, Bas wrote

I love that connector. I personally can't stand fiddling with the micro-usb connector on my phone. I turn it over at least three or four times.

My GPS is even worse. I'm suspecting TomTom of making it deliberately hard to plug in without actually grabbing the device, turning it upside down and looking at the socket, in order to prevent you from plugging your device in while driving.

If it serves no other purpose than that (did they really drop the whole video/audio output over the connector thing? That seems... odd) then yeah, it's not much of an advantage over micro-usb, but still. I guess I just wish USB was orientation-agnostic.

If you don't like fiddling with the micro USB port (who does?), the ultimate solution is not a symmetric port but wireless charging, assuming you can leave the charger permanently plugged in.

8 minutes ago, Ian2 wrote

@Dr Herbie:I think I heard that it is a legal requirement for them in order to be able to sell iPhones in Europe.

Anyone confirm that?

Yes, this is the legal standard over here.

@Bass: You should at least try if you are among the largest companies of the world...

I just run into this announcement of a new all-in-one PC from HP. As it appears from the comments, I am not the only one who thinks most of the design looks "familiar". I mean, we are talking about HP, not a small garage business; can't they hire a decent designer with some imagination? A 20 years old industrial designer fresh out of college has more imagination than that!

Innovating is possible and I think Surface proved it!

@kettch: that would be a very good idea.