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AppleInsider said:

In Austin, Texas for instance, drivers along Interstate 35 have occasionally been pelted by rocks dropped from bridges.

Correction to this. That rock thrower was caught. It was initially thought that rocks were being thrown from bridges or an access road that ran parallel to a low-lying section of I-35, but it turned out it was the work of one man that would throw rocks from his vehicle to the other side running in the opposite direction. He is serving a 40 year sentence.

wood1208 said:

Which screen tech is better against much colder and much warmer temperature/weather ? LCD or OLED ? That is the Question !!

I would suspect that OLEDs are better in the cold. Most spec sheets on them that I have seen advertise a wider operating temperature range than LCDs, and that's without resorting to extended temperature range models that usually have significant compromises. LCDs have been around a lot longer and have a more thorough testing history so we know that they stop working once they get frozen. After all, the L in LCD stands for liquid. Liquids tend to become solids at their freezing points. It is possible to extend the freezing point of LCDs to much lower than 0C without using a battery-killing heater but that probably has a significant effect on other characteristics such as color accuracy -- and the iPhone has extremely good color accuracy. And let's not get into the misnomer of LED panel displays -- those are LCDs using LEDs as backlights.

I suspect that people will find that the color accuracy of the iPhone X will degrade more quickly than a comparable one that uses an LCD. Such is the nature of the OLED panel. After 10000 hours of usage people are going to notice a degradation. But that is a lot of hours on a cell phone.

MplsP said:

Has anyone else noticed that iOS 11 seems to be one of the buggiest releases in years? I just got an iPad Pro, and I love the multitasking features, but I’m probalby going to ‘downgrade’ my 6s to iOS 10 because the clock and notifications keep disappearing from the lock screen. 

Yeah, that isn't happening: http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/10/04/apple-ceases-ios-1033-and-ios-11-code-signing-following-ios-1102-update

Delta is going to save even more fuel by switching to Apple products. iPad Pro Wifi 10.5" is 469 grams, iPhone 7+ is 188 grams, Surface 2 is 676 grams, and Nokia Lumia 1520 is 209 grams. That doesn't count the external mouse and keyboard that seem to always accompany the Surface.

polymnia said:

MrWellington07 said:

Hmmmm... What's to stop someone from going to Best Buy and scanning every movie in the store???

I’d assume that’s why they collect location information. If you are scanning in retail environments, that probably flags you for investigation.

Vudu states:
"Why do you I need to allow the app GPS access to my device? Why do I need to add billing information?

We take fraudulent activity seriously, so we've implemented a number of security measures to ensure none takes place. Asking that users enable GPS helps ensure Mobile Disc to Digital is used from a customers' billing address on their own collections. We have also set a cap of 100 discs that can be converted per account per year via mobile."

https://support.vudu.com/?supportPage=home

I was wondering how well the upscaling works on an older movie, such as Aliens which was filmed in 1979. Did they remaster HD content from film cellulose or was it simply upscaled digitally? Can anyone attest to a much better picture/sound quality?