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Quote: However, a recent report suggested that the high cost of adding Thunderbolt to peripherals may limit adoption of the standard. First of all, the link in this sentence goes to AI's own article, which then links to the wrong article at iLou…
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Fine. Airplay costs more because wireless almost always costs more than wired. But then... Quote: Similarly, the same report notes that the price of the components required to add a Thunderbolt port to an external hard drive "is roughly equal to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ameldrum1 ...the volume up button to activate the still shutter - the volume down button commenced video recording. That's a damned good idea! You should submit that to Apple.
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Quote: This person said the change "may" be a sign that Philips' LED flash will not be used in the upcoming fifth-generation iPhone. And yet, Philips' flash still provides better performance than Adobe's...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joseph L ...in the midst of brick and granite neighborhoods strike me as good architecture. Are you suggesting a new brick building in a seismic zone?
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Quote: Originally Posted by GlynParish I'd hate to be near the top floors of this if it caught on fire....... There are no top floors. They just keep going.
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Quote: Originally Posted by GlynParish That would make it a ring........ ...which would Rule Them All.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 40 miles away in comparison to England. I think the original point was in regards to planning Apple's campus in Cupertino, and how they should account for transportation. So no, Apple does not dictate w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jasenj But to do that effectively you need massive concentrations of destinations near the stops. I visited Hong Kong once and was amazed at the HUGE apartment buildings and office buildings. With a population density l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Worked for Jonathan Ive. He lives in San Francisco, not Cupertino. Or are you saying that Apple demanded he stay on Planet Earth in order to work for them?
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie Explain the glare coming off of those arrays then? In this part of California (Bay Area) the optimal fixed angle is around 20 degrees elevation. (This is due to the Time-Of-Use tariff that maximizes pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Only to those that don't know what's going on. At a fundamental level, it is using energy to move energy. In short, the opposite of irony, because when presented that way, you expect that to happen. I think…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer Applied widely across a city, PV would increase the Urban Heat Island effect. PV converts some of the sunlight into electricity, rather than heat absorbed into the roofing material. Solar panels actually …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mister Snitch [IMG]htp://photos.appleinsidercdn.com/IMG_1269.jpg[/IMG] Your public representatives at work, as it were. Can you please re-scale that? It's filling two screen-fulls in my browser.
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Quote: I just love the irony of that. Not really an irony, just applied engineering. I fully understand the engineering, but that doesn't mean it still isn't ironic. (Anecdote: When I lived in Boston…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tjwal Waste heat can also be used to drive chillers for air conditioning. I just love the irony of that. (Similar to natural gas-powered refrigerators.)
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc ... I would think, and actually put my net worth on stake here, that they have collectively created close to the perfect "green" headquarters at it's proposed size. I don't think that's the case - a perf…
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Quote: Originally Posted by One Fine Line Secondly, are you honestly trying to argue that working in some crappy box of a building is the same as working in a well designed one?? Not at all. You're misconstruing my example. I hate crappy of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I mean when adding something that gives an impression of being green, but which isn't making much difference. I'll agree with this, as many companies/architects throw the term 'green' around so much it los…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I'm not big on symbolic gestures. The entire building is one huge symbolic gesture!! Think about it; a corporate headquarter really doesn't need to be anything other than a boxy building with windows and…