That xkcd describes far to much of my life.

Yup. It needs a "Well, you do realize, that product was not developed for the purpose you are using it for, so we can not support the problem you are experiencing" from tech support, and it'd wrap up my tech support life perfectly.

I'm always doing this. "Well it says in your specification that it can do all of these things, and that this is the technical limit." The response, "We actually didn't expect someone to try to make it do all of those things AT ONCE!" My retort, "Well, I guess it isn't out of beta yet then, is it? Get back to work!"

"Well, I guess it isn't out of beta yet then, is it? Get back to work!"

Heh.

ION,

Palm-sized USB fuel cell packs lots of juice, on sale this year

Lilliputian Systems is not a big name in portable power, but they have some big ideas, and this year, they've promised a big product: a fuel cell generator the size of a smartphone that will be able to generate enough power on one cartridge of butane to charge an iPhone up to 14 times. Goodbye batteries, hello liquid electricity.

Later this year, you'll be able to pick up Lilliputian Systems' portable USB power source from Brookstone for an undisclosed sum. It runs off of a special lighter-sized cartridge full of butane that'll cost you a couple bucks per, and will charge anything you can plug into it with a USB cable. When the cartridge runs dry, just pop in another one and you're fully recharged. It's simple, it's cheap, it's portable, it's reliable, and it's about time.

The rest of the article is a rant about how it requires proprietary butane cartridges. Dunno how much it'll cost.

Something I saw today:

Something you rarely heard during Alexander Graham Bell's time: "Dammit -- I just dropped my phone in the toilet."

Well, the very first words spoken over a phone were, "Watson, I need you!"

Maybe Bell needed Watson to retrieve his phone from the toilet.

(Or maybe Bell said, "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you." I've read conflicting things.)

Yeah, we figured out that QT10.1 is calculating total bitrate (bits/seconds) instead of average bitrate, which takes into account interframe compression.

I don't know why I read this thread. I'm like the dog in that Far Side cartoon. "Blah blah blah Ginger blah blah video blah blah Apple blah!"

Say i wanted to give a less-than-totally legal large mp4 to a friend and didn't want her to risk getting in trouble. This is totally theoretical, you understand....

What transfer site/system would you recommend, especially one that a less-than-technically adept friend could open and download said file?

I feel so out of it -- it's been a while since I (theoretically) did this.

Dropbox. You put it in your public folder and send your friend the URL. Use my referral link and we get extra space! :) [link]

Thanks Jon! If I were to transfer greyishly-legal materials, that would be very useful. ::looks shifty::