Apple only expects your iPhone to last three years

Apple Watch expected to last only three years too, while Mac computers should last four, plus Apple slip-up points to OS X rebranding as MacOS

Oh dear perhaps I won't tell them about my iPad 2 (5 years in June), or my iPhone 4s, (was 3 in Feb, no doubt about to fail then).

Or of course my iPhone 3GS which is 6 years old and I will be using in a couple of weeks as a personal hotspot!

I suspect it is more to do with the wear and tear they get than reliability.

Oh almost forgot about my 2007 Macbook :-)

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My first iMac(the classic blue) lasted from summer of 2000 until it literally went up in smoke in summer of 2009. I've had it's replacement ever since, and with the exception of a noisy fan, it's doing fine. The fan is cause for worry though, I know.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

My first iMac(the classic blue) lasted from summer of 2000 until it literally went up in smoke in summer of 2009. I've had it's replacement ever since, and with the exception of a noisy fan, it's doing fine. The fan is cause for worry though, I know.

Me I'm just trying to get My pc working, so far short of finding the old bios chip, it is rma time for my evga x79 classified motherboard, I do have an alternative motherboard up my sleeve, an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme that has its own 3820 cpu, that should work just fine, at least on this one I didn't touch the bios chip.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Americans put Sweden's new phone number on speed dial.
+46 771 793 336
More than 84,000 from 173 countries calls have been made to Sweden since became it the first country in the world to launch its own phone number last week, with about 30 percent coming from the US.
https://youtu.be/S087OHdCG8I
http://www.thelocal.se/20160415/watch-swedish-pm-pick-up-for-the-swedish-number

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36067591

It had to happen sooner or later.

Now look at what is being developed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35890486

Imagine one of them passing through a jet turbine while it is landing or taking off

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Kevin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36067591

It had to happen sooner or later.

Now look at what is being developed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35890486

Imagine one of them passing through a jet turbine while it is landing or taking off

Chicken Gun

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36067591

It had to happen sooner or later.

Now look at what is being developed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35890486

Imagine one of them passing through a jet turbine while it is landing or taking off

Chicken Gun

For the rest of the aircraft it would probably be no worse than a frozen chicken, but that fuel tank would probably rupture if it was struck by a fan blade, even if the hydrogen did not explode imediately it would burn well when it passed through the rest of the engine.

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Kevin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36067591

It had to happen sooner or later.

Now look at what is being developed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35890486

Imagine one of them passing through a jet turbine while it is landing or taking off

Chicken Gun

For the rest of the aircraft it would probably be no worse than a frozen chicken, but that fuel tank would probably rupture if it was struck by a fan blade, even if the hydrogen did not explode imediately it would burn well when it passed through the rest of the engine.

And those tanks, I would guess Carbon Fibre or similar, may be a little solid for the rest of the engine... unlike the rest of the plastic parts of the drone.

Hmm I wonder about the metal motor parts?... probably too small and light I hope.

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Happy Crunching,

Graham

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36067591

It had to happen sooner or later.

Now look at what is being developed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35890486

Imagine one of them passing through a jet turbine while it is landing or taking off

Chicken Gun

For the rest of the aircraft it would probably be no worse than a frozen chicken, but that fuel tank would probably rupture if it was struck by a fan blade, even if the hydrogen did not explode imediately it would burn well when it passed through the rest of the engine.

And those tanks, I would guess Carbon Fibre or similar, may be a little solid for the rest of the engine... unlike the rest of the plastic parts of the drone.

Hmm I wonder about the metal motor parts?... probably too small and light I hope.

Frozen chicken?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FsrNEeqd6Q

Today this happened.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/british-airways-flight-struck-by-drone-near-heathrow-airport-a3227251.html

And those tanks, I would guess Carbon Fibre or similar, may be a little solid for the rest of the engine... unlike the rest of the plastic parts of the drone.

Hmm I wonder about the metal motor parts?... probably too small and light I hope.

Most of the tanks are composite or metal composite, Its whats in them though, most of those designed for cars work up to 10,000 psi, thats in gas form not liquified.

With these drones weight is critical, so I would assume everything will be as light as possible within safety margins and crash resistance tests but the front fan on some of these turbines can be revolving at up to 6,000 rpm and that fan is over 6 ft in diameter and made of titanium.

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Kevin

First, There was joke about Air Bus borrowing the FAA's chicken gun. Seems that all the windshields they tested failed. When the asked the FAA about it the response was "Thaw the chicken first"
No frozen chicken are used.

Second, it will not matter what the tank is made of. It's filled with hydrogen. Jet engines have blown apart from an internal oil leak. Ingestion of a liter of hydrogen will overspeed the engine. Parts will blow apart.

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Canada, your friendly neighbour to the north!

http://www.cbc.ca/punchline/lists/how-to-make-american-immigrants-feel-welcome-in-canada

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LoL :-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

First, There was joke about Air Bus borrowing the FAA's chicken gun. Seems that all the windshields they tested failed. When the asked the FAA about it the response was "Thaw the chicken first"
No frozen chicken are used.

Second, it will not matter what the tank is made of. It's filled with hydrogen. Jet engines have blown apart from an internal oil leak. Ingestion of a liter of hydrogen will overspeed the engine. Parts will blow apart.

Qantas_Flight_32 (A380 super jumbo). Rolls-Royce determined that the direct cause of the oil fire and resulting engine failure was a misaligned counter bore within a stub oil pipe leading to a fatigue fracture.

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Canada gets it right again!
Happy April 20th!

:):)

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Happy Birthday Your Royal Highness!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/queen-elizabeth-birthday-celebrations-1.3542838



Long may you reign over us!


edit:
The crown prince is a year younger than I am, and he looks years older...

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I would give dollars over dougnuts that Prince died from drug abuse of some kind.
The story about having a flu just don't cut it.
Another Jackson, with no excuse, some fleabag doc cutting the scripts, and years of legal battles following.
My take on it so far.
The man did not die of the simple flu.
Gimme a break check here, but I am dead certain I am right on this.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I would give dollars over dougnuts that Prince died from drug abuse of some kind.
The story about having a flu just don't cut it.
Another Jackson, with no excuse, some fleabag doc cutting the scripts, and years of legal battles following.
My take on it so far.
The man did not die of the simple flu.
Gimme a break check here, but I am dead certain I am right on this.

Agreed.

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I would give dollars over dougnuts that Prince died from drug abuse of some kind.
The story about having a flu just don't cut it.
Another Jackson, with no excuse, some fleabag doc cutting the scripts, and years of legal battles following.
My take on it so far.
The man did not die of the simple flu.
Gimme a break check here, but I am dead certain I am right on this.

Agreed.

Drug related, likely. Abuse, maybe not. Heard a report he got all his meds from the same pharmacy, that isn't the MO of abuse.

IIRC I heard a report the flu had progressed to pneumonia. Some opioids are contra-indicated with pneumonia. Possible he belonged in a hospital bed but either wouldn't go or didn't know he needed to. Vanity can kill.

I'd more expect that a doc he saw on the road didn't have a full medical history so he didn't know to order him to stop some med or know there might be a reaction to something he prescribed. Likely told the road doc he would see his regular one and didn't!

Lawsuits, yes, lots and long, doctors hauled in front of medical boards, etc.

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After getting arrested for robbing an Arby's, 36-year-old Dante Anderson claimed to be a time-traveling food bandit...

Oklahoma man claims to be time-traveling food bandit

In the future, everyone will get food by manhandling restaurant managers and then stealing a handful of chicken and bacon.

So said an Oklahoma City man, 36-year-old Dante Rashad Anderson, who told police when he was arrested Friday for robbery that he comes from a time four years into the future, FOX25 reported.

“I am from planet Earth 2016 and am four years advanced on you, and you guys are always trying (to) kill me,” Anderson is quoted as saying in a police report viewed by KOCO. “On my planet Earth, everyone is dead and I walked here from there.”

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