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I ett blogginlägg har Phonebloks berättat mer om Project Ara, vilket är Googles satsning på en modulär och uppgraderingsbar smartphone. Första Project Ara-telefonen beräknas fortfarande komma tidigt 2015. En fullt fungerande prototyp sägs presenteras under en utvecklarkonferens i december.

Eftersom Android inte är byggt för att hantera dynamisk hårdvara har Project Ara samarbetat med Linaro för att anpassa Android L. Modifierade versionen av plattformen kommer tillåta att användare byter ut de flesta typer av moduler, förutom processor och skärm, utan att enheten först stängs av. Det inkluderar moduler som exempelvis kamera och batteri.

Modulerna för Project Ara kommer säljas online i en butik som liknar Google Play. Komponenterna behöver certifieras innan de säljs till konsumenter. Är ni intresserade av en modulär smartphone vars komponenter går att byta ut och uppgradera på egen hand?

Inlägget Project Ara kommer tidigt 2015, kör modifierad version av Android L dök först upp på Swedroid.

OnePlus har som bekant haft ett inbjudningssystem för köp av företagets första och hittills enda smartphone One. Systemet har använts för att se till att beställningarna inte skenar långt framför produktionen. I en frågestund på Reddit berättar tillverkaren nu att lanseringen inte gick som planerat. Gänget missbedömde efterfrågan, som blev runt 30 gånger högre än väntat.

Things definitely haven’t gone as planned. Looking back, we probably misjudged demand by 30x, and are scrambling to catch up. Our team wasn’t built to handle this growth. We’re hiring like crazy, and things should be under control in a few months.

Företaget berättar även att det inte kommer gå att köpa One i år utan inbjudan eller förbeställning. OnePlus menar att de hellre växer långsammare men på ”ett hälsosamt vis” än att riskera att gå under. I samma veva nämner tillverkarens anställda att de planerar att släppa uppföljaren till One under andra eller tredje kvartalet 2015. Även nya telefonen kommer sannolikt ha ett inbjudningssystem initialt, enligt OnePlus.

Not in 2014. We understand that our current method may be slowing our growth down, but we’d rather grow slower and in a healthy way than taking too much risk and going out of business. Risk management is extra important in our scenario where we don’t have hardware margins.

Inlägget OnePlus: Efterfrågan blev 30 gånger högre än väntat dök först upp på Swedroid.

The Simpsons' couch gags have turned into a showcase for different directors and animators who often turn the opening credits into spectacular short films. We're particularly in love with the sublime strangeness of last night's couch gag, which imagines the animated family some 8,000 years in the future.

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A fantastic and all too true comic by Dave Mercier (MercWorks) and Andrew Bridgman from Dorkly.

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It had to happen I guess, someone absolutely had to make a sexy version of Olaf from Frozen for Halloween this year. Yandy.com is well known for their slightly “risqué” costumes, and the rest of their Frozen-inspired costumes are totally ok, but Olaf, really?

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rashaka:

You don’t really understand Star Trek until you’ve seen Galaxy Quest.

Galaxy Quest is the best of all the Star Trek movies.

Most of us know that "if you want a job done right, do it yourself." We don't always have the time to do it ourselves, though. If someone can do the job 70% right, it's a prime task for delegation.

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At least that’s what Alex Winter, a.k.a. Bill S. Preston, Esq., told Yahoo! Movies UK recently.

After the Bill & Ted franchise, Winter focused more on directing, but he is excited to reprise his iconic role:

“[Bill & Ted] will be 40-something and it’s all about Bill and Ted grown up, or not grown up,” Winter tells us. “It’s really sweet and really f—ing funny.

“But it’s a Bill & Ted movie, that’s what it is. It’s for the fans of Bill & Ted. It fits very neatly in the [series]. It’s not going to feel like a reboot. The conceit is really funny: What if you’re middle-aged, haven’t really grown up and you’re supposed to have saved the world and maybe, just maybe, you kinda haven’t?”

“There’s many versions of ourselves in this movie,” he continues. “[It’s] answering the question: ‘What happened to these guys?’ They’re supposed to have done all this stuff, they weren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree, what happened 20 years later? To answer that question in a comedic way felt rich with possibility.”

So, like, who out there is, like, totally excited??

Photographed at Dragon Con 2014 by Flickr User Hiro Protagonist2004.

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iguanamouth:

she just stood there doing this little dance until we got up

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Over at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg adds to her ongoing alt-history series of movies, books and TV shows penned by Objectivist Ayn Rand (previously ). The results are characteristically superb.

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I’ve written before about how useful I believe the bittorrent protocol is, and today I wanted to share something with you guys that you may not have known about (I’m pretty with it, as the kids say, and I didn’t even know about this until a couple of weeks ago): Bittorrent Bundles. The BT Bundles are all legal, official, and released by artists to promote and share their work with their audience. Instead of paying for server space and bandwidth, artists seed files, and let the bittorrent community do the rest.

You can find tons of bundles at https://bundles.bittorrent.com/. Here’s Moby’s Innocents, De La Soul’s Smell the Da.I.S.Y, and Thom Yorke’s newest solo work, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes . Most of the artists release a couple tracks for free, with the option to pay them for the full album. These are incredibly fast torrents, too, because so many people seed them.

Whenever someone tries to argue that torrents are just for piracy, I show them the BT Bundles, because it’s such an effective way for artists to promote themselves and share their creations with their audience.

PROLOGUE

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

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brucesterling:

*That red stuff is what people still think economic reality is and the gray stuff is the actual reality.  Americans, not even in the contest

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astudyinawesome:

"Do you think anyone will notice they’re just cardboard cutouts?"

"Look, we’ve already stretched the budget to £10.50, they’ll just have to deal with it."

TSA Agent: Sir you can’t bring this deathstar into the country.

Darth Vader: But that’s just a moon!

TSA Agent: That’s no moon sir.

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gracehelbl0g:

This is Sam Pepper. If you don’t know who he is, Sam is a successful YouTube prankster with over 2 million subscribers. He recently uploaded a video titled “Fake Hand Ass Pink Prank" where he pinched unsuspecting girls’ butts without their permission. None of this was done with the girls’ consent…meaning Sam Pepper sexually harassed and assaulted these women.

This is no longer a “simple, harmless prank” but rather a very serious matter and offence. If you haven’t seen the video yet, you can watch, dislike, and report it HERE. You can also take the pledge to help stop sexual violence at itsonus.org. Please do not let Sam get away with this kind of behavior. He crossed the line and needs to be held responsible for his disgusting actions.

This piece of garbage, right here, should be prosecuted for this.

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