No They don't need a base station. The speakers just plug into a wall outlet. Once powered you put them in a pair mode by holding a couple buttons and searching with your app on the phone to find the speaker. Every speaker you pair is added to the system and you can play music to any combination of speakers from the…

So... no nice phones for the US i'm hearing? *sob*

No minisplits generally only work with their included IR remotes. To make them run of a standard control interlace you have to take em apart and rewire them. We've done it for some customers. It's not worth the trouble in most cases.

The new plans have unlimited data available. Nowhere in this did it say anything about unlimited going away.

The new plans have unlimited data....

I do this and it's partly the reason this commenting system is so frustrating. Boxes keep popping up!

Look up pimpbot 5000. Good times.

You can do like my wife and keep a iPad for the IOS apps and tote around a hot HTC One for a phone.

Also a threat to our privacy... the phone book. It lets everyone know our phone numbers!

Imagine a world where computers sometimes fail. In this world you haven't had you're Xbox on in for than a day. The authorization computers fail (think Sony PS Plus for a month). You turn on your GAMING console hoping to play the new hotness.

This could make the living room PC a far easier thing to work with. My body is ready.

I can't take any flow chart seriously that recommends anyone ever watch Aeon Flux the movie. *shudder*

Unbroken continuity of consciousness you say? The times when you are in deep sleep and not dreaming you are conscious? What if parts of your brain were swapped out one by one every night until a whole new brain was in your head. At what point are you not yourself?

I think this applies. Just give it a second for the music to start then move the mouse around. Smiles are had.

My only real objection is that I know how easy it is to hack a iPad and if someone on the plane is tech savvy enough he'she could crash it or change information to catastrophic results.

And we know this because we don't spend money researching Malaria and other diseases that effect the poor.

>implying the commenting isn't already a horror

In comes 4chan. Hilarity ensues.

Seriously Gawker has no room to talk.

There are a ton of things that aren't 'metro' related that they added. Not saying 7 is bad but there are a lot of new enhancements.