Fuck that noise. It’s a stupid idea to remove the audio jack and they’ll be morons if they follow through with it.

Ummmm...yeah...China.

Apple headphones are garbage though. I want to be able to use my own.

This is something I never understood about New 52.

As the video points out, that can’t be possible when you have storylines where characters merge or split via teleporter. When Riker is cloned via teleporter accident, there are twice as many Riker-related atoms afterward than before. If all that happens is that atoms are moved, then there shouldn’t be enough matter…

George O. Smith’s Venus Equilateral stories went into this; they were trying to invent a teleportation device, but what it wound up being was a replicator — you needed a supply of the correct atoms, but with a recording of something you could create an endless supply of that object as long as your power and the matter…

I can’t speak for inorganic things but living tissue is constantly being replaced when cells die out. While not as simple as the thought that every cell in your body has undergone replacement every 10 years, I believe it still seems to address the idea of the Ship of Theseus question without transporters even being…

In the future I image a Riker in every household

A map of sufficient detail becomes the actual thing.

Scotty kept himself in the memory buffer of a civilian-model transporter for decades. Apparently it doesn’t require a lot of power.

Your thinking is sound, but then the Riker clone episode is directly contradicted by the “Barkley is afraid of the transporter” episode where he is depicted as conscious throughout the process of being transported.

Oh, but you don’t even have to go so far to get batteries. Just feed grandpa into the transporter itself and use his own energy to reconfigure to the backup. And hey, maybe instead of last week’s backup you use the one from 10 years ago.

The Riker clone episode was one of my favorites. In fact I just watched the follow up DS9 episode Defiant.

The great thing about turning energy into matter is that all matter becomes pretty much worthless.

Would the very concept of an 'original' object even be valid anymore? If you can transport the vase, or the baseball card, or any other object, then in the ST universe you could also create it in the replicator. So if you could scan, and then identically replicate the 5000 year old vase, down to the carbon dating and…

made thinner by eliminating the headphone jack

I just don’t understand why they’d get rid of the headphone jack. Apple is still very focused on music and everyone I know uses their iPhone for music. It just seems like such a bizarre choice.

Ok, seriously: who out there is asking for a thinner iPhone? Why is this a metric that Apple feels the need to continuously minimize? The iPhone 6 is so thin that you pretty much need a case to grip it comfortably; let’s stop there with the size reductions. Especially, especially if it means an end to the 3.5mm…

I’ve long since - or, at least, since they released that flat-keyboarded, single-port monstrosity - accepted that the MacBook Air with non-shitty screen I’ve wanted for years pretty much definitely isn’t going to happen, but it still sucks.