mikehall314

[1] Playing audio would stop, the noise cancellation would shut off, they would disconnect from my phone, seemingly reboot, then reconnect again.

Yeah, the condensation issue was a problem for me too. I ended up having to take them in for repair to Apple several times.

The noise cancellation went flakey, the auto-switching went flakey, they would crash [1] if lifted one cup from the side of my head. Apple ended up replacing them completely, but then the new pair eventually developed all the same faults.

I hope some of these are addressed in the new models, because despite all this I really enjoy them as headphones.

It has been suggested numerous times, but the BBC didn’t just record over the top - the tapes were erased with a degausser before reuse.

You're correct but as Uvix has said, BBC Enterprises made film copies for overseas sales before the original tapes were erased.

The earliest episode to survive on its original videotape is Ambassadors of Death episode 1 from 1970. None of the original 60s tapes still survive, though I believe there is at least one tape that we know used to have Doctor Who on it but which now has another programme.

The earliest episode to survive in its original medium is possibly The Dalek Invasion of Earth episode 5 (The Waking Ally). That's because, while this was shot on electronic studio cameras as usual, there were no videotape machines available to record.

Instead the output of those cameras was telerecorded straight to 35mm film. AIUI the negative of that telerecording still exists.

It’s easy enough to say “put the zip first because that will tell you city, state and country in one input”.

What happens to customers not in the United States? They have no zip to enter. Or if they have a postal code of some stripe, it has a different format.

What about folks who are in Turkmenistan, that you’re grumpy about having to scroll past? How are they signing up?

Yes, after which they announced they were canning their "Atlas" project, which was meant to be an Interface Builder for the web. Motorola decided they wanted to keep the technology in house.

No idea if they ever did anything with it!

I think originally Apple was using SproutCore, which had similar aspirations to produce "desktop quality" web apps, and was one of the early frameworks to implement things like two-way data binding. This was back when iCloud was called MobileMe.

SproutCore 2.0 became Ember.js 1.0, but I don't know if Apple are still using it.

Supposedly, although the team at Apple were able to implement it. I think they had some oddly named technology like Chicken which created a shadow stack trace? Half remembered.

I assume the 98% compatibility on ES6 for V8 is because they don't have tail call optimisation?