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[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Odinbear:
For European Members who want a longer cable

Links to US sites can be very costly ie the link mentioned below;

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10303&cs_id=1030309&p_id=6505&seq=1&format=2

S&H $27.85 = (Ouch).. for a cable costing $2.72.

If your in the UK try the one below;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290509492045&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT]

Subtotal:

UK £1.85

Shipping & handling:

UK £0.92

Total:

UK £2.77 = Buy Now, lol..

Ordered on the 6th July. Arrived just now, plugged in and NOW charging..

Hong Kong to UK in 9 days including a weekend = Epic Customer Service. :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Mr.Clark:
Where do us Brits get a spare cable from?

Even bastion of random tat eBay only has an "Original Asus Transformer TF101 Charger NO USB CABLE" and they want £50 for that!

Having a decent length cable to travel with me would be really useful. I'm literally scared to take the one I have out of the house, as if I lose or break it, I'm boned.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Kevincod:
Ok well...

I left my plug overseas (lol), but I still do have the cable. I figured I could just use my samsung wall plug with the asus usb cable, but it receives no juice at all.

I've also tried a car to usb charger, is this normal?

Either way, I cant find any proper EU sites that sell it, and ordering it from the USA ends up double price due to shipping.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Mr.Clark:
I tried with my Kindle plug and an HTC one. Neither worked. I figure they've not got enough voltage. Or current. One of those.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] skeeterpro:
Is it just me or does it seem odd that we can buy the Asus TF Charger from third party suppliers BUT......Asus' eStore still shows them Unavailable?

Just odd. OK but odd.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] cyberboyuk:
Available in europe

asusparts.eu just search for tf101.

I can't put a link in apparently.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] evening2005:
I was just about to order a cable (€11.40, which is outrageous) but it would have cost €18 to get it to me (in the UK) by DHL. €30 is a bit much for a 30cm cable!
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] hauj0bb:
I fail to see how this Samsung keyboard accessory is better than the TF dock. No need to point out the obvious reasons.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Bob Smith42:
Okay you win. It is not. LOL

I was kidding, please notice the " ;) ".
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] skeeterpro:
Get this!

Just for grins I checked on Asus eStore on the AC Adapter......they've RAISED the price to $49.99! 50 bucks for this quirky little short cable.

C'mon Asus. Where does it say "Stupid" on my forehead??
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Bob Smith42:
Possible mistake?

Either photo, or part number & price wrong, not sure. There is a commercial.asus.com website that lists all accessories here.

That is the price for the travel charger, it comes with a bunch of different plugs. Maybe the part number changed, too.

They added a due in date for 15 August. Maybe it is good news because new accessories, e.g. travel chargers, will be available soon?
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Underwater Mike:
I'm surprised that no one has torn apart a cable and created one. Are the connectors really that hard to find?
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] theabsurdman:
not at all. i've seen that "proprietary" 40 pin connector listed on the tyco electronics website. why some taiwanese noname manufacturer hasn't knocked out a clone charger is a mystery to me too.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] skeeterpro:
One can only hope and wonder!
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] pokey9000:
You can't buy these even if you wanted to. Mouser is showing a 9 week lead time, and TE (Tyco) says that they don't have any parts up for sample or order via distys.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] Bob Smith42:
One could probably order in quantities of 500 or 1000. I do not plan on doing it, however.

I still have some mini-PCIe surface mount components, two thicknesses, that *could* be used in the TF101 if anyone interested. These are from back in the early eee pc days. I ordered a batch months ahead of eee pc mini-PCIe memory cards, and they helped early modders. ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] ryan stewart:
Possibly because they have already promised them to 3rd party suppliers.

I just got mine from that link posted earlier with the 27 in stock or whatever and its def an asus part. Came in a little "eee pad acessory" box that matches the look of the TFs box. Plugged it in and its charging the dock just like the one that came with the TF. Wrapped the same way too. So far the only difference i can tell is this one came assembled (but wrapped in plastic in a way that makes me think it was assembled prior). Its def labeled as a US model too makes me think the $40 one is a european/asian one with 50 optional plugs to account for all of the possibilities.
[Off-topic] mengo_:
I disapprove how WWF agitators sometimes invade the personal privacy of unsuspecting passer-byes, urging them to pay from 5 to over 50 Eu a month (for an year). The skill they often employ in evoking dereliction and blameworthiness into the minds of the people they talk to, turning their indifference towards the animal kingdom into self-blame, granted that they don't receive any funds from those people, is also well known and criticized by some.

This is very evident in the case with the Green peace Organisation (tm), which I'm almost convinced, serves a darker purpose in modern society as it wrongfully and unjustly makes use of the outdated "Global Warming / Climate Change" - propaganda as its chief source of income steering public opinion through the same machinations used by other and the already mentioned green organisations whilst its confirmed contribution remains somewhat unverified,

which brings the question - could they not be 100% right ?
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
While I agree with your sentiments, may I present Exhibit A:
[Off-topic] beatphreek:
Touche!!!
[Off-topic] xaccers:
As an astrophysicist and an astronomer, I'd like to correct you using this analogy.

Imagine you're snug in bed (the Earth), and you have central heating (the Sun) and blankets (CO2). The thermostat on the CH is wonky making the room temperature rise and drop on it's own accord (fluctuating solar activity).

Currently the CH is set to 20C, you pull a blanket on you and your temperature goes up higher than 20C, you pull another blanket on you, and it goes up even higher.

Now the CH hasn't changed, and the blankets aren't providing any extra heat, they're just trapping the heat in making you hotter than you would be without it.

The thermostat goes on the blink and sets itself to 25C, if you were just lying on the bed you'd get up to 25C, but you've got 3 blankets on you, so even though the CH is at 25C, you're hotter than that and start to feel unwell.

Then the thermostat drops itself down to 10C, the room cools as do you. Without those blankets you'd drop to 10C and feel quite cold, but because you have them your temperature is higher than it would be with just the CH, so it feels quite balmy.

Do you understand now that CO2 does affect the temperature and with it the climate?

The media and other luddites may not understand what science is telling them, and hear "CO2 is warming the plannet" when actually what is being said is "CO2 is making it hotter than it should be"

Currently the 11 year cycle is broken (which may explain the longer period that the Tories were in power followed by the longer than usual period that Labour remained in power) in that there is less activity than we would expect.

This is likely to lead to harsher winters which given the UK's inability to cope with a few feet of snow is what we scientists call a "very bad thing"

This is why it is not as hot as predicted due to the predictions using the 11 year solar cycle which you have by citing given credence to.

Using the current solar activity shows that the current global temperature is still higher than it would be at lower greenhouse gas levels (not just CO2 remember).

The US didn't sign up to the Kyoto agreement because the luddites in power at the time were funded by the fossil fuel industries, and rather than realising that a lot of money and jobs can be made by diversifying into genuine "green" technologies they went for the quick buck. I'm amazed you don't know this already. Incidently, due to the UK signing up to the Kyoto agreement, I can use much cheaper fuel without having to pay duty.

The Ozone layer was discovered in 1913, that's a good 60 years after the 1850s by the way.

The ice caps on Mars are mostly CO2, not frozen water, and they melt as Mars enters summer, just as on the Earth the ice caps melt as it enters summer, it just takes more energy to convert ice into water than it does to sublimate CO2 into gas. Come the Martian winter, the caps will be back. This happens every year.

The term climate change aids the explaination to luddites as to what actually is the effect of global warming, the sort of people who turn round and say "it's cold today therefore global warming must be a hoax"
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
TL;DR my friend. I said I agree with your sentiments (WWF, UN, etc. are ineffectual at best, corrupt and at worst speeding up the process), hence I stopped donating to these fine organizations.

But my original point, and the image I posted still stands. They are protecting our biodiversity, and they are protecting our environment (ever breathed clean air, really clean air outside the city?), they are creating a better future where our lives aren't dictated by the price of commodities, or by some resource that is very much limited in its nature (I'm talking about our reliance on fossil fuels).

The key here is sustainability. Hence, do we work towards a future where our needs for energy is sated by sustainable means, or do we keep burning dinosaurs and wonder where did the smog came from?

While I'm not sure about your procreation goals, I do wish to have children, and I do wish that when I hand over my world to them, I can tell them "Daddy made a difference" when it comes to giving them a better future.

Wiser men than I have said:

and I believe in that. I'm a steward of the world, and I don't want to look back on my life and say I didn't do squat to make it a better place.

Now, to answer some of your queries directly:

1. Global warming is the bull$#!@+ that the media spews. The correct term is Climate Change. Read up.

2. IPCC is a fraud, and so is their Chairman. I don't believe that we have enough data to conclusively say that humans are "causing a significant change in the global temperature" but I believe that humans are causing significant changes to the environment. Over-fishing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification are among the things that we are doing wrong, as well as the observable thinning of the ozone layer. While nothing can be conclusively said to be of human origin, it does seem quite a coincidence for it to happen at the exact same time as when human population growth is exponential, no?

3. USA is a major fraud. The Kyoto Protocol is not followed by the USA because their industry players said that to adhere to the protocol will cause them to lose their "global competitiveness" therefore their leaders did not sign it. Also, why compare to people who are clearly doing it wrong? Why aspire to be the worst?

4. It won't get observably hotter fast, but in the winter months, it will get observably colder, or at least more expensive when you can't pay for your heating bills. Luckily I stay in perpetual warmth, although I will miss my air-conditioner.

Overall, I'd say that your facts are weak, and based on little research, merely what you have personally observed. Without a PhD or a directly related degree, I'd say that the internet+Google+wikipedia will pwn your @$$ pretty easily. Stop using it for facebook and use it to learn for whatever sake. Also, XDA is a geek site, not Fark.com, so do expect some form of intelligence in the answers, and expect to be owned (especially on my turf) when you said something wrong, and say it stupidly (I really meant that and will gladly invite an infraction for saying it).
[Off-topic] mengo_:
thanks for the replies,

it's always hard to try and fight the well established ways of thinking even , if not the hardest in the scientific world where not only all previous knowledge is (supposed) to be backed with proof; and everything you say undergoes rigorous checks.

I tried to be critical about everything I wrote, but you have right, xaccers, I see some of it is unclear, but I still stand behind everything I said even that about the thinner ozone distribution over higher geographical widths, mainly Northern Europe where the hole is even bigger due to the specific air/sea currents being discovered sometime in the 19 th century in Norway (Ok not as early as the 50-s maybe, but still) ...or was it Denmark -

--I'll have to check again , thing is I'm doing medicine now so haven't opened my astrophysics notebooks in years, and this thing about the "global warming" being a rather popular science matter wasn't that much referred to in the curriculum. It was in generally regarded as a hoax by my professor...

..got distracted there,

1913 (lets stick to what wikipedia says) - hole in the ozone -- well that's still long before the air conditioner era (not forgetting here what they told us back then how quickly they are supposed to ruin the ozone layer)

I personally know one of the students of the guy who got cited by NASA about his predictions for the 23th (and 24th ??) solar cycle and described it very thoroughly giving its correct form (another maximum peak at the end and its supposed anomalies) and his predictions came true .

ice caps on Mars - I wasn't talking about polar caps on Mars melting because of the current Mars-summer, (that's just plain stupid, of course they would melt in the summer), I was talking that if you compare the ice caps dynamics in the last 30 years (they have good series of telescopic observations for download in the Nasa websites) and you compensate for latency , amount of change and so on... well they pretty much correlate to the general solar activity and Earth's middle temperatures (probably Earth's glaciers as well) , -look for this, there are many articles in the internet

Venus has a thicker atmosphere comprised of all sorts of "green house" gases - which aren't constant like blankets at all they are in continuous dynamic (although no plants and no industry on Venus) and again are dictated by the sun - it's difficult for me to go into detail right now

-I know I'm nothing but a layman in the field but I was fortunate to have met a lot of smart people, whose point of view I'm trying to defend
[Off-topic] mengo_:
I'm sorry that we have forsaken the civilised tone of the discourse but mentioning the creationists as a counterargument was hardly appropriate, it is just insulting...

who said anything that the Martian atmosphere plays a role in the matter, I was talking about ice caps melting under the pure influence of the solar activity.

(NASA doesn't cite creationists as far as I'm aware)

exactly what you are saying: constant HUGE volcanic activity - but stable temperature spectres nevertheless ? - showing how greenhouse gases are still regulated by natural phenomena

I will write you again in a couple of days about the ozone layer discovery , maybe back what i said with direct links. I'm not ready yet .

I'm not against ecology; just the opposite, if you would look through my discontent with falsifying science for political gain, you would see that I don't want to live to see the ecology movement as a whole being discredited in the near future after these theories have been cast away.
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
This thread is insulting

Sent from my NS (no it's NOT SNS or GNS)
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Phew, thank God this thread didn't descend into madness. Let's try to keep it civilized, alright?

The fact remains that I have worked and stayed in rural, semi-rural, and urban areas so I can say with certainty that on a weekday morning, the urban area has the worse smog. How observable does it have to be for us before we change our lifestyles for the better? In my country, we were encouraged to drive to boost the automotive industry. Here, our public transportation is so unreliable that I can't trust it to get me to work on time. On top of that, I have certain responsibilities that require me to drive. So I drive.

But I was really excited when they announced that an MRT system is going to be built up in my area. This will make my morning commute easier and less damaging to the environment.

When I go to a grocery store and just buy a few small items, I always tell the cashier to keep the plastic bags. I simply don't need them and consciously try to reduce my plastic footprint.

Similarly, when I buy good and equipment, I buy quality stuff that'll last longer, and I try not to buy synthetic materials.

All these add up to one thing; resources aren't infinite and we need conserve what we can.

Climate change might be controversial and polarising (believe me, I had made fun of it) but that does not mean it's not happening, and it doesn't mean that we (as humans) are completely innocent. We are, as a species, altering entire ecosystems with our action (or inaction) and we need to change that. I'm sure as a medical student, you are familiar with the adage:

And well, frankly, let's hope that in 30 years time, my kids will not look at Kung Fu Panda the same way I'd look at Kung Fu Triceratops.
[Off-topic] xaccers:
I wish supermarkets over here changed to paper bags like in the US so they can be easily recycled again, although our plastic bags are now very biodegradable (as I found out when stored something in a bag for 6 months and the bag just crumbled into plastic flakes when I tried to pick it up).

I also wish it was easier to get hold of waste vegetable oil for my car, I can find no suppliers in the area I live in.

SVO is better than diesel, but not as environmentally friendly as WVO.
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Tesco and Jusco started using bio-degradable plastic bags about a year ago. While I hate the fact that I can't use it for long, it does help the environment.

WVO is kinda hard to refine, hence it isn't really viable.
[Off-topic] xaccers:
I just need do heat (to remove water/acid) and filter it for my cars. I wouldn't make biodiesel, its dangerous and uses some nasty chemicals, and isn't as good for my engines.

In our city a few years back we were recycling 38% of our rubbish, which for the UK is one of the highest rates.

Hopefully it is going up, our council helps with weekly collections, free bags for recycleables, free wheelie bin for garden waste, free kitchen box for food waste, and free box for glass.

There are loads of recycling collection bins around, and most litter bins have a seperate section for recycleables.

About 80% of my household waste goes for recycling.

Any items taken to the tip that could be resold are transferred to charity shops so not only do they reduce the amount going to landfill, they are helping charities make money.
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
From what I understand, Taipei's municipality enforces a mandatory seperation of garbage into respective recyclable bags. I'd think that it's a great initiative, but with the "clever" people in my country...

I really try to keep from creating waste and garbage. Most of my boxes from gadgets and gears are re-used or re-purposed, and I have just gave away my old phone to a youth in my church.

And of course, charities do enjoy having donations. Seems like killing two birds with one stone, doesn't it? :D
[Off-topic] xaccers:
Indeed there really is no excuse to not seperate when the council make it so easy.

The concern over making it mandatory over here is that people would get fined because neighbours don't bother seperating and dump their mixed waste in other's bins.

We've already had some councils mis-using anti terror laws to spy on bins and fine owners because it was so full the lid wasn't able to close (the council did have its knuckles wrapped for that though).

At the moment I have my fiancee's late grandmother's clothes in the boot of my car ready to go to a charity this weekend.

It just makes sense to me to reuse (like you do with boxes) or repair items.
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Yup. Reducing consumption and reducing waste is a great way to save the earth. I have a tendency to NEVER waste food, and I'm steadily trying to balance hospitality and saving from wastage :D
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
The name change to this thread IS NOT an improvement. Please refrain from name calling (even if it's a charity, company ect) I find it highly offensive. You are entitled to your opinion but, I feel the thread title takes it too far.
[Off-topic] mengo_:
...changed name anyway , was too off-topic
[Off-topic] xaccers:
Yes, regarding the comments directed at the WWF in the OP, if someone feels guilty for not giving a charitable donation then that is down to the person not the charity, I know of no charity workers who wish to cause people distress, in fact in the UK there are regulations as to how charities are able to get donations, especially in public places.

I don't give to the WWF, along with many other charities, and I have no guilt about it.

They understand that people only have a finite amount of money they can donate, especially at the moment, and that it is a personal choice to donate.
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
I can't, always donate either and sometimes don't. That being, said, I still felt the thread tittle was offensive (the first AND, second ones). I will say that a DISCUSSION regarding climate change and related topics can be a good thing.
[Off-topic] xaccers:
I missed the second one.
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Well, I can't say about the second name (haven't seen it), but I think you'd have to give him a little credit for his willingness to change :)
[Off-topic] xaccers:
True, maybe we can change him into a tree huggin' pinko liberal hippy too :D
[Off-topic] flyboyovyick:
lolz i haven't got a clue whats going on with this climate change thing. Il just wait till 2012. I guess.

And then see what happens.
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
On the 21st December 2012...

Something will happen. In mere 96-hours, it will be Christmas.