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First Wind-up Phone Charger Review
Jonathan Bennett writes "Here's the first actual review (as opposed to speculation) of Motorola's FreeCharge hand-operated mobile phone charger. Only works with Motorola phones for now, but other devices on the way.
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First Post!
"Motorola claims that 45 seconds' winding will produce 4-6 minutes of talk time and 'several hours' of standby time."
That's actually not bad at all. The only problem is that if you wind it to get standby back, if someone calls you are likely to only have a minute or so of talking. This seems like an excellent idea for emergencies though.
Q: How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
A: A wood chuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
This is nothing more than a dynamo flashlight or disaster radio without the bulb or radio.
I'm not impressed!
AWG
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
For years, I've been excercizing for this product, once, twice, or sometimes even three times a day. At last all that hard work and repetitive motion will pay off.
And if I can get one of those phones that can view color photos, I might be able to continue excercizing after I've charged it.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
Wow cool what next a wined up Cmd TACO doll
A "squeeze the handle a few times and you can make a call" unit might be more useful.
i wanna know if it RUNS LINUIX for LINUX IS ALL I KNOW
Why don't they just do it like watches do?
Or: http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/clocks.html
OK you better be away from a power source for a LONG time before you need one of these. Granted if you were realy desperate and bothered to cary this small brick around with you. The battery side that takes 36 minutes of winding to charge is 1000ma assuming you would spend an hour a day winding this thing up (or just plug it into a socket and recharge it) and that it weighs in at two thirds of a pound you would be better off getting a few extra cell phone batteries (yes some people do actualy remove there battery and replace it every now and again)
No sir I dont like it.
Uh, not to repeat myself but... Almost usless news connected to products yet again
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred more than three weeks ago, and you people are discussing the the the first wind-up phone charger review???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
Now your wrist can get tired on all of your phone calls, not just the ones you hope your significant other doesn't see on the bill.
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As well as the mobile charger modules, you're given a torch module for the FreeCharge. Unfortunately it's a bit disappointing, considering that FreePlay has produced wind-up torches before.
This sounds like some cool James Bond device. Battery charger for emergency phone calls AND bad guy incinerator!
(Yes, it's a joke.)
Forget the whales - save the babies.
The nerd in me wants to know if you are winding a sping or direct charging....
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Jack not name, jack job!
I hadn't heard of this product before, but I'm excited. Imagine what it'll be like when these devices become commonplace...you'll get up in the morning and grind and brew coffee by hand. Wind up your radio to hear the news as you crank up the microwave for some oatmeal. Then crank your car and drive to work, where you spend all day in front of a computer, pedalling a stationary bike.
We will all be quite muscular!
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Maybe this isn't a good thing...
We used a phone generator to
get captured gooks to talk.
Worked just fine
This hand powered webserver was featured on slashdot awhile ago. Personally I find this cooler, even if it is less usefull.
Hmm.. I just imagine the rage when people get telemarketing calls with that phone...
"You made me crank my phone for this crap?! You better tell me something interesting and fast, or I'm going to let you wind down!"
"PC Load Letter? What the $@#% does that mean?!"
Damnit the phone's dead. Oh wait...wind wind wind wind wind wind wind
Yeah 911? There's an axewielding maniac freak after me, send help. Thanks.
Everyone else: For sixty bucks yeah..
Us: $60?! Are you F*CKING CRAZY?!
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred more than nine months ago, and you people are discussing the the the first wind-up phone charger review???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!!!
The amount of rigorous cranking it takes to get a charge makes this generator seem inefficient. Maybe efficiency was sacrificed for portability.
Human legs are much more powerful than arms. some sort of foot-operated device would be more tolerable in terms of effort, but probably not as portable. Piezoelectrics that sit in the soles of shoes are not very intrusive, and could provide power over a long time. I believe this is what the MIT wearables group is using.
Hand power, foot power, wind power, and water power require different gearing ratios in order to operate efficiently. An impressive design would allow this type of switch through some type of transmission (CVT? Pneumatic?), and have linkage adapters to hands, feet, windmill blades, waterwheels, etc. The problem is accomplishing this while maintaining a light weight.
What about strapping the thing you your belt and harness the kinetic energy from your movements. There are some things like watches that do this. Of course cell phones use more power than that but, if I get off my fat ass and run the 4 miles home from work, I might build up enough to be able to call and order a pizza. :-)
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I'll bet they would have liked to have one of these on "Survivor," "Six Days, Seven Nights," or "Gilligan's Island."
Now if they just would come up with a portable cell tower...
Seriously, on the chance that in an emergency I would be near enough to civiliazation to use a cell phone, I'd put one of these in the survival kit in my plane. I have a long-shelf-life disposable battery for my Nokia in there now.
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This little devices gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Crank Call"
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According to the article, there is no clockwork involved in the charger. The handle turns the generator directly. The box is already larger than a cellphone, so why not include clockwork? Instead of using hand power to turn a generator, why not use handpower to compress a spring (at a significant mechanical advantage, of course) that turns a flywheel that turns the generator.
Of course it would be much harder to turn the crank, but you wouldn't have to keep up an exhausting pace of over 100rpm. At least in my mind, I'd rather turn a very hard-to-turn crank 10 times than an easy to turn crank 1000 times.
Does this model work? I've seen it work in some of the various other 'squeeze and go' utilities out there. I had a flashlight/FM radio combo a little while back that used something similar (handle, spring, and flywheel arrangement). It was relatively hard to crank, but one or two cranks got you 30 seconds of flashlight or 5 minutes of radio at top volume.
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Now all they have to do is offer an electronic device that does the winding for you...
-- Adam
It started out well enough when within months I was helping to run one of the top three public houses owned by the largest brewery in the UK. I was living in a million pound property and managing 15 people, on the fast track to eventually managing my own pub. In the course of six months I was taking the exams required to be a licensee and the day to day running was entirely in my hands.
However things were not entirely fabulous, I was living in a tiny horrible room and working from seven in the morning until midnight, six or seven days a week. When I got up in the morning and went to bed at night, I was still at work and couldn't escape from the constant pressure of the job. The pub was located far away from all my friends and when I did get any free time the last thing I wanted to do was travel... I just slept.
Finally after another six months I needed a break so I went off to Ireland to visit relatives, when it became apparent that like many managers of public houses I was developing a very impressive alcohol habit... I needed it in the morning to wake up, during the day to keep me going and vast quantities at night just to get to sleep. I thought it strange that I hadn't really noticed it until I was with friends and relatives again, but they were concerned and worried about me.
All too soon the two weeks were up and I flew back to the UK. I was standing outside the building at six in the morning, the can of cider in my hand just dreading starting the whole process again. Without a word to anyone I turned my back on the job, my colleagues and just walked away. I had nowhere to go but the idea of this hell continuing was just too much to comprehend, I needed time alone, away from everyone to get my head back on. I walked and walked, I plummeted into the depths of depression. My bank account was almost bare and all I had to my name was a bag of clothes. To get sober and straight again I had to drink what was left and be completely destitute, I know this is a bizarre concept but in my head at the time, I knew that if I had money I would spend it on alcohol.
I was paranoid and scared but I knew that if I was going to work this out of my system it had to be done. The first night I slept in a shop doorway was an education in itself, I had slept out in tents when on camping trips or at music festivals but the bitingly cold air at night was a new experience. I rapidly learned why the homeless sleep on cardboard boxes, it insulates you from the cold hard concrete, sleeping in boxes hides you from the wind.
Meeting my new friends was an education in itself, I was rapidly accepted as 'one of them' a person in misery with nowhere to go. I met children who had run away from home, thinking they could join the army or something just to get away from abusive relations. I met the mentally ill and alcoholics who had lives with homes and family in the past but had either lost them or been thrown out. Teenagers locked out by parents who could no longer communicate or relate to them. Drug addicts who blanked it all out with whatever substance was close at hand.
Considering what was going on around me, I am astounded I managed to get sober but I did. I started getting to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings every day, sometimes twice a day. I had eaten other peoples discarded food and waste for what seemed an eternity until I found soup runs and hostels which could provide me with food but not shelter. I started getting myself organized and signed on to receive social security but that was going to take a while to come through so I kept on doing what I was doing. With my mind coming back to me I began to observe what had happened to me with a clearer head, I watched as the commuters and tourists averted their eyes from me in disgust unable to comprehend how someone could sink so low. I met beggars who went home at night to sleep in warm beds and safe houses. I met prostitutes, pimps, pushers and perverts all of whom were looking for a chink in your armour, to gain any leverage or advantage.
I learnt all about survival and keeping a low profile, carrying weapons for protection and avoiding regular beatings from drunks and groups of young men with attitude and testosterone to burn. And I learnt a great deal about myself... how when you strip away the civility of society it is an ugly and scary place. The most important things in life are not friends and family, but food, safety and shelter in that order. Things I have never really taken for granted ever since.
After three months of this I checked myself into an alcohol recovery project with my new social security book, for without it you cannot get a hostel or shelter to take you in. I spent another three months confined within those walls undergoing constant counseling and analysis with the promise of sheltered accommodation maybe a year down the line. Eventually I walked out of that too and opened a squat with four American travellers and a couple of Polish girls. But that's another story...
I don't walk down the street and avoid the homeless any more, sometimes I stop and talk a little and if I can, help with advice and a kind word. I have heard a lot of stupid things said about the homeless but when it happened to me I met kind souls who helped me, I like to think that I can help now and again myself rather than just walk on by.
This cranking is tiring! Now if I hooked up a motor to the crank, powered by a small battery, I could save a lot of work!
Wow..
Yet another way for us to get RSI. I cant wait.. Think about it. Sitting around the campfire with your friends tipping back some brew.. And then you friend passes you..no not a joint.. but the hand cranker. The hours just fly by.
If I were only smart enough to accomplish the things I dream about.. Or maybe too dumb to care.
Da w0rst terr0r1st att4ck in USA occur nine month ago, and you talking with Wind-up Phone Charger? My *deity*, get priority people!
Now we'll all know that the in-duh-vidual having the wild converstaion is on a hands free cell phone call because they are crancking for their life.... and looking like they are having a conversation with their "inner" self.
NOTE: Your not that important, and nobody want to hear it.
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... MS releases a Windows wind-up as well? Sometimes you just wish it had one of these when it freezes!
Andre "Don't take life too seriously. You're not getting out of it alive, anyway."
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Yet again the Linux so-called elite, backed up by their pseudo intellectual cohorts of the w3c conspire to ruin Linux's chances in the marketplace by sowing confusion and complexity. As someone with years of experience in the marketing world, I am constantly amazed at the willingness of the W3C and other bodies to pollute the acronym space with their content free "TLAs".
Basic marketing 101 (and an undergrad course in psychology) would tell them that the normal person is only capable of remembering approximately 7 items of data in their short-term memory, but now we have to remember HTTP, HTML, XML, XSL, DTD, PHP, SSL, DSL, ADSL, ISDN, Perl, etc etc etc
This is a text book example of the tail wagging the dog from a marketing perspective.
I have been following the standardisation of the web for many many months now, but one thing has become clear, E-commerce will NEVER become popular so long as there are so many confusing acronyms involved. The guys in charge of marketing Linux absolutely MUST work to reduce the number of acronyms. One possible solution would be to merge those protocols which are not all that different. For example, why not merge XML with SGML ? (they could call it XSGML or SXGML or perhaps XMSGML), they seem to address the same problems. Or would that be too simplistic a solution for their pampered elitist ivy-league minds to comprehend ?
If something is not done URGENTLY, and I mean URGENTLY, Linux (and other more experimental derivatives such as FreeBSD) can never hope to be taken seriously as an e-commerce platform by the people who count - the accountants.
The miracle of Linux is that anyone actually runs it at all, considering one seems to require a masters in computer science to install it! (contrast this with NT4 which was so easy to install, we let our receptionist upgrade her own machine).
As usual my "open source" advice is free. Hopefully this time my valuable advice will be taken into account the next time the w3c smell an acronym brewing.
Finally, in conclusion, as an American, I am saddened that the Internet seems to have been commandeered by a European based protocol. Was America so short of talent we had to buy the HTML protocol from Tom Berners-Lee at CERN ?
Think of the security implications of the worlds strongest economy, running an e-commerce protocol developed by a foreigner from Socialist Europe. Remember the wall has not been down for that long. Who knows what kind of trojans might be lurking within the depths of these complicated protocols.
I am afraid I am behind Al Gore on this point, how can this be necessary in the home of smart corporations such as Microsoft and Intel ? The answer is the vast subsidies given by European socialist governments to fund development of the HTML specification.
The solution is clear. The federal government should mandate and strongly subsidise the use of Microsoft software for all US corporations involved in e-commerce. Only with a US-developed set of protocols can we be assured of the security of our transactions.
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dpLEsO9JdA Post #791
I think it is pretty cool for emergency use. They should have done this a long time ago.
You could carry this as backup. Emphasis on could. I won't. Emergencies are the only situations that I could ever picture using this for. In any other situations, this unit is good for nothing. Outlets are everywhere! Plug-in chargers are tiny and convenient! This is no better than hamsters running on wheels to power it.
We're Doomed
now if i ever get stranded on the side of a mountian i won't have to fling my batteries into the snow so that they can be magically recharged, i do emphasis magical, because frozen batteries don't work
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I am reminded of a far side cartoon by Gary Larsen where a bunch of geeks with one big strong arm are standing around making fun of a guy who doesnt have one big strong arm.
cant remember exact context though.
I object to that article, and to the next reply.
I've been using home computers since the VIC-20 and I've come to dread and fear the possibility of being forced to adopt Linux as a result of Microsoft's heavy-handedness. After being hyped by friends and co-workers about the pleasures of this great and fantastic open-source operating system, I attempted to load Linux, not once but four times on three year old PC that was previously running Win98.
The first time took me about an hour to realize that I had to reformat the hard disk and wipe out years worth of work (after backing it up on CD-R). Then I had to figure that the only way to get the Linux CD to actually start loading was to boot it from the CD by modifying the CMOS settings as the PC was starting up. A simple line suggesting this that could have been printed on the CD would have saved a lot of time!
After loading a whole gigabyte of stuff onto the empty hard drive (do I really need to load 50 megabytes of TeX fonts when I'm just trying to get a demo of Linux????), the entire process halted when the floppy disk drive didn't respond. The Linux loader demanded a working floppy backup of some obscure file be made and since I've never used the floppy drive, I didn't know that it didn't work. The installation process locked up and I had to reboot.
The reboot left me in UNIX hell: a black screen half filled with incomprehensible characters with a single flashing dollar sign as the only indication that the entire PC was still working. No matter what I typed or tried (simple intutitve commands like 'help' 'review' 'exit' 'restore' 'dir' 'What the fuck is happening?') nothing made any intelligent response except for returning me to the flashing dollar sign. Shit! I'm in Dante's seventh circle of hell for misers. I was forced to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows in order to confirm that I still had a working PC.
I bought a new floppy drive that I will never use in order to load this wonderful and fantastic operating system. Reformated the hard drive, reset the CMOS, and loaded a whole gig of worthless junk from the penguin CD. Everything loaded and I made all of the selections for keyboard and mouse ect... The system rebooted and got to the point where it should have started to work and simply stopped. No response to mouse, keypress, or anything. I reloaded Windows (it worked perfectly) and decided to load Linux on my new good computer.
I ended up back bashed back in UNIX hell and having to load Windows and ALL of my programs and files from CD backups, which took hours. I convinced that Linux is some kind of really bad joke or else an 'emperor's new clothes' type of mass hallucination. How can anyone with a pretension of being a computer professional seriously believe or claim that this junk is ready to take on Windows?
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aL2vLg4cRI Post #792
So it's a reciprocal motion dynamo? I swore the article said it was rotary.
You know, you can make both your forearms the same size by winding this phone charger with the hand you don't "exercise" with.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
too bad the wind-up phone charger isn't battery powered.
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So I'm using 2 hands to crank this thing, holding my cell phone against my ear with my shoulder as I talk, steering through rush hour with my left knee SCRrreeeeee!!CRASH!!
It's easy to make up & spread cool- and credible-sounding stuff. Finding & checking hard facts is hard work.
Martin Van Buren, a former president and an abolisnist, died 140 years ago today, and you people are discussing the first wind-up phone charger review? GET SOME PRIORITIES, people!
It's bad enough when Susie in her corvette is driving in front of me with her ear glued to the cell phone. Just imagine when her phone starts going out and she's in the middle of a lane change getting ready to wind... (shudder)
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NF7Efdobmg Post #793
Into beastiality eh? Carrie looks like a fucking horse.
It would be cool to have a phone that has *only* a crank and you would throw it in the trunk - or camper or whatever. When you were hiking, or camping or stranded somewhere - you crank it up for a bit - enought to make a 10 minute phone call - and when you connect you just get charged for that one call....
prolly a long way from that type of service, but I am sure we will have these some day.
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Suddenly without the means [/] To bring up the MetaModeration screen?
It's not the servers re-boot-ing [/] It's just you, banned by Slashteam! *hey*
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w5mXNS0g7W Post #794
I think this is a great idea.
I wouldn't want to use it to reguarily charge my phone, but it could come in handy in an emergency situation.
Picture a crowded intercity train. With an inconsiderate commuter phoning home.
Then:
"HELLO? HELLO? I SAID I'M GOING TO BE LATE! HELLO? @#$% battery!"
Now:
"HELLO? HELLO? I SAID I'M GOING TO BE LATE, DARLING! Damn."
(insert loud cranking sound)
"AAH, THAT'S BETTER! NOW, ANYWAY, I SAID I'M GOING TO BE LATE BACK! HOW LONG? UH, ABOUT HALF AN HOUR TO AN HOUR LATE! YES? CAN YOU PUT MY DINNER IN THE OVEN? WHAT? HANG ON!"
(insert loud cranking sound)
"YES, DINNER! IN OVEN! OH, CAN YOU GET THE WASHING MACHINE READY FOR WHEN I COME IN? OK? WAIT, GOING THROUGH A TUNNEL! HANG ON! PUT THE WASHING MACHINE ON! WHAT DO YOU MEAN? MY SUIT! HELLO? HANG ON!"
(insert loud cranking sound)
To be repeated ad fucking nauseam.
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What they need is a foot pedal. That way you could talk while charging it.
... that I have been strengthening the muscles in my right arm. Now I can recharge my battery efficiently. Wonder what talk time I would get now :D
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Everybody wears these things on their hips, why not a charger that that works like a pedometer? I heard the "average person" walks 10 miles just in a normal day. So lets see...3 feet per step=1760 steps per mile=17600 up and down jolts per day. (not counting the horizontal hip shuffles that I personally take my phone off for)
That tech support that does not kill me...drives me crazier
Why not combine the crank with an attachment that would make the activity necessary to generate the power to transfer to the cell phone battery a little less annoying and perhaps a little, er, more rewarding? I mean, if you've got to sit there and turn your own crank anyway...
Lots of petrified grits
There are already solar powered battery chargers on the market.
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It's a ZDnet site...'or else they'd need a windup chager for their webserver!
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Is das nicht ein WIPO Troll? Ja! Das ist der WIPO Troll!
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WIPO Troll, Goatse hole, CowBoiKneel, manchode meal,
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Is das nicht Jon Katz' slave boys? Ja! Das ist Jon Katz' slave boys!
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Katz' slave boys, Rob's sex toys, WIPO Troll, Goatse hole,
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Change Log:
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* Removed all references to Taco's pud. May have been high at time. Will investigate further.
* Finally think I have goat sex written correctly in German. I think. Arschficken?
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gYmg5DIPm1 Post #795
The article simply quotes drivel from Motorolla. "Motorolla" says this and "Motorolla" says that.
Is this the state of pathetetic journalism?
I wanted to see what someone said after they had one in their hands.
My god! How much time does it really get?
Heck, Sony claimed I could get three hours battery time off my VAIO laptop. Not once did I see it get two hours from regualar use.
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OPEN SOURCE MISCONCEPTIONS
By Serial Troller
Myth: Open Source is written by heterosexuals.
Fact: All Open Source development is done by raging homosexuals. The more flaming examples include Anal Cox, Linus Turdballs, Eric Ass-Reaming Raymond, and the entire Slashdot crew. The ringleader of the slashdotters, a man named CmdrTaco, engages in a practice known as Taco-snotting, along with his faggot-buddies Jeff Homos Bates and CowBoiKneel.
Myth: Open Source is written for heterosexuals.
Fact: Using Open Source software can cause suppressed homosexual fantasies to surface, leading to all out flaming faggotry within 6-8 weeks. Anecdotes of otherwise hetero men turning queer are far too numerous to count, but a few examples stand out. In one case, a man was arrested loitering outside an elementary school and making sexual overtures to several children: he quickly confessed that shortly after installing the Mozilla browser on his computer, he began to have uncontrollable urges to, to put it simply, have his cock sucked off by little boys. He soon met several other like-minded men through discussions on the Bugger Zilla mailing list (all already homosexuals), who together kidnapped a total of seven children whom they brought back to their apartment and sodomized. The other two men are still at large and believed to still be using Mozilla.
Myth: Open Source is multicultural.
Fact: Open Source is openly racist.
Myth: Open Source is democratic.
Fact: Open Source is controlled by a few narrow-minded zealots (mentioned throughout this post), most of whom are either Communists, Stalinists, Nazis, or Fascists. Additionally, Open Source supports terrorism.
Myth: Open Source is tolerant of religious preferences.
Fact: Open Source developers regularly engage in holy wars over the superiority of various Open Source projects, such as the Emacs program (preferred by Christians) versus vi (used mostly by neo-pagans and Satanists); or the KDE desktop (a favorite among Muslims) versus the GNOME project (particularly favored by Jews). Posts initiating crusades or jihads against other developers can be found regularly throughout the newsgroups and mailing lists.
Myth: Open Source is tolerant of sexual preference.
Fact: See above. Either you are a homo, you become a homo, or you never visit Richard Stallman alone in his office and hope to God you never meet him on the street at night.
Myth: Open Source is tolerant of political differences.
Fact: Open Source is an anarcho-communist philosophy bent on the destruction of capitalism. The very same Richard Stallman, a man whose name is disturbingly reminiscent of Stalin, has stated several times in public that his vision includes the subjugation of all who own intellectual properties under the jackboot of the GPL. The GPL is a pernicious piece of literature lifted straight from Karl Marxs Communist Manifesto, and is fortunately banned in many democratic nations.
* * * * * UPDATE * * * * *
Myth: Open Source programming is a harlmess, healthy activity.
Fact: Open Source programming has been known to lead to massive obesity, violent tendencies with an obsession with handguns, paranoid-delusional ranting, and in severe cases, complete insanity. If anyone you know is thinking about going Open Source, stop them before its too late!
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WvbRkTEGTS Post #796
If you read the article, it tells you that for a full charge, you need 35 minutes of charging. 45 seconds will get you the minumum "useful" amount of charge (enough for a short call). However, the best use of this seems to be to start with it fully charged (you can plug it in to charge it up), and then whenever you make a call, or if it's been idle for a day or two, you wind it to top off the battery. That way, when you need to make your 30 minute call, you can do it immediately and pay for it later, rather than having to wind it for 20 minutes before being able to perform that emergency heart surgery...
This is a self-referential sig
Yeah, I know you're a troll, don't think you fooled me, I'll bite anyway though. Basicly you're asking where our priorities are because we're talking about something that happens today instead of something that happened 57+ years ago. Hmm, get a life, stop trolling and live in the present.
Totally grid-free telecom. Say goodbye to dependency on large central organizations for communications.
No, I don't honestly think that the hand crank is good enough. But combine solar, human (on an exercise device, perhaps), and efficiency gains, and something like this might be possible.
Of course, no gain will probably power Central Air Conditioning, which seems an awful lot like an essential of life at the moment.... : |
Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.
You could put the foot pedal under your brake and/or gas pedal...that way when you were driving, it would slowly charge up! Finally, a way to charge my phone in my car!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
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HHeoV8e4Ub Post #797
Is this really that useful? Anywhere I go where I would need to charge my cell phone, I can bring my much-smaller-and-easier version that plugs into a wall. If I ever go anywhere that doesn't have a wall plug or car cigarette lighter, chances are I don't get a signal anyway.
Dating myself here; I flashed on June Lockhart picking up the earpiece of the phone at the farmhouse, cranking feverishly on the wooden box, and shouting into that carbon microphone. (It was all a fake set piece by 1963 when they filmed the series, but still...)
Lassie come home!
RTFA.
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x4ZezXMhlV Post #800
I'm forgetful and apt to wandering around with friends outside, with a dead cellphone in my bag, since I always forge to recharge it. I think that'd save me from many clashes with my irate parents after they get sick of not knowing where I am for the tenth day in a row... plus I might stop missing dinner and living solely on ramen noodles then.
I loev wind-up stuff like that anyway, my family has a clock and a flashlight for camping, and they're great.
Call me crazy, but didn't they already have this 'technology' about 60 years ago? Every episode of M*A*S*H has either Radar or Klinger cranking up a radio before calling Sparky.
And by 'they', I do specifically mean Motorola. Wasn't their start in making walkie-talkie's and other military communications equipment like this wind-up radio?
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RYhkeZx1wa Post #801
The FreeCharge should be in everyone's hurricane/earthquake/riot prepardness kit.
There's a much better chance of the cell-phone tower working (they have generators) than the 3 miles of cable between you and the CO still being in one piece. You'll still have trouble getting dial-tone, but that's just a matter of retrying until you do.
Chip H.
Slashdot has reviews of this strange new technology known as a Dynamo?! Wow! Now we no longer have to wonder if these results of witchcraft actually work.
:P
I wondered myself, since it's brand new technology
What is so amazing about this again?
One use they don't bring up that they should is being able to use cell phones where there isn't any electricity to charge them. In a lot of the poorer countries they are going straight to cell phones and skipping laying copper. The lack of electricity to charge the phones has been one of the stumbling blocks for getting phone service to some really remote areas.
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oFU9doWdIO Post #802
let's say the extra energy lost requires you to eat an extra hamburger.
Now this hamburger needs to be heated up. In a place where they need to have light. And toilets. And wireless headsets. And lighted billboards that can be electronically updated. But first of all a cow had to be created. And fed. In a place with electric fences. And a sewer system. And grass that had to be mowed by a tractor that had to be created somewhere in Pennsylvania. And then the cow had to be hollered over to the slaughterhouse in a big truck made in Detroit. And the truck would do about a mile to the gallon. And require new tires every 6 months. And the slaughterhouse would have to buy new Magnum 45s every year to shoot the lead bullets in the cow's brain. And all those people that where so busy making your hamburger now also lost energy and could use a hamburger themselves.
And you call THIS good for the environment?!
Agent 99...? Agent 99...? Is that you?
"A revolution without dancing is... a revolution not worth having"
wouldn't the environmentally conscious also be riding a bike to work? Think of the potential charge when you are at the top of a hill ...
feints within feints, wheels within wheels
Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all homosexual acts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more fag practitioners, this news serves to reinforce what weve known all along. Taco-snotting faggots are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Faggot World comprehensive snotting test.
You dont need to be a Katz to predict Taco-snottings future. The handwriting is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there wont be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose faggotshare. White ink flows like a river of bubbly, thick jizz. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.
Lets keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Circle-snotting leader Jeff Homos Masterbates states that there are 7000 snotters of the circle-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Lets see. The number of circle-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of CowboiKneels walnuts, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled Taco-snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another gay whorehouse.
All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in faggotshare. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among heterosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a jizz-soaked miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.
Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.
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bFNDuHd5gM Post #804
I bought it to be my work radio, just to listen to talk radio while I'm working in my office. But I started using it in the kitchen while I'm cooking because it's small and durable.
Anyway, I figured I'd never have to buy batteries for it. If you crank the thing for one minute, you get about 30 minutes of power. But the thing is, it's a pretty stiff crank (heh), and you have to crank it pretty fast. After about 3 minutes, you're pretty much sick of doing it. But that does give you a good hour or so of listening. It'd be good if you were stranded in the woods and you wanted to hear the ball game, or use the smoke detector noise scare away predators. Otherwise, it's just easier to use batteries, which seem to last forever.
These crank-up electronic devices are really only useful in emergency situations, or by really committed environmentalists.
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iol8O5mIlZ Post #805
"In this house we obey the laws of Thermodynamics!"
- Homer J. Simpson
Now, I don't know about you, but when I'm in a car, I have a battery and if the car is running an alternator that can be used to charge the phone just fine.....
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I'm just not sure if you could get this approved, since it may be interfering with the radio transmission you're tapping into.
This is pretty much how those "incoming call" lights (on the back of a pen) work.
Seriously though, this gadget could be useful in remote areas of the world. Maybe some village without electricity can get one to listen to weather forecasts, report emergencies and so on. Most people can do better with an AA cell phone adapter though.
Your car must have been built in the 1920's to not have one of these...
"A revolution without dancing is... a revolution not worth having"
Mine's a StarTAC, which they have lamentably stopped producing, and I wasn't sure if the charger would work with it, given that it wasn't one of the listed supported models... Anyone know if they're compatible?
Ñ'
I thought it was bad enough that people drive with one hand on the wheel and one hand holding their phone while they babble into it. Now we'll have people who have already been doing this for the past 30 minutes and suddenly need to recharge their phone. One hand to hold the phone, one hand to turn the crank, and one hand to drive?
Someone's going to have to lend them a hand.
Trevor Bayliss, the inventor of the FreePlay radio and thence of this invention, has been showing the shoe charging piezo stuff for several years now, but no one has actually marketed it yet ... he has something that fits on the back of a shoe, you walk, it charges a battery that can be used for cellphones and laptops ... he sees it as very useful for developing countries ... like the original radio
60 or 70 years after we quit using hand-cranked generators in phones, we get them back again.
http://www.greenmarketing.com/articles/IB_March02. html describes a batteryless radio, which has been praised by none other than Nelson Mandela as a major step for third-world countries.
;-)
Assuming a village can gang together to pay for a phone + contract, it may allow them to cut the middleman out and get a better deal for whatever wares they produce. Maybe one day the rich world will even accept to import third-world foodstuffs and manufactured goods
So this is a Good Thing.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
Who the fuck are you getting your phone service from?
Next we will see a little propeller that will spin as you talk into the mike and generate a current. Great for those idiots like lawyers who never hang up.
Im also waiting for the step up from the ciggerette loads of the 70's, Slip it in and they explode when lit. Now if we can just get a battery pack to do that on the phones, press talk and boom.
To fully charge the battery from flat would take 35 minutes of winding -- something you're unlikely to do in one go.
Man, I haven't done 35 minutes of cranking since I was a teenager.
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This was reviewed MONTHS ago by TechTV.
http://www.aladdinpower.com/
http://www.snpower.com/products.htm
This solar powered cell phone charger. You can daisy chain up to 5 of them for more power.
I remember a picture I saw once in a book, published in the 1960's, showing a Soviet radio, powered by a solid-state thermoelectric generator set over a kerosene lamp. Of course, the amout of power needed by a six-transistor short-wave radio is much less than that needed to power a cell-phone transmitter, even considering 1960's technology.
Maybe they have a non-smoking car? and why not, non smoking pubs exist - which I find very strange.
If you are into biking or mountain biking, just rig it to run off your wheel. That way it will charge much more quickly. For that matter, I could rig it to an office chair to make good use of those occasional office chair races. :)
Since we so firmly moved from the realm of grammar to the 'world of theater' with the uber-literate reference to The Tempest and the un-abashed bashing of all playwrights everywhere (and what has a playwright ever done to you - besides perhaps passion plays and anything by Beckett?), I think it's fair to mention that the convention being attacked has nothing to do with which little pronoun can go the city, or the market, or wherever.
Me HerIn the sweet little drama we were presented with earlier - and it must be a play, as you brought up theater - there are two characters:
The symbol before the colon isn't bound by any of the rules you were applying. It could just as easily been a dialogue between A and B or Joanie and Chachi.
I would save your impromptu grammar lessons for the green room.
I can't honestly say that I'm sure I spelled Chachi right. Feel free to correct me.
... only when combined with "a form of fusion" :-)
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Well... I'm not a smoker but I wouldn't want a 'non-smoking' car. I'm pretty glad my vehicle has a cigarette lighter. It sure comes in handy for plugging in mobile phone adapters, portable air pumps, etc...
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Given a choice between using a cigarette adapter and having to crank this gizmo by hand a few hundred times; I'd rather put my arm to use tipping a pint of Guinness, thank you very much
"A revolution without dancing is... a revolution not worth having"
I thought non-smoking cars just got rid of the ashtray and lighter itself.. the cigarette lighter port is still there, but capped off with something else. So you would still be able to use that port for power.
There has been a cheaper wind-up cell phone charger available in the UK for a while, I've seen ads for months. I can't find a web site, but there is a product page for it on the Carphone Warehouse site. At £9.99 I suspect it lacks the extras of the Freeplay FreeCharge such as the built battery and added torch, but it does the job, and it is available for more than just Motorola phones, it will charge Nokia, Siemens and Ericsson phones as well.
First they were telling us that moving from hand-cranked coffee grinders to electric coffee grinders was progress. Now they're telling us that moving from electric cell phone chargers to hand-cranked cell phones chargers is progress.
So are hand-cranks "old-fashioned" or are they "innovative"? Technology is so confusing these days.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
There's been chargers around like this on those fancy pants airplane magazines and sharper image for a loooong time...
This is nothing new...also this particular charger has been around for awhile as well... so (from the venerable words of Chuck B.) Good grief...