I don't think the information in that link is reliable. I can't speak for most countries, but for Australia it's just wrong. No tipping is ever expected here in any circumstances. For exceptional service it may be offered, but even then it would be a small token amount, like rounding up to the nearest whole note.
The suggested amounts for Indonesia and France seem high, too. Or maybe I have only traveled with very cheap companions.
Swapping would still work with this kind of rapid degradation, as well (assuming the kind of costings detailed above). People may not want a full charge every time, in which case it doesn't matter if they swap with a degraded battery.
When a swapping location gets too many batteries at a certain level of degradation, they can simply adjust the price to encourage sales. When a battery is too degraded to sell, even at a discount, then it is ready to be shipped off (for recycling or whatever the case may be).
I keep a flashlight in the car, because you never know when you'll need one anyway. If you want reliability, I'm sure it would work just fine in this case.
My parents decided to give me six names. That's right.
Because they couldn't give me more than two middle names on the birth certificate they hyphenated them together. For example (not my actual name): First Second-Third Fourth-Fifth Last.
My name would often not fit on official documents so I always had trouble identifying myself. It was actually impossible for me to get a driver's licence because my various forms of ID were inconsistent, so I had my name changed by deed poll to: First Second Third Last (again, not my real name).
Incidentally, this was when I discovered that I spelled one of my middle names wrong my whole life. Now I have much less trouble, but my name still barely fits on tax forms - to the letter.
Someone needs to write a book that takes all those things that people have trouble getting their heads around (let's say... string theory for example) and explain them all with car analogies.
This would sell, I'm sure. I would write it myself but I don't understand cars.
Sometimes I wonder if all these people complaining ever played the original Diablo. It was much more colourful than the sequel. I mean, the palette seemed to be limited to grey and red for environments, but some of the enemies were practically fluorescent!
In a way this even made certain enemies scarier. It's one thing to have dark enemies appear out of the shadows (also annoying), it's another thing to have enemies that send a clear visual signal: Don't fuck with this!
If it wasn't for the ad having Gates in it and a Windows logo, I could have thought it was an ad for Linux, or BSD, or even a PC vendor. Especially the final tag line, which was something about not having walls (what holds up the Windows if there are no walls?).
I'm currently working on a project which has a working database of around 1.5 petabytes (at last count).
What's more, this database is constantly ingesting more data and shuffling off old data to tape archives. If the technology was available, this DB would be even bigger so we wouldn't have to retrieve data from archives in order to query data more than a year old.
There is an unbelievable amount of data out there. As long as there is somewhere to put it, we will find reasons to stick it in a database and analyse it.
I used to use a little Server 2003 box in a pretty workstation-y fashion, and ClamWin worked well for me. It apparently runs on 2008 with some niggling issues.
Can we ever conclusively determine that there is no life on Mars?
Given that we are still uncovering life in the most unlikely places on Earth, who knows where it could be found on Mars. Do we need to look under every rock, and take a billion core samples before we are satisfied that the introduction of terrestrial life will not destroy any chance of finding native life?
Not only is it painful, it has the curious effect that morphine is completely ineffective against it. I wonder if that had anything to do with this gentleman's preference for the grenade.
Poor choice of words on my part. I've seen trained hypnotists work very effectively under the conditions you describe.
My previous father-in-law is a certified hypnotherapist (scary or what?) and I've seen him at work.
My experience has been more with self-hypnosis, which of course is less likely to work when you're as inexperienced as the people I have studied with. Nonetheless, I am amazed at what can be done even then (and hence my continued interest).
Another distro worth checking out would be SliTaz, which is a bit of a newcomer but shows a lot of promise. Like Puppy, it will run in RAM so it's a good choice on flash drives and is very snappy on low end machines.
As an aside, I was checking out an EeePC in store yesterday because I was curious to see how well the the provided distro runs. A store assistant tried to sell me on it by telling me I can get an XP version which runs a lot better. I said I'd rather put a lightweight linux distro on it myself, and he just kept repeating himself like a broken record, "You can get it with XP, xhich is much better". Obviously someone told him to say this.
Then I noticed that the window decorations were, as far as I can tell, an exact replica of XP.
We often think we are making a conscious decision which is in fact unconscious. I have been studying and practicing hypnosis lately, and the reason it is effective (in some people) is that the subconscious mind acts before the conscious. If we program the subconscious mind to behave a certain way, the conscious mind will go along with it unquestioningly (unless it conflicts with the will of the subject).
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I don't think the information in that link is reliable. I can't speak for most countries, but for Australia it's just wrong. No tipping is ever expected here in any circumstances. For exceptional service it may be offered, but even then it would be a small token amount, like rounding up to the nearest whole note.
The suggested amounts for Indonesia and France seem high, too. Or maybe I have only traveled with very cheap companions.
Surely "Cinnabuntu" would be a more appealing name?
Time to dust off the old blog, or does new media not count? I'd like to see where they draw the line on that one.
Swapping would still work with this kind of rapid degradation, as well (assuming the kind of costings detailed above). People may not want a full charge every time, in which case it doesn't matter if they swap with a degraded battery.
When a swapping location gets too many batteries at a certain level of degradation, they can simply adjust the price to encourage sales. When a battery is too degraded to sell, even at a discount, then it is ready to be shipped off (for recycling or whatever the case may be).
I keep a flashlight in the car, because you never know when you'll need one anyway. If you want reliability, I'm sure it would work just fine in this case.
I feel your pain.
My parents decided to give me six names. That's right.
Because they couldn't give me more than two middle names on the birth certificate they hyphenated them together. For example (not my actual name): First Second-Third Fourth-Fifth Last.
My name would often not fit on official documents so I always had trouble identifying myself. It was actually impossible for me to get a driver's licence because my various forms of ID were inconsistent, so I had my name changed by deed poll to: First Second Third Last (again, not my real name).
Incidentally, this was when I discovered that I spelled one of my middle names wrong my whole life. Now I have much less trouble, but my name still barely fits on tax forms - to the letter.
As an Australian, I find it depressing that we are now apparently perceived by the rest of the world as one of those "overly conservative nations".
What happened to our traditional spirit of rebelion? What would those who took a stand in the Eureka Stockade think of us now?
Anything that cuts down the size of Windows virtual machines I keep around for testing and compatibility is a welcome change.
Seriously, if this actually happened do you think they would delay it beyond December 2012 just because the coincidence is too freaky to dismiss?
Someone needs to write a book that takes all those things that people have trouble getting their heads around (let's say... string theory for example) and explain them all with car analogies.
This would sell, I'm sure. I would write it myself but I don't understand cars.
Sometimes I wonder if all these people complaining ever played the original Diablo. It was much more colourful than the sequel. I mean, the palette seemed to be limited to grey and red for environments, but some of the enemies were practically fluorescent!
In a way this even made certain enemies scarier. It's one thing to have dark enemies appear out of the shadows (also annoying), it's another thing to have enemies that send a clear visual signal: Don't fuck with this!
If it wasn't for the ad having Gates in it and a Windows logo, I could have thought it was an ad for Linux, or BSD, or even a PC vendor. Especially the final tag line, which was something about not having walls (what holds up the Windows if there are no walls?).
I'm currently working on a project which has a working database of around 1.5 petabytes (at last count).
What's more, this database is constantly ingesting more data and shuffling off old data to tape archives. If the technology was available, this DB would be even bigger so we wouldn't have to retrieve data from archives in order to query data more than a year old.
There is an unbelievable amount of data out there. As long as there is somewhere to put it, we will find reasons to stick it in a database and analyse it.
So use a free option.
I used to use a little Server 2003 box in a pretty workstation-y fashion, and ClamWin worked well for me. It apparently runs on 2008 with some niggling issues.
I believe Vista and 2008 share the same core. For example, 2008 was released as SP1 to keep the versioning consistent between them.
Can we ever conclusively determine that there is no life on Mars?
Given that we are still uncovering life in the most unlikely places on Earth, who knows where it could be found on Mars. Do we need to look under every rock, and take a billion core samples before we are satisfied that the introduction of terrestrial life will not destroy any chance of finding native life?
But... that's both kinds of music! Oh no!
Not only is it painful, it has the curious effect that morphine is completely ineffective against it. I wonder if that had anything to do with this gentleman's preference for the grenade.
Neither. Yowies should be sequenced first.
They are far more elusive. There is still much debate about whether they even exist, whereas everyone has seen bunyips and dropbears.
To my knowledge, there isn't even such a thing as "blackware" or "whiteware". The latter sounds like a brand of undergarments.
Anyway, I would stay away from grayware, if only because the American spelling makes me cringe. Greyware on the other hand...
What?!
Then why the hell am I wasting all this time posting on Slashdot?
Poor choice of words on my part. I've seen trained hypnotists work very effectively under the conditions you describe.
My previous father-in-law is a certified hypnotherapist (scary or what?) and I've seen him at work.
My experience has been more with self-hypnosis, which of course is less likely to work when you're as inexperienced as the people I have studied with. Nonetheless, I am amazed at what can be done even then (and hence my continued interest).
Another distro worth checking out would be SliTaz, which is a bit of a newcomer but shows a lot of promise. Like Puppy, it will run in RAM so it's a good choice on flash drives and is very snappy on low end machines.
As an aside, I was checking out an EeePC in store yesterday because I was curious to see how well the the provided distro runs. A store assistant tried to sell me on it by telling me I can get an XP version which runs a lot better. I said I'd rather put a lightweight linux distro on it myself, and he just kept repeating himself like a broken record, "You can get it with XP, xhich is much better". Obviously someone told him to say this.
Then I noticed that the window decorations were, as far as I can tell, an exact replica of XP.
There is still a lot of work to be done.
We often think we are making a conscious decision which is in fact unconscious. I have been studying and practicing hypnosis lately, and the reason it is effective (in some people) is that the subconscious mind acts before the conscious. If we program the subconscious mind to behave a certain way, the conscious mind will go along with it unquestioningly (unless it conflicts with the will of the subject).
It's like the old schoolyard trick:
A: "Milk, milk, milk, milk,..."
B: "What do cows drink?"
A: "Milk. No, wait..."
If they are only guessing at density, then is it only conjecture that this is a rocky planet? Or is there some other way to determine this?