Saying ethanol is, "Less efficient" is oversimplifying things a little. Ethanol has a lower energy density than gasoline and thus is a less efficient energy storage medium than gasoline, but ethanol's also got about 120 octane so you can burn it at diesel-esque compression ratios and get a greater percentage of that energy turning your drive shaft than in an engine running on current petroleum formulations.
If memory serves ethanol has greater propensity to produce partially combusted hydrocarbons, but those should be taken care of by the catalytic converter. SOx and NOx emissions are reduced and I think there's a slight reduction in CO2 per mile driven as well.
I read that apple had remotely disabled a bunch of iphones and that nobody was reacting so I said something I thought might sound clever, but some knee-jerk apple defender (kjad) decided it was trolling. Some of my best friends use apple products. I wouldn't say anything behind their backs I couldn't say to their faces. I don't think it's overreaching to be curious that people who had their phones turned off by remote control for doing nothing wrong don't care. It sounds completely unlike the apple users you describe.
I've had an archos pv400 for almost a decade. The battery still charges, it still plays mp3s, and it still plays movies. I have a co-worker who has one of their newer models and is quite satisfied with its performance. I've seen few non-apple mp3 players in the wild myself and mostly for the reasons you mention, but that's not the point. I never said iPods don't sell better, but from what you're saying they have (or had) reliability issues. I never compared the iPod to a windows mobile device - That's kind of like saying your mac crashes more than my cell phone, isn't it? I'm just saying that they have more issues than any other mp3 player I've ever dealt with, even before they had, like, 99.999% of the market share.
All that being said, I'm curious how you explain the complete about-face in expectations for the software we're discussing.
To be fair: I've never seen nor heard of a hard drive issue with an mp3 player that wasn't an iPod, iPods are the only mp3 player I know of that have batteries that hard to change, iPods are the only mp3 players I know of that crash.
No, Mac users expect their stuff to work flawlessly, never have any bugs, never wear out (plastic crack, batteries die, etc) and maintain its value...
From what I've heard all those problems have been reported in the wild. Examples include, but are not limited to: this release of the iPhone firmware, Leopard, G4 cube, and the first few generations of iPod, respectively. Granted, most of that is ancient history, but the point is that Apple products have broken, are breaking, and will break in the future. If all Apple people had those kinds of expectations of impeccable performance there'd have been a lawsuit about this beta expiring about five minutes after it happened.
I can only speak from my experience. The Apple users I encounter most frequently haven't actually paid for anything other than applecare in years because they keep getting lemons that have to be replaced until they're no longer supported and are replaced with the top of the line machine to start the cycle over again. They expect and accept this, but continue to buy applecare because they value, "design" and, "simplicity".
I'm sure in a relatively controlled environment like an IT shop these machines perform near flawlessly. Bear in mind though, that few properly configured machines don't perform flawlessly in a controlled environment. Even a Windows machine.
Apple users aren't (necessarily) stupid. They just have completely different expectations. When Mac people buy something they expect it to make them cool. Any other functionality is just icing on the cake.
TFA also mentioned crocodiles and from what I know about Caymans I think it's pretty likely they have similar adaptations as well. Komodo Dragons and other monitors also have a similar adaptation.
Some other unique and inexplicably rare adaptations include the pinniped's ability to sleep a hemisphere at a time, the termite's ability to eat wood, and parthenogenesis.
Perhaps mammals haven't evolved this, not because of it's cost, but because our immune systems function very differently than that of a crocodilian ? To develop this particular adaptation we'd need to completely re-evaluate our immune strategy. There just isn't enough evolutionary pressure to make us abandon a system that works as well as our current one does. Maybe we should research other animals that live in cesspools, eat carrion and offal; and fight daily territory battles... How do rat immune systems work?
Considering that the drive design was based on that of a skid-steer loader (bobcat) and you can't stop even the smallest one of those with your bare hands I dunno... He could have gotten the engine from an automobile. The '84 alpha romeo 33 had an 83 horsepower diesel I3, and it is, possible (though not remotely likely) he got a one-off three cylinder one of these putting out somewhere in the neighborhood of 20K hp. Anyway, point being, just because it's not a v8 doesn't mean it can't pull its weight.
You need to be able to evaluate this on an individual basis. Most places I've worked have users who we can trust to do whatever they want and get work done, but I've never heard of a workplace it would have been safe to let everybody have free rein.
People have been able to send 140 character messages, append them to a pages, or whatever it is twitterers do from their phones, for eons; but someone managed to package it into an attractive, easy-to-use package called, "twitter" and now it's popular. Unfortunately they nobody's quite figured out how to exploit it yet so, barring some spectacular innovation, I believe it should be gone in a few months.
Could someone please clarify me on what the terms mean in this context? I thought modders made cases out of plexiglass, typewriters, and and such things.
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Actually, the danger is that poor people who aren't farmers won't be able to afford food.
Saying ethanol is, "Less efficient" is oversimplifying things a little. Ethanol has a lower energy density than gasoline and thus is a less efficient energy storage medium than gasoline, but ethanol's also got about 120 octane so you can burn it at diesel-esque compression ratios and get a greater percentage of that energy turning your drive shaft than in an engine running on current petroleum formulations.
If memory serves ethanol has greater propensity to produce partially combusted hydrocarbons, but those should be taken care of by the catalytic converter. SOx and NOx emissions are reduced and I think there's a slight reduction in CO2 per mile driven as well.
I read that apple had remotely disabled a bunch of iphones and that nobody was reacting so I said something I thought might sound clever, but some knee-jerk apple defender (kjad) decided it was trolling. Some of my best friends use apple products. I wouldn't say anything behind their backs I couldn't say to their faces. I don't think it's overreaching to be curious that people who had their phones turned off by remote control for doing nothing wrong don't care. It sounds completely unlike the apple users you describe.
I've had an archos pv400 for almost a decade. The battery still charges, it still plays mp3s, and it still plays movies. I have a co-worker who has one of their newer models and is quite satisfied with its performance. I've seen few non-apple mp3 players in the wild myself and mostly for the reasons you mention, but that's not the point. I never said iPods don't sell better, but from what you're saying they have (or had) reliability issues. I never compared the iPod to a windows mobile device - That's kind of like saying your mac crashes more than my cell phone, isn't it? I'm just saying that they have more issues than any other mp3 player I've ever dealt with, even before they had, like, 99.999% of the market share.
All that being said, I'm curious how you explain the complete about-face in expectations for the software we're discussing.
To be fair: I've never seen nor heard of a hard drive issue with an mp3 player that wasn't an iPod, iPods are the only mp3 player I know of that have batteries that hard to change, iPods are the only mp3 players I know of that crash.
Yeah, they switched to beer. Australia isn't so lucky as to have that option.
From what I've heard all those problems have been reported in the wild. Examples include, but are not limited to: this release of the iPhone firmware, Leopard, G4 cube, and the first few generations of iPod, respectively. Granted, most of that is ancient history, but the point is that Apple products have broken, are breaking, and will break in the future. If all Apple people had those kinds of expectations of impeccable performance there'd have been a lawsuit about this beta expiring about five minutes after it happened.
I can only speak from my experience. The Apple users I encounter most frequently haven't actually paid for anything other than applecare in years because they keep getting lemons that have to be replaced until they're no longer supported and are replaced with the top of the line machine to start the cycle over again. They expect and accept this, but continue to buy applecare because they value, "design" and, "simplicity".
I'm sure in a relatively controlled environment like an IT shop these machines perform near flawlessly. Bear in mind though, that few properly configured machines don't perform flawlessly in a controlled environment. Even a Windows machine.
Apple users aren't (necessarily) stupid. They just have completely different expectations. When Mac people buy something they expect it to make them cool. Any other functionality is just icing on the cake.
Yeah, but that's what Via is for.
Some other unique and inexplicably rare adaptations include the pinniped's ability to sleep a hemisphere at a time, the termite's ability to eat wood, and parthenogenesis.
Perhaps mammals haven't evolved this, not because of it's cost, but because our immune systems function very differently than that of a crocodilian ? To develop this particular adaptation we'd need to completely re-evaluate our immune strategy. There just isn't enough evolutionary pressure to make us abandon a system that works as well as our current one does. Maybe we should research other animals that live in cesspools, eat carrion and offal; and fight daily territory battles... How do rat immune systems work?
True, but you're buying the EULA. So I guess they'd be taxing that.
That depends: is there a pr0n lobby?
I'm with you. Gonna wait 'till it's free-after-rebate on Black Friday =) .
Two words: i phone.
Considering that the drive design was based on that of a skid-steer loader (bobcat) and you can't stop even the smallest one of those with your bare hands I dunno... He could have gotten the engine from an automobile. The '84 alpha romeo 33 had an 83 horsepower diesel I3, and it is, possible (though not remotely likely) he got a one-off three cylinder one of these putting out somewhere in the neighborhood of 20K hp. Anyway, point being, just because it's not a v8 doesn't mean it can't pull its weight.
It would certainly be better than answering all those stupid questions when trying to view your checking account balance online.
Ever thought about getting one of these?
You need to be able to evaluate this on an individual basis. Most places I've worked have users who we can trust to do whatever they want and get work done, but I've never heard of a workplace it would have been safe to let everybody have free rein.
People have been able to send 140 character messages, append them to a pages, or whatever it is twitterers do from their phones, for eons; but someone managed to package it into an attractive, easy-to-use package called, "twitter" and now it's popular. Unfortunately they nobody's quite figured out how to exploit it yet so, barring some spectacular innovation, I believe it should be gone in a few months.
Could someone please clarify me on what the terms mean in this context? I thought modders made cases out of plexiglass, typewriters, and and such things.
... or hoax? Only time will tell.