Government bad, corporate self-regulation good. Just stick to that line and ignore any evidence to the contrary.
I'm going to go with:
Government bad. Market self-regulation good. Corporations having the legal protections of a person without any of the legal obligations / responsibilities terrible.
That $100 thing from Phillips isn't rock solid either. It's not like it has redundant power sources, redundant transmitters, etc... At best they probably have a battery back up. Most any consumer grade equipment won't be.
A battery backup and AC power are, in fact, redundant power sources. I believe the one I bought my friend does have multiple transceivers.
And yeah, that is the point.
The simple fact is that all you fucking nerds like to think you're special by assembling some shit - be it code, PC components, a car, or a Sears model home.
But there's a reason people on the assembly line get paid shit, and the people actually designing and testing things get paid well.
For every 1 nerd worth his salt, there's 1000 slashdot posters. Guess which you are.
Because hybrids are most efficient when running on their electric battery only, and not the ICE. This is the whole point of hybrids. Electric motors are more efficient.
Firing up an ICE takes up a lot of energy and fuel. Typically, starting an engine will be equal to about 1 or 2 minutes of idling. So when you're in line for the fucking drive through, turning off your engine is usually a bad idea.
Regardless, having a diminished battery capacity would NOT mean the ICE is running more frequently and for shorter durations - it means it would run more frequently and for longer durations.
A diminished capacity is not like having a smaller cup to fill. A laptop battery and a hybrid battery are like an array of cups. When a cell (cup) breaks, it can no longer hold a charge (water). The charging circuitry doesn't magically know when this happens. When you go to fill the cups, you fill up the whole array of cups at once. When the array stops taking a charge, the charging circuitry stops, waits, and gives it a little more. It repeats this until it is satisfied that the array is full. Smart charging circuitry will track the condition of each array of cups - noting how much of a charge they took, how long they held it, etc. Charging circuitry does not have access to each individual cup. The best it can do is track each array it has access to.
Many cells make up the lowest-level array that the circuitry can access. 1 or many arrays make up a battery. 1 or many batteries make up a battery pack (which itself is a battery).
This is how lithium-ion, lithium polymer, etc. batteries all work. Note that people often refer to a lithium-ion battery as a cell. (See people referring to replacing an individual cell, or buying a 9-cell vs a 6-cell battery for their laptop.) This is incorrect.
A cell is the smallest discrete capacitive unit. It is NOT the smallest discrete serviceable part.
A battery is a collection of related things intended for use together. A traditional electric battery is in fact 2 (or many) cells of different chemicals. The first modern electrical battery was in fact a battery of plates of differing metals.
A hybrids battery is not of the same tech as a laptop battery.
I could just as easily use the example of a 5 year warranty of a car battery as a starting point.
Additionally, a laptop battery that loses max capacity is a bigger problem than a non plug-in hybrid battery doing the same (assuming charging efficiency is not lost). The hybrid's battery only needs to provide power for a short bit to add significant efficiency to the driving, and only should need to capture the output of one stop.
1: Hybrid's use the same shitty batteries as laptops.
2: Regular car batteries are an order of magnitude cheaper than the batteries for hybrid cars.
3: A hybrid battery losing capacity is a fucking problem because the damned battery is the thing that moves you around at low speeds. With a diminished capacity the battery's capacity, more energy is lost trying to charge the damned thing constantly, and firing up the ICE more frequently. You'll get shitty, shitty, shitty, mileage.
Walmart? That brand is J-U-N-K, and no amount of smiling faces will change that fact. They're only in business because they sell cheaply, not because people think well of them.
Brand is about what you mean to customers, not investors. That "brand" directory explains it's not about brand, but about market caps.
Google isn't top dog in the grand scheme of things, be it "value", market capital, or brand recognition.
Why do you care so much, anyway? Blind fanboi rage?
Again, you're failing. The points are about why people are pissed. People are pissed because of the reasons I listed. You disagree. People are still pissed.
You have tried to prove me wrong by defending the appointees with every liberal ounce of your body. The problem is, my points were about WHY people are pissed off (see the original post I was responding too).
If people were pissed off because the sky was red, and I said, "People are pissed off because they think the sky is red and they don't want it to be red.", and you proved the sky was blue, you would not be proving me wrong.
The fact that you are completely retarded and choose to wipe Obama's ass with your tongue doesn't even come into play, but I'll address it (again) anyway: Obama's appointments are both terrible. Sotomayor so far is about par for the course for the SC, and the latest dog is abysmal.
You can rationalize her bullshit all you want, but what she did with regards to the ROTC was illegal and wrong. How she handled the confirmation hearings was hypocritical, condescending, abhorring with regards to respect of the office, and totally expected.
The fact is plenty of people are pissed for the reasons I stated. You can defend her all you want, that doesn't change the fact that people disagree with you, don't like her actions and track record, and are pissed about it.
As for your defense, you're an idiot.
She broke the law in banning the ROTC while continuing to take government money. For whatever reason, however rationalized, she abused her power to spit in the face of the law.
(Banning them from certain parts of campus but not others IS an unjust ban. See "Separate is not equal".)
We will see what comes out in court, although I'm holding back judgement until I see the evidence. If they are doing what the complaint alleges, then yes, fine them enough to discourage them (and others) in the future, ie: heavily. Personally I'm glad to see a bit of consumer protection going on for a change. The FTC has become pretty much useless over the last few decades.
Fine them? This is the problem. There is no punishment.
JAIL the ones responsible - the CXOs and board members. FORCE the company to sell their products at government-determined fair prices or FORBID them from doing business in the US.
I just want to take the opportunity to remind all Californian slashdotters who are still naive enough to vote:
Carly Fiorna is a retard. She was the previous CEO of HP, and nearly killed it. Now she wants to run California with her special brand of business "excellence". If you look at he track record as a CEO, you'll do well to vote for someone else.
Unfortunately, all the candidates she's running against look terrible. Do a write in for Mike Rowe or something, I don't know.
Take your pick. Or maybe they're both. It would explain a lot.
While I'd love to agree with their assessments, the simple fact is that psychology, sociology, and criminology are not sciences.
They're often useful practices, but whenever someone from one of these field tries to push some claim forward, all I see is their opinion, and a glaring lack of scientific method.
No, you don't have to do all the manual labor yourself - you simply have to make your own blueprints and design!
The THINKING is the important part. You can of course copy the ol' Wright Brothers when thinking about lift and such. But assembling something according to a design - no matter how complicated - is not do it yourself.
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The ol' "nullo" copy-pasta.
Haven't seen it in a while.
Hang out in packs of 10 to 15 and make sure everyone acts as annoying as possible. This helps to promote nigger individuality.
The word you are looking for is "annoyingly".
Please improve your troll copy-pastas.
Your plan works under the assumption that you weren't dumb enough to register your original card's serial # with them.
I don't know what BFG does, but many places make their fancy warranty dependent on registration, or give you a free extension for registering it.
ok but what if I took one of these, added a hard protective plastic coating, and then some ports for keyboards and such. i'd call it a 'laptop'.
I'd call it a shitty, underpowered laptop with a shitty form factor and a shitty lack of an included, attached, keyboard.
Tablets fucking suck.
Government bad, corporate self-regulation good. Just stick to that line and ignore any evidence to the contrary.
I'm going to go with:
Government bad.
Market self-regulation good.
Corporations having the legal protections of a person without any of the legal obligations / responsibilities terrible.
Hey, retard.
It's "Pikachu", and it's a nod to the pika.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika
I bet you didn't even know that Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee are, in fact, Jackie Chan and Brue Lee.
Pro fucking tip: Ekans evolved into Arbok, right?
A simple snake evolving into a [k]obra!
It even fucking teaches you fucking Spanish!
The three legendary birds from G1?
Articuno
Zapdos
Moltres
The Trauma Center series is probably the most medical computer game I know. It's still rather anti-educational though.
You mean they don't have green gels that magically fix your vitals? Doctors don't trace satanic symbols over patients to cast healing spells?
There goes my fucking thesis.
And mine's all 4s!
That $100 thing from Phillips isn't rock solid either. It's not like it has redundant power sources, redundant transmitters, etc... At best they probably have a battery back up. Most any consumer grade equipment won't be.
A battery backup and AC power are, in fact, redundant power sources. I believe the one I bought my friend does have multiple transceivers.
And yeah, that is the point.
The simple fact is that all you fucking nerds like to think you're special by assembling some shit - be it code, PC components, a car, or a Sears model home.
But there's a reason people on the assembly line get paid shit, and the people actually designing and testing things get paid well.
For every 1 nerd worth his salt, there's 1000 slashdot posters. Guess which you are.
Because hybrids are most efficient when running on their electric battery only, and not the ICE. This is the whole point of hybrids. Electric motors are more efficient.
Firing up an ICE takes up a lot of energy and fuel. Typically, starting an engine will be equal to about 1 or 2 minutes of idling. So when you're in line for the fucking drive through, turning off your engine is usually a bad idea.
Regardless, having a diminished battery capacity would NOT mean the ICE is running more frequently and for shorter durations - it means it would run more frequently and for longer durations.
A diminished capacity is not like having a smaller cup to fill. A laptop battery and a hybrid battery are like an array of cups. When a cell (cup) breaks, it can no longer hold a charge (water). The charging circuitry doesn't magically know when this happens.
When you go to fill the cups, you fill up the whole array of cups at once. When the array stops taking a charge, the charging circuitry stops, waits, and gives it a little more. It repeats this until it is satisfied that the array is full.
Smart charging circuitry will track the condition of each array of cups - noting how much of a charge they took, how long they held it, etc. Charging circuitry does not have access to each individual cup. The best it can do is track each array it has access to.
Many cells make up the lowest-level array that the circuitry can access.
1 or many arrays make up a battery.
1 or many batteries make up a battery pack (which itself is a battery).
This is how lithium-ion, lithium polymer, etc. batteries all work. Note that people often refer to a lithium-ion battery as a cell. (See people referring to replacing an individual cell, or buying a 9-cell vs a 6-cell battery for their laptop.)
This is incorrect.
A cell is the smallest discrete capacitive unit.
It is NOT the smallest discrete serviceable part.
A battery is a collection of related things intended for use together. A traditional electric battery is in fact 2 (or many) cells of different chemicals. The first modern electrical battery was in fact a battery of plates of differing metals.
All I can say is that you're completely wrong and you don't understand how batteries, or hybrids in general, work.
A hybrids battery is not of the same tech as a laptop battery.
I could just as easily use the example of a 5 year warranty of a car battery as a starting point.
Additionally, a laptop battery that loses max capacity is a bigger problem than a non plug-in hybrid battery doing the same (assuming charging efficiency is not lost). The hybrid's battery only needs to provide power for a short bit to add significant efficiency to the driving, and only should need to capture the output of one stop.
1: Hybrid's use the same shitty batteries as laptops.
2: Regular car batteries are an order of magnitude cheaper than the batteries for hybrid cars.
3: A hybrid battery losing capacity is a fucking problem because the damned battery is the thing that moves you around at low speeds. With a diminished capacity the battery's capacity, more energy is lost trying to charge the damned thing constantly, and firing up the ICE more frequently. You'll get shitty, shitty, shitty, mileage.
4: You're an idiot.
Walmart? That brand is J-U-N-K, and no amount of smiling faces will change that fact. They're only in business because they sell cheaply, not because people think well of them.
Brand is about what you mean to customers, not investors. That "brand" directory explains it's not about brand, but about market caps.
Google isn't top dog in the grand scheme of things, be it "value", market capital, or brand recognition.
Why do you care so much, anyway? Blind fanboi rage?
Again, you're failing.
The points are about why people are pissed.
People are pissed because of the reasons I listed.
You disagree.
People are still pissed.
You have tried to prove me wrong by defending the appointees with every liberal ounce of your body. The problem is, my points were about WHY people are pissed off (see the original post I was responding too).
If people were pissed off because the sky was red, and I said, "People are pissed off because they think the sky is red and they don't want it to be red.", and you proved the sky was blue, you would not be proving me wrong.
The fact that you are completely retarded and choose to wipe Obama's ass with your tongue doesn't even come into play, but I'll address it (again) anyway: Obama's appointments are both terrible. Sotomayor so far is about par for the course for the SC, and the latest dog is abysmal.
You can rationalize her bullshit all you want, but what she did with regards to the ROTC was illegal and wrong. How she handled the confirmation hearings was hypocritical, condescending, abhorring with regards to respect of the office, and totally expected.
The constitution is fine.
It's the constituency.
And the legislature.
Keep trying!
Lots of fail there, all you did was defend her.
The fact is plenty of people are pissed for the reasons I stated. You can defend her all you want, that doesn't change the fact that people disagree with you, don't like her actions and track record, and are pissed about it.
As for your defense, you're an idiot.
She broke the law in banning the ROTC while continuing to take government money. For whatever reason, however rationalized, she abused her power to spit in the face of the law.
(Banning them from certain parts of campus but not others IS an unjust ban. See "Separate is not equal".)
We will see what comes out in court, although I'm holding back judgement until I see the evidence. If they are doing what the complaint alleges, then yes, fine them enough to discourage them (and others) in the future, ie: heavily. Personally I'm glad to see a bit of consumer protection going on for a change. The FTC has become pretty much useless over the last few decades.
Fine them?
This is the problem.
There is no punishment.
JAIL the ones responsible - the CXOs and board members.
FORCE the company to sell their products at government-determined fair prices or FORBID them from doing business in the US.
Problem fucking SOLVED.
I just want to take the opportunity to remind all Californian slashdotters who are still naive enough to vote:
Carly Fiorna is a retard.
She was the previous CEO of HP, and nearly killed it.
Now she wants to run California with her special brand of business "excellence".
If you look at he track record as a CEO, you'll do well to vote for someone else.
Unfortunately, all the candidates she's running against look terrible. Do a write in for Mike Rowe or something, I don't know.
Criminal psychologst calls CEOs psychopaths
Sociologist/Criminologist calls CEOs sociopaths
Take your pick. Or maybe they're both. It would explain a lot.
While I'd love to agree with their assessments, the simple fact is that psychology, sociology, and criminology are not sciences.
They're often useful practices, but whenever someone from one of these field tries to push some claim forward, all I see is their opinion, and a glaring lack of scientific method.
I can't seem to remember ANY employee of a tech company that had anything good to say about the company they work for...
I just want to preemptively get this in:
Google is not a tech company - they're an ad agency.
Derp.
Neither do I.
I don't even own a gun.
Derp.
Prove any of my points wrong.
I dare you.
We have the troll on video, being a troll.
You did not build or design the radios.
You did not build or design anything.
You did not do it yourself.
You installed, configured, and maintain it.
At best you also assembled it according to the design someone else put all the work into.
You did not create anything.
You did not do it yourself.
No, you don't have to do all the manual labor yourself - you simply have to make your own blueprints and design!
The THINKING is the important part.
You can of course copy the ol' Wright Brothers when thinking about lift and such. But assembling something according to a design - no matter how complicated - is not do it yourself.