The sample age was 45-70 and they found that cognitive decline started at 45? Shouldn't they have started sampling people in their 30's to see a better bell curve?
A bell curve? What makes you think the rate of decline ever slows down?
Should the Zombie apocalypse occur I would much rather be with him, than a bunch of 44 year olds with nothing but book smarts. Intelligence is important but it's often over emphasized.
Be honest, the reason you want him around is so you won't be the slowest one running away when the zombie stampede starts...
After looking at the photos, it is likely that the secondary drone is probably about 1/30th the weight of a typical handheld explosive. I am sure you could probably come up with a somewhat effective explosive that was weight-compatible with the micro-drone but it is not likely within the capabilities of foes of the USA, RUS (unless the cold war restarts) or even Justin Bieber. It doesn't mention it, but knowing a little about miniature aviation in general I can say that the micro-drone is probably in the range of half an ounce, and any additional weight at all, even the weight of a paperclip, would dramatically impact it's flight capabilities.
From this page: http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/grenade/hand.html it appears that even with a 16oz grenade your casualty radius is only 1 foot beyond the drones accuracy radius, so even if you could deliver it you are still not likely to actually take out one designated target because they could flee the kill zone. And again, the flight characteristics of one of those micro-drones with a grenade on it is barely different than the flight characteristics of a grenade by itself: it's going to obey gravity and not your will.
Weather balloons can be tracked by radar, which as TFA mentions the little drones cannot. Also, weather balloons are decidedly hard (read: impossible) to steer, whereas the little drones have surprisingly effective guidance. So yes, the 11 miles (or whatever the actual capability is) offers some very unique possible applications, especially since it is likely that your targets are not all within earshot of each other.
2015 - intel/ms produce all goods in China - the computer sent to the US 2020 - intel/ms declare bankruptcy. Chinese companies produce all parts and software, computer sent to the US
The problem is not just the assembly cost, which is in fact marginal. The problem is the costs all down the supply chain. All the components inside, say, an Ipod are made in China. All the profits made producing and selling those items stay in China. I don't think you could even produce a computer in the US today. You'd have to get and ship all your parts from Asia. Hard drives, memory, displays, discrete components - all made overseas. The huge support base for producing all electronics have moved overseas. If a $200 Ipod costs Apple $150 in parts, $10 assembly/packaging/shipping and $40 profit, that's still $150 that flowed into Chinese economy - not the US economy.
Prototyping and design used to be done here. It's now easier to get the engineering talent overseas where engineers have access and contact with the people producing the actual parts they need to use in their own products. We've lost the production capability, we're about to lose knowledge about how to even create the devices we invented.
Erm, no. The margin is WAY more in Apple's favor (in this example) and way more in the favor of US companies in general. Here is an example with numbers: http://www.chinalawblog.com/2011/11/chinese_manufacturing_profit_margin_what_profit_margin.html. You are right, there is a lot flowing into the Chinese economy but markup on consumer goods is at LEAST 2x mfg costs, and in a lot of cases closer to 5x (to get to MSRP, where it gets whittled back down). But overall, don't expect that even if you get a "Deal" on some iThing or a big TV, you spent anything less than twice what it cost to manufacture, and that money stays right here in the good old US of A (and it pays nothing but engineers, accountants, planners, distributors, and shareholders, none of those messy type occupations to bother with.)
Why not just store it on the computer, then. Something you know (password) and something you have (computer). There's no advantage to the power brick being your second authentication, as it's useless without the computer.
This seems like a pretty cool idea until you realize that you are likely to store your adapter (password key) with the computer, and it's probably nearly as likely to be stolen along with the laptop in it's carrying case. Better to have a USB on a keyring. (Not that Steve Jobs would be caught dead with a keyring...well, I guess that's not a real argument anymore).
Actually, he merely wouldnt be caught dead driving a car with a license plate, or parking said car farther away than the nearest handicap spot (wonder why he didnt just go full monty and park it on the grass by the doors though.) A keyring, if it were simple enough (only having one key on it, perhaps) would probably fly with him.
That's a good trick for someone already comfortable with a DSLR but it's a complete hack for someone used to a compact... No autofocus control and no aperture control kind of limit it to things willing to wait around for you to futz with the setup for a few minutes. I take it you haven't seen any shots taken with a Canon S series in supermacro mode?
More to the point, there are a lot of options above "cellphone" and below "full blown DSLR or expensive but compact equivalent"...
The OP should visit http://www.dpreview.com/ and first look for something in his price range that is the *form factor* he is interested in (probably above super-compact but not quite DSLR-ish) and then narrow the field by price. Why form factor? Since if you aren't comfortable carrying the thing lots of places, you likely won't take a lot of pictures with it. There are plenty to choose from that aren't DSLR, in fact for cost compact cameras take GREAT macro shots that would on a DSLR be only had with a $1000+ lens dedicated to macro. Once you decide on the type of camera with the right set of features, DPreview will point you toward the similar competing models from each brand (in the full review) so you can make a very informed decision.
I repeat, do not make a camera purchase without reading http://www.dpreview.com/ first, they offer the widest set of easy to read reviews you will EVER find.
Actually if he wasn't disingenuous to his own damn post, maybe he wouldn't be branded a troll. First he quotes part of the article that hints at Google's plan to make the UI theme more accessible to app developers, and then he turns it on it's head and says this will increase fragmentation... Because nothing says "fragmentation" like making app developers have to do LESS to cleanly support the OS. Then he links to an article as a claim of faith (re: the Galaxy line not getting rev 4 software), and completely leaves out the article from approximately a day later that showed Samsung was reversing their position due to customer outcry. And to top it all off, to not sound too much like a anti-google shill he throws in the sentence "Requiring support for a theme is a step in the right direction" which makes no sense at all given the nature of the rest of his argument.
He slapped together some canned flamebait responses and didn't bring anything about the actual article to this thread (or anything new at all for that matter) so yes he earned those downmods.
Well, it is quite replaceable, just buy a violin and wait. Voila, an old violin. Personally I don't really see why anything old has an excessive value beyond its use.
Until someone invents a time machine, yes the law of supply and demand is pretty strict about the idea that old things can't simply appear in sufficient quantity to offset a high price due to scarcity. I suppose you would also like to insist that Jack Daniels tastes just fine as day old corn mash and that letting it sit in a barrel in an old building in the middle of nowhere for 11 years adds nothing to the value; a good number of people would disagree with that, too.
There is a site called "regretsy.com"... And here I was thinking I would get some work done this afternoon. Oh shit, they have a sister site called "uhpinions", too?
" and flip-flop on any issue where new evidence causes him to modify his position"
If there's one aspect of the political system that mystifies me, it's this. One of the very definitions of intelligence is the ability to take information and make conclusions. Obviously new information can lead to new conclusions. Yet in politics, even a hint of a politician displaying intelligence by changing his stance after new information and it's the political kiss of death. So instead we get politicians who will stick to their beliefs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So why are we pushing so hard to support political figures who don't demonstrate intelligence and tossing aside the ones that do?
Because "flip flopper" has a nice ring to it, and in politics it is always easier to change someone's opinion with doubt than to change someone's mind back, no matter how relevant the evidence is to the contrary. Hell, all you have to do is trip over a sound byte enough to make it *sound* like you are a flip-flopper, and next thing you know you are unelectable...
If someone else wants to point out the misery in misunderstanding Chile vs China, I am glad to point out the misery in not knowing who Mao is or to a greater extent, an internet-going individual not knowing what ROFL MAO is. Ah well, I have karma to burn anyway.
Actually, apprently it does take a genius, because you don't get it.
If you buy an unlocked phone, it costs you more than a subsidized phone, without a doubt. But carrier-locking a phone doesn't change the fact that it is a subsidized phone, it just makes it useless to you when you have completed your contract.
The carrier-lock doesn't hold you to your contract. Your fucking contract holds you to your contract, with a penalty for early termination.
Nobody is suggesting that you can't still get a subsidized phone in this plan...just that you, as the consumer, get a unlocked phone and a contract.
Carrier locks are anti-competitive and does harm to the consumer.
The big thing is, by promoting subsidized phones and contracts, carriers can get away from the dread of having a significant contingent of customers using inferior equipment and thereby cramping their style (like we saw with the analog/digital switchover). The newer the handset, the more likely it is to be well-behaved on the network and thereby keeps the costs of the carrier down both in network traffic/compatibility and in tech support. Mix that in with carriers that gleefully "compete" with handset availability instead of cost or plan options, and voila you have a horribly stifling system where the carriers basically sell whatever phone they want, at a good enough profit, STILL lock customers into contracts despite the fact that the phone is locked in to their network anyhow, keep them paying even if their contract lapses, and for a big finish they tease them into a "great" new phone at a low price with the premise of "why not?" so they can do it all again.
The sad thing is, this is the system that consumers in the US have eaten up without flinching for almost 20 years. We get the cellular marketplace we deserve, after all.
I can buy an unlocked phone but it does not reduce the cost I pay monthly by one cent. If I buy a locked phone I get 400-500 off the price of the device and my monthly bill stays the same.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out which road to take here.
This is exactly where the problem is in the US. Everyone is eager to extoll the virtues (or lack thereof) of subsidized handsets, but few people really know what is on the table. You could, with your unlocked phone, go to a MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) and pay roughly half as much as you do on the "big three" for voice minutes, txts, and data. But how many people even know that? Most just assume that their only option is to keep paying the big network operators and see no benefit in owning a phone that has no strings attached to it.
For example, if you are on Verizon you can get the *exact same network* and use the *exact same phone* and buy a plan with unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, and 500MB of data for less than half the price of a comparable plan (and have no contract), by switching to PagePlus Cellular (google it). No, I don't work for/with/own part of them, but I am familiar with the landscape of wireless providers and I can confidently say that if more people knew about their product (and other companies like them), the big three would be severely scared.
Do you own every app in the app store? If not, why not? They are each less than $1, right?
There are some people (like yourself) that take nothing away from a $1 purchasing decision like this. Maybe that's a good thing. The point is, lots of people do assign it a nontrivial value (even if its barely above nontrivial) and they are the ones who economists study in cases like this. The behavior pattern is the same whether it is a $1 purchase or a $100 purchase; the parts of our brain that kick in to make purchasing decisions know nothing of dollars and cents they only know the "value" we put into them, which can come from a dozen different indicators and are sometimes not at all about money. In this case, it is easy to say that the money really isn't part of it, since anyone holding a smartphone spent a least a dollar *that day* to keep the service turned on, not to mention all the other costs associated with owning a smartphone. So, what is?
A majority of their customers certainly pay their bills online, but they do it automatically and are hence exempt from this fee.
I can't quite get the attraction for automatic payment of metered services. If I suddenly get a bill for $5,000 because my telco screwed up and billed me for hundreds of calls to Berzerkistan, I want the negotiating leverage of being able to say "you're wrong and I'm not paying my bill until you fix it". With automatic payment, you don't really have a bargaining position. The telco's already charged you and about the best you can do is take it up with your credit card company (who will likely point out that you were the one who set up the payment arrangements).
I do have recurring payments set up for lots of bills that are either fixed or very unlikely to change dramatically, but there's no way I'd to that for something with such chaos potential.
Orrrr... You see the email (Verizon sends one out over a week before the payment is pulled from your account) explaining the exact size of the charge. You either notice that it has only changed by a few pennies (what's up with that, anyway?) and you get on with your day or you see that it is 10x higher than it was and you immediately start investigating the issue. The bottom line is that when you get the bill it's for the upcoming month's base rate plus the past month's incidentals, and if you dont have a really really REALLY good excuse as to why you don't owe those incidentals then they are going to get their money or they are going to take it out of your ass with a team of lawyers. You signed a contract, after all.
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and not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.
But all kidding aside, I agree that the so called "futile care" exists for the patients loved ones and not the patient themselves.
The article alludes to the plant's status as "largest" is due to the fact that it is 40,000 sq. feet (quote: "The collaborative facility, named Liotech, will have an area exceeding 40,000 square feet – making it the largest lithium-ion battery factory in the world.")... But in the US a plant recently opened totaling 291,000 sq. feet (see http://ir.a123systems.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=506787 ). Which is it? Largest by cell count perhaps?
500,000 batteries per year is considered that large? When Apple is selling close to 20,000,000 iPads/year? And iPhones, and all the PC manufacturers laptops/netbooks, and all the Android phones, and all the other phones? What do they all do, buy batteries from dozens of different manufacturers for each of their popular products? Really?
Those piddly little things are called cells. If you only have on in a device, yes you might call it a battery, but you would be bringing shame to the likes of REAL batteries. In TFA, they have a pic of a 40V/40AH *battery* which means it can deliver 1600 WH, or the equivalent of around 1,000 of those piddly little "batteries" you refer to that inhabit iThings.
You think that him, this mysterious "Dave" character, and the N-control CEO are sitting on a beach in Cancun laughing about their exploits as the next 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'? Worth a laugh, yes, but it's doubtful.
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The sample age was 45-70 and they found that cognitive decline started at 45? Shouldn't they have started sampling people in their 30's to see a better bell curve?
A bell curve? What makes you think the rate of decline ever slows down?
Should the Zombie apocalypse occur I would much rather be with him, than a bunch of 44 year olds with nothing but book smarts. Intelligence is important but it's often over emphasized.
Be honest, the reason you want him around is so you won't be the slowest one running away when the zombie stampede starts...
And old was the youngest boss of him? I guess, 45?
Wha? Were you part of the study?
After looking at the photos, it is likely that the secondary drone is probably about 1/30th the weight of a typical handheld explosive. I am sure you could probably come up with a somewhat effective explosive that was weight-compatible with the micro-drone but it is not likely within the capabilities of foes of the USA, RUS (unless the cold war restarts) or even Justin Bieber. It doesn't mention it, but knowing a little about miniature aviation in general I can say that the micro-drone is probably in the range of half an ounce, and any additional weight at all, even the weight of a paperclip, would dramatically impact it's flight capabilities.
From this page: http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/grenade/hand.html it appears that even with a 16oz grenade your casualty radius is only 1 foot beyond the drones accuracy radius, so even if you could deliver it you are still not likely to actually take out one designated target because they could flee the kill zone. And again, the flight characteristics of one of those micro-drones with a grenade on it is barely different than the flight characteristics of a grenade by itself: it's going to obey gravity and not your will.
Weather balloons can be tracked by radar, which as TFA mentions the little drones cannot. Also, weather balloons are decidedly hard (read: impossible) to steer, whereas the little drones have surprisingly effective guidance. So yes, the 11 miles (or whatever the actual capability is) offers some very unique possible applications, especially since it is likely that your targets are not all within earshot of each other.
2015 - intel/ms produce all goods in China - the computer sent to the US
2020 - intel/ms declare bankruptcy. Chinese companies produce all parts and software, computer sent to the US
The problem is not just the assembly cost, which is in fact marginal. The problem is the costs all down the supply chain. All the components inside, say, an Ipod are made in China. All the profits made producing and selling those items stay in China. I don't think you could even produce a computer in the US today. You'd have to get and ship all your parts from Asia. Hard drives, memory, displays, discrete components - all made overseas. The huge support base for producing all electronics have moved overseas. If a $200 Ipod costs Apple $150 in parts, $10 assembly/packaging/shipping and $40 profit, that's still $150 that flowed into Chinese economy - not the US economy.
Prototyping and design used to be done here. It's now easier to get the engineering talent overseas where engineers have access and contact with the people producing the actual parts they need to use in their own products. We've lost the production capability, we're about to lose knowledge about how to even create the devices we invented.
Erm, no. The margin is WAY more in Apple's favor (in this example) and way more in the favor of US companies in general. Here is an example with numbers: http://www.chinalawblog.com/2011/11/chinese_manufacturing_profit_margin_what_profit_margin.html. You are right, there is a lot flowing into the Chinese economy but markup on consumer goods is at LEAST 2x mfg costs, and in a lot of cases closer to 5x (to get to MSRP, where it gets whittled back down). But overall, don't expect that even if you get a "Deal" on some iThing or a big TV, you spent anything less than twice what it cost to manufacture, and that money stays right here in the good old US of A (and it pays nothing but engineers, accountants, planners, distributors, and shareholders, none of those messy type occupations to bother with.)
Why not just store it on the computer, then. Something you know (password) and something you have (computer). There's no advantage to the power brick being your second authentication, as it's useless without the computer.
This seems like a pretty cool idea until you realize that you are likely to store your adapter (password key) with the computer, and it's probably nearly as likely to be stolen along with the laptop in it's carrying case. Better to have a USB on a keyring. (Not that Steve Jobs would be caught dead with a keyring...well, I guess that's not a real argument anymore).
Actually, he merely wouldnt be caught dead driving a car with a license plate, or parking said car farther away than the nearest handicap spot (wonder why he didnt just go full monty and park it on the grass by the doors though.) A keyring, if it were simple enough (only having one key on it, perhaps) would probably fly with him.
That's a good trick for someone already comfortable with a DSLR but it's a complete hack for someone used to a compact... No autofocus control and no aperture control kind of limit it to things willing to wait around for you to futz with the setup for a few minutes. I take it you haven't seen any shots taken with a Canon S series in supermacro mode?
More to the point, there are a lot of options above "cellphone" and below "full blown DSLR or expensive but compact equivalent"...
The OP should visit http://www.dpreview.com/ and first look for something in his price range that is the *form factor* he is interested in (probably above super-compact but not quite DSLR-ish) and then narrow the field by price. Why form factor? Since if you aren't comfortable carrying the thing lots of places, you likely won't take a lot of pictures with it. There are plenty to choose from that aren't DSLR, in fact for cost compact cameras take GREAT macro shots that would on a DSLR be only had with a $1000+ lens dedicated to macro. Once you decide on the type of camera with the right set of features, DPreview will point you toward the similar competing models from each brand (in the full review) so you can make a very informed decision.
I repeat, do not make a camera purchase without reading http://www.dpreview.com/ first, they offer the widest set of easy to read reviews you will EVER find.
Actually if he wasn't disingenuous to his own damn post, maybe he wouldn't be branded a troll. First he quotes part of the article that hints at Google's plan to make the UI theme more accessible to app developers, and then he turns it on it's head and says this will increase fragmentation... Because nothing says "fragmentation" like making app developers have to do LESS to cleanly support the OS. Then he links to an article as a claim of faith (re: the Galaxy line not getting rev 4 software), and completely leaves out the article from approximately a day later that showed Samsung was reversing their position due to customer outcry. And to top it all off, to not sound too much like a anti-google shill he throws in the sentence "Requiring support for a theme is a step in the right direction" which makes no sense at all given the nature of the rest of his argument.
He slapped together some canned flamebait responses and didn't bring anything about the actual article to this thread (or anything new at all for that matter) so yes he earned those downmods.
destroy an irreplaceable piece of history
Well, it is quite replaceable, just buy a violin and wait. Voila, an old violin. Personally I don't really see why anything old has an excessive value beyond its use.
Until someone invents a time machine, yes the law of supply and demand is pretty strict about the idea that old things can't simply appear in sufficient quantity to offset a high price due to scarcity. I suppose you would also like to insist that Jack Daniels tastes just fine as day old corn mash and that letting it sit in a barrel in an old building in the middle of nowhere for 11 years adds nothing to the value; a good number of people would disagree with that, too.
There is a site called "regretsy.com"... And here I was thinking I would get some work done this afternoon. Oh shit, they have a sister site called "uhpinions", too?
" and flip-flop on any issue where new evidence causes him to modify his position"
If there's one aspect of the political system that mystifies me, it's this. One of the very definitions of intelligence is the ability to take information and make conclusions. Obviously new information can lead to new conclusions. Yet in politics, even a hint of a politician displaying intelligence by changing his stance after new information and it's the political kiss of death. So instead we get politicians who will stick to their beliefs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So why are we pushing so hard to support political figures who don't demonstrate intelligence and tossing aside the ones that do?
Because "flip flopper" has a nice ring to it, and in politics it is always easier to change someone's opinion with doubt than to change someone's mind back, no matter how relevant the evidence is to the contrary. Hell, all you have to do is trip over a sound byte enough to make it *sound* like you are a flip-flopper, and next thing you know you are unelectable...
If someone else wants to point out the misery in misunderstanding Chile vs China, I am glad to point out the misery in not knowing who Mao is or to a greater extent, an internet-going individual not knowing what ROFL MAO is. Ah well, I have karma to burn anyway.
Actually, apprently it does take a genius, because you don't get it.
If you buy an unlocked phone, it costs you more than a subsidized phone, without a doubt. But carrier-locking a phone doesn't change the fact that it is a subsidized phone, it just makes it useless to you when you have completed your contract.
The carrier-lock doesn't hold you to your contract. Your fucking contract holds you to your contract, with a penalty for early termination.
Nobody is suggesting that you can't still get a subsidized phone in this plan...just that you, as the consumer, get a unlocked phone and a contract.
Carrier locks are anti-competitive and does harm to the consumer.
The big thing is, by promoting subsidized phones and contracts, carriers can get away from the dread of having a significant contingent of customers using inferior equipment and thereby cramping their style (like we saw with the analog/digital switchover). The newer the handset, the more likely it is to be well-behaved on the network and thereby keeps the costs of the carrier down both in network traffic/compatibility and in tech support. Mix that in with carriers that gleefully "compete" with handset availability instead of cost or plan options, and voila you have a horribly stifling system where the carriers basically sell whatever phone they want, at a good enough profit, STILL lock customers into contracts despite the fact that the phone is locked in to their network anyhow, keep them paying even if their contract lapses, and for a big finish they tease them into a "great" new phone at a low price with the premise of "why not?" so they can do it all again.
The sad thing is, this is the system that consumers in the US have eaten up without flinching for almost 20 years. We get the cellular marketplace we deserve, after all.
The Chairman smiles on your pedantry...
He goofed and thought of China instead of Chile
ROFL *MAO*. Google it, then bask in the pun. kthxbai
I can buy an unlocked phone but it does not reduce the cost I pay monthly by one cent. If I buy a locked phone I get 400-500 off the price of the device and my monthly bill stays the same.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out which road to take here.
This is exactly where the problem is in the US. Everyone is eager to extoll the virtues (or lack thereof) of subsidized handsets, but few people really know what is on the table. You could, with your unlocked phone, go to a MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) and pay roughly half as much as you do on the "big three" for voice minutes, txts, and data. But how many people even know that? Most just assume that their only option is to keep paying the big network operators and see no benefit in owning a phone that has no strings attached to it.
For example, if you are on Verizon you can get the *exact same network* and use the *exact same phone* and buy a plan with unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, and 500MB of data for less than half the price of a comparable plan (and have no contract), by switching to PagePlus Cellular (google it). No, I don't work for/with/own part of them, but I am familiar with the landscape of wireless providers and I can confidently say that if more people knew about their product (and other companies like them), the big three would be severely scared.
RTFA: Chile != China
ROTFLMAO
I think you were looking for: ROFLMAO
oblig: http://www.google.com/search?q=ROFL+MAO
Do you own every app in the app store? If not, why not? They are each less than $1, right?
There are some people (like yourself) that take nothing away from a $1 purchasing decision like this. Maybe that's a good thing. The point is, lots of people do assign it a nontrivial value (even if its barely above nontrivial) and they are the ones who economists study in cases like this. The behavior pattern is the same whether it is a $1 purchase or a $100 purchase; the parts of our brain that kick in to make purchasing decisions know nothing of dollars and cents they only know the "value" we put into them, which can come from a dozen different indicators and are sometimes not at all about money. In this case, it is easy to say that the money really isn't part of it, since anyone holding a smartphone spent a least a dollar *that day* to keep the service turned on, not to mention all the other costs associated with owning a smartphone. So, what is?
A majority of their customers certainly pay their bills online, but they do it automatically and are hence exempt from this fee.
I can't quite get the attraction for automatic payment of metered services. If I suddenly get a bill for $5,000 because my telco screwed up and billed me for hundreds of calls to Berzerkistan, I want the negotiating leverage of being able to say "you're wrong and I'm not paying my bill until you fix it". With automatic payment, you don't really have a bargaining position. The telco's already charged you and about the best you can do is take it up with your credit card company (who will likely point out that you were the one who set up the payment arrangements).
I do have recurring payments set up for lots of bills that are either fixed or very unlikely to change dramatically, but there's no way I'd to that for something with such chaos potential.
Orrrr... You see the email (Verizon sends one out over a week before the payment is pulled from your account) explaining the exact size of the charge. You either notice that it has only changed by a few pennies (what's up with that, anyway?) and you get on with your day or you see that it is 10x higher than it was and you immediately start investigating the issue. The bottom line is that when you get the bill it's for the upcoming month's base rate plus the past month's incidentals, and if you dont have a really really REALLY good excuse as to why you don't owe those incidentals then they are going to get their money or they are going to take it out of your ass with a team of lawyers. You signed a contract, after all.
and not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.
But all kidding aside, I agree that the so called "futile care" exists for the patients loved ones and not the patient themselves.
Ugh. I LOLed (unfortunately). Well done.
The article alludes to the plant's status as "largest" is due to the fact that it is 40,000 sq. feet (quote: "The collaborative facility, named Liotech, will have an area exceeding 40,000 square feet – making it the largest lithium-ion battery factory in the world.")... But in the US a plant recently opened totaling 291,000 sq. feet (see http://ir.a123systems.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=506787 ). Which is it? Largest by cell count perhaps?
500,000 batteries per year is considered that large? When Apple is selling close to 20,000,000 iPads/year? And iPhones, and all the PC manufacturers laptops/netbooks, and all the Android phones, and all the other phones? What do they all do, buy batteries from dozens of different manufacturers for each of their popular products? Really?
Those piddly little things are called cells. If you only have on in a device, yes you might call it a battery, but you would be bringing shame to the likes of REAL batteries. In TFA, they have a pic of a 40V/40AH *battery* which means it can deliver 1600 WH, or the equivalent of around 1,000 of those piddly little "batteries" you refer to that inhabit iThings.
Probably large enough to power a car but not large enough to threaten your deluded sense of manliness.
OMG, LOL
that is all.
You think that him, this mysterious "Dave" character, and the N-control CEO are sitting on a beach in Cancun laughing about their exploits as the next 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'? Worth a laugh, yes, but it's doubtful.