What if it can last 4000 charge cycles? I mean we're putting a lot of what ifs in that have no relation to this battery at this point, so why not also wish for a pony, nah better still a unicorn.
OP was right. This article sounds like drummed up marketing by the numbers:
1. Reference outdated technology that has some out of context benefit like cost. 2. Talk about how made a breakthrough with this old technology but don't go into any details. 3. Mention some hot topics like safety, thinking of children, stopping terrorists etc. 4. Reference emerging trends requiring billions of these things despite having yet to commercially produce a single one. 5. Hope the reader connects the original completely irrelevant fact (cost) with something that we haven't at all demonstrated (cost).
This comment is amazing considering that a root canal is usually done on a dead tooth and that you should therefore not actually feel anything with or without anesthesia.
Now root canals are still not fun, but are you saying writing GTK based apps is "normal"?
Go ahead, zoom 2x or higher, and try and adjust the canvas size by shrinking it inward.
I will bet you a Marsbar that 99.9% of MSPaint users who love MSPaint don't even know it has a zoom function. People love it because they don't know the snipping tool does what they use MSPaint for.
Fedora lost almost 2/3 of it users with that and systemd.
[Citation needed] Fedora hasn't updated statistics about their users in over 8 years, so I'm keen to know where you get your 2/3rds number from.
While you're at it you should at least correlate the user levels with alternate projects which don't use GNOME3 or systemd, unless that is you can publish a link to exit interviews with those 2/3rds of users who allegedly left. But I'm going to guess this is either hyperbole or showing an extreme lack of correlation and causation.
Disclosure: I left Fedora in 2013 for neither of the reasons you list. You better not be counting me in those stats.
And yet Linux has never been more popular. For all the shit that the community gives GNOME 3 and Unity and pulse audio, etc. For the most part it has done no damage on servers, and has made Linux far more welcoming to new users and easier to use for computer novices.
That makes no sense. Cars have changed hands. Cars have been written off. Cars have had all their value extracted from over use. Some cars have stayed in garages and are still at the original value.
Your proposal unfairly distributes fines to people unequally. Better to just fine them a fixed fee that goes to the government and benefits the people who were affected (drivers of VWs are just a small portion of the people affected by pollution of VWs).
AND to be sold at the same price as a similar gas powered car. Even if it is at a loss.
Not legal. Not even against a company you don't like.
You can say what you want. The medical term is "lactose intolerance". Saying you're not suffering from a medical condition is not a double negative regardless of how stubborn you want to be with grammar. Just remember you can say what you want, but everyone else will think you're weird.
This exactly. What is addictive? I find browsing the internet addictive. It releases endorphins and makes me happy so I continue to do it. I also do the same with wakeboarding, and tinkering with electronics.
I'm normally good with understanding markets when they are free, but not so good with manipulated ones. Can someone explain how this relates to the official exchange rate: http://www.xe.com/currencychar... The official exchange rate appears to be pegged to the USD. How is it then that people are spending so many bolivars for $1. Do people not honour the exchange rate? Does the government refuse to cover the value of it?
How can this "official" exchange rate not reflect what the currency is actually worth, with the subquestion of how can an official exchange rate be official if it isn't honoured?
So I was curious if this was just done to get back at him over that.
Not at all. Whenever someone within a company makes a lot of money off a sudden change in price there's investigations. Whether he's a dick or not (he is), or whether this was live saving medication or not is quite irrelevant.
Hell when the original story broke there were a lot of people pointing out that his purchase and sudden price change would draw scrutiny from the regulators. That's what they do.
I'm trying to come to terms with why the OP is modded funny and the GP is modded troll.
Is it okay to hate on Massachusetts but comparing them to the French is one step too far? Or are there French people with modpoints here that don't get the joke:-).
but most of the time it seems at best the no compelling change
Most of the time you're not looking at the features they added. Fingerprint support... yeah part of default Android right? Except my phone has a fingerprint reader too and it's old enough that it isn't even upgradable to the first version of Android that had fingerprint support.
If you dig into the OS you'll find more than just a custom skin, but rather a very different OS with customization across all levels for everything from features of the hardware, software features that add support for more hardware features, differentiating features like support for multiple screens, casting, split screen, NFC transfer of settings at upgrades, etc.
If a feature was added to Android, there's a good chance Google copied the idea of someone who had done it previously on their custom Android.
These companies spend millions over time reinventing the wheel
Yeah I know. Why do we even have Linux. Everyone should just use Windows.
People just download the gmail app anyway
WTF? Why? It's a horrible email client. I'll stick with the one that was shipped thanks. Same with the Photo manager. I'm happy that it stops trying to get me to sync with Google+ / Picassa / whatever the fuck they are doing now. Not using the Android / Google supplied software is not always a bad thing.
No choice and less developers would be a bad thing.
Samsung does it to fuck the customer into upgrades.
Poppycock. The smartphone is an area where differentiation is incredibly difficult. They do it to create a brand identity independent of Google as well as add features that aren't present in the default Android system (though they do work their way in eventually).
This is also nothing to do with Samsung since nearly every major manufacturer applies a lot of customization to their phone. Samsung even for several years offered 2 variants of their phones with a Google play edition with stock Android on it.... which few people bought.
You don't need to put a lot of effort into customisation to lock a customer into upgrades. Every vendor has custom hardware already, simply not making a distribution available is enough due to a lack of hardware drivers.
What's your point? That is still perfectly inline with what the GP said. During pregnancy and during lactation (no mention of them being the same time) women don't menstruate. Google Lactational Amenorrhea Method of birth control.
Also while men CAN lactate, they do not normally as part of their natural cycle and it has nothing to do with fertility, so that is irrelevant.
Yes he's an asshole but it doesn't make it any less of a dangerous road to be going down.
How is convicting someone of a crime he committed a dangerous road? How does the date someone started investigating him for securities fraud make a difference?
On the flip side, if someone just makes a silly amount of money after jacking up the prices of one of their product, what makes you think they won't get looked at to see if there isn't securities fraud going on?
This seems like perfectly reasonable effect of a functioning society at work.
And? Just because you can doesn't mean you need to. The problem was in the past the chipset changes were far more common and computers were far more expensive. Upgrades were huge increases and big deals that drove people to wait and then spend on big changes when they happen.
No so in the past 10 years. Why change a motherboard when you don't have to? My current motherboard is on it's 3rd Processor, 3rd video card, and 2nd memory upgrade (though memory is maxed out now).
I had the option with the last processor change to spend $250 on a CPU, or $500 on a CPU + motherboard, the latter which gets me... just more head room for the next upgrade but no actual other benefit.
Intel has hardly ever had usable CPU upgrade on the same motherboard
Single core > multiple core > generation upgrade.
There have been plenty of "usable" CPU upgrades on the same motherboard, especially on the lower end of the spectrum where the motherboard upgrade triples the cost of the total upgrade.
What do you need a EULA for? I don't know of anyone who leases a car to someone and then expects to own the liability.
Hell I'm leasing a car right now. If there's a product recall it's still up to me to go drive the car to the shop to get it fixed, much like it's up to me to get it serviced, not crash it, or generally look after myself.
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What if it can last 4000 charge cycles? I mean we're putting a lot of what ifs in that have no relation to this battery at this point, so why not also wish for a pony, nah better still a unicorn.
OP was right. This article sounds like drummed up marketing by the numbers:
1. Reference outdated technology that has some out of context benefit like cost.
2. Talk about how made a breakthrough with this old technology but don't go into any details.
3. Mention some hot topics like safety, thinking of children, stopping terrorists etc.
4. Reference emerging trends requiring billions of these things despite having yet to commercially produce a single one.
5. Hope the reader connects the original completely irrelevant fact (cost) with something that we haven't at all demonstrated (cost).
People, it's a freakin' simple text editor
It's a text editor, but using that clusterfuck is anything but simple.
root canal without anesthesia
This comment is amazing considering that a root canal is usually done on a dead tooth and that you should therefore not actually feel anything with or without anesthesia.
Now root canals are still not fun, but are you saying writing GTK based apps is "normal"?
Go ahead, zoom 2x or higher, and try and adjust the canvas size by shrinking it inward.
I will bet you a Marsbar that 99.9% of MSPaint users who love MSPaint don't even know it has a zoom function. People love it because they don't know the snipping tool does what they use MSPaint for.
Ctrl+V and save.
Fedora lost almost 2/3 of it users with that and systemd.
[Citation needed] Fedora hasn't updated statistics about their users in over 8 years, so I'm keen to know where you get your 2/3rds number from.
While you're at it you should at least correlate the user levels with alternate projects which don't use GNOME3 or systemd, unless that is you can publish a link to exit interviews with those 2/3rds of users who allegedly left. But I'm going to guess this is either hyperbole or showing an extreme lack of correlation and causation.
Disclosure: I left Fedora in 2013 for neither of the reasons you list. You better not be counting me in those stats.
that are most harmful to Linux
And yet Linux has never been more popular. For all the shit that the community gives GNOME 3 and Unity and pulse audio, etc. For the most part it has done no damage on servers, and has made Linux far more welcoming to new users and easier to use for computer novices.
I say we harm it a bit more.
The VW clusterfuck cost the rich money,
What rich person would drive a VW? Looks like a common person car in pretty much the entire western world to me.
at their original value
That makes no sense. Cars have changed hands. Cars have been written off. Cars have had all their value extracted from over use. Some cars have stayed in garages and are still at the original value.
Your proposal unfairly distributes fines to people unequally. Better to just fine them a fixed fee that goes to the government and benefits the people who were affected (drivers of VWs are just a small portion of the people affected by pollution of VWs).
AND to be sold at the same price as a similar gas powered car. Even if it is at a loss.
Not legal. Not even against a company you don't like.
You can say what you want. The medical term is "lactose intolerance". Saying you're not suffering from a medical condition is not a double negative regardless of how stubborn you want to be with grammar. Just remember you can say what you want, but everyone else will think you're weird.
You must be addicted to Slashdot to post on this article.
- Sent from another non iPad device.
if you let it
This exactly. What is addictive? I find browsing the internet addictive. It releases endorphins and makes me happy so I continue to do it. I also do the same with wakeboarding, and tinkering with electronics.
I'm normally good with understanding markets when they are free, but not so good with manipulated ones. Can someone explain how this relates to the official exchange rate:
http://www.xe.com/currencychar...
The official exchange rate appears to be pegged to the USD. How is it then that people are spending so many bolivars for $1. Do people not honour the exchange rate? Does the government refuse to cover the value of it?
How can this "official" exchange rate not reflect what the currency is actually worth, with the subquestion of how can an official exchange rate be official if it isn't honoured?
So I was curious if this was just done to get back at him over that.
Not at all. Whenever someone within a company makes a lot of money off a sudden change in price there's investigations. Whether he's a dick or not (he is), or whether this was live saving medication or not is quite irrelevant.
Hell when the original story broke there were a lot of people pointing out that his purchase and sudden price change would draw scrutiny from the regulators. That's what they do.
I'm trying to come to terms with why the OP is modded funny and the GP is modded troll.
Is it okay to hate on Massachusetts but comparing them to the French is one step too far? Or are there French people with modpoints here that don't get the joke :-).
That double negatives
That isn't a double negative as much as it is a negative in front of the standard medical condition called "lactose intolerance".
No English as a first language person uses "lactose tolerant" to describe that they have no problem consuming lactose.
What is a superior product? Hardware that can't be used because Android support for it is not available?
The software is part of their product and a lot of devices have advertised and differentiating features in their custom Android builds.
but most of the time it seems at best the no compelling change
Most of the time you're not looking at the features they added. Fingerprint support ... yeah part of default Android right? Except my phone has a fingerprint reader too and it's old enough that it isn't even upgradable to the first version of Android that had fingerprint support.
If you dig into the OS you'll find more than just a custom skin, but rather a very different OS with customization across all levels for everything from features of the hardware, software features that add support for more hardware features, differentiating features like support for multiple screens, casting, split screen, NFC transfer of settings at upgrades, etc.
If a feature was added to Android, there's a good chance Google copied the idea of someone who had done it previously on their custom Android.
These companies spend millions over time reinventing the wheel
Yeah I know. Why do we even have Linux. Everyone should just use Windows.
People just download the gmail app anyway
WTF? Why? It's a horrible email client. I'll stick with the one that was shipped thanks. Same with the Photo manager. I'm happy that it stops trying to get me to sync with Google+ / Picassa / whatever the fuck they are doing now. Not using the Android / Google supplied software is not always a bad thing.
No choice and less developers would be a bad thing.
Samsung does it to fuck the customer into upgrades.
Poppycock. The smartphone is an area where differentiation is incredibly difficult. They do it to create a brand identity independent of Google as well as add features that aren't present in the default Android system (though they do work their way in eventually).
This is also nothing to do with Samsung since nearly every major manufacturer applies a lot of customization to their phone. Samsung even for several years offered 2 variants of their phones with a Google play edition with stock Android on it .... which few people bought.
You don't need to put a lot of effort into customisation to lock a customer into upgrades. Every vendor has custom hardware already, simply not making a distribution available is enough due to a lack of hardware drivers.
Keep your pants zipped. I've done it for 47 years.
That is starting to explain a lot about your angry rants on Slashdot. I'd be angry too without sex for 47 days. ...
Wait. You said years. WTF man! Live a little. If you're worried about a parasite developing then spend the $100 down at the local brothel.
What's your point? That is still perfectly inline with what the GP said.
During pregnancy and during lactation (no mention of them being the same time) women don't menstruate. Google Lactational Amenorrhea Method of birth control.
Also while men CAN lactate, they do not normally as part of their natural cycle and it has nothing to do with fertility, so that is irrelevant.
And they all have that option already: a vasectomy.
Maybe, just maybe we want something temporary. Maybe we want sex to be more amazing than it already is, and maybe some aren't ready to have kids.
Yes he's an asshole but it doesn't make it any less of a dangerous road to be going down.
How is convicting someone of a crime he committed a dangerous road?
How does the date someone started investigating him for securities fraud make a difference?
On the flip side, if someone just makes a silly amount of money after jacking up the prices of one of their product, what makes you think they won't get looked at to see if there isn't securities fraud going on?
This seems like perfectly reasonable effect of a functioning society at work.
And? Just because you can doesn't mean you need to. The problem was in the past the chipset changes were far more common and computers were far more expensive. Upgrades were huge increases and big deals that drove people to wait and then spend on big changes when they happen.
No so in the past 10 years. Why change a motherboard when you don't have to? My current motherboard is on it's 3rd Processor, 3rd video card, and 2nd memory upgrade (though memory is maxed out now).
I had the option with the last processor change to spend $250 on a CPU, or $500 on a CPU + motherboard, the latter which gets me ... just more head room for the next upgrade but no actual other benefit.
Intel has hardly ever had usable CPU upgrade on the same motherboard
Single core > multiple core > generation upgrade.
There have been plenty of "usable" CPU upgrades on the same motherboard, especially on the lower end of the spectrum where the motherboard upgrade triples the cost of the total upgrade.
What do you need a EULA for? I don't know of anyone who leases a car to someone and then expects to own the liability.
Hell I'm leasing a car right now. If there's a product recall it's still up to me to go drive the car to the shop to get it fixed, much like it's up to me to get it serviced, not crash it, or generally look after myself.