The phone industry has been using lithium ion batteries for ages, well before the iphone, and i don't mean a phone here and there, it's been ubiquitous for some time before the iphone. You would be hard pressed to find examples of phones made since 2000 which don't have lithium ion batteries.
Yep, I agree, it appears that they make the phone as small as possible, then get a custom battery to fit in the gaps. Some phone company should grow a pair of balls and design a phone around targets for what the battery should be able to do. So far it has only been the motorla razr maxx, and i would have bought it if not for my awful experience with android fragmentation and bugginess.
Europe's focus on small cars has been so because their fuel is taxed a lot higher, and some jurisdictions tax vehicles based engine capacity. So if you had to pay around $7.50 per gallon, i'm sure you'd consider fuel consumption as well. I agree with your premise, but i think the analogy is technically wrong, no real matter though. I still think what you are saying is right, so far i've only seen one smartphone which had the design concept of more batteries, ie, the motorola razr maxx, and it wasn't that much larger anyway, but seems that no one wants to make phones like it, they all prefer to go to the 1 dayers, i'd like to get at least a weekend.
Pretty much every phone these days has either lithium ion or lithium polymer batteries, that's to get the highest reasonable energy density in the battery. Apple isn't doing anything differently in this regard than any other phone manufacturer.
However, as a consumer, i'd rather a design concept like the motorola razr maxx, prepared to have a bit more thickness if it means the phone will last a weekend without charging.
I agree, we've already had similar stuff here, where one scumbag prime minister created the notion of "core promises" for delivered promises and "non-core promises" for things which were promised, but not going to be delivered. The media does scrutinise, and in that case particularly so, because the media here is quite left wing biased, and he was not a left wing darling (wouldn't call him right wing though, but did lead a conservative government). So bottom line is, politicians lie, it's just a plain fact of life.
Have you seen the size and power of the voice coil magnet inside the hdd? That was my source of neodymium magnets before they became quite commonplace.
Of course it isn't, she's part of what is probably the least most popular government for about 40 years in australia. The opposition actually won a single seat more than the government, but the government made deals with independents so they hung onto governance by their teeth alone. They'll be gone next year, the problem is, will the opposition reverse the bad things from this government; they've been posturing that way, but who knows, all politicians are crap.
I think it's because the crowd here tend to use their computers in ways that apple gear tends to not be interested in. For a lot of things I do, a desktop is still my main preference, stuff like solidworks runs on laptops fine, but you want big screens, and when doing FEA simulations, that can take a long time to crunch the numbers, and even content creation, like using DAW's, can't see how an ipad is going to be any good when latancies are not that brilliant with a desktop computer.
I wouldn't say it's groupthink, it's just that people here have generally different uses for their computers, and each iteration of computing that concentrates more and more on the mass market, is less and less appropriate for the specialists. When i read a lot of arguments for ipads in the classroom (sorry for going back on topic) they're generic arguments that really apply to bringing computers into the classroom, can't see anything particularly special about the ipad in any of the arguments, but even then, as an engineer, laptops and tablets are only used by people who attend class but aren't paying attention, i still think it's overhyped a lot of the time.
Walking through the campus (i'm still a student, but in mechanical and mechatronic engineering), particularly the industrial design section, just about everyone has some gizmo, and it's apple, engineering, most people have a pen and paper, ironic that the people equipped with the knowledge to actually make the device, don't even use it to gain the knowledge.
Theres so many different beers, and reality is, how many variations on piss can you achieve? I like the open source movement, but this is just becoming stupid. Lots of people have been doind home brew (beer) and it's no secret how to make grog.
Yeaaaa, my phone kind of doesn't have ICS (or later), it's stalled at gingerbread.
I've heard many good things about winpho, a relative has a lumia 800 and thinks it's great, i feel i've been quite badly burnt by android, due to lack of updates (which wouldn't be a huge problem if it wasn't so buggy) and bloatware, so i'm not keen on getting another android phone, particularly because the nexus phones don't seem to have the right mix of things i want, and there's just no way i'd ever get an android phone other than the nexus line.
So I think i'll just go for one of these nokia phones, but even then, it's looking like the 920 will have an LCD, i'm an amoled fan, so that's the most detracting feature for me at the moment
I think 32gb is sufficient to not worry too much, my phone has 16gb built in and i have 16gb microsd in there, i'm beyond 16gb used, but still got plenty of space. The only problem with android is juggling between built in storage and sd card storage, if it was consolidated, it would be that much better and easier to manage, but i also suppose, have its own downfalls with difficulty in just unmounting it.
The worst of it is, i need to go to slashdot, a yank site, to learn about what's happening here in skipsville. Where is the media? Europeans rioted over ACTA, yet we got reamed without even a "squeal boy".
Well to the juries credit, i believe there was a time limit imposed of 12 hours for each side, so there would have only been 24 hours of actual court evidence they needed to deliberate on. I personally think that the time limit turned it into an unfair trial.
That brought back some memories, its sad that so many people are completely oblivious to how much catching up consoles had to do, considering pcs where doing so much so long ago.
I think the main thing is, valve is probably looking at tech such as OnLive as a potential threat, so it appears that releasing their own steam box is probably the best way to fend of competing technologies. Steams livelihood depends on it being the only serious attempt at digital distribution, the landscape is somewhat like the mp3 player days when the ipod came out, ie, big companies were too busy suiting themselves rather than consumers *ahem*sony*cough*. Steam is in a similar situation, where it has the market share compared to other competitors, but, there is still an enormous untapped market, and valve can get smothered in an instant if a competing tech comes in and takes larger shares of the console crowd, which something like OnLive, or sony buying out a company doing similar things, can very easily do!
As many ethnic poles died during the war as jewish poles. Then you had the communist regime which after the war, had some jews in charge and they were cleaning out any polish patriots who were anti communist, that was until about the 70's where the jews started to leave poland and went to countries such as england and sweden to be harboured there (just look at the wiki pages of helena wolinska-brus and stefan michnik).
So this mythology that the jews were the only ones suffering is a complete bastardisation of the complex history that took place! You also seem ignorant of the fact that the communist regime was atheist, it oppressed all religions.
Socialism is an economic system, the main aim is to achieve socialised ownership of the means of production and of the economy. The only real difference is, the communist implementation of socialism was disasterously inhumane, and pretty much ever since the end of european communism, lots of sympathisers have had to backpeddle, and try to isolate themselves from the realities of what a socialist agenda is, by attributing it and burying it with communism; that's why trotsky gets floundered around so much these days, because he hasn't got the social stigma of mass murders that lenin and stalin have. The main problem with socialism is, it tries to break down self reliance, and place it completely in the hands of the state or government, and that can be good if people want to do that themselves, but not good when others ideals are forced on other people, and the system can't be escaped from.
I digress from the topic, Apple got caught out because they made a mistake, and it was easy for the ACCC to capitalise on this, i'm no apple lover, i don't own any apple products, but i think, while having an organisation like the ACCC is useful, they don't pursue targets unless they're open and shut cases, and the organisation seems to be in the pocket of some other large companies, who seem to get away with significantly more.
I like having government organisations like this in australia, particularly the industry ombudsmen, they've been invaluable in some persoanl cases, particularly dealing with telecommunications companies, who insist on squashing the rights of the consumer at every possible turn, the attitude i've seen from telecoms industry is largely that the consumer is reliant, and they must be screwed, they really appear to be an entitled industry, that feels they are entitled to make money, without satisfying the customer, or hold up to their end of the deal.
You have to know how the ACCC works, they're a fairly noble in intentions organisation, but alas, run by bureaucrats and government types. They don't chase the real culprits, only the easy targets when hey can see a bit of cash raising is available, and getting their name plastered in the media to justify their existence. The groceries business is a duopoly, and it appears that the ACCC do absolutely nothing to those two companies who exploit that situation, nor do they do anything to the four major banks, who seem to be so extremely in step, that I wonder if they aren't really just one major bank.
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The phone industry has been using lithium ion batteries for ages, well before the iphone, and i don't mean a phone here and there, it's been ubiquitous for some time before the iphone. You would be hard pressed to find examples of phones made since 2000 which don't have lithium ion batteries.
Nah, screw that, unless it's a google phone, i have no interest in android, and the current google phone isn't quite what i'd like.
Yep, I agree, it appears that they make the phone as small as possible, then get a custom battery to fit in the gaps. Some phone company should grow a pair of balls and design a phone around targets for what the battery should be able to do. So far it has only been the motorla razr maxx, and i would have bought it if not for my awful experience with android fragmentation and bugginess.
Europe's focus on small cars has been so because their fuel is taxed a lot higher, and some jurisdictions tax vehicles based engine capacity. So if you had to pay around $7.50 per gallon, i'm sure you'd consider fuel consumption as well. I agree with your premise, but i think the analogy is technically wrong, no real matter though. I still think what you are saying is right, so far i've only seen one smartphone which had the design concept of more batteries, ie, the motorola razr maxx, and it wasn't that much larger anyway, but seems that no one wants to make phones like it, they all prefer to go to the 1 dayers, i'd like to get at least a weekend.
lol, i like this guy, must be an apple fan.
Pretty much every phone these days has either lithium ion or lithium polymer batteries, that's to get the highest reasonable energy density in the battery. Apple isn't doing anything differently in this regard than any other phone manufacturer.
However, as a consumer, i'd rather a design concept like the motorola razr maxx, prepared to have a bit more thickness if it means the phone will last a weekend without charging.
I agree, we've already had similar stuff here, where one scumbag prime minister created the notion of "core promises" for delivered promises and "non-core promises" for things which were promised, but not going to be delivered. The media does scrutinise, and in that case particularly so, because the media here is quite left wing biased, and he was not a left wing darling (wouldn't call him right wing though, but did lead a conservative government). So bottom line is, politicians lie, it's just a plain fact of life.
Yea, bad grammar ftl, should have just written "least popular".
Have you seen the size and power of the voice coil magnet inside the hdd? That was my source of neodymium magnets before they became quite commonplace.
Of course it isn't, she's part of what is probably the least most popular government for about 40 years in australia. The opposition actually won a single seat more than the government, but the government made deals with independents so they hung onto governance by their teeth alone. They'll be gone next year, the problem is, will the opposition reverse the bad things from this government; they've been posturing that way, but who knows, all politicians are crap.
I think it's because the crowd here tend to use their computers in ways that apple gear tends to not be interested in. For a lot of things I do, a desktop is still my main preference, stuff like solidworks runs on laptops fine, but you want big screens, and when doing FEA simulations, that can take a long time to crunch the numbers, and even content creation, like using DAW's, can't see how an ipad is going to be any good when latancies are not that brilliant with a desktop computer.
I wouldn't say it's groupthink, it's just that people here have generally different uses for their computers, and each iteration of computing that concentrates more and more on the mass market, is less and less appropriate for the specialists. When i read a lot of arguments for ipads in the classroom (sorry for going back on topic) they're generic arguments that really apply to bringing computers into the classroom, can't see anything particularly special about the ipad in any of the arguments, but even then, as an engineer, laptops and tablets are only used by people who attend class but aren't paying attention, i still think it's overhyped a lot of the time.
Walking through the campus (i'm still a student, but in mechanical and mechatronic engineering), particularly the industrial design section, just about everyone has some gizmo, and it's apple, engineering, most people have a pen and paper, ironic that the people equipped with the knowledge to actually make the device, don't even use it to gain the knowledge.
You clearly don't understand Australian jargon! http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/piss.htm
Theres so many different beers, and reality is, how many variations on piss can you achieve? I like the open source movement, but this is just becoming stupid. Lots of people have been doind home brew (beer) and it's no secret how to make grog.
you mean the ALPBC...
Yeaaaa, my phone kind of doesn't have ICS (or later), it's stalled at gingerbread.
I've heard many good things about winpho, a relative has a lumia 800 and thinks it's great, i feel i've been quite badly burnt by android, due to lack of updates (which wouldn't be a huge problem if it wasn't so buggy) and bloatware, so i'm not keen on getting another android phone, particularly because the nexus phones don't seem to have the right mix of things i want, and there's just no way i'd ever get an android phone other than the nexus line.
So I think i'll just go for one of these nokia phones, but even then, it's looking like the 920 will have an LCD, i'm an amoled fan, so that's the most detracting feature for me at the moment
I think 32gb is sufficient to not worry too much, my phone has 16gb built in and i have 16gb microsd in there, i'm beyond 16gb used, but still got plenty of space. The only problem with android is juggling between built in storage and sd card storage, if it was consolidated, it would be that much better and easier to manage, but i also suppose, have its own downfalls with difficulty in just unmounting it.
The worst of it is, i need to go to slashdot, a yank site, to learn about what's happening here in skipsville. Where is the media? Europeans rioted over ACTA, yet we got reamed without even a "squeal boy".
Well to the juries credit, i believe there was a time limit imposed of 12 hours for each side, so there would have only been 24 hours of actual court evidence they needed to deliberate on. I personally think that the time limit turned it into an unfair trial.
That brought back some memories, its sad that so many people are completely oblivious to how much catching up consoles had to do, considering pcs where doing so much so long ago.
the new pill in spam emails?
Live version, for some reason is better/funnier.
I think the main thing is, valve is probably looking at tech such as OnLive as a potential threat, so it appears that releasing their own steam box is probably the best way to fend of competing technologies. Steams livelihood depends on it being the only serious attempt at digital distribution, the landscape is somewhat like the mp3 player days when the ipod came out, ie, big companies were too busy suiting themselves rather than consumers *ahem*sony*cough*. Steam is in a similar situation, where it has the market share compared to other competitors, but, there is still an enormous untapped market, and valve can get smothered in an instant if a competing tech comes in and takes larger shares of the console crowd, which something like OnLive, or sony buying out a company doing similar things, can very easily do!
As many ethnic poles died during the war as jewish poles. Then you had the communist regime which after the war, had some jews in charge and they were cleaning out any polish patriots who were anti communist, that was until about the 70's where the jews started to leave poland and went to countries such as england and sweden to be harboured there (just look at the wiki pages of helena wolinska-brus and stefan michnik).
So this mythology that the jews were the only ones suffering is a complete bastardisation of the complex history that took place! You also seem ignorant of the fact that the communist regime was atheist, it oppressed all religions.
Socialism is an economic system, the main aim is to achieve socialised ownership of the means of production and of the economy. The only real difference is, the communist implementation of socialism was disasterously inhumane, and pretty much ever since the end of european communism, lots of sympathisers have had to backpeddle, and try to isolate themselves from the realities of what a socialist agenda is, by attributing it and burying it with communism; that's why trotsky gets floundered around so much these days, because he hasn't got the social stigma of mass murders that lenin and stalin have. The main problem with socialism is, it tries to break down self reliance, and place it completely in the hands of the state or government, and that can be good if people want to do that themselves, but not good when others ideals are forced on other people, and the system can't be escaped from.
I digress from the topic, Apple got caught out because they made a mistake, and it was easy for the ACCC to capitalise on this, i'm no apple lover, i don't own any apple products, but i think, while having an organisation like the ACCC is useful, they don't pursue targets unless they're open and shut cases, and the organisation seems to be in the pocket of some other large companies, who seem to get away with significantly more.
I like having government organisations like this in australia, particularly the industry ombudsmen, they've been invaluable in some persoanl cases, particularly dealing with telecommunications companies, who insist on squashing the rights of the consumer at every possible turn, the attitude i've seen from telecoms industry is largely that the consumer is reliant, and they must be screwed, they really appear to be an entitled industry, that feels they are entitled to make money, without satisfying the customer, or hold up to their end of the deal.
You have to know how the ACCC works, they're a fairly noble in intentions organisation, but alas, run by bureaucrats and government types. They don't chase the real culprits, only the easy targets when hey can see a bit of cash raising is available, and getting their name plastered in the media to justify their existence. The groceries business is a duopoly, and it appears that the ACCC do absolutely nothing to those two companies who exploit that situation, nor do they do anything to the four major banks, who seem to be so extremely in step, that I wonder if they aren't really just one major bank.