The defined torque is a property of the motor design. Much smaller fuel cells could be used to produce a similar torque given a different motor design.
Actually, you could produce identical torque with no fuel cells at all, and no batteries: just connect the truck and its motor to mains power (through an appropriate power converter).
It's the motor that generates the torque using electricity; where that electricity comes from is irrelevant to the motor. It can be from fuel cells, a battery, or a Mr. Fusion for all it cares.
Wrong. Complaining is fine, but only if it's productive. If it's non-productive, then you're just an annoying whiner.
If your complaining actually serves a purpose, such as getting someone to change, or getting people to choose another vendor, then great, complain away! For instance: "I bought a Chevy car, and the ignition key turned off while I was driving down the freeway, causing me to wreck. I almost died! Here's some links showing how Chevy knew about this design flaw and covered it up to save a little money, and a bunch of people really did die as a result. Don't buy Chevies!" That's useful and productive complaining, warning people away from a dangerous product or vendor.
If your complaining just whines about the current state of affairs, but proposes no solutions and is basically tilting at windmills, and worse there are actual solutions but you refuse to pursue them, then you're just being an annoying whiner. This is generally the case with everyone who complains about Windows 10. They whine and whine and whine, but they keep using it. I'm sorry, if you're not going to do anything to change your situation, you're just like those stupid women who refuse to leave their abusive boyfriends and then even defend him, but then whine "why does he hit me? Why doesn't he love me the way I want to be loved?"
This is a stupid and idiotic post. No, their job is not to deliver a quality product; where do you get that crazy idea?
Moreover, if you really think that's their job, then obviously they're failing at it. So, what are you going to do about it? You're going to keep using their products, and sending them money, right? That means they're succeeding at their job, because they're still "working" and still getting paid. People who fail at their job get fired. If you don't get fired, you must be doing a good enough job for your employer to keep you around. So if you're failing in your job as "employer" (customer actually) to "fire" this poor performing, and actually destructive "employee", then you're the one who's really to blame for being such a terrible employer.
But anyway, you're just completely wrong about what a company's job is. It's to make money, and that's it. If you don't like the company's products, then don't buy them. That's the only power you have over them to do the job you think they should be doing, which is keeping you happy.
It's perfectly reasonable for a person to not know this IF they've never been told, I agree.
However, if they've been told, and do it anyway, then they're idiots.
I could be wrong: maybe this lady is just overly anal or crazy. But I believe it's quite possible she got this way about her washer because she became frustrated with stupid people closing the door on it, despite her repeated warnings not to do so. I can easily see how someone would get that way, because I've seen it with people with other things, especially in shared living situations or shared working situations: one person has a particular reason they want something done a certain way, and another person decides they know better and does it their way instead, and it predictably causes problems which the first person knew would happen. There IS a need to insult people when they do stuff like this: they deserve it. Now again, I could be wrong in this situation, but my contention is that maybe this is what happened, leading this lady to act this way, in which case it's perfectly rational on her part, due to the stubbornness and idiocy of others. Remember, the OP wasn't saying that she merely told people, "please don't close the door on the washer", she went to ridiculous lengths, insisting on doing all laundry herself and giving people insane-seeming lectures if they went through the laundry room. That, to me, indicates a very high level of frustration on her part with people not listening to her.
As for trashing the machine, my point there is that these machines have this known weakness, which is pretty easily worked around if you're diligent about leaving the door open to dry them out before the mold sets in. You can complain all you want about the UX being poor, but that doesn't fix the machines. The manufacturers aren't going to fix or replace everyone's older machine (supposedly the newer ones don't have this problem), so for someone like this lady, her choice is to either trash the machine and buy a brand-new one because her idiot relatives won't follow her simple instructions, or to resort to the interpersonal measures she has so she doesn't have to shell out $1k+.
Yes, the product is stupid, but most products have something stupid about them. The more complex the product, the more likely you'll find something stupid or poorly thought-out, or at least not meeting your needs as well as possible. That's why we work around these problems, instead of just blaming the manufacturers. (Many people with cars with built-in nav systems likely still use their phone for navigation because the car's built-in system isn't as good, for instance, which means they need to get some kind of smartphone mount, like one that clips to a vent.) But what do you do when your housemates or visitors refuse to listen to you and implement your simple workaround?
On what models? I've never seen a front-loading washer with a self-closing door. In fact, such a feature seems stupid and counter-productive to me: how do you leave the door open so you can pull the clothes out and put them in the dryer? You'd have the stupid door constantly shutting on your arms while you're reaching in to pull stuff out. This is the most idiotic feature I can even imagine on a washing machine.
I'm not an expert on front-loaders, but I've had two now, and I've seen them in stores, and I've never seen one with a self-closing door. The one on my current Duet (mid-00s model) has no trouble just sitting open.
I just realised, I wasn't aware until that IMDB actually had a "star" or "ratings" system. Show how little interest I have in people's opinions, compared to things like plot summaries.
That would make you very, very strange. IMDB has had a rating system for, well as long as they've been a website I think. Their ratings have long had a certain amount of weight to them. And that's nothing new: people have been listening to movie reviewers like Roger Ebert for a very, very long time. Without considering peoples' opinions, it would be very easy for you to read the plot summary of something like, oh, Battlefield: Earth or Gigli or an Uwe Boll movie and think "that sounds like it might be a good movie", and proceed to waste 2 hours of your life on it. Obviously, you have to take ratings and reviews with a grain of salt, but they are useful for avoiding the real stinkers, and frequently also seeing some real gems.
What kind of crappy front-loader were you using? I've never had this kind of problem with the two front-loaders I've owned, and most other people don't either. They've both worked just fine (great, really, except for those damn mold issues but the first was a late-90s model and the second a mid-2000s so it's to be expected). They've cleaned clothes wonderfully, and I've never had trouble with them not rinsing the soap out.
It sounds like your machine was either some horrible POS model, or maybe it just wasn't working right.
And why would you need to "crack open" a washer to watch it work? All newer front-loaders I've ever seen have glass front doors. The ones that didn't, offhand, were the old Maytag Neptunes from the late 90s to mid 2000s. My first front-loader was the first model Neptune, and again it worked great, mostly, except for the mold (which they partially fixed with a recall after a couple of years) and also after it got old (over 10 years) it had corrosion issues on the top detergent compartment, the belt fell off once, and the drain pump failed. It finally was retired because the main bearing failed and it cost more to replace than it was worth. But even with that old model (really the first mainstream front-loader in the US sold by an American company), I *never* had problems with it not rinsing the soap out, or not getting the clothes clean.
It IS a failure in UX design, I agree completely. But that's the model this person has, and that's what many owners of these machines have if they were made during that period before they finally fixed the issue. What makes more sense: keeping the machine you already have, which works great except for this one annoying flaw, or throwing it in the trash and spending another $1000-1500 on a brand-new machine because some people are too stupid to leave a door open?
Do you take your car to the junkyard and buy a brand-new one every time automakers fix some annoying little issue?
and actually defaults to *trying* to close itself if left in the default state, and needs to be jury rigged with a home-made propping device in order to prevent a device from self-destructing.
What are you talking about? Front-loaders don't need any devices to leave the door open, just like most of the doors in your house also do not close themselves. If you want to leave the door open, you just leave it open.
It's not "stupid" for people to be disposed close/clean up tools when they're done
When someone who owns and uses a machine regularly tells you plainly: "leave the door open when you're done so that it airs out and doesn't get moldy", and you don't, then you're stupid. Failure to follow simple instructions is indicative of stupidity.
Just the knowledge that the device is prone to self-destruct,
It's not self-destructive; it's a long-term problem. The mold builds up in the "bellows" seal between the front and the rotating drum if it's kept moist for too long, then you need to use a bleach solution to kill the mold and clean it, and worst case is you need to take the machine apart, remove the bellows seal, and thoroughly clean it with bleachy water. It's a PITA, but it's not like the machine will be completely destroyed if you don't leave the door open one time, otherwise they would have fixed it better. It's a long-term thing, much like keeping your car tires properly inflated. Running them under-inflated decreases the lifespan but doesn't cause catastrophic destruction after a single drive.
It's funny how you have to waste so much time and energy washing clothes 3-4 times to get the soap out, all because you're so stupid that you don't use the proper amount of soap for an HE machine. It's been common knowledge for over 15 years now that HE machines use a different (less sudsy) type of detergent, and use a lot less of it. Any idiot can understand: less water = less soap.
You should be venting your dryer outside, especially in summer
No, you shouldn't; you should only be venting your dryer outside in the summer or other warm months. In the winter when it's cold and dry inside, you should vent your dryer inside to give you a little more humidity (which makes the air feel warmer) and to recover that heat and lower your heating bill.
Maytag/Whirlpool/etc. is still American AFAIK, though they probably make a lot of stuff in Mexico now. They're also junk these days.
If you want the best appliances at a decent price, you need to buy Korean. The American stuff has gone down the toilet and GE is crap now because it's Chinese. If you want the very best appliances and price is no object, buy German (Bosch and Miele). (Though I'm hearing now that even Miele isn't as great as it used to be.)
It also increases the humidity of the air indoors, which cools the air so increases your heating bill in the Winter.
Huh? This part is wrong. Winter air is dry, and it's commonly advised to use a humidifier indoors in the winter to increase humidity as it's both good for your nasal passages, and it makes it seem warmer. It probably does require more energy to heat though because of water's high heat capacity, assuming a set temperature, but you're supposed to be able to get away with a lower temperature for a given level of comfort by increasing the humidity.
Europeans manage to dry their clothes just fine with all the conditions you've listed.
So how exactly do they manage to dry clothes when 1) it's raining outside, and rains every day in fact (as in the Pacific Northwest), 2) it's snowing outside, or 3) it's below freezing outside (which is common in the winter in many parts of the US), or 4) it's 100% humidity outside (which is normal in the southeast US during the summer)?
So for me I would be massively interested in a dryer that I didn't need to vent outside
You're still going to need to vent these dryers outside, unless you want all that humidity in your house. (You actually might, depending on the season and your region, but you'll probably want to be able to switch it to vent outside during the humid summer months.)
Now I understand that stateside having clothes hang outside is a sure sign of poverty.
It could also be a sign of stupidity, unless you happen to live someplace where it doesn't rain. In many places in America, rain is frequent and very unpredictable.
How do you suggest that someone in the Pacific Northwest hang-dry their clothes outside?
And anyway, clothing hangs pretty well on an indoors rack too.
The OP is a moron and a lunatic. It seems pretty self-evident to me, even without looking at the link first, that an ultrasonic dryer is still going to use forced-air. Using ultrasonics to "shake" water from the clothes isn't much help if you don't also provide a way of removing that water, so obviously you need to force air through them as well to carry away the water. It's not going to work if the soaking wet clothes are just sitting in a heap. You just don't need heat any more to speed up the process.
She has good reason to: she's probably had too many stupid people not leave the door open, and had mold issues as a result. That's the one Achilles heels of those machines, and it's *easily* avoided by simply leaving the door open. But the problem is that most people are just *too stupid* to do this simple thing. Obviously, too many of your family members are idiots, and can't follow simple instructions: she's surely told them to leave the door open, and they don't, so now she rightfully doesn't trust any of them any more. Those machines work great, with that one caveat. The improvement in performance in many other ways makes up for that one issue (and according to someone else here, the newest machines have finally fixed this issue anyway).
It sounds like she need to make a big sign and post it on the machine. She's probably given you paranoid lectures because of many other idiot family members who "helpfully" go close the door when they walk through the laundry room. But they probably won't notice the sign (maybe she's tried that) and will just close it anyway.
I think it's pretty obvious why your MiL acts this way. Other people are just too stupid. Anyone smart who's had roommates should understand.
No one's forcing you to use those things. And you're free to complain loudly to those other vendors too. If everyone refused to buy from those vendors until they supported another OS they liked better, then those vendors would make software versions for OSes other than Windows. So, in short, you (plural, meaning all of you who buy from those vendors) have done this to yourselves. I have no sympathy.
>Nothing about it says "works with these exact chips: beyond that, we can guarantee nothing".
They also never advertised that it would work on all future computer hardware. Making an OS work on newer hardware requires some amount of work, and that isn't free. They sold you an OS license for the hardware it was pre-installed on, and that's it. They haven't taken that away from you. If you want to run newer hardware, you need to buy a new license for the version of Windows that's designed to run on that hardware.
>Much more relevantly, testing security and even functional patches on chips which jump through every hoop in the universe to be backwards binary compatible with THE NINETEEN EIGHTIES is no great effort.
According to you. But it's still some effort. Why should they lift a finger to support an old, obsolete OS that they don't want people to keep using?
Most important is the fact that this is *their* OS. They can manage it however they like. If you don't like Windows 10, that's your problem; it's not their job to make you happy. If you don't like Windows 10, don't use it. If you're not happy that some ancient version of Windows doesn't work on new hardware, too bad; it's not your OS in the first place. So either stop your whining and start using Windows 10, or find an OS that aligns better with your preferences.
Microsoft's job is to make money for their shareholders, and that's it, not to make people happy. Pushing people into using Windows 10 is the best way for them to do that. This means less money wasted on supporting an ancient, obsolete OS version, and more profits from advertising and spyware baked into the new OS version. You're free to either buy from this vendor and support their business plan, or refuse and find another vendor.
Why are they scumbags? Because they didn't do things the way *you* want them to? Why should they? Are you going to pay them extra to keep supporting Win7 on new hardware like that? No? Then why are they obligated to?
If you don't like their product, you don't have to use it.
Exactly right. If you don't like the way your OS vendor treats you, then stop bitching and whining about it and find a vendor that gives you the service you want.
Hmm, that's an interesting position to take, considering you're posting as AC here.
But I mostly agree. Even requiring a pseudonymous account would go a long way towards eliminating a lot of crap, because it takes extra effort to set up an account.
These are all examples of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Just because all these different sects don't like each other and disagree on who's a "true" believer of that religion doesn't make it so. From the perspective of an outsider, ALL people who claim to be Muslims are, and ALL people who claim to be Christians are. It's really rather offensive for any of them to claim the others aren't; that's like me as an American trying to claim that people from Mississippi aren't "true Americans". It's patently absurd. For a Christian, the only real requirement is to believe in the divinity of Jesus. For a Muslim, the only real requirement is to believe that Mohammed was Allah's chosen prophet. Everything else is just disagreement on fine points of theology. Obviously, these different sects have some significant disagreements, but that doesn't mean they can't be grouped together by outsiders, or that any of them aren't "true".
And yes, "Christianity" is a religion. It's not a single organization obviously, it has many different sects, but look up the definition of "religion": it fits. A "religion" doesn't mean a specific organization.
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The defined torque is a property of the motor design. Much smaller fuel cells could be used to produce a similar torque given a different motor design.
Actually, you could produce identical torque with no fuel cells at all, and no batteries: just connect the truck and its motor to mains power (through an appropriate power converter).
It's the motor that generates the torque using electricity; where that electricity comes from is irrelevant to the motor. It can be from fuel cells, a battery, or a Mr. Fusion for all it cares.
Wrong. Complaining is fine, but only if it's productive. If it's non-productive, then you're just an annoying whiner.
If your complaining actually serves a purpose, such as getting someone to change, or getting people to choose another vendor, then great, complain away! For instance: "I bought a Chevy car, and the ignition key turned off while I was driving down the freeway, causing me to wreck. I almost died! Here's some links showing how Chevy knew about this design flaw and covered it up to save a little money, and a bunch of people really did die as a result. Don't buy Chevies!" That's useful and productive complaining, warning people away from a dangerous product or vendor.
If your complaining just whines about the current state of affairs, but proposes no solutions and is basically tilting at windmills, and worse there are actual solutions but you refuse to pursue them, then you're just being an annoying whiner. This is generally the case with everyone who complains about Windows 10. They whine and whine and whine, but they keep using it. I'm sorry, if you're not going to do anything to change your situation, you're just like those stupid women who refuse to leave their abusive boyfriends and then even defend him, but then whine "why does he hit me? Why doesn't he love me the way I want to be loved?"
This is a stupid and idiotic post. No, their job is not to deliver a quality product; where do you get that crazy idea?
Moreover, if you really think that's their job, then obviously they're failing at it. So, what are you going to do about it? You're going to keep using their products, and sending them money, right? That means they're succeeding at their job, because they're still "working" and still getting paid. People who fail at their job get fired. If you don't get fired, you must be doing a good enough job for your employer to keep you around. So if you're failing in your job as "employer" (customer actually) to "fire" this poor performing, and actually destructive "employee", then you're the one who's really to blame for being such a terrible employer.
But anyway, you're just completely wrong about what a company's job is. It's to make money, and that's it. If you don't like the company's products, then don't buy them. That's the only power you have over them to do the job you think they should be doing, which is keeping you happy.
It's perfectly reasonable for a person to not know this IF they've never been told, I agree.
However, if they've been told, and do it anyway, then they're idiots.
I could be wrong: maybe this lady is just overly anal or crazy. But I believe it's quite possible she got this way about her washer because she became frustrated with stupid people closing the door on it, despite her repeated warnings not to do so. I can easily see how someone would get that way, because I've seen it with people with other things, especially in shared living situations or shared working situations: one person has a particular reason they want something done a certain way, and another person decides they know better and does it their way instead, and it predictably causes problems which the first person knew would happen. There IS a need to insult people when they do stuff like this: they deserve it. Now again, I could be wrong in this situation, but my contention is that maybe this is what happened, leading this lady to act this way, in which case it's perfectly rational on her part, due to the stubbornness and idiocy of others. Remember, the OP wasn't saying that she merely told people, "please don't close the door on the washer", she went to ridiculous lengths, insisting on doing all laundry herself and giving people insane-seeming lectures if they went through the laundry room. That, to me, indicates a very high level of frustration on her part with people not listening to her.
As for trashing the machine, my point there is that these machines have this known weakness, which is pretty easily worked around if you're diligent about leaving the door open to dry them out before the mold sets in. You can complain all you want about the UX being poor, but that doesn't fix the machines. The manufacturers aren't going to fix or replace everyone's older machine (supposedly the newer ones don't have this problem), so for someone like this lady, her choice is to either trash the machine and buy a brand-new one because her idiot relatives won't follow her simple instructions, or to resort to the interpersonal measures she has so she doesn't have to shell out $1k+.
Yes, the product is stupid, but most products have something stupid about them. The more complex the product, the more likely you'll find something stupid or poorly thought-out, or at least not meeting your needs as well as possible. That's why we work around these problems, instead of just blaming the manufacturers. (Many people with cars with built-in nav systems likely still use their phone for navigation because the car's built-in system isn't as good, for instance, which means they need to get some kind of smartphone mount, like one that clips to a vent.) But what do you do when your housemates or visitors refuse to listen to you and implement your simple workaround?
On what models? I've never seen a front-loading washer with a self-closing door. In fact, such a feature seems stupid and counter-productive to me: how do you leave the door open so you can pull the clothes out and put them in the dryer? You'd have the stupid door constantly shutting on your arms while you're reaching in to pull stuff out. This is the most idiotic feature I can even imagine on a washing machine.
I'm not an expert on front-loaders, but I've had two now, and I've seen them in stores, and I've never seen one with a self-closing door. The one on my current Duet (mid-00s model) has no trouble just sitting open.
I just realised, I wasn't aware until that IMDB actually had a "star" or "ratings" system. Show how little interest I have in people's opinions, compared to things like plot summaries.
That would make you very, very strange. IMDB has had a rating system for, well as long as they've been a website I think. Their ratings have long had a certain amount of weight to them. And that's nothing new: people have been listening to movie reviewers like Roger Ebert for a very, very long time. Without considering peoples' opinions, it would be very easy for you to read the plot summary of something like, oh, Battlefield: Earth or Gigli or an Uwe Boll movie and think "that sounds like it might be a good movie", and proceed to waste 2 hours of your life on it. Obviously, you have to take ratings and reviews with a grain of salt, but they are useful for avoiding the real stinkers, and frequently also seeing some real gems.
What kind of crappy front-loader were you using? I've never had this kind of problem with the two front-loaders I've owned, and most other people don't either. They've both worked just fine (great, really, except for those damn mold issues but the first was a late-90s model and the second a mid-2000s so it's to be expected). They've cleaned clothes wonderfully, and I've never had trouble with them not rinsing the soap out.
It sounds like your machine was either some horrible POS model, or maybe it just wasn't working right.
And why would you need to "crack open" a washer to watch it work? All newer front-loaders I've ever seen have glass front doors. The ones that didn't, offhand, were the old Maytag Neptunes from the late 90s to mid 2000s. My first front-loader was the first model Neptune, and again it worked great, mostly, except for the mold (which they partially fixed with a recall after a couple of years) and also after it got old (over 10 years) it had corrosion issues on the top detergent compartment, the belt fell off once, and the drain pump failed. It finally was retired because the main bearing failed and it cost more to replace than it was worth. But even with that old model (really the first mainstream front-loader in the US sold by an American company), I *never* had problems with it not rinsing the soap out, or not getting the clothes clean.
And how many European companies have produced any real revolutions, or even significant contributions, in software over the past 50 years?
It IS a failure in UX design, I agree completely. But that's the model this person has, and that's what many owners of these machines have if they were made during that period before they finally fixed the issue. What makes more sense: keeping the machine you already have, which works great except for this one annoying flaw, or throwing it in the trash and spending another $1000-1500 on a brand-new machine because some people are too stupid to leave a door open?
Do you take your car to the junkyard and buy a brand-new one every time automakers fix some annoying little issue?
and actually defaults to *trying* to close itself if left in the default state, and needs to be jury rigged with a home-made propping device in order to prevent a device from self-destructing.
What are you talking about? Front-loaders don't need any devices to leave the door open, just like most of the doors in your house also do not close themselves. If you want to leave the door open, you just leave it open.
It's not "stupid" for people to be disposed close/clean up tools when they're done
When someone who owns and uses a machine regularly tells you plainly: "leave the door open when you're done so that it airs out and doesn't get moldy", and you don't, then you're stupid. Failure to follow simple instructions is indicative of stupidity.
Just the knowledge that the device is prone to self-destruct,
It's not self-destructive; it's a long-term problem. The mold builds up in the "bellows" seal between the front and the rotating drum if it's kept moist for too long, then you need to use a bleach solution to kill the mold and clean it, and worst case is you need to take the machine apart, remove the bellows seal, and thoroughly clean it with bleachy water. It's a PITA, but it's not like the machine will be completely destroyed if you don't leave the door open one time, otherwise they would have fixed it better. It's a long-term thing, much like keeping your car tires properly inflated. Running them under-inflated decreases the lifespan but doesn't cause catastrophic destruction after a single drive.
It's funny how you have to waste so much time and energy washing clothes 3-4 times to get the soap out, all because you're so stupid that you don't use the proper amount of soap for an HE machine. It's been common knowledge for over 15 years now that HE machines use a different (less sudsy) type of detergent, and use a lot less of it. Any idiot can understand: less water = less soap.
You should be venting your dryer outside, especially in summer
No, you shouldn't; you should only be venting your dryer outside in the summer or other warm months. In the winter when it's cold and dry inside, you should vent your dryer inside to give you a little more humidity (which makes the air feel warmer) and to recover that heat and lower your heating bill.
Maytag/Whirlpool/etc. is still American AFAIK, though they probably make a lot of stuff in Mexico now. They're also junk these days.
If you want the best appliances at a decent price, you need to buy Korean. The American stuff has gone down the toilet and GE is crap now because it's Chinese. If you want the very best appliances and price is no object, buy German (Bosch and Miele). (Though I'm hearing now that even Miele isn't as great as it used to be.)
It also increases the humidity of the air indoors, which cools the air so increases your heating bill in the Winter.
Huh? This part is wrong. Winter air is dry, and it's commonly advised to use a humidifier indoors in the winter to increase humidity as it's both good for your nasal passages, and it makes it seem warmer. It probably does require more energy to heat though because of water's high heat capacity, assuming a set temperature, but you're supposed to be able to get away with a lower temperature for a given level of comfort by increasing the humidity.
Europeans manage to dry their clothes just fine with all the conditions you've listed.
So how exactly do they manage to dry clothes when 1) it's raining outside, and rains every day in fact (as in the Pacific Northwest), 2) it's snowing outside, or 3) it's below freezing outside (which is common in the winter in many parts of the US), or 4) it's 100% humidity outside (which is normal in the southeast US during the summer)?
So for me I would be massively interested in a dryer that I didn't need to vent outside
You're still going to need to vent these dryers outside, unless you want all that humidity in your house. (You actually might, depending on the season and your region, but you'll probably want to be able to switch it to vent outside during the humid summer months.)
Now I understand that stateside having clothes hang outside is a sure sign of poverty.
It could also be a sign of stupidity, unless you happen to live someplace where it doesn't rain. In many places in America, rain is frequent and very unpredictable.
How do you suggest that someone in the Pacific Northwest hang-dry their clothes outside?
And anyway, clothing hangs pretty well on an indoors rack too.
Must be nice to have all that space.
The OP is a moron and a lunatic. It seems pretty self-evident to me, even without looking at the link first, that an ultrasonic dryer is still going to use forced-air. Using ultrasonics to "shake" water from the clothes isn't much help if you don't also provide a way of removing that water, so obviously you need to force air through them as well to carry away the water. It's not going to work if the soaking wet clothes are just sitting in a heap. You just don't need heat any more to speed up the process.
She has good reason to: she's probably had too many stupid people not leave the door open, and had mold issues as a result. That's the one Achilles heels of those machines, and it's *easily* avoided by simply leaving the door open. But the problem is that most people are just *too stupid* to do this simple thing. Obviously, too many of your family members are idiots, and can't follow simple instructions: she's surely told them to leave the door open, and they don't, so now she rightfully doesn't trust any of them any more. Those machines work great, with that one caveat. The improvement in performance in many other ways makes up for that one issue (and according to someone else here, the newest machines have finally fixed this issue anyway).
It sounds like she need to make a big sign and post it on the machine. She's probably given you paranoid lectures because of many other idiot family members who "helpfully" go close the door when they walk through the laundry room. But they probably won't notice the sign (maybe she's tried that) and will just close it anyway.
I think it's pretty obvious why your MiL acts this way. Other people are just too stupid. Anyone smart who's had roommates should understand.
No one's forcing you to use those things. And you're free to complain loudly to those other vendors too. If everyone refused to buy from those vendors until they supported another OS they liked better, then those vendors would make software versions for OSes other than Windows. So, in short, you (plural, meaning all of you who buy from those vendors) have done this to yourselves. I have no sympathy.
>Nothing about it says "works with these exact chips: beyond that, we can guarantee nothing".
They also never advertised that it would work on all future computer hardware. Making an OS work on newer hardware requires some amount of work, and that isn't free. They sold you an OS license for the hardware it was pre-installed on, and that's it. They haven't taken that away from you. If you want to run newer hardware, you need to buy a new license for the version of Windows that's designed to run on that hardware.
>Much more relevantly, testing security and even functional patches on chips which jump through every hoop in the universe to be backwards binary compatible with THE NINETEEN EIGHTIES is no great effort.
According to you. But it's still some effort. Why should they lift a finger to support an old, obsolete OS that they don't want people to keep using?
Most important is the fact that this is *their* OS. They can manage it however they like. If you don't like Windows 10, that's your problem; it's not their job to make you happy. If you don't like Windows 10, don't use it. If you're not happy that some ancient version of Windows doesn't work on new hardware, too bad; it's not your OS in the first place. So either stop your whining and start using Windows 10, or find an OS that aligns better with your preferences.
Microsoft's job is to make money for their shareholders, and that's it, not to make people happy. Pushing people into using Windows 10 is the best way for them to do that. This means less money wasted on supporting an ancient, obsolete OS version, and more profits from advertising and spyware baked into the new OS version. You're free to either buy from this vendor and support their business plan, or refuse and find another vendor.
Why are they scumbags? Because they didn't do things the way *you* want them to? Why should they? Are you going to pay them extra to keep supporting Win7 on new hardware like that? No? Then why are they obligated to?
If you don't like their product, you don't have to use it.
Exactly right. If you don't like the way your OS vendor treats you, then stop bitching and whining about it and find a vendor that gives you the service you want.
Hmm, that's an interesting position to take, considering you're posting as AC here.
But I mostly agree. Even requiring a pseudonymous account would go a long way towards eliminating a lot of crap, because it takes extra effort to set up an account.
These are all examples of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Just because all these different sects don't like each other and disagree on who's a "true" believer of that religion doesn't make it so. From the perspective of an outsider, ALL people who claim to be Muslims are, and ALL people who claim to be Christians are. It's really rather offensive for any of them to claim the others aren't; that's like me as an American trying to claim that people from Mississippi aren't "true Americans". It's patently absurd. For a Christian, the only real requirement is to believe in the divinity of Jesus. For a Muslim, the only real requirement is to believe that Mohammed was Allah's chosen prophet. Everything else is just disagreement on fine points of theology. Obviously, these different sects have some significant disagreements, but that doesn't mean they can't be grouped together by outsiders, or that any of them aren't "true".
And yes, "Christianity" is a religion. It's not a single organization obviously, it has many different sects, but look up the definition of "religion": it fits. A "religion" doesn't mean a specific organization.