All we need now is just a sex pill. Then we can sit on the sofa all day updating our facebook status, while having all our needs satisfied popping pills.
No modern li-ion battery will let you charge or discharge it far enough to cause actual damage.
Not entirely true. The battery can't protect itself, a battery management system does that (which can be built into the battery pack). But if the battery management system is missing, broken, or not set up correctly, you can over-discharge the battery.
You can treat them however you like cycle-wise and you'll get about the same total lifespan out of them.
Not entirely true, again. If you over discharge a LiIon battery, there will be damage. Yes, you can recharge it again, possibly requiring getting around the battery management system, but it will never be the same. And you need to be careful there, charging an over-discharged LiIon battery can cause fire.
batteries should *not* be cycled or discharged "fully"
It depends on what you mean by "fully discharged".
Yes, if you discharge a LiIon battery completely to 0V, the battery will be damaged. This is why all LiIon batteries (should) have a battery management system that monitors the battery's voltage and cuts off power once the voltage falls below a certain level, somewhere around 3V per cell for LiIon.
I use LiIon batteries in RC cars with the cutoff voltage set to 3.2V/cell and the batteries stay within a couple % of their original capacity even after discharged completely to the cutoff several 100 times.
Maybe Apple set the cutoff voltage too low so they can market very long battery life, which in return destroys the batteries. We are lucky to get two hours out of our 2 year old Macbook Air, and a similar aged iPod Touch is pretty much useless unless hooked up to the charger constantly.
Awesome. You can embrace the new kind of "meat" and feel good while chomping on lab grown white strips of gristle grown from the leftovers of my steak dinner.
1. the cost of a solar panel is NOT the cost of constructing a power plant. You are comparing apples and oranges.
2. a nuclear reactor outputs at its capacity pretty much constantly, a solar cell only hits its capacity in full sun with no dust or birdpoop on it.
3. if you want to turn your lights on at night, you also need to add the insane cost of a battery pack and a nuclear power/fossil fuel plant to back it up.
And yet neither you nor the president understand it, either (actually the president has some idea, see the last question below). Because if you did, you would be here arguing with facts and numbers.
So a couple questions:
- how much more expensive are we talking about? Twice? Five times? Ten times? Hundred times?
- once energy prices skyrocket to match the price of "clean" energy, how will energy prices come down again? Or is that not part of the plan?
- the only thing cheaper than nuclear energy is hydro power. So please prove with some facts why in your opinion nuclear is very expensive.
- how much $$$ is GE and other donors of Obama's campaign are going to make on this? We already know how much the Solyndra dudes made, so you can skip them in your response.
Now remember, this is your moment to shine. No talking points. Just hard facts.
How about that Solyndra contract? It would probably be more relevant, should you really want to fight corruption, because the dickheads who pocketed the money for that one are still in office. Not saying the previous administration wasn't corrupt, but how about fighting in the present instead of the past?
The circular tube map, in my opinion, is much better than the square one we have now... I don't know much about the NYC subway system but one thing is obvious...
Have a previous generation 11", and not buying another air. Reasons:
- heavy. It looks like it should be light, but it's just as heavy as my 15" vaio.
- no backlit keys. This is pretty much a show stopper. No keyboard should not have backlit keys.
- only two USB ports
- no HDMI out without external adapter
- need an external converter for ethernet
- aluminum is a terrible material for the case. Dings, scratches and cuts.
- low screen resolution
- proprietary SSD
- no way to move remap control key under windows
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All we need now is just a sex pill. Then we can sit on the sofa all day updating our facebook status, while having all our needs satisfied popping pills.
Go humans!
the path that makes him happy.
Thanks for pointing this out. My Sony Vaio has a similar battery saver function, the default is charging to 80%.
No modern li-ion battery will let you charge or discharge it far enough to cause actual damage.
Not entirely true. The battery can't protect itself, a battery management system does that (which can be built into the battery pack). But if the battery management system is missing, broken, or not set up correctly, you can over-discharge the battery.
You can treat them however you like cycle-wise and you'll get about the same total lifespan out of them.
Not entirely true, again. If you over discharge a LiIon battery, there will be damage. Yes, you can recharge it again, possibly requiring getting around the battery management system, but it will never be the same. And you need to be careful there, charging an over-discharged LiIon battery can cause fire.
batteries should *not* be cycled or discharged "fully"
It depends on what you mean by "fully discharged".
Yes, if you discharge a LiIon battery completely to 0V, the battery will be damaged. This is why all LiIon batteries (should) have a battery management system that monitors the battery's voltage and cuts off power once the voltage falls below a certain level, somewhere around 3V per cell for LiIon.
I use LiIon batteries in RC cars with the cutoff voltage set to 3.2V/cell and the batteries stay within a couple % of their original capacity even after discharged completely to the cutoff several 100 times.
Maybe Apple set the cutoff voltage too low so they can market very long battery life, which in return destroys the batteries. We are lucky to get two hours out of our 2 year old Macbook Air, and a similar aged iPod Touch is pretty much useless unless hooked up to the charger constantly.
Simple: asp.net. Plenty of half assed coders out there can, with little effort, build a website using Visual Basic or C#.
Sounds like a great accomplishment and major win for Microsoft.
lulz'n now?
this is slower than the average CO2 pellet rifle
Yeah, but the bullets are much bigger. So this would hurt a lot more than a pellet.
And what in hell does this have to do with 3D Printing??
Nothing. But adding that increases the page views. This is how timothy's gonna buy that Ferrari.
Saying that this contributes to the "3-D printed gun/rifle controversy" is a falacy.
Sure, but it ups the page views. Welcome to the new /.
Awesome. You can embrace the new kind of "meat" and feel good while chomping on lab grown white strips of gristle grown from the leftovers of my steak dinner.
Let's not forget some facts:
1. the cost of a solar panel is NOT the cost of constructing a power plant. You are comparing apples and oranges.
2. a nuclear reactor outputs at its capacity pretty much constantly, a solar cell only hits its capacity in full sun with no dust or birdpoop on it.
3. if you want to turn your lights on at night, you also need to add the insane cost of a battery pack and a nuclear power/fossil fuel plant to back it up.
Those are obviously just talking points. Private jets only come oil powered.
According to wikipedia, something's wrong with your numbers.
And yet neither you nor the president understand it, either (actually the president has some idea, see the last question below). Because if you did, you would be here arguing with facts and numbers.
So a couple questions:
- how much more expensive are we talking about? Twice? Five times? Ten times? Hundred times?
- once energy prices skyrocket to match the price of "clean" energy, how will energy prices come down again? Or is that not part of the plan?
- the only thing cheaper than nuclear energy is hydro power. So please prove with some facts why in your opinion nuclear is very expensive.
- how much $$$ is GE and other donors of Obama's campaign are going to make on this? We already know how much the Solyndra dudes made, so you can skip them in your response.
Now remember, this is your moment to shine. No talking points. Just hard facts.
You really need to ask this question? Or you just playing stewpit?
They make money off of ads.
Woah woah woah...
You are just joking, right?
The print quality is absolutely embarrassing. Here's a link to some prints
A high school project out of legos would outdo this pathetic effort.
Which ones? Like killing people with drones? You don't go to trial for stuff like that, you get the Nobel Prize for Peace.
How about that Solyndra contract? It would probably be more relevant, should you really want to fight corruption, because the dickheads who pocketed the money for that one are still in office. Not saying the previous administration wasn't corrupt, but how about fighting in the present instead of the past?
The circular tube map, in my opinion, is much better than the square one we have now ... I don't know much about the NYC subway system but one thing is obvious ...
There are people who go under the knife to enlarge/reduce/reshape certain body parts. So I doubt a little drilling will stop them.
out of my teeth.
Thanks for the link and the info. But no, mine doesn't have backlit keys.
Have a previous generation 11", and not buying another air. Reasons:
- heavy. It looks like it should be light, but it's just as heavy as my 15" vaio.
- no backlit keys. This is pretty much a show stopper. No keyboard should not have backlit keys.
- only two USB ports
- no HDMI out without external adapter
- need an external converter for ethernet
- aluminum is a terrible material for the case. Dings, scratches and cuts.
- low screen resolution
- proprietary SSD
- no way to move remap control key under windows