Samsung manages removable batteries quite well. Also, while most batteries can last for more than two years, they gradually decrease in capacity. Interestingly, people often blame software updates for the resulting decrease in battery life. By providing user replaceable batteries, it is possible to get back to full capacity and use the old battery as a spare. I did this for my last two phones. As for Li-ion batteries that actually wore out and got replaced, it happened on 3 devices : an MP3 player, a laptop and a phone. As for the safety argument, I don't buy it. Battery explosions are extremely rare and happen on genuine models as well.
I agree with you that most people don't bother with tearing down and fixing anything. But some others do, even if it is just for fun, and for these people, iFixit is great. Don't call something useless just because it is only useful for a limited audience.
Solar works in Germany because it is supported by coal, gas and a bit of hydro. In fact Germany have a high peak power capacity mainly due to their fossil fuel power plants. As a result they can easily absorb the fluctuations of their solar and wind plants, they can also buy nuclear electricity from France when it is cheap.
AFAIK it is not an attempt at censorship. Yahoo just don't want to pay for bandwidth and be associated to a website promoting suicide. They probably don't care about the contents of the website being leaked all over the internet.
There is enough data in these files to hold like 1000h of average quality 480p video plus the full text of the english wikipedia. If this file is made of sensitive information, why not get a bit more selective and only keep the good bits. It would have made the sharing and usage easier.
What's the point of firing you ? You will quit anyways. Anyways, the burden of proof is on your employer. So unless you clearly write "I quit now", sign it and date it, if he decides to fire you, then it's just that, he fires you.
I think the reason why there are competing systems (both in computers and human languages) is that both have their advantages. - little endian simplifies addition (and most arithmetic as a result) - big endian simplifies compairson (and searching, sorting, routing, etc... as a result)
In fact there are 3 divx : - "DIVX" : the time-limited DVD alternative that never took of, not a video codec. - "DivX;-)" : a hacked version of Microsoft's MPEG4-ASP codec that works with AVIs - "DivX" : a completely rewritten and proprietary MPEG4-ASP codec that is compatible with "DivX;-)", with many improvements - "XviD" : an opensource alternative to "DivX", also written from scratch
Three possibilities : 1 - It's a lie 2 - It's true because they have a super-secure system in place 3 - It's true because they are incompetent (I'm talking about their administration, not their researchers)
Considering the recent turn of events, I'd go with #3. What Snowden discovered didn't surprise me. Spying is part of the job after all. But the other part is keeping it secret, and they failed miserably.
the number of charge cycles before you throw away the batteries or the whole unit is small.
If you are using NiMH, it is suggested that you switch to NiCd if you can still find them. This is an older technologiy and they are generally worse than NiMH but for this specific case, they are often better due to their robustness. And if you are buying NiMH, avoid the highest capacities as they use thinner parts (to maximise electrolyte volume) and are often less robust.
They don't. But the copied material has to come from somewhere. And legitimate subscribers will be less likely to share their copies with the rest of the world if it contains personal information.
It may be encrypted to prevent someone entering the datacenter from stealing data directly from the hard disk. But if your data can be recovered in any way without the original password, then Google can access it as well as if it was plaintext.
Behind the satire you actually rise an interesting point, that's why.
I think the point is best illustrated with this riddle (70 picarats) : 100 married couples live on a remote island. There is a law on the island that states that if a man finds out that his wife is unfaithful, he must kill her that night and leave her body at the center of the island for everyone else to see. It turns out that all one hundred wives are cheating on their husbands. No husband knows that his own wife is unfaithful, but every husband knows that every OTHER wife is a cheater. The fact that each husband knows about every wife except his own is common knowledge to everyone. One day, an oracle arrives on the island and announced to everyone: "At least one of the woman on the island is a cheater." Everyone knows that the oracle only speaks the truth. Assuming every man on the island is, and is known to be, a perfect logician, what happens next?
You got it backwards. Money is just a mean to an end, with no value all by itself. For money to be a useful to a government, it have to be backed by other powers : laws, police, armed forces, religion, etc...
I think that mechanical keyboards may be more responsive for another reason. Membrane/rubber dome/chiclet keys have to be bottomed out to register a keypress, whereas mechanicals usually register earlier. Or it may have to do with debouncing. AFAIK, membrane keyboards use simple contact and not capacitance. And people don't seem to complain about latency on Topre keyboards, which use actual capacitive switches.
I agree with you on the physical buttons (galaxy note 2). I turned on/off my phone unexpectedly way too often, sometimes even rebooting it mid-call.
However, I like the plastic case. There is nothing wrong with plastic, it is light and strong. And I won't trade that user replaceable samsung back cover with anything these new aluminium phones have. Want your S3 thicker with a better battery : just get an extended battery kit and clip it in. Something you can't do with iPhones and HTC Ones.
"looking like complete idiot" is just a fashion statement. Things like this change really fast. Just look at how wearing huge headphones in public is now acceptable somehow.
1 - It is natural for a government agency to watch where criminal activity may happen. And anonymized networks are more likely to contain criminal information. 2 - They are only watching, they can't arrest you or issue search warrents for just using TOR. 3 - If you don't expect to be watched, why are you using anonymizers ? The whole point of anonymizers is to preserve your anonymity even if you are watched. So if the NSA manages to identify you, blame yourself and whatever service you are using, not the NSA.
AFAIK VP9, like h.264, is just a video compression algorithm. Unless you want to encrypt only part of the picture or some other special features, encryption is out of scope of a video codec.
Unfortunately, the really effective treatment is usually something that no self respecting doctor would do (think lobotomy). In many cases, people are kept in mental hospitals for the rest of their lives and given powerful sedatives while the doctors fail to find an effective and ethical therapy. It is not so much different than prison : it works by separating dangerous elements from society rather than changing them.
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Samsung manages removable batteries quite well.
Also, while most batteries can last for more than two years, they gradually decrease in capacity. Interestingly, people often blame software updates for the resulting decrease in battery life. By providing user replaceable batteries, it is possible to get back to full capacity and use the old battery as a spare. I did this for my last two phones.
As for Li-ion batteries that actually wore out and got replaced, it happened on 3 devices : an MP3 player, a laptop and a phone.
As for the safety argument, I don't buy it. Battery explosions are extremely rare and happen on genuine models as well.
I agree with you that most people don't bother with tearing down and fixing anything. But some others do, even if it is just for fun, and for these people, iFixit is great. Don't call something useless just because it is only useful for a limited audience.
Solar works in Germany because it is supported by coal, gas and a bit of hydro.
In fact Germany have a high peak power capacity mainly due to their fossil fuel power plants. As a result they can easily absorb the fluctuations of their solar and wind plants, they can also buy nuclear electricity from France when it is cheap.
AFAIK it is not an attempt at censorship.
Yahoo just don't want to pay for bandwidth and be associated to a website promoting suicide. They probably don't care about the contents of the website being leaked all over the internet.
There is enough data in these files to hold like 1000h of average quality 480p video plus the full text of the english wikipedia.
If this file is made of sensitive information, why not get a bit more selective and only keep the good bits. It would have made the sharing and usage easier.
What's the point of firing you ? You will quit anyways.
Anyways, the burden of proof is on your employer. So unless you clearly write "I quit now", sign it and date it, if he decides to fire you, then it's just that, he fires you.
In the case of Webkit / KHTML it is relevant.
Because KHTML is LGPL they are required by law to let Webkit be used by others.
I think the reason why there are competing systems (both in computers and human languages) is that both have their advantages.
- little endian simplifies addition (and most arithmetic as a result)
- big endian simplifies compairson (and searching, sorting, routing, etc... as a result)
I hate re-used acronyms.
At work, I witnessed a heated argument about a "VMS". It took several minutes before they realized they weren't talking about the same thing !
In fact there are 3 divx : ;-)" : a hacked version of Microsoft's MPEG4-ASP codec that works with AVIs ;-)", with many improvements
- "DIVX" : the time-limited DVD alternative that never took of, not a video codec.
- "DivX
- "DivX" : a completely rewritten and proprietary MPEG4-ASP codec that is compatible with "DivX
- "XviD" : an opensource alternative to "DivX", also written from scratch
Three possibilities :
1 - It's a lie
2 - It's true because they have a super-secure system in place
3 - It's true because they are incompetent (I'm talking about their administration, not their researchers)
Considering the recent turn of events, I'd go with #3.
What Snowden discovered didn't surprise me. Spying is part of the job after all. But the other part is keeping it secret, and they failed miserably.
the number of charge cycles before you throw away the batteries or the whole unit is small.
If you are using NiMH, it is suggested that you switch to NiCd if you can still find them. This is an older technologiy and they are generally worse than NiMH but for this specific case, they are often better due to their robustness. And if you are buying NiMH, avoid the highest capacities as they use thinner parts (to maximise electrolyte volume) and are often less robust.
They don't.
But the copied material has to come from somewhere. And legitimate subscribers will be less likely to share their copies with the rest of the world if it contains personal information.
It may be encrypted to prevent someone entering the datacenter from stealing data directly from the hard disk.
But if your data can be recovered in any way without the original password, then Google can access it as well as if it was plaintext.
Behind the satire you actually rise an interesting point, that's why.
I think the point is best illustrated with this riddle (70 picarats) :
100 married couples live on a remote island. There is a law on the island that states that if a man finds out that his wife is unfaithful, he must kill her that night and leave her body at the center of the island for everyone else to see.
It turns out that all one hundred wives are cheating on their husbands. No husband knows that his own wife is unfaithful, but every husband knows that every OTHER wife is a cheater. The fact that each husband knows about every wife except his own is common knowledge to everyone.
One day, an oracle arrives on the island and announced to everyone: "At least one of the woman on the island is a cheater." Everyone knows that the oracle only speaks the truth.
Assuming every man on the island is, and is known to be, a perfect logician, what happens next?
You got it backwards. Money is just a mean to an end, with no value all by itself.
For money to be a useful to a government, it have to be backed by other powers : laws, police, armed forces, religion, etc...
I think that mechanical keyboards may be more responsive for another reason.
Membrane/rubber dome/chiclet keys have to be bottomed out to register a keypress, whereas mechanicals usually register earlier. Or it may have to do with debouncing.
AFAIK, membrane keyboards use simple contact and not capacitance. And people don't seem to complain about latency on Topre keyboards, which use actual capacitive switches.
I agree with you on the physical buttons (galaxy note 2). I turned on/off my phone unexpectedly way too often, sometimes even rebooting it mid-call.
However, I like the plastic case. There is nothing wrong with plastic, it is light and strong. And I won't trade that user replaceable samsung back cover with anything these new aluminium phones have.
Want your S3 thicker with a better battery : just get an extended battery kit and clip it in. Something you can't do with iPhones and HTC Ones.
"looking like complete idiot" is just a fashion statement. Things like this change really fast.
Just look at how wearing huge headphones in public is now acceptable somehow.
HTML 2.0, single file, no CSS, works on lynx and mosaic, 14.4kbps optimised. That's the good old days.
This, and /BLINK tags.
1 - It is natural for a government agency to watch where criminal activity may happen. And anonymized networks are more likely to contain criminal information.
2 - They are only watching, they can't arrest you or issue search warrents for just using TOR.
3 - If you don't expect to be watched, why are you using anonymizers ? The whole point of anonymizers is to preserve your anonymity even if you are watched. So if the NSA manages to identify you, blame yourself and whatever service you are using, not the NSA.
The mechanism is basically :
- Allows cookies from sites you have already visited.
- Blocks cookies from sites you have not visited yet.
Because you are very likely to have visited Google. It will probably affect them less than their competitors.
Piro knocked out Largo, and it happened : http://megatokyo.com/strip/51
AFAIK VP9, like h.264, is just a video compression algorithm.
Unless you want to encrypt only part of the picture or some other special features, encryption is out of scope of a video codec.
Unfortunately, the really effective treatment is usually something that no self respecting doctor would do (think lobotomy). In many cases, people are kept in mental hospitals for the rest of their lives and given powerful sedatives while the doctors fail to find an effective and ethical therapy.
It is not so much different than prison : it works by separating dangerous elements from society rather than changing them.
Steve Jobs is well known for his saint-like patience and composure with his underlings.
His attitude changed less than two years ago.