well, if the battery could support your house for a week with no external power, I for one would love a partially charged (say 75%) battery if I had no external power for three days. That'd give a day or two leeway just in case.
Bearing in mind what happens when it comes into contact with the most common (i.e. oxygen)
from an elemental standpoint, nothing happens to it. it is lithium before it reacted, and is lithium after the reaction...just bonded to different atoms.
Your race track analogy isn't exactly accurate when it comes to real life cars and bikes. F1 cars are about as similar to the average commuter as...well they are not very similar at all.
There have been many head to head races between production bikes and production cars and the bikes generally are much faster however the individual track does play a big role. This is mainly due to the acceleration (there is not a 4 wheeled car under $100K that can match the acceleration of a $10K sports bike) however the handling is quite similar. There is less of a holy sh^t factor approaching a corner on four wheels than on two which make entrance speeds faster for the car.
As for the linked video, put each vehicle on that track alone and compare times, I think you'd find a much different story.
As to handling better in an emergency, there are many factors that could make a bike avoid an accident better than a car. They generally have less lateral distance to travel to get around an obstacle, they can get around obstacles in less space (for example around the left side of the car in front without smacking head-on into oncoming traffic). Standard riding training will also teach you to ride in the 'third' of the lane instead of the center to allow both better visibility and easier avoidance should something happen in your lane. You also generally sit higher on a bike than most passenger cars and have no blind spots.
Right now, without having any self configured computer in my house:
It sounds to me like you have at least 3 computers in your house. The one that controls the thermostat, the one that controls the driveway lights and the PVR.
I can access this from the web if needed to check usage and adjust the temperature... I see no reason to have these networked
Apparently you see at least one need to have those networked...
Trivially done with a $15 remote thermometer. I have one for my grill. Works great.
So you are saying there IS a need for remote notification of this sort. My TV can be loud (I expect yours can be too). I can be forgetful (perhaps you have at some point got distracted by something also). Therefore if the TV were loud, and I got distracted, I might not hear the ding and I might also have forgotten that the 40 minute timer should have expired by now.
I think that a popup on my TV (or computer, or my cell phone vibrating or all three) would be a great reminder in addition to the ding of the oven timer.
I wouldn't NEED to have my DVR on, but if it were on, it could display a small message indicating that the oven timer (or whatever other event) went off.
You need to factor that in before you can decide if you are really saving energy.
Nowhere in the original post was any real 'energy savings' mentioned. He wanted to reduce his electricity consumption to lower the cost of running the box, not to save the planet.
Because when an e-book is $9.99, and a paperback is the same (or less), and the paperback continues to offer advantages over the e-book
I can't argue with that statement. Perhaps the Barnes and Noble people are planning to make their e-books cheaper. Oh wait, let's check the article
Gizmodo, first showed leaked images of the Nook last week. The blog said that B&N will be discounting titles heavily in their electronic format, which is as is should be (no paper, printing or shipping costs). The Nook will also be able to get books from the Google Books Project
Well I'm actually surprised it's only 41% pirated software on personal computers, considering it's not often that people buy software applications for non-work purposes and most are free or have alternatives.
Your logic is a bit backwards here - if there are free alternatives then you should be surprised that it is 41% pirated software and not way less.
If a computer has 9 'free' (ie not pirated, legally free) applications and one pirated commercial application then it has only 10% pirated software on it. The more free alternatives there are, the less pirated software there should be.
What does photoshopping models have to do with design skill?
That's like saying Kobe Bryant isn't a great basketball player because he committed adultery.
I can understand that you might not want to buy any more RL products because of something thing like this, but it doesn't make the actual products any crappier.
. What I care more about is VoIP over my phone's WIFI. It's my freaking phone, and my WIFI and internet connection, and AT&T doesn't even work inside my house. Yet AT&T and Apple wont let me run software that already exists for the iPhone to solve this problem.
I'm assuming the if you actually had an iPhone, you would be aware of the fact that Skype has been available from the App Store, officially approved by Apple for use over Wifi. It was only released in April, 2009 so I can see how you might not have checked for something that you so dearly need in the mere 6 months or so it has been available.
If an iPhone were a closed system, like the iPod Nano, it would be unreasonable for the government to force Apple to support developers. However, the iPhone is programmable
Huh? Nano not programmable? I wonder how the programs that run one there work then. Seeing as it is not programmable, I can only assume the Rockbox people are a bunch of scammers (perhaps they are from Nigeria) that show their custom software running on an iPod Nano.
Sometime check out the logos for Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai. See how similar they all are? They're all an oval with a squiggle inside of them. If people can tell those apart (and they can) then they can tell Woolworth's and Apple apart, too.
To be honest, I get those car logos confused sometimes.
And they don't stick it on over-priced computers for a third. So where could the confusion exist?
It is a blanket trademark application, and Woolworths has a large electronics division so it is quite possible it will end up an a mobile phone (that may or may not look like an iPhone), an MP3 player (that may or may not look like an iPod), a set top box (that may or may not look like an Apple TV) or even an over-priced computer.
So who are they suing? They are in a legal battle to determine whether the logo infringes their trademark. Nowhere does it say they are suing anybody. According to the article Apple needs to convince an Australian government organization to re-examine the trademark they granted.
If it it deemed, by a government organization, that the Woolworth's logo infringes Apple, then they will have to stop using it.
wow - did someone piss in your cereal this morning?
The OP did not say anything about copyrights being right or wrong, and didn't seem to to overly anti-copyright, and his point about microsoft's motives (or part of them) is arguably correct. He did mention that he thought the price of Windows is a lot, and he is free to think that if he wants. He didn't imply that it should be free or pirated.
I'm sure Microsoft is quite concerned about the abstraction between product and cost. People don't want to think about paying for development, testing and support. They want to pay for something they can hold in their hand or put on a shelf. That's why all the software boxes (and most other boxes) you see in the store are all bright and colourful, when a simple brown box would suffice. How many peoples comptur rooms do you go into and see software boxes on their shelves (collecting dust)? The box is a trophy. With a download there is no trophy.
Playing a 'word game' is EXACTLY what Microsoft is doing because they are afraid that if people 'think' that all they are paying for is an unlock code, then they won't be concerned when their brother in law 'gives' them the unlock code instead of buying it from Microsoft. So they make people think they are paying for a DVD, manual and box in addition to the software.
And there is nothing wrong with that, except for as other posters have pointed it adds cost to the product that it presumably passed on the the customer, as well as delays the release while the manufacturing process occurs. And Microsoft is fully within their rights to do both if they think that is the correct thing to do for their business.
Huh? Need more throughput, add an extra car to the train - or run additional trains on the same rails - you know that trains aren't going bumper to bumper right?
My boss spend 1.5 hours on his train commute; I only take 45 minutes.
I hate to state the obvious, but how long would it take you to drive your car from LA to San Francisco, and then how long would it take a bullet train going 200mph?
Waiting time == non-productive time
No, driving time is unproductive time. You waste 45 minutes driving while your boss could be working while he is sitting on the train, because he isn't driving.
So if the railways have died out, how come trains are thriving in many places? They are not suitable for all applications, but for specific high density routes they are way more efficient than anything else we currently have.
I'm not sure about your math, although I sort of suspect there is a conversion from bits to bytes that you might be missing, and then perhaps some multiply by 1000 instead of 1024s but regardless of your math, your logic is wrong.
They are not stealing anything from you. The agreement you initially had with them was changed. I suspect somewhere in that agreement there was a clause stating that the price you were paying wasn't guaranteed for all eternity. They came up with a new price, and you apparently are agreeing to pay it.
Perhaps you should consider another provider if you are that dissatisfied, or doing without the service if another acceptable provider can not be found.
Targeted ads are actually worse because they are more likely to trap you.
Trap you? Really? Please step away from the computer and put your tinfoil hat back on. (Alternatively you could paint your head with some fancy new paint I just saw advertised).
a) Make you buy a product you do not need or down right should not buy or... b) Make you choose a brand of a product you do need under false assumptions or wrong reasons.
Those are two things that ads might make you do. They also introduce you to new products that you are not aware of, or describe features of a product that you did not know of previously.
How about we rephrase the question: "Would you prefer to see random ads, targeted ads, pay for the resource you are using, or do without the resource you are currently using."
I just don't understand why a company would expend those kinds of resources to do something that provides nobody with a positive benefit.
Clearly Nintendo thinks there is a benefit to doing so. Perhaps you or others can't see what that is, but if there were no perceived benefits, they wouldn't be doing it now, would they?
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well, if the battery could support your house for a week with no external power, I for one would love a partially charged (say 75%) battery if I had no external power for three days. That'd give a day or two leeway just in case.
Bearing in mind what happens when it comes into contact with the most common (i.e. oxygen)
from an elemental standpoint, nothing happens to it. it is lithium before it reacted, and is lithium after the reaction...just bonded to different atoms.
Your race track analogy isn't exactly accurate when it comes to real life cars and bikes. F1 cars are about as similar to the average commuter as...well they are not very similar at all.
There have been many head to head races between production bikes and production cars and the bikes generally are much faster however the individual track does play a big role. This is mainly due to the acceleration (there is not a 4 wheeled car under $100K that can match the acceleration of a $10K sports bike) however the handling is quite similar. There is less of a holy sh^t factor approaching a corner on four wheels than on two which make entrance speeds faster for the car.
As for the linked video, put each vehicle on that track alone and compare times, I think you'd find a much different story.
As to handling better in an emergency, there are many factors that could make a bike avoid an accident better than a car. They generally have less lateral distance to travel to get around an obstacle, they can get around obstacles in less space (for example around the left side of the car in front without smacking head-on into oncoming traffic). Standard riding training will also teach you to ride in the 'third' of the lane instead of the center to allow both better visibility and easier avoidance should something happen in your lane. You also generally sit higher on a bike than most passenger cars and have no blind spots.
I'm sorry, I don't quite understand how it is a right to drive. Could you explain?
How do you propose we pay for the cost of road construction and maintenance?
Please explain why anything more recent is any different than that action?
Please explain why George Washington doing it (or any other president for that matter) makes it 'right' in all instances?
Right now, without having any self configured computer in my house:
It sounds to me like you have at least 3 computers in your house. The one that controls the thermostat, the one that controls the driveway lights and the PVR.
I can access this from the web if needed to check usage and adjust the temperature... I see no reason to have these networked
Apparently you see at least one need to have those networked...
Trivially done with a $15 remote thermometer. I have one for my grill. Works great.
So you are saying there IS a need for remote notification of this sort. My TV can be loud (I expect yours can be too). I can be forgetful (perhaps you have at some point got distracted by something also). Therefore if the TV were loud, and I got distracted, I might not hear the ding and I might also have forgotten that the 40 minute timer should have expired by now.
I think that a popup on my TV (or computer, or my cell phone vibrating or all three) would be a great reminder in addition to the ding of the oven timer.
I wouldn't NEED to have my DVR on, but if it were on, it could display a small message indicating that the oven timer (or whatever other event) went off.
You need to factor that in before you can decide if you are really saving energy.
Nowhere in the original post was any real 'energy savings' mentioned. He wanted to reduce his electricity consumption to lower the cost of running the box, not to save the planet.
the suggestion was:
My advice to the OP would be to pick up a second hand Mini and use that
There are several on ebay ending in the next 1/2 hour for under $200.
Because when an e-book is $9.99, and a paperback is the same (or less), and the paperback continues to offer advantages over the e-book
I can't argue with that statement. Perhaps the Barnes and Noble people are planning to make their e-books cheaper. Oh wait, let's check the article
Gizmodo, first showed leaked images of the Nook last week. The blog said that B&N will be discounting titles heavily in their electronic format, which is as is should be (no paper, printing or shipping costs). The Nook will also be able to get books from the Google Books Project
Look there's only one reason why things get put into Playboy magazine; so people can masturbate to them(while reading the articles).
Nope - there is only one reason why things get put into Playboy. So they can sell more issues and make more money.
a character from their children's TV shows,
The Simpson's is not a childrens's TV show.
Well I'm actually surprised it's only 41% pirated software on personal computers, considering it's not often that people buy software applications for non-work purposes and most are free or have alternatives.
Your logic is a bit backwards here - if there are free alternatives then you should be surprised that it is 41% pirated software and not way less.
If a computer has 9 'free' (ie not pirated, legally free) applications and one pirated commercial application then it has only 10% pirated software on it. The more free alternatives there are, the less pirated software there should be.
What does photoshopping models have to do with design skill?
That's like saying Kobe Bryant isn't a great basketball player because he committed adultery.
I can understand that you might not want to buy any more RL products because of something thing like this, but it doesn't make the actual products any crappier.
. What I care more about is VoIP over my phone's WIFI. It's my freaking phone, and my WIFI and internet connection, and AT&T doesn't even work inside my house. Yet AT&T and Apple wont let me run software that already exists for the iPhone to solve this problem.
I'm assuming the if you actually had an iPhone, you would be aware of the fact that Skype has been available from the App Store, officially approved by Apple for use over Wifi. It was only released in April, 2009 so I can see how you might not have checked for something that you so dearly need in the mere 6 months or so it has been available.
If an iPhone were a closed system, like the iPod Nano, it would be unreasonable for the government to force Apple to support developers. However, the iPhone is programmable
Huh? Nano not programmable? I wonder how the programs that run one there work then. Seeing as it is not programmable, I can only assume the Rockbox people are a bunch of scammers (perhaps they are from Nigeria) that show their custom software running on an iPod Nano.
Sometime check out the logos for Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai. See how similar they all are? They're all an oval with a squiggle inside of them. If people can tell those apart (and they can) then they can tell Woolworth's and Apple apart, too.
To be honest, I get those car logos confused sometimes.
And they don't stick it on over-priced computers for a third. So where could the confusion exist?
It is a blanket trademark application, and Woolworths has a large electronics division so it is quite possible it will end up an a mobile phone (that may or may not look like an iPhone), an MP3 player (that may or may not look like an iPod), a set top box (that may or may not look like an Apple TV) or even an over-priced computer.
So who are they suing? They are in a legal battle to determine whether the logo infringes their trademark. Nowhere does it say they are suing anybody. According to the article Apple needs to convince an Australian government organization to re-examine the trademark they granted.
If it it deemed, by a government organization, that the Woolworth's logo infringes Apple, then they will have to stop using it.
wow - did someone piss in your cereal this morning?
The OP did not say anything about copyrights being right or wrong, and didn't seem to to overly anti-copyright, and his point about microsoft's motives (or part of them) is arguably correct. He did mention that he thought the price of Windows is a lot, and he is free to think that if he wants. He didn't imply that it should be free or pirated.
I'm sure Microsoft is quite concerned about the abstraction between product and cost. People don't want to think about paying for development, testing and support. They want to pay for something they can hold in their hand or put on a shelf. That's why all the software boxes (and most other boxes) you see in the store are all bright and colourful, when a simple brown box would suffice. How many peoples comptur rooms do you go into and see software boxes on their shelves (collecting dust)? The box is a trophy. With a download there is no trophy.
Playing a 'word game' is EXACTLY what Microsoft is doing because they are afraid that if people 'think' that all they are paying for is an unlock code, then they won't be concerned when their brother in law 'gives' them the unlock code instead of buying it from Microsoft. So they make people think they are paying for a DVD, manual and box in addition to the software.
And there is nothing wrong with that, except for as other posters have pointed it adds cost to the product that it presumably passed on the the customer, as well as delays the release while the manufacturing process occurs. And Microsoft is fully within their rights to do both if they think that is the correct thing to do for their business.
of course illegal advertising is a crime - just like illegal theft and illegal murder are crimes.
And then there's the scalability problem.
Huh? Need more throughput, add an extra car to the train - or run additional trains on the same rails - you know that trains aren't going bumper to bumper right?
My boss spend 1.5 hours on his train commute; I only take 45 minutes.
I hate to state the obvious, but how long would it take you to drive your car from LA to San Francisco, and then how long would it take a bullet train going 200mph?
Waiting time == non-productive time
No, driving time is unproductive time. You waste 45 minutes driving while your boss could be working while he is sitting on the train, because he isn't driving.
So if the railways have died out, how come trains are thriving in many places? They are not suitable for all applications, but for specific high density routes they are way more efficient than anything else we currently have.
I'm not sure about your math, although I sort of suspect there is a conversion from bits to bytes that you might be missing, and then perhaps some multiply by 1000 instead of 1024s but regardless of your math, your logic is wrong.
They are not stealing anything from you. The agreement you initially had with them was changed. I suspect somewhere in that agreement there was a clause stating that the price you were paying wasn't guaranteed for all eternity. They came up with a new price, and you apparently are agreeing to pay it.
Perhaps you should consider another provider if you are that dissatisfied, or doing without the service if another acceptable provider can not be found.
Though, to be honest, restriction of features doesn't seem very patentable, at least there are other implementations that already exist
So my new method of generating electricity via cold fusion is not patentable because there are already other implementations of power generation?
Targeted ads are actually worse because they are more likely to trap you.
Trap you? Really? Please step away from the computer and put your tinfoil hat back on. (Alternatively you could paint your head with some fancy new paint I just saw advertised).
a) Make you buy a product you do not need or down right should not buy
or...
b) Make you choose a brand of a product you do need under false assumptions or wrong reasons.
Those are two things that ads might make you do. They also introduce you to new products that you are not aware of, or describe features of a product that you did not know of previously.
How about we rephrase the question: "Would you prefer to see random ads, targeted ads, pay for the resource you are using, or do without the resource you are currently using."
I just don't understand why a company would expend those kinds of resources to do something that provides nobody with a positive benefit.
Clearly Nintendo thinks there is a benefit to doing so. Perhaps you or others can't see what that is, but if there were no perceived benefits, they wouldn't be doing it now, would they?
It seems even more suspicious that you are 'paper'ing your walls with foil. That is no more likely than you foiling your walls with paper.
Clearly you are a government spy here to...well I'm not sure what, but I am sure it is nefarious.