It's not a good will program, it's a warranty. The main Prius battery pack is covered for 8 years or 100,000 miles in the US. Or, in California or a few other states that use California emissions laws (CA, MA, ME, VT, NY) the hybrid battery is further covered by the California Emission Control Warranty out to 10 years or 150,000 miles.
As soon as my local store gets an Aladdin minilab, I might consider that. But, in the meantime, Wal-Mart has one, and I'm quite happy to pay to use it.
If you're reading this and think you have a fatal flaw to the whole concept, and haven't spent months on it doing some calculations and reading papers, I'll take the opportunity to laugh at your idea now.
This seems to be an appropriate response to virtually every discussion on every Slashdot story ever. I'd like to nominate that this reply be hardcoded into the slashcode to be automatically inserted at a random point in every story's comments.
You would think with a substance as dangerous as Lithium seems to be that they would make such a battery a little more rugged, perhaps even make them as rugged as a D or AA
It's enclosed by metal on 5 of the 6 sides, and on the 6th, they've put a protective hard drive, screen, and scroll wheel. How much more rugged can it be?
Well, in these modern times, any mpg figures the car gives you are computed by the onboard computer(s) using the readings from the fuel injectors of how much fuel they're spitting out and running those up against the wheel rotation sensors that drive the odometer and speedometer.
It's not 100% accurate, but it's probably a good deal more accurate than my back of the envelope calculations that rely on a gas pump's auto stop trickery to put the exact same amount of gas in the tank every time.
Well since I have other things that are a whole lot more important than reading the fucking article I'll leave it up to you.
Here's another good idea: Since you're too busy to read the article, you could probably save time by leaving the commenting to other people as well, right?
well it is not really the submitters fautlt or the editors , as well the article says and I quote "Huawei is curently selling EVDO phones for about $130 and WCDMA phones about $250 which is about 30% than everyone else on the marke
If the original article says that, then it's most definitely the submitter's fault for copying such a nonsensical piece into their summary. To a lesser extent, it's also the editor's fault for deeming and incomprehensible sentence newsworthy.
Well, to be pedantic, it was originally written for AT&T's Hobbit processor, then ported to PowerPC a few years in, before they actually shipped anything.
They haven't had a new manufacturing run of the boxes in a long time and don't plan to, but it will take a while to sell through all the remaining units. After that time, D&M wants to use the technology in their other products or license it to third parties.
ReplayTV did this once before, at the end of 2000, but they did an about face and went on to produce the 4000 and 5000 series, but this time it looks like they're serious.
I don't think there's a single example of a law that forced you to throw away your old product and buy a new.
I'm sure the gun nuts^H^H^H^Hadvocates could chime in here about all of the laws that made them throw aways their perfectly good AK-47s and buy regular old hunting rifles
I thought that was a weird question because harmonium's such a less common word. If you were guessing at that clue, you'd say "harmonica", because that's a word that would spill out of your brain faster. If you actually used the word "harmonium", that would seem to indicate to me actual knowledge of a correct question, since that word would be harder to come up with otherwise. Your friend using "harmonium" and being wrong just didn't sit well with me. It didn't make sense. I'm glad to hear that it's because of a brain failure, because that makes more sense to me.
(I actually knew the correct answer before anyone buzzed in, but the linguistic aspect of the word selection is what intrigues me about this incident)
Sony has nothing to do with Secure Digital. Either you're thinking of Memory Stick (Sony's memory card with it's accompanying MagicGate DRM scheme), or you meant to say Matsushita instead of Sony.
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You did see that the Chinese are left-drivers, right?
You misspelled "right-drivers" (although I'm not even sure that's a real term).
It is technically illegal in Canada for minors to use the Internet.
Cite?
It's not a good will program, it's a warranty. The main Prius battery pack is covered for 8 years or 100,000 miles in the US. Or, in California or a few other states that use California emissions laws (CA, MA, ME, VT, NY) the hybrid battery is further covered by the California Emission Control Warranty out to 10 years or 150,000 miles.
As soon as my local store gets an Aladdin minilab, I might consider that. But, in the meantime, Wal-Mart has one, and I'm quite happy to pay to use it.
The first "ROM-less" Mac was the Blue and White PowerMac G3.
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I'm being totally pedantic, but the first "New World" (ROM-less) Mac was the iMac (http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1167.h
If you're reading this and think you have a fatal flaw to the whole concept, and haven't spent months on it doing some calculations and reading papers, I'll take the opportunity to laugh at your idea now.
This seems to be an appropriate response to virtually every discussion on every Slashdot story ever. I'd like to nominate that this reply be hardcoded into the slashcode to be automatically inserted at a random point in every story's comments.
Kudos, sir.
Keyhole's got plenty more than just satellite photos. Most of the higher resolution stuff you see in Google Maps is actually aerial imagery.
...and variable pay e.g. bonuses which is what most people count on,...
Um, if it's variable, should you really be counting on it?
You would think with a substance as dangerous as Lithium seems to be that they would make such a battery a little more rugged, perhaps even make them as rugged as a D or AA
It's enclosed by metal on 5 of the 6 sides, and on the 6th, they've put a protective hard drive, screen, and scroll wheel. How much more rugged can it be?
Well, in these modern times, any mpg figures the car gives you are computed by the onboard computer(s) using the readings from the fuel injectors of how much fuel they're spitting out and running those up against the wheel rotation sensors that drive the odometer and speedometer.
It's not 100% accurate, but it's probably a good deal more accurate than my back of the envelope calculations that rely on a gas pump's auto stop trickery to put the exact same amount of gas in the tank every time.
I wish I had mod points for your sig.
Here's another good idea: Since you're too busy to read the article, you could probably save time by leaving the commenting to other people as well, right?
for deeming and incomprehensible sentence newsworthy
And then, of course, this part is my fault. I meant "deeming an incomprehensible sentence newsworthy".
well it is not really the submitters fautlt or the editors , as well the article says and I quote "Huawei is curently selling EVDO phones for about $130 and WCDMA phones about $250 which is about 30% than everyone else on the marke
If the original article says that, then it's most definitely the submitter's fault for copying such a nonsensical piece into their summary. To a lesser extent, it's also the editor's fault for deeming and incomprehensible sentence newsworthy.
it was originally a PowerPC OS
Well, to be pedantic, it was originally written for AT&T's Hobbit processor, then ported to PowerPC a few years in, before they actually shipped anything.
They haven't had a new manufacturing run of the boxes in a long time and don't plan to, but it will take a while to sell through all the remaining units. After that time, D&M wants to use the technology in their other products or license it to third parties.
ReplayTV did this once before, at the end of 2000, but they did an about face and went on to produce the 4000 and 5000 series, but this time it looks like they're serious.
Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050228/cgm065_1.html
Plus, what good is the photo if there is no way to output to a TV?
Um, I was told it played music...
I don't think there's a single example of a law that forced you to throw away your old product and buy a new.
I'm sure the gun nuts^H^H^H^Hadvocates could chime in here about all of the laws that made them throw aways their perfectly good AK-47s and buy regular old hunting rifles
I saw that one.
I thought that was a weird question because harmonium's such a less common word. If you were guessing at that clue, you'd say
"harmonica", because that's a word that would spill out of your brain faster. If you actually used the word "harmonium", that would seem to indicate to me actual knowledge of a correct question, since that word would be harder to come up with otherwise. Your friend using "harmonium" and being wrong just didn't sit well with me. It didn't make sense. I'm glad to hear that it's because of a brain failure, because that makes more sense to me.
(I actually knew the correct answer before anyone buzzed in, but the linguistic aspect of the word selection is what intrigues me about this incident)
Sony has nothing to do with Secure Digital. Either you're thinking of Memory Stick (Sony's memory card with it's accompanying MagicGate DRM scheme), or you meant to say Matsushita instead of Sony.
-Aaron
So, it was a pretty faithful port, then?
I'm curious to find out more. Do you have a source for your information?
Took me way too long to wise up and just stop purchasing from Sony...
-Aaron
RTFA. MP3 encoding has actually been significantly uncrippled in this release, although still not on par with WMA.
-Aaron
Don't forget "answer to life the universe and everything"
Try it!
-Aaron