Yes, you can run.net apps... and they run like mangy dogs on three legs, at least on my HTC Prophet. They also have all sort of nasty issues like missing copy/paste, parts of the app hidden under the on-screeen keyboard etc. If an app has been written in.net I've learned that it is usually not worth installing it. A good java implementation on this phone would be better, especially given that the CPU (a 200 MHz OMAP) is supposed to be able to execute jvm bytecode in hardware. Alas, such a thing has yet to cross my path...
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Funny that. I live in rural Sweden, hilly country studded with trees and frosty in wintertime. I do my shopping in a village about 15 km to the south of here. I have a daughter I bring to 'dagis' (playschool) every day. On a bike. The shopping goes in the trailer, the daughter in the seat on the back. To blindly state that 'you would not last a day on a bike in that scenario' just shows that you are so blindsided by having access to a car that for you that car is the ONLY means of transport. No matter that elsewhere on this planet billions of people get by without having access to cars.
Try it for a change. I realise that the US is not the best country for cyclists but then again neither is Sweden. Still, it is possible, and by using that bike instead of a car you not only save a lot of money and birds and bees and trees and lives but you also get that workout which you now have to pay the fitness center or sports school for. Not to mention the good example you'll give your two kids. Raise them on cars and they'll become just like you - car-dependent. Raise them on bikes and they'll become aware themselves.
Nobody has to look at the list, the hashes can be made programmatically without ever looking at that list. The only time it needs looking at is when you have to prove that the hashes are correct. Assuming that this happens in court the judge will have to find a way to make this possible - it will no longer be your problem that the law says you can not look at the list...
Ah, but there is a relatively easy solution to that: don't spread the list itself, instead spread a list of secure hashes (sha256 or something similar) of the blocked domains. If you want to check whether your domain is blocked you run it through a similar hashing algorithm. If the hashes match the domain is on the list (assuming that the hash size has been chosen well so that the chance of collisions is negligible). You could run this whole process in a convenient web page. Add several lists of hashes for known blocklists and you've got yourself an online blacklist checker which the authorities can not (legally) touch. Should it ever come to a court case the actual list(s) can be revealed and the hashes recalculated so as to prove that they are correct.
...the world wide web gets chopped into bite-sized chunks, to be gobbled up by overweight bonus-grabbers, their quivering jowls dripping slime while they stuff their gassy wobbling guts. Just like with the whole globalisation thing really... borders which are broken down for the grabbers are reinstated for the 'consumers' using licensing and technology. Vote with your wallets, people! It is the only vote which counts in a capitalist world.
The more of this type of news I read... the more I feel like the time has come for the wooden ships sung about by CSN and Jefferson Airplane. A slight change in the lyrics might be in place as it was not nuclear destruction but corporate crookery which brought society to its knees so the 'silver people on the shoreline' get to wear pin-striped suits instead.
Go, take your sister then, by the hand, lead her away from this foreign land, Far away, where we might laugh again, We are leaving - you don't need us.
And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm, Out of the south over my shoulder, Guess I'll set a course and go...
(who knows what laws I broke by quoting this excerpt from the lyrics... I'm pretty sure the authors won't mind.)
I'd say the comparison between Linux and MacOSX vs Joomla/Wordpress is wrong in one very important point: both Joomla as well as Wordpress are free. Linux is free. MacOSX is not. I see that the person who made the comparison is using a Mac so I see where he is coming from but that does not mean he should forget that one very important point. His favourite computing platform is proprietary, can not be shared between friends and family and will even land you in jail if you try to do so on a large scale. Share Linux, Joomla or Wordpress and its authors will cheer you on.
If I may ask... why did you give Verizon your business in the first place? You do realise that in a capitalist economy your wallet is your weapon? Give your business to some of the other bottomfeeders instead of Verizon. Or if you feel you have to bend over for some reason at least hack that phone to take away those restrictions. Just sitting here venting on/. does nothing good.
I assume TomTom's devices can use SD cards, and those are by default formatted with a FAT filesystem. Of course it is ludicrous for Microsoft to now suddenly worm out of the woodwork and claim patent infringement but that is a) clear from the start and b) besides the point.
Sure. Download two of those pictures, take a binary diff of the LSB of each pixel and out rolls the latest by U2... or download one kitty and a file containing random noise, decrypt the noise with kitty and Hello U2 again. This block will be sooooo effective...
My 4 yr old daughter logs in to her own account on one of the available machines (with password), starts whatever program she wants, saves the results, opens a folder on her desktop to watch one of the available video's and now wants to tag photos in the photo management app.
This is not your old Windows. This is Gnome on top, GNU in between and Linux underneath. This is Ubuntu. Welcome to the future.
What I never understood about the EO (when I still lived in the Netherlands *and* still watched TV) was that they were (and possibly are?) both the most moronic broadcaster when it came to spouting religious nonsense but also one of the best when it came to showing all sorts of nature programs from (amongst others) known and proclaimed atheists like David Attenborough. They could not refrain from editing his programs though as they contain all sorts of references to evolution. Would they not be doomed by their allmighty $deity and condemned to a hereafter full of fire and brimstone by associating themselves with unbelievers like Sir David?
If you try to start thinking straight for a second......you might start wondering about the correlation between the lowering prices of hardware and the impact this has on a company which depends on software license fees. There is a hard bottom limit to the price of any computing device with for-pay software: the price of the hardware (design, manufacture and distribution) + the ongoing costs of supporting said software + the desired profit for the software distributor. In case of Microsoft those profit margins are traditionally very high for the operating system and application software business, and that is the software which we're talking about here. The same hardware with for-free software can be priced much lower. Now that the for-free software is largely equivalent with the for-pay alternatives (and hold the incessant 'aslongasitdoesnotlookandworkexactlylikewindowsorofficeitisnotreadyforthedesktop' complaints) it is a very attractive proposition for a hardware manufacturer to use the for-free alternative. They can either keep the prices similar and reap much higher profits or lower the prices and most likely see higher sales, again leading to higher profits. They also don't have to bend to the will of an unreliable business partner which has shown time and time again that it has no qualms about backstabbing its partners.
Now I leave it to you as to whether free software is better than, worse than or equivalent to proprietary software. The answer to that question wholly depends on what you expect from the software, what you use it for, what you have used in the last few years and in what discipline you use the software. It has however become clear that for many common purposes there is free software which is fully adequate, and in several cases the free software is better than the closed alternatives.
There are already several versions of the kernel on the discs so adding a few more won't be a problem. We're talking a few megabytes here, no more. The real reason not to add them would be market segmentation - the 'professional ultra enterprise gold platinum titanium unobtanium' edition contains a few files which are absent on those versions lower in the periodic table.
I installed the Windows 7 beta on a virtual machine to be able to test a remote access package I made for helping out Windows sufferers back in the homeland (the Netherlands) from up here in Sweden. The previous version of the package (which is based around VNC) has worked for years but alas, Vista and the VNC server do not mix. UltraVNC has a new version which does support Vista so I thought I'd give it a try...
The tests are done on a 1.2 GHz Thinkpad T23 with 768 MB (running a 2.6.29-rc2 kernel with Ubuntu Jaunty userspace), not exactly the fastest machine around even though it is my main workstation - developing on older hardware leads to better results on newer stuff... The VM was allocated 512 MB, double the amount of what the XP VM is allocated and three times of poor old W2K's allotment. XP and W2K just work in their VM's without problems.
Windows 7 does not. With all bells, whistles, fancy animations, superfluous services and other ballast turned off as far as possible it still crawls doing nothing and swaps when moving the pointer. This is with the VirtualBox guest tools for Vista installed so driver-wise it should be all-right.
Now you might say 'OK but you're using some really old hardware there with insufficient memory' and you'd be right - if you were comparing it to full-size notebooks. Compared to current generation netbooks my army of T23's suddenly does not look so old anymore... they are right on par with the Eee's, Aspire One's and similarly specced machines (but they have much better keyboards:-). Any talk of running Windows 7 on one of these machines should be taken with a pinch of salt as it clearly requires more beefy hardware and really, really wants to have more memory.
And what does 9 years of Windows development actually bring to the user of a Windows 2000 workstation? Apart from the eye candy there does not seem to be much there. This becomes even more visible when you are forced to turn off that eye candy to get the thing to run in the first place. Why does Windows 7 eat this machine alive on three times the memory given to Windows 2000 while not performing any tasks, while Windows 2000 is able to perform agreeably with 180 MB while running something worthwhile in userland? Memory is cheap, true. But it is only cheap for the current generation of machines. The T23 uses PC133 SODIMM up to a maximum of 1 GB. Maxing out such a machine with current prices would be insane, you'd be able to buy a netbook for the price of just the upgrade. 'So buy a netbook then' you say? I could, of course. But that still does not answer the question of what it is that actually requires so much more memory and processor capacity in Windows 7. As a comparison I could point to my mail/web/fileserver. It runs on a Virgin Webplayer with 128MB of PC100 memory. This puny machine runs Debian testing/unstable with a 2.6.27 kernel. It can run the latest iteration of the Linux kernel with the latest iteration of one of the more popular distributions. No eyecandy of course but still... If 200 MHz of Geode GX1 (which is more or less comparable to a 166 MHz Pentium 1) and 127 MB of memory (1 MB is taken by the framebuffer) is sufficient to run the latest Linux kernel with the latest Debian userland AND perform useful work then surely 1.2 GHz of PIII-m with 512 MB of PC133 should be sufficient to do nothing at all?
You can also just use vlc: vlc 'http://msstudios-chan2-wsx.wm.llnwd.net/msstudios_chan1_wsx?MSWMExt=.asf' or vlc 'http://87.248.216.216:80/msstudios_chan1_wsx?MSWMExt=.asf'
This way you get fullscreen, stutter-free sound and video without agreeing to any license agreements or burning a hole in your processor... and you don't have to install anything besides vlc (but that was already installed, wasn't it?)
I was with you all through your comment... just until the last line:
And that's why I use OS X.
It seems to me you have not yet left the state you described in the previous paragraphs... Maybe in age, but certainly not in attitude... If you had that last line just would not be there. Who cares what OS you use? If it works for you, fine. If it doesn't use something else.
Read that article... notice that the good doc states that "For everyday cooking you don't really need a pointed knife. The Chinese, Japanese, the Far East use cleaver-style knives for everything.". I use one of these cleavers at home for most tasks. It has been nicknamed 'het gevaarlijke mes' (the dangerous knife) because it is a perfect weapon to get even with (chop, chop and your opponent lies disassembled on the floor). Just look at a selection of Japanese/Chinese cleavers to put it all into perspective. Is this man seriously trying to say that those cleavers are 'safe' alternatives for pointy kitchen knives? If so he needs to use one of them for a while. They're better for many kitchen tasks than the pointy mini-swords which we're accustomed to, but they're also better for many of those tasks which he wants to see diminished...
Volvo first needs to do something about their quality control. About 50% of all V50 models sold last year had to go back to the shop for major repairs. If you read Swedish or know how to ask someone (Google, Altavista,...) to translate it for you have a look at Dagens Nyheter or Göteborgs Posten. Roughly translated the salient bit goes like 'The worst car is the Volvo V50, every other car needs to be repaired in the first year in traffic' (Värsta bilen är Volvo V50, varannan tvingades akut till verkstaden under första året i trafik) and
'worst in these statistics is the Volvo V50 which spends on average 4.45 days per year in the workshop. Second worst is stablemate S60 with 4.26 days in the shop' (Värstingen i denna statistik är Volvo V50 som i genomsnitt har 4,45 verkstadsdagar. På andra plats kommer märkeskollegan S60 med 4,26 dagar på verkstaden).
I've been using CFL's since at least 1995, probably a lot earlier. Starting with the big Philips 'jam jar' types which lasted more or less forever - I still have some of the first lamps I bought, now more than 15 years old, they still work - and gradually moving to the more recent folded tube and even more recent incandescent form factor ones I have yet to see any trouble with them. They *just work*, save a *lot* of power and hardly ever burn out.
In other words, I completely fail to grasp the reluctance to change over, leading even to conspiracy theories and pseudo-science arguments against these dependable light sources. They may not be the best choice for all applications but they are a good match for most.
That is an anemic car battery you have there... Take a car battery rated 12 V, capacity 60 Ah. This battery can keep up a current of 60A for about one hour (actual capacity depends on discharge rate, lower rate equals higher capacity - up to a point). 60A * 12V DC = 720W. It can do that for about an hour -> capacity 720Wh or about 0.72 KWh. The 12V battery in my tractor has a capacity of 180 Ah which roughly translates to (12 * 180 =) 2.16 KWh. It weighs some 60kg. This EEStor maybe-real-soon-now device has a claimed weight of 128 kg. You'd get about 5 KWh worth of Lead-Acid capacity for that weight, meaning this device - if it ever sees the light of day - has about 10 times more capacity per kg.
I think the 'net needs a new corollary to Godwin's law. The only needed change would be to replace 'nazi' with 'socialism'.
What is it you folks are so afraid of concerning the S-word? Would you prefer the state to hand over your tax money to for-profits so they can have some more caviar on their toast?
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That would make botnets weapons of mass accumulation, not mass destruction. The quality might not be up to par but you can not complain about the quantity...
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Yes, you can run .net apps... and they run like mangy dogs on three legs, at least on my HTC Prophet. They also have all sort of nasty issues like missing copy/paste, parts of the app hidden under the on-screeen keyboard etc. If an app has been written in .net I've learned that it is usually not worth installing it. A good java implementation on this phone would be better, especially given that the CPU (a 200 MHz OMAP) is supposed to be able to execute jvm bytecode in hardware. Alas, such a thing has yet to cross my path...
Funny that. I live in rural Sweden, hilly country studded with trees and frosty in wintertime. I do my shopping in a village about 15 km to the south of here. I have a daughter I bring to 'dagis' (playschool) every day. On a bike. The shopping goes in the trailer, the daughter in the seat on the back. To blindly state that 'you would not last a day on a bike in that scenario' just shows that you are so blindsided by having access to a car that for you that car is the ONLY means of transport. No matter that elsewhere on this planet billions of people get by without having access to cars.
Try it for a change. I realise that the US is not the best country for cyclists but then again neither is Sweden. Still, it is possible, and by using that bike instead of a car you not only save a lot of money and birds and bees and trees and lives but you also get that workout which you now have to pay the fitness center or sports school for. Not to mention the good example you'll give your two kids. Raise them on cars and they'll become just like you - car-dependent. Raise them on bikes and they'll become aware themselves.
Nobody has to look at the list, the hashes can be made programmatically without ever looking at that list. The only time it needs looking at is when you have to prove that the hashes are correct. Assuming that this happens in court the judge will have to find a way to make this possible - it will no longer be your problem that the law says you can not look at the list...
Ah, but there is a relatively easy solution to that: don't spread the list itself, instead spread a list of secure hashes (sha256 or something similar) of the blocked domains. If you want to check whether your domain is blocked you run it through a similar hashing algorithm. If the hashes match the domain is on the list (assuming that the hash size has been chosen well so that the chance of collisions is negligible). You could run this whole process in a convenient web page. Add several lists of hashes for known blocklists and you've got yourself an online blacklist checker which the authorities can not (legally) touch. Should it ever come to a court case the actual list(s) can be revealed and the hashes recalculated so as to prove that they are correct.
...the world wide web gets chopped into bite-sized chunks, to be gobbled up by overweight bonus-grabbers, their quivering jowls dripping slime while they stuff their gassy wobbling guts. Just like with the whole globalisation thing really... borders which are broken down for the grabbers are reinstated for the 'consumers' using licensing and technology. Vote with your wallets, people! It is the only vote which counts in a capitalist world.
The more of this type of news I read... the more I feel like the time has come for the wooden ships sung about by CSN and Jefferson Airplane. A slight change in the lyrics might be in place as it was not nuclear destruction but corporate crookery which brought society to its knees so the 'silver people on the shoreline' get to wear pin-striped suits instead.
Go, take your sister then, by the hand,
lead her away from this foreign land,
Far away, where we might laugh again,
We are leaving - you don't need us.
And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm,
Out of the south over my shoulder,
Guess I'll set a course and go...
(who knows what laws I broke by quoting this excerpt from the lyrics... I'm pretty sure the authors won't mind.)
Here in Sweden ACTA
I'd say the comparison between Linux and MacOSX vs Joomla/Wordpress is wrong in one very important point: both Joomla as well as Wordpress are free. Linux is free. MacOSX is not. I see that the person who made the comparison is using a Mac so I see where he is coming from but that does not mean he should forget that one very important point. His favourite computing platform is proprietary, can not be shared between friends and family and will even land you in jail if you try to do so on a large scale. Share Linux, Joomla or Wordpress and its authors will cheer you on.
If I may ask... why did you give Verizon your business in the first place? You do realise that in a capitalist economy your wallet is your weapon? Give your business to some of the other bottomfeeders instead of Verizon. Or if you feel you have to bend over for some reason at least hack that phone to take away those restrictions. Just sitting here venting on /. does nothing good.
I assume TomTom's devices can use SD cards, and those are by default formatted with a FAT filesystem. Of course it is ludicrous for Microsoft to now suddenly worm out of the woodwork and claim patent infringement but that is a) clear from the start and b) besides the point.
Sure. Download two of those pictures, take a binary diff of the LSB of each pixel and out rolls the latest by U2... or download one kitty and a file containing random noise, decrypt the noise with kitty and Hello U2 again. This block will be sooooo effective...
More like paying thugs to block access to a roof overseeing a concert venue where people would otherwise congregate to listen without paying
My 4 yr old daughter logs in to her own account on one of the available machines (with password), starts whatever program she wants, saves the results, opens a folder on her desktop to watch one of the available video's and now wants to tag photos in the photo management app.
This is not your old Windows. This is Gnome on top, GNU in between and Linux underneath. This is Ubuntu. Welcome to the future.
What I never understood about the EO (when I still lived in the Netherlands *and* still watched TV) was that they were (and possibly are?) both the most moronic broadcaster when it came to spouting religious nonsense but also one of the best when it came to showing all sorts of nature programs from (amongst others) known and proclaimed atheists like David Attenborough. They could not refrain from editing his programs though as they contain all sorts of references to evolution. Would they not be doomed by their allmighty $deity and condemned to a hereafter full of fire and brimstone by associating themselves with unbelievers like Sir David?
If you try to start thinking straight for a second... ...you might start wondering about the correlation between the lowering prices of hardware and the impact this has on a company which depends on software license fees. There is a hard bottom limit to the price of any computing device with for-pay software: the price of the hardware (design, manufacture and distribution) + the ongoing costs of supporting said software + the desired profit for the software distributor. In case of Microsoft those profit margins are traditionally very high for the operating system and application software business, and that is the software which we're talking about here. The same hardware with for-free software can be priced much lower. Now that the for-free software is largely equivalent with the for-pay alternatives (and hold the incessant 'aslongasitdoesnotlookandworkexactlylikewindowsorofficeitisnotreadyforthedesktop' complaints) it is a very attractive proposition for a hardware manufacturer to use the for-free alternative. They can either keep the prices similar and reap much higher profits or lower the prices and most likely see higher sales, again leading to higher profits. They also don't have to bend to the will of an unreliable business partner which has shown time and time again that it has no qualms about backstabbing its partners.
Now I leave it to you as to whether free software is better than, worse than or equivalent to proprietary software. The answer to that question wholly depends on what you expect from the software, what you use it for, what you have used in the last few years and in what discipline you use the software. It has however become clear that for many common purposes there is free software which is fully adequate, and in several cases the free software is better than the closed alternatives.
There are already several versions of the kernel on the discs so adding a few more won't be a problem. We're talking a few megabytes here, no more. The real reason not to add them would be market segmentation - the 'professional ultra enterprise gold platinum titanium unobtanium' edition contains a few files which are absent on those versions lower in the periodic table.
I installed the Windows 7 beta on a virtual machine to be able to test a remote access package I made for helping out Windows sufferers back in the homeland (the Netherlands) from up here in Sweden. The previous version of the package (which is based around VNC) has worked for years but alas, Vista and the VNC server do not mix. UltraVNC has a new version which does support Vista so I thought I'd give it a try...
The tests are done on a 1.2 GHz Thinkpad T23 with 768 MB (running a 2.6.29-rc2 kernel with Ubuntu Jaunty userspace), not exactly the fastest machine around even though it is my main workstation - developing on older hardware leads to better results on newer stuff... The VM was allocated 512 MB, double the amount of what the XP VM is allocated and three times of poor old W2K's allotment. XP and W2K just work in their VM's without problems.
Windows 7 does not. With all bells, whistles, fancy animations, superfluous services and other ballast turned off as far as possible it still crawls doing nothing and swaps when moving the pointer. This is with the VirtualBox guest tools for Vista installed so driver-wise it should be all-right.
Now you might say 'OK but you're using some really old hardware there with insufficient memory' and you'd be right - if you were comparing it to full-size notebooks. Compared to current generation netbooks my army of T23's suddenly does not look so old anymore... they are right on par with the Eee's, Aspire One's and similarly specced machines (but they have much better keyboards :-). Any talk of running Windows 7 on one of these machines should be taken with a pinch of salt as it clearly requires more beefy hardware and really, really wants to have more memory.
And what does 9 years of Windows development actually bring to the user of a Windows 2000 workstation? Apart from the eye candy there does not seem to be much there. This becomes even more visible when you are forced to turn off that eye candy to get the thing to run in the first place. Why does Windows 7 eat this machine alive on three times the memory given to Windows 2000 while not performing any tasks, while Windows 2000 is able to perform agreeably with 180 MB while running something worthwhile in userland? Memory is cheap, true. But it is only cheap for the current generation of machines. The T23 uses PC133 SODIMM up to a maximum of 1 GB. Maxing out such a machine with current prices would be insane, you'd be able to buy a netbook for the price of just the upgrade. 'So buy a netbook then' you say? I could, of course. But that still does not answer the question of what it is that actually requires so much more memory and processor capacity in Windows 7. As a comparison I could point to my mail/web/fileserver. It runs on a Virgin Webplayer with 128MB of PC100 memory. This puny machine runs Debian testing/unstable with a 2.6.27 kernel. It can run the latest iteration of the Linux kernel with the latest iteration of one of the more popular distributions. No eyecandy of course but still... If 200 MHz of Geode GX1 (which is more or less comparable to a 166 MHz Pentium 1) and 127 MB of memory (1 MB is taken by the framebuffer) is sufficient to run the latest Linux kernel with the latest Debian userland AND perform useful work then surely 1.2 GHz of PIII-m with 512 MB of PC133 should be sufficient to do nothing at all?
You can also just use vlc: vlc 'http://msstudios-chan2-wsx.wm.llnwd.net/msstudios_chan1_wsx?MSWMExt=.asf' or vlc 'http://87.248.216.216:80/msstudios_chan1_wsx?MSWMExt=.asf'
This way you get fullscreen, stutter-free sound and video without agreeing to any license agreements or burning a hole in your processor... and you don't have to install anything besides vlc (but that was already installed, wasn't it?)
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I was with you all through your comment... just until the last line:
It seems to me you have not yet left the state you described in the previous paragraphs... Maybe in age, but certainly not in attitude... If you had that last line just would not be there. Who cares what OS you use? If it works for you, fine. If it doesn't use something else.
Read that article... notice that the good doc states that "For everyday cooking you don't really need a pointed knife. The Chinese, Japanese, the Far East use cleaver-style knives for everything.". I use one of these cleavers at home for most tasks. It has been nicknamed 'het gevaarlijke mes' (the dangerous knife) because it is a perfect weapon to get even with (chop, chop and your opponent lies disassembled on the floor). Just look at a selection of Japanese/Chinese cleavers to put it all into perspective. Is this man seriously trying to say that those cleavers are 'safe' alternatives for pointy kitchen knives? If so he needs to use one of them for a while. They're better for many kitchen tasks than the pointy mini-swords which we're accustomed to, but they're also better for many of those tasks which he wants to see diminished...
Volvo first needs to do something about their quality control. About 50% of all V50 models sold last year had to go back to the shop for major repairs. If you read Swedish or know how to ask someone (Google, Altavista, ...) to translate it for you have a look at Dagens Nyheter or Göteborgs Posten. Roughly translated the salient bit goes like 'The worst car is the Volvo V50, every other car needs to be repaired in the first year in traffic' (Värsta bilen är Volvo V50, varannan tvingades akut till verkstaden under första året i trafik) and
'worst in these statistics is the Volvo V50 which spends on average 4.45 days per year in the workshop. Second worst is stablemate S60 with 4.26 days in the shop' (Värstingen i denna statistik är Volvo V50 som i genomsnitt har 4,45 verkstadsdagar. På andra plats kommer märkeskollegan S60 med 4,26 dagar på verkstaden).
I've been using CFL's since at least 1995, probably a lot earlier. Starting with the big Philips 'jam jar' types which lasted more or less forever - I still have some of the first lamps I bought, now more than 15 years old, they still work - and gradually moving to the more recent folded tube and even more recent incandescent form factor ones I have yet to see any trouble with them. They *just work*, save a *lot* of power and hardly ever burn out.
In other words, I completely fail to grasp the reluctance to change over, leading even to conspiracy theories and pseudo-science arguments against these dependable light sources. They may not be the best choice for all applications but they are a good match for most.
That is an anemic car battery you have there... Take a car battery rated 12 V, capacity 60 Ah. This battery can keep up a current of 60A for about one hour (actual capacity depends on discharge rate, lower rate equals higher capacity - up to a point). 60A * 12V DC = 720W. It can do that for about an hour -> capacity 720Wh or about 0.72 KWh. The 12V battery in my tractor has a capacity of 180 Ah which roughly translates to (12 * 180 =) 2.16 KWh. It weighs some 60kg. This EEStor maybe-real-soon-now device has a claimed weight of 128 kg. You'd get about 5 KWh worth of Lead-Acid capacity for that weight, meaning this device - if it ever sees the light of day - has about 10 times more capacity per kg.
I think the 'net needs a new corollary to Godwin's law. The only needed change would be to replace 'nazi' with 'socialism'.
What is it you folks are so afraid of concerning the S-word? Would you prefer the state to hand over your tax money to for-profits so they can have some more caviar on their toast?
That would make botnets weapons of mass accumulation, not mass destruction. The quality might not be up to par but you can not complain about the quantity...