Using a laptop full time, causes a very important part of the thing, the battery to wear out faster...and costs to replace it. Keeping a desktop plugged in all the times does not cause an important and expensive part to wear out.
At the same time, keeping a desktop plugged in uses more electricity. My MacBook uses at most 60 W at full power. What does a full desktop use? (I ask because I don't know the answer, but I'll venture a guess of at least 150 W.) Remember, you have to include the monitor in that total as well as the CPU.
It would be interesting to see the annual cost difference in electricity for a laptop vs. desktop, to see if that cost imbalance outweighs the cost of a battery.
I think you may have confused "published papers" with "paperwork." The drought being discussed by the poster refers to published, peer-reviewed scientific papers, not the reams of bureaucratic-red-tape paperwork that one goes through to apply for funding.
I associate "paperwork" with the latter, but perhaps you meant the former.
You do have to give the iPhone credit though...Assuming that the screen was really on, the screen stays on through a pretty severe first few beatings--the bezel is bent and coming off, but you can still see the screen glowing (very) briefly after that.
Meanwhile, other manufacturers will have added support for AT&T's new visual voicemail system, and other providers will have added support for those phones.
I bet somebody with a good set of programming skills could write a visual voicemail app for any smartphone...
From what I have observed, visual voice mail works by downloading a copy of the voicemail message to your iPhone, which then pairs up the caller ID phone number to your address book. When you play the message, it plays locally (I put my iPhone in "Airplane mode" to check this; wireless was unavailable but I could still play old messages) instead of over the wireless network.
There could be an app written that, upon notification of a waiting voicemail message, would automatically call your voicemail number, send the password after waiting for some cue, record the messages, and hang up (like an automatic logon script). The calling number would be parsed via voice recognition (since the numbers are read back by a computerized voice), as would the end of the message.
If handhelds can support voice dialing, they should have the horsepower to parse a computerized voice instead of a natural human voice (since it's a computer, it says the numbers the exact same every time).
The multi-touch touchpads on a Macbook(Pro) can scroll any window that has the mouse within its borders by:
* pressing one finger onto the touchpad
* *simultaneously* dragging a second finger up and down.
Not to stray off topic, but you can drag both fingers and scroll horizontally or vertically. Holding one and moving the second also works (I tried it on my MacBook), but moving both at once may be easier to do.
BTW, where in the article was this 4 MW number? I looked several times and couldn't find it.
(I'm not questioning your use of 4 MW; I used it myself. I just can't find the source.)
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- Instant Messaging - Picture messages (MMS) Why would you need either of those with an internet connection? Why pay 25 cents for a stupid MMS message when you can just send a friggin email?
Because the recipient is receiving the MMS on a cellphone.
That doesn't guarantee security. If you really want to take security seriously, post snipers on the roof and have them shoot employees before they can make it into the building.
No no no!
You shoot them if they try to LEAVE the building...if you shoot them before they get in, they can't do any work.
Should be well over 4000 bhp, since one bhp is 746 watts. Looks like an amazing amount of conversion loss there.
I think it's more a case where not all the energy contained in the steam is used for forward motion. The last thing you want to do is extract all that energy from the steam in the turbine, since in doing so would change the steam back into water. Water and high-speed steam turbines are not a good mix, unless you want to have shards of turbine flying about.
Instead, you extract as much energy as you can, while keeping the steam hot enough at the final turbine outlet pressure to prevent the phase change. In fact, most of the energy put into the steam (in some cases 75%) is removed AFTER the steam goes through the turbine, by way of the condensers.
I think a lot of people want to seem important. Put it down. Walk away. You'll feel better. I know I sure as hell do.
You are quite correct. There is a paper written by Hans Geser of the University of Zurich entitled "Towards a Sociological Theory of the Mobile Phone". In the paper (I haven't read the whole thign yet but it could be interesting) he states the following (pages 8 and 9 of the pdf version of the paper):
3.2 Accentuated differences between socially integrated and socially marginal individuals Under traditional no-tech conditions, the difference between socially integrated and socially isolated individuals is levelled by the fact that even very highly integrated individuals are "lonely" during certain times: e.g. when they are on the move or physically distant from their kin and friends. Today, mobile phones allow these well-integrated people to display their social contacts even under such conditions of mobility and absence: standing thus out against socially isolated, marginal individu- als at all times and places.
In other words, mobile phones amplify pre-existing differences in social participation and integration, rather than attenuating them (Puro 2002: 28).
The reason why so much cell phone activity goes on in public may well stem from the symbolic status display functions associated with the availability and actual usage of this new technology: "status" not in the sense of higher wealth or education, but in terms of intense social integration: "If you are without a mobile phones it means that no one depends on you for urgent direction, and no one needs to get in touch with you at all times. It means you are not cutting deals, giving orders; in short, not get-ting around all that much." (Bautsch et. al. 2001)
I read another article once where the trend in Japan was to have a cellphone to your ear, even if you weren't talking to anybody--it was a means of emphasizing your social status. I wish I could find that one, but in my hunt for it I came across the Geser paper.
At no point did I say that it was OK to trash the planet with hybrid batteries sine we already do it with cellphone batteries. My point was that if we can recycle cellphone batteries, we can recycle hybrid batteries. If you're concerned about hybrid batteries piling up, you should ALSO be concerned with notebook batteries piling up as well.
I would expect someone to start noticing the batteries piling up fairly soon, say 3-4 years.
How is this that different than the "piling up" all those Li-ion batteries in cellphones and notebook computers? Granted the battery in a hybrid is much bigger than a cellphone battery, but there are a few more cellphones than hybrids in the world.
Apple may believe that it can enter and dominate at least the "alternative" Windows browser market as it did the media player space. But this is an entirely new and unfamiliar world for Apple. Direct competition on a level-playing field that Apple doesn't control just isn't Apple's thing.
Safari on Windows will fail.
I didn't think that Apple was trying to get marketshare in the Windows browser world. Safari is there to provide a means for developing iPhone apps was my understanding.
Is Elgan trying to create some sort of fight that Apple isn't even trying to win, or am I mistaken?
A requirement to identify yourself (show ID or even give your name) does make it easier to track your vote. I'm sure you've left fingerprints or something on your vote, knowing where you voted and when is all it would take to find the box (and roughly the right depth within the box).
How is this related to requiring a picture ID to vote? Whether I show my ID or not, my fingerprints are on the ballot. I still have to identify myself to the poll worker, even if it only stating my name.
And I think digging through a stack of ballots looking for a particular one with my fingerprints is stretching the realm of possibility; not that it is impossible, but really grasping for a scenario.
Now if we could just get mandatory picture IDs for voting, we'd eliminate nearly all of the election rigging.
While I won't comment on the idea that it will help prevent rigged elections, I will comment on the ID requirement itself (even if it is off-topic).
It's a good idea.
The last time I voted, I told the poll worker who I was, he looked up my name on the voter rolls, and that was all it took to get a ballot and vote. There was no verification that I was whom I said I was--my word was all it took. I could very easily have voted under somebody else's name, but this would not have been noticed. Worse (from my perspective), somebody else could have pretended to be me and voted under my name--when I get to the polls, I'd be told "sorry, you already voted."
Some argue that requiring a picture ID would disenfranchise the poor, as they tend to argue that they can't afford to get a state-issues picture ID, either in terms of the time or financial cost. They can't afford to get the ID, they say, because they are on welfare and don't have the money or means to get the ID.
If you are on welfare, at some point you had to prove your identity to get the benefits. If you can make it to the welfare office and prove your identity to get (and renew) your welfare benefits, you can do the same to vote. The polling places tend to cover small precincts, well withing walking distance of the homes they cover. The polls around here are open from 6:30 am to 8:00 pm, so there is PLENTY of time to vote. It wouldn't surprise me if those who use the ID excuse for not voting would STILL not vote even if no ID was required. It strikes me as "bitching about the system to bitch about the system."
A picture ID DOES NOT TIE YOUR IDENTITY TO YOUR VOTE. A picture identity CONFIRMS YOUR ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE. I am yet to hear a privacy argument that can convince me otherwise.
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It would be interesting to see the annual cost difference in electricity for a laptop vs. desktop, to see if that cost imbalance outweighs the cost of a battery.
I think you may have confused "published papers" with "paperwork." The drought being discussed by the poster refers to published, peer-reviewed scientific papers, not the reams of bureaucratic-red-tape paperwork that one goes through to apply for funding.
I associate "paperwork" with the latter, but perhaps you meant the former.
Where have I seen this before?
Toss in a Jehovah's Witness, and you can spread the annoyance around to all!
You do have to give the iPhone credit though...Assuming that the screen was really on, the screen stays on through a pretty severe first few beatings--the bezel is bent and coming off, but you can still see the screen glowing (very) briefly after that.
From what I have observed, visual voice mail works by downloading a copy of the voicemail message to your iPhone, which then pairs up the caller ID phone number to your address book. When you play the message, it plays locally (I put my iPhone in "Airplane mode" to check this; wireless was unavailable but I could still play old messages) instead of over the wireless network.
There could be an app written that, upon notification of a waiting voicemail message, would automatically call your voicemail number, send the password after waiting for some cue, record the messages, and hang up (like an automatic logon script). The calling number would be parsed via voice recognition (since the numbers are read back by a computerized voice), as would the end of the message.
If handhelds can support voice dialing, they should have the horsepower to parse a computerized voice instead of a natural human voice (since it's a computer, it says the numbers the exact same every time).
What do you think...make sense?
BTW, where in the article was this 4 MW number? I looked several times and couldn't find it.
(I'm not questioning your use of 4 MW; I used it myself. I just can't find the source.)
You shoot them if they try to LEAVE the building...if you shoot them before they get in, they can't do any work.
Instead, you extract as much energy as you can, while keeping the steam hot enough at the final turbine outlet pressure to prevent the phase change. In fact, most of the energy put into the steam (in some cases 75%) is removed AFTER the steam goes through the turbine, by way of the condensers.
At no point did I say that it was OK to trash the planet with hybrid batteries sine we already do it with cellphone batteries. My point was that if we can recycle cellphone batteries, we can recycle hybrid batteries. If you're concerned about hybrid batteries piling up, you should ALSO be concerned with notebook batteries piling up as well.
Did anybody else get the image of a 80's-era arcade videogame chassis flying out the front door of the Capitol?
I didn't think that Apple was trying to get marketshare in the Windows browser world. Safari is there to provide a means for developing iPhone apps was my understanding.
Is Elgan trying to create some sort of fight that Apple isn't even trying to win, or am I mistaken?
And I think digging through a stack of ballots looking for a particular one with my fingerprints is stretching the realm of possibility; not that it is impossible, but really grasping for a scenario.
Mort has a case of road rage The relevant part starts about halfway through the clip.
Background: 'Mort Snotlocker' had both legs amputated some time ago (true story...he really did)
Now when the RIAA sues you for "an arm and a leg," they won't be kidding!
It's a good idea.
The last time I voted, I told the poll worker who I was, he looked up my name on the voter rolls, and that was all it took to get a ballot and vote. There was no verification that I was whom I said I was--my word was all it took. I could very easily have voted under somebody else's name, but this would not have been noticed. Worse (from my perspective), somebody else could have pretended to be me and voted under my name--when I get to the polls, I'd be told "sorry, you already voted."
Some argue that requiring a picture ID would disenfranchise the poor, as they tend to argue that they can't afford to get a state-issues picture ID, either in terms of the time or financial cost. They can't afford to get the ID, they say, because they are on welfare and don't have the money or means to get the ID.
If you are on welfare, at some point you had to prove your identity to get the benefits. If you can make it to the welfare office and prove your identity to get (and renew) your welfare benefits, you can do the same to vote. The polling places tend to cover small precincts, well withing walking distance of the homes they cover. The polls around here are open from 6:30 am to 8:00 pm, so there is PLENTY of time to vote. It wouldn't surprise me if those who use the ID excuse for not voting would STILL not vote even if no ID was required. It strikes me as "bitching about the system to bitch about the system."
A picture ID DOES NOT TIE YOUR IDENTITY TO YOUR VOTE. A picture identity CONFIRMS YOUR ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE. I am yet to hear a privacy argument that can convince me otherwise.
Duplicating a story from two different sources is like a pair...would a dupe linking the same article be like a pair of the same suit?
Best I can think of at the moment is that you don't want foam breaking off in the fuel and clogging fuel lines.