Isotopes are stable atom configurations which have an electically neutral charge, differing only in the number of neutrons.
Ions, on the gripping hand, are chemically excited atoms which have gained or lost valence electrons (according to their electronegativity) and become reactive.
This is, in fact, what makes Li+ ions useful for battery cells in the first place. Whether alkaline, NiCad , NiMH, or LiIon, chemical batteries all work on the principle that the sustained chemical reaction will produce a useful amount of electricity.
When we "recharge" our batteries, we simply apply current to the battery in such a way as to reverse the chemical reaction.
What they've done is introduced stabilizers to retard the rate of reaction, so that rather than exploding upon atmospheric exposure, the battery solution simply gets warm.
Netscape is the grandfather of Firefox, not the bastard child. Netscape begat Mozilla (when their business model went belly-up), and Mozilla begat Firefox. If anything, Netscape is more like an delinquent older brother who's taken up with a slut.
Personally, I think Titanic was a better movie by far than Terminator.... puzzling the negative press it gets here... probably lots here didn't even see it.
Most of the agony of watching Titanic had nothing to do with Cameron's treatment of the story. Rather, most of the people I've talked to disliked the movie because of the male and female leads. Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are probably on the list of Top Ten Actors/.ers Most Love to Hate. Being possessed of room-temperature IQ's (celsius, not farenheit) and a general lack of emotive ability, they trade mostly on their good looks, which runs counter to the geek ethos - "Judge me by what I can do, not by how I look."
No car players? Tapedeck adaptors are quite cheap these days, and most of iRiver's line of portables will quite cheerfully play OGG-Vorbis. It might not be as pretty as an in-dash solution, but it's quite a bit cheaper, and you can take it with you when you step out of the car.
So, in other words, the seller has to deal with competition. Pardon me if I seem ignorant, but isn't that the cornerstone of supply and demand economics? Personally, I don't have much sympathy for an industry that inflates the prices of its products to ridiculous levels, and then cries foul when the consumers refuse to pay.
If you are a business, selling a product, and the product doesn't sell as well, you don't sit there and whine and complain about it, you find ways to make it sell well again, or you move on to another product. Napster, KaZaA, et al. would not have become so popular if the average CD were sold at a price that more closely matched consumer expectation. I remember buying full-length albums on cassette for $10. This wasn't exactly cheap on a $5/week allowance, but I considered it a fair price for the amount of music I got. With most albums now retailing for a minimum of $15 for about 11-13 songs, most of them being repetetive filler, I no longer feel that I'm getting adequate value for my money.
The iTMS and similar are a nice idea, but the quality of these recordings is sadly lacking, and the licensing tangle required for any of these services to offer a decent selection makes it impossible to find all the music I want. So for now, I'm buying my music used, or obtaining it from alternative sources. The companies represented by the RIAA have indeed lost hundreds of potential revenue dollars coming from my bank account, but it's an entirely self-inflicted wound.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but your list of like-minded gamers is going to be pretty damn short. I know that there are people who just love the Tribes series to death, but for me the games lack that "pick up and play" factor that make games like Halo and UT2kwhatever so popular.
That being said,/. isn't a game review site, it's a news site. Halo 2 has been getting a lot of attention, because the XBox aficianados have been starved of decent new FPS's for a couple of years now. Tribes: Vengeance (which game I assume you are referring to by saying Tribes 3) hasn't been recieving much attention, because it's just one more entry in an already crowded field of multiplayer-oriented FPS's. Love it or hate it, the sheer number of similar games out on PC is going to make it that much harder for T:V to grab a scrap of the limelight.
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Omitting the ones that have been well-referenced by other posters:
More to come as I think of them.
I think you have your terms confused:
Isotopes are stable atom configurations which have an electically neutral charge, differing only in the number of neutrons.
Ions, on the gripping hand, are chemically excited atoms which have gained or lost valence electrons (according to their electronegativity) and become reactive.
This is, in fact, what makes Li+ ions useful for battery cells in the first place. Whether alkaline, NiCad , NiMH, or LiIon, chemical batteries all work on the principle that the sustained chemical reaction will produce a useful amount of electricity.
When we "recharge" our batteries, we simply apply current to the battery in such a way as to reverse the chemical reaction.
What they've done is introduced stabilizers to retard the rate of reaction, so that rather than exploding upon atmospheric exposure, the battery solution simply gets warm.
Not a bad analogy, except for one problem.
Netscape is the grandfather of Firefox, not the bastard child. Netscape begat Mozilla (when their business model went belly-up), and Mozilla begat Firefox. If anything, Netscape is more like an delinquent older brother who's taken up with a slut.
Personally, I think Titanic was a better movie by far than Terminator.... puzzling the negative press it gets here ... probably lots here didn't even see it.
Most of the agony of watching Titanic had nothing to do with Cameron's treatment of the story. Rather, most of the people I've talked to disliked the movie because of the male and female leads. Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are probably on the list of Top Ten Actors /.ers Most Love to Hate. Being possessed of room-temperature IQ's (celsius, not farenheit) and a general lack of emotive ability, they trade mostly on their good looks, which runs counter to the geek ethos - "Judge me by what I can do, not by how I look."
or, just insert a link to here http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
No car players? Tapedeck adaptors are quite cheap these days, and most of iRiver's line of portables will quite cheerfully play OGG-Vorbis. It might not be as pretty as an in-dash solution, but it's quite a bit cheaper, and you can take it with you when you step out of the car.
So, in other words, the seller has to deal with competition. Pardon me if I seem ignorant, but isn't that the cornerstone of supply and demand economics? Personally, I don't have much sympathy for an industry that inflates the prices of its products to ridiculous levels, and then cries foul when the consumers refuse to pay.
If you are a business, selling a product, and the product doesn't sell as well, you don't sit there and whine and complain about it, you find ways to make it sell well again, or you move on to another product. Napster, KaZaA, et al. would not have become so popular if the average CD were sold at a price that more closely matched consumer expectation. I remember buying full-length albums on cassette for $10. This wasn't exactly cheap on a $5/week allowance, but I considered it a fair price for the amount of music I got. With most albums now retailing for a minimum of $15 for about 11-13 songs, most of them being repetetive filler, I no longer feel that I'm getting adequate value for my money.
The iTMS and similar are a nice idea, but the quality of these recordings is sadly lacking, and the licensing tangle required for any of these services to offer a decent selection makes it impossible to find all the music I want. So for now, I'm buying my music used, or obtaining it from alternative sources. The companies represented by the RIAA have indeed lost hundreds of potential revenue dollars coming from my bank account, but it's an entirely self-inflicted wound.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but your list of like-minded gamers is going to be pretty damn short. I know that there are people who just love the Tribes series to death, but for me the games lack that "pick up and play" factor that make games like Halo and UT2kwhatever so popular.
That being said, /. isn't a game review site, it's a news site. Halo 2 has been getting a lot of attention, because the XBox aficianados have been starved of decent new FPS's for a couple of years now. Tribes: Vengeance (which game I assume you are referring to by saying Tribes 3) hasn't been recieving much attention, because it's just one more entry in an already crowded field of multiplayer-oriented FPS's. Love it or hate it, the sheer number of similar games out on PC is going to make it that much harder for T:V to grab a scrap of the limelight.
Please, please, use the Enter key once in a while. These huge blocks of text are killing me!