Qualitatively, yes, you do get that effect. (Albeit on a much smaller order of magnitude!) However with the typical usage of a lithium-ion battery, calendar life and cycling are going to completely wash out any differences you get from avoiding deep charge/discharge.
Actually the whole idea is that it is a profitable venture, one that's orders of magnitude cheaper than a conventional rail link over the same distance.
People who think sports are irrelevant to human culture have clearly never set foot in a museum. I'm about as involved in sports as I am in jewellery but you'd have to have a pretty substantial set of blinders on not to notice their presence in human affairs.
A lot of those queries were addressed in the their first conversations with the press. Look them up, there's some really good discussion.
BTW jets are overbooked because it's the best way to maximise the profit on a flight, not because of any underlying logistical issue. An unsold seat is a wasted fraction of a trip, so they overbook to ensure that even if an unusually large number of passengers cancel, the flight will still be full. It'd take only a few extra planes in the air to provide everyone a seat, but that's not an option in the low margins business.
Yes, because the author insisted that it was the definitive study on how all Macbook batteries behave, so we've got to hold him to that standard. I'll go further: this cad didn't even have this published in Physical Review Letters, much less Science or Nature. He didn't even get it peer reviewed, and... my God, there's no conflict of interest statement! Who was his ethics board?!
Sweet Jesus, I'll bet he isn't even working in a laboratory!
I guess what I'm saying is that there shouldn't be anything changing from the battery's perspective; the "multimeter" is always plugged in, as long as the computer's on. Unless the battery testing itself was driving up the power demands from the laptop, and thus drawing more current from the battery, it shouldn't make a difference.
Did they change anything in the graphics drivers with the OS update? I wonder if maybe hardware acceleration on video either got knocked offline or became really inefficient.
No modern li-ion battery will let you charge or discharge it far enough to cause actual damage. You can treat them however you like cycle-wise and you'll get about the same total lifespan out of them. Using the battery and how long has passed since manufacture are by far the limiting factors.
I don't think so. State-of-health measurement can be a subtle art but it all comes down to measuring the cell's voltage and resistance over time*, which at the end of the day you're getting for free when the battery is in use.
*Looking for voltage sag, rising internal resistance, or simply less area under the curve.
You could reasonably suppose that all of the other solar system bodies behave according to as-yet-unknown laws that differ from our Earthly laws of motion yet conveniently provide exactly the same results. However to make that supposition would violate the rule of parsimony. Similarly it would violate the rule of parsimony to assume that other human beings happen to behave in exactly the same ways that we do, but lack the underlying internal drives.
A parsimonious assumption consistent with the available data is a reasonable assumption and, in almost all fields of knowledge, an entirely necessary one.
Well, exactly, and this research really doesn't have anything to do with that except that you could wire someone up to it and log if they "woke up" at any point.
It also implies an explanation for why loss of consciousness (e.g. sleep) is reversible: the modules are still active and performing their usual roles sufficiently to reinforce the associated neural connections, they're just not integrated.
I'd love to know more about that article but you've misremembered the name, Walking Corpse Syndrome is where a living person is convinced they are deceased. So I'm getting nowhere with Google.
No, it really is about more than the brain being healthy, but it's not about sapience or intelligence. For example, it can distinguish between consciousness and unconsciousness (e.g. sleep, general aneasthesia) in perfectly healthy connected subject. In "locked-in" patients it can do the same: the conscious state is independent of whatever other capabilities of the brain may be out of commission.
First, consciousness is not sapience. This result has nothing to do with self-awareness or intellect. I suspect that a conscious dog in the device would probably rate about the same as a conscious, healthy human being but that study literally hasn't been done.
Secondly, if you honestly believe that an abstract philosophical stance on the ethics of infanticide is an actual point of policy or ethics in the general population, you really need to stop taking your ethics tuition from the Telegraph.
If nobody's handed them an easy-to-use conceptual tool to measure consciousness, what makes you think they'd wind up being handed a physical tool to do the same?
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Qualitatively, yes, you do get that effect. (Albeit on a much smaller order of magnitude!) However with the typical usage of a lithium-ion battery, calendar life and cycling are going to completely wash out any differences you get from avoiding deep charge/discharge.
You'd have to bypass the management system to get it to overdischarge in the first place.
Oh yeah, if you're using bare cells and building your own charging circuit you're on your own.
I think the throttling is a lot smaller than that.
Actually the whole idea is that it is a profitable venture, one that's orders of magnitude cheaper than a conventional rail link over the same distance.
Popular Mechanics is a different magazine, although they're of a similar vintage. You might enjoy:
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Popular_Science.html?id=Ok8XtrhowscC&redir_esc=y
According to their previous comments, it banks during turns so the acceleration felt during cornering is always downwards.
People who think sports are irrelevant to human culture have clearly never set foot in a museum. I'm about as involved in sports as I am in jewellery but you'd have to have a pretty substantial set of blinders on not to notice their presence in human affairs.
A lot of those queries were addressed in the their first conversations with the press. Look them up, there's some really good discussion.
BTW jets are overbooked because it's the best way to maximise the profit on a flight, not because of any underlying logistical issue. An unsold seat is a wasted fraction of a trip, so they overbook to ensure that even if an unusually large number of passengers cancel, the flight will still be full. It'd take only a few extra planes in the air to provide everyone a seat, but that's not an option in the low margins business.
A lot of laptops do this, apparently. The battery picks up the slack when it's drawing especially large currents.
Yes, because the author insisted that it was the definitive study on how all Macbook batteries behave, so we've got to hold him to that standard. I'll go further: this cad didn't even have this published in Physical Review Letters, much less Science or Nature. He didn't even get it peer reviewed, and... my God, there's no conflict of interest statement! Who was his ethics board?!
Sweet Jesus, I'll bet he isn't even working in a laboratory!
I guess what I'm saying is that there shouldn't be anything changing from the battery's perspective; the "multimeter" is always plugged in, as long as the computer's on. Unless the battery testing itself was driving up the power demands from the laptop, and thus drawing more current from the battery, it shouldn't make a difference.
Apple get the same batteries from the same places everyone else does. They're as fungible as AAs at this point.
Did they change anything in the graphics drivers with the OS update? I wonder if maybe hardware acceleration on video either got knocked offline or became really inefficient.
No modern li-ion battery will let you charge or discharge it far enough to cause actual damage. You can treat them however you like cycle-wise and you'll get about the same total lifespan out of them. Using the battery and how long has passed since manufacture are by far the limiting factors.
I don't think so. State-of-health measurement can be a subtle art but it all comes down to measuring the cell's voltage and resistance over time*, which at the end of the day you're getting for free when the battery is in use.
*Looking for voltage sag, rising internal resistance, or simply less area under the curve.
You could reasonably suppose that all of the other solar system bodies behave according to as-yet-unknown laws that differ from our Earthly laws of motion yet conveniently provide exactly the same results. However to make that supposition would violate the rule of parsimony. Similarly it would violate the rule of parsimony to assume that other human beings happen to behave in exactly the same ways that we do, but lack the underlying internal drives.
A parsimonious assumption consistent with the available data is a reasonable assumption and, in almost all fields of knowledge, an entirely necessary one.
I kind of hoped that it'd be more in the spirit of the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHaCzb3yYk
Well, exactly, and this research really doesn't have anything to do with that except that you could wire someone up to it and log if they "woke up" at any point.
It also implies an explanation for why loss of consciousness (e.g. sleep) is reversible: the modules are still active and performing their usual roles sufficiently to reinforce the associated neural connections, they're just not integrated.
I'd love to know more about that article but you've misremembered the name, Walking Corpse Syndrome is where a living person is convinced they are deceased. So I'm getting nowhere with Google.
I'm not writing down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now.
No, it really is about more than the brain being healthy, but it's not about sapience or intelligence. For example, it can distinguish between consciousness and unconsciousness (e.g. sleep, general aneasthesia) in perfectly healthy connected subject. In "locked-in" patients it can do the same: the conscious state is independent of whatever other capabilities of the brain may be out of commission.
First, consciousness is not sapience. This result has nothing to do with self-awareness or intellect. I suspect that a conscious dog in the device would probably rate about the same as a conscious, healthy human being but that study literally hasn't been done.
Secondly, if you honestly believe that an abstract philosophical stance on the ethics of infanticide is an actual point of policy or ethics in the general population, you really need to stop taking your ethics tuition from the Telegraph.
If nobody's handed them an easy-to-use conceptual tool to measure consciousness, what makes you think they'd wind up being handed a physical tool to do the same?