Uh.. the battery you showed us looks like it has about a half inch of plastic all the way around, except the "bottom" (top in picture).
You can't just count the battery case here. The socket is equally important.
Surfaces covered by shells are always tricky, and the shell almost always occupies more volume than you would think just by looking, and you were only looking at *half* the shell.
Not to mention that the battery you showed us almost certainly is filled with roughly AA size & shape generic cells, further reducing the actually used volume due to packing efficiency.
If they handled things properly, by reducing the price of "last year's iPod" in the 1-2 months leading up to the update, and then introducing "next year's iPod" at a higher price for a couple months, the whole thing would work itself out:
People with an older model would feel good because they got a deal, and people with the new model would feel good because the got it before everyone else.
Their policy of "don't change anything, not even the price" for the whole life of an electronic product (when that shelf life can be almost two years.. Mac Mini..) is.. kind of annoying. It's like they aren't interested in people who are at all concerned with value.
Charge a premium.. fine. Charge the same price for an entire moore cycle? Wha??
But.. Complain though I might.. people still pay that price!
Also, to a lesser extent (but more important to me...), the iMac.
They don't even have to* upgrade the specs. They could just update the price.
*yes, I know they don't "have to." That doesn't change the fact that when they do finally update to hardware that more closely mateches their asking price, I won't be in the market any more, having already purchased a PC and laptop with better specs and combined $100 less than the entry iMac.
Oh Apple. If only your smooth integration didn't cost $800 (more than $400 hardware that is equivalent, except for 30% faster and 300% more RAM, 300% more video RAM, 25% more last-level-cache, and 30% more hard disk space).
They're not subsidizing it. They're buying us out: They wanted to free up those frequencies for more profitable use, but since that represents a loss of utliity for some stakeholders, they are compensating that loss with rebate coupons. It is, or ought to be if they do it right, just enough.
You wouldnt believe how many characters croak; and while it's done tough-in-cheek, it also manages to be full of suspense. I dont recall seeing this kind of "body count" in any other series
Scrubs. But Zach Braff would make a terrible Doctor.
What are you willing to give up to get those lower emissions? Home heat? Home size? Electronic toys? Books? Food? Jewelery? Pharmaceuticals? Medical equipment? Documentaries? Blockbuster films? 80% of your neighbors?
All of those things, and more will still exist under a reduced-carbon world, but the pricing is going to force some serious decision making.
I'm glad you're talking about cost, because these things, no matter how you go about it, really do have to be considered holistically.
Oh, the battery bank is actually more useful than that. It's much better to run the engine at full power and charge the batteries than it would be to try to throttle back the engine to produce just-what-you-need at the time.
Sure, you see some gens advertized that you can throttle back the fuel consumption by 40%, but how far does this throttle down the electric production. It's not 1:1.
Showing off your clever sandbox creations. It's like a frustratingly simplified, slow version of lightwave hybridized with robocode and placed in a 3d chat environment.
I would say it's quite an improvement over robocode, though.
"HTML compresses really well in case they didn't know"
That's a good point. Why aren't websites/browsers taking the openoffice approach and sending some kind of zhtml files./. discussions could really benefit, and sites could package up most of the common elements into a single cache-populating download.
If you pump or slam your foot hard enough, it'll overload the abs and lock anyway. This is regarded as a bug or a feature depending on who you talk to.
I'm not convinced you'd have stopped in your circumstance, though. I've driven in slush, and even on level terrain, once you slip, you slide a lot.
Please explain how it ought to be more efficient by being a sine wave?
I can think of a few ways to generate a pure sine wave efficiently, but none are *more* efficient than a square wave or look-up table step wave (if you have two or more DC inputs or decent DC-DC conversion).
In fact, it looks to me like the hondas *are* using a step wave, just with more steps than the cheapo inverter type which I said to avoid on account of it's low sample rate.
Just because you've done what I suggested and gotten one with a nice clean, monochromatic output doesn't mean that it was bad advice to suggest making sure you're getting the very thing you've got.
Movies. iPod touch is pretty much the ideal portable movie player: the screen is almost the size of the device, and thin enough to fit in your pocket. But a little bigger would be easier to watch, and/or could have more detail.
7" I think would be just about ideal, since it's not a phone, and therefore only has to be small enough to fit in a cargo pocket.
Paying local taxes is a consequence of keeping money in the local economy.
In order to avoid the taxes, companies are sending the money out of the local economy. Perversly, people seem to blame the companies for this and not the taxes.
It feeds it back through the transformer, fool. In the worst case, there's just enough resistance in the lines to cause your voltage to drop, but not enough to kill the generator. still, when it goes back through the step-down transformer, what comes out is more than enough voltage to kill a person.
Further, it happens a few times a year. As someone once said, the existence of something is undeniable proof of it's possibility.
And they're always cagey about the only important metric for mice wrt. gaming: dpi.
There are "high resolution mice" but they almost never say what the dpi is on the box, so you're stuck trolling Internet forums and review sites to even know what their resolution is higher than.
Those baseline MS and logitech opticals should run you about 9.99 -- 14.99 at your local office supply store. They're light, and most importantly, simple.
No crappy side-buttons to force you to handle the thing gingerly and give yourself a strain injury. What's good for gaming is not necessarily good for regular use.
Or for gaming. You've got the whole rest of the keyboard on your left hand. Do you really need two extra buttons on the mouse? Fire, scroll weapons, engage jump-pack. That's like three buttons. And jump should be on a different hand from jump-pack anyway, for timing reasons.
Make sure you get one that has a good inverter, though. The cheapos at the car shop use a 3-bit lookup table, which is good enough to run a ceiling fan. noisily. Probably possible to run a computer even.. if the PSU has good isolation.
but.. I doubt it's actually a good idea to run either.
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That's supposed to have been folded into the price of all new TVs for some time now.
Uh.. the battery you showed us looks like it has about a half inch of plastic all the way around, except the "bottom" (top in picture).
You can't just count the battery case here. The socket is equally important.
Surfaces covered by shells are always tricky, and the shell almost always occupies more volume than you would think just by looking, and you were only looking at *half* the shell.
Not to mention that the battery you showed us almost certainly is filled with roughly AA size & shape generic cells, further reducing the actually used volume due to packing efficiency.
If they handled things properly, by reducing the price of "last year's iPod" in the 1-2 months leading up to the update, and then introducing "next year's iPod" at a higher price for a couple months, the whole thing would work itself out:
People with an older model would feel good because they got a deal, and people with the new model would feel good because the got it before everyone else.
Their policy of "don't change anything, not even the price" for the whole life of an electronic product (when that shelf life can be almost two years.. Mac Mini..) is.. kind of annoying. It's like they aren't interested in people who are at all concerned with value.
Charge a premium.. fine. Charge the same price for an entire moore cycle? Wha??
But.. Complain though I might.. people still pay that price!
Also, to a lesser extent (but more important to me...), the iMac.
They don't even have to* upgrade the specs. They could just update the price.
*yes, I know they don't "have to." That doesn't change the fact that when they do finally update to hardware that more closely mateches their asking price, I won't be in the market any more, having already purchased a PC and laptop with better specs and combined $100 less than the entry iMac.
Oh Apple. If only your smooth integration didn't cost $800 (more than $400 hardware that is equivalent, except for 30% faster and 300% more RAM, 300% more video RAM, 25% more last-level-cache, and 30% more hard disk space).
You can buy a USB numpad (or wireless, even) for like $30 at Best Buy. Why is that your issue?
There is no such thing as lossless.
They're not subsidizing it. They're buying us out: They wanted to free up those frequencies for more profitable use, but since that represents a loss of utliity for some stakeholders, they are compensating that loss with rebate coupons. It is, or ought to be if they do it right, just enough.
Scrubs. But Zach Braff would make a terrible Doctor.
That depends on how you cut the CO2 emissions.
What are you willing to give up to get those lower emissions? Home heat? Home size? Electronic toys? Books? Food? Jewelery? Pharmaceuticals? Medical equipment? Documentaries? Blockbuster films? 80% of your neighbors?
All of those things, and more will still exist under a reduced-carbon world, but the pricing is going to force some serious decision making.
I'm glad you're talking about cost, because these things, no matter how you go about it, really do have to be considered holistically.
Oh, the battery bank is actually more useful than that. It's much better to run the engine at full power and charge the batteries than it would be to try to throttle back the engine to produce just-what-you-need at the time.
Sure, you see some gens advertized that you can throttle back the fuel consumption by 40%, but how far does this throttle down the electric production. It's not 1:1.
Showing off your clever sandbox creations. It's like a frustratingly simplified, slow version of lightwave hybridized with robocode and placed in a 3d chat environment.
I would say it's quite an improvement over robocode, though.
Wait.. I thought windows 7 WAS window vista; It was a trick to get some dumb model/actors to actually try it and say nice things on "hidden" camera.
"HTML compresses really well in case they didn't know"
That's a good point. Why aren't websites/browsers taking the openoffice approach and sending some kind of zhtml files. /. discussions could really benefit, and sites could package up most of the common elements into a single cache-populating download.
Just put an EULA on a bumper sticker.
"By approaching within 10*(speed/10mph)^2 feet of this notice, you agree to assume all responsibility for injury or damage involving either vehicle."
I'm curious: do the municipalities use your speed limits or do they take them as "recommendations" and put them wherever the hell they want to?
A lot of roads in my area, I'm convinced are pretty off, in both directions.
If you pump or slam your foot hard enough, it'll overload the abs and lock anyway. This is regarded as a bug or a feature depending on who you talk to.
I'm not convinced you'd have stopped in your circumstance, though. I've driven in slush, and even on level terrain, once you slip, you slide a lot.
Please explain how it ought to be more efficient by being a sine wave?
I can think of a few ways to generate a pure sine wave efficiently, but none are *more* efficient than a square wave or look-up table step wave (if you have two or more DC inputs or decent DC-DC conversion).
In fact, it looks to me like the hondas *are* using a step wave, just with more steps than the cheapo inverter type which I said to avoid on account of it's low sample rate.
Just because you've done what I suggested and gotten one with a nice clean, monochromatic output doesn't mean that it was bad advice to suggest making sure you're getting the very thing you've got.
Movies. iPod touch is pretty much the ideal portable movie player: the screen is almost the size of the device, and thin enough to fit in your pocket. But a little bigger would be easier to watch, and/or could have more detail.
7" I think would be just about ideal, since it's not a phone, and therefore only has to be small enough to fit in a cargo pocket.
Paying local taxes is a consequence of keeping money in the local economy.
In order to avoid the taxes, companies are sending the money out of the local economy. Perversly, people seem to blame the companies for this and not the taxes.
In order, the beneficiaries of class action lawsuits are:
The lawyers. -- the majority beneficiary. The lawyers from both sides are the only ones to actually receive noticeable returns
The companies -- the class action absolves them from any further liability for the thing being sued over.
The coffee shops -- where the lawyers meet to discuss strategies and flirt with comely baristas.
And.. that's it I guess. oh, if you're a member of the class, you might get a coupon for a free donut or $5 off your next purchase of $25 or more.
It feeds it back through the transformer, fool. In the worst case, there's just enough resistance in the lines to cause your voltage to drop, but not enough to kill the generator. still, when it goes back through the step-down transformer, what comes out is more than enough voltage to kill a person.
Further, it happens a few times a year. As someone once said, the existence of something is undeniable proof of it's possibility.
There is a downside for the mouse, though. The battery adds extra inertia, which adds a little resistance to all movements.
And they're always cagey about the only important metric for mice wrt. gaming: dpi.
There are "high resolution mice" but they almost never say what the dpi is on the box, so you're stuck trolling Internet forums and review sites to even know what their resolution is higher than.
Those baseline MS and logitech opticals should run you about 9.99 -- 14.99 at your local office supply store. They're light, and most importantly, simple.
No crappy side-buttons to force you to handle the thing gingerly and give yourself a strain injury. What's good for gaming is not necessarily good for regular use.
Or for gaming. You've got the whole rest of the keyboard on your left hand. Do you really need two extra buttons on the mouse? Fire, scroll weapons, engage jump-pack. That's like three buttons. And jump should be on a different hand from jump-pack anyway, for timing reasons.
Make sure you get one that has a good inverter, though. The cheapos at the car shop use a 3-bit lookup table, which is good enough to run a ceiling fan. noisily. Probably possible to run a computer even.. if the PSU has good isolation.
but.. I doubt it's actually a good idea to run either.