Traditionaly yes, but with free stuff, you get what someone else paid for. If they paid a lot, you'll get good stuff. However people who pay a lot to make something will usually want to get their investment back.
Now software came along with people who had ideas for the greater good. People donated their time and skill for this noble goal. What do we get, in some cases quality stuff for free and in other cases junk. With normal stuff you can actually hold in your hand, I agree that you get what you pay for, or someone scammed you.
The other posters bring up some nice points, but there is also the. "How big of a potential explosion do we dare put in our customers laps?" Batteries contain a lot of energy that has the potential to be released very fast. People seldom think of them this way because in their experience batteries are safe, and they seldom blow up in movies. Where is the limit, when you will no longer be allowed to bring your laptop on the airplane because the battery is regarded as a potential bomb?
And there is also the "hmm gotta scale these building blocks down so I can fit more of them in there" processor building vs the "Hmm this porrige of chemicals have nice properties for a battery, now if I could just figure out how to reproduce in large scale production" battery building.
Firefox is normally fast, but for an ad heavy page it just slows dooown. Using the scroll wheel feels like having a 2000ms ping, so I always use the sidebar scroll to look further down on such a page.
The old URL menu thing has the same lag when opening it. Sometimes pressing escape helps for the URL thingy. However I have started to just make a new tab and close the one I am in when that happens.
Perhaps I should just look into adblock again. Now that I think about it, browsing slows down a lot when the browser insists on loading stuff from an ad server before loading the page content.
HOLY SHIT you are gay. I enjoy a bit of geek humor now and then but this is over the top. Lemme guess, you're reading "Learn XML in 24 Hours" and just had to showoff your l337 skills?
I'm sure someone at your local hospital will be happy to remove that stick from your ass.
It's amazing what people will say behind the cover of AC. Isn't it about time the ability to post as AC is removed?
It looks like copy-protection on music CDs (and quite possibly movie DVDs too) might be outlawed in Sweden.
The minister of justice threatened to make it illegal to sell music with copy protection that prevented making copies for personal use, such as CDs for your car or MP3s for your MP3 player.
Oh no, no time travel, there will be fish in my pond and I don't like fish.
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He might've just shorted the battery, which could also cause it to explode.
There are 3 common ways for LiIon batteries to explode.
1. Short circut. 2. Overcharging. 3. Physical.
As explosions is a way to ask for being sued, most manufacturers have short circut tests as part of manufacturing. Charge regulators are also put into the casing of the battery or in the appliance (Ipod, cellphone etc). Just to make sure no law suits come from 1. and 2.
The only thing they can't protect themselves from is physical abuse on the battery itself. Like screwdriver through it.
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Thanks, I'm well aware of that.
I was thinking of the game genre as a whole. When 3d became standard it pretty much disappeared.
I miss the good old adventure games. Monkey island etc. :(
In the end, don't you get what you pay for?
Traditionaly yes, but with free stuff, you get what someone else paid for. If they paid a lot, you'll get good stuff.
However people who pay a lot to make something will usually want to get their investment back.
Now software came along with people who had ideas for the greater good. People donated their time and skill for this noble goal. What do we get, in some cases quality stuff for free and in other cases junk.
With normal stuff you can actually hold in your hand, I agree that you get what you pay for, or someone scammed you.
The other posters bring up some nice points, but there is also the.
"How big of a potential explosion do we dare put in our customers laps?"
Batteries contain a lot of energy that has the potential to be released very fast. People seldom think of them this way because in their experience batteries are safe, and they seldom blow up in movies.
Where is the limit, when you will no longer be allowed to bring your laptop on the airplane because the battery is regarded as a potential bomb?
And there is also the "hmm gotta scale these building blocks down so I can fit more of them in there" processor building vs the "Hmm this porrige of chemicals have nice properties for a battery, now if I could just figure out how to reproduce in large scale production" battery building.
Hmm I wonder if DOOMs code is out and about. I also wonder how fast that would be or was ported to a pacemaker.
They'll be on ebay within the week.
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:jOa4kVFUd4oJ:w ww.threegutrecords.com/+three&hl=en
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(random google hit page)
Oh come on! Which supercomputer with an grain of sanity would include Windows?
The quest for the holy grail seems lost to the new generation of geeks. Our only hope is for an african swallow to bring them a copy.
Ni!
You haven't heard of GTA: Tehran eh?
I believe it's those flash ads.
Firefox is normally fast, but for an ad heavy page it just slows dooown. Using the scroll wheel feels like having a 2000ms ping, so I always use the sidebar scroll to look further down on such a page.
The old URL menu thing has the same lag when opening it. Sometimes pressing escape helps for the URL thingy. However I have started to just make a new tab and close the one I am in when that happens.
Perhaps I should just look into adblock again. Now that I think about it, browsing slows down a lot when the browser insists on loading stuff from an ad server before loading the page content.
wtf.."You failed to confirm you're a human.."
Seems the Revenge of the Nerds got to you too. The removal of your human rights has been confirmed.
Welcome to Nerdtopia!
Nokia probably has Software Patents in the US.
Not so much pushing for software patents. Probably just playing the game by the rules the US has.
HOLY SHIT you are gay. I enjoy a bit of geek humor now and then but this is over the top. Lemme guess, you're reading "Learn XML in 24 Hours" and just had to showoff your l337 skills?
I'm sure someone at your local hospital will be happy to remove that stick from your ass.
It's amazing what people will say behind the cover of AC.
Isn't it about time the ability to post as AC is removed?
These viruses wheren't very contageous though. If you got them it was pretty much your own fault for running that file.
Now, we have selfreplicating viruses that infect lots and lots of computers.
Combine the 2. Lets say it spreads itself for a certain time period (an hour - a day) and then messes things up.
Now we have a problem, that is more than an annoyance.
It looks like copy-protection on music CDs (and quite possibly movie DVDs too) might be outlawed in Sweden.
The minister of justice threatened to make it illegal to sell music with copy protection that prevented making copies for personal use, such as CDs for your car or MP3s for your MP3 player.
I'll be watching this development with interest.
Perhaps I should submit this as a story...
But it will soon be.
Welcome ot Hack(andSlash)atron 2005 suckers! MWAHAHAHHA
-Bill
Haha, good one.
What would it work on?
Oh no, no time travel, there will be fish in my pond and I don't like fish.
He might've just shorted the battery, which could also cause it to explode.
There are 3 common ways for LiIon batteries to explode.
1. Short circut.
2. Overcharging.
3. Physical.
As explosions is a way to ask for being sued, most manufacturers have short circut tests as part of manufacturing. Charge regulators are also put into the casing of the battery or in the appliance (Ipod, cellphone etc). Just to make sure no law suits come from 1. and 2.
The only thing they can't protect themselves from is physical abuse on the battery itself. Like screwdriver through it.
but... What if there is no spoon?
It also says right there on the page that updates are not included.
It would be both, until the computer asks "is it one or zero" then it returns one or zero. The return value would never be both.