it gets hot, and might asplode or catch fire. It just hasn't kept up adequately. We've had plenty of battery problems and recall stories from the last few years as proof of that.
Got any evidence that the failures have actually increased? Perhaps companies are just more cautious about recalls now, after having been burned by some really catastrophic failures in the late 90s and early 2000s?
As someone who uses a lot of Lithium Ion/Polymer batteries for hobbies, my experience is that they've gotten a lot more reliable in the last 5 years.
And look at all this constant kvetching about battery life on laptops and so on. Geez, what a freekin non problem theoretically. If people could be content to carry the same weight they did just a few years ago,
Wait, what? A few years ago, your laptop was still using a Lithium Ion battery. They've been used in laptops for, what, over 15 years now? To go back to non-lithium technology, you'd need to go back a lot further than "a few years."
oh the horrors, they could have *bigger and longer lasting and safer batteries*,
This makes no sense. A larger battery (of the same technology) is more hazardous, as there is more fuel for the fire.
Besides, smaller device like the iPhone tend to use Lithium Polymer batteries, which are widely considered a safer derivative of the technology than regular Lithium Ion. I also think you''l find the catastrophic battery failure rates of earlier, bulkier Lithium Ions in laptops was much higher than the rate of failure of today's smaller ones.
Basically, I can't see any merit to your arguments. And if you think it's about "girly muscles" then you're deluding yourself. If you had to have a larger, heavier laptop, which would you rather use the space for - a bulkier battery that doesn't improve performance, or extra CPU cores and more powerful graphics? I know what I'd choose.
There could be some rather humorous ads along these lines showing the victim of the teeniest gadget walking around on fire and all charred all the time, just so he can stupidly brag how cool his new.5 ounce and 1/64th inch thick iXploder is...
That would be some pretty dishonest marketing, as we haven't actually seen any verified reports of that happening.
Now tell me how much different what I said and what he told a woman talking about her 105 year old mother getting a fucking pacemaker 5 years ago.
The difference is that surgery often isn't a "lifesaving procedure" and can often cause complications or death. So, there are many cases where it might be better not to opt for surgery.
You'd have to be pretty ignorant to not understand that, and instead think it's about killing people for cost savings.
God you're full of shit. Just take words completely out of context and twist them to mean something they don't. Talk about ignoring his words, you actually put words in his mouth. He doesn't say anything about "instead of a life-saving treatment" - you just made that up.
In any case, policy is not based on Obama's comments, it is based on legislation, and the proposed legislation has nothing like "death panels" or this other bullshit you propagandist liars go on about.
There's pretty strong objection to having government-only health insurance, because it will end up sucking and no one will want to use it.
Nobody (not even Obama or Hillary Clinton) is suggesting government-only healthcare, so I'm not sure what your point is. The healthcare proposals are about a hybrid system.
As for your Obama comment, do you deny end of life counseling in the two health bills floating around Washington?
What the hell? End of life counseling has been around in health care for a long time, and was supported by the Bush administration. But it has nothing to do with killing your grandmother or letting people who are "too expensive to treat" die. It also doesn't mention "death panels."
Us, yes, but most people aren't like us. That's why I'm valuable to my employer; I'm able to figure out better ways of doing things on a computer.
Which is a failure of rote education. There's nothing particularly special about being able to understand a computer or use reasoning. Everybody should be able to do this. That's the point.
Isn't that a rather wasteful solution? It requires twice the amount of raw materials and energy expenditure to manufacture, let alone the annoyance of having two machines to maintain when one would do the job just fine.
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Your cerebral cortex is something like a big pile of unwound yo-yos
WTF? Why don't they just say "the brain is a big pile of neurons and axons"? It would be more helpful than this bizarre analogy.
Also the battery in a typical laptop (even a typical phone) is an easily replacable part.
That's not going to help you when, in the process of destroying itself, the battery damages the device it is installed in.
it gets hot, and might asplode or catch fire. It just hasn't kept up adequately. We've had plenty of battery problems and recall stories from the last few years as proof of that.
Got any evidence that the failures have actually increased? Perhaps companies are just more cautious about recalls now, after having been burned by some really catastrophic failures in the late 90s and early 2000s?
As someone who uses a lot of Lithium Ion/Polymer batteries for hobbies, my experience is that they've gotten a lot more reliable in the last 5 years.
And look at all this constant kvetching about battery life on laptops and so on. Geez, what a freekin non problem theoretically. If people could be content to carry the same weight they did just a few years ago,
Wait, what? A few years ago, your laptop was still using a Lithium Ion battery. They've been used in laptops for, what, over 15 years now? To go back to non-lithium technology, you'd need to go back a lot further than "a few years."
oh the horrors, they could have *bigger and longer lasting and safer batteries*,
This makes no sense. A larger battery (of the same technology) is more hazardous, as there is more fuel for the fire.
Besides, smaller device like the iPhone tend to use Lithium Polymer batteries, which are widely considered a safer derivative of the technology than regular Lithium Ion. I also think you''l find the catastrophic battery failure rates of earlier, bulkier Lithium Ions in laptops was much higher than the rate of failure of today's smaller ones.
Basically, I can't see any merit to your arguments. And if you think it's about "girly muscles" then you're deluding yourself. If you had to have a larger, heavier laptop, which would you rather use the space for - a bulkier battery that doesn't improve performance, or extra CPU cores and more powerful graphics? I know what I'd choose.
There could be some rather humorous ads along these lines showing the victim of the teeniest gadget walking around on fire and all charred all the time, just so he can stupidly brag how cool his new .5 ounce and 1/64th inch thick iXploder is...
That would be some pretty dishonest marketing, as we haven't actually seen any verified reports of that happening.
Who would want to visit an astronaut's nether regions,
Because we've reached the limit of what anal probing can teach us.
How are you supposed to burn embassies on the moon? Bring your own oxygen?
But it was life savings in this instance and Obama said take a pain pill and die. Fuck, how much clearer does it need to get.
No, Obama did not say that. You're perfectly clear - you're just a bald-faced liar.
I think it would have looked a lot like the vitriol and outrage that's going on right now.
Something tells me that is the emergency that this bill is intended for.
And something tells me you are a few peanuts short of a bushel...
That's because the author is a communist sympathizer, and we all know that the internet is a leftist conspiracy invented by Lenin.
Do not shed a tear out of sadness, but rather out of glory for renewing the meaning of being "free".
Trust me, these aren't tears of sadness, they're tears of thigh-slapping hilarity.
Now tell me how much different what I said and what he told a woman talking about her 105 year old mother getting a fucking pacemaker 5 years ago.
The difference is that surgery often isn't a "lifesaving procedure" and can often cause complications or death. So, there are many cases where it might be better not to opt for surgery.
You'd have to be pretty ignorant to not understand that, and instead think it's about killing people for cost savings.
As for as seeing this person's medical history, that's the entire fucking point, you should not be telling people to live or die.
But nobody is telling people to live or die, "end of life counselling" is about people making their own decisions, you ignorant dipshit.
God you're full of shit. Just take words completely out of context and twist them to mean something they don't. Talk about ignoring his words, you actually put words in his mouth. He doesn't say anything about "instead of a life-saving treatment" - you just made that up.
In any case, policy is not based on Obama's comments, it is based on legislation, and the proposed legislation has nothing like "death panels" or this other bullshit you propagandist liars go on about.
Hehehehe... you said Prolog...
There's pretty strong objection to having government-only health insurance, because it will end up sucking and no one will want to use it.
Nobody (not even Obama or Hillary Clinton) is suggesting government-only healthcare, so I'm not sure what your point is. The healthcare proposals are about a hybrid system.
As for your Obama comment, do you deny end of life counseling in the two health bills floating around Washington?
What the hell? End of life counseling has been around in health care for a long time, and was supported by the Bush administration. But it has nothing to do with killing your grandmother or letting people who are "too expensive to treat" die. It also doesn't mention "death panels."
Probably the fact that the iTunes store is the only viable well-known way known to the average person to get music on the mp3 player legally.
What are you talking about? Amazon is a very high-profile company, and has an MP3 store that can be used with almost any player, including the iPod.
Apple is the only company selling a portable MP3 player that can play music that you bought on iTunes.
What are you talking about? Any music player or computer that supports AAC (an industry standard) can play music purchased through the iTunes Store.
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I migrated an old PPC Mac to a new Intel one just the other day with Migration Assistant. Worked just fine.
Why are you so down on white people? You could at least call them "honkeys" as it has a more lyrical sound.
According to the FSF's site, "This page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Ahem.
Is Computerworld confused?
Is that a serious question? When has Computerworld ever been unconfused?
Us, yes, but most people aren't like us. That's why I'm valuable to my employer; I'm able to figure out better ways of doing things on a computer.
Which is a failure of rote education. There's nothing particularly special about being able to understand a computer or use reasoning. Everybody should be able to do this. That's the point.
Isn't that a rather wasteful solution? It requires twice the amount of raw materials and energy expenditure to manufacture, let alone the annoyance of having two machines to maintain when one would do the job just fine.
No, it wasn't. "Climate Change" may have been used politically by Republicans, but it was not coined by them.