Kudos on the dongle comment, you hit the nail on the head. Maybe someone should release a shiny Linux distro which only runs on their hardware*, then it might really be the decade of Linux on the desktop.
But theoretically if you could control the battery temperature during charging/discharging the battery would last just as long it is not the charge cycle that causes the battery to degrade, which it does in other rechargables but other mechanisms which are specific to Li-ion. So in essance whilst it may appear to the lay person that charging damages the battery this is not the case the heating damages the battery.
The point being it's the heat and not the actual charge/discharge cycle (you shouldn't do full charge cycles in Li-ion batteries) that causes the degredation. As opposed to other types of rechargeable where the actual charge/discharge cycle damages the battery.
But the degredation of the batteries relates to the amount of charge in the battery and the temperature that it is kept at, not the number of charge cycles, and the batteries suffer permanent capacity loss even when not being used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery#Disadvantages_of_traditional_Li-ion_technology
It talks about how the battery not dependant on charge cycles will degrade over time.
"A unique drawback of the Li-ion battery is that its life span is dependent upon aging (shelf life). From time of manufacturing, regardless of whether it was charged or the number of charge/discharge cycles, the battery will decline slowly and predictably in capacity."
I do know what I'm talking about, I just couldn't be bothered to put in the details as it really isn't that hard to find yourself.
It was indeed a joke, an attempt at sarcasm, which the Brits have entirely failed to spot (I hang my head in shame, we're supposed to be better than the americans dammit).
Learn about Li-ion batteries and you will see why that comment is wrong. They don't have a number of 'charge cycles', unlike say NiMH or NiCd. They degrade based on time and charge level (you get the best out of the battery if you leave it in the fridge between 30-70% charged IIRC.) They also don't have charge memory, but you should really learn about different batteries and their characteristics.
Standard fuel over here is 95 octane, I believe it's more like 88-90 in the states, but the problem is that we use different scales also, making our number higher than yours for the same fuel. So there is some difference but it's not that much. What is more of a factor is tax, I'd guess overall in the EU about 50% of selling price of fuel is tax (in the UK it's something stupid like 65%), when your gallon of petrol (imperial) costs £5 ($10), compared with about $3.5 for a US gallon in the states or something like twice the cost you start getting more fuel efficient cars. That and everyone now drives a diesel, which can get much better mileage, think 65 mpg+ for a 1.4litre car.
No it's not. I chose to mix and match my styles, being British I wouldn't use the short form in that order being a dd/mm/yy kind of guy, except in computers where it should always be yyyymmdd (alphabetically sortable you see). Yes UNIX date format is also easily sortable, but it's not what I'd call readable. So the 'th' is deliberate and correct.
I like the awesome 404 error handler page not found (that'd be a 404 error on the 404 page not found page), oddly enough it's shown up when sites have been posted to here...
Actually DDR2 was not that much of an improvement in the early days, only when they got about 800MHz did it actually become 'faster'. DDR3 was meant to; although I don't know if it does; solve some of the problems which DDR2 brought in.
No there should be some formula which is applied and everytime, time meets those criteria a leep second should be added. Oh no wait, that is what happens. Leep seconds are added to keep UTC within 1 second of GMT, being that the sidereal day is not quite 24 hours exactly.
Because you can't write an algorithm to work this out (there isn't one becasue these things just vary randomly) you think it's bad. There are criteria and if you don't know them you obviously are too stupid to comment on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
Well your analogy is not quite accurate, becuase you fail to point out that the blanket does get longer and shorter throughout the year (I can't use this analogy any further)
But if you assume that you work 9-5, but if you only get 8 hours or sunlight during the winter, then it makes sense to have them 8-16 (equally spaced about noon).
But in the summer you have 16 hours of sunlight, so you might as well make them 5-21 so we're not all getting up at 4am when the sun would rise. You effectively feel like you get an extra hour of sunlight in the evening, yes you don't really but the numbers make it seem so.
It also reduces accidents in the winter, which having it dark in the morning does overall cause more accidents.
So the person being sued, requested money. Whereas in this case the person suing is requesting the money, I don't think the same applies (or at least it shouldn't, or what is to stop big corporations suing small ones and then demanding all their money before the court case).
No it won't. Given a perfect game, possible by doing every possible game, therefore knowing which moves will not lead to loss. The 5x5 board has a solution (well many obviously) it'll take quite a lot of work to scale up to the 19x19 board though.
Go has very few rules and a very large playing area; 371 possible opening moves. Starting with this large a number of possibilities gives rise to very very large numbers of possible games which until recently were not able to be handled fast enough by the hardware. Now we've got huge parallel systems these can be worked through much faster. One day there will be a solution to go (to never lose a game, perfect strategy) but it is still some way off.
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I've been using the Internet since 1993 on WfW...
Kudos on the dongle comment, you hit the nail on the head. Maybe someone should release a shiny Linux distro which only runs on their hardware*, then it might really be the decade of Linux on the desktop.
*yes I am aware this is a silly statement
But theoretically if you could control the battery temperature during charging/discharging the battery would last just as long it is not the charge cycle that causes the battery to degrade, which it does in other rechargables but other mechanisms which are specific to Li-ion. So in essance whilst it may appear to the lay person that charging damages the battery this is not the case the heating damages the battery.
The point being it's the heat and not the actual charge/discharge cycle (you shouldn't do full charge cycles in Li-ion batteries) that causes the degredation. As opposed to other types of rechargeable where the actual charge/discharge cycle damages the battery.
But the degredation of the batteries relates to the amount of charge in the battery and the temperature that it is kept at, not the number of charge cycles, and the batteries suffer permanent capacity loss even when not being used.
It works much better if you can actually hear/see the person, we need sarcasm punctuation...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery#Disadvantages_of_traditional_Li-ion_technology It talks about how the battery not dependant on charge cycles will degrade over time. "A unique drawback of the Li-ion battery is that its life span is dependent upon aging (shelf life). From time of manufacturing, regardless of whether it was charged or the number of charge/discharge cycles, the battery will decline slowly and predictably in capacity." I do know what I'm talking about, I just couldn't be bothered to put in the details as it really isn't that hard to find yourself.
It was indeed a joke, an attempt at sarcasm, which the Brits have entirely failed to spot (I hang my head in shame, we're supposed to be better than the americans dammit).
It was supposed to be sarcasm, which us brits are supposed to understand. I fully understand the meaning of the phrase.
Learn about Li-ion batteries and you will see why that comment is wrong. They don't have a number of 'charge cycles', unlike say NiMH or NiCd. They degrade based on time and charge level (you get the best out of the battery if you leave it in the fridge between 30-70% charged IIRC.) They also don't have charge memory, but you should really learn about different batteries and their characteristics.
I consider a pick axe a garden tool, and I'm sure I can remove the battery from an iPhone with one of those...
No that would really be .5 * 10^6 (it's half a million, not 5 hundred thousands.)
Standard fuel over here is 95 octane, I believe it's more like 88-90 in the states, but the problem is that we use different scales also, making our number higher than yours for the same fuel. So there is some difference but it's not that much. What is more of a factor is tax, I'd guess overall in the EU about 50% of selling price of fuel is tax (in the UK it's something stupid like 65%), when your gallon of petrol (imperial) costs £5 ($10), compared with about $3.5 for a US gallon in the states or something like twice the cost you start getting more fuel efficient cars. That and everyone now drives a diesel, which can get much better mileage, think 65 mpg+ for a 1.4litre car.
No it's not. I chose to mix and match my styles, being British I wouldn't use the short form in that order being a dd/mm/yy kind of guy, except in computers where it should always be yyyymmdd (alphabetically sortable you see). Yes UNIX date format is also easily sortable, but it's not what I'd call readable. So the 'th' is deliberate and correct.
The 'scientists' in CSI seem to have this kind of tech, I wonder where they shop...
12 noon, January 20th 2009.
I like the awesome 404 error handler page not found (that'd be a 404 error on the 404 page not found page), oddly enough it's shown up when sites have been posted to here...
Actually DDR2 was not that much of an improvement in the early days, only when they got about 800MHz did it actually become 'faster'. DDR3 was meant to; although I don't know if it does; solve some of the problems which DDR2 brought in.
No there should be some formula which is applied and everytime, time meets those criteria a leep second should be added. Oh no wait, that is what happens. Leep seconds are added to keep UTC within 1 second of GMT, being that the sidereal day is not quite 24 hours exactly.
Because you can't write an algorithm to work this out (there isn't one becasue these things just vary randomly) you think it's bad. There are criteria and if you don't know them you obviously are too stupid to comment on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
Well your analogy is not quite accurate, becuase you fail to point out that the blanket does get longer and shorter throughout the year (I can't use this analogy any further) But if you assume that you work 9-5, but if you only get 8 hours or sunlight during the winter, then it makes sense to have them 8-16 (equally spaced about noon). But in the summer you have 16 hours of sunlight, so you might as well make them 5-21 so we're not all getting up at 4am when the sun would rise. You effectively feel like you get an extra hour of sunlight in the evening, yes you don't really but the numbers make it seem so. It also reduces accidents in the winter, which having it dark in the morning does overall cause more accidents.
So the person being sued, requested money. Whereas in this case the person suing is requesting the money, I don't think the same applies (or at least it shouldn't, or what is to stop big corporations suing small ones and then demanding all their money before the court case).
No it won't. Given a perfect game, possible by doing every possible game, therefore knowing which moves will not lead to loss. The 5x5 board has a solution (well many obviously) it'll take quite a lot of work to scale up to the 19x19 board though.
Go has very few rules and a very large playing area; 371 possible opening moves. Starting with this large a number of possibilities gives rise to very very large numbers of possible games which until recently were not able to be handled fast enough by the hardware. Now we've got huge parallel systems these can be worked through much faster. One day there will be a solution to go (to never lose a game, perfect strategy) but it is still some way off.