True. But it is still a denial of rights. Being deprived of liberty year-after-year is no fun, especially when you know the U.S. Constitution specifically forbids it.
>>>It seems obvious that electricity will still be cheaper than oil.
I don't know about costs, but I do know about the relative pollution. Please note I'm quoting this off-top-of-my head since my books are laying at home, but ACEEE.org has assigned a ranking of 1-100 where 1 is horrible and 100 is perfectly clean:
(1) Honda Insight SULEV 57 (2) Honda Civic GX 56 (3) Toyota Prius 53 (4) General Motors EV1 52 (4) Toyota RAV4 EV 52 (6) Honda Civic Hybrid 51
As you can see a pure-electric EV is essentially the same as a ~50mpg hybrid car. The cleanest cars ever made are the natural gas Civic and the 66mpg Insight. (They don't rank Volkswagen's 88mpg Lupo, but if they did it'd probably have a similar 56-57 score.)
POINT - I doubt that having a plug-in hybrid would save you any money versus a plug-free hybrid. It would be more about bragging rights, especially for those with solar-paneled roofs. ("Look: My car is solar-powered.")
>>>when the batteries are low, a small diesel (or gas) engine will start up and begin charging the batteries
This is not accurate. There's already a company modifying Priuses for pure-electric mode. Basically they triple the size of the existing battery, which enables an owner to drive ~30 miles on pure electric. When the battery gets low, the engine turns-on and then the engine *drives the wheels* directly (with any excess power going to the battery). So basically this Prius-Plus Plug operates like any other Prius hybrid, except with an extended EV-only mode.
Toyoto's version of a plug-in Prius would have followed a similar design.
Yes it does mean he should. Through his actions he can demonstrate that an artist doesn't need the corporate engine in order to succeed. He can use the internet to eliminate the waste of the middle man.
>>>China tapes phone calls so they can find out who is speaking out against the [] government...
In the U.S. the PATRIOT ACT allows the current president, and the future 2009-2013 president to do the exact-same thing. The only difference is rather than drag the citizen in front of a firing squad, the president takes the citizen to Gauntanamo Bay and holds them in prison without lawyer or trial. Different ends; but same denial of basic human rights.
>>>It's 3 partial cycles, but in terms of battery lifetime, it's roughly equivalent to a full discharge-charge cycle.
Nope. Since the battery was only discharged to ~60% full, there was no stress placed on the battery (no undercharging or overcharging). Therefore those three partial discharges are more like 0.1 cycle. As long as you keep a battery between 40-90%, the chemistry will stay almost-new in function.
This is the technique both Toyota and Honda use to extend their NiMH battery life to match the life of their hybrid car. Avoiding stress extends life far into the future.
"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. This means an older battery will not last as long as a new battery due solely to its age, unlike other batteries." - Wikipedia. Hmmm. Who to believe?
Well I know neither NiCad or NiMH decline with age (just usage), so by process of elimination it must be the Li-Ion battery that ages even when not used.
>>>China's system monitors a list of politically charged words
I'm confused. What's the problem? This doesn't sound any different from how the United States operate. After all, we gotta stop those terrorists! (Or anybody else who happens to disagree with the currently-sitting president.)/end sarcasm
Best way to sneak small things out of work is to (1) sell it on ebay and then (2) mail it while (3) pocketing the money. (Like that guy on MASH who mailed a jeep piece-by-piece.) Nobody examines packages closely.
Windows Cloud OS??? This is bull excrement. I want to OWN my programs (like Word 2000), not have to keep renting it "off the net" year after year after year.
Hmmm. Looks like I'll still be using XP 'til the year 2020. I refuse to touch Vista and Cloud sounds like garbage too.
The phrase "Ich bin Berliner" would have been insulting to the German crowd, since Kennedy was not really one of them. By inserting the word "ein" it makes clear that he was only speaking figuratively, not literally.
>>>look at your swap partition as your extended virtual memory.
In that case, why can't I just let Windows XP or Vista manage the virtual memory size by itself? I don't see why I should need to establish a fixed size when Windows can manage it dynamically.
Also, just curious, what if I set my swap file == 0? I have 4 gigabytes, so surely that's sufficient to run my programs without needing virtual memory.
>>>Use 33% of the battery one day, recharge, 33% of the battery the next day, recharge, and 33% of the battery the next day, and recharge, and you'll bascially have used one full cycle.
Nope. You see, batteries are a lot like dogs. If you overfeed your dog, he won't live long. If you underfeed you dog, that too can shorten his life. If you alternate between stuffing your dog full of food, and then not feeding him for a whole week until he's skin 7b ones, that too can damage him due to the stress. But if you feed your dog moderate amounts of food, on a regular basis, he'll live a happy long life.
Your battery is the same way. As long as you keep it in the "comfort zone" of 40-90% charge, it will last a long, long time. If you overcharge it or undercharge it, then you're putting stress on the battery, and that causes permanent damage. The damage slowly accumulates until the battery's internal design short-circuits & dies.
Back to your example:
Since you treated your battery gently, only discharging it to ~60% charge, you avoided stressing it. So effectively that counts as 0.1 cycles subtracted from its life, not a full cycle. This method of always keeping batteries between 40-90% is also used in Toyota & Honda hybrid cars to extend their NiMH battery life to 300,000 miles. (If they discharged the battery completely, then the lifespan would only be 50,000 miles, as is the case with their EV cars.)
Final thought:
I prefer NiMH to Lithium Ion. NiMH batteries are a lot like NiCad batteries - they keep going and going and going. I have NiCad batteries that are over twenty years old, and yet still continue powering my devices. Unfortunately LiIon batteries only last 4-5 years; I don't like batteries with builtin death dates.
>>Well, I did make him apologize for his stupidity - so that's a step in the right direction. Who knows - maybe he'll shape up and stop being a fucking douchebag. Or maybe he'll commit suicide. Either way, we can be hopeful. >>>
Wow.
I hereby retract my apology. If you cannot graciously accept the apology, instead deciding to act like a teenager instead of an adult (and hoping I'll kill myself), then I'm not sorry at all. You truly are an airhead. (whoosh!)
>>> "...NES was inferior to Sega Master System..." I see people say this frequently but never understand it.
The SMS was released about two years later than the original NES (famicom), and that gave it a slight advantage since it used later technology. For example the SMS produces graphics that are almost 16-bit in quality. Sonic on the SMS looks nearly as good as the Genesis/Megadrive version, and there's nothing on the NES that looks as detailed or colorful.
The SMS is like "Genesis light" in how it performs.
But you see I've actually RTFD (readh the frakkin' deocumentation). The Jaguar GPUs can not run code. They are mere servants to the 68000 CPU which is the master "brain" that orchestrates everything.
Or like I said earlier, Jaguar is like a 68000 Amiga or Genesis/Megadrive on steroids. Not comparable to the more-advanced 32-bit PS1 or N64.
>>>The PS1's main processor may have been slower, but the PS1 also more specific processing chips to push work off to, such as a dedicated chip for sound. The N64, as I understand it, only had a main CPU and a GPU. >>>
True. So why did PS1's 3D virtual worlds (like Spyro, Tomb Raider, Xenogears) look so crappy next to Mario 64, Banjo, or Zelda? I tend to look less at the hardware, and more at the actual results displayed on screen, and the PS1 always looked inferior to my eyes. It's main advantage was the huge library.
It's true I didn't specifically say "games" were the reason. I apologize. I only stated that "best hardware" is not the deciding factor in which console or portable becomes #1 in sales.
>>>But the decision contains statements about IP addresses, domain names, and anonymity that are rather basically wrong, and which may enable the state to win on appeal.
So who would the State of Virginia appeal to? (just curious)
Only if you buy a bunch of addons, which most people do not. That's they the PS2 HDD and N64 RAM addons were flops and poorly-supported. *Out of the box* the Panadora is a portable just like the Gameboy, Lynx, Gamegear, Gameboy Advance, Wonderswan, DS, and PSP. None of these are consoles and neither is the Pandora. (Neither is your cellphone for that matter.)
Yes but that does not mean bitness is "COMPLETELY" meaningless. It still has SOME meaning if properly defined what the person is talking about. Such as comparing a 16-bit 80286 versus a 32-bit 80486 (internal word length).
Or in the PS1 versus N64 comparison: The PS1 CPU has an internal word length of 32 bits, while the N64 CPU has a word length of 64 bits.
(cough) "That's a giant cowpatty with a small marshmallow in the middle of it." In other words, it's Atari's marketing bull____. The Jaguar had ONE CPU (the 68000), surrounded by a bunch of audio and graphics processors, and was no different in that respect from a Commodore Amiga or Sega Genesis on steroids.
>>>Forsaken looked sharper and ran with more frames/second on a PS1 than on an N64.
(1) I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation. (2) Perhaps the programmers just did a lousy port from the PS1 to the N64. Did Forsaken look better than Banjo-Kazooie? (3) Remember we're talking generalities here. Comparing PS1 3D worlds to N64 3D worlds, the N64 virtually always looked better to my eyes. The PS1 was just too slow & blocky in appearance to make games look as good as Mario 64 or Banjo or Conkur.
>>>>>That goes back to my original point: The superior console/portable is typically NOT the #1 selling games machine.
>>But that's no reason for the enthusiast not to buy it.
No. If you have spare cash laying-around and can afford to buy a Gameboy Advance, DS, PSP, and Pandora... go for it! Unfortunately my bank stopped loaning me money, so I just limit myself to whatever is the most popular (GBA and PS2), rather than take a risk on a potential flop. (IMHO)
Besides I've already been down that route of buying unpopular hardware (Commodore Plus/4, Sega Saturn) which just collected dust due to lack of support.
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True. But it is still a denial of rights. Being deprived of liberty year-after-year is no fun, especially when you know the U.S. Constitution specifically forbids it.
>>>It seems obvious that electricity will still be cheaper than oil.
I don't know about costs, but I do know about the relative pollution. Please note I'm quoting this off-top-of-my head since my books are laying at home, but ACEEE.org has assigned a ranking of 1-100 where 1 is horrible and 100 is perfectly clean:
(1) Honda Insight SULEV 57
(2) Honda Civic GX 56
(3) Toyota Prius 53
(4) General Motors EV1 52
(4) Toyota RAV4 EV 52
(6) Honda Civic Hybrid 51
As you can see a pure-electric EV is essentially the same as a ~50mpg hybrid car. The cleanest cars ever made are the natural gas Civic and the 66mpg Insight. (They don't rank Volkswagen's 88mpg Lupo, but if they did it'd probably have a similar 56-57 score.)
POINT - I doubt that having a plug-in hybrid would save you any money versus a plug-free hybrid. It would be more about bragging rights, especially for those with solar-paneled roofs. ("Look: My car is solar-powered.")
>>>when the batteries are low, a small diesel (or gas) engine will start up and begin charging the batteries
This is not accurate. There's already a company modifying Priuses for pure-electric mode. Basically they triple the size of the existing battery, which enables an owner to drive ~30 miles on pure electric. When the battery gets low, the engine turns-on and then the engine *drives the wheels* directly (with any excess power going to the battery). So basically this Prius-Plus Plug operates like any other Prius hybrid, except with an extended EV-only mode.
Toyoto's version of a plug-in Prius would have followed a similar design.
Yes it does mean he should. Through his actions he can demonstrate that an artist doesn't need the corporate engine in order to succeed. He can use the internet to eliminate the waste of the middle man.
>>>China tapes phone calls so they can find out who is speaking out against the [] government...
In the U.S. the PATRIOT ACT allows the current president, and the future 2009-2013 president to do the exact-same thing. The only difference is rather than drag the citizen in front of a firing squad, the president takes the citizen to Gauntanamo Bay and holds them in prison without lawyer or trial. Different ends; but same denial of basic human rights.
>>>It's 3 partial cycles, but in terms of battery lifetime, it's roughly equivalent to a full discharge-charge cycle.
Nope. Since the battery was only discharged to ~60% full, there was no stress placed on the battery (no undercharging or overcharging). Therefore those three partial discharges are more like 0.1 cycle. As long as you keep a battery between 40-90%, the chemistry will stay almost-new in function.
This is the technique both Toyota and Honda use to extend their NiMH battery life to match the life of their hybrid car. Avoiding stress extends life far into the future.
>>>Li-Ion batteries do NOT degrade with age
"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. This means an older battery will not last as long as a new battery due solely to its age, unlike other batteries." - Wikipedia. Hmmm. Who to believe?
Well I know neither NiCad or NiMH decline with age (just usage), so by process of elimination it must be the Li-Ion battery that ages even when not used.
>>>China's system monitors a list of politically charged words
I'm confused. What's the problem? This doesn't sound any different from how the United States operate. After all, we gotta stop those terrorists! (Or anybody else who happens to disagree with the currently-sitting president.) /end sarcasm
Best way to sneak small things out of work is to (1) sell it on ebay and then (2) mail it while (3) pocketing the money. (Like that guy on MASH who mailed a jeep piece-by-piece.) Nobody examines packages closely.
Windows Cloud OS??? This is bull excrement. I want to OWN my programs (like Word 2000), not have to keep renting it "off the net" year after year after year.
Hmmm. Looks like I'll still be using XP 'til the year 2020.
I refuse to touch Vista and Cloud sounds like garbage too.
Just for fun I went looking for my oldest message:
1991 - about Saddam Hussein (written using a 1.2 kbps modem) http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.startrek/browse_frm/thread/ec9756c9afb71b39/cc88ee9cfc01cc69?lnk=gst&q=troy+heagy#cc88ee9cfc01cc69
Urban legend.
The phrase "Ich bin Berliner" would have been insulting to the German crowd, since Kennedy was not really one of them. By inserting the word "ein" it makes clear that he was only speaking figuratively, not literally.
>>>look at your swap partition as your extended virtual memory.
In that case, why can't I just let Windows XP or Vista manage the virtual memory size by itself? I don't see why I should need to establish a fixed size when Windows can manage it dynamically.
Also, just curious, what if I set my swap file == 0? I have 4 gigabytes, so surely that's sufficient to run my programs without needing virtual memory.
>>>Use 33% of the battery one day, recharge, 33% of the battery the next day, recharge, and 33% of the battery the next day, and recharge, and you'll bascially have used one full cycle.
Nope. You see, batteries are a lot like dogs. If you overfeed your dog, he won't live long. If you underfeed you dog, that too can shorten his life. If you alternate between stuffing your dog full of food, and then not feeding him for a whole week until he's skin 7b ones, that too can damage him due to the stress. But if you feed your dog moderate amounts of food, on a regular basis, he'll live a happy long life.
Your battery is the same way. As long as you keep it in the "comfort zone" of 40-90% charge, it will last a long, long time. If you overcharge it or undercharge it, then you're putting stress on the battery, and that causes permanent damage. The damage slowly accumulates until the battery's internal design short-circuits & dies.
Back to your example:
Since you treated your battery gently, only discharging it to ~60% charge, you avoided stressing it. So effectively that counts as 0.1 cycles subtracted from its life, not a full cycle. This method of always keeping batteries between 40-90% is also used in Toyota & Honda hybrid cars to extend their NiMH battery life to 300,000 miles. (If they discharged the battery completely, then the lifespan would only be 50,000 miles, as is the case with their EV cars.)
Final thought:
I prefer NiMH to Lithium Ion. NiMH batteries are a lot like NiCad batteries - they keep going and going and going. I have NiCad batteries that are over twenty years old, and yet still continue powering my devices. Unfortunately LiIon batteries only last 4-5 years; I don't like batteries with builtin death dates.
>>Well, I did make him apologize for his stupidity - so that's a step in the right direction. Who knows - maybe he'll shape up and stop being a fucking douchebag. Or maybe he'll commit suicide. Either way, we can be hopeful.
>>>
Wow.
I hereby retract my apology. If you cannot graciously accept the apology, instead deciding to act like a teenager instead of an adult (and hoping I'll kill myself), then I'm not sorry at all. You truly are an airhead. (whoosh!)
>>> "...NES was inferior to Sega Master System..." I see people say this frequently but never understand it.
The SMS was released about two years later than the original NES (famicom), and that gave it a slight advantage since it used later technology. For example the SMS produces graphics that are almost 16-bit in quality. Sonic on the SMS looks nearly as good as the Genesis/Megadrive version, and there's nothing on the NES that looks as detailed or colorful.
The SMS is like "Genesis light" in how it performs.
But you see I've actually RTFD (readh the frakkin' deocumentation). The Jaguar GPUs can not run code. They are mere servants to the 68000 CPU which is the master "brain" that orchestrates everything.
Or like I said earlier, Jaguar is like a 68000 Amiga or Genesis/Megadrive on steroids. Not comparable to the more-advanced 32-bit PS1 or N64.
>>>You forgot the Wii, which is vastly inferior to the Xbox 360, and PS3, but sells like hotcakes.
Yep. Excellent example, although it's too early to tell if the Wii can hold its #1 spot. X360 seem to be catching-up.
>>>The PS1's main processor may have been slower, but the PS1 also more specific processing chips to push work off to, such as a dedicated chip for sound. The N64, as I understand it, only had a main CPU and a GPU.
>>>
True. So why did PS1's 3D virtual worlds (like Spyro, Tomb Raider, Xenogears) look so crappy next to Mario 64, Banjo, or Zelda? I tend to look less at the hardware, and more at the actual results displayed on screen, and the PS1 always looked inferior to my eyes. It's main advantage was the huge library.
It's true I didn't specifically say "games" were the reason. I apologize. I only stated that "best hardware" is not the deciding factor in which console or portable becomes #1 in sales.
>>>But the decision contains statements about IP addresses, domain names, and anonymity that are rather basically wrong, and which may enable the state to win on appeal.
So who would the State of Virginia appeal to? (just curious)
>>>This CAN be a console.
Only if you buy a bunch of addons, which most people do not. That's they the PS2 HDD and N64 RAM addons were flops and poorly-supported. *Out of the box* the Panadora is a portable just like the Gameboy, Lynx, Gamegear, Gameboy Advance, Wonderswan, DS, and PSP. None of these are consoles and neither is the Pandora. (Neither is your cellphone for that matter.)
Yes but that does not mean bitness is "COMPLETELY" meaningless. It still has SOME meaning if properly defined what the person is talking about. Such as comparing a 16-bit 80286 versus a 32-bit 80486 (internal word length).
Or in the PS1 versus N64 comparison: The PS1 CPU has an internal word length of 32 bits, while the N64 CPU has a word length of 64 bits.
>>>There were three CPUs inside a Jaguar.
(cough) "That's a giant cowpatty with a small marshmallow in the middle of it." In other words, it's Atari's marketing bull____. The Jaguar had ONE CPU (the 68000), surrounded by a bunch of audio and graphics processors, and was no different in that respect from a Commodore Amiga or Sega Genesis on steroids.
>>>Forsaken looked sharper and ran with more frames/second on a PS1 than on an N64.
(1) I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation. (2) Perhaps the programmers just did a lousy port from the PS1 to the N64. Did Forsaken look better than Banjo-Kazooie? (3) Remember we're talking generalities here. Comparing PS1 3D worlds to N64 3D worlds, the N64 virtually always looked better to my eyes. The PS1 was just too slow & blocky in appearance to make games look as good as Mario 64 or Banjo or Conkur.
>>>>>That goes back to my original point: The superior console/portable is typically NOT the #1 selling games machine.
>>But that's no reason for the enthusiast not to buy it.
No. If you have spare cash laying-around and can afford to buy a Gameboy Advance, DS, PSP, and Pandora... go for it! Unfortunately my bank stopped loaning me money, so I just limit myself to whatever is the most popular (GBA and PS2), rather than take a risk on a potential flop. (IMHO)
Besides I've already been down that route of buying unpopular hardware (Commodore Plus/4, Sega Saturn) which just collected dust due to lack of support.