They are also extremely expensive and use expensive esoteric batteries.
I like Fenix flashlights. They sell a lot that use normal AA and AAA batteries. They're also suprisingly bright and they don't lose brightness as battery voltage goes down with charge until the battery is almost done.
Yes, it is engine braking, and it is good. The same thing happens in a manual, but in a manual you have more flexibility in downshifting (which means you can use more engine breaking, but when done excessively you cause excessive wear).
The engine is meant to slow down the car (and ideally, but in many scenarios not realistically, do most of the slowing down). It is not meant to do it very fast (or come to a complete stop). That's what brakes are for, rather than excessive downshifting.
Turning the engine does reduce the speed imparted by going down the hill, but it saves you the gas you would need to turn the engine at idle if you were in neutral (which is not a whole lot, but is completely wasted).
Brakes are not meant to take your car from fast to slow on their own. They can work with the engine, friction, and gravity. They can work against momentum, gravity, and the engine. It's always best (reducing wear, fuel usage) to have the engine and gravity on their side. Engines are meant to take large stress and fight gravity (i.e. taking a multi ton vehicle up a hill at high speed). Having your brakes fight the engine is worse than having the engine fight gravity or momentum, because it wears both and wastes fuel. It's always a balance, but the key is to slow down over a long period of time. Ideally, and things are rarely ideal, you don't need the brakes or excessive downshifting, except for using the breaks to come to a complete stop.
The key is to drive a manual transmission and to hold in the clutch whenever you can(especially downhill) so that the car coasts(runs at idle) as much as possible.
And don't engine brake because that is poor form and is retarded. Use your damn brakes.
This doesn't save gas, it uses more. Running it at idle takes more gas than going downhill in gear without giving it gas. Depending on the car, and conditions, the engine can shut off fuel completely if it's not needed, but it will always use fuel while idling.
It's also just not especially good to travel out of gear. If I recall correctly, it's grounds for failing the British driving test.
Again, backup. Far, far cheaper than an SSD and much, much more reliable. In fact, if your data is at all valuable you still need backup for your SSD. It only provides extra protection against drops (and maybe magnets, I am not sure how they affect SSDs if at all). It does nothing for other forms of physical damage or simple rm -rf destruction or corruption of data.
If the data is so valuable that it is worth thousands to slightly lessen the chances of loss of whatever amount of data is collected between backups, then it probably shouldn't be stored on a laptop, certainly a laptop being treated roughly.
HDDs are really not the main thing to worry about when a laptop is dropped or damaged. Screens are much more expensive than HDs, and much harder to replace. Now, data on HDDs is another story, potentially very valuable or important and impossible to replace, but it can be backed up.
Also, for the same price as a single SSD you could buy literally dozens of HDDs with more than double the storage as the SSD, so in terms of price, even if you pretend SSDs are super reliable and don't even need backup they are still more expensive than dealing with the unreliability of HDs. Obviously, it is much more convient when your hardware doesn't fail, even if it can be replaced fairly easily and cheaply, with minimal data loss, but HDDs are only one compontent of several that can be damaged and make your computer unusable, and with their incredibly limited storage SSDs are much more inconvient. You won't lose your data even if the thing is destroyed, because it won't fit on there in the first place.
Obviously, SSDs have some places where they excel, but at current prices and storage levels they are way over-hyped and over-used. The eee is an especially glaring example of this, putting a ridiculously high end component into a low end machine, forcing a incredibly low amount of storage.
I like hulu too, but the ads do tend to be the same, and they aren't especially interesting ads either. They also make it a pain to skip around the shows.
I can't find anywhere on the site about how to make it. I can only find nonsense about how somehow in the future it is going to make itself (which it can't do at all at this point), and how the one you make yourself is called a "RepStrap" or something.
All the rights you mentioned require organized, collective and cooperative effort to enforce, just like the ones you derided.
You need someone to protect your right to free speech, and to protect your property and ensure that others recognize it. You need someone to ensure your due process of law and carry it out.
Health care, food, water, and housing are the same way. You might feel that people aren't entitled to them, but that doesn't make them totally alien from your "real rights".
There are no rights that don't impose a burden on society.
. 16GB thumb drives don't exist... Yes they do. They start at like $50.
You can also get 32 GB ones.
and 16GB SSDs cost over $200 That is true, for the most part. I would imagine they are made to a higher quality than thumb drives, or they are just overpriced. Probably both. Certainly, they are ridiculously priced compared to hard drives.
Because different schools/districts/etc. have different curriculums and want different books.
There are a million different issues relating to textbooks, not only highly controversial things related to historical biasing and evolution.
If there was a single federal standard texbook, it would be a constant struggle of people across the country vying for how they are written, and no one would be satisfied.
That's not to say the idea doesn't have any merit, but it would not be easy at all. It might make more sense to do this as a collaboration of districts/schools/states/etc. with similar curriculums and ideas.
Personally, I find that static typing gives rise to excessive complicated code just to get around it, C++ templates being a good example, and it also causes obscure type error.
Also, Objective C is dynamically typed (C types aren't, but objects are).
But that's not true. Not everything is okay in moderation, and not everything we consider "moderation" really is in terms of being good for you. Many suggest caffeine, in non-ridiculous amounts, isn't good for you.
There are much more efficient ways to heat a home with electricity than light bulbs. Using CFLs + a real electric home heating system would be better than incandescents. And with your system, if the light bulbs heat as much as you suggest, it is wasting tons of energy when you run the air conditioning.
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The Microcenters I've been in seem like dingy stores. A lot of their display products were damaged and it was kind of hard to find things.
I like Frys.
$100 isn't really that impressive, though its still obviously ridiculous, but 30 days in jail seems incredibly harsh.
They are also extremely expensive and use expensive esoteric batteries.
I like Fenix flashlights. They sell a lot that use normal AA and AAA batteries. They're also suprisingly bright and they don't lose brightness as battery voltage goes down with charge until the battery is almost done.
Yes, it is engine braking, and it is good. The same thing happens in a manual, but in a manual you have more flexibility in downshifting (which means you can use more engine breaking, but when done excessively you cause excessive wear).
The engine is meant to slow down the car (and ideally, but in many scenarios not realistically, do most of the slowing down). It is not meant to do it very fast (or come to a complete stop). That's what brakes are for, rather than excessive downshifting.
The injectors do shut off, depending on the car.
Turning the engine does reduce the speed imparted by going down the hill, but it saves you the gas you would need to turn the engine at idle if you were in neutral (which is not a whole lot, but is completely wasted).
Brakes are not meant to take your car from fast to slow on their own. They can work with the engine, friction, and gravity. They can work against momentum, gravity, and the engine. It's always best (reducing wear, fuel usage) to have the engine and gravity on their side. Engines are meant to take large stress and fight gravity (i.e. taking a multi ton vehicle up a hill at high speed). Having your brakes fight the engine is worse than having the engine fight gravity or momentum, because it wears both and wastes fuel. It's always a balance, but the key is to slow down over a long period of time. Ideally, and things are rarely ideal, you don't need the brakes or excessive downshifting, except for using the breaks to come to a complete stop.
The key is to drive a manual transmission and to hold in the clutch whenever you can(especially downhill) so that the car coasts(runs at idle) as much as possible.
And don't engine brake because that is poor form and is retarded. Use your damn brakes.
This doesn't save gas, it uses more. Running it at idle takes more gas than going downhill in gear without giving it gas. Depending on the car, and conditions, the engine can shut off fuel completely if it's not needed, but it will always use fuel while idling.
It's also just not especially good to travel out of gear. If I recall correctly, it's grounds for failing the British driving test.
It is fair criticism, because Microsoft markets their OS as being compatible with a vast range of hardware.
Not that Vista is as bad as some people imagine, but it is kind of painful under VMware.
Drop, or toss?
Again, backup. Far, far cheaper than an SSD and much, much more reliable. In fact, if your data is at all valuable you still need backup for your SSD. It only provides extra protection against drops (and maybe magnets, I am not sure how they affect SSDs if at all). It does nothing for other forms of physical damage or simple rm -rf destruction or corruption of data.
If the data is so valuable that it is worth thousands to slightly lessen the chances of loss of whatever amount of data is collected between backups, then it probably shouldn't be stored on a laptop, certainly a laptop being treated roughly.
Who "tosses" their keys or wallet around, let alone a laptop? That's ridiculous.
The storage space is not "fair" at all, and in many ways the reliability isn't either.
HDDs are really not the main thing to worry about when a laptop is dropped or damaged. Screens are much more expensive than HDs, and much harder to replace. Now, data on HDDs is another story, potentially very valuable or important and impossible to replace, but it can be backed up.
Also, for the same price as a single SSD you could buy literally dozens of HDDs with more than double the storage as the SSD, so in terms of price, even if you pretend SSDs are super reliable and don't even need backup they are still more expensive than dealing with the unreliability of HDs. Obviously, it is much more convient when your hardware doesn't fail, even if it can be replaced fairly easily and cheaply, with minimal data loss, but HDDs are only one compontent of several that can be damaged and make your computer unusable, and with their incredibly limited storage SSDs are much more inconvient. You won't lose your data even if the thing is destroyed, because it won't fit on there in the first place.
Obviously, SSDs have some places where they excel, but at current prices and storage levels they are way over-hyped and over-used. The eee is an especially glaring example of this, putting a ridiculously high end component into a low end machine, forcing a incredibly low amount of storage.
I like hulu too, but the ads do tend to be the same, and they aren't especially interesting ads either. They also make it a pain to skip around the shows.
I can't find anywhere on the site about how to make it. I can only find nonsense about how somehow in the future it is going to make itself (which it can't do at all at this point), and how the one you make yourself is called a "RepStrap" or something.
Red delicious apples are just horrible. They taste bad, the skin is thick and nasty, and they are misshapen.
All the rights you mentioned require organized, collective and cooperative effort to enforce, just like the ones you derided.
You need someone to protect your right to free speech, and to protect your property and ensure that others recognize it. You need someone to ensure your due process of law and carry it out.
Health care, food, water, and housing are the same way. You might feel that people aren't entitled to them, but that doesn't make them totally alien from your "real rights".
There are no rights that don't impose a burden on society.
You can also get 32 GB ones. and 16GB SSDs cost over $200 That is true, for the most part. I would imagine they are made to a higher quality than thumb drives, or they are just overpriced. Probably both. Certainly, they are ridiculously priced compared to hard drives.
LEDs aren't that much more efficient than CFLs.
There is none in a typical (alkaline) AA battery.
Because different schools/districts/etc. have different curriculums and want different books.
There are a million different issues relating to textbooks, not only highly controversial things related to historical biasing and evolution.
If there was a single federal standard texbook, it would be a constant struggle of people across the country vying for how they are written, and no one would be satisfied.
That's not to say the idea doesn't have any merit, but it would not be easy at all. It might make more sense to do this as a collaboration of districts/schools/states/etc. with similar curriculums and ideas.
Personally, I find that static typing gives rise to excessive complicated code just to get around it, C++ templates being a good example, and it also causes obscure type error.
Also, Objective C is dynamically typed (C types aren't, but objects are).
I find that I type much faster on the buckling spring Matais Tacticle Pro, and that typing on it made me faster at typing on normal keyboards.
That's because you were humorless about it. The above poster tried to make it kind of funny.
But that's not true. Not everything is okay in moderation, and not everything we consider "moderation" really is in terms of being good for you. Many suggest caffeine, in non-ridiculous amounts, isn't good for you.
There are much more efficient ways to heat a home with electricity than light bulbs. Using CFLs + a real electric home heating system would be better than incandescents. And with your system, if the light bulbs heat as much as you suggest, it is wasting tons of energy when you run the air conditioning.