This extension is one of the few reasons I'm still using Firefox, the browser has gotten pretty terrible of late.
This was a feature that Opera lost during the move to WebKit as well.
Yeah, this is why I was confused by this report. Lithium-ion cells have to get VERY hot in order to vent, and even then, they have multiple safety systems that attempt to prevent failures that could start a fire. If cargo compartments were getting hot enough to set cells off there would be complaints about many other things melting first. I would be surprised if the cargo compartments even reach 60 Celsius (140 F) which are within the operating bounds of lithium-ion cells (though at seriously reduced performance).
The only reason I could possibly see a higher incidence of cell explosion when on aircraft is if the cell was in a non-pressurized compartment such that the sealed cell expanded in such a way that an internal short was caused in the cell causing a fire. Even that would require the failure of at least one safety feature on the cell.
I've been calling for a device that can be best described as the combination of these two Asus products since before the iPad was announced. I want a tablet with a touchscreen but also with a Wacom digitizer built in. If they made it so that you can hook it up like an extra screen to a different computer, but also had the ability to run like a normal tablet PC, I would buy one in an instant.
I'm failing to see how this is news. Many courses of mine do not allow laptops. I even had classes that required you to sit in the front row if you wanted to use your laptop. For me I have had classes that I only attended because of the rare occasion something useful came up and entertained myself with my laptop most of the time instead, otherwise all my notes are pen and paper.
I guess I'll respond to this since I am a battery scientist (well research assistant, close enough) and handle lithium almost daily. The safety of these will probably greatly depend on whether the electrolyte they use is flammable. Lithium by itself isn't going to cause much of a fire, it would mostly react with nitrogen in the air in a completely unexciting manner. If the electrolyte is flammable then there could be significant safety issues if the lithium contacts water. The amount of electrolyte in current Lithium-ion cells causes gases to be expelled if it burns and that is what causes explosions.
A couple other things I notice are, they don't specify the voltage of the cells, or the current they can discharge at, they may only be usable in low current applications. I also know there are regulations about how much metallic lithium you are allowed to bring onto a plane, which would probably limit their use in most devices if they are viable.
I am on Shaw Cable too, you sign up with the HD-PVR and they give you 30 days of all the HD channels and then afterwards they take away all the ones worth watching, like Discovery-HD. The fact that these aren't included with digital cable and the fact that I've had 2 PVR's that didn't work within 2 days of installation, makes me dislike Shaw even more.
I pretty much did everything I could, and I was still never challenged. I do blame some of the teachers actually, it even happened that I had to go in for a meeting with a teacher because I wasn't doing anything since I did all the work already.
Some of the things I did include learning on my own, taking classes from a higher grade (which was actually a bad idea in hindsight due to the next reason), and moving schools especially to take a special program for gifted students (I ended up having to teach myself the course of the class I took a grade higher for two years). Now I believe that changing schools was the best decision I ever made, not because I was challenged, but I made way more friends, and in the second year of the special program I took I was with an awesome class where nearly everyone was friends with each other.
I now hope that all those issues are behind me now that I'm in University.
I semi-agree with you saying that you are force fed facts in university. The thing about it is, you aren't being forced to learn, its fully up to you, the informations there for you, but if you don't want it, good for you. Now I haven't had to learn a lot in one week yet (I'm only a first year engineering student), but at the speeds most high schools go at, learning that much should not be a problem.
About not being "creative enough" I have been told by my professors, that they will teach us lots of facts, and make us use them, and at times we will feel like we can't have any creativity at all, but the creativity we hold on to will make us better engineers.
Now one of the things that always bugged me about primary and secondary education is that they were lacking the creativity to figure out ways to challenge, or at least keep interested the students that found the material in classes excessively easy.
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This extension is one of the few reasons I'm still using Firefox, the browser has gotten pretty terrible of late. This was a feature that Opera lost during the move to WebKit as well.
The only reason I could possibly see a higher incidence of cell explosion when on aircraft is if the cell was in a non-pressurized compartment such that the sealed cell expanded in such a way that an internal short was caused in the cell causing a fire. Even that would require the failure of at least one safety feature on the cell.
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I've been calling for a device that can be best described as the combination of these two Asus products since before the iPad was announced. I want a tablet with a touchscreen but also with a Wacom digitizer built in. If they made it so that you can hook it up like an extra screen to a different computer, but also had the ability to run like a normal tablet PC, I would buy one in an instant.
I'm failing to see how this is news. Many courses of mine do not allow laptops. I even had classes that required you to sit in the front row if you wanted to use your laptop. For me I have had classes that I only attended because of the rare occasion something useful came up and entertained myself with my laptop most of the time instead, otherwise all my notes are pen and paper.
I guess I'll respond to this since I am a battery scientist (well research assistant, close enough) and handle lithium almost daily. The safety of these will probably greatly depend on whether the electrolyte they use is flammable. Lithium by itself isn't going to cause much of a fire, it would mostly react with nitrogen in the air in a completely unexciting manner. If the electrolyte is flammable then there could be significant safety issues if the lithium contacts water. The amount of electrolyte in current Lithium-ion cells causes gases to be expelled if it burns and that is what causes explosions. A couple other things I notice are, they don't specify the voltage of the cells, or the current they can discharge at, they may only be usable in low current applications. I also know there are regulations about how much metallic lithium you are allowed to bring onto a plane, which would probably limit their use in most devices if they are viable.
I am on Shaw Cable too, you sign up with the HD-PVR and they give you 30 days of all the HD channels and then afterwards they take away all the ones worth watching, like Discovery-HD. The fact that these aren't included with digital cable and the fact that I've had 2 PVR's that didn't work within 2 days of installation, makes me dislike Shaw even more.
I pretty much did everything I could, and I was still never challenged. I do blame some of the teachers actually, it even happened that I had to go in for a meeting with a teacher because I wasn't doing anything since I did all the work already. Some of the things I did include learning on my own, taking classes from a higher grade (which was actually a bad idea in hindsight due to the next reason), and moving schools especially to take a special program for gifted students (I ended up having to teach myself the course of the class I took a grade higher for two years). Now I believe that changing schools was the best decision I ever made, not because I was challenged, but I made way more friends, and in the second year of the special program I took I was with an awesome class where nearly everyone was friends with each other. I now hope that all those issues are behind me now that I'm in University.
I semi-agree with you saying that you are force fed facts in university. The thing about it is, you aren't being forced to learn, its fully up to you, the informations there for you, but if you don't want it, good for you. Now I haven't had to learn a lot in one week yet (I'm only a first year engineering student), but at the speeds most high schools go at, learning that much should not be a problem. About not being "creative enough" I have been told by my professors, that they will teach us lots of facts, and make us use them, and at times we will feel like we can't have any creativity at all, but the creativity we hold on to will make us better engineers. Now one of the things that always bugged me about primary and secondary education is that they were lacking the creativity to figure out ways to challenge, or at least keep interested the students that found the material in classes excessively easy.
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