@JourneymanGeek with things like gamestreaming you only really need one powerful rig these days anyway, the rest can be crap terminal server style affairs
@Mokubai I don't really like streaming. Tried it out with the Steam stuff but it didn't feel right for some reason.
Might've been some scaling/resolution/compression artefacts.
@Mokubai Well, depending on whether it was a really good deal before and whether you care about warranty, the shop disappearing before you buy might've been the better outcome :P
that is what some consumer reporting said also, that laptops are more likely to be able to take advantage of it, but then 80% of laptops are "broken" physically when there is something wrong, so that doesnt explain how one would get any coverage, when most coverages has more exclusions than inclusions.
Just like the ponzi scheme though they cant sell the majority if they dont pay off on a few people at the first, to represent that the company would back up thier claims. Yet if they had to back up all the claims (after spending most of the money selling, and paying employees) there would still be a cash-out point for the scheme. where the money is taken or gone.
How then does the "consumer" advantage from putting money into a system that eats it up by paying employees and massive paperwork, and payback of investors. the consumer is paying for a Load of nothing. to mitigate a risk, that the company cant really afford to fix.
so 50% of the money goes into a black hole of money that doesnt fix repair or replace things. So in reality the whole of the consumers are paying 200% for the hope that , , , thiers will fail the right way , that is covered :-)
after thinking about it from a business sence, the only thing i could figure out to reduce the money and the risk, is to make sure the product is originally sound (in all users opinions) much research. then to treat everything like glass.
if everyone plunked down extra 25% and 1-4 people got complete service and repair, that would be great. but the first priority is to pay the people selling it, the investors backing it, and that means 1-20 people might get complete service.
gotta love the new hard disk warrenties, take perfect care of your drive, and out of the blue something completely out of your hands fails. They send you sombody elses failed (but retested) drive back to you. what am i going to do with that? certannly not put it in as a solid sure thing .
i expect they (one of) will fail eventually, and it will then be time to refresh the lot. like replacing 2 headlights in a car when one goes out :-)
or replacing all the batts in the smoke alarms when one starts beeping. warnings of impending doom heeded.
I would not usually put so many miles on a hard drive , before desiring to upgrade the Size thing, and having the spun-up time being a great added excuse to change them.
do a Poll on SU , Is your chromebook in the closet ? A) what's a chromebook B) Kids got it, dont know what they do with it C) No it sits unused on a shelf D) greated thing ever invented, use it everyday. E) see mine on e-bay
I would probably rather have one of the 2 OSes i am familliar with myself. it takes time to figure out new stuff, and assemble an array of 3rd party programs to get things all setup.
i believe i could survive without much thinking or re-buying on a fat android tablet.
any winders system thing, i would want it to run "the exact same" as the desktop, and not some ARMincompatable thing.
For things like the windows Surface weanie , If users had not explained in whiney comments , that things are not compatable , i would never know from the sales stuff. "the pc for everything, that does everything always easily" (in fine print) that is completly incompatable with all your previous programs.
the other one that would bug me , i do not know enough about yet. Run word processing, watch videos, play music, play games . . Only While connected to the web. Or requring a web log-in first before operation.
any computer that can run some browser that works, can now claim to have every program ability that (almost) ever existed, because much and much of it could be run off of web sites itself.
One could claim that the PC has access to 5000 games for example, cute little flash games that exist by the thousands on the web.
but still doesnt have a GPU that would render the lowest of 3D scene :-)
" Is WiFi available " Answer: You really couldn't do much with this without it. Chromebooks rely heavily on a connection to the web Oh , that answers that question.
And here i thought "internet appliances" died, before I had a chance to stick one on the refridgerator .
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hm. I sometimes listen to stuff cause I randomly have it stuck in my head. Its a bit wierd when I just listened to a cruxshadows song, then mandrin bubbleegum pop.
@JourneymanGeek But then you can spend all your hard earned money on yourself for cool stuff instead of rubbish like jumpers and socks for other people
I should be sending out more, but I'm prioritising places I'd actually rather work for.
(Job market in singapore is a leeetle strange)
For example, most companies that are on Tier 1 (places I'd love to work for) actually give you some sort of feedback that they got your application.
Most local ones...
just file it in /dev/null
One company with a portal probably has my last application from almost a year ago still pending. It was like that 3 months after I applied.
So yeah, keeping positive, polishing up that resume, keeping an eye out on linkedin, and the jobs bank (which SHOULD be useful but ain't) and sending out applications ;p
@Mokubai Any help's awesome. I'm primarily applying to jobs here simply cause its simpler to handle the logistics. (Other than of course SE, which I've not heard back from, and github, who're lovely people who arn't hiring from my neck of the woods, but were so nice about it).
(Would be funny if I accidentally stumble upon a job like the last time, though as far as the VFX industry goes hell no.)
@Mokubai I did V(ideo)0IP support on a 3 month contract. I ended up working there for nearly 5 years, ending up as Team Leader/Trainer/Support. It was the most interesting job I ever had - although not the best paid (until I was made redundant when they moved the call centre to Poland).
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I have an old galaxy tab 2, and a HTC one V. Laptop pile's down to one since I have one setup as a shared system since my other old monitor is dead dead.
they have the lithium iron battery out in all the same basic shapes and sizes as li-ion, it is much more robust, like years more and many more cycles. but the voltage is lower, and the weight per watt is higher.
some of the Bagged, or poly style, dont weight that much more for the same "amps" but the voltage lower lowers the total wattage a lot. if one did not Need, or use, or match the voltage well, then it would not be a big deal that it is lower. Like in the replacement gell cella, and car batts.
i thought the important thing was it was not garbage in 3 years :-) I guess if its "made from seawater" LOL it wont much matter that it only lasts say even less time.
some of my older stuff lukcily china still makes junk li-ion batts for it :-) which it can survive on, although it is lower tested out than the oem stuff.
then if turnover of the batteries of an older device drops off completly, the cell that one is buying may already be dead. Saw Frys one time realise that 90% of the yellowed packaging, aged batts they had on the shelf were finished long ago, they just took every one of them down.
(of course i was in there trying to get one)
would it be so Odd if there was a Standards coalition for battery sizes :-) 101 specific sizes, build your damn machine around them.
Cool thing this wireless air mouse keyboard used a common sized Nokia battery, and made it removable. smart thinking, if it wasnt for all the nokia phones that used it . . . obsolete
@Boris_yo Amazon UK has it for 51 UKP. 46 UKP for the non UK model. Hmm why should the non UK model be cheaper I wonder. It looks exactly the same to me. amazon.co.uk/s/…
or rectangular, but they are not made one by one, they are made in thousands, so finding ONE that fits for something that people are not applying . . . the age thing, which includes the stuff rotting on the shelves, ordered over the web etc.
A single day stored at an excessive temperature, constant charge cycles, or undervoltage/short-circuited will do more wear than several years of storage
Cells on the shelf don't "die" of age. They die from not being charged
A "good" li-ion battery has zero problem with self discharge, only when they go bad do they start doing that. plus various versions of protection curcuits that are not made as well as.
Good and bad, definitions in the battery world, are it no longer holds 80% of the original capacity, the self discharge accelerates, and as this gets worse internally it heats on charge, and does not reach full charge levels. which can cause common CC-CV charging scenarios to not stop sending juice into the battery.
As for my own testing I'll refer you to the 7 year old laptop battery I have sitting here that has lost 9 percent of its service capacity over the last five years under extremely suboptimal storage conditions
Sanyo LGchem sony or panasonic ? those cells could last up to 8-10 years, but i cannot get even the best Saft to survive past about 10. Pink might be LGs , or could be sony. LG changes the color for differerent years, and types.
No idea. They came out of a Samsung battery and are definitely not Panasonic. I've spent hours soldering, duct taping, and gluing this thing together so I can't see the markings anymore.
candlepowerforums.com/vb/… is one self discharge test of one unprotected (no curcuit stuff) cell item. That is very representative of any really good fresh cell li-ion battery stored in fridge temps or stored in room temps of 65-80*f as i have seen here. A "good" cell has a very low self discharge.
The protection curcuits instead have varied from pretty high drains that would take the battery down in less than a year, or even faster for some junk i have applied. To not changing the percieved soc over more than a year.
so a li-ion cell itself should not be high self discharge, although once they are internally failing, they will certannly self discharge much faster. A "battery" (assembly with protection) can vary how much it "Self-Discharges" although self-discharge was originally trying to refer to the cell chemistry junk, not added drains.
This all gets very complicated as li-ion can be determined the SOC by the voltage, but the voltage is never the whole picture, as the cell resistance , the rate the chemicals change state, and the actual capacity would have to be additionally tested , because it is still "loosing enthropy and headed into chaos" :-)
More complicated still is everybody has posted a different opinion, and different charts (both projected and real) , because no 2 cells are alike :-) mostly referring to different manufactures and different dates of manufacture, and different small changes in the chemistry.
My most prized cells were of the LGs of 4 different capacity sizes, known to be real not clones, all worked great for years. The last incarnation of LG which is a high capacity higher voltage cell, did not fare so well. Again there was still a high similarity in degredation from the cells that just sit and wait at storage charges, and the ones I really used (correctally) .
Then again , I have been testing a odd charging method for decades , that was discussed long ago in a university experiment. I have spent years testing the mythos of the "special" charging routine for my own purposes only. While i should submit 20 pages of data from my findings (I didnt record), none of it really meant crap, when. . .
A) all the batteries eventually died over much time B) each of the different cells and types tested varied so much it would look like scatter charts C) Cheap (often china) stuff varies from pure garbage to many prismatics working ok D) who knows what your going to buy today ? because it sure wont be what i tested for years.
@Psycogeek Except you can't sell a cell on its own for a consumer device, they all must be complete assemblies with protection circuits.
Since every battery you can buy includes a protection circuit it's rather moot to talk about what happens if you were to remove the protection circuit and then put it back on the shelf for several years.