but I had an S5 and the battery life wasn't fine... then again I'm a battery life snob and I've only had a great experience with battery life on Motorola
and hopefully the iPhone 7 Plus will be better than the 6S+, which already is better than most Android phones I've used
replaceable battery is a nice feature - especially if they start making progress in battery technology, you might be able to buy a battery with the same form factor as your original but with higher capacity (and not just a marketing gimmick)
I'm already keenly dialed-in on battery technology advances because I own a hybrid vehicle (Prius C / Yaris Hybrid) that has a "current" (2012-level tech) NiMh 0.9 kWh battery pack, but there are better NiMh and Li-Ion/Li-Po batteries coming that may be even better, without increasing weight or decreasing service life
I'm intending to keep the vehicle until major parts of the drive train start failing, so I'll almost certainly end up replacing the battery pack
Problem with battery technologies is it seems like every other week I read about this "new battery technology that could DOUBLE battery life" etc. etc. and well... ten years on I'm still seeing Li-Ion everywhere
not going to "upgrade" the battery pack while it's working fine, but when its performance is degraded I will start thinking about it
@kerbalspacecat BASF -- the same company that makes Basotect (foamized glass, used in Magic Erasers, etc.) -- is actively developing a manufacturing plant to chunk out lots of new NiMH batteries with about a 50% better energy density than current-gen NiMH, putting them on-par with Li-Ion, but with the same cost as NiMH (which are much cheaper than Li-Ion)
they're way past the basic science and engineering of the battery chemistry itself; they know how to make them; they're just trying to build the plant to produce them en masse
@allquicatic Hmm. I'm only really concerned with "premium" devices anyway, where cost (at least of the battery) is a negligible concern compared to energy density.
Heck even fully electric cars... have plenty of space to double or triple the existing battery pack sizes if you sacrificed storage or seating
@kerbalspacecat when using Li-Ion batteries would greatly increase the cost of a hybrid vehicle, NiMH that's as good as Li-Ion while being cheaper is a fairly significant breakthrough
but it's basically useless for smartphones
hell even low-end smartphones use Li-Ion
might be able to get a bigger battery for the same cost using BASF NiMH, if they intentionally crippled the smartphone's battery to make a true budget smartphone... but that wouldn't be a factor in flagship devices
I have range anxiety because my area has lots of different places that I occasionally need to visit with ranges between them varying from 10 km to 100 km, and might need to go to one unexpectedly and I need to be able to get there, so I need a way to convert a readily-available, immediately-accessible transportation fuel such as gasoline into distance
so I can't buy an EV until/unless they have extremely fast charging where I can get at least 150km range on a 5-minute charge
the most I can do is a plug-in hybrid, which can run in full electric mode 40 to 50 km, then kicks over to a gasoline engine (direct drive and recharging the battery) with around a 650 km range on a full tank of gasoline
right now I have a non-plug-in hybrid, but my next car will probably be a plug-in hybrid
I've always planned for my first car to be at least hybrid if not plug-in EV of some sort. But still have had no need to buy a car. Still don't even have a driving license for that matter...
and I exceed the EPA's pessimistic fuel economy estimates on most trips
(my trip to work involves a ~4 km steep incline and I get terrible fuel efficiency there, but the rest of my trip is relatively flat, and my trip home is a steep decline down the same hill, so I get insanely great MPG going home)
But since we measure nothing in kilometres in this country (unless you're a scientist, because metric makes too much sense for everyone else) that's not too helpful
Yeah, the indicator on my bike is an oddity. MPG is what we normally use
Granted, US gallon vs. imperial gallon is confusing enough, so I like it in litres
in MPG I know it from memory: going to work, highway speeds, no traffic, I get around 26 MPG while accelerating; 48 on a flat highway at 65 mph; down to 38-40 (immediate, not average) during the steep incline; then 60 - 90 MPG during the final leg of the trip which is low-speed city driving
averaging out all the different legs of my morning commute, I get around 47 - 51 MPG in the summer, and 43 - 47 MPG in the winter
on the way home, add another 15 - 20 MPG to those numbers due to the steep downhill
I imagine it would be even worse to do, like, cups per 874 yards, or feet per milliliter, but there are so many annoying standards and I hate it when they combine imperial and SI units in the same measurement
yeah, then there'll be another de-standardization effort, and the car manufacturers will have to state the UK fuel economy on the sticker in a different format than on the continent
I have a procedure for determining whether I have an inner ear infection
get in a car, put a window part-way down and drive at highway speeds... if you feel an oscillating pressure in your ear, congratulations, you have an ear infection
frequency of oscillations might be around 20 or 30 Hz give or take
ear infections may clear on their own, but unless you have a great immune system, there's a high risk of eardrum perforation which can cause permanent scar tissue buildup and harm your hearing
@kerbalspacecat And don't forget Scots Gallons - a traditional unit of volume in Scotland equal to 4 Scots quarts. This is almost exactly 3 British Imperial gallons, 3.6 U.S. liquid gallons, or 13.63 liters.
And to clear up any remaining confusion:
gallon (gal) [1] a traditional unit of liquid volume, derived from the Roman galeta, which originally meant a pailful. Gallons of various sizes have been used in Europe ever since Roman times. In the United States, the liquid gallon is legally defined as exactly 231 cubic inches; this is equal to the old English wine gallon, which originated in medieval times but was not standardized until 1707, during the reign of Queen Anne. Some scholars believe the wine gallon was originally designed to hold 8 troy pounds of wine. The U. S. gallon holds 4 liquid…
@tereško Mostly true for a typical end-user, but if you put Eve in the skillful hands of Louis Rossmann or Jessa Jones (or dozens of other top microsoldering / iDevice repair experts), they could fix almost any issue with her :P
I am a new STEM faculty member at a primarily undergraduate institution. I emailed my students (through the school-mandated online course management system) before the beginning of the term about the availability of the syllabus online, as well as other things. Several students told me that they ...
I don't see how this would be inappropriate. I've had several professors during my first few years in college tell us, "please check your college email at least daily". Nobody in any of the classes I've taken have objected to this. (Granted, I pull my college email through the Thunderbird email client on my laptop, so I'm always up-to-date, but not everyone knows how to set up POP3...) — bwDraco2 mins ago
Windows Store Apps AKA Metro Apps, which turned into UWP, etc.
Windows 8 didn't do so well in sales, e.g., this usage chart shows that it's below Windows XP at around 8% market share netmarketshare.com/… , IIRC it never exceeded 15% marketshare
@SmokingGorilla It's not really an inconvenience for a single question. But imagine what would happen if that happened with every question? And it's not even your question.
also, apparently NetworkManager is available on Kali; it may not be activated by default or you may have to install it through a package manager, but people are talking about it here: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273941/…
I'm having some serious issues with the network manager in Kali. I have read 25+ other threads / questions with this problem to no avail. Here is what is happening. Essentially the icon is missing from the top and there seems to be no way to open it.
On a Kali Linux live USB (latest stable versi...
I am trying to connect to my WEP network just using the command-line (Linux).
I run:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed essid 'my_network' key 'xx:xx:... hex key, 26 digits'
Then I try to obtain an IP with
sudo dhclient -v wlan0
or
sudo dhclient wlan0
without success (tried to ping google...
@bwDraco thanks -- but based on the discussion around here and in the comments I think I will wait at least half of the 7 day window to see if any new answers pop up or any major revisions to the existing answers
I'm confused myself about what's true and what's not and I think it needs time to "bake"
(along with authoritative sources to substantiate claims)
That's the thing about holding a position that there is some kind of common misconception out there that needs to be dispelled. If you just say it's wrong, but can't explain the correct principles that would lead to one to conclude in a way that agrees with what you actually think is correct, then you have no better an understanding of the situation than someone with the alleged misconception.
Or you have the understanding but can't enunciate it, which is completely useless in helping to clear up the misconception.
@allquicatic The correct principles are the accepted status quo, that there's nothing to substantiate. It's the people who claim there is a problem that need to prove there is a problem.
I mean I can round up several of reports of "problems" and prove they're unrelated, but I can't round up every single person who has not had a problem to prove there isn't one.
@kerbalspacecat IIRC you admitted that sufficiently old PSUs with certain problems in their design would cause this, so you can simply answer with a conditional, like: If a PSU exists that meets <these criteria> and is electrically compatible with Haswell (or whatever), then it'll be problematic; but that's not an actual problem with any PSUs I'm aware of because all PSUs I've ever seen that are compatible with Haswell aren't designed this way. Or something like that.
Folks are recommending against gaming displays for serious photo editing, but I'm not sure how current this advice is given that IPS displays are becoming commonplace even in high-end gaming displays.
If a CPU meets these criteria: Is an ATX PSU that can be connected to Haswell motherboard, then it is electrically compatible with Haswell.
But that's still entirely besides the point. The question was asked years before Haswell even existed, so it cannot possibly have been a "Haswell-only" issue.
@kerbalspacecat All of this sounds like an answer to me. You don't have to exhaustively prove the absence of a problem by examining every single instance; it seems like you have enough knowledge of the standards though to show that a PSU that isn't absolute trash and deliberately broken by design -- which are criteria the OP placed on his question -- will work fine and there's no actual problem
@kerbalspacecat "The question was asked years before Haswell even existed" Huh? The question was "asked Mar 10 at 9:44". If you can't even get that right why should we believe anything else?
since you can assume (from the OP's own statements) that every PSU under consideration meets certain base criteria, you can eliminate entire classes of potential objections to an answer that "there isn't a problem".
> For the sake of this question, please assume the PSU is otherwise perfectly good quality—not a $2 doorstop
Heck, even the fact that the example supply the OP linked is claimed to be a group regulated supply by one reviewer and not a group regulated supply by another reviewer substantiates the fact there's a crap-ton of misinformation going around.
@allquicatic Meh, I only like writing answers to HNQs
@kerbalspacecat too late; harrymc is already there ;p
nobody else can possibly look like more of a bounty hunter than him
he is the epitome of a bounty hunter
Platonic ideal / epitome of a concept Kick-ass karate ninja = Chuck Norris Kick-ass coder = Jon Skeet Person who must ANSWER ALL THE BOUNTIES = harrymc
Does anyone know of a 24-inch IPS display that does at least 120 Hz refresh, has 1440p resolution, supports G-SYNC, and covers at least 90% of Adobe RGB?
I know the "120 Hz refresh"/"G-SYNC" and "90% Adobe RGB coverage" requirements may seem mutually exclusive, but bear with me.
...I might have to relax the size requirement. 27-inch?
I am trying to connect to my WEP network just using the command-line (Linux).
I run:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed essid 'my_network' key 'xx:xx:... hex key, 26 digits'
Then I try to obtain an IP with
sudo dhclient -v wlan0
or
sudo dhclient wlan0
without success (tried to ping google...
