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Windows Marketplace trickles down to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 {Engadget}
Nov 16th 2009 4:39PM In case this isn't abundantly clear, there is something called context, Alex. What a specific comment means depends on what context it was used for.
For your context, you were obviously trying to get a reaction and exact revenge on anti-Apple commenters on Engadget by trying to show they were hypocritical.
For Look_Around_You, he was criticizing the continual focus on iPhone apps and general lack of coverage of apps from other platforms on Engadget. I suppose though, to be fair, the iPhone has the largest app store, so it is kind of expected that there will be more coverage for the iPhone's apps vs other platforms.
Hope this makes it clear why you are being downranked.
Windows Marketplace trickles down to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 {Engadget}
Nov 16th 2009 4:01PM Alex I guess you don't get it. This post is about an application store. That post was about a random app. Not really the same.
I don't mind Engadget posting about random apps as long as they are interesting or is something new or special. Some people may question if there is any value in the specific app posted.
New XPERIA X10 hands-on video brings the snappy {Engadget}
Nov 16th 2009 2:05PM Looks like they have both the default and their special SE apps. Hopefully they have different themes that you can chose, since right now the blue makes it a bit hard to read some of the words and differentiate between different colors.
Nissan CEO is bullish for Leaf's success, says million plug-ins by 2015 is an easy goal {Autoblog Green}
Nov 15th 2009 5:11AM In the end, it depends on the leasing price and terms. Not everyone will drive the same amount every year. They might not use up the entire useful battery life before they payed more for the lease.
For example, the rumored price was $150/month. In 10 years that's $18k. From a previous comment, Nissan's batteries cost less than $500/kWh or less than $12k (Leaf has 24kWh battery) http://green.autoblog.com/2009/08/14/at-witz-end-turning-over-a-new-nissan-leaf. Today's automotive batteries can definitely last 10 years (it'll be at least warrantied for that much in California, 8 years elsewhere). Of course if you change your car before 10 years it'll save some money, but then you probably can't sell the car (they might to take back the battery depending on the terms and an EV without a battery is useless). If you are the type to frequently change cars, probably a traditional leasing deal will make more sense anyways.
Batteries will be improving, becoming cheaper and lasting longer. You can see this as a good thing for the lease since you possibly get to swap new batteries. But if you are paying the same lease price after swapping, then you are paying more for the batteries. So it depends on the leasing terms, if the lease price will go down with cheaper batteries or if you can keep the battery at the end of lease.
It's nice they are doing that leasing deal, but I would like to see a buy option. Early adopters totally don't mind buying and some people don't like being tied down with leases (also the EV1 thing is still in the back of people's minds, though Nissan seems seriously committed to EVs). And there really isn't enough details on the leasing deal.
Oh, come on: columnist compares driving efficiency with teaching religion {Autoblog Green}
Nov 13th 2009 1:12PM Driving efficiently is the easiest and cheapest (free) way to reduce oil/energy consumption and pollution. This makes sense whether you care more about those issues or if you just want to save some money on gas. There isn't really any negative to it, so I don't know what he's complaining about.
Ford Fusion breaks into Top 10 best-selling vehicles amid best year ever {Autoblog Green}
Nov 13th 2009 12:21PM There's two entries for the 2010 Ford Fusion S FWD on the EPA site. The automatic version says 23/34, the manual version is 22/31. The automatic version of the regular Fusion is 22/31 also and the manual 22/29. It seems the S model and the automatic versions are more efficient, which is counter-intuitive.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2008car1tablef.jsp?id=26406
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2008car1tablef.jsp?id=26407
On Ford's website it says 23/34.
http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/fusion/
Flash 10.1 coming to webOS in first half 2010, says kinder, gentler Adobe page {Engadget}
Nov 12th 2009 1:41AM Flash means Flash games. That's the biggest plus. Also finally means pretty much all of the web is available (including most videos, like Engadget's). With the sparse offerings in the Pre's catalog, Flash really is a great boon. There are tons of quality flash games out there and there are plenty I wouldn't mind on my mobile phone.
And having Flash doesn't mean Palm can't work on the other things.
ETA says plug-in cars could "speed climate change" unless we get off coal {Autoblog Green}
Nov 11th 2009 11:02PM @Dave
Not all plants are coal plants (you would be hard pressed to find any local region with 100% coal generation). From my own calculations, efficiency doesn't directly correspond to emissions (it's related but not an accurate way to get emissions). Like why not the LS2LS7? says you didn't factor in refining and gasoline distribution. The number I have is 83% for that. Also you didn't factor in additional losses from the transmission for the gas vehicle vs the lower losses in the EV due to it using a reduction gear instead. In the end, working with efficiency numbers are a lot harder, though if you have the mpg numbers rather than guesstimating numbers it'll be a lot more accurate (like Prius vs plug-in Prius).
About the additional resources used by plug-ins, it seems it doesn't factor that highly (judging by previous discussions of Prius vs Hummer). By weight would seem to be a good estimate of additional resources and plug-ins don't weigh that much more than normal cars.
Looking more closely at the report (given by moreati's links), in all average cases, PHEVs are cleaner than hybrids, only when 100% coal is it worse; this is exactly what I would expect from my own calculations:
http://www.transportenvironment.org/News/2009/11/Electric-cars-likely-to-lead-to-more-CO2-because-of-EU-legal-loopholes/
It also says plug-ins in general do better than both hydrogen and biofuels.
Palm's Pixi TV spot heads in a new direction, bids adieu to creepy redhead {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 9:50PM Much better than the older ads. Wish them good luck on the sales.
ETA says plug-in cars could "speed climate change" unless we get off coal {Autoblog Green}
Nov 11th 2009 9:34PM 100% coal I could see this being true (plug-in vs hybrid). But UK isn't 100% coal, just like how US is not 100% coal.
They have no solid numbers in their press release (not even percentage numbers) which probably means they don't have a very good idea what they are talking about.
