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  1. B2ET i-Phone Home

    in Computing

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    A lot more functionality for your money than an iPhone. They were about £550 at launch, and you can buy them new for £399 now, without a contract, and unlocked. But I will wait until they launch the N910 and pick up a brand new one for £200 or so. I'd only be tempted at below £300 at the moment. An Intel Atom powered phone running Linux would grab my attention immediately though, as might a cracking Android one.

    I've got a N770, N800 & N810 in my collection so far! None were bought new at anything like original retail. None of those tablet models are actual phones like the N900 though.

    why have so many? i've got a nokia 1650 does what is says on the tin and its got a torch! laugh.gif

  4. Leccy Cars 2

    in Motors & Motoring

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    I think you'll find they have. I'm not averse, however, to your suggestion of new nuclear stations; without them we'll be livin in the dark by 2025, never mind runnign electric cars.

    no they have not the ones out at sea have the peir ones have not! the pier caught fire and they had to renew the power cable, but no work on the fins has been carried out and is not due until 2016. straight from e.on

    No they're not - you pay a rental for the batteries, an additional fee to the cost of teh car.

    thats what i said! service plan

    No it doesn't - do you actually drive a car?

    try jamming it in first doing 90!!!! same thing only not as harsh is happening every time you use engine braking plus all the extra stress on the transmission, axles and driveshafts.

    Are you suggesting that climate change wasn't around a hundred years ago?

    no only people wern't aware that pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere would do so much harm!

    Ok, we'll use the Nissan Leaf as our benchmark, then. £23,000 for a car that does a 100 miles before it stops, dead (and that 100 miles, again, is at a standard 30mph.) Are you suggesting that's 'good value'? Assuming you use it to go to work, and that's a 30 mile round trip (reasonable, and less than the average) - that's easily three charges a week. How much power is taken in charging the car over a five year lifespan (the lower end of the battery life) and how does that compare to an efficient small capacity internal combustion engine in terms of emissions?

    Sorry Monsta, like I said I admire your commitment to the proposed emission free vehicles, and so on, but this really is barking up the wrong tree. Electric cars are a no go in mass terms.

    technophobia the fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices.

  7. Leccy Cars 2

    in Motors & Motoring

    Posted

    There's such a lot wrong with this post Monsta, but I will say I admire your support of electric cars. The problems are much deeper than you seem to understand, however, and you fall at the first hurdle with 'electric cars are much greener than petrol' - they're not. You even say why yourself - we would have to build more power stations to run them. Lots more. Have you thought about how many cars there are on the roads - just of Britain - today? Have you thought about how much extra electricity - that is, beyond what we use now - would have to be generated to create enough to power a whole nations worth of electric vehicles? As for wind turbines, surely you have realised - as most have - that they are a massive red herring (yes, another one); they operate at less than 50% capacity, sometimes less, cost an absolutel fortune to build, need their turbines refinnin every few years, and when there is not enough wind to power them they have to be kept moving artificially in order that their shafts do not bow - by drawing power from the national grid!

    some red herring there popping up everywhere blink.gif lets just build dorty coal powerstations! as for refinning the ones at blyth have never been refinned huh.gif (except the ones out at sea which were struck by lighting!!!) laugh.gif

    Back to the problem with electric cars, and moviong on from the environmental stuff: a short range, th need to charge on regular basis, expensive maintenance, batteries that need replacing every few thousand miles at massive cost, expensive to build, heavy (and therefore inefficient), the need for expensive materials such as lithium to create more efficient batteries, disposal of old environmentally unfriendly batteries, a lack of engin braking hence the need for brake replacement on a regular basis, and so on, and so on.

    the batterys are as mentioned in the other thread covered by a battery service program to cover the owner from expensive battery costs.

    further more lack of engine braking, you haven't been studying the nissan leaf which uses the kinetic energy from braking/ coasting and recharges the batteries! anyway engine braking knacks your engine thats what brakes are for! wink.gif

    I said it before - has it occured to you why, given that the technology for electric cars preceded that of petrol driven ones and has been improved greatly in the past century, the internal combustion engine is still the method that leads the way? it's simple - it's because it is more efficient. The major manufacturers are working towards clean, super efficient small capacity engines that will provide more power, range, fuel economy and flexibility than ever before, that will be cheap to build as the idea is to create a series of 'world engines' and that will lead the way for many, many years to come.

    The electric car is, as it always has been and always will be, a toy only affordable by rich people.

    could have something to do with back then they didn't have global warming and people could make alot of money from the sales of petrol! cool.gif

    ps nissan leaf £28.350 with £5000 gov incentive! cheaper than a vw golf!

  8. Leccy Cars 2

    in Motors & Motoring

    Posted

    Gonna post this again...

    http://www.teslamotors.com/models/

    If that thing works as advertised Electric cars will officially be "cool"

    should be as there the topend models prices from 49 grand!

    I'm no expert, and i have not given it half the thought you seem to have, but i've watched the progress made on things like laptops and phones.

    The phone i'm using now, if i make no calls, the battery lasts for 3 days +

    My first phone, on standby, lasted for 4 hours.

    My Laptop, it has a 4 hour range.

    Before, it was said there would never be a battery made to power a computer.

    Batteries are at the stage of development now, where they contain a small charging device, that actually CHARGES the battery using radio waves.

    As these waves pass the charger, they create a positive and negative effect on a certain part, creating movement. They are attempting to use this small movement to create an alternating current which in turn will charge the battery.

    I believe they already have a working prototype based on Bluetooth technology, but has to be within a very short distance at the moment, and does not charge well enough, or last long enough at the moment to be effective.

    My point is, the technology is on its way, and i believe it will be here in my lifetime.

    couldn't agree more technology moves quicker every year! just take the computer ten year ago i could only dream of broadband watching tv over it etc battery life increases two fold every couple of months it wont be long before you can drive 500 mile on one charge!

  11. Gaza Flotilla

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    do these activists never learn? beating soldiers with metal bars will end badly!

    why couldn't they just put up there arms and surrender? probably because they've got rockets hidden in amongst the aid!

  13. Leccy Cars 2

    in Motors & Motoring

    Posted

    Same as before - expensive red herrings that represent a technological blind alley. We've been through this before.

    Put simply, there is a reason that the Internal combustion engine won over the electric car in teh first place (to the uninitiated, electric cars are nothing new and have been around for over a hundred years) and its because they are more efficient all round.

    The future is small capacity turbocharged high efficiency internal combustion engines, for at least 50 years.

    nah the combustion engine is finished as soon as people get a taste for electric cars there will be a huge drop in petrol and diesel sales. electric cars are much greener than petrol, even if we have to build a few more power stations to run them! minus the thousands of petrol emssions! we could build green power stations such as wind turbines, wave machine thingies or nuclear.

    plus theres incentives to get one i.e £5000 towards the cost, low road tax etc biggrin.gif

  16. Forum Game: Three Things You Can Do With A ........

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    First person to say "Coasters" is disqualified!! :lol:

    Make a Bird Scarer

    Nail them to and old door and put it in the front garden. (to pretend you are green and have a solar array)

    Stick them on a south facing wall to make a solarium.

    A four legged wooden chair with one leg missing.

    firewood

    wonky joke chair

    weapons

    the fluffy stuff from a vacuum cleaner

  20. World Cup Squad And World Cup Updates

    in The Sports Club

    Posted

    England's 23-man squad for the World Cup finals:

    Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), David James (Portsmouth), Robert Green (West Ham).

    Defenders: Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Ledley King (Tottenham), John Terry (Chelsea), Matthew Upson (West Ham), Stephen Warnock (Aston Villa).

    Midfielders: Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Joe Cole (Chelsea), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Aaron Lennon (Tottenham), James Milner (Aston Villa), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City).

    Forwards: Peter Crouch (Tottenham), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham), Emile Heskey (Aston Villa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8713742.stm

  21. Apple Ipad

    in Computing

    Posted

    the battery only lasts 10 hours and you need an adaptor as it does not have usb ports! queer as usb is by far the most universal connector out there! must be another apple money making scheme, loose the Dock connector adapter that comes with the ipad and they'll charge you £36 for a new one laugh.giflaugh.giflaugh.giflaugh.gif

  22. World Cup Squad And World Cup Updates

    in The Sports Club

    Posted

    buffon the itailian goal keeper says "I noticed the first day that this ball wasn't right. The World Cup brings together the best players in the world and to those players you must provide something decent. The new ball is not decent."

    in other words if he lets any goals in this is his pre-match excuse! laugh.gif

  24. Apple Ipad

    in Computing

    Posted

    Sounds like Brooker is just looking for something to write about if you ask me....

    why's that because he's not hyping the shiny apple product?

    i for one cant the point in it! what can it do that my pc cant do or any other cheaper laptop cant do!

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