Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
A lot of models that were being sold in NZ 3 years ago have since vanished. Because Smartmotion has a significant user base they seem a good trade-off of brand security against bang for buck.
Somewhere in their sales material there's an assurance about the batteries being standard and easily replaceable when required.
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
$2549 is quite an alarming price. I’ve seen Chinese stuff a lot cheaper, but guess it’s much shorter life.
It's much cheaper than the European models some shops are stocking – like, half the price.
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Rob S,
Apart from price my main concern is battery life. How long until the battery needs replacing? I looked at electric cars and couldn’t justify a purchase on price and battery life issues and would need reassurance on this before paying a hefty wedge.
Consumer NZ says:
Batteries are lithium-ion. They recharge from flat in less than four hours, and are good for 500 to 1000 recharge cycles before starting to lose capacity – that’s likely to be at least three to six years of use. Once they lose capacity, they still work but with a reduced range. Replacement batteries are readily available, costing upwards of $600 depending on brand and capacity.
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Stephen R,
taxis pass me and then go round the corner with their wheels in the cycle lane, and I think they underestimate my speed and several times have nearly driven me off the road.
I think this is becoming more of an issue as there are more cycle lanes. I recently (on my usual bike) came up the painted cycle lane to the corner of Karangahape and Newton. The light was green, but a car looking to turn left into Newton had a red turning arrow as pedestrians crossed – but while he waited, he drove across the cycle lane into my path!
I attempted to get his attention but I don't think he noticed me at any point. Sigh.
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Fraser Gardyne,
The last photo Russell looks like you are doing a burn out. Surely not.
Just a tight turn :-)
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Hard News: Friday Music: Apple and the…, in reply to andrew r,
I might go to Laneway just for Tame Impala and Car Seat Headrest and the odd kid electro surprise.
Get onto Bob Moses. Loving that record: indietronica with twang and reverb.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Apple and the…, in reply to BenWilson,
Comparing to floppy drives is a little unfair, since something many orders of magnitude better was available instead
There wasn’t any other good rewritable medium in 1998 when the iMac debuted – just Zip drives and a bunch of also-rans, There wasn’t even USB storage initially and the first flash drive wasn’t on the market till two years later – and by that time Apple had already introduced the iBook, the first laptop to ship with WiFi (aka AirPort).*
In 1998, everyone had to buy Apple’s external USB floppy drive. It was a lunatic design decision!
*I was in the room at Macworld Expo in 1999 when Jobs sprung the iBook. He started a video streaming then picked up the iBook and walked across the stage with it. It kept streaming (shittily, because it was QuickTime streaming, but still). I testified.
Here’s that “one more thing” from 1999.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Apple and the…, in reply to BenWilson,
There’s been a certain old skool beauty to being able to hand riders an aux cable and having it work 9.5 times out of 10. Bluetooth experiences have been more like 5 out of 10, and invariably involve a lot more stuffing around each time.
Gawd, that’s a pain. First-time Bluetooth pairing is really not what it ought to be. Mind you, neither is printing.
And eventually, people will come around to what a burden 100% compatibility and 2 extra grams of electronics always was. And we’ll all look back on wired headphones and stereos and speak of the bad old days, while the youth roll their eyes heavenwards.
Heh. But honestly, I just don’t use my headphone port much at all already. My cheap car stereo has USB input, so it’s a Lightning-to-USB cable there. I will grant you even that’s not as 100% failsafe as an aux cable., because it's a cheap stereo But the port doesn’t fill up with lint and become unusable either.
And yes, Bluetooth’s back-to-the-phone features are weird. Gave myself quite a fright the time I pressed the button with the old-style phone handset icon on my Bluetooth speaker. And had to ruefully apologise to the friend I inadvertently called at 11pm from my hotel room.
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Legal Beagle: On Gell-Mann Amnesia; or…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I’ve replied via email.
Thanks.
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Legal Beagle: On Gell-Mann Amnesia; or…, in reply to Vivid,
It say’s in the discharge somewhere that he’s been to/at Capri Hospital
Which is in Auckland. I don't get how moving to Auckland, where his family home and treatment centre are, would make monitoring so difficult as to preclude a sentence of community detention.
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