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Comment Good idea, stupid form factor (Score 0) 514

The battery is shown installed hanging on a wall. Its dimensions are H: 1300mm W: 860mm D:180mm, so it's too wide to fit in a closet. You also can't fit it under e.g. a workbench (in any orientation), so your only installation option is a blank expanse of wall. It also looks like the front panel is curved, so you can't install it lying on its back and then put anything on top of it.

So once again marketing (hey, let's make a glossy design that stands out and is impossible to hide) wins over practicality (let's make a rectangular box that can be installed somewhere unobtrusive).

Comment Re:Enhanced images have always had a downside (Score 1) 28

Even when I was growing up (in the 1950s) my first impressions of astronomy were formed by illustrations of the solar system--shown from a point of view outside the system, with the orbits displayed as brightly colored, ellipses ...

Now that would be cool; standing at a point where the ecliptic plane is right overhead, and seeing a bright red ribbon erupting from the ground, extending straight up as far as the eye can see. The eruption point would move at 1600 km/h and the ribbon itself would move up at 29 km/s. I'm so disappointed this doesn't happen :-)

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Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps 222

New submitter Robertgilberts writes with word that Google is dropping the old version of Maps. The new version of Google Maps came out of preview back in February 2014 and was in beta for several months before that. The only way to access the old version of Google Maps was via a special URL or if you had a very old browser that did not support the new version of Google Maps. Consolation prize: There will still be a lighter-weight version, which "drops out many of the neat Google Maps features in exchange for speed and compatibility."

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