And if I start getting ads, I'm leaving.

I don't recall the details, but there's a company out there -- somewhere -- that offers, or offered at one time, to take your minecraft "thing" and give you a 3D print of it. Make it real, sort of.

It's be interesting to see the same thing with the lego software. An opportunity, perhaps.

I wonder if they've weighed the sponges. One possibility is that the sponges are deteriorating in a particular direction, thus engaging in conventional "stuff out one end makes you go the other way" propulsion. And also becoming traditional "will get used up" style fuel in the process. :)

Though it'd be all kinds of awesome if it was creating coherent motion out of energy delivered by photons without wearing out. Now *that* could be a space drive.

Not to worry, he had religion to take care of that for him.

So you're positing that putting a higher load on her phone and a lower load on mine would result in her phone outlasting mine? See, I understand the scientific method just fine, but I also have some basic common sense, which seems to be lost on you.

Noticing a pattern yet? Noticing that this has NOTHING to do with which political party is in power?

Yeah... this country has been taken over. The nifty part is we do not know who or which organized group of people did it, but you can bet they are exceedingly wealthy... enough to make Bill Gates blush.

And yet my phone, under higher usage than hers, lasts longer. If it were the other way around I'd see your point.

Hey it's all some people can get. Not everyone is as employable as you and I.

If you can afford it. Otherwise, everyone who can afford it is subsidizing it for everyone who can't.

Minimum wage, part time 16hr/wk. That's all some people can get (and a second job is out of the question because they want open availability, which the first job prevents them from having). That's $6032/yr gross, $5143/yr net assuming standard deduction. Show me a budget that allows a single person to survive on $429/mo (I rounded it up to make it easier on you). Be sure to include city and state, so I can know *where* a person can survive on that budget.

Sure, they can find a room somewhere for $150/mo, ride the bus to and from work (4x 4 hour shifts is 8 trips per week, 34 or 36 trips per month depending on how the days fall so we'll average that to 35) at $2.50 per trip that's $87.50 per month. They need clothes, one outfit per day for two weeks to minimize laundry costs, plus an outfit to wear for laundry, so 15 outfits, replaced every 6 months as clothes do wear out, so an average of 1.25 outfits per month at a cost of $20 per pair of pants and $15 per shirt if we're going cheap, which comes to $43.75 per month. We're already up to $281.25 and we still have to do laundry and eat. Ever been to a laundromat? 2 weeks worth of clothes costs $10 to wash, 26 loads per year, that's 2.16 load per month, $21.60 per month for laundry brings us up to $302.85, leaving $126.15 for food. That miiiiiiiiiiight be doable in some cities, but not in most. And we never actually got that 16/hr per week job because guess what? We can't afford a phone for them to call us on. And if we did somehow manage to land a job anyway, we've lost it within the first month because we can't afford a phone for them to call us on to tell us they need us to come in. Or we've wasted bus far (2 trips) because they couldn't call us to tell us they actually didn't need us that day; on top of now not getting paid for the day.

Yes, a budget and roommates solve everyone's problems.

My phone: all radios on. Her phone: all radios on. Aside from that, I discuss usage patterns elsewhere in the thread; mine certainly sees more use than hers. Unfortunately, since there is no possible way for me to run an SMTP server or an HTTP server with PHP support on an iPhone, swapping phones with her to test the impact of usage patterns is not a viable option; but the SMTP and HTTP servers I run on my phone for on-the-go development and testing are certainly battery hogs, I can't imagine the iPhone would fare any better running those.

I never said it does, but The Population voted for a President who did and enough of Congress agreed. There's also a greater public good served by controlling the spread of disease and keeping the populace able to work and contribute to society for as long as possible. That feeds into the minimum wage discussion, as well, which I'll get to. Personally, I make well over minimum wage and my insurance cost less (and for better coverage) before Obamacare, but I recognize the value of both.

A livable minimum wage means people can afford to take time off of work when they're sick, which means Joe, the guy making your burger (or serving your lobster, this isn't just limited to fast food) has the option of taking the day off instead of spreading his illness to your food and, thus, to you. A socialized health care system means Joe can also see a doctor when he takes the day off due to that illness, get treated, and get back to work sooner. That makes Joe a more productive member of society while ensuring that Joe isn't spreading his illness and making others less productive. Joe's livable wage and government-backed free health care aren't just a benefit to Joe, they're a benefit to all of the people he would otherwise have made sick, and anyone those people would have, in turn made sick, and so on, and so forth. In other words, to society as a whole, even those of us who don't live on minimum wage and free health care.

I hope Android can go to Turbo Vision style interface before it finally reverts to a command-line interface.

Can't plan for everything. Glad you're okay though; otherwise, there would be no counterexample to prove my point.

The vast majority of switch mode converters are RFI nightmares. Just FYI. It can be a problem in some installations.

Also, damn, this is why I don't post from my phone (I've turned off autocorrect or it might have been worse).