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| - A Cartridge is an item in Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol. It allows Chibi-Robo to use a Park Project. Initially, Chet had all of the Cartridges, but he lost them all. Because of that, the cartridges must be found and placed in the Reader.
- In popular use, the term "bullet" is often misused to refer to complete cartridges. This is incorrect; "bullet" refers specifically to the projectile itself, not the entire cartridge.
- In Europe, 3 ml cartridges may be more commonly sold than vials. Certain Analog, r-DNA/GE/GM, and some CP Pharma bovine and porcine insulins are available in cartridge form. Aventis Lantus is available in Europe in packages of three, versus packages of five available in the U.S. In the US, Levemir, Lantus, and some other brands are available in either cartridge or prefilled pen form. The reason for choosing this format is price. For cats and small dogs who seldom finish an entire 10ml vial, 3ml cartridges are much more economical to try to use up before they expire.
- Cartridge ist die in der Fahrradtechnik und im Fahrradhandel geläufige englischsprachige Bezeichnung für industriell gedichtete Lagereinheiten. thumb|left|Patronenlager thumb|Cartridge-Steuerlager Beim Steuersatz werden als eine Einheit hergestellte Schulterkugellager als Cartridge bezeichnet. Beim Tretlager sind es die sogenannten Patronenlager, die auch als Cartridge-Lager benannt werden. Auch bei anderen Fahrradlagern, wie dem Nabenlager werden Cartridge-Lager eingesetzt.
- You mean those plastic things NES games were stored in? Yes and no. The plastic cases were just a covering, although that is why they are called cartridges (ink, bullets, and 8 track music in such cases are also called cartridges). The actual game is stored on a chip board, most of which is stored safely in the case, save for the connectors to the system.
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| - A Cartridge is an item in Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol. It allows Chibi-Robo to use a Park Project. Initially, Chet had all of the Cartridges, but he lost them all. Because of that, the cartridges must be found and placed in the Reader.
- In popular use, the term "bullet" is often misused to refer to complete cartridges. This is incorrect; "bullet" refers specifically to the projectile itself, not the entire cartridge.
- You mean those plastic things NES games were stored in? Yes and no. The plastic cases were just a covering, although that is why they are called cartridges (ink, bullets, and 8 track music in such cases are also called cartridges). The actual game is stored on a chip board, most of which is stored safely in the case, save for the connectors to the system. Cartridges have some advantages over Optical Discs. First is durability. The cartridges only have the outer connectors exposed to wear, and the systems themselves have no moving parts to wear out or overheat. Second, the games run faster; load-times are very short since data doesn't have to be physically sought on a disc or hard drive. But most importantly, the game itself only takes up a small physical part of the cartridge. The rest of the space can be used for extra chips, which can be used to increase the power of a system. Let's say the system doesn't have enough memory to run the game on the chip, but can accept extra memory from the cart. So an extra RAM chip is included. Early games with save points (like the NES Zelda games) used this trick, and included a watch battery inside the case to keep the RAM from erasing itself (Flash Memory, which doesn't need a backup battery, was several years off at this point). The NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis all used this kind of modular system to get more out of their games than the main specs allowed; the SNES was particularly known for these "expansion systems", as some of the cartridges had the Super FX chip (a dedicated GPU that added 3D capability), an add-on DSP for physics calculations, or (in the case of Super Mario RPG and a few others) an entire second CPU clocked much faster than the main CPU. The disadvantage was the cost. With enough chips, games could cost around $100. That's about how much Chrono Trigger and Phantasy Star IV cost when they came out. Even at the bare minimum, a cartridge generally cost around $14 to manufacture as opposed to about a few cents for discs, which was getting lower and lower. That's why developers left the N64 for the Play Station. Carts were just too expensive to sell games at a decent profit margin. Nintendo switched to discs with the next system. But what about handhelds? The Game Boy's simple monochrome-screen design and emphasis on battery life meant that expensive coprocessors weren't of much value; aside from a few "memory mapper" chips (which allowed bigger games than usual via bank switching), add-on chips were barely used in Game Boy carts. This meant that the games could sell for half as much as home console games, and still have a decent profit margin. Nintendo kept this through all their handhelds, even the DS and 3DS. The technology was also quite different: the Nintendo DS, for example, used flash ROM later in its run, the same kind you'd find in a USB drive. So nowadays carts seem to be back on track. As the prices of Flash Memory continue to fall and the data they hold rises while optical discs are slowing down a bit, there's a real chance that solid state distribution media could become economical again, and rather soon. In addition to the physical advantages mentioned above, they make Digital Piracy significantly more complicated since you need both a compatible blank cartridge to write on, as well as the hardware to actually do the writing. There are rumors that cartridges are actively considered as a distibution medium for the new generation of consoles, whenever it finally arrives.
- Cartridge ist die in der Fahrradtechnik und im Fahrradhandel geläufige englischsprachige Bezeichnung für industriell gedichtete Lagereinheiten. thumb|left|Patronenlager thumb|Cartridge-Steuerlager Beim Steuersatz werden als eine Einheit hergestellte Schulterkugellager als Cartridge bezeichnet. Beim Tretlager sind es die sogenannten Patronenlager, die auch als Cartridge-Lager benannt werden. Auch bei anderen Fahrradlagern, wie dem Nabenlager werden Cartridge-Lager eingesetzt. Diese Lagerart muss bei Wartung nicht nachgeschmiert werden, sondern hat eine werksseitige Schmierung für die gesamte Lebensdauer und wird daher bei Defekt ausgetauscht.
- In Europe, 3 ml cartridges may be more commonly sold than vials. Certain Analog, r-DNA/GE/GM, and some CP Pharma bovine and porcine insulins are available in cartridge form. Aventis Lantus is available in Europe in packages of three, versus packages of five available in the U.S. In the US, Levemir, Lantus, and some other brands are available in either cartridge or prefilled pen form. The reason for choosing this format is price. For cats and small dogs who seldom finish an entire 10ml vial, 3ml cartridges are much more economical to try to use up before they expire. Plastic cartridges (at least according to Novo Nordisk) are actually made of glass, and coated with plastic, to avoid interaction between the insulin and the plasticizer chemicals. So essentially they are small vials. Like a vial, you can extract insulin from them using a syringe for its greater dosage precision, though you need to remember an important rule:
* Don't replace a cartridge in a pen after using a syringe on it. Prefilled disposable Insulin pens such as the Novo Nordisk Flexpen are essentially cartridges too, and may also be used with syringes as above. Again, don't use them as pens after using with a syringe. Lente insulins and PZI insulins of any origin are not available in any types of cartridges because the insulins can't be properly resuspended for use in them.
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