I'm not sure that you really read what I actually wrote: "Fully discharging a lithium battery is a Very Bad Thing" (see first sentence of my post).

By "fully cycle" (not "fully discharge") is meant that you run the laptop until it shuts *itself* off, and then you recharge. The shutting off occurs not when the battery is fully discharged -- the "smarts" inside the battery are specifically designed to prevent this. The point of my discussion about memory effects in lithium batteries is that, if you do not fully cycle (in the sense of the term just defined) the batt from time to time, the smarts can get confused about when it should shut off. This confusion results in a premature cutoff, long before the cells have actually discharged too far, and you will believe that your battery is no good when in fact the only problem is that the logic has made an erroneous decision.

Hope that this explanation clears things up a bit.