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Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You
Ant writes with a story from Dan's Data, which says that the battery meter and connection-strength displays in your portable electronics are lying to you, "and not just when they whisper to you in the night." Quoting: "Mobile phones, and most modern laptops, have signal strength and battery life displays. One or both of these displays has probably been the focus of all of your attention at one time or another. Neither display is actually telling you what you think it's telling you. The signal strength bars on a mobile phone or laptop do, at least, say something about how strong the local signal is. But they don't tell you the ratio between that signal and the inevitable, and often very considerable, noise that accompanies it ..."
That is hot, I really need to read at -1 more often.
OT I know, but your sig: "PC games lack single-screen multiplayer. Console games lack mods. So what should I buy?"
PC games lack of single-screen multiplayer is a bonus most of the times.(one of the 3 big reasons why I hate consoles) And there are some games that can be played with 1 computer for multiplayer. Worms, Civ4, etc.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive
Unbelieveably hot cuz the member name is Lisa, which means there's at least a 10% chance the poster is A CHICK!
Girl-on-Girl action while one of them is coding?!?
There is NOTHING hotter!