Power consumption is indeed better, but the hard disk accounts for only about 5% of the laptop power budget, so the changes don't significantly impact the run time. What is interesting (on the Lenovo x300 I've been using) is that the faster disk helps offset the slower, low-voltage processor. The low-voltage processor does help run time.
They're even more alike than you may think. Here's a video of little kid playing two player DDR with the dance pad and a GH guitar to control both players at once.
Chairman tender Board of nigerian National petroleum Coporation (n.n.p.c) Tel:+234-80-33013920 Fax:+234-1-7597156
Dear:sir/madam,
I guess this letter may come to you as a surprise since i had no Previous Correspondence with you. I am the chairman tender board of nigeria National Petroleum coporation (nnpc) i got your contact in the course of my Search For a reliable person with whom to handle a very confidential Transaction Involving the transfer of fund valued eight million two hundred Thousand United states dollars ($8.2m) to a safe foreign account.
The above fund in question is not connected with arms, drugs or money Laundering. It is the product of over invoice on contract awarded in 2005 by nnpc, to Microsoft for providing technical expertise, training and other security resources to Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is tasked with fighting cybercrime in the country. The Contract has long been executed and payment of the actual contract Amount Made to the foreign contractor leaving the balance of $8.2m u.s Dollars in A dormant account which my colleagues and i now want to transfer out of Nigeria into a reliable foreign account for our personal use.
I'm a geek dad of 4 kids (9, 6, 4, and 1 yrs). Obviously, a balance is necessary.
But the real thing is: Your kid(s) will be into whatever you're into. If all you do is stay inside with the XBox and plasma TV, don't be surprised if that's all they ever want to do. For Father's Day (in the US) today, I took the boys on a bike ride, then we did waste a beautiful summer afternoon in the movie theater watching Ep 3.
Always look for ways to re-live your youth with them: Legos, Star Wars, bike riding, snow forts, adventures in the woods, baseball, and mindless shows on Cartoon Network all play a part. The computer is just a new element to share together.
The ED vs. HD debate is one of the most heated that you'll find at AVS Forums.
Many current, popular 42" plasma sets are either "HD" resolution (typically around 720 lines) or "ED" resolution (480p). No one argues that the HD doesn't provide a slightly superior picture for HD content, but many argue that ED is preferrable for non-HD (SD) and DVD sources. And the price difference between the two can be dramatic. ($2500 vs. $5000).
For that $ difference, I was willing to compromise. Some pureists will make a different choice. I'm very happy with my ED Panasonic Plasma, and am hoping that in five years the price of direct-view HD sets will be within my reach.
He tried to return a copy of XP that he purchased at his campus bookstore. First the bookstore refused the return. Then Microsoft refused. So he sold it on eBay. eBay took down the auction, but then later allowed it. Microsoft countered by suing him, and trying to take his 2002 Escort as damages. Good story. I won't ruin the ending.
First time I've heard that there are different quality levels. Got any good sources? I guess it could be similar to Cat 5 vs 5e vs 6.
I did my testing with a Sony brand cable, about 1m long. Cost about $50 at Fry's. (Which, I realize is a total rip off.) I originally purchased it as I needed to free up a component input on my Panasonic.
I have a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD cable box that supports component out and HDMI out and a plasma that supports both as well. I *wanted* to see a difference with HDMI on my 42" Panasonic plasma (1024x768, not true 1080) but did not notice anything either in stills or action shots.
The 8300HD is a 2 tuner HD DVR, so I was able to pause and re-run the same HD feed through my test repeatedly. I could not see a difference, even with difficult situations like deep shadows, fade-in/fade-outs or waves/water.
The conference leader was right on: she was trying to avoid a union issue. You are not allowed to plug *anything* into the wall at the large Chicago convention sites. You must have a union electrician do it.
They're trying to revise the rules here (I live in Chicago) as they're finding more and more conventions are leaving town.
We do it by operating 10s of 1000s of laptops and 1000s of servers. We also pay lots for dedicated support engineers and consulting.
The service does no more than allow us to understand if we're going to initiate our monthly security release cycle or not. As earlier posts note, patching all those machines does not happen overnight. Even with the 3 day "heads up", the average home user running Windows Update will be patched way before the average business user.
We were very early participants in the notification service. We asked to get the patches early as well (several times), but have always been told no.
Assuming he's about to exceed his bandwidth quota (a story about his quota was the first post on the blog), the basic idea here is a the ingredients shown in an html table with the directions to whisk/boil/mash/etc in merged columns to the right of the ingredient column.
Regarding the 1999 Christmas, actually, the goods were in the warehouse, and the web site was on wobbly legs, but usually held up. However, the fulfillment arm couldn't pick, pack and ship fast enough to keep up with the incoming orders.
I had a few friends that took good paying temp jobs picking and packing toys for them, and then (remember, 1999) put "eCommerce experience" on their resume.
Don't you just hate when an advertisement gets you? I mean, this smacks so much of a paid placement, but the product category is just what I need now that the average temp in the home office has shifted up.
great example of how to use a lot of words and say absolutely nothing
and thus, it is interesting.
You are right, it says absolutely nothing, makes up quotes attributed to made up people, and comes to no real conclusion. It feels like it was auto-generated. Off topic, maybe, but interesting nonetheless.
Note, the data is indeed eight years old. (jeeze, was 1996 that long ago?) Pardon the US bias, but this still seems to reflect what I understand are current retail prices.
The bytes lost to marketing(1024*1024*1024*1024 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes) vs 1,000,000,000,000 bytes are 3x larger than the drive on the machine I'm using right now.
I know this is "just the way" drives are measured, but all those missing 24 bytes are really starting to add up.
--H
The trouble with some of their sets is that licensing agreements with their movie tie-ins prohibit them from offering generic sets. There are no more Lego castle sets because of Harry Potter. They had to ditch the space sets when they whored themselves up to George Lucas to use Star Wars themes.
Not sure what your basis for that claim is. Lego had/has Life on Mars, has Discovery Space which is all US Space equipment themed, and has the Classic Castle theme.
For those of you who want to just DIY, the best bet is to go to one of the Lego retail stores and use "Pick-A-Brick" to buy bulk bricks by the cup-full or by the kg.
Just the right size, great durability, and the padding on the back is nice and smooth so it doesn't abrade away your clothes. Beware of cases that can carry more than *you* should.
Tumi is a little over priced, but the bag will last longer than your current laptop.
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Power consumption is indeed better, but the hard disk accounts for only about 5% of the laptop power budget, so the changes don't significantly impact the run time. What is interesting (on the Lenovo x300 I've been using) is that the faster disk helps offset the slower, low-voltage processor. The low-voltage processor does help run time.
--H
Chairman tender
Board of nigerian
National petroleum
Coporation (n.n.p.c)
Tel:+234-80-33013920
Fax:+234-1-7597156
Dear:sir/madam,
I guess this letter may come to you as a surprise since i had no
Previous Correspondence with you. I am the chairman tender board of nigeria National Petroleum coporation (nnpc) i got your contact in the course of my Search For a reliable person with whom to handle a very confidential Transaction Involving the transfer of fund valued eight million two hundred Thousand United states dollars ($8.2m) to a safe foreign account.
The above fund in question is not connected with arms, drugs or money
Laundering. It is the product of over invoice on contract awarded in
2005 by nnpc, to Microsoft for providing technical expertise, training and other security resources to Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is tasked with fighting cybercrime in the country. The
Contract has long been executed and payment of the actual contract
Amount Made to the foreign contractor leaving the balance of $8.2m u.s
Dollars in A dormant account which my colleagues and i now want to transfer out of Nigeria into a reliable foreign account for our personal use.
--H
I'm a geek dad of 4 kids (9, 6, 4, and 1 yrs). Obviously, a balance is necessary.
But the real thing is: Your kid(s) will be into whatever you're into. If all you do is stay inside with the XBox and plasma TV, don't be surprised if that's all they ever want to do. For Father's Day (in the US) today, I took the boys on a bike ride, then we did waste a beautiful summer afternoon in the movie theater watching Ep 3.
Always look for ways to re-live your youth with them: Legos, Star Wars, bike riding, snow forts, adventures in the woods, baseball, and mindless shows on Cartoon Network all play a part. The computer is just a new element to share together.
--H
Many current, popular 42" plasma sets are either "HD" resolution (typically around 720 lines) or "ED" resolution (480p). No one argues that the HD doesn't provide a slightly superior picture for HD content, but many argue that ED is preferrable for non-HD (SD) and DVD sources. And the price difference between the two can be dramatic. ($2500 vs. $5000).
For that $ difference, I was willing to compromise. Some pureists will make a different choice. I'm very happy with my ED Panasonic Plasma, and am hoping that in five years the price of direct-view HD sets will be within my reach.
--H
He tried to return a copy of XP that he purchased at his campus bookstore. First the bookstore refused the return. Then Microsoft refused. So he sold it on eBay. eBay took down the auction, but then later allowed it. Microsoft countered by suing him, and trying to take his 2002 Escort as damages. Good story. I won't ruin the ending.
--H
I did my testing with a Sony brand cable, about 1m long. Cost about $50 at Fry's. (Which, I realize is a total rip off.) I originally purchased it as I needed to free up a component input on my Panasonic.
--HI have a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD cable box that supports component out and HDMI out and a plasma that supports both as well. I *wanted* to see a difference with HDMI on my 42" Panasonic plasma (1024x768, not true 1080) but did not notice anything either in stills or action shots.
The 8300HD is a 2 tuner HD DVR, so I was able to pause and re-run the same HD feed through my test repeatedly. I could not see a difference, even with difficult situations like deep shadows, fade-in/fade-outs or waves/water.
--H
The conference leader was right on: she was trying to avoid a union issue. You are not allowed to plug *anything* into the wall at the large Chicago convention sites. You must have a union electrician do it.
They're trying to revise the rules here (I live in Chicago) as they're finding more and more conventions are leaving town.
--H
Not so fast
--H
We do it by operating 10s of 1000s of laptops and 1000s of servers. We also pay lots for dedicated support engineers and consulting.
The service does no more than allow us to understand if we're going to initiate our monthly security release cycle or not. As earlier posts note, patching all those machines does not happen overnight. Even with the 3 day "heads up", the average home user running Windows Update will be patched way before the average business user.
We were very early participants in the notification service. We asked to get the patches early as well (several times), but have always been told no.
--H
post on the blog), the basic idea here is a the ingredients shown in an html table with the
directions to whisk/boil/mash/etc in merged columns to the right of the ingredient column.
Google cache shows the idea for his BBQ sauce recipe.
--H
Regarding the 1999 Christmas, actually, the goods were in the warehouse, and the web site was on wobbly legs, but usually held up. However, the fulfillment arm couldn't pick, pack and ship fast enough to keep up with the incoming orders.
I had a few friends that took good paying temp jobs picking and packing toys for them, and then (remember, 1999) put "eCommerce experience" on their resume.
--H
I was using them in more of a "cube farm" setting, where a not-uncommon use case was to sit on a conference call for an hour.
There, we found characteristics not unlike a cell phone: handset gets uncomfortably hot, and your battery is close to tapped out.
Some manufacturers have worked around this problem by allowing the phone to be used with a head-set while still in the charging cradle.
--H
We had trouble with more than 8 concurrent connections on a single access point, and also had troubles with these phones running hot.
Are the 100+ phones spread across a campus, or in a single location? How many concurrent calls are you able to handle on a single AP?
--H
Don't you just hate when an advertisement gets you? I mean, this smacks so much of a paid placement, but the product category is just what I need now that the average temp in the home office has shifted up.
--H
Here's the article.
--H
I think we should have a consistent answer to the guy who answers the 800 number. Something like "Sorry, wrong number. Bork bork." ?
--H
and thus, it is interesting.
You are right, it says absolutely nothing, makes up quotes attributed to made up people, and comes to no real conclusion. It feels like it was auto-generated. Off topic, maybe, but interesting nonetheless.
--H
While CD-prices differ widely in comparison - at 1996 exchange rates, a normal CD cost
below US-$ 16.00 in the USA
US-$ 14.00 in Canada
US-$ 25.00 in Japan
US-$ 23.00 in Germany
US-$ 24.00 in the UK
Source
Note, the data is indeed eight years old. (jeeze, was 1996 that long ago?) Pardon the US bias, but this still seems to reflect what I understand are current retail prices.
--H
I know this is "just the way" drives are measured, but all those missing 24 bytes are really starting to add up. --H
--H
OQO 1.0
The only real change I noticed from the original spec was a 20Gb HD, vs 10Gb in the first.
--H
Not sure what your basis for that claim is. Lego had/has Life on Mars, has Discovery Space which is all US Space equipment themed, and has the Classic Castle theme.
For those of you who want to just DIY, the best bet is to go to one of the Lego retail stores and use "Pick-A-Brick" to buy bulk bricks by the cup-full or by the kg.
--H
Just the right size, great durability, and the padding on the back is nice and smooth so it doesn't abrade away your clothes. Beware of cases that can carry more than *you* should.
Tumi is a little over priced, but the bag will last longer than your current laptop.
--H