2) Most people won't mind the slow shut down, even in a scenario where the computer is being turned on and off frequently. Why? You shut down because you want to do something else, so the computer can painlessly finish the process in the background where you don't need to notice it. Yes, it will hurt battery life by extending the powered up state for a little longer than your actual usage time, but it then shaves most or all of that off of boot time, which is subjectively more critical.
Actually this matters to me more than boot time. If I've got to finish with the laptop I want it to shut down and be off as fast as possible.. because I need to *be* somewhere, and it's not safe to put a laptop in a bag whilst it's still shutting down (several collegues have nuked their hard disks trying that one).
I'm not sure whether mine works or not.. how would you know? People are often saying that things like roses 'smell nice' when all I can smell is that slightly damp smell that all plants smell of...
I also can't smell body odour, but I'm not convinced half the people that say they can are able to.. they're conditioned to by advertising for deoderants etc. - they see someone that looks like they haven't washed for a few days and go 'they smell' without any other evidence.
And for sending nearly all plans include more messages free than the average user will use anyway (excluding teenagers, although there are 5000 free texts/month and more plans for them).
The battery on a pager lasts for weeks. On some models, months. Pagers don't transmit, so they can be used in high sensitivity areas. They're very cheap to run.
Pagers are still popular - in places like Hospitals they're still mandatory as mobile phones are banned (still, although that's (slowly) changing).
If it's the one I saw the driver even gets loaded in safe mode.
You have to boot onto a rescue DVD and find the driver file, delete that and it'll stop the driver loading. Then boot into safe mode (if you boot into normal mode the user mode code will reinstall the driver) and find every copy of the executable and nuke it.
Problem is handheld devices such as the PSP are yet to support it - they're TKIP only. Worse, even if you switch the router to accept both type of encryption it breaks some devices which can only understand a router in tkip-only mode.
Quote: "efore the controversial "Their probably is no God" Bus campaign designed by Richard Dawkins, odds on a God existing were a decent 33-1. However now the campaign has resulted in the odds being cut to only 4-1."
It's rare but being hit by metorites *does* happen. I can't find a recorded instance since 2002 (although there's a nice picture of a destroyed car from 1992 which probably doesn't count as it didn't hit a person.
Of course by the time it hits someone it's normally little more than a very hot pebble, and causes little more than some burning.
If something the size of a fridge hit you you'd feel a little bit more than a burning sensation!
Studying how to tie shoelaces is hardly what 'math guys' do. It's worthy of a slashdot article but I'll wager the article is written by a couple of students who'd had too much beer.
Surely there's only one? Sure there are probably infinite ways to create a knot that would be a bugger to get out, but that's not really tying shoelaces is it.. the whole point is they come undone when you pull them, and universally this is done only one way.
So you use the PS3's player key. Sony aren't going to disable that in a hurry - not that it's Sony who disable the keys.. they're just the maker of the most popular player.
The iphones browser does have speed issues, probably down to the processor. It seem to pause for a few seconds whilst loading pages, so for example I can bring up the bbc.co.uk page in under a second on this network in firefox, on the iphone over the same wifi it takes 15 seconds - I can't believe the data rate of the iphone is that poor (I expect it can't do a full 54g but I'm only on a 10meg connection anyway) so that leaves the processor.
If the M1 has a faster processor it's going to be faster.. there isn't much to argue about. Whether it's a better phone is subjective - I don't choose my phones based on browser speed:p
Well that really depends on how near you are to a source of heat... in fact overheating is a problem in the solar system as it's difficult to get rid of the heat from the sun.
They make virtual money.. that's not a tangible benefit. And 'a dozen stories a week'? Total BS. There was a rash of it last year when it was being talked up then nothing.
The only reason people use SL is for cyber sex. It's not even a decent 3d environment - pretty much all the mmorpgs did better than that years ago.
That's because there can never be credit in a virtual world. If I lend someone a virtual $1000 what's to stop them deleting their character the next day and running off with the money? Nothing at all.
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2) Most people won't mind the slow shut down, even in a scenario where the computer is being turned on and off frequently. Why? You shut down because you want to do something else, so the computer can painlessly finish the process in the background where you don't need to notice it. Yes, it will hurt battery life by extending the powered up state for a little longer than your actual usage time, but it then shaves most or all of that off of boot time, which is subjectively more critical.
Actually this matters to me more than boot time. If I've got to finish with the laptop I want it to shut down and be off as fast as possible.. because I need to *be* somewhere, and it's not safe to put a laptop in a bag whilst it's still shutting down (several collegues have nuked their hard disks trying that one).
I'm not sure whether mine works or not.. how would you know? People are often saying that things like roses 'smell nice' when all I can smell is that slightly damp smell that all plants smell of...
I also can't smell body odour, but I'm not convinced half the people that say they can are able to.. they're conditioned to by advertising for deoderants etc. - they see someone that looks like they haven't washed for a few days and go 'they smell' without any other evidence.
Then how does it smell?
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And for sending nearly all plans include more messages free than the average user will use anyway (excluding teenagers, although there are 5000 free texts/month and more plans for them).
The battery on a pager lasts for weeks. On some models, months. Pagers don't transmit, so they can be used in high sensitivity areas. They're very cheap to run.
Pagers are still popular - in places like Hospitals they're still mandatory as mobile phones are banned (still, although that's (slowly) changing).
BTW, I believe OS X has voice recognition built in you may want to check out for controlling your computer
I know reading articles is verbotten for slashdotters but the summary???
I find that the build in speech recognition systems in both OS X and Vista, clunky and difficult to use
It's the equivalent of Clark Kent taking off his glasses so that nobody recognizes who he is when he's flying around in spandex.
If it's the one I saw the driver even gets loaded in safe mode.
You have to boot onto a rescue DVD and find the driver file, delete that and it'll stop the driver loading. Then boot into safe mode (if you boot into normal mode the user mode code will reinstall the driver) and find every copy of the executable and nuke it.
If you miss one it's back to square one.
Personally I'd just reinstall...
Not really.. if you capture the data stream somewhere you can take all the time you like to break the key.
Problem is handheld devices such as the PSP are yet to support it - they're TKIP only. Worse, even if you switch the router to accept both type of encryption it breaks some devices which can only understand a router in tkip-only mode.
Even funnier is the original story had *nothing* to do with the LHC, and was linked to a campaign by Richard Dawkins.
http://www.gamingalerts.co.uk/news/industry-news/Bookies-hold-bets-on-whether-God-exists3699.html
Quote:
"efore the controversial "Their probably is no God" Bus campaign designed by Richard Dawkins, odds on a God existing were a decent 33-1. However now the campaign has resulted in the odds being cut to only 4-1."
The LHC angle is a uniquely slashdot take one it.
I vote Australia.
The large ISPs in the UK do tend to suck. It seems the bigger they get the less they care about individual customers.
It's rare but being hit by metorites *does* happen. I can't find a recorded instance since 2002 (although there's a nice picture of a destroyed car from 1992 which probably doesn't count as it didn't hit a person.
Of course by the time it hits someone it's normally little more than a very hot pebble, and causes little more than some burning.
If something the size of a fridge hit you you'd feel a little bit more than a burning sensation!
Studying how to tie shoelaces is hardly what 'math guys' do. It's worthy of a slashdot article but I'll wager the article is written by a couple of students who'd had too much beer.
Surely there's only one? Sure there are probably infinite ways to create a knot that would be a bugger to get out, but that's not really tying shoelaces is it.. the whole point is they come undone when you pull them, and universally this is done only one way.
So you use the PS3's player key. Sony aren't going to disable that in a hurry - not that it's Sony who disable the keys.. they're just the maker of the most popular player.
Quoting the Daily Fail is never a good idea..
That's 1.5bn christmas bonus shared between 10,000 staff and 5.5bn in salary that they'd have to pay anyway.
Yes it's a big figure, but it's nowhere *near* as bad as the headline would suggest.
The iphones browser does have speed issues, probably down to the processor. It seem to pause for a few seconds whilst loading pages, so for example I can bring up the bbc.co.uk page in under a second on this network in firefox, on the iphone over the same wifi it takes 15 seconds - I can't believe the data rate of the iphone is that poor (I expect it can't do a full 54g but I'm only on a 10meg connection anyway) so that leaves the processor.
If the M1 has a faster processor it's going to be faster.. there isn't much to argue about. Whether it's a better phone is subjective - I don't choose my phones based on browser speed :p
It's pretty cold in space....
Well that really depends on how near you are to a source of heat... in fact overheating is a problem in the solar system as it's difficult to get rid of the heat from the sun.
You switched *to* Vista. It's nothing to do with apple. Ask why Microsoft didn't write a conversion utility instead.
Theoretically, yes. In practice, unlikely to happen. You'd still need to verify the suspect images some other way though.
They make virtual money.. that's not a tangible benefit. And 'a dozen stories a week'? Total BS. There was a rash of it last year when it was being talked up then nothing.
The only reason people use SL is for cyber sex. It's not even a decent 3d environment - pretty much all the mmorpgs did better than that years ago.
That's because there can never be credit in a virtual world. If I lend someone a virtual $1000 what's to stop them deleting their character the next day and running off with the money? Nothing at all.