fastest is in some part due to v8, but that is already cross platform, IIRC. It's not just webkit that makes it fast, and v8 hasn't been rolled into other official releases of other browsers yet.
A lot of the practical stability is due the multiprocess design, which has not been implemented in much of the competition either.
It's mostly thanks to webkit, but not entirely. Chrome is unique in some regards, at least for the moment.
A UPS won't help with noise, heat, efficiency or a low wattage rating. Depending on your requirements, it's not an area where you can skimp on one and make it up with the other.
Naw, that's just decent search. I'd never noticed it showing any sort of preference for what I commonly use(I suppose that is what 'Top Hit' is trying for, though the results aren't exactly impressive) and the interface isn't integrated into the non-existent address bar in finder.
I'm only running Tiger(10.4), as opposed to Leopard(10.5), so there may be some changes.
It's useful and saves me a bunch of time while I'm typesetting, but it isn't really what in an ideal world. I want the UI and functionality; Spotlight just isn't awesome enough.
wake on lan and the webui for your bit torrent client? Heck, most clients can even be configured to shut back down, once your seeding ratio is reached.
just uncheck the little box next to it in MSConfig. It won't run unless you install one of google's other apps(gtalk, google earth, google desktop, etc.), which it is also responsible for updating. In that scenario, you may have to spend another 30 seconds to uncheck the box again.
With the new one, if you come here regularly you shouldn't really have to type anything.
don't bother with the www. part. Heck, unless you want the slashdot homepage, don't type slashdot. If you want this page again, type chrome and out. You want your comments page, type in comments and it will be near the top.
You can get to the specific page you want, without having to mess about with incomprehensible urls. I can't wait till they roll awesomebar-esque behavior into a file browser.
I love the thing, because I no longer load up webpages, just so I can get to pages I've already seen.
Chrome, of course, has the exact same type of addressbar, but it is also geared toward search. If it is just because of the awesomebar, Chrome is kinda a bad choice. A better option would be one of the FF plug-ins that just change it back to the FF2 version.
I suppose you have a point there, but it's not too much of a problem for me. I just click on the tab, but I typically run at least 1280x1024 and rarely have more than a dozen tabs open in a browser.
No I haven't. I do use them via VNC from my n810, and with some tweaking to the client(so the alt buttons that invoke mouse2/3 to be toggles rather than momentary action) it works pretty well. It works pretty great as a remote for controlling media players and browsing(but not posting tiny keyboards suck).
Ctrl+Tab, right next to Alt-Tab, lets me keep a hand on the mouse (which is very much in use during a browsing session, especially with mouse gestures), without the additional movement needed to click on tabs. Ctrl+Tab is a much better use of both hands than Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn will ever be.
you use mouse gestures, why do you need to use the keyboard to change tabs? Set up next/previous/close/unclose after a week you'll never reach for the keyboard again, unless you're typing.
You know between kids rolling on DXM and rednecks making Methamphetamine out of pseudoephedrine, they actually have done a lot to limit access by kids. Many places have fairly strict limitations on quality and you will often need an ID-either to show your age or prove this isn't the 50th box of Sudafed you've bought.
Thanks to the god damned tweakers, you can't even buy decent lye anymore. Do you have any idea how hard it is to do any sort of backyard organic chem if you can't get access to decent lye?
Actually having read the patent, it would seem to apply to any and all methods of cooling something portable using 1)a fluid, 2)a pump, and 3)tubes.
damned retarded patent. In some of the cases where they talk about heat pipe they are talking about the real thing, but then they go on to talk about phase change in wholly unrelated methodology. The whole thing is just insanely broad. I freaking hate patents these days.
Well, you could still pump the liquid back to the hot side, and use convection to pull it away. They are just replacing the capillary action with a pump.
So long as they still keep the whole thing under a partial vacuum and moving heat away from the hot side via convection. I'm OK with calling it some form of heat pipe.
It's not like they are using a compressor or anything, they are just helping out the circulation. Heck, plenty of heat pipes use gravity to get the liquid back, but that's not really going to work with a laptop.
Meh, yeah, it is not what I think of when I hear heat pipe. But it uses a lot of the same processes, and the math for heat transfer should work out to be about the same, with maybe a bit more capacity(and the new ability to suffer mechanical failures).
That or it is just non-novel nonsense. A standard phase change system or heat pipes hooked up to('coupled with') a pump powered liquid cooling system.
It's not that the drivers will stop working or anything, but most programs don't handle more than 3 or 4 mouse buttons. The rest aren't going to be too useful, unless something converts the clicks over to something programs will understand.
The logitech drivers let you remap the unused, or poorly used, buttons. You can use 3rd party programs for this(you will have to if you run a Mac due to lack of support from Logitech), but their drivers work well.
It really shouldn't cost that much to maintain such a blacklist. All schools and most government facilities are going to use some sort of similar service. That's thousands or millions of individual contracts generating profits for private industry or the government running a couple of servers and paying a few dozen people to run searches on google and maintain a database or two.
The cost to the government to run a couple blacklists should, be trivial compared to the costs of paying private industry to do the same. Even if it is run terribly, the government should be able to same money doing it themselves.
Only real cost issue would be fending off lawsuits from companies who feel they were inappropriately blocked.
Of course concerns about sites getting blocked for political reasons are valid, and the whole big brother/censorship thing gives me the screaming hebejeebies. Still, if it was run by the government there would consistency and probably be more(some) transparency than if it was handled by private firms.
You need mice with more buttons and wheels. Without some extra bit of software, mouse buttons 4-10 aren't going to do too much for you.
You don't really 'need' one, but it does make life a lot easier if you use windows. They will also do things like monitor the power of wireless devices, so you will have some notice before the battery dies.
Can you think of any way that an organization could make money producing CC licensed movies?
Product placement. Producing propaganda for a third party(probably a non profit) and charging more than it costs to produce the movie. Providing support for people who have watched the movie(Confused by Primer? Check out the ad supported website. Remake 'Grave of Fireflies' and charge people for tissues, anti-depressants and counseling.)
Well, there used to be the whole Payola thing, but that isn't exactly legal. He could be getting today confused with the 1950s. It's an easy enough mistake to make, if you aren't paying overly close attention to current events.
Wouldn't an adder just involve writing to two memristors and reading their values in series? If you write to them in what the rest of your hardware considers base 10, that's how they will get interpreted once you are actually dealing with numbers again.
So long as I don't have to do anything other than add, I don't see where the problem is(other than needless conversions to binary and back).
This is not about data protection. It is about making the device unusable. Just like you can block your phone when it is stolen.
It will not stop thiefs of stealing your device. It will not protect your data. As far as I read it does not even claim to do that.
So, all the talk about how this forces the drive encryption to activate by requiring a shutdown rather than a suspend/hibernate wasn't about protecting data?
from TFA:
Since hard disk drive encryption will not work properly if the PC is running or in hibernation mode, this disable feature ensures that the data is secure by shutting the machine down and allowing the hard disk drive encryption to work. If and when the ThinkPad laptop is recovered, the user can restore the notebook, its settings and the data contained on the PC by entering a password.
So, there is nothing about protecting the data? Carry on.
It's BS. They are using D) to mean Taxes/population = Spending/population where taxes = spending. Which is undeniably true.
Of course, that's not how most people interpret the phrase 'per person', which to many people would imply the benefits for each individual are equal to the taxes that individual paid.
I assumed they were being dumb with A, and should have used deficit. meh.
Right, there are a lot of bad things about NCLB. It lowers the standard for all students. It forces teachers and schools to design their lesson plans around tests. It causes the schools that most need help to be punished for poor performance. Really good schools get rated poorly, because they look for improvement, and it is hard to improve when most of your students already score high on the tests.
The social promotion thing is more of a hold over from the 80s and 90s, and is one of the few things the constant standardized tests of NCLB probably helps to fight(a very small amount).
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fastest is in some part due to v8, but that is already cross platform, IIRC. It's not just webkit that makes it fast, and v8 hasn't been rolled into other official releases of other browsers yet.
A lot of the practical stability is due the multiprocess design, which has not been implemented in much of the competition either.
It's mostly thanks to webkit, but not entirely. Chrome is unique in some regards, at least for the moment.
We do?
Since when?
You mean subs can go past 20,000 and not crush like eggs?
Umm... just how deep do you think the Mediterranean Sea is?
A UPS won't help with noise, heat, efficiency or a low wattage rating. Depending on your requirements, it's not an area where you can skimp on one and make it up with the other.
Naw, that's just decent search. I'd never noticed it showing any sort of preference for what I commonly use(I suppose that is what 'Top Hit' is trying for, though the results aren't exactly impressive) and the interface isn't integrated into the non-existent address bar in finder.
I'm only running Tiger(10.4), as opposed to Leopard(10.5), so there may be some changes.
It's useful and saves me a bunch of time while I'm typesetting, but it isn't really what in an ideal world. I want the UI and functionality; Spotlight just isn't awesome enough.
wake on lan and the webui for your bit torrent client? Heck, most clients can even be configured to shut back down, once your seeding ratio is reached.
just uncheck the little box next to it in MSConfig. It won't run unless you install one of google's other apps(gtalk, google earth, google desktop, etc.), which it is also responsible for updating. In that scenario, you may have to spend another 30 seconds to uncheck the box again.
With the new one, if you come here regularly you shouldn't really have to type anything.
don't bother with the www. part. Heck, unless you want the slashdot homepage, don't type slashdot. If you want this page again, type chrome and out. You want your comments page, type in comments and it will be near the top.
You can get to the specific page you want, without having to mess about with incomprehensible urls. I can't wait till they roll awesomebar-esque behavior into a file browser.
I love the thing, because I no longer load up webpages, just so I can get to pages I've already seen.
Chrome, of course, has the exact same type of addressbar, but it is also geared toward search. If it is just because of the awesomebar, Chrome is kinda a bad choice. A better option would be one of the FF plug-ins that just change it back to the FF2 version.
I suppose you have a point there, but it's not too much of a problem for me. I just click on the tab, but I typically run at least 1280x1024 and rarely have more than a dozen tabs open in a browser.
No I haven't. I do use them via VNC from my n810, and with some tweaking to the client(so the alt buttons that invoke mouse2/3 to be toggles rather than momentary action) it works pretty well. It works pretty great as a remote for controlling media players and browsing(but not posting tiny keyboards suck).
Ctrl+Tab, right next to Alt-Tab, lets me keep a hand on the mouse (which is very much in use during a browsing session, especially with mouse gestures), without the additional movement needed to click on tabs. Ctrl+Tab is a much better use of both hands than Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn will ever be.
you use mouse gestures, why do you need to use the keyboard to change tabs? Set up next/previous/close/unclose after a week you'll never reach for the keyboard again, unless you're typing.
You know between kids rolling on DXM and rednecks making Methamphetamine out of pseudoephedrine, they actually have done a lot to limit access by kids. Many places have fairly strict limitations on quality and you will often need an ID-either to show your age or prove this isn't the 50th box of Sudafed you've bought.
Thanks to the god damned tweakers, you can't even buy decent lye anymore. Do you have any idea how hard it is to do any sort of backyard organic chem if you can't get access to decent lye?
Actually having read the patent, it would seem to apply to any and all methods of cooling something portable using 1)a fluid, 2)a pump, and 3)tubes.
damned retarded patent. In some of the cases where they talk about heat pipe they are talking about the real thing, but then they go on to talk about phase change in wholly unrelated methodology. The whole thing is just insanely broad. I freaking hate patents these days.
(you can actually feel from the outside of the laptop where the hot spots are)
They are probably going have far fewer issues with hot spots, now that the case is a single carved chunk of aluminum.
Give their marketing people a few years to bring fins back into style, and their cases are going to be massive heat sinks.
Well, you could still pump the liquid back to the hot side, and use convection to pull it away. They are just replacing the capillary action with a pump.
So long as they still keep the whole thing under a partial vacuum and moving heat away from the hot side via convection. I'm OK with calling it some form of heat pipe.
It's not like they are using a compressor or anything, they are just helping out the circulation. Heck, plenty of heat pipes use gravity to get the liquid back, but that's not really going to work with a laptop.
Meh, yeah, it is not what I think of when I hear heat pipe. But it uses a lot of the same processes, and the math for heat transfer should work out to be about the same, with maybe a bit more capacity(and the new ability to suffer mechanical failures).
That or it is just non-novel nonsense. A standard phase change system or heat pipes hooked up to('coupled with') a pump powered liquid cooling system.
It's not that the drivers will stop working or anything, but most programs don't handle more than 3 or 4 mouse buttons. The rest aren't going to be too useful, unless something converts the clicks over to something programs will understand.
The logitech drivers let you remap the unused, or poorly used, buttons. You can use 3rd party programs for this(you will have to if you run a Mac due to lack of support from Logitech), but their drivers work well.
It really shouldn't cost that much to maintain such a blacklist. All schools and most government facilities are going to use some sort of similar service. That's thousands or millions of individual contracts generating profits for private industry or the government running a couple of servers and paying a few dozen people to run searches on google and maintain a database or two.
The cost to the government to run a couple blacklists should, be trivial compared to the costs of paying private industry to do the same. Even if it is run terribly, the government should be able to same money doing it themselves.
Only real cost issue would be fending off lawsuits from companies who feel they were inappropriately blocked.
Of course concerns about sites getting blocked for political reasons are valid, and the whole big brother/censorship thing gives me the screaming hebejeebies. Still, if it was run by the government there would consistency and probably be more(some) transparency than if it was handled by private firms.
You need mice with more buttons and wheels. Without some extra bit of software, mouse buttons 4-10 aren't going to do too much for you.
You don't really 'need' one, but it does make life a lot easier if you use windows. They will also do things like monitor the power of wireless devices, so you will have some notice before the battery dies.
Can you think of any way that an organization could make money producing CC licensed movies?
Product placement.
Producing propaganda for a third party(probably a non profit) and charging more than it costs to produce the movie.
Providing support for people who have watched the movie(Confused by Primer? Check out the ad supported website. Remake 'Grave of Fireflies' and charge people for tissues, anti-depressants and counseling.)
Well, there used to be the whole Payola thing, but that isn't exactly legal. He could be getting today confused with the 1950s. It's an easy enough mistake to make, if you aren't paying overly close attention to current events.
Wouldn't an adder just involve writing to two memristors and reading their values in series? If you write to them in what the rest of your hardware considers base 10, that's how they will get interpreted once you are actually dealing with numbers again.
So long as I don't have to do anything other than add, I don't see where the problem is(other than needless conversions to binary and back).
This is not about data protection. It is about making the device unusable. Just like you can block your phone when it is stolen.
It will not stop thiefs of stealing your device. It will not protect your data. As far as I read it does not even claim to do that.
So, all the talk about how this forces the drive encryption to activate by requiring a shutdown rather than a suspend/hibernate wasn't about protecting data?
from TFA:
Since hard disk drive encryption will not work properly if the PC is running or in hibernation mode, this disable feature ensures that the data is secure by shutting the machine down and allowing the hard disk drive encryption to work. If and when the ThinkPad laptop is recovered, the user can restore the notebook, its settings and the data contained on the PC by entering a password.
So, there is nothing about protecting the data? Carry on.
It's BS. They are using D) to mean Taxes/population = Spending/population where taxes = spending. Which is undeniably true.
Of course, that's not how most people interpret the phrase 'per person', which to many people would imply the benefits for each individual are equal to the taxes that individual paid.
I assumed they were being dumb with A, and should have used deficit. meh.
UN Approval has been depreciated.
Isn't the default, on all recent version of windows, to ask the user what to do and only autorun when expressly told to do so?
Like, XP sp3, and all versions of vista and 2003/8 server.
That's what happens whenever any of my computers see a new drive, at least. I don't recall doing any sort of configuration to cause that to happen.
Right, there are a lot of bad things about NCLB. It lowers the standard for all students. It forces teachers and schools to design their lesson plans around tests. It causes the schools that most need help to be punished for poor performance. Really good schools get rated poorly, because they look for improvement, and it is hard to improve when most of your students already score high on the tests.
The social promotion thing is more of a hold over from the 80s and 90s, and is one of the few things the constant standardized tests of NCLB probably helps to fight(a very small amount).