I live in the state of England, where it is simply not possible to override your statutory rights with contracts or waivers.
Further, Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations anyone? This passage simply does not exist, as far as the UK is concerned. You folks over the pond should get something like this; It's quite handy.
Julian has never been to the US. His extradition to the US from the UK would not be possible, even with the "special relationship" status we have.
I wouldn't be surprised if US officials aren't at the airport in Sweden waiting for him, with a page of trumped up waffle with a scary looking TLA agency seal on the top of the page.
I don't think the parent is suggesting that you buy components to replace fully functioning and useful parts just to save electricity. Potentially, though, you could save real, actual money buy buying newer parts than upgrading your current, old hardware.
I ran an 8800GTX until it died, but it was around 6 months ago and I decided I needed an upgrade (before it failed). If I had gone ahead with the upgrade, I would have paid £100 for the card, and another for a 1kW PSU to handle the draw. Those cards pull north of 320W under load! Thankfully (?) it failed before I upgraded, so I went with an AMD HD6950 instead, and haven't looked back. Performance improvement is wonderful, power draw is down 50%, and I didn't need to upgrade the PSU (meaning the £200 budget could go on the card).
However, having just also upgraded the bare-bones too, I can safely say that the biggest power saving you'll make is upgrading to an SSD. Power draw isn't the issue; It's the fact that you can go from power-down (hibernate or cold start) to working in ~20 seconds. It makes sleep and low-power (but still working) states pointless, so you'll power-off almost every time you leave the thing for any period of time. Again, only if you're looking to upgrade, but worth considering.
Gender, ethnicity, religion, educational background, sexuality, OS choice... All moot unless quota-mandated by the government.
True diversity in the workplace does not come from employing (e.g.) 1 in every 10 female or non-caucasian by law. It achieves nothing, while harming business, patronising those you shoehorn into jobs, and is prejudiced against those who, through no fault of their own, are the statistically common gender/race/body type to apply for that position.
It is all bullshit. Best person to apply for the job is all that matters.
Nothing has been reduced. You've turned the local detriment to society of increased wasted energy from using incandescent bulbs from grid electricity, into the distant detriment to society of heavy metals, toxic compounds, and much higher energy requirements used to produce these energy-efficient bulbs compared to incandescents.
It's like driving an Pruis; The energy required and carbon dioxide released across the processes to create one exceeds the savings regular use would provide across its lifetime. You just "offset" move the damage to another country.
Interesting anecdote regarding Dell laptops; If you're experiencing mouse jittering while on AC power, your battery is probably failing. I've no idea why this causes that symptom, but it applies to every Dell laptop I've used (my last school had quite a few).
I'm pretty sure the internet retailer is happy someone bought a product they knew they wanted instead of buying one they thought they wanted, sending it back after 2 days because they didn't like it (Sale of Goods Act; 7 days return, for any reason, in the UK). They can't sell it full-price, as it's opened. They have to spend time resetting it to factory spec, cleaning it, repackaging it (if the packaging wasn't damaged by opening) etc.
Yeah, high street loses out on the sale, but I really don't care. I know what I'm doing. For those who don't know, they can buy from the store and get the ability to "Kompoodur is borkund" at the counter, and get it fixed under warranty, unlike me who buys the parts or waits 6 weeks for the RTM from Thailand.
I have bought a bag of mixed nuts in a pub where the allergy information on the back stated "May contain nuts. Product manufactured in an environment which handles nuts."
I'm curious how long I can stick it out before I give up and go back to windows 7, which I'll freely admit does everything I need an OS to do, and has no major or even minor bugs that impact me on any sort of regular basis.
Herein lies the problem; You've come from an OS which does all of the things you want it to do in a way which agrees with you, and tried to turn a different OS into that one.
Linux is not Windows. You cannot turn Linux into Windows. Don't even try.
I use both; Windows for gaming, Linux (Mint 11, incidentally) for everything else. I like the update system for Linux ("Run updates... Oh ok, that was painless" vs "Oh ffs, this is the third restart, and I still haven't updated Java or Adobe Flash yet!"), and the Desktop Cube (Browser, Office apps, and RDP administration sessions all sit on their own desktop, with a fourth for other tasks as necessary). I find it a much more productive setup than Windows with multi-monitors.
Mostly, though, I like that if an app misbehaves to the point of the UI becoming unresponsive, it's Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Backspace and X restarts. It takes about 5 seconds to go from a state which on Windows would require a hard reset to fully operational. That alone has saved me potentially hours in productive time.
TL,DR: Why did you try and swap to Linux in the first place? You like Windows, you bought Windows. Just use it, and forget what anyone else's preferences are.
Because Heinz et al can't afford the loss in customers when just one of their competitors releases a "No-Waste Bottle!". Seriously, getting the last bit out of the ketchup bottle has been a 1st World Problem since the stuff was invented. All manner of "techniques" and devices have been invented; Slapping the bottle, standing it on its cap (hence the Top Down bottles not available), inserting a knife to scoop it out...
Besides, as long as you're using ketchup correctly (an additional flavour, not the only one) they're all much of a likeness. If one company makes a bottle which has no leftover bits (which also makes recycling much easier), it'll fly off the shelves like ketchup from a hydrophobic bottle.
Another vote for Zimbra. Email, global and personal address lists, calendar including invite system and sharing, resource booking, AD integration should you run a Windows domain...
Yeah, I thought of that after I hit "submit". "Heat of the moment" and all that. As each ISP will separate their network rough geographic areas, blocking NY from accessing your services would presumably be as simple as finding out the appropriate supernet for the NY area and black-holing it.
I would say that those people with CDNs in NY should very quickly end their contracts, migrate their services to other areas, and block the NY/20 at the borders.
Did they follow proper sanitisation procedures to preserve the forensic evidence requirements?
Any lawyer worth with half his salary would look at the audit log for the investigation and, should at any time the medium be accessed in a non-read-only format, get it thrown out.
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The popular phrase you're looking for here is "A + B + C = X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
It's the way big business has always been.
I live in the state of England, where it is simply not possible to override your statutory rights with contracts or waivers.
Further, Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations anyone? This passage simply does not exist, as far as the UK is concerned. You folks over the pond should get something like this; It's quite handy.
"... if US officials are at the airport..."
I'm doing this more often, nowadays. I need to spend less time around knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers.
Julian has never been to the US. His extradition to the US from the UK would not be possible, even with the "special relationship" status we have.
I wouldn't be surprised if US officials aren't at the airport in Sweden waiting for him, with a page of trumped up waffle with a scary looking TLA agency seal on the top of the page.
So this wasn't a bad spin-off of Under Siege?
I should have stipulated that the graphics card upgrade was going to be a second 8800GTX in SLI, meaning graphics alone would have drawn around 650W.
I don't think the parent is suggesting that you buy components to replace fully functioning and useful parts just to save electricity. Potentially, though, you could save real, actual money buy buying newer parts than upgrading your current, old hardware.
I ran an 8800GTX until it died, but it was around 6 months ago and I decided I needed an upgrade (before it failed). If I had gone ahead with the upgrade, I would have paid £100 for the card, and another for a 1kW PSU to handle the draw. Those cards pull north of 320W under load! Thankfully (?) it failed before I upgraded, so I went with an AMD HD6950 instead, and haven't looked back. Performance improvement is wonderful, power draw is down 50%, and I didn't need to upgrade the PSU (meaning the £200 budget could go on the card).
However, having just also upgraded the bare-bones too, I can safely say that the biggest power saving you'll make is upgrading to an SSD. Power draw isn't the issue; It's the fact that you can go from power-down (hibernate or cold start) to working in ~20 seconds. It makes sleep and low-power (but still working) states pointless, so you'll power-off almost every time you leave the thing for any period of time. Again, only if you're looking to upgrade, but worth considering.
Geeknat must have added Dolan to the list of editors.
Dashslot plz.
Gender, ethnicity, religion, educational background, sexuality, OS choice... All moot unless quota-mandated by the government.
True diversity in the workplace does not come from employing (e.g.) 1 in every 10 female or non-caucasian by law. It achieves nothing, while harming business, patronising those you shoehorn into jobs, and is prejudiced against those who, through no fault of their own, are the statistically common gender/race/body type to apply for that position.
It is all bullshit. Best person to apply for the job is all that matters.
So the problem is displaced, but not eliminated.
Nothing has been reduced. You've turned the local detriment to society of increased wasted energy from using incandescent bulbs from grid electricity, into the distant detriment to society of heavy metals, toxic compounds, and much higher energy requirements used to produce these energy-efficient bulbs compared to incandescents.
It's like driving an Pruis; The energy required and carbon dioxide released across the processes to create one exceeds the savings regular use would provide across its lifetime. You just "offset" move the damage to another country.
Interesting anecdote regarding Dell laptops; If you're experiencing mouse jittering while on AC power, your battery is probably failing. I've no idea why this causes that symptom, but it applies to every Dell laptop I've used (my last school had quite a few).
I'm pretty sure the internet retailer is happy someone bought a product they knew they wanted instead of buying one they thought they wanted, sending it back after 2 days because they didn't like it (Sale of Goods Act; 7 days return, for any reason, in the UK). They can't sell it full-price, as it's opened. They have to spend time resetting it to factory spec, cleaning it, repackaging it (if the packaging wasn't damaged by opening) etc.
Yeah, high street loses out on the sale, but I really don't care. I know what I'm doing. For those who don't know, they can buy from the store and get the ability to "Kompoodur is borkund" at the counter, and get it fixed under warranty, unlike me who buys the parts or waits 6 weeks for the RTM from Thailand.
a bunch of neo-nazi football hooligans who stage rallies against Muslamics in English town centres
FTFY. Don't you dare give the impression that the average EDL member can engage in coherent speech, never mind cogent discussions and debates.
Some kind of game children played in the 90's where everybody won?
There's no I in "team", but there's two in "Winning." You think that means we both win? Wrong. I win twice. Now give me that Silver medal.
-1 Redundant.
(Bonus points for +5 insightful, -2 off-topic.)
I have bought a bag of mixed nuts in a pub where the allergy information on the back stated "May contain nuts. Product manufactured in an environment which handles nuts."
You don't say!
I'm curious how long I can stick it out before I give up and go back to windows 7, which I'll freely admit does everything I need an OS to do, and has no major or even minor bugs that impact me on any sort of regular basis.
Herein lies the problem; You've come from an OS which does all of the things you want it to do in a way which agrees with you, and tried to turn a different OS into that one.
Linux is not Windows. You cannot turn Linux into Windows. Don't even try.
I use both; Windows for gaming, Linux (Mint 11, incidentally) for everything else. I like the update system for Linux ("Run updates... Oh ok, that was painless" vs "Oh ffs, this is the third restart, and I still haven't updated Java or Adobe Flash yet!"), and the Desktop Cube (Browser, Office apps, and RDP administration sessions all sit on their own desktop, with a fourth for other tasks as necessary). I find it a much more productive setup than Windows with multi-monitors.
Mostly, though, I like that if an app misbehaves to the point of the UI becoming unresponsive, it's Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Backspace and X restarts. It takes about 5 seconds to go from a state which on Windows would require a hard reset to fully operational. That alone has saved me potentially hours in productive time.
TL,DR: Why did you try and swap to Linux in the first place? You like Windows, you bought Windows. Just use it, and forget what anyone else's preferences are.
Because Heinz et al can't afford the loss in customers when just one of their competitors releases a "No-Waste Bottle!". Seriously, getting the last bit out of the ketchup bottle has been a 1st World Problem since the stuff was invented. All manner of "techniques" and devices have been invented; Slapping the bottle, standing it on its cap (hence the Top Down bottles not available), inserting a knife to scoop it out...
Besides, as long as you're using ketchup correctly (an additional flavour, not the only one) they're all much of a likeness. If one company makes a bottle which has no leftover bits (which also makes recycling much easier), it'll fly off the shelves like ketchup from a hydrophobic bottle.
Another vote for Zimbra. Email, global and personal address lists, calendar including invite system and sharing, resource booking, AD integration should you run a Windows domain...
It's what we use, and for "free" it's great.
Yeah, I thought of that after I hit "submit". "Heat of the moment" and all that. As each ISP will separate their network rough geographic areas, blocking NY from accessing your services would presumably be as simple as finding out the appropriate supernet for the NY area and black-holing it.
Apologies for the confusion.
I would say that those people with CDNs in NY should very quickly end their contracts, migrate their services to other areas, and block the NY /20 at the borders.
He meant kB/s. WoW on dialup is playable, but latency is huge. Playing over 3G is difficult enough.
Raiding is totally out.
like breaking the Fourth...
Proofreading fail.
Whacky spy shit does not trouble me.
What, like the Fourth Amendment? Article 8 of the ECHR?
Taking away our rights is, morally, rock bottom.
You have contradicted yourself.
Did they follow proper sanitisation procedures to preserve the forensic evidence requirements?
Any lawyer worth with half his salary would look at the audit log for the investigation and, should at any time the medium be accessed in a non-read-only format, get it thrown out.