...then some "average" which differs depending on how the manufacturer determines "average"?
Isn't that what AMD has been doing? "...depending on how the manufacturer determines"... in this case, determining it to be longer than it actually is.
You could even test, and then claim for each individual battery, and put a sticker on it "[This battery lasted 3.798 Hours in our test]" and chances are very high that when that user uses it, they won't see the same time span, maybe 3.274 hours... you could test every battery, in every computer, which would be more accurate, but still have variance, for instance the test alone may change the batteries composition enough to knock off a few minutes... same goes for normal use, batteries (especially PC/phone/etc batteries) tend to wear out pretty quickly till they reach a sort of "normal shitty duration" you can expect.
I've got all sorts of rechargeable batteries, ones that used to run for days on end (headphones) but now only last about 8 hours at best, and that dropping started with the very first charge.
No it won't... not all batteries are exactly the same, no matter how good the quality assurance may be, and same goes for the hardware itself, every transistor, capacitor, resistor, transformer, etc all have varying degrees of quality/conduction/capacity.
It could even come down to a single resistor that measures the battery output, could be slightly faulty, and turn the PC off sooner.
They could still say "40 minutes" but it would be more like "32 to 48"... other things come into play as well, such as the temperature/altitude/humidity... how much dust is in/on the heatsinks/vents, or possibly a fault in the charger... the list goes on...
I think he might mean that there is no "Show Forum Discussion" option during installation, likewise, the "Bug" section of a website is usually hidden under terrifying things like "Developer Section" etc, ie: unless the (average) user bumps into a problem and goes hunting online, or bumps into it randomly, they won't know about it.
Possibly, but I suppose it depends on how it's tallied, hoping that it's not as simple as: Player Stayed 10 Seconds (-1), or Player Stayed 15 Minutes (+1)... but if it worked on every 5 minutes, another point was added, then someone who stays for an hour, it would take 12 people to join and leave in under 5 minutes... which is "easy" if the server has only been running for half a day, but with even 4 dedicated players, say 8 hours a day, that would take 384 spam join/leaves after the first day, not including random people who may stay for 10 to 30 minutes.
But, I'm just talking out of my ass really, well not really... I have no idea how it works, but that's how I would hope it would work. Kinda like Slashdot in a way, it only goes -1, but can go as high as +5, even if they succeed, if those 4 players are still there, then 5 minutes later, it would be back to a positive number.
Wow, it's fugly... for $16,000 it should have a case that's the equivalent of a Ferrari, or maybe a black Murcielago, not a dune buggy based on a VW Beetle.
I know the looks don't matter, but, this still looks like someones case mod they made in their basement out of old PC's and some jiffy markers.
That, and it's pretty much universal, (almost) everything from Amiga to Windows can use FAT.
However, I'm not really sure what TomTom does, ie: what implications does the file system have on its use? and couldn't any transfering be converted into something more generic between FS and other IO?
Couldn't they just as easily use Ext2? Or make their own TTFS or whatever.
Yes and No... it depends on the Province, the size of the company, and wether you are selling in-province or out-of-province, in some it's 0, in others its anywhere from about 5% to as high as 18%.
Selling outside of country is generally tax free, with exceptions like the EU, where there's some weird translated tax, where 'our' tax of the item gets sent to the EU.
But naturally, because like all governments it's a clusterfuck of weird loopholes, there are ways around almost all the taxes. But I am by no means an expert on it, so if you really want to know, you'll have to look elsewhere.
Double that, I think it was 14 years, + 14 years if they wanted it to be extended. Which is about right, although personally I think 15 + 10, or 15 + 10 + 5 + 3 + 1 where the proof/necessity/legitimacy of the copyright is harder to prove/costs more with each succession.
At least until someone posts a link, or the jailbreaking application itself.
Sure, they can delete those posts/users... but that pisses off the users and frustrates the n00bs "how do i do this???"... the store dies, a new one opens, community withers, ideas lose momentum, people go back to the 'Apple' store because "it's always there"... open-stores fail.
Likewise, same with Mandriva, OpenSUSE, and RedHat, the only one that I use that comes close, and usually beats Windows is Slackware.
But, like you said, it doesn't matter, as I think all the main Linux distros, and all versions of Windows have Hibernate/Suspend, and what does 25 to 45 seconds matter when you only really need to reboot every couple weeks, or monthly.
Having a cold-boot of a couple seconds, still means you lose the state of all your apps, you'll have to spend the time launching them, loading files, etc all over again which will probably take a lot longer.
Probably because it's not fact. The answer will always be estimation and speculation, no one knows, it's not January 17th 949,490,865 BC, like a humans birth date where depending on the hospital, may even be accurate to the minute.
I blamed Win95's poor vice control for making me smoke, but when I talked to lawyers about a class action suit, they said I was just blowing smoke up their ass.
Audio quality of the recording device (low, mono, parity, etc) Audio alignment, what happens of you offset the audio track post-recording even by 20ms, that could be like 10 seats away, you'd have to haul in like a 10x10 grid of people, analyze all their potential "devices", try and get 100 warrants for something so trivial.
Seems like a more accurate way would be to implant an assortment of detectors in each seat, scouting for magnetic interference or something, and even that would cause havoc in accuracy and false positives.
To me this stinks of pointless scare tactics which will only thwart off idiots. Option B: strip search everyone who enters, only consequence: 95% of people stop seeing movies in theaters, and just wait for someone to rip the DVD.
It's not really the registry's fault, but the (various) applications and installers faults.
Personally, I don't really care how much stuff it wants to put into the registry, as long as it's used, and not just dead-weight, my problem is that I have seen very few un/installers that actually keeps track of everything it installs, and removes them when you tell it to uninstall, which goes for both files, and the registry.
I like the idea of the registry, the problem is it hasn't really been updated since Win95, it's (the actual reg.exe is) almost useless really, you have to get a third-party application to really make use of it. Add to that the various opinions/practices of developers and how they think it should work, tossing keys all over the place, and it's no wonder why it becomes a mess.
Sure, and no one will need more than 640k, and no one would need a processor faster than 1GHz, nevermind multiple ones at 3GHz... We're almost at 8 Core CPU's at 3GHz just for a "personal computer"
Just because we don't need them today, or next year, doesn't mean we wont have some (fabricated) necessity for that kind of power 10 years from now... what about VirtualReality, Weather Reports, Structural Analysis Of Your Home, Water/Air Contamination Testing, Keeping track of 4 peoples preferences for the 30 automated devices around your house, by audio/visual/thermal commands/input, etc, etc...
All that "nifty shit" takes a bit of PC power, granted, by then, the "mainframe" of today, will probably be desktop size by then, but there will STILL be a need for some supersized Mainframe... same as now, desktops now, are as powerful as Mainframes 25 years ago... even if we master some really advanced technique that allows like 512, 300GHz CPU's with 64TB's of RAM in the size of matchbox, there will still be people making a beowulf cluster of them, to do more even faster...
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Yes.
...then some "average" which differs depending on how the manufacturer determines "average"?
Isn't that what AMD has been doing? "...depending on how the manufacturer determines"... in this case, determining it to be longer than it actually is.
You could even test, and then claim for each individual battery, and put a sticker on it "[This battery lasted 3.798 Hours in our test]" and chances are very high that when that user uses it, they won't see the same time span, maybe 3.274 hours... you could test every battery, in every computer, which would be more accurate, but still have variance, for instance the test alone may change the batteries composition enough to knock off a few minutes... same goes for normal use, batteries (especially PC/phone/etc batteries) tend to wear out pretty quickly till they reach a sort of "normal shitty duration" you can expect.
I've got all sorts of rechargeable batteries, ones that used to run for days on end (headphones) but now only last about 8 hours at best, and that dropping started with the very first charge.
Ok fine... Conficker/Downup/Downadup/Kido/something else malware, that according to Symantec...
No it won't... not all batteries are exactly the same, no matter how good the quality assurance may be, and same goes for the hardware itself, every transistor, capacitor, resistor, transformer, etc all have varying degrees of quality/conduction/capacity.
It could even come down to a single resistor that measures the battery output, could be slightly faulty, and turn the PC off sooner.
They could still say "40 minutes" but it would be more like "32 to 48"... other things come into play as well, such as the temperature/altitude/humidity... how much dust is in/on the heatsinks/vents, or possibly a fault in the charger... the list goes on...
I see what you did there, you covertly pointed out the 'bug' in his 'user'.
Glad we caught that little bugger, lest we have a public discussion about it, and no one ever finds out.
Oh forget it...
I think he might mean that there is no "Show Forum Discussion" option during installation, likewise, the "Bug" section of a website is usually hidden under terrifying things like "Developer Section" etc, ie: unless the (average) user bumps into a problem and goes hunting online, or bumps into it randomly, they won't know about it.
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Possibly, but I suppose it depends on how it's tallied, hoping that it's not as simple as: Player Stayed 10 Seconds (-1), or Player Stayed 15 Minutes (+1)... but if it worked on every 5 minutes, another point was added, then someone who stays for an hour, it would take 12 people to join and leave in under 5 minutes... which is "easy" if the server has only been running for half a day, but with even 4 dedicated players, say 8 hours a day, that would take 384 spam join/leaves after the first day, not including random people who may stay for 10 to 30 minutes.
But, I'm just talking out of my ass really, well not really... I have no idea how it works, but that's how I would hope it would work. Kinda like Slashdot in a way, it only goes -1, but can go as high as +5, even if they succeed, if those 4 players are still there, then 5 minutes later, it would be back to a positive number.
Wow, it's fugly... for $16,000 it should have a case that's the equivalent of a Ferrari, or maybe a black Murcielago, not a dune buggy based on a VW Beetle.
I know the looks don't matter, but, this still looks like someones case mod they made in their basement out of old PC's and some jiffy markers.
That, and it's pretty much universal, (almost) everything from Amiga to Windows can use FAT.
However, I'm not really sure what TomTom does, ie: what implications does the file system have on its use? and couldn't any transfering be converted into something more generic between FS and other IO?
Couldn't they just as easily use Ext2? Or make their own TTFS or whatever.
No.
Yes and No... it depends on the Province, the size of the company, and wether you are selling in-province or out-of-province, in some it's 0, in others its anywhere from about 5% to as high as 18%.
Selling outside of country is generally tax free, with exceptions like the EU, where there's some weird translated tax, where 'our' tax of the item gets sent to the EU.
But naturally, because like all governments it's a clusterfuck of weird loopholes, there are ways around almost all the taxes. But I am by no means an expert on it, so if you really want to know, you'll have to look elsewhere.
Double that, I think it was 14 years, + 14 years if they wanted it to be extended. Which is about right, although personally I think 15 + 10, or 15 + 10 + 5 + 3 + 1 where the proof/necessity/legitimacy of the copyright is harder to prove/costs more with each succession.
Because the USA isn't the EU?
Just because something exists in another country, doesn't mean it should be a world-wide trend.
I live in Canada, we have a maple leaf on our flag, why shouldn't there be a maple leaf on the US flag?
At least until someone posts a link, or the jailbreaking application itself.
Sure, they can delete those posts/users... but that pisses off the users and frustrates the n00bs "how do i do this???"... the store dies, a new one opens, community withers, ideas lose momentum, people go back to the 'Apple' store because "it's always there"... open-stores fail.
http://www.n2yo.com/ is a little more interesting, unless you have problems with Google Maps.
If you can't reach it, build a religion around it.
Likewise, same with Mandriva, OpenSUSE, and RedHat, the only one that I use that comes close, and usually beats Windows is Slackware.
But, like you said, it doesn't matter, as I think all the main Linux distros, and all versions of Windows have Hibernate/Suspend, and what does 25 to 45 seconds matter when you only really need to reboot every couple weeks, or monthly.
Having a cold-boot of a couple seconds, still means you lose the state of all your apps, you'll have to spend the time launching them, loading files, etc all over again which will probably take a lot longer.
"If you had looked at the site for about 45 seconds..."
Who has time for that?... Apparently 30 seconds is too long to boot a computer these days, who has 45 seconds for reading?
Someone should build a site called 'Presume', which strips out 2/3rds of the words, knock the reading time down to 15 seconds.
Probably because it's not fact. The answer will always be estimation and speculation, no one knows, it's not January 17th 949,490,865 BC, like a humans birth date where depending on the hospital, may even be accurate to the minute.
I blamed Win95's poor vice control for making me smoke, but when I talked to lawyers about a class action suit, they said I was just blowing smoke up their ass.
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And some more variables:
Audio quality of the recording device (low, mono, parity, etc)
Audio alignment, what happens of you offset the audio track post-recording even by 20ms, that could be like 10 seats away, you'd have to haul in like a 10x10 grid of people, analyze all their potential "devices", try and get 100 warrants for something so trivial.
Seems like a more accurate way would be to implant an assortment of detectors in each seat, scouting for magnetic interference or something, and even that would cause havoc in accuracy and false positives.
To me this stinks of pointless scare tactics which will only thwart off idiots. Option B: strip search everyone who enters, only consequence: 95% of people stop seeing movies in theaters, and just wait for someone to rip the DVD.
It's not really the registry's fault, but the (various) applications and installers faults.
Personally, I don't really care how much stuff it wants to put into the registry, as long as it's used, and not just dead-weight, my problem is that I have seen very few un/installers that actually keeps track of everything it installs, and removes them when you tell it to uninstall, which goes for both files, and the registry.
I like the idea of the registry, the problem is it hasn't really been updated since Win95, it's (the actual reg.exe is) almost useless really, you have to get a third-party application to really make use of it. Add to that the various opinions/practices of developers and how they think it should work, tossing keys all over the place, and it's no wonder why it becomes a mess.
Sure, and no one will need more than 640k, and no one would need a processor faster than 1GHz, nevermind multiple ones at 3GHz... We're almost at 8 Core CPU's at 3GHz just for a "personal computer"
Just because we don't need them today, or next year, doesn't mean we wont have some (fabricated) necessity for that kind of power 10 years from now... what about VirtualReality, Weather Reports, Structural Analysis Of Your Home, Water/Air Contamination Testing, Keeping track of 4 peoples preferences for the 30 automated devices around your house, by audio/visual/thermal commands/input, etc, etc...
All that "nifty shit" takes a bit of PC power, granted, by then, the "mainframe" of today, will probably be desktop size by then, but there will STILL be a need for some supersized Mainframe... same as now, desktops now, are as powerful as Mainframes 25 years ago... even if we master some really advanced technique that allows like 512, 300GHz CPU's with 64TB's of RAM in the size of matchbox, there will still be people making a beowulf cluster of them, to do more even faster...