Yes, it's bad.
If you use your laptop as a desktop, take out the battery. Google a bit to know what's the best way to store it and you're good.
I used my T40 for two years almost constantly plugged in and now the battery holds five minutes, tops.
You raised a very good point and I'd like to add my two cents:
Internet is based on connection bandwidth, and that's on what the prices are based on. Electricity is 'instant'. You don't need to wait five minutes for the light bulb to finish buffering it's light stream or something.
The other problem is that there is no reasonable pricing model to be made based on how much people download. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of 'moms and pops' who only use the internet for email and skype, won't ever hit 5GB a month. On the other hand, there are people who watch on-demand TV. Youtube, webstreams, download from iTunes, etc. And they can easily rack up 50GB a month. So if they charged $5 per GB, they'd get about the same money they used to get from the low-usage people, but the 'power users' would have to pay $250 for their standard line. Now if they charged $1 per GB, the 'power users' would have a normal price, but the greedy telcos would never allow people to pay just $5 a month, now would they?
Oh, but you are talking about buying indie games to support the producers. I'm talking about boycotting DRM-infested games which deny to run in I have some software which the publishers find questionable.
If everyone in the world had a good spam filter, and/or adblock, do you really think there would be annoying ads or spam any more? Spam and annoying ads exist because of the minuscule percent of society who actually click the links and buy stuff.
If everyone had adblock by default, I believe it would be banned by the government.
It seems you are trying to use a hand gesture, but your current version of Windows Mobile doesn't support them. Would you like to preorder Windows Mobile 7?
Ah, but you forgot that this is an 1Gps download AND upload speed too. So you can set up your own goddamned youtube on your home server. It'll fry before you even hit half your pipe's capacity.
You just need to connect an external mouse. A full keyboard would also help. Then there's the display problem, so you'll need a 24" LCD. When you're at it you could also add some decent speakers. Yeah, it will take some space, but if you set it up on a desk, it'll fit all right. And then you could even put the laptop under your desk so that it won't interfere..
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Essentially Gore won, but the electoral college does not need to vote according to the majority of votes. When this law was written it was in order to prevent a president being elected which deceived the masses but in truth had sinister plans. Of course that implied that the electoral college would be honest, lawful and caring about the wellbeing of the country..
I'm not wanting to flame, but just think about it for a second. It's their religion and their country. Using a slightly less controversial topic: If you didn't eat pork because you think it's unclean, would you give a rat's ass about all those crazy people eating it and trying to force it down your throat?
It's all fun and games, until someone starts a religious war.
Try that with a religious type. I can only guess that if you questioned properly misinformed person, the answering techniques would be pretty similar to the religious types.
I *really* hope they win this and every last webpage will be prohibited from linking to trademarked names. Maybe this will show how absurd and detached from reality lawyers are.
Huh? I don't know about your country, but in Poland nobody actually cares if you got your degree with an A or barely got it. All that matters is if it's there, and from what university it is.
One thing I never can comprehend is why ISPs stop carrying binaries and if they do, they hide it away from users.
When a user downloads from the ISPs own server, he generates a lot less traffic that if he's using P2P and connecting to thousands of random users.
Then again. It's probably because they'd get sued for directly hosting illegal content or something similarly ridiculous.
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Yes, it's bad. If you use your laptop as a desktop, take out the battery. Google a bit to know what's the best way to store it and you're good. I used my T40 for two years almost constantly plugged in and now the battery holds five minutes, tops.
Yeah. And people would get IP's like "eat.his.ass.out". Great idea.
That's why good ISPs provide USENET access. It's 100% of your connection speed. All the time.
You raised a very good point and I'd like to add my two cents:
Internet is based on connection bandwidth, and that's on what the prices are based on. Electricity is 'instant'. You don't need to wait five minutes for the light bulb to finish buffering it's light stream or something.
The other problem is that there is no reasonable pricing model to be made based on how much people download. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of 'moms and pops' who only use the internet for email and skype, won't ever hit 5GB a month.
On the other hand, there are people who watch on-demand TV. Youtube, webstreams, download from iTunes, etc. And they can easily rack up 50GB a month. So if they charged $5 per GB, they'd get about the same money they used to get from the low-usage people, but the 'power users' would have to pay $250 for their standard line.
Now if they charged $1 per GB, the 'power users' would have a normal price, but the greedy telcos would never allow people to pay just $5 a month, now would they?
Oh, but you are talking about buying indie games to support the producers. I'm talking about boycotting DRM-infested games which deny to run in I have some software which the publishers find questionable.
If everyone in the world had a good spam filter, and/or adblock, do you really think there would be annoying ads or spam any more? Spam and annoying ads exist because of the minuscule percent of society who actually click the links and buy stuff.
If everyone had adblock by default, I believe it would be banned by the government.
That's why I have my plates drawn CAPTCHA-style, fo!
It seems you are trying to use a hand gesture, but your current version of Windows Mobile doesn't support them. Would you like to preorder Windows Mobile 7?
Ah, but you forgot that this is an 1Gps download AND upload speed too. So you can set up your own goddamned youtube on your home server. It'll fry before you even hit half your pipe's capacity.
Phase 2: Wait for the sun to heat up the air between us and a distant star.
Did you try copying your DRM licence on to the other computer?
You just need to connect an external mouse. A full keyboard would also help. Then there's the display problem, so you'll need a 24" LCD. When you're at it you could also add some decent speakers.
Yeah, it will take some space, but if you set it up on a desk, it'll fit all right. And then you could even put the laptop under your desk so that it won't interfere..
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Essentially Gore won, but the electoral college does not need to vote according to the majority of votes. When this law was written it was in order to prevent a president being elected which deceived the masses but in truth had sinister plans. Of course that implied that the electoral college would be honest, lawful and caring about the wellbeing of the country..
You can use it as a ninja-camouflaged webserver hidden in your flower pot so that the police raiding your hideout will never find it?
Dunno.
Huh? And just last year I was taught on the history of USA that Bush won because the electoral college chose to vote in Bush's favour.
I'm not wanting to flame, but just think about it for a second.
It's their religion and their country. Using a slightly less controversial topic:
If you didn't eat pork because you think it's unclean, would you give a rat's ass about all those crazy people eating it and trying to force it down your throat?
It's all fun and games, until someone starts a religious war.
Try that with a religious type. I can only guess that if you questioned properly misinformed person, the answering techniques would be pretty similar to the religious types.
But you can uninstall the updater. SecuROM isn't removable, and doesn't go away even if you uninstall Spore.
I *really* hope they win this and every last webpage will be prohibited from linking to trademarked names.
Maybe this will show how absurd and detached from reality lawyers are.
How's that possible?
He's the rambo type.
"Just give me a space suit, and where the fuck is it."
Huh? I don't know about your country, but in Poland nobody actually cares if you got your degree with an A or barely got it. All that matters is if it's there, and from what university it is.
Does this also apply to the non-visible light based lasers?
One thing I never can comprehend is why ISPs stop carrying binaries and if they do, they hide it away from users.
When a user downloads from the ISPs own server, he generates a lot less traffic that if he's using P2P and connecting to thousands of random users.
Then again. It's probably because they'd get sued for directly hosting illegal content or something similarly ridiculous.