Chrome's extensions or plug-ins or whatever they call them can replicate most of the functionalities of the widgets. I only use Chrome for it's various widget/app-like extensions and Netflix, never use it to surf the web.
I've done the whole widgets on the desktop thing, it was cool for a while but ultimately I found that I liked it in a web page better. Seems to be less buggy too.
I only go to the Google homepage when they have a cool doodle. I mostly just use iGoogle for a couple of stock widgets... no big loss if I have to go somewhere else (probably Google Finance).
Let me rephrase that.... what's the point of using an overpriced Mac when I have to recompile/virtualize/jump through other hoops to run the software I need when it just works on Windows and, these days, mostly just works on Linux.
And it sounds like Diablo III does run on Linux... otherwise why would Blizzard be banning Linux users?
The question is what came first. Most CEOs probably didn't have a garage full of cars until after they were pretty close to having that position anyway. However, they probably got at least a Bachelors at the beginning of their career, so the likelihood of causation is significantly greater.
Our water meter was just replaced with a digital one that transmits to the Powers That Be. I thought it was pretty cool. The display has a photo sensor so it only comes on when you shine a flashlight on it (it's in the basement). Our reported monthly water usage is also lower since we got the new meter... I can only assume it's more accurate.
I used my handy kill-o-watt to see how much it uses... comes to about $50 a year if it's under load 24/7. Given that it has a lot more power management options (IE: sleep when I'm at work) than an appliance would, it actually comes out pretty close to even. And even if it didn't, the extra performance alone is worth it, never mind the fact I can use it as a full fledged web server, print server, file server, irc server, proxy, dns, dhcp, etc, etc without affecting performance of its core functions.
My PC-as-a-router draws about 50 watts under load and 40 watts idle, so using your calculation above. Let's assume it's always under load, so that's 438 kwh. My last electric bill was about 11 cents per kwh, which comes to $48/yr to run it or about 13 cents a day. Considering it gives better performance than any dedicated consumer-grade router I've ever used, I'll glad shell out a dime a day for the upgrade. And that doesn't even account for the fact that I can set up my PC-as-a-router to go to sleep while I'm at work and at night, which drops its power usage lower than the dedicated consumer router. In the end, the energy cost increase is negligible as long as you're not using something horribly overpowered.
Until May, my router was a repurposed Dell Dimension 2100 with four PCI NICs thrown in it running ClearOS 5. Started having some hardware issues with it, so I built a new rack-mount box with a low-power Athlon II x2 and a small SSD with a quad-port NIC, threw ClearOS 6 on it and off to the races. Runs great and because it's a full PC, it can do a lot more than DD-WRT (my old router with DD-WRT is now just used as a regular WAP). Sure, it's overkill but it gives me a lot to play around with. You can easily pick up an PC for the price of a Linksys router that will do everything that Linksys could and more (at the expense of an extra dollar or two a month in energy costs)
Most power users spend far more time with both hands on the keyboard than they do touching the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts are faster, especially for more complex programs with options buried under multiple menu layers. Increasingly large screens make keyboards faster too as you try to balance a mouse fast enough to move across it quickly with a mouse slow enough not to overshoot your target every time.
As the summary mentions, if you disconnect from the Internet then you can log in locally. However, it looks like most settings are disabled when logging in this way - you presumably have just enough control to get it to reconnect to the Overlords.
As the last line of the summary mentions, if you disconnect from the Internet then you'll be able to log in locally. However, one of the posts in the link in the summary says that many of the features are disabled when logging in that way.
Does this mean that Cisco routers, by default, have a backdoor enabled that allows the router to phone home for updates and for Cisco to send them back? None of the routers I've ever used (granted, it's been a while since I've used stock firmware) have ever had any sort of "automatic updates", much less one that's turned on by default.
Maybe this is Cisco's way of pushing alternative firmwares (DD-WRT, Tomato, etc). It's actually a cleverly disguised advertisement for open source alternatives.
I have much more than 9 frequently used programs, and it's easier for me to remember that "op" is Opera or "ch" is chrome than it is to remember which number matches which program.
Just do what they did in the (iirc) second episode of the rebooted Dr. Who and use gravity satellites to control when it happens and how long it takes.
I've heard theories that one of the Earth's mass extinction events may have been caused by a glancing blow from a GRB. The side facing away from the GRB would be mostly fine in the short term, but the boiling of the oceans on the other side would have much longer term implications for the entire planet.
What does that have to do with anything? You have to pay the tax regardless of whether or not you get sick. It'd be like saying you only need car insurance on days you crash into something.
It took two years for the insurance company and government to believe I was a full time student when I broke my leg. I broke it during an activity as an RA, a job which requires you to be a full time student to be hired. When it comes to proving something that could make you pay less or make them pay more, insurance companies and the government won't do something so simple as look at a list.
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Chrome's extensions or plug-ins or whatever they call them can replicate most of the functionalities of the widgets. I only use Chrome for it's various widget/app-like extensions and Netflix, never use it to surf the web.
I've done the whole widgets on the desktop thing, it was cool for a while but ultimately I found that I liked it in a web page better. Seems to be less buggy too.
I only go to the Google homepage when they have a cool doodle. I mostly just use iGoogle for a couple of stock widgets... no big loss if I have to go somewhere else (probably Google Finance).
Let me rephrase that.... what's the point of using an overpriced Mac when I have to recompile/virtualize/jump through other hoops to run the software I need when it just works on Windows and, these days, mostly just works on Linux.
And it sounds like Diablo III does run on Linux... otherwise why would Blizzard be banning Linux users?
The question is what came first. Most CEOs probably didn't have a garage full of cars until after they were pretty close to having that position anyway. However, they probably got at least a Bachelors at the beginning of their career, so the likelihood of causation is significantly greater.
Our water meter was just replaced with a digital one that transmits to the Powers That Be. I thought it was pretty cool. The display has a photo sensor so it only comes on when you shine a flashlight on it (it's in the basement). Our reported monthly water usage is also lower since we got the new meter... I can only assume it's more accurate.
What's the point of using some overpriced clunky shit like a Mac when it only runs about 5% of software that I need it to?
I used my handy kill-o-watt to see how much it uses... comes to about $50 a year if it's under load 24/7. Given that it has a lot more power management options (IE: sleep when I'm at work) than an appliance would, it actually comes out pretty close to even. And even if it didn't, the extra performance alone is worth it, never mind the fact I can use it as a full fledged web server, print server, file server, irc server, proxy, dns, dhcp, etc, etc without affecting performance of its core functions.
My PC-as-a-router draws about 50 watts under load and 40 watts idle, so using your calculation above. Let's assume it's always under load, so that's 438 kwh. My last electric bill was about 11 cents per kwh, which comes to $48/yr to run it or about 13 cents a day. Considering it gives better performance than any dedicated consumer-grade router I've ever used, I'll glad shell out a dime a day for the upgrade. And that doesn't even account for the fact that I can set up my PC-as-a-router to go to sleep while I'm at work and at night, which drops its power usage lower than the dedicated consumer router. In the end, the energy cost increase is negligible as long as you're not using something horribly overpowered.
Until May, my router was a repurposed Dell Dimension 2100 with four PCI NICs thrown in it running ClearOS 5. Started having some hardware issues with it, so I built a new rack-mount box with a low-power Athlon II x2 and a small SSD with a quad-port NIC, threw ClearOS 6 on it and off to the races. Runs great and because it's a full PC, it can do a lot more than DD-WRT (my old router with DD-WRT is now just used as a regular WAP). Sure, it's overkill but it gives me a lot to play around with. You can easily pick up an PC for the price of a Linksys router that will do everything that Linksys could and more (at the expense of an extra dollar or two a month in energy costs)
Most power users spend far more time with both hands on the keyboard than they do touching the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts are faster, especially for more complex programs with options buried under multiple menu layers. Increasingly large screens make keyboards faster too as you try to balance a mouse fast enough to move across it quickly with a mouse slow enough not to overshoot your target every time.
So because the very first airplane ever made didn't fly, it was proof that powered flight is impossible?
As the summary mentions, if you disconnect from the Internet then you can log in locally. However, it looks like most settings are disabled when logging in this way - you presumably have just enough control to get it to reconnect to the Overlords.
As the last line of the summary mentions, if you disconnect from the Internet then you'll be able to log in locally. However, one of the posts in the link in the summary says that many of the features are disabled when logging in that way.
Does this mean that Cisco routers, by default, have a backdoor enabled that allows the router to phone home for updates and for Cisco to send them back? None of the routers I've ever used (granted, it's been a while since I've used stock firmware) have ever had any sort of "automatic updates", much less one that's turned on by default.
Maybe this is Cisco's way of pushing alternative firmwares (DD-WRT, Tomato, etc). It's actually a cleverly disguised advertisement for open source alternatives.
Then wouldn't you only need to pay the tax if you got sick?
"Keeping jobs on American soil. There's a phone for that."
I have much more than 9 frequently used programs, and it's easier for me to remember that "op" is Opera or "ch" is chrome than it is to remember which number matches which program.
Just do what they did in the (iirc) second episode of the rebooted Dr. Who and use gravity satellites to control when it happens and how long it takes.
Just means this one comes pre-nuked-from-orbit so we can move right in.
I've heard theories that one of the Earth's mass extinction events may have been caused by a glancing blow from a GRB. The side facing away from the GRB would be mostly fine in the short term, but the boiling of the oceans on the other side would have much longer term implications for the entire planet.
4 million km is roughly 0.02 AU or 1/10th the mean distance of Mercury from the Sun
It someone got that close to me, I'd let them have it too.
What does that have to do with anything? You have to pay the tax regardless of whether or not you get sick. It'd be like saying you only need car insurance on days you crash into something.
It took two years for the insurance company and government to believe I was a full time student when I broke my leg. I broke it during an activity as an RA, a job which requires you to be a full time student to be hired. When it comes to proving something that could make you pay less or make them pay more, insurance companies and the government won't do something so simple as look at a list.