Also, tailing is something a police officer may have to do without even waiting for the suspect to stop his car, let alone finding out his name and getting a warrant and a GPS device.
Never had any problems with my 770. But then, it's a lot less finicky to put into sleep mode than the n800 or n810.
As for the Pandora, have they actually shipped any of those, or is it a scam? They cancelled my preorder, and I was refunded 40 bucks less than I paid due to the exchange rate changing. How convenient. They keep pushing me to give them my bank account information to make a transfer. Fat chance.
There's an option for "Device Stays Lit" that can be set to either "when charging" or "never"... but it still turns on the display, only to block almost all of the screen as black and show the text "charging" along with an animated icon. Apparently, this can even cause it to lose power while attempting to charge by USB.
The keyboard on the n810 is almost perfectly flat with a hairline space between keys. Hitting multiple keys is extremely easy, and it is necessary to look at the keys while carefully clicking with my fingernails. The thumbboard on my Tungsten C is a fraction of the size, but far more useful. Even the popup stylus keyboard on the 770 is less trouble. The 770 automatically goes into suspend when the metal cover is flipped back on - unlike the slide button on the n810 that can get triggered accidentally - and it doesn't insist on wearing out the screen while charging.
Frankly, this seems like a fairly nonobvious "invention" to me - in that I can't understand why anyone would ever want to do this. At the very least I'd want one click to put each item in the shopping cart or whatever, and one click to confirm the order with information like the calculated shipping cost, delivery time, whether any items are backordered, etc.
The reason you are bombarded with spam is that people believe it is effective. Like most marketers, the thing spammers are best at selling is their own services.
TDP = thermal design power, ie: how much heat (in watts) that a machine with the chip in it is supposed to be able to deal with. It is NOT how many watts the chip actually uses. Intel tends to rate all chips in the same class with the same TDP, regardless of clockspeed, voltage, etc. Usually this is considerably less than the watts used at peak load, unless you are overclocking.
TDP has very little to do with how much power the chip actually uses, even at peak load. But I can't imagine this thing having decent battery life - any battery would be more of a built-in UPS than anything else. I suppose there is a market for machines that are "portable" enough to be lugged from one wall socket to another elsewhere, but keeping up with the upgrade cycle would get incredibly expensive.
Yeah, this might turn out even worse than I, Robot. The only book of Asimov's that struck me as having the potential to make a decent movie was The Caves of Steel.
Using mirrored drives in RAID-1 is a poor solution, and making redundant copies of the every file on the same drive is a terrible one. A filesystem suitable for use on hard drives that can substantially increase the integrity of data with a relatively minor cost in terms of extra space and speed would be very useful. Something like a Mode-1 CD-ROM's error correction. Being able to use it in RAID-1 would be a bonus.
Well, the issue with radar (especially photo radar, which doesn't stop people from speeding until after the fact) is that the prospect of generating revenue results in artificially low speed limits that don't do anything to prevent deaths (see autobahn). Ironically, people seem to drive just above the speed limit no matter what the weather conditions - when it would be safe to drive considerably faster in ideal conditions, and only a fraction of the speed in heavy rain/darkness/etc.
I've never had a problem with Intel drivers, but whenever I've tried installing Nvidia drivers, I've had nothing but frustration and crashes. Even seeing the "Envy" icon is enough to piss me off. When looking for a computer to install linux on, I don't even bother with non-Intel graphics.
Anything that could live in such extreme environments such as bleach, a high concentration of alcohol, boiling water, etc. wouldn't exactly be well-adapted to living in the human body. Consider hyperthermophiles, which have proteins that function well above boiling but can't survive at "normal" temperatures. Even if they could survive in multiple extreme environments and still be able to live in the body, they would need multiple sets of proteins and be at a huge disadvantage.
Endospores, which can tolerate extreme conditions and come back to life as infectious bacteria, are a real threat. For example, alcohol hand rubs are useless against the spores of Clostridium difficile.
However, the TDP for the dual core is 8 watts, so there is no advantage in power consumption efficiency relative to the single core version.
TDP doesn't tell you anything about either efficiency or how much power the CPU uses in real life. It is solely a number that the CPU maker says the cooling system needs to be able to handle in order to use the processor. It doesn't even mean the theoretical maximum wattage of a processor - it may draw more or (more likely, now that Prescotts are gone) much less power at the maximum load/voltage. Consider that the Intel "QX" family as a whole has a TDP of 130W, then look at this chart.
Personally, I don't care about multitasking. What I care about is that both their OS and hardware went from rock-solid stable to flaky and bug-ridden. I bought a refurbished Tungsten C that was built 5 years ago because it's much more reliable than anything they make now. It's also faster. This is something that was made in 2003, and it's better than what they make now.
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At last a digital licensing scheme the recording industry can live with
Also, tailing is something a police officer may have to do without even waiting for the suspect to stop his car, let alone finding out his name and getting a warrant and a GPS device.
Stalking is legal now?
Except for the "limited times" part.
I preferred the RSAC system, which actually required some thought.
Let's respond with that old open source chestnut. If you don't like how it works, fix it yourself!
Or he could use Opera.
Never had any problems with my 770. But then, it's a lot less finicky to put into sleep mode than the n800 or n810.
As for the Pandora, have they actually shipped any of those, or is it a scam? They cancelled my preorder, and I was refunded 40 bucks less than I paid due to the exchange rate changing. How convenient. They keep pushing me to give them my bank account information to make a transfer. Fat chance.
There's an option for "Device Stays Lit" that can be set to either "when charging" or "never"... but it still turns on the display, only to block almost all of the screen as black and show the text "charging" along with an animated icon. Apparently, this can even cause it to lose power while attempting to charge by USB.
Were they still pushing them during their clearance "sale"? Are they worth their weight in toilet paper now?
The keyboard on the n810 is almost perfectly flat with a hairline space between keys. Hitting multiple keys is extremely easy, and it is necessary to look at the keys while carefully clicking with my fingernails. The thumbboard on my Tungsten C is a fraction of the size, but far more useful. Even the popup stylus keyboard on the 770 is less trouble. The 770 automatically goes into suspend when the metal cover is flipped back on - unlike the slide button on the n810 that can get triggered accidentally - and it doesn't insist on wearing out the screen while charging.
Frankly, this seems like a fairly nonobvious "invention" to me - in that I can't understand why anyone would ever want to do this. At the very least I'd want one click to put each item in the shopping cart or whatever, and one click to confirm the order with information like the calculated shipping cost, delivery time, whether any items are backordered, etc.
The reason you are bombarded with spam is that people believe it is effective. Like most marketers, the thing spammers are best at selling is their own services.
Oh, it does generate a few sales. Something like 4 sales per million spam e-mails.
TDP = thermal design power, ie: how much heat (in watts) that a machine with the chip in it is supposed to be able to deal with. It is NOT how many watts the chip actually uses. Intel tends to rate all chips in the same class with the same TDP, regardless of clockspeed, voltage, etc. Usually this is considerably less than the watts used at peak load, unless you are overclocking.
TDP has very little to do with how much power the chip actually uses, even at peak load. But I can't imagine this thing having decent battery life - any battery would be more of a built-in UPS than anything else. I suppose there is a market for machines that are "portable" enough to be lugged from one wall socket to another elsewhere, but keeping up with the upgrade cycle would get incredibly expensive.
Linux Mint, which is Ubuntu-based with additional codecs, custom tools, and various other changes, removed it back in 2007.
Yeah, this might turn out even worse than I, Robot. The only book of Asimov's that struck me as having the potential to make a decent movie was The Caves of Steel.
I started playing it recently, and I just donated the amount I would've paid for a pathetic bundle of minigames called Spore.
I've got your emergent gameplay right here!
Well, if they'd sacrificed all their goats, they might have had a chance against desertification.
Using mirrored drives in RAID-1 is a poor solution, and making redundant copies of the every file on the same drive is a terrible one. A filesystem suitable for use on hard drives that can substantially increase the integrity of data with a relatively minor cost in terms of extra space and speed would be very useful. Something like a Mode-1 CD-ROM's error correction. Being able to use it in RAID-1 would be a bonus.
Well, the issue with radar (especially photo radar, which doesn't stop people from speeding until after the fact) is that the prospect of generating revenue results in artificially low speed limits that don't do anything to prevent deaths (see autobahn). Ironically, people seem to drive just above the speed limit no matter what the weather conditions - when it would be safe to drive considerably faster in ideal conditions, and only a fraction of the speed in heavy rain/darkness/etc.
I've never had a problem with Intel drivers, but whenever I've tried installing Nvidia drivers, I've had nothing but frustration and crashes. Even seeing the "Envy" icon is enough to piss me off. When looking for a computer to install linux on, I don't even bother with non-Intel graphics.
Anything that could live in such extreme environments such as bleach, a high concentration of alcohol, boiling water, etc. wouldn't exactly be well-adapted to living in the human body. Consider hyperthermophiles, which have proteins that function well above boiling but can't survive at "normal" temperatures. Even if they could survive in multiple extreme environments and still be able to live in the body, they would need multiple sets of proteins and be at a huge disadvantage.
Endospores, which can tolerate extreme conditions and come back to life as infectious bacteria, are a real threat. For example, alcohol hand rubs are useless against the spores of Clostridium difficile.
However, the TDP for the dual core is 8 watts, so there is no advantage in power consumption efficiency relative to the single core version.
TDP doesn't tell you anything about either efficiency or how much power the CPU uses in real life. It is solely a number that the CPU maker says the cooling system needs to be able to handle in order to use the processor. It doesn't even mean the theoretical maximum wattage of a processor - it may draw more or (more likely, now that Prescotts are gone) much less power at the maximum load/voltage. Consider that the Intel "QX" family as a whole has a TDP of 130W, then look at this chart.
Not quite. It's the same stuff they were selling back in 2004-2005. The stuff they sold back in 2002-2003 broke less often.
Personally, I don't care about multitasking. What I care about is that both their OS and hardware went from rock-solid stable to flaky and bug-ridden. I bought a refurbished Tungsten C that was built 5 years ago because it's much more reliable than anything they make now. It's also faster. This is something that was made in 2003, and it's better than what they make now.