By not disabling the cache Safari will just reload the web page from disk, instead of downloading it all over wifi. In normal use you don't sit around reloading the same page all day, you surf to different web sites, so caching extends battery life to unrealistic levels.
Really? In normal use, people visit a very small subset of sites very frequently. I'd wager the majority just waste the day on facebook alone.
You, in all likelihood, visited this site twice already, once for the home page, and once to get to this article. Not to mention whatever happens after you submitted your post. Turning off cache would be far *less* realistic
Besides, it's not like Apple invented web caching just to inflate their battery performance. It exists in all browsers for a very good reason. And, the cause of the battery drain wasn't turning off the cache, it was the bug introduced by turning it off...
It's easy to buy a new Android phone that doesn't explode.
You can't buy a new iOS phone that has a headphone jack.
Multiple vendors really helps the Android user to get what they want. If the iPhone doesn't give you what you want, you're stuck.
Multiple vendors isn't relevant. The title is misleading; this isn't about Note 7 customers sticking with Android, they are sticking with Samsung. And guess what, true to form, Samsung is going for no-headphone jack in future models.
Just FYI, since the point seems to get so overstated so frequently, the new iPhones include a pair of lightning earphones and an 1/8 phono adapter. It's isn't like there is no alternative. The only sore point is that you can't charge and listen at the same time.
So can the MacBook Pro. What Apple says it can be upgraded to, and what it can actually handle are two different beasts.
To wit, my 2011 iMac is upgraded well past the max 16GB professed by Apple, as is my MacBook pro.
They need to reform as Drunk Mothers Against Driving. They can petition to raise the driving age, and lower the drinking age. Drinking with their teenagers might mellow them a bit.
It's good that research is being done, but it would be nice if they were a bit more complete and helpful with their findings.
Simply listing the toxic constituents is meaningless without content. Is 7 micrograms of acetol per puff actually harmful? Tomatoes contain nicotine, Apples contain cyanide. These are toxic chemicals, too. Burning a steak creates all kinds of nasty toxic chemicals too.. the question is are they actually harmful?
Secondly, "Shown here are emission rates of seven of the most toxic chemicals from a single-coil e-cigarette operated at 3.8V" is a very useless metric. Is it a 2Ohm coil? 1.5? Sub Ohm? 3.8V will produce vastly different results in each case.
I would love to see a study that gives actionable conclusions, such as operating a standard single coil e-cigarette with a 1.2Ohm coil at 3V produces dangerous level of (pick a toxic constituent.)
That student in particular has a vested interest in a particular area of her field, and hopefully that will grow into a later expertise, and ultimately significant contributions to human knowledge.
Well actually, from TFA:
Barbi remains unexcited. She is involved with theater arts, studies acting, plays the piano and the guitar, sings, and dances.
"I don't think math will become my profession. I hope to work in theater arts," Barbi says.
School administrators have no way of telling a good sysadmin from a bad sysadmin. Either would have a salary+benefits of over $100k/year, which few schools can afford. Schools can get federal grants to buy equipment, but salaries come out of their own budget.
Assuming each school needed a full time sysadmin, which they most likely do not. $100k to pay an admin to keep an eye on a portion of the schools in the school board is far more reasonable. And would then come from the board's budget, not the school.
Firstly, IBM was just as closed as anything, they fought tooth and nail to prevent compaq from releasing PC Compatibles.
Secondly, exactly what mistake are you referring to? Apple isn't necessarily losing customers, the smartphone market is expanding. They continue to make money hand over fist, and they continue to draw in new customers.
Exactly this. This whole approach is aimed at the elite (like me) who have an excellent connection and little concern about bandwidth usage. What the gaming industry is failing to take into account is that a large part of their target market is the working poor.
I'm assuming that they've amassed some good intelligence in the past decade or so of Xbox Live regarding their target audiences... it's entirely possible the elite are the ones who will benefit from it or more specifically the games that the elite play, and that those who don't fit in that category wouldn't be affected in anyway in that the games they would play, wouldn't require the extra horsepower in the first place.
I think your goal of playing co-op or combative games with her is a huge stretch for two reasons:
1) Your wife isn't a gamer now
2) Not every gamer likes co-op games or combative ones.
You may be able to introduce her to gaming and get her started, and if you do manage to do that, she's going to need time to discover which genres she enjoys. Your experience will help her there, since you can introduce her to a little bit of everything. At the end of the day, even IF she does pick up gaming, you might have to be happy that she finds a genre of games she likes and plays them, while you get to enjoy yours.
By the way: While I'm posting this my wife has been hogging the 360 all morning. I love it, and it's one of the reasons we're together in the first place; we've both been avid gamers since the 80s. Even though we both put in roughly the same amount of time gaming, it's very rare we play together, co-op or otherwise. Keep that in mind.
To publish an insanely sensationalistic FUD piece from the Anti-Nuclear crowd scaremongering the most densely populated area of the world over something that is a complete and utter non-issue.
Not that your point isn't well taken, but either you're using a different definition of "world" or "density," or something happened to Japan, Mexico, South Korea and India (and possibly the Philippines) since this morning that hasn't been making the news.
Well, see, in countries where there's decent privacy laws, it's illegal to take a picture of somebody where that person is the subject of the photo, and then to publish that photo without their permission.
Wish I could vote you up, sir. People don't understand that posting photos to facebook is publishing, and that they should be subjected to the same restrictions placed on professionals.
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I believe it's called "Do Not Load TFA/TFS." Apparently it saves battery life because some can't be bothered to read the entire summary.
By not disabling the cache Safari will just reload the web page from disk, instead of downloading it all over wifi. In normal use you don't sit around reloading the same page all day, you surf to different web sites, so caching extends battery life to unrealistic levels.
Really? In normal use, people visit a very small subset of sites very frequently. I'd wager the majority just waste the day on facebook alone.
You, in all likelihood, visited this site twice already, once for the home page, and once to get to this article. Not to mention whatever happens after you submitted your post. Turning off cache would be far *less* realistic
Besides, it's not like Apple invented web caching just to inflate their battery performance. It exists in all browsers for a very good reason. And, the cause of the battery drain wasn't turning off the cache, it was the bug introduced by turning it off...
Typically a pull request results in pepper spray, a hard slap, a call to the cops or some combination of those.
It's easy to buy a new Android phone that doesn't explode.
You can't buy a new iOS phone that has a headphone jack.
Multiple vendors really helps the Android user to get what they want. If the iPhone doesn't give you what you want, you're stuck.
Multiple vendors isn't relevant. The title is misleading; this isn't about Note 7 customers sticking with Android, they are sticking with Samsung. And guess what, true to form, Samsung is going for no-headphone jack in future models.
Just FYI, since the point seems to get so overstated so frequently, the new iPhones include a pair of lightning earphones and an 1/8 phono adapter. It's isn't like there is no alternative. The only sore point is that you can't charge and listen at the same time.
1 meg per minute? Even only using GSM would give about 96K per minute, and there are far more worthy codecs for this kind of application.
and what drives the reproduction rate?
Netflix outages.Same as it always was, but with a different name.
So can the MacBook Pro. What Apple says it can be upgraded to, and what it can actually handle are two different beasts. To wit, my 2011 iMac is upgraded well past the max 16GB professed by Apple, as is my MacBook pro.
Besides, MAD is very much alive and well in the 21st century.
Despite Inspector Gadget's best efforts.
They need to reform as Drunk Mothers Against Driving. They can petition to raise the driving age, and lower the drinking age. Drinking with their teenagers might mellow them a bit.
It's good that research is being done, but it would be nice if they were a bit more complete and helpful with their findings. Simply listing the toxic constituents is meaningless without content. Is 7 micrograms of acetol per puff actually harmful? Tomatoes contain nicotine, Apples contain cyanide. These are toxic chemicals, too. Burning a steak creates all kinds of nasty toxic chemicals too.. the question is are they actually harmful? Secondly, "Shown here are emission rates of seven of the most toxic chemicals from a single-coil e-cigarette operated at 3.8V" is a very useless metric. Is it a 2Ohm coil? 1.5? Sub Ohm? 3.8V will produce vastly different results in each case. I would love to see a study that gives actionable conclusions, such as operating a standard single coil e-cigarette with a 1.2Ohm coil at 3V produces dangerous level of (pick a toxic constituent.)
That student in particular has a vested interest in a particular area of her field, and hopefully that will grow into a later expertise, and ultimately significant contributions to human knowledge.
Well actually, from TFA:
Barbi remains unexcited. She is involved with theater arts, studies acting, plays the piano and the guitar, sings, and dances.
"I don't think math will become my profession. I hope to work in theater arts," Barbi says.
You could fit a typical student record on a 3x5 card ... suck it up and just tell the crooks to go pound sand.
Assuming that payroll wasn't handled by one of the servers affected...
School administrators have no way of telling a good sysadmin from a bad sysadmin. Either would have a salary+benefits of over $100k/year, which few schools can afford. Schools can get federal grants to buy equipment, but salaries come out of their own budget.
Assuming each school needed a full time sysadmin, which they most likely do not. $100k to pay an admin to keep an eye on a portion of the schools in the school board is far more reasonable. And would then come from the board's budget, not the school.
I'm starting to believe that Jade Raymond leaving Ubisoft might be related to this fiasco. It was only weeks before Unity's launch.
Firstly, IBM was just as closed as anything, they fought tooth and nail to prevent compaq from releasing PC Compatibles. Secondly, exactly what mistake are you referring to? Apple isn't necessarily losing customers, the smartphone market is expanding. They continue to make money hand over fist, and they continue to draw in new customers.
Exactly this. This whole approach is aimed at the elite (like me) who have an excellent connection and little concern about bandwidth usage. What the gaming industry is failing to take into account is that a large part of their target market is the working poor.
I'm assuming that they've amassed some good intelligence in the past decade or so of Xbox Live regarding their target audiences... it's entirely possible the elite are the ones who will benefit from it or more specifically the games that the elite play, and that those who don't fit in that category wouldn't be affected in anyway in that the games they would play, wouldn't require the extra horsepower in the first place.
Be good to quote your sources: here's one for example: http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/People/Michael_Richardson/billsatan.html
I think your goal of playing co-op or combative games with her is a huge stretch for two reasons:
1) Your wife isn't a gamer now
2) Not every gamer likes co-op games or combative ones.
You may be able to introduce her to gaming and get her started, and if you do manage to do that, she's going to need time to discover which genres she enjoys. Your experience will help her there, since you can introduce her to a little bit of everything. At the end of the day, even IF she does pick up gaming, you might have to be happy that she finds a genre of games she likes and plays them, while you get to enjoy yours.
By the way: While I'm posting this my wife has been hogging the 360 all morning. I love it, and it's one of the reasons we're together in the first place; we've both been avid gamers since the 80s. Even though we both put in roughly the same amount of time gaming, it's very rare we play together, co-op or otherwise. Keep that in mind.
s/Skype/Micro'soft/g With all of the preparation's being made to usher in Skype in place of WLM, it's not a surprising move.
To publish an insanely sensationalistic FUD piece from the Anti-Nuclear crowd scaremongering the most densely populated area of the world over something that is a complete and utter non-issue.
Not that your point isn't well taken, but either you're using a different definition of "world" or "density," or something happened to Japan, Mexico, South Korea and India (and possibly the Philippines) since this morning that hasn't been making the news.
You're more likely to drop the phone in the toilet then getting hacked.
I doubt you'll get hacked after having dropped it in the toilet, and if you do you have some rather unfortunate luck.
Both Xbox links referencing their console making use of similar DRM schemes date back to January, yet Sony just dreamed this up?
I don't understand the condescending attitude that many nerds have about iOS devices and their users.
They got really bored of hating Microsoft?
Best Buy made it on there, after all.
Well, see, in countries where there's decent privacy laws, it's illegal to take a picture of somebody where that person is the subject of the photo, and then to publish that photo without their permission.
Wish I could vote you up, sir. People don't understand that posting photos to facebook is publishing, and that they should be subjected to the same restrictions placed on professionals.