Lenovo Thinkpad's have expensive batteries that allow for fine-grained control of these charging ranges. It can maintain it automatically, or you can set custom thresholds. i.e charge if below x%, stop charging at y%. This allows you to do things like commute back and forth from work without the constant 99% -> 100% charge cycle. Otherwise you lose a bit of charge on your commute and plugin at work/home inducing another cycle.
Seriously? I'd say it's useful for 90% of what Google Earth is used for commercially, i.e surveying. Trees are just as significant as buildings when it comes to mapping the land.
Just because it's not useful for you to map your trip to Bob's house doesn't mean it's not useful for others.
You do realise the font uses sub-pixel rendering? A pixel is made of 3 (or more?) sub-pixels on LCD displays. Which sub-pixels are lit depends on the colour of the overall pixel. Cleartype uses the same concept.
So each pixel in the font is of a particular colour depending on what sub-pixels should be lit. Effectively the font actually uses less than 1 pixel for some features of a character.
There are a lot of people that just use their computer for facebook and generally using the web, especially people looking in this price range. The kind of people that need to write documents on the subway would not be using this. I see it as more the 'laptop for the kids/casual use' which is probably 90% of what laptops are used for in the home. I myself have an expensive laptop which I just use for browsing the web and a desktop PC for doing work. In hindsight I would have been far better off getting the cheapest smallest netbook that could run a web browser.
Using a computer with encryption is different from *knowingly* using encryption. i.e visiting a https web site using SSL is a bit different to keeping a black book of crimes in a hidden TrueCrypt volume.
I think it's fair enough, given the clause of "knowingly".
99% consumers care about two things with regards to monitors; inches and cost.
They don't understand resolution. To them, a 15" running at 1280x800 is "bigger and better, yet magically costs less" than a 13" running at 1440x900 which for some reason costs more.
Look at the HTC Desire and HTC Desire "HD". The "HD" version is exactly the same resolution, but just a bigger form factor. So HTC add on a "HD" because of the bigger screen. Sure enough, people are all over it because of the "high definition large screen". When in reality, it has less DPI.
IMHO, monitors should be required to advertise the DPI prominently. That way, "regular people" can compare the cost to the DPI and get a better understanding of what they're paying for, or not paying for.
Yes, valid points. However I like this idea for the purposes of password recovery.
Use a high strength regular password, and have your browser save it. However, when you lose it, or need to login from somewhere else, the ability to recover/reset a lost/difficult to remember password is useful when the password hint is something a bit stronger than 'What's your favourite colour?'.
The uncommitted have the opportunity to choose the best option without baggage of prior commitment.
When you are talking about 'long term future' I don't think it is wise to poll people that have committed to a platform previously, you are better off polling people that are betting on the future.
There is also the 6% that chose something else, perhaps blackberry. So it wasn't a choice between two platforms.
"Just over half said one was better than the other" suggests a ratio of something like 51% to 49%. However, it is 59% to 35%, which is pretty significant.
It's nothing like SQL sanitation, unless you are using pre tags. But that doesn't allow embedded links or formatting.
Escaping HTML is very difficult, especially when you massage the output a bit (i.e hash tags and http links). There is also unicode, %20 and & style notation, "double escaping" etc.
This guy did not need the handout, the poster was more or less a joke/notice to let the many people that do know him they should come to his party. The very fact he knows so many people was the reason for the notice, it was the most practical way to notify the large number of people he knows.
If the guy was a "lonely old man with no friends left", do you think he would book out a town hall to hold his party?
This exactly. Even if they didn't correct their clocks through NTP or other means, their clocks would only be slow by about 10 seconds or so over the course of 50 years. The servers/desktop PCs are likely to have been rebooted a few times in those 50 years, so they can correct the clocks in that downtine if they really must. As you mentioned, clock drift and corrections via NTP make thinking about implementations of 'leap seconds' for end user software a waste of time.
No the OP is pretty much right. 4chan has now implemented reCaptcha, yet is still getting hammered with spam. Thus some spammer using 4chan has managed to find a way around it with a pretty good success rate.
Because it costs nothing to archive it, and it saves you from having to make the decision of whether to save or delete it. (and the added steps to delete vs archive in gmail). It also saves you the pain of accidentally deleting something you meant to keep. You often don't realise you need something until you go to find it years from now.
Your inbox can still remain clean and you can still use "folders" to organise your mail.
Why would the spammers only copy trending topics? Why not just screen scrape everything from cnn.com and add ads? They do.
It just looks like they are only targeting trends because Google picks up on that stuff and aggregates it when it is a hot topic, so you see more of it.
Spammers don't need the trends, they are screen scraping everything, or just the headlines. This has been going on forever, long before "trends" existed. There are just more of them, and they are getting better at making their spam farms and increasing their page-rank, such that their screen scraped content is actually beating the site they copied from in the results.
Sadly it's only going to get worse, as it's too easy for even a single person to create many terabytes of auto-generated spam. Multiply that by the thousands of spammers doing it every minute.
The spammers would just get the trending topics from twitter or a news search or even just watching the news on TV. This is all much ado about nothing, the author just sees the spam and the trending topics and has jumped to a conclusion.
Seriously, no 3D? How are they expected to use these things without 3D?
If they really want to add something of value, add 3D and include a set of 3D glasses, it's clear this is where the future is headed. The writing is on the wall for 2D, OLPC needs to get with the times.
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Other than 'audio only stuff', there is also net access. On 2G/3G net access can be quite slow. So slow in fact, that it makes sense to background the task and do something else while you wait. It needs to continue downloading in the background and cannot be 'paused'. No idea whether the older iPhones do this, but my old Sony E certainly can.
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I've got a mouse I can sell you for $80, or I can charge you more if you think it will help you play better.
As nearly 100% of "digital music players" played mp3s, or at least had tools to convert them during transfer, I don't see the problem with this.
Lenovo Thinkpad's have expensive batteries that allow for fine-grained control of these charging ranges. It can maintain it automatically, or you can set custom thresholds. i.e charge if below x%, stop charging at y%. This allows you to do things like commute back and forth from work without the constant 99% -> 100% charge cycle. Otherwise you lose a bit of charge on your commute and plugin at work/home inducing another cycle.
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Seriously? I'd say it's useful for 90% of what Google Earth is used for commercially, i.e surveying. Trees are just as significant as buildings when it comes to mapping the land.
Just because it's not useful for you to map your trip to Bob's house doesn't mean it's not useful for others.
You do realise the font uses sub-pixel rendering? A pixel is made of 3 (or more?) sub-pixels on LCD displays. Which sub-pixels are lit depends on the colour of the overall pixel.
Cleartype uses the same concept.
So each pixel in the font is of a particular colour depending on what sub-pixels should be lit. Effectively the font actually uses less than 1 pixel for some features of a character.
There are a lot of people that just use their computer for facebook and generally using the web, especially people looking in this price range. The kind of people that need to write documents on the subway would not be using this. I see it as more the 'laptop for the kids/casual use' which is probably 90% of what laptops are used for in the home. I myself have an expensive laptop which I just use for browsing the web and a desktop PC for doing work. In hindsight I would have been far better off getting the cheapest smallest netbook that could run a web browser.
But surely each student would generally only be using one device at a time?
I guess having two devices increases the odds of having one of them connected.
Using a computer with encryption is different from *knowingly* using encryption. i.e visiting a https web site using SSL is a bit different to keeping a black book of crimes in a hidden TrueCrypt volume.
I think it's fair enough, given the clause of "knowingly".
99% consumers care about two things with regards to monitors; inches and cost.
They don't understand resolution. To them, a 15" running at 1280x800 is "bigger and better, yet magically costs less" than a 13" running at 1440x900 which for some reason costs more.
Look at the HTC Desire and HTC Desire "HD". The "HD" version is exactly the same resolution, but just a bigger form factor. So HTC add on a "HD" because of the bigger screen. Sure enough, people are all over it because of the "high definition large screen". When in reality, it has less DPI.
IMHO, monitors should be required to advertise the DPI prominently. That way, "regular people" can compare the cost to the DPI and get a better understanding of what they're paying for, or not paying for.
Yes, valid points. However I like this idea for the purposes of password recovery.
Use a high strength regular password, and have your browser save it. However, when you lose it, or need to login from somewhere else, the ability to recover/reset a lost/difficult to remember password is useful when the password hint is something a bit stronger than 'What's your favourite colour?'.
The uncommitted have the opportunity to choose the best option without baggage of prior commitment.
When you are talking about 'long term future' I don't think it is wise to poll people that have committed to a platform previously, you are better off polling people that are betting on the future.
There is also the 6% that chose something else, perhaps blackberry. So it wasn't a choice between two platforms.
"Just over half said one was better than the other" suggests a ratio of something like 51% to 49%. However, it is 59% to 35%, which is pretty significant.
It's nothing like SQL sanitation, unless you are using pre tags. But that doesn't allow embedded links or formatting.
Escaping HTML is very difficult, especially when you massage the output a bit (i.e hash tags and http links). There is also unicode, %20 and & style notation, "double escaping" etc.
This guy did not need the handout, the poster was more or less a joke/notice to let the many people that do know him they should come to his party. The very fact he knows so many people was the reason for the notice, it was the most practical way to notify the large number of people he knows.
If the guy was a "lonely old man with no friends left", do you think he would book out a town hall to hold his party?
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/d9zmp/dear_internet_on_behalf_of_the_lashua_family_i/
"He has 7 children, many grandchildren, and even great grandchildren. In his younger years he was a foster parent to dozens of foster children."
I can't help but think these donations and effort could have been directed to people more in need.
This exactly. Even if they didn't correct their clocks through NTP or other means, their clocks would only be slow by about 10 seconds or so over the course of 50 years. The servers/desktop PCs are likely to have been rebooted a few times in those 50 years, so they can correct the clocks in that downtine if they really must. As you mentioned, clock drift and corrections via NTP make thinking about implementations of 'leap seconds' for end user software a waste of time.
No the OP is pretty much right. 4chan has now implemented reCaptcha, yet is still getting hammered with spam. Thus some spammer using 4chan has managed to find a way around it with a pretty good success rate.
And on the same day is this story about IE share going up, and firefox down:
http://www.neowin.net/news/ie-usage-grows-in-july-firefox-share-declines
Goes to show you really can't take any of these findings seriously.
Because it costs nothing to archive it, and it saves you from having to make the decision of whether to save or delete it. (and the added steps to delete vs archive in gmail). It also saves you the pain of accidentally deleting something you meant to keep. You often don't realise you need something until you go to find it years from now.
Your inbox can still remain clean and you can still use "folders" to organise your mail.
Why would the spammers only copy trending topics? Why not just screen scrape everything from cnn.com and add ads? They do.
It just looks like they are only targeting trends because Google picks up on that stuff and aggregates it when it is a hot topic, so you see more of it.
Spammers don't need the trends, they are screen scraping everything, or just the headlines. This has been going on forever, long before "trends" existed. There are just more of them, and they are getting better at making their spam farms and increasing their page-rank, such that their screen scraped content is actually beating the site they copied from in the results.
Sadly it's only going to get worse, as it's too easy for even a single person to create many terabytes of auto-generated spam. Multiply that by the thousands of spammers doing it every minute.
The spammers would just get the trending topics from twitter or a news search or even just watching the news on TV. This is all much ado about nothing, the author just sees the spam and the trending topics and has jumped to a conclusion.
You sir, need to look at the "archive" button.
77% of iPhone users are fan boys/girls
80% of Android users value freedom of choice
Seriously, no 3D? How are they expected to use these things without 3D?
If they really want to add something of value, add 3D and include a set of 3D glasses, it's clear this is where the future is headed. The writing is on the wall for 2D, OLPC needs to get with the times.
Other than 'audio only stuff', there is also net access. On 2G/3G net access can be quite slow. So slow in fact, that it makes sense to background the task and do something else while you wait. It needs to continue downloading in the background and cannot be 'paused'. No idea whether the older iPhones do this, but my old Sony E certainly can.