I got 10 hours of battery life on my 2011 macbook air when I first got it. I don't just mean 10 hours of it sitting idle either. I could get 7 hours of continuous play of movies. Then Mountain Lion came out and I was lucky to get 3 hours tops. That lasted 6 months until they "fixed" it and I was able to get 5 again. Now in I can consistently get 4 hours with it sitting mostly idle.
I love the machine but I hate that I cant change the battery myself. I'll have to pay the Apple tax to get this fixed. I am holding out hope for Mavericks though, hopefully the power saving features can breathe some new life into this thing.
Clearly we need to spend a few trillion more to find out the answer.
No, not at all. It would only cost a few tens of millions to keep "studying" the problem until everyone agrees it's too late to do anything about it. Either of the Koch brothers could just write a check. And in 100 years their descendants will still be rich enough to live on the new coastlines... wherever they wind up.
and at night where previously limited lighting prevented many activities.
My iPhone has a brightness setting. At max I can light up a bedroom and get "work" done.
J/K of course.
But honestly, people aren't comparing the level of their achievements, they are comparing their personalities and legacy. You could make a case for the iPhone being at this level however. While the iPhones features weren't unique they were the first time they all came together in a single device. With the iPhone you had the entire internet at your finger tips anywhere you went. This is like have the worlds greatest library with you at all times. This can not be understated as an achievement at the level of having light in your room at all times. In addition to that the built in GPS gave everyone the ability to know where they are get where they are going using nothing more than a device they would normally have in their pocket anyway.
Like I said, it's not that Apple invented all that tech, they just put it altogether in a way that it was useful and the world has changed as a result. It's a big deal. It would have happened eventually anyway just as Edisons achievements would have, but since Jobs and Edison got their first, they get the credit.
iOS 7 is the nail in the coffin. Seriously, I just installed it as a part of my companies beta pilot program and I hate looking at it. It's the ugliest piece of shit OS I have ever seen in my life. It's windows 8 without the tiles.
Jon Ive has lost his fucking mind. It's not a huge surprise, Ive hasn't really done anything interesting in 5-6 years. The guy is way over hyped.
Bullshit. Postfix didn't exist 20 years ago (1997) and LDAP was just first introduced in 1993. Likewise CIFS was in 1996. Unless you were like the first person to ever use LDAP I doubt that one is true.
Maybe. Remember there are finite resourced on Earth but if you mined asteroids you would be pretty well off. Not only could you build your station with those resources you could also sell those resources back to Earth. An endeavor like that would be extremely lucrative. Not only would you find the raw materials for actually building the station you would also find water ice to survive off of.
Its not outside the realm of possibility that space flight will become cheaper. Especially with a stable space outpost up there to dock too and use for mission launches. The only thing I can think of really holding this back is the lack of proper radiation shielding in space, making long term survival up there difficult at best.
Watch their little Luna intro video. It's so Mac like as to be ridiculous. These guys are in complete denial of how much they copy from Apple. I think Samsung envies them for not being sued yet. Even the style of their website mimics Apple.
They used to have a forum but it got shut down because they got so much hate on it about their inability to form original ideas. Now they have some blurb on there about "They feel social media provides the outlet needed" instead of a project forum.
The distro itself is a joke. I've been battling these guys for a couple years on another Linux blog. They love to swarm it like flies on shit and tell everyone how great they are. They've done nothing but copy OS X's look and feel from the start and then go off on tangents about how "It can't be done any other way"
There isn't an original thought in the entire group. They even have one guy that does nothing but hang out on social media and spam about Elementary. He went so far as to email me personally (how he got my email I dont know) and wrote a 4 page letter trying to sell me on their distro.
The only upside I see to it is that these young guys are learning a thing or two about Linux and programming which may or may not benefit them in the future when they grow up. I'll give them props though, they are far more productive than I was at that age. I just wish they would contribute to a decent distro instead of this pile of garbage.
I don't give a shit about Denmark. Here in the US we have an arm of the government (IRS) singling out a group of people based on their political beliefs for punishment (conservatives). I don't trust the government to run healthcare and not punish me based on my political beliefs.
Then again I'm not a welfare leach that cant get and hold a job. Health benefits arent exactly hard to come by in the US if you're actually willing to, you know, work for a living.
I completely agree. Obamacare is very business unfriendly. A Canadian style system where the employer bears no specific responsibility because healthcare is paid out of general taxes would be much more business friendly. Toyota, for one, certainly thought so when a major reason they put a plant in Canada instead of the US was Canadian healthcare. Republicans should also value maximizing the benefit for the money spent, and Canadian healthcare, which costs only 2/3 of the US, certainly qualifies as a savings.
So why aren't Republicans, with their concerns for business friendliness and cost effectiveness, pushing for Canadian style healthcare? It's an obvious win-win.
Because when Canadians actually need to be treated for something serious they come to the US. That's why. Now take your socialism and shove it up your Canadian ass.
I wouldn't cut hours. I'd just fire everyone that voted for Obama. Go get your single payer from the state along with your EBT and welfare. Fucking leach.
Oh fuck you. Obama was voted the most liberal democrat in the senate before his election as President. The man is the fucking embodiment of what being a modern Democrat is. You don't get to back pedal now. You assholes elected this evil prick twice in a row without ever vetting him, calling everyone who opposed him a racist and all the while insulting every conservative that thinks differently than you "stupid" and "ignorant." You don't get to now go back and say "I didn't know he'd be like this."
Fuck you and everyone like you that stuck us with this shit. You're exactly the type of low information voter that's fucked this nation for decades with your welfare state policies.
Take a look around you asshole, every major city in this nation has been run by assholes just like Obama for well on 50+ years. From NY to LA, all democratic run and every single fucking one of them is a welfare state, police state, verge of bankruptcy shit hole.
This is your liberal paradise mother fucker. YOU OWN THIS SHIT.
What annoys me is how themes break between minor versions with GTK. I'm sick to death of GTK and have been for 8-9 years. GTK was never meant to be used the way it has been. It was the Gimp Toolkit and nothing more until the Gnome devs came along and bastardized the whole thing and laid hack upon hack on it until they sorta got it to work. Time to flush the turd.
Yes people are reading paper books a LOT less. Every person I know has a Kindle or an iPad or like me and my wife, Nexus 7's. Paper books are great, don't get me wrong but when my mother in law even has an iPad for reading you know the death of paper books is on the horizon.
I was a bitter clinger to paper books. I graduated with an English degree and love literature. Too me paper books were sacred. Now I can't stand the thought of dealing with a paper book, storing it, watching it yellow on my shelf or having to fight with the binding while trying to read and holding the cover back. My Nexus 7 is the perfect experience. I can get books from multiple retailers on a single device while sitting in bed. I have Google Books, Kindle, Nook, Kobo and many others on my device and I shop around for prices.
Couple this with Calibre and I can manage my library any way I see fit, convert between formats and store them locally or in the cloud as I see fit.
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Its not a study. It's just someone monitoring their own laptops battery life. Lighten up.
I got 10 hours of battery life on my 2011 macbook air when I first got it. I don't just mean 10 hours of it sitting idle either. I could get 7 hours of continuous play of movies. Then Mountain Lion came out and I was lucky to get 3 hours tops. That lasted 6 months until they "fixed" it and I was able to get 5 again. Now in I can consistently get 4 hours with it sitting mostly idle.
I love the machine but I hate that I cant change the battery myself. I'll have to pay the Apple tax to get this fixed. I am holding out hope for Mavericks though, hopefully the power saving features can breathe some new life into this thing.
Short answer: No, with an "if".
Long answer: Yes, with a "but".
Which equals - No answer at all................
Clearly we need to spend a few trillion more to find out the answer.
No, not at all. It would only cost a few tens of millions to keep "studying" the problem until everyone agrees it's too late to do anything about it. Either of the Koch brothers could just write a check. And in 100 years their descendants will still be rich enough to live on the new coastlines... wherever they wind up.
Ahhhhhh. Class warfare. How cute.
Bitch sang a long time ago
Short answer: No, with an "if".
Long answer: Yes, with a "but".
Which equals - No answer at all................
Clearly we need to spend a few trillion more to find out the answer.
nope.
Oops, Gnome, not Gimp :)
Easy mistake since Gnome is now gimped.
and at night where previously limited lighting prevented many activities.
My iPhone has a brightness setting. At max I can light up a bedroom and get "work" done.
J/K of course.
But honestly, people aren't comparing the level of their achievements, they are comparing their personalities and legacy. You could make a case for the iPhone being at this level however. While the iPhones features weren't unique they were the first time they all came together in a single device. With the iPhone you had the entire internet at your finger tips anywhere you went. This is like have the worlds greatest library with you at all times. This can not be understated as an achievement at the level of having light in your room at all times. In addition to that the built in GPS gave everyone the ability to know where they are get where they are going using nothing more than a device they would normally have in their pocket anyway.
Like I said, it's not that Apple invented all that tech, they just put it altogether in a way that it was useful and the world has changed as a result. It's a big deal. It would have happened eventually anyway just as Edisons achievements would have, but since Jobs and Edison got their first, they get the credit.
BSD isn't dying, it's dead.We've been waiting for the funeral for several years.
iOS 7 is the nail in the coffin. Seriously, I just installed it as a part of my companies beta pilot program and I hate looking at it. It's the ugliest piece of shit OS I have ever seen in my life. It's windows 8 without the tiles.
Jon Ive has lost his fucking mind. It's not a huge surprise, Ive hasn't really done anything interesting in 5-6 years. The guy is way over hyped.
Bullshit. Postfix didn't exist 20 years ago (1997) and LDAP was just first introduced in 1993. Likewise CIFS was in 1996. Unless you were like the first person to ever use LDAP I doubt that one is true.
We call Android an OS.
Because it is.
Maybe. Remember there are finite resourced on Earth but if you mined asteroids you would be pretty well off. Not only could you build your station with those resources you could also sell those resources back to Earth. An endeavor like that would be extremely lucrative. Not only would you find the raw materials for actually building the station you would also find water ice to survive off of.
Its not outside the realm of possibility that space flight will become cheaper. Especially with a stable space outpost up there to dock too and use for mission launches. The only thing I can think of really holding this back is the lack of proper radiation shielding in space, making long term survival up there difficult at best.
Watch their little Luna intro video. It's so Mac like as to be ridiculous. These guys are in complete denial of how much they copy from Apple. I think Samsung envies them for not being sued yet. Even the style of their website mimics Apple.
They used to have a forum but it got shut down because they got so much hate on it about their inability to form original ideas. Now they have some blurb on there about "They feel social media provides the outlet needed" instead of a project forum.
Just a complete joke.
The distro itself is a joke. I've been battling these guys for a couple years on another Linux blog. They love to swarm it like flies on shit and tell everyone how great they are. They've done nothing but copy OS X's look and feel from the start and then go off on tangents about how "It can't be done any other way"
There isn't an original thought in the entire group. They even have one guy that does nothing but hang out on social media and spam about Elementary. He went so far as to email me personally (how he got my email I dont know) and wrote a 4 page letter trying to sell me on their distro.
The only upside I see to it is that these young guys are learning a thing or two about Linux and programming which may or may not benefit them in the future when they grow up. I'll give them props though, they are far more productive than I was at that age. I just wish they would contribute to a decent distro instead of this pile of garbage.
That would mean vetting the candidate with a (D) next to their name. That can't be allowed by our media. It doesnt fit the agenda.
Because he has a (D) next to his name. The lemmings think that means something.
I don't give a shit about Denmark. Here in the US we have an arm of the government (IRS) singling out a group of people based on their political beliefs for punishment (conservatives). I don't trust the government to run healthcare and not punish me based on my political beliefs.
Then again I'm not a welfare leach that cant get and hold a job. Health benefits arent exactly hard to come by in the US if you're actually willing to, you know, work for a living.
I completely agree. Obamacare is very business unfriendly. A Canadian style system where the employer bears no specific responsibility because healthcare is paid out of general taxes would be much more business friendly. Toyota, for one, certainly thought so when a major reason they put a plant in Canada instead of the US was Canadian healthcare. Republicans should also value maximizing the benefit for the money spent, and Canadian healthcare, which costs only 2/3 of the US, certainly qualifies as a savings.
So why aren't Republicans, with their concerns for business friendliness and cost effectiveness, pushing for Canadian style healthcare? It's an obvious win-win.
Because when Canadians actually need to be treated for something serious they come to the US. That's why. Now take your socialism and shove it up your Canadian ass.
I wouldn't cut hours. I'd just fire everyone that voted for Obama. Go get your single payer from the state along with your EBT and welfare. Fucking leach.
Oh fuck you. Obama was voted the most liberal democrat in the senate before his election as President. The man is the fucking embodiment of what being a modern Democrat is. You don't get to back pedal now. You assholes elected this evil prick twice in a row without ever vetting him, calling everyone who opposed him a racist and all the while insulting every conservative that thinks differently than you "stupid" and "ignorant." You don't get to now go back and say "I didn't know he'd be like this."
Fuck you and everyone like you that stuck us with this shit. You're exactly the type of low information voter that's fucked this nation for decades with your welfare state policies.
Take a look around you asshole, every major city in this nation has been run by assholes just like Obama for well on 50+ years. From NY to LA, all democratic run and every single fucking one of them is a welfare state, police state, verge of bankruptcy shit hole.
This is your liberal paradise mother fucker. YOU OWN THIS SHIT.
What annoys me is how themes break between minor versions with GTK. I'm sick to death of GTK and have been for 8-9 years. GTK was never meant to be used the way it has been. It was the Gimp Toolkit and nothing more until the Gnome devs came along and bastardized the whole thing and laid hack upon hack on it until they sorta got it to work. Time to flush the turd.
Time to use pillows.
I hear pillows are pretty good for smothering people to death. I think the advertisers should be very afraid.
emit a nose canceling signal
Plastic surgeons everywhere will be terrified
Yes people are reading paper books a LOT less. Every person I know has a Kindle or an iPad or like me and my wife, Nexus 7's. Paper books are great, don't get me wrong but when my mother in law even has an iPad for reading you know the death of paper books is on the horizon.
I was a bitter clinger to paper books. I graduated with an English degree and love literature. Too me paper books were sacred. Now I can't stand the thought of dealing with a paper book, storing it, watching it yellow on my shelf or having to fight with the binding while trying to read and holding the cover back. My Nexus 7 is the perfect experience. I can get books from multiple retailers on a single device while sitting in bed. I have Google Books, Kindle, Nook, Kobo and many others on my device and I shop around for prices.
Couple this with Calibre and I can manage my library any way I see fit, convert between formats and store them locally or in the cloud as I see fit.