That sounds very interesting. I've got the X40, and I'm on my second HDD and more than willing to swap it for SSD, but I thought the strange HDD connector prohibited that.
This is something that the Linux kernel badly needs! Presently, suspend and hibernation is at least 5 years behind OS X and Windows.
It takes almost two minutes to hibernate my Thinkpad with 512 MB RAM when running Ubuntu, while Windows takes about 15 seconds. Additionally, it does crash every now and then.
For example, in the second paragraph we find the ENTIRE first myth copied verbatim into the news article with no credit or references given whatsoever!
The rest seems to be original wording though, but I encourage you to dig more into this.
For us that live in coldish countries, and I'd place Scotland in this group, as long as you have regulated heating, heat from PSUs is just as good as any other heat.
I'm not saying we shouldn't conserve energy, but these kinds of calculations are often off by orders of magnitude.
The only difference is the AMD laptop chips use more power, but you can always plug in somewhere and recharge so really this is no disadvantage.
Right. I take it you've never used a laptop? Power usage is everything in todays laptop processors, as their speed is generally more than ample. My ThinkPad has a 1.2 GHz Pentium M, but according to the Gnome CPU speed panel it usually hovers around 600 MHz.
Personally, I'd trade speed for lower power usage any day of the week, and I'm sure many feel like I do.
Yup, Firefox leaks memory like a sieve, seemingly independent of platform. I guess for many home users this is not a big problem, but after a day at work with 10 tabs open the swapping needed to switch tabs can be quite annoying.
I hope this is one thing that has been looked into for 1.5.
Haven't you ever seen a receptionist or a teller staring at her screen, moving her hands from the "mousing position" (one hand on the mouse, one on the keyboard) to the "keyboard position" (touch-typing position) and back again?
This is where the pointing stick found on all IBM ThinkPads really shines. Instead of moving my hand I just move my right index finger from the J key to in between G and H. On laptops without the stick, I find that even glidepoints which let you use your thumb are way better than a mouse.
I use Skype pretty extensively, and generally the sound quality is at least as good as ordinary land lines, but sometimes you get a "bad connection" and have to redial. Also, the Windows client seems to function poorly when other programs access your sound card at the same time.
It's not perfect, but for 0,017 it is a pretty good deal.
So you're saying the memory and CPU usage of OO.o is dependent on the user's opinions?
Microsoft Office really blows the competition right out of the water IMHO. Together with the awesome SQL Server they're easily the best products out of Redmond.
Stolen GSM phones can be locked globally through their IMEI number. However I would assume that most stolen phones are never reported. Additionally, at least some older phones allow this number to be changed.
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I like it. IMHO it is fast; it is stable; it offers user interface consistency only rivaled by MacOS; it has superior hardware support, especially for laptops; it has superior software support, especially for games; it is familiar to everybody who uses my computer; and most of the good open source projects have good Windows versions.
At work I use SuSE 9.2, and while it certaily offers some benefits, I would not consider running Linux on my Thinkpad anytime soon.
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That sounds very interesting. I've got the X40, and I'm on my second HDD and more than willing to swap it for SSD, but I thought the strange HDD connector prohibited that.
Where did you get the SuperTalent?
Does your doorbell have two buttons, or what?
To paraphrase The Simpsons:
Lisa: Do you know slashdotters have the same word for fun and informative?
Homer: Yes! Funformative!
Really? I get modded down every rare once in a while and I'm still at Karma: Excellent.
Might it be that your name is Earl?
That's because they dropped the 1. around 1.12 or so.
Lou: Another case of Monopoly related violence, chief.
Wiggum: How do those Parker Brothers sleep at night?
This is something that the Linux kernel badly needs! Presently, suspend and hibernation is at least 5 years behind OS X and Windows.
It takes almost two minutes to hibernate my Thinkpad with 512 MB RAM when running Ubuntu, while Windows takes about 15 seconds. Additionally, it does crash every now and then.
And anything overseas gets more scrutiny than J-Lo's panty lines.
So pretty much anything that's unusually large gets reported then.
Yea, after the Shopper merged with Hot Sex Weekly it pretty much went downhill from there...
They recently decided to pull out of Sweden too. Margins have become razor thin after voice prices fell to a few cents per minute (/$).
Well hobbies I don't know about, but we all know of their business plans.
A so-called "Chip-in-a-bottle".
It's happened again! Look at the Wikipedia article on the subject.
For example, in the second paragraph we find the ENTIRE first myth copied verbatim into the news article with no credit or references given whatsoever!
The rest seems to be original wording though, but I encourage you to dig more into this.
For us that live in coldish countries, and I'd place Scotland in this group, as long as you have regulated heating, heat from PSUs is just as good as any other heat.
I'm not saying we shouldn't conserve energy, but these kinds of calculations are often off by orders of magnitude.
The only difference is the AMD laptop chips use more power, but you can always plug in somewhere and recharge so really this is no disadvantage.
Right. I take it you've never used a laptop? Power usage is everything in todays laptop processors, as their speed is generally more than ample. My ThinkPad has a 1.2 GHz Pentium M, but according to the Gnome CPU speed panel it usually hovers around 600 MHz.
Personally, I'd trade speed for lower power usage any day of the week, and I'm sure many feel like I do.
Is this supposed to be some kind of cliffhanger?
Yup, Firefox leaks memory like a sieve, seemingly independent of platform. I guess for many home users this is not a big problem, but after a day at work with 10 tabs open the swapping needed to switch tabs can be quite annoying.
I hope this is one thing that has been looked into for 1.5.
Haven't you ever seen a receptionist or a teller staring at her screen, moving her hands from the "mousing position" (one hand on the mouse, one on the keyboard) to the "keyboard position" (touch-typing position) and back again?
This is where the pointing stick found on all IBM ThinkPads really shines. Instead of moving my hand I just move my right index finger from the J key to in between G and H. On laptops without the stick, I find that even glidepoints which let you use your thumb are way better than a mouse.
I use Skype pretty extensively, and generally the sound quality is at least as good as ordinary land lines, but sometimes you get a "bad connection" and have to redial. Also, the Windows client seems to function poorly when other programs access your sound card at the same time.
It's not perfect, but for 0,017 it is a pretty good deal.
That would be the classical interpretation. In quantum physics the likelihood is just incredibly small.
And that was the origin of the neologism "to go (web)hostal".
So you're saying the memory and CPU usage of OO.o is dependent on the user's opinions?
Microsoft Office really blows the competition right out of the water IMHO. Together with the awesome SQL Server they're easily the best products out of Redmond.
Ah, funsightful, or maybe insightfun.
Stolen GSM phones can be locked globally through their IMEI number. However I would assume that most stolen phones are never reported. Additionally, at least some older phones allow this number to be changed.
I like it. IMHO it is fast; it is stable; it offers user interface consistency only rivaled by MacOS; it has superior hardware support, especially for laptops; it has superior software support, especially for games; it is familiar to everybody who uses my computer; and most of the good open source projects have good Windows versions.
At work I use SuSE 9.2, and while it certaily offers some benefits, I would not consider running Linux on my Thinkpad anytime soon.