It's optimized for the web so it's really fast and efficient on the web and integrated with Google Drive, Docs, etc. Other than that, no reason to keep it. Chromebooks make great Linux computers.
Most Chromebooks are rated in the 9 to 12 hour range. You'll be good for a solid 8 hours of work. Install Linux using Crouton and you'll have a full Linux environment running native (ChromeOS built on top of Linux so full Linux uses the same core OS. You can hotkey between ChromeOS and Linux.
Get a Chromebook with a good x86 processor and lots of memory. They are fast and have good battery life. You can run Linux using Crouton and hot key between Chrome and Linux. It's a full Linux environment running natively so you can install a Windows VM if you need to.
Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.
Lived in Geneva near the Large Hadron Collider. Now that's a large load on the grid but didn't seem to have a problem (although they did call to warn the power companies that they were going to turn it on).
When we lived in Switzerland a few years ago, the power company would cut power to electric stoves, ovens, water heaters, etc. every day between 11am and 1pm. (They had separate circuits) There is a strong "tradition" of eating lunch at home and I guess it was just too much for the grid. Also, in the old days in the US, wouldn't the factory workers turn off their machines before going home to turn on their stoves and TVs?
It looks like the new 350kW stations will be 800 or 1000 volts at 350 amps. However, the current CCS cable and connector is only good for 200 amps so something will need to change. The utilities are also likely to have something to say about people plugging and unplugging 350 kW loads for short periods of time. Current Tesla Superchargers usually have a 500 kW transformer to serve six or eight charging stations (which are paired to share power). This could accommodate one or two (at reduced power) of the new stations.
Yes! And it cost a lot less and I can do more with it... What is really interesting is that it has a relatively low performance ARM processor combined with ChromeOS and gives much better performance than my old Intel based Mac. I guess the old Mac would still be just fine if I hadn't "upgraded" the OSX software. Each update seems to have progressively crippled the performance of the Mac. I guess it's bloat and feature creep. Too bad Apple couldn't have kept the OS simple. I don't really appreciate the new UI (and added "features") and I wonder how much this contributes to the decreased performance.
I have a 2010 Macbook Air and it still functions but each successive OSX "upgrade" to the software has made it slower and dumbed it down to the point where it is pretty much useless. I finally bought a Chromebook which, even though it only has an ARM processor, is much faster and more responsive than my MacBook. I have it set up to switch to Linux (using Crouton it's just a hot key switch) if I need to do some programming or any bash stuff. (Of course, it was much cheaper... and it's much better... even has a touch screen so can fold it back and use it as a tablet)
"Europol warned consumers had to be on their guard" I don't think that anyone buying cheap "brand name" items from a web site is deluded enough to think they are getting the real thing. They realize that brands charge a premium for the social cachet and not necessarily quality. People are just purchasing the cachet at a discount. This is much more about protecting the profits of the brands than protecting the consumer.
The problem is that the IAEA only counts immediate deaths from nuclear construction and not, for instance, the 4000 deaths that WHO estimates will occur as a result of Chernobyl.
There is no genetic predisposition or "need" for any particular type of food. Humans are omnivores. They eat whatever food is available. Food preferences are usually cultural. If your mother served you cows, you'll keep eating cows. However, you do have a choice. Cows: Bad for your health; Bad for the environment; Bad for the animal www.cowspiracy.com
"In the Tesla crash in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, one of the riders in the car was trapped in the battery fire and died, slowly, in the heat. What a hell of a way to go." This did not happen. You can make up things if you want but that's called fake news
If we stopped eating cows, we could feed 10x the population on the crops we raise now. You could think of the cow as a very inefficient robot for turning corn into meat. www.cowspiracy.com
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It's optimized for the web so it's really fast and efficient on the web and integrated with Google Drive, Docs, etc.
Other than that, no reason to keep it. Chromebooks make great Linux computers.
Most Chromebooks are rated in the 9 to 12 hour range.
You'll be good for a solid 8 hours of work.
Install Linux using Crouton and you'll have a full Linux environment running native (ChromeOS built on top of Linux so full Linux uses the same core OS. You can hotkey between ChromeOS and Linux.
Get a Chromebook with a good x86 processor and lots of memory.
They are fast and have good battery life.
You can run Linux using Crouton and hot key between Chrome and Linux. It's a full Linux environment running natively so you can install a Windows VM if you need to.
You have It backwards.
Charge ports don't have data lines.
Public charging ports don't have data lines... just power. The device would charge but have no data lines for the discharge.
Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.
—Part I, Chapter I, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Lived in Geneva near the Large Hadron Collider. Now that's a large load on the grid but didn't seem to have a problem (although they did call to warn the power companies that they were going to turn it on).
When we lived in Switzerland a few years ago, the power company would cut power to electric stoves, ovens, water heaters, etc. every day between 11am and 1pm. (They had separate circuits) There is a strong "tradition" of eating lunch at home and I guess it was just too much for the grid.
Also, in the old days in the US, wouldn't the factory workers turn off their machines before going home to turn on their stoves and TVs?
It looks like the new 350kW stations will be 800 or 1000 volts at 350 amps.
However, the current CCS cable and connector is only good for 200 amps so something will need to change.
The utilities are also likely to have something to say about people plugging and unplugging 350 kW loads for short periods of time.
Current Tesla Superchargers usually have a 500 kW transformer to serve six or eight charging stations (which are paired to share power). This could accommodate one or two (at reduced power) of the new stations.
Yes! And it cost a lot less and I can do more with it...
What is really interesting is that it has a relatively low performance ARM processor combined with ChromeOS and gives much better performance than my old Intel based Mac. I guess the old Mac would still be just fine if I hadn't "upgraded" the OSX software. Each update seems to have progressively crippled the performance of the Mac. I guess it's bloat and feature creep. Too bad Apple couldn't have kept the OS simple. I don't really appreciate the new UI (and added "features") and I wonder how much this contributes to the decreased performance.
I have a 2010 Macbook Air and it still functions but each successive OSX "upgrade" to the software has made it slower and dumbed it down to the point where it is pretty much useless.
I finally bought a Chromebook which, even though it only has an ARM processor, is much faster and more responsive than my MacBook. I have it set up to switch to Linux (using Crouton it's just a hot key switch) if I need to do some programming or any bash stuff. (Of course, it was much cheaper... and it's much better... even has a touch screen so can fold it back and use it as a tablet)
"Europol warned consumers had to be on their guard"
I don't think that anyone buying cheap "brand name" items from a web site is deluded enough to think they are getting the real thing. They realize that brands charge a premium for the social cachet and not necessarily quality. People are just purchasing the cachet at a discount.
This is much more about protecting the profits of the brands than protecting the consumer.
I thought that now that Trump and Putin are best bros that commies are no longer the bad guys.
The problem is that the IAEA only counts immediate deaths from nuclear construction and not, for instance, the 4000 deaths that WHO estimates will occur as a result of Chernobyl.
There is no genetic predisposition or "need" for any particular type of food. Humans are omnivores. They eat whatever food is available.
Food preferences are usually cultural. If your mother served you cows, you'll keep eating cows.
However, you do have a choice.
Cows: Bad for your health; Bad for the environment; Bad for the animal
www.cowspiracy.com
... or OSX ... or ChromeOS ... or iOS ... or Android?
We really need to know these things.
Or should we always just assume it's Windows all the time?
Now you're just making stuff up.
If they're exempt,why are they reducing emissions?
I said it's too expensive.
No fear. Just too expensive.
? Because humans are more valuable than cows?
"In the Tesla crash in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, one of the riders in the car was trapped in the battery fire and died, slowly, in the heat. What a hell of a way to go."
This did not happen.
You can make up things if you want but that's called fake news
Still... just part of batteries caught fire. The car didn't catch fire. Look at the pictures. The car is not burned.
You're still making stuff up.
So, where does it say that the car caught fire?
(Hint: It doesn't. You're making that part up.)
If we stopped eating cows, we could feed 10x the population on the crops we raise now.
You could think of the cow as a very inefficient robot for turning corn into meat.
www.cowspiracy.com