what's frightening is the reason this security hole exists: "the code was originally written by a WebTV employee as a means of tracking people who visited the site"
This is exactly what one sees when plotting exponential distributions on a log scale. If you have a reaction where A -> B at some rate, then plotting, for example, event durations you would get this distibution as long as the x-axis is log. When working with any system where there is a delta G of reaction(s) the distribution is not gaussian and you can see this graphically.
The mobile PII dissipates around 9W, and the G3 dissipates even less (around 5W if I remember correctly).
Why does everyone think this is such a bad idea? If you read the PR/patent abstract it says that this is intended to supplement the primary battery - sort of like electric cars that recharge the batteries when decelerating.
I need all the time I can get when I'm away from home. 2 batteries in my laptop gives me about 5 hours of use, if they can give me an extra hour or so without me having to do anything differently, I'm all for it.
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what's frightening is the reason this security hole exists:
"the code was originally written by a WebTV employee as a means of tracking people who visited the site"
they didn't measure gigaflops, the (us) government would never let this machine be imported.
This is exactly what one sees when plotting exponential distributions on a log scale. If you have a reaction where A -> B at some rate, then plotting, for example, event durations you would get this distibution as long as the x-axis is log. When working with any system where there is a delta G of reaction(s) the distribution is not gaussian and you can see this graphically.
The mobile PII dissipates around 9W, and the G3 dissipates even less (around 5W if I remember correctly).
Why does everyone think this is such a bad idea? If you read the PR/patent abstract it says that this is intended to supplement the primary battery - sort of like electric cars that recharge the batteries when decelerating.
I need all the time I can get when I'm away from home. 2 batteries in my laptop gives me about 5 hours of use, if they can give me an extra hour or so without me having to do anything differently, I'm all for it.