The point of my post was to examine the validity of your test, not as a comment on the results.
What is the purpose of a battery life test? For most people, it's how long their machine will last during normal usage. I find it highly implausible that most people turn off all their battery-saving options (why would you ever do that?) and slam their machine with the biggest load possible.
So to conclude, my analogy was to show you that whatever your results are, they are invalid.
Sir, do you also compare a 400 HP car and a 70 HP car the same way? Same size tank, full throttle, and see how long the gas lasts you? And in the end, what did you learn? Is that Ford Pinto really a better car than the M3?
It would be nice if all hard drives were as aggressive with power savings as Hitachi's 7K60 (a 7200 rpm drive that uses the same amount of power as a 5400 rpm one). Seems to me that it's not much work to do it either. As far as I can tell it's all in the firmware.
I'd be willing to put money down that there are more fluent Spanish-speaking Americans than fluent English-speaking Spaniards, even as a percentage of the population.
Assuming your claim is true, it would only be noteworthy if Spain shared a border with the US.
Whoa! I just thought of something. So since suddenly all/.ers began thinking about the random number generators, were there any fluctuations in the readings?
Has anyone submitted a prediction that Slashdotting the site is a "major event"?
What are your grounds for dismissing the random number generator story? I am interested because what I have read so far on the Princeton site has, at best, not convinced me either way on the matter.
What information have you that causes you to dismiss a serious scientific study to readily?
The article somehow tries to prove that the Oh My God particle (at slightly less than c) is a better space traveller than a (fictional) Enterprise (at 1516 c) by failing to mention that he applied time dilation to one and not the other.
Technically you couldn't do that since expanding each 0 into (1-1) gives an 'even' number of both +1 and -1. I put even in parentheses because we're talking about infinities of things. So in the end you'd still be 'left with' a -1 and you've still got 0=0.
So you've actually proven that you can't reorganize in the way that you did, since you ended up with a contradiction.:)
In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), astronaut Dave Bowman finds an enigmatic alien monolith waiting for him on Iapetus. A vast black circle has been painted on the moon's surface, with the monolith occupying a smaller white circle at the centre. Remarkably, when the Voyager space probes arrived at Iapetus eighteen years later, they did indeed photograph an enormous, roughly circular black region with a whiter region within it. Clarke reports that Carl Sagan, who was on the Voyager imaging team, sent him a photo, with the note 'Thinking of you...'
What is this freedom word you throw around? Have you taken into consideration what freedom actually means? Sure it sounds good; it's a warm fuzzy word. But please please don't tout it as if we are the only nation who has it and we are the only ones who have perfected it. And what good is freedom if we are two-faced about it?
Is your Pro-modded-to-XT a 512 or 256 MB card? It sounds like the latter from your comment about the FSB. How would one go about confirming that Doom 3 isn't compressing the textures even though one has set it to Ultra mode?
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The point of my post was to examine the validity of your test, not as a comment on the results.
What is the purpose of a battery life test? For most people, it's how long their machine will last during normal usage. I find it highly implausible that most people turn off all their battery-saving options (why would you ever do that?) and slam their machine with the biggest load possible.
So to conclude, my analogy was to show you that whatever your results are, they are invalid.
Sir, do you also compare a 400 HP car and a 70 HP car the same way? Same size tank, full throttle, and see how long the gas lasts you? And in the end, what did you learn? Is that Ford Pinto really a better car than the M3?
...a DS lite, New SMB, and BrainAge will make me a very happy boy for the summer. Man I feel like I'm 12 again. Woot! :D
Two words for you: Rotation violation.
>>Freedom is the issue! Can't you understand?
Please just apply that to Native Americans and just keep shouting as loudly as you do now.
For solar power, you'd have to have more light shining on your laptop than it is outputting. That doesn't work well, especially indoors.
It would be nice if all hard drives were as aggressive with power savings as Hitachi's 7K60 (a 7200 rpm drive that uses the same amount of power as a 5400 rpm one). Seems to me that it's not much work to do it either. As far as I can tell it's all in the firmware.
So where is the data? How did they calculate the fuel savings?
I'd be willing to put money down that there are more fluent Spanish-speaking Americans than fluent English-speaking Spaniards, even as a percentage of the population.
Assuming your claim is true, it would only be noteworthy if Spain shared a border with the US.
I read dupes because the quality of jokes in the comments is much higher :)
*runs away*
haha funny how out of all the complaints about the editors, *mine* gets modded offtopic :)
Is there an echo in here?
<fading>echo... echo...</fading>
Seriously though, do the editors have no memory?
Whoa! I just thought of something. So since suddenly all /.ers began thinking about the random number generators, were there any fluctuations in the readings?
Has anyone submitted a prediction that Slashdotting the site is a "major event"?
What are your grounds for dismissing the random number generator story? I am interested because what I have read so far on the Princeton site has, at best, not convinced me either way on the matter.
What information have you that causes you to dismiss a serious scientific study to readily?
The name of the old agency was still Xinhua :)
What's with the frivolous link to an ad-riddled page with about two sentences' worth of actual content? Come now /. editors!
The article somehow tries to prove that the Oh My God particle (at slightly less than c) is a better space traveller than a (fictional) Enterprise (at 1516 c) by failing to mention that he applied time dilation to one and not the other.
I am disappointed.
Theories provide predictions that can be proven wrong.
Technically you couldn't do that since expanding each 0 into (1-1) gives an 'even' number of both +1 and -1. I put even in parentheses because we're talking about infinities of things. So in the end you'd still be 'left with' a -1 and you've still got 0=0.
:)
So you've actually proven that you can't reorganize in the way that you did, since you ended up with a contradiction.
Another interesting coincidence that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned:
In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), astronaut Dave Bowman finds an enigmatic alien monolith waiting for him on Iapetus. A vast black circle has been painted on the moon's surface, with the monolith occupying a smaller white circle at the centre. Remarkably, when the Voyager space probes arrived at Iapetus eighteen years later, they did indeed photograph an enormous, roughly circular black region with a whiter region within it. Clarke reports that Carl Sagan, who was on the Voyager imaging team, sent him a photo, with the note 'Thinking of you...'
I'll pick the havoc caused by the patch, that at least doesn't leave any hidden backdoors behind.
...unless it's labelled "Security Update #xxxxxxx" :)
Fubar actually stands for f'ed up beyond all recognition.
RTFA. Click the signatories link and you will see that the USSR was NOT the only other signatory to the treaty.
What is this freedom word you throw around? Have you taken into consideration what freedom actually means? Sure it sounds good; it's a warm fuzzy word. But please please don't tout it as if we are the only nation who has it and we are the only ones who have perfected it. And what good is freedom if we are two-faced about it?
Is your Pro-modded-to-XT a 512 or 256 MB card? It sounds like the latter from your comment about the FSB. How would one go about confirming that Doom 3 isn't compressing the textures even though one has set it to Ultra mode?