I used to get 6 hours on mine (centrino 1.7, dell latitude D505). Of cause, battery quality goes down pretty quickly, 12-18months in now I must be, and will get around 4 hours.
Although, leveling out the peak-rate-usage would have many other benefits for the power companies (although a LOT of these would have to be sold to make any significant difference). Whilst the average/total amount of energy used would go up (storage isn't going to be 100% efficient), the maximum amount of energy needed to be provided would drop, and the minimum would rise, making the line more level, which means less turning things on-and-off, and so if everyone had one (would need a live feed from the power companies then, so they kind of take in turns pulling the power), potentially less power plants would be needed.
What would make all the difference is being able to program the actual voice recognition software, in a macro type sense. Perhaps being able to voice vi commands? "colon-oh" instead of "insert line"
The blog was not only posted to the Google Research blog, but it was posted by the Director -of- Google Research, which says a little more about where he's going to be talking about. But still, there are other things to take into consideration.
For other departments (some or all others) who employ "above the mean", it's more than likely gonna be within the context of the department, ie, someone hired for art/graphics skills aren't necessarily going to be vigorously compared on their programming skills with the other programmers in the company.
The mean can drop, for example, when the top people in a department get promoted or create new departments to move into ("had enough of you 'web' guys, I'm gonna create Google Earth!"), or of cause, get snatched up by Microsoft;-)
And to reiterate the 20% thing, you don't wanna be giving that to unskilled workers, and to the people you do give it to, it would certainly take the edge off other grunt work they might find themselves doing.
We're talking about Google Research here, their idea factory, not Google as a whole. I don't know whether all Google departments hire in this fasion, and yes in many it wouldn't make sense to. But my guess is that the "grunt work" can always be shipped out to other departments from Research.
Also, Google employees get to work on their own ideas/etc for 20% of their employed time, which also puts a different spin on it, wrt the quality of projects developed during this time, and in fact down the the amount of drive to use this time to do what it was intended to accomplish.
Maybe, in most cases, but things can change, when you *need* something, you have to pay whatever it costs. OEM's will roll it all into their "one price for all of this!!!" where it's less transparent. Businesses will "need" the extra security (yeah, I know, I said "security" while talking about MS). Web developers will need it to test their websites work on the latest OS+browser (this is where I fall under).
At the end of the day, the money's gonna come from someone's wages, and it's not gonna be any of the MS folks - they're protected behind their corporation.
I don't have the time to do that kind of research, but there MUST be people out there who do...
Businesses that wanna stay legit I s'pose. If their expenses are up, the cost of their products/services to their customers are up. So you end up paying (lights go dim, voice goes echoy) in ways you don't even know!!!:-p
There are different types of networks. Samba team are complaining about file/print/etc sharing between windowsother OS's, which is a quite specific part of networking needs around the world. When you're not talking an MS language (eg, tcp/ip + http + html etc) Linux/OSS (eg, apache, perl/php, mysql) is very prevalent.
MS just work it into the price of the OS, so the consumer ends up paying for it anyway. So it basically turns into a consumer tax on copies of Windows.
with slight modification to how the final image is extrapolated from all the mini-cameras spread across the screen, it could be a good way of building a 3D image of something close enough to the screen.
I can just see it now though, the cam just keeps returning the image that's on the screen. After a month of checking for crossed wires, they realise they put the cameras in the wrong way!!!
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I used to get 6 hours on mine (centrino 1.7, dell latitude D505). Of cause, battery quality goes down pretty quickly, 12-18months in now I must be, and will get around 4 hours.
"Unless that was intended as funny"
*lol* can see it now: breakdown of votes for new amendment was:
60% funny
20% troll
20% overrated
goddamn mods
So it's YOUR fault?!!
*grr*
Many programmers aren't classed as people, at least not whole one's.
ooo what about REGEX??!!
Tha's gonna hurt!
Although, leveling out the peak-rate-usage would have many other benefits for the power companies (although a LOT of these would have to be sold to make any significant difference). Whilst the average/total amount of energy used would go up (storage isn't going to be 100% efficient), the maximum amount of energy needed to be provided would drop, and the minimum would rise, making the line more level, which means less turning things on-and-off, and so if everyone had one (would need a live feed from the power companies then, so they kind of take in turns pulling the power), potentially less power plants would be needed.
Of cause, this isn't likely.
...is apparently the guy responsible for 32% of anorexia cases.
*looks in mirror* "But I -look- fat!"
...finally being able to safely program whilst driving! Woot!
Would finally mean that people learn the difference between brackets, braces, and parenthesis\
What would make all the difference is being able to program the actual voice recognition software, in a macro type sense. Perhaps being able to voice vi commands? "colon-oh" instead of "insert line"
New hot off the press: VIM - Voice Improved!
The blog was not only posted to the Google Research blog, but it was posted by the Director -of- Google Research, which says a little more about where he's going to be talking about. But still, there are other things to take into consideration.
;-)
For other departments (some or all others) who employ "above the mean", it's more than likely gonna be within the context of the department, ie, someone hired for art/graphics skills aren't necessarily going to be vigorously compared on their programming skills with the other programmers in the company.
The mean can drop, for example, when the top people in a department get promoted or create new departments to move into ("had enough of you 'web' guys, I'm gonna create Google Earth!"), or of cause, get snatched up by Microsoft
And to reiterate the 20% thing, you don't wanna be giving that to unskilled workers, and to the people you do give it to, it would certainly take the edge off other grunt work they might find themselves doing.
We're talking about Google Research here, their idea factory, not Google as a whole. I don't know whether all Google departments hire in this fasion, and yes in many it wouldn't make sense to. But my guess is that the "grunt work" can always be shipped out to other departments from Research.
Also, Google employees get to work on their own ideas/etc for 20% of their employed time, which also puts a different spin on it, wrt the quality of projects developed during this time, and in fact down the the amount of drive to use this time to do what it was intended to accomplish.
Well they -definitely- wouldn't hire you if you can't even understand the graph and it's purpose.
Err, not all people can't handle their drugs dude, or their computer.
Maybe, in most cases, but things can change, when you *need* something, you have to pay whatever it costs. OEM's will roll it all into their "one price for all of this!!!" where it's less transparent. Businesses will "need" the extra security (yeah, I know, I said "security" while talking about MS). Web developers will need it to test their websites work on the latest OS+browser (this is where I fall under).
At the end of the day, the money's gonna come from someone's wages, and it's not gonna be any of the MS folks - they're protected behind their corporation.
"an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services"
Anyone got a link to this torrent?
They're just trying to say, an in oh-so-not-connected way, "look, we don't have the monopoly AMD sez we do, so errr.... plz don't sue us anymore"
:-p
It's simple really
Well the annoying thing will be having to climb in and out of the ct/mri (or whichever it was) scanner between login attempts
I just need to get a little high, then I'll be able to log in... hey that's it!
What, the password?
No, that's the tune to funky town!
...so my computer won't let me use it when I'm stoned or tripped out :-/
:'-(
Gonna have to get a standalone CD player and ditch winamp and it's pretty visual plugins
"Who pays for Windows?"
:-p
I don't have the time to do that kind of research, but there MUST be people out there who do...
Businesses that wanna stay legit I s'pose. If their expenses are up, the cost of their products/services to their customers are up. So you end up paying (lights go dim, voice goes echoy) in ways you don't even know!!!
There are different types of networks. Samba team are complaining about file/print/etc sharing between windowsother OS's, which is a quite specific part of networking needs around the world. When you're not talking an MS language (eg, tcp/ip + http + html etc) Linux/OSS (eg, apache, perl/php, mysql) is very prevalent.
MS just work it into the price of the OS, so the consumer ends up paying for it anyway. So it basically turns into a consumer tax on copies of Windows.
Mine's a nanopump! Don't laugh, everybody knows that nanotech is way cooler than micro :-p
Yeah that got me for a while too... by bloodless it more means blood-transfusion-less; there is obviously blood involved, but only the patients own.
with slight modification to how the final image is extrapolated from all the mini-cameras spread across the screen, it could be a good way of building a 3D image of something close enough to the screen.
I can just see it now though, the cam just keeps returning the image that's on the screen. After a month of checking for crossed wires, they realise they put the cameras in the wrong way!!!