The best choice for you is probably Mac OS X.... Mac OS X cold boots in about 20-25 seconds on a Macbook....
Some figures from my C2D MacBook Pro:
Power on to login screen: 00:48
Login screen to dock: 00:42
Finish spinning beach ball: 00:41
Finish disk chugging: 01:36
Open Safari first time: 00:30
Open iTunes first time: 00:24
Open Dashboard first time: 00:12
I only ever cold boot for system updates and the sleep functions well, but it's a good job, because it takes almost five minutes to cold boot and get the essentials running. Leopard is very slow booting - Tiger was much faster, and hopefully Snow Leopard will restore sanity to my boot times.
Don't know much about diesel do you .
Have a look at these figures, they're from 2005 and the standard they refer to has been in effect for a while now. Euro 6 is due and there are already vehicles claiming to meet it.
Basically while diesels give out slightly more NOx, gasoline gives out a much larger amount of hydrocarbons per mile than diesel does particulates (soot).
You're proving my point that it's a matter of choosing your poison - hydrocarbons that are only toxic in high quantities, but are ozone depleting, or diesel particulate matter that appears to be toxic even in very low quantities. This is why I say that diesel is bad in cities where there is a high concentration of vehicles in close proximity to people.
Biodiesel is about the only fuel which really can be produced from crops/tanks of sludge.
The USA should be encouraging diesel engines for all it's worth, not making things difficult.
For the love of God, no! As an urban cyclist in a country whose tax laws strongly favour diesel vehicles (as various taxes are based on CO2 emissions alone), I can tell you that encouraging diesel use, at least in cities, is a terrible idea. Japan understands this: they've banned many diesel vehicles from Tokyo due to the harmful emissions they put out. And you do realise that burning 'tanks of sludge', e.g. used cooking oil, stinks, right?
My point is that cities are much better off with petrol vehicles pumping out CO2 that's non-toxic in low concentrations than they are with diesel vehicles pumping out genuinely toxic particulates.
My Panasonic Let's Note (CF-R5) actually gets the 11 hours it claims...
That is one cool laptop. I *almost* got the CF-T5 (without Vista) - because it, like yours, is super mega-cool but the 14-hour battery was a serious attraction. In the end, OSX called and I had to get a MBP, but I still lust after Panasonic's masterpiece.
Just wondering here, how would a move like this affect marketing of computers?
They'll leave the old 10 HOURS figure, in huge numbers on the packaging. Then have an asterisks, and a tiny footnote that says "TYPICAL BATTERY LIFE: 4 hours".
This really pisses me off about backup tapes. HP started quoting "up to" capacity figures on DAT media that rely on a 2:1 compression ratio from the hardware compression in the drive. Then Sony decided that AIT gets 2.6:1. This is especially irritating when you have to explain why you're ordering 5x 260GB AITs to archive 410GB of (already compressed) data.
...has managed to create a UMPC that sells right now for $120.00. They say they have refined the manufacturing process and have learned from building this laptop how to mass produce a laptop that will sell for $98.00
Pressing the emergency call button at the unlock screen, followed by two taps on the home button, takes you to the iPhone's private 'favorites' page without the need to enter the unlock code
Not quite - it takes you to Favorites or iPod depending on your double-tap shortcut setting. If it's set to the home screen then you are just prompted for the passcode. See here
I downloaded Quake 2 with BitTorrent recently. My original disc, bought on launch day, is too scratched to work. BitTorrent was less messy than Brasso or toothpaste:)
Shit - my finger slipped and I modded you 'off topic' instead of the intended 'interesting'. Now I have to post this message to remove the mod and set the record straight...
Perhaps there should be no commenting for 5/10/15/20/30 minutes after a story is posted.
As a subscriber I get pretty much exactly that.
That would mean people "might as well" RTFA, and I think we'd get more comments, that were longer, better thought out, and more insightful/interesting.
Nope - it doesn't make any difference to my reading or commenting habits.
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The best choice for you is probably Mac OS X.... Mac OS X cold boots in about 20-25 seconds on a Macbook....
Some figures from my C2D MacBook Pro:
Power on to login screen: 00:48
Login screen to dock: 00:42
Finish spinning beach ball: 00:41
Finish disk chugging: 01:36
Open Safari first time: 00:30
Open iTunes first time: 00:24
Open Dashboard first time: 00:12
I only ever cold boot for system updates and the sleep functions well, but it's a good job, because it takes almost five minutes to cold boot and get the essentials running. Leopard is very slow booting - Tiger was much faster, and hopefully Snow Leopard will restore sanity to my boot times.
Install Vista.
A dual core Pentium 1.6GHZ with 2GB RAM?
Command prompt mode doesn't count...
Server 2008 may be the same kernel as Vista, but most of what characterises Vista is nowhere near the kernel.
Dude, that joke was LAME!
Don't know much about diesel do you . Have a look at these figures, they're from 2005 and the standard they refer to has been in effect for a while now. Euro 6 is due and there are already vehicles claiming to meet it. Basically while diesels give out slightly more NOx, gasoline gives out a much larger amount of hydrocarbons per mile than diesel does particulates (soot).
You're proving my point that it's a matter of choosing your poison - hydrocarbons that are only toxic in high quantities, but are ozone depleting, or diesel particulate matter that appears to be toxic even in very low quantities. This is why I say that diesel is bad in cities where there is a high concentration of vehicles in close proximity to people.
This kind of ignorance is why diesel isn't taking off.
I hardly call backing up daily personal experiences with fact ignorance.
Biodiesel is about the only fuel which really can be produced from crops/tanks of sludge.
The USA should be encouraging diesel engines for all it's worth, not making things difficult.
For the love of God, no! As an urban cyclist in a country whose tax laws strongly favour diesel vehicles (as various taxes are based on CO2 emissions alone), I can tell you that encouraging diesel use, at least in cities, is a terrible idea. Japan understands this: they've banned many diesel vehicles from Tokyo due to the harmful emissions they put out. And you do realise that burning 'tanks of sludge', e.g. used cooking oil, stinks, right?
My point is that cities are much better off with petrol vehicles pumping out CO2 that's non-toxic in low concentrations than they are with diesel vehicles pumping out genuinely toxic particulates.
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My Panasonic Let's Note (CF-R5) actually gets the 11 hours it claims...
That is one cool laptop. I *almost* got the CF-T5 (without Vista) - because it, like yours, is super mega-cool but the 14-hour battery was a serious attraction. In the end, OSX called and I had to get a MBP, but I still lust after Panasonic's masterpiece.
They'll leave the old 10 HOURS figure, in huge numbers on the packaging. Then have an asterisks, and a tiny footnote that says "TYPICAL BATTERY LIFE: 4 hours".
This really pisses me off about backup tapes. HP started quoting "up to" capacity figures on DAT media that rely on a 2:1 compression ratio from the hardware compression in the drive. Then Sony decided that AIT gets 2.6:1. This is especially irritating when you have to explain why you're ordering 5x 260GB AITs to archive 410GB of (already compressed) data.
"Sub-$100 Laptops Have Finally Arrived"
Tagged !arrived...
Google toys leave beta?
On google.ru, beta leaves Google toys?
I read that support for Linux will be coming out later.
Ditto OSX. When I visit the Chrome download page it offers to add me to a mailing list to be notified when the OSX version is available...
TFGH
It opens up many more keys for the ring and little fingers to utilize.
I actually use TFVH, with G as a quick-action key, but everyone I know things I'm insane to do so.
TFVH? Wow... TFBH wouldn't be too bad though.
4562 (ESDF is only good on an ergonomic keyboard with straight columns)
4562 is pretty useless on a laptop unless you've got one of those new Lenovo monsters...
...to develop a list of ideals they think all game publishers should follow... minimum requirements that make sense.
WASD :)
Pressing the emergency call button at the unlock screen, followed by two taps on the home button, takes you to the iPhone's private 'favorites' page without the need to enter the unlock code
Not quite - it takes you to Favorites or iPod depending on your double-tap shortcut setting. If it's set to the home screen then you are just prompted for the passcode. See here
I downloaded Quake 2 with BitTorrent recently. My original disc, bought on launch day, is too scratched to work. BitTorrent was less messy than Brasso or toothpaste :)
Settings -> Keyboard -> Enable Caps Lock
set it to on, and double tapping the shift will set caps lock.
You ruined my joke :(
What I don't understand is, where is the BLUETOOTH transfer? Isn't this what Bluetooth was DESIGNED to do
What I don't understand is, where is the CAPS LOCK key?
Shit - my finger slipped and I modded you 'off topic' instead of the intended 'interesting'. Now I have to post this message to remove the mod and set the record straight...
Macs only crash when you use the grammatically incorrect version of i
Brilliant! Too bad my mod points just expired :(
Since /. was adding pictures, Farking them is only a natural extension of expression. Supercomputer Dialysis Machine
Brilliant :)
Perhaps there should be no commenting for 5/10/15/20/30 minutes after a story is posted.
As a subscriber I get pretty much exactly that.
That would mean people "might as well" RTFA, and I think we'd get more comments, that were longer, better thought out, and more insightful/interesting.
Nope - it doesn't make any difference to my reading or commenting habits.