The further north you live, the more the daylight hours vary with the seasons. In December, darkness arrives just after 4pm and daylight at 7am. If we kept DST, then at 8am, kids are going to school in the dawn, and then they have at least 1.5 hours of play after school, before darkness sets in.
I would like that as mothers do not like the kids to be outside in the dark. (11 and younger). And a majority of kids are bussed or car-pooled to school every day, so playtime before homework is important.
The problem itself is valid, and it's very sensible to expect a 6 year old to understand it. The presentation is beyond idiotic, though.
How about writing "whole" and drawing a piggy bank (to make a connection with the coins) with a "6" on it. Then writing "taken out" and drawing 5 coins. Then writing "left?" and drawing the piggy bank again, this time with a big question mark, along with a piggy bank next to A, B, C and D with the 4 possible answer numbers on them.
Clear, simple, easy to understand. The guy who made that test was responsible for user interfaces at MS before, I betcha.
You made my day with your closing remark. I laughed for about 5 minutes straight.
He continues, 'I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the United States will abandon this harmful behavior."
Has he even read the stuff he leaked?
Why do I get the feeling that Mr Snowdon's IQ and integrity are way above average". Snowdon understands that the USA has been caught doing immoral snooping. Is the USA an immoral country? Treating Snowdon as it has, shows that it wants to defend its immorality. If they drop the charges and invite him before Congress, we will recognize that it truly is a moral country that wants to put a limit to the non-elected "people in power".
Gee, perhaps the USA could do that to the NRA. Make them accessories to all the mass killings. --Nah, it wont work. That is like making the beer companies responsibile for drunkards.
I understand very well as that Americans are living in the past, when your standard of living was very high. But thanks to Walmart type businesses and offshoreing of jobs, your standard of living has not kept pace and much of the rest of the g7 countries have risen since surpassed that of the USA.
A ballast can work with low voltage as well, We had saturated cores, so that as the draw went up, the efficiency of the transformer went down. I worked with this type of equipment in industry. It is not called a ballast, but it does regulate output power and voltage, and waveform.
So I wave my arms, and say mumble jumble, soft iron core transformers come back to do your thing.
There is no ballast in an LED light. Fluorescent and sodium vapor lights have ballasts, not LEDs. All of the traffic lights in my area were switched to LEDs many years ago. I have never seen a single light that wasn't working properly.
My LED bulbs have a miniature power transformer in the base of the lamp, so that the voltage is stepped down, and with the high resistance windings, the ballast effect is provided. The open circuit voltage is 14, operational voltage 11-12 volts. Some LEDS can work with dimmers, other cannot.
We should just go back to hangings. It works for killing Nazis and war criminals.
=== Export your murderers. Send them to Afghanistan or Somalia. No matter why the criminal killed someone, be it accidental, rage, or just plain pleasure, just give them a way out. For example, putting them into the military for life would be sufficient reward, and could be better for society.
Anyway, as the extreme Christian proponents die out, and the new generations with their disdain for religion appear, we may see life imprisonment replace the death penalty.
Sooner, than later, the USA joins civilized nations.
Most anti-virus programs take a signature of a program of file that is suspect. I gave up on them and did the following. I wrote a program that takes the md5sum of my computer's system. Weekly (at first it was daily), I redo the checksum file, I transfer it to a flash drive, and from there I read it to compare against a previous scan. Any md5sum difference is flagged. Its my way of creating a signature for each of of the files on my computer. And it is fast in execution (about 10 minutes for a full / scan). If you have more files than I have, your timing may be longer.
Good idea, but can't really see that catching on, unfortunately.
=== The ones who will use it will not be individuals, but corporations. Boeings, Westinghouses, GE's and high tech that need to protect their designs from competition. Do they need to protect it from the NSA? No. But they do need to protect from the NSA, all areas pertaining to pricing, commissions paid to lobbyists, and all the crap that pertain to dealing with the Federal and State and municipal governments.
The difficulty, of course, is that the US signed a treaty saying it would abide by this sort of ruling. So now what?
Of course they will abide, but they did not say when. Perhaps it is when ONLINE Gambling is developed by each state and you will have 50+ American choices and Puerto Rico .
A and B are doing tit-for-tat. You took away my revenue, now I take away yours. According to the former, it's fair. Is the USA going to block Antigua and Barbados IP addresses? No matter what they do, there will be another foreign country that will provide the hop to A & B's sites.
I have had wonderful results with Brother devices. Even their simple home laser printer is a great design, and the toner refills are not expensive. The shopping mall cartride refillers refill the cartridges for about the same price that I can buy a pair of them at Costco. My duplex printer has never jammed. And has high density.
Not say that is a bad idea, however you may not be aware that it has some very negative consequences within itself. Once the outcomes of all procedures are made publicly available, health care providers (such as surgeons) will start to refuse to perform procedures on patients who do not have a very high probability of success. In addition the general public will look for simple "pass/fail" information on the outcomes, when that is a completely unrealistic way of looking at it. The cold hard truth is that surgical outcomes have too many factors for the general public to be able to make a well informed decision on.
=== If there is no threat of lawsuit, surgeons will try their best to give the patient quality service. Do you do your least on the job? Do you feel you don't need to do a good job. Do you feel, at the end of the day, that you had a successful day. Did you measure that in dollars or completion of a project or deliverable?
Why is a surgeon any different. He wants to save lives, and to achieve a feeling that what he does is worthwhile. Money is not the primary motivator.
Yes. The poster is asking if Google should do like so many previous evil companies and stop innovating, and instead focus on putting the pinch to their clients. Oracle falls squarely in this category. I'm hoping Google will instead decide to continue innovating. They've been pretty damned good at it.
=== As far as I know, Ubuntu, RedHat, Suse linuxes are testing their ARM versions of LInux systems. Gnome is working on an Android clone (compare Gnome 3.10 Desktop to Android). Input is different, but results are similar. Android though offers better application integration/configuration.
In all fairness, outsourcing it to Canada made sense. We're cheaper, we have health care already, and speak English with an approximate degree of usefulness.*
So, on behalf of our country, I apologize for any inconveniences you have suffered from the sheer shittiness of the ACA software. As a measure of our sincerity, you may pick up one(1) bottle of maple syrup from our strategic reserve.
*offre non valable au Québec
=== I learned to write all my comments in French Canadian Joual. (Street French, taberwaht)
And documentation for closed-source commercial software is better, somehow?
I'm working with a handful of closed-source products right now. None of them have any worthwhile documentation beyond a basic API description. The vendor barely supports us. At least with open-source I can see what the software does if all else fails, and there's usually a community to offer support regardless of what the project itself offers.
=== Did Oracle not take RedHat's Linux, add the ZFS file system and call it Non-Stop. And did they not continue to swipe RH Linux until RH made that effort to copy a near plagiarism activity. Oracle Linux is Open Source. So, how to interpret the use of Oracle Linux? Is Oracle Linux, being open source, full of bugs and poorly supported?
Better crypto tech is all fine and well, but that's not going to bring any kind of change to the US government; it's still in the hands of the voters, who aren't going to use that crypto tech because "they have nothing to hide" and because they're generally Fox News or MSNBC-watching idiots.
I can see other nations, including China, acting together, bringing much more change to the global state of politics, and consequently to the US. They have the power to do so (especially if they act together), and if the world's reserve currency switches from the USD to something else, that's going to cause massive changes for everyday Americans.
=== The world's finance centre is moving away from the USA. USA exports jobs and imports goods, creating a pooring down of the nation. Pretty soon, the 1% won't have customers to sustain their sales, and whoops, another adjustment to lock the barn door after the cows have left.
My Gosh, If open source is so bad, why did Oracle take RedHat's Linux for their own. Why did they? They have made this comment because PostGres is suddenly a very very cost effective and functional competitor to Oracle SQL.
Perhaps Ellison is worried he would have to sell his boat.
Of course it is prejudiced. Let me tell you about Oracle quality. Where I work, we are implementing Oracle ERP. Someone entered a batch of transactions, but with a slip of the finger, entered 3013 for the year. About 1400 transactions were inserted. The error was discovered two days later. There was no way to backout this batch. Oracle approach was GI GO. Seven emploees spent a long weekend (3 days) entering reversals, and adjusting for all the distribution of financial data. Moreover, it was month end, and the month was closed and had passed when the error was discovered. Is the customer wrong, or Oracle, for permitting a thousand year future date?
Oracle, stop living in glass houses. We can throw stones at you.
It goes from corporate espionage to some guy stealing credit card numbers as a 'hobby'.
I work at a major corporation that has security cards to get into the building and my computer is password protected with an encrypted hard drive & a physical lock on the computer. Are security guards with guns really necessary?
A security-minded person would say 'yes, because security guards with guns deter threats that locks and passwords do not.' If your valuables are really that valuable, then there is no such thing as too much security.
Of course, the article is mainly focused on start-ups who rarely focus on security, not large corporations who have years experience at deterring the bad guys.
The guards are there to prevent thieves from walking out with desktops, laptops, monitors, and whatever else could be put in the back of a truck that is allowed up to the loading dock.
Wow, idiocy is spreading to other courts around the world.
=== It makes sense to me. If I write a letter to the editor, it is the editor who decides if it gets printed. It means that the publisher/website is responsible for the content. When I respond to the NY times article, my response is not published until it is vetted.
Co-mingling entertainment and car controls seems like a bad idea to me. I think I'd want anything that controls the car to be linked to only a pedal or button of some kind.
If the diagnostic computer can be queried, but kept separate from the Entertainment computer, it would be great. That check-engine light costs me a mechanic's fee just to tell me that the car needs a filter change.
The Nissan vehicle has a small cellphone sized panel that informs you about low tire pressure, about oil changes, and many other safety features.
Of course, for future cars, should the backup video cameras or the sidewalk cameras and rear-view - forward view camera, not be connected to the entertainment system?
In the USA, (from what I read), the schools are essentially municipality funded, as opposed to state funding. Therefore, the affluent municipalities (the 1% ers) get great schools and infrastructure, whereas the rest get less and less, depending upon resources. If the teacher has no resources, the students suffer.
Then there is University. In the USA, university will, on average, cost up to $100k for the undergraduate degree. This means that bright, intelligent students from poorer background have good education out of reach.
I live in Montreal. I was a single income provider (my wife stayed home, and occasionally had part-time jobs). My three kids completed university, both undergraduate and postgraduate. And without debts. Courses at the time were around $200/semester, plus books and transportation, insurance and pocket money. A September to December Semester set me back about $1500/student, all inclusive. My costs were lower, because the kids lived at home.
McGill University is on a par with Harvard, MIT, HEC (Haut Études commercials), Stanford, and their peers. McGill has always been in the top 5 for medicine, mathematics, and engineering. HEC (is a university specializing on Economics, Finance, business development and management. It's courses are heavy on business and mathematical analysis. Courses are in both French and English at HEC). HEC have professor swaps with Harvard.
Enough tooting the horn. Pay for as you go is great, you have football, superior premises, good professors, and good tutoring. For science, I presume great labs.
Please note. College is one level of education, University is another. The real education is out in the field, given you graduate from either.
The underlying reason for the US Adults scoring Poorly is not the schooling, it is the unaffordable schooling.
Yes but I expect more out of Apple because they brazenly claim to be superior to everyone else, and yet offer trivial updates and no real innovation for the first 6 versions of their iPhone, and even the iPhone 5s refresh is only skin deep in terms of innovation.
I will start calling Google out when they have gone through 6 intervals of Nexus X devices and nothing has changed except the thickness of the phone, but the differences in Nexus 4 to 5 are more numerous than the differences between even iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, so they have a little more edge on innovation then Apple does.
Isn't Apple applying the BBB principle? What is BBB, well the second B is for Baffles, and the third B stands for Brains
Every Nexus device going back the very first has been an existing phone with a few minor upgrades at most and a different set of software installed. Why would anyone expect different this time? My only surprise is that Google hasn't started having their Motorola arm manufacture them yet. Probably due to not wanting to push OEMs to other options.
=== I suppose there are several reasons for going LG. One may be quality, (returns per 1000 phones), another, delivery timeframe, and cost of production and distribution.
That said, I have my experience with the Nexus 4. To get 24 hours+ use with the device, data and wifi must be disabled. As a "telephone only" device, it is as good as any other.
With data enabled, and not using data, the battery life is around 4 hours. With wifi only and not using wifi, battery life is about 5-6 hours. Obviously with both communications enabled, the phone battery lasts about 3.5 hours.
So, When I am idle with a few minutes to spare, I play freecell, which is a low-overhead app. If you use it in the car, a car charger is advised.
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The further north you live, the more the daylight hours vary with the seasons. In December, darkness arrives just after 4pm and daylight at 7am. If we kept DST, then at 8am, kids are going to school in the dawn, and then they have at least 1.5 hours of play after school, before darkness sets in.
I would like that as mothers do not like the kids to be outside in the dark. (11 and younger). And a majority of kids are bussed or car-pooled to school every day, so playtime before homework is important.
The problem itself is valid, and it's very sensible to expect a 6 year old to understand it. The presentation is beyond idiotic, though.
How about writing "whole" and drawing a piggy bank (to make a connection with the coins) with a "6" on it. Then writing "taken out" and drawing 5 coins. Then writing "left?" and drawing the piggy bank again, this time with a big question mark, along with a piggy bank next to A, B, C and D with the 4 possible answer numbers on them.
Clear, simple, easy to understand. The guy who made that test was responsible for user interfaces at MS before, I betcha.
You made my day with your closing remark. I laughed for about 5 minutes straight.
He continues, 'I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the United States will abandon this harmful behavior."
Has he even read the stuff he leaked?
Why do I get the feeling that Mr Snowdon's IQ and integrity are way above average". Snowdon understands that the USA has been caught doing immoral snooping. Is the USA an immoral country? Treating Snowdon as it has, shows that it wants to defend its immorality. If they drop the charges and invite him before Congress, we will recognize that it truly is a moral country that wants to put a limit to the non-elected "people in power".
Gee, perhaps the USA could do that to the NRA. Make them accessories to all the mass killings. --Nah, it wont work. That is like making the beer companies responsibile for drunkards.
I understand very well as that Americans are living in the past, when your standard of living was very high. But thanks to Walmart type businesses and offshoreing of jobs, your standard of living has not kept pace and much of the rest of the g7 countries have risen since surpassed that of the USA.
A ballast can work with low voltage as well, We had saturated cores, so that as the draw went up, the efficiency of the transformer went down. I worked with this type of equipment in industry. It is not called a ballast, but it does regulate output power and voltage, and waveform.
So I wave my arms, and say mumble jumble, soft iron core transformers come back to do your thing.
There is no ballast in an LED light.
Fluorescent and sodium vapor lights have ballasts, not LEDs.
All of the traffic lights in my area were switched to LEDs many years ago. I have never seen a single light that wasn't working properly.
My LED bulbs have a miniature power transformer in the base of the lamp, so that the voltage is stepped down, and with the high resistance windings, the ballast effect is provided. The open circuit voltage is 14, operational voltage 11-12 volts. Some LEDS can work with dimmers, other cannot.
We should just go back to hangings. It works for killing Nazis and war criminals.
===
Export your murderers. Send them to Afghanistan or Somalia. No matter why the criminal killed someone, be it accidental, rage, or just plain pleasure, just give them a way out. For example, putting them into the military for life would be sufficient reward, and could be better for society.
Anyway, as the extreme Christian proponents die out, and the new generations with their disdain for religion appear, we may see life imprisonment replace the death penalty.
Sooner, than later, the USA joins civilized nations.
Most anti-virus programs take a signature of a program of file that is suspect. I gave up on them and did the following.
I wrote a program that takes the md5sum of my computer's system. Weekly (at first it was daily), I redo the checksum file, I transfer it to a flash drive, and from there I read it to compare against a previous scan. Any md5sum difference is flagged. Its my way of creating a signature for each of of the files on my computer.
And it is fast in execution (about 10 minutes for a full / scan). If you have more files than I have, your timing may be longer.
Good idea, but can't really see that catching on, unfortunately.
===
The ones who will use it will not be individuals, but corporations. Boeings, Westinghouses, GE's and high tech that need to protect their designs from competition. Do they need to protect it from the NSA? No. But they do need to protect from the NSA, all areas pertaining to pricing, commissions paid to lobbyists, and all the crap that pertain to dealing with the Federal and State and municipal governments.
The difficulty, of course, is that the US signed a treaty saying it would abide by this sort of ruling. So now what?
Of course they will abide, but they did not say when. Perhaps it is when ONLINE Gambling is developed by each state and you will have 50+ American choices and Puerto Rico .
A and B are doing tit-for-tat. You took away my revenue, now I take away yours. According to the former, it's fair. Is the USA going to block Antigua and Barbados IP addresses? No matter what they do, there will be another foreign country that will provide the hop to A & B's sites.
I have had wonderful results with Brother devices. Even their simple home laser printer is a great design, and the toner refills are not expensive. The shopping mall cartride refillers refill the cartridges for about the same price that I can buy a pair of them at Costco.
My duplex printer has never jammed. And has high density.
Not say that is a bad idea, however you may not be aware that it has some very negative consequences within itself. Once the outcomes of all procedures are made publicly available, health care providers (such as surgeons) will start to refuse to perform procedures on patients who do not have a very high probability of success. In addition the general public will look for simple "pass/fail" information on the outcomes, when that is a completely unrealistic way of looking at it. The cold hard truth is that surgical outcomes have too many factors for the general public to be able to make a well informed decision on.
===
If there is no threat of lawsuit, surgeons will try their best to give the patient quality service. Do you do your least on the job? Do you feel you don't need to do a good job. Do you feel, at the end of the day, that you had a successful day. Did you measure that in dollars or completion of a project or deliverable?
Why is a surgeon any different. He wants to save lives, and to achieve a feeling that what he does is worthwhile. Money is not the primary motivator.
Yes. The poster is asking if Google should do like so many previous evil companies and stop innovating, and instead focus on putting the pinch to their clients. Oracle falls squarely in this category. I'm hoping Google will instead decide to continue innovating. They've been pretty damned good at it.
===
As far as I know, Ubuntu, RedHat, Suse linuxes are testing their ARM versions of LInux systems. Gnome is working on an Android clone (compare Gnome 3.10 Desktop to Android). Input is different, but results are similar. Android though offers better application integration/configuration.
In all fairness, outsourcing it to Canada made sense. We're cheaper, we have health care already, and speak English with an approximate degree of usefulness.*
So, on behalf of our country, I apologize for any inconveniences you have suffered from the sheer shittiness of the ACA software. As a measure of our sincerity, you may pick up one(1) bottle of maple syrup from our strategic reserve.
*offre non valable au Québec
===
I learned to write all my comments in French Canadian Joual. (Street French, taberwaht)
And documentation for closed-source commercial software is better, somehow?
I'm working with a handful of closed-source products right now. None of them have any worthwhile documentation beyond a basic API description. The vendor barely supports us. At least with open-source I can see what the software does if all else fails, and there's usually a community to offer support regardless of what the project itself offers.
===
Did Oracle not take RedHat's Linux, add the ZFS file system and call it Non-Stop. And did they not continue to swipe RH Linux until RH made that effort to copy a near plagiarism activity. Oracle Linux is Open Source. So, how to interpret the use of Oracle Linux? Is Oracle Linux, being open source, full of bugs and poorly supported?
Better crypto tech is all fine and well, but that's not going to bring any kind of change to the US government; it's still in the hands of the voters, who aren't going to use that crypto tech because "they have nothing to hide" and because they're generally Fox News or MSNBC-watching idiots.
I can see other nations, including China, acting together, bringing much more change to the global state of politics, and consequently to the US. They have the power to do so (especially if they act together), and if the world's reserve currency switches from the USD to something else, that's going to cause massive changes for everyday Americans.
===
The world's finance centre is moving away from the USA. USA exports jobs and imports goods, creating a pooring down of the nation. Pretty soon, the 1% won't have customers to sustain their sales, and whoops, another adjustment to lock the barn door after the cows have left.
My Gosh, If open source is so bad, why did Oracle take RedHat's Linux for their own. Why did they? They have made this comment because PostGres is suddenly a very very cost effective and functional competitor to Oracle SQL.
Perhaps Ellison is worried he would have to sell his boat.
Of course it is prejudiced. Let me tell you about Oracle quality.
Where I work, we are implementing Oracle ERP.
Someone entered a batch of transactions, but with a slip of the finger, entered 3013 for the year.
About 1400 transactions were inserted. The error was discovered two days later.
There was no way to backout this batch. Oracle approach was GI GO.
Seven emploees spent a long weekend (3 days) entering reversals, and adjusting for all the distribution of financial data. Moreover, it was month end, and the month was closed and had passed when the error was discovered.
Is the customer wrong, or Oracle, for permitting a thousand year future date?
Oracle, stop living in glass houses. We can throw stones at you.
It goes from corporate espionage to some guy stealing credit card numbers as a 'hobby'.
I work at a major corporation that has security cards to get into the building and my computer is password protected with an encrypted hard drive & a physical lock on the computer. Are security guards with guns really necessary?
A security-minded person would say 'yes, because security guards with guns deter threats that locks and passwords do not.' If your valuables are really that valuable, then there is no such thing as too much security.
Of course, the article is mainly focused on start-ups who rarely focus on security, not large corporations who have years experience at deterring the bad guys.
The guards are there to prevent thieves from walking out with desktops, laptops, monitors, and whatever else could be put in the back of a truck that is allowed up to the loading dock.
Wow, idiocy is spreading to other courts around the world.
===
It makes sense to me. If I write a letter to the editor, it is the editor who decides if it gets printed. It means that the publisher/website is responsible for the content.
When I respond to the NY times article, my response is not published until it is vetted.
Co-mingling entertainment and car controls seems like a bad idea to me. I think I'd want anything that controls the car to be linked to only a pedal or button of some kind.
If the diagnostic computer can be queried, but kept separate from the Entertainment computer, it would be great. That check-engine light costs me a mechanic's fee just to tell me that the car needs a filter change.
The Nissan vehicle has a small cellphone sized panel that informs you about low tire pressure, about oil changes, and many other safety features.
Of course, for future cars, should the backup video cameras or the sidewalk cameras and rear-view - forward view camera, not be connected to the entertainment system?
In the USA, (from what I read), the schools are essentially municipality funded, as opposed to state funding. Therefore, the affluent municipalities (the 1% ers) get great schools and infrastructure, whereas the rest get less and less, depending upon resources. If the teacher has no resources, the students suffer.
Then there is University. In the USA, university will, on average, cost up to $100k for the undergraduate degree. This means that bright, intelligent students from poorer background have good education out of reach.
I live in Montreal. I was a single income provider (my wife stayed home, and occasionally had part-time jobs). My three kids completed university, both undergraduate and postgraduate. And without debts. Courses at the time were around $200/semester, plus books and transportation, insurance and pocket money. A September to December Semester set me back about $1500/student, all inclusive. My costs were lower, because the kids lived at home.
McGill University is on a par with Harvard, MIT, HEC (Haut Études commercials), Stanford, and their peers. McGill has always been in the top 5 for medicine, mathematics, and engineering.
HEC (is a university specializing on Economics, Finance, business development and management. It's courses are heavy on business and mathematical analysis. Courses are in both French and English at HEC). HEC have professor swaps with Harvard.
Enough tooting the horn. Pay for as you go is great, you have football, superior premises, good professors, and good tutoring. For science, I presume great labs.
Please note. College is one level of education, University is another. The real education is out in the field, given you graduate from either.
The underlying reason for the US Adults scoring Poorly is not the schooling, it is the unaffordable schooling.
Yes but I expect more out of Apple because they brazenly claim to be superior to everyone else, and yet offer trivial updates and no real innovation for the first 6 versions of their iPhone, and even the iPhone 5s refresh is only skin deep in terms of innovation.
I will start calling Google out when they have gone through 6 intervals of Nexus X devices and nothing has changed except the thickness of the phone, but the differences in Nexus 4 to 5 are more numerous than the differences between even iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, so they have a little more edge on innovation then Apple does.
Isn't Apple applying the BBB principle? What is BBB, well the second B is for Baffles, and the third B stands for Brains
Every Nexus device going back the very first has been an existing phone with a few minor upgrades at most and a different set of software installed. Why would anyone expect different this time? My only surprise is that Google hasn't started having their Motorola arm manufacture them yet. Probably due to not wanting to push OEMs to other options.
===
I suppose there are several reasons for going LG. One may be quality, (returns per 1000 phones), another, delivery timeframe, and cost of production and distribution.
That said, I have my experience with the Nexus 4. To get 24 hours+ use with the device, data and wifi must be disabled. As a "telephone only" device, it is as good as any other.
With data enabled, and not using data, the battery life is around 4 hours. With wifi only and not using wifi, battery life is about 5-6 hours. Obviously with both communications enabled, the phone battery lasts about 3.5 hours.
So, When I am idle with a few minutes to spare, I play freecell, which is a low-overhead app.
If you use it in the car, a car charger is advised.