And that story was debunked in the comments, and toms hardware even apologized for the bad conclusion IIRC. The issue was that the SSD worked much faster, so there was never any idle time. That's why the battery was drained faster.
That's exactly how I use my laptop when I need the battery the most, that is, on a plane or a train. If there's a good access to wifi and bright light, there's usually a power outlet somewhere, at least nearby so you can go and charge the laptop.
Maybe after being on slashdot since forever (judging from your ID) you should have learnt by now that there is this thing called "moderation" and that articles can be "modded" up or down. You can set a limit so you will not see articles below a certain level. The post you replied to has since been modded down, thus it is now below your threshold, and you are not seeing it.
So how do I watch this video in Linux? After enabling all 186 layers of javascript hell I only get a gray box with the text "Choose from the players listed below.", and nothing listed below.
Check out the guides at http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_reduce_power_consumption, they are of course mostly ThinkPad-specific, but most of it works just as fine for other centrino-based laptops. If I remember correctly it's about unloading the USB1.1 modules (unless you need them!) and telling the UBS2.0 module to power down the ports if they're idling.
Your hardcore WoW addict would probably place very little strain on your network, seeing that he wants to have the lowest ping possible. Downloading a lot of stuff would just add latency to the game.
Actually I vote for the Pirate Party, which is by design 100% free of any left-right ideology. I care more about freedom of speech, information flow and the internet than I do about my bank account.:)
Well, possibly the original intent of the parent was to make a satiric comment about how very US-centric this question is, and completely irrelevant to everyone else. It's not even a national US-question, but pretty much only relevant if you happen to live in certain states.
But no doubt you HAVE heard of it, when ordering a product from another country.
Indeed I have. However, in Sweden, when I order things from "overseas", I still have to pay the Swedish sales tax on the imported goods. A lot of people forget this when they order things from the US. Everything looks much cheaper when you browse an american webstore, because we have a whooping 25% sales tax added to everything. There are of course a few nice companies that will write "gift" with a value of $0 on the customs declaration, but that's not really how it's supposed to work.
The fact that you are supposed to pay your own state sales tax even in the US make everything make sense to me though, and I completely understand that people are cheating with this and doesn't pay. Personally I'm a socialist and support our high taxes in Sweden, but I make sure to never miss out an opportunity to withhold as much taxes I can get away with.. Has more to do with personal greed than with any political ideology.:)
I don't know where "here" is, but I think they have some crazy thing in the US that you don't have to pay sales tax for things ordered online from another state. I've never heard of anything like that in any other country, and just judging from that, a local place would have at least 10% higher prices in the US.
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How is a normal book accredited? What would stop this from being accredited the same way?
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I'd like to take this one step further and propose that everything you need to know shall be learned from slashdot comments only.
And that story was debunked in the comments, and toms hardware even apologized for the bad conclusion IIRC. The issue was that the SSD worked much faster, so there was never any idle time. That's why the battery was drained faster.
That's exactly how I use my laptop when I need the battery the most, that is, on a plane or a train. If there's a good access to wifi and bright light, there's usually a power outlet somewhere, at least nearby so you can go and charge the laptop.
I do websites (well, SEO, mostly) and internet marketing
You Sir, are more evil than Satan himself.
So with all that multitasking going on there's going to be some swapping
No. Unless you have 256MB of RAM. I assume this machine have more.
Say what? Sources for this statement please..
Maybe you should call Google and tell them. You seem to know much more than the engineers that have been thinking about this.
Maybe after being on slashdot since forever (judging from your ID) you should have learnt by now that there is this thing called "moderation" and that articles can be "modded" up or down. You can set a limit so you will not see articles below a certain level. The post you replied to has since been modded down, thus it is now below your threshold, and you are not seeing it.
The navigation box in the corner doesn't work in Google Chrome :/
So how do I watch this video in Linux? After enabling all 186 layers of javascript hell I only get a gray box with the text "Choose from the players listed below.", and nothing listed below.
Check out the guides at http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_reduce_power_consumption, they are of course mostly ThinkPad-specific, but most of it works just as fine for other centrino-based laptops. If I remember correctly it's about unloading the USB1.1 modules (unless you need them!) and telling the UBS2.0 module to power down the ports if they're idling.
Or until a lot of people and magazines wonder why the hell they lie to us, since we can never reach the battery time stated on the box. Like now.
A suggestion if you have access to a linux or *bsd box is to run dnsmasq as your dns cacher/proxy, and then set bogus-nxdomain=208.67.222.222
Your hardcore WoW addict would probably place very little strain on your network, seeing that he wants to have the lowest ping possible. Downloading a lot of stuff would just add latency to the game.
a few kilobytes of memory and a few milliwatts of power budget - a thousandth of the resources of a typical PC computer
A thousandth? When was this article written, 1996? Try a millionth.
Actually I vote for the Pirate Party, which is by design 100% free of any left-right ideology. I care more about freedom of speech, information flow and the internet than I do about my bank account. :)
Well, possibly the original intent of the parent was to make a satiric comment about how very US-centric this question is, and completely irrelevant to everyone else. It's not even a national US-question, but pretty much only relevant if you happen to live in certain states.
But no doubt you HAVE heard of it, when ordering a product from another country.
Indeed I have. However, in Sweden, when I order things from "overseas", I still have to pay the Swedish sales tax on the imported goods. A lot of people forget this when they order things from the US. Everything looks much cheaper when you browse an american webstore, because we have a whooping 25% sales tax added to everything. There are of course a few nice companies that will write "gift" with a value of $0 on the customs declaration, but that's not really how it's supposed to work.
The fact that you are supposed to pay your own state sales tax even in the US make everything make sense to me though, and I completely understand that people are cheating with this and doesn't pay. Personally I'm a socialist and support our high taxes in Sweden, but I make sure to never miss out an opportunity to withhold as much taxes I can get away with.. Has more to do with personal greed than with any political ideology. :)
Hey, thanks! Just what I needed! (seriously!) I'll check them out on Monday. Walking distance from Vasaplatsen.
I don't know where "here" is, but I think they have some crazy thing in the US that you don't have to pay sales tax for things ordered online from another state. I've never heard of anything like that in any other country, and just judging from that, a local place would have at least 10% higher prices in the US.
Please do. I've been wanting to try it out for ages, but I'm too scared. :P
Andrew File System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAFS) should be what you're looking for, but I hear it's a bitch to set up. For a company it shouldn't be a problem though.
Citation needed. What are you talking about? 8GB for a file system? Doing what?
gparted should be able to do it but you need to install those tools for gparted to actually use them.