Reading for comprehension; what a concept. It's a shame you don't understand it. The earth's climate is getting warmer. AGW claims that it can explain this fact by blaming it all on human activities. You can't, however, use the change as proof of AGW, because that would be circular reasoning.

I'm sorry that you have so much trouble understanding simple English. I don't care how you twist it, the fact that the climate is getting warmer (Something that only a completely closed-mind denier would argue about.) isn't proof by itself that AGW is correct.

Are you trying for the Logical Fallacy of the Year Award here?

The fact that it's getting warmer isn't proof that AGW is correct; at best, it's proof that it might not be completely wrong. I'm not saying that you're guilty of that fallacy, but I've seen many posts here by AGW fanatics that essentially say exactly that.

Thank you for clearing that up.

Just out of curiosity, is that the time between turning the power on and the OS starting to load or does that include the time it takes to load the OS? I know that you started out talking about firmware initialization, but boot time generally includes how long the OS takes to come up. In the latter case, there are ways to optimize that, by turning off services that you don't need started at boot. (As an example: if you only use MS Office once or twice a week, do you really need it loading in the background?) How you do that and how much control you have is, of course, very OS specific, but I don't know of any current desktop OS that doesn't let you do it at all.

Now too much shit has a "soft" power shit, initially so it can sense a remote...

If you really want that stuff to turn off and stay off, don't plug it directly into the wall. Plug it into a power strip with a real on/off switch and turn it off there.

Only six comments so far, and somebody already came up with the same idea that I did.

A lot of people said storage, which I find somewhat bizarre...

I've only once had trouble with a HDD and that was decades ago when the new drive I added smashed my data every time I shut down. It turned out that it would only work properly as the primary drive, not a secondary. However, I've had more CD/DVD drives fail on me than any other part, so that's what I picked.

Using https to transmit sensitive information is the same as remembering to lock your car. It's not perfect and it won't stop a determined attack, but it's enough to prevent casual intrusions. And, of course, if somebody does break the encryption there's no way they can claim that they didn't know that the transmission was private.

Sheesh, it's just semantics.

I don't think that word means what you think it does.

Of course they can't write civil code; they're programmers, not lawyers.

Do they mean that its volume is 50% more than we'd thought, or its mass? Judging from TFS, I'd guess the former, but as written, it's ambiguous.

I would like for them to have...

I don't know how true it is, but I've been told that HR droids routinely translate that into "Must have..." because it makes things easier for them. Of course, that means that you'll never see a whole bunch of people you'd be happy to hire, but that's not their problem, is it?

The big problem with explosive-sniffing dogs is that what they're smelling isn't the explosives it's the nitrates used in them. If you've been working with fertilizer and haven't washed your hands, the dog will respond the same way as it would to explosives. I don't know about the drug-sniffers, but I suspect that there are similar issues with them.

The whole point is that the fact that they do something in Europe, or do it in a certain way, isn't really relevant to the question of whether or not we should do things that way in the USA. Much more important is whether or not doing that will benefit us.