The Olympics happened?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/searching-for-gold-during-games.html

I call bullshit on that. I regularly use Steam from school, my apartment, and my parents house and on many different machines. My brother also logs into my account to access my game libarary and vice versa.

Really the only ban is for cheating on VAC secured servers and games. Even if you get banned for cheating, it's still possible to play on non VAC secured games and servers.

For a while now Linux has had built in ACPI power governors, and they seem to work across all Pentium and AMD processors. The ondemand governor is default and automatically bursts to 100% Frequency and tries to quickly scale back to the minimum frequency to save power.

Of course you can also control and select the governors (ondemand, conservative, user set frequency, and performance)

I can even patch the kernel to undervolt my cpu per frequency to really squeeze out extra battery life.

AFAIK, ACPI power states are well supported on modern processors (everything ACPI related works on my pentium-m).

But of course all of that functionality is built into Vista and Windows 7. The ASUS utility just provides a different interface for it, and perhaps choses better defaults for their own hardware.

Anandtech has done tests and found using Windows 7's "battery mode" does improve battery life by mostly capping the CPU frequency.

Where Linux falls short is controlling the power of other systems, like wireless, usb, and graphics cards. Most of the power saving features are just not implemented for Linux, yet.

OS X also does a very good job getting extended battery life compared to Windows 7 on the same hardware. Of course apple gets to control all the hardware and make sure the power systems work. Microsoft does really well for how many platforms it support. Linux is getting there.

All the multi-touch bits were just added to the Xorg stack. And Intel is working on a multi-touch library for common gestures. The software is just barely getting there, so it will be a while.

NoScript allows per site javascript blocking. And flash blocking. And XSS protection. In combination with adblock+ my web surfing is much safer and faster. http://noscript.net/ Personally I usually set it to allow javascript from the site itself (top-level), but block external javascript. That makes most pages work. Also disable the annoying pop-up telling you it blocked something.

It applies against 2.6.30 (Just look at the patch file headers). Or you could grab zen-sources which includes a choice between the latest CFS or BFS.

All you have to do to not break something, generally speaking, is to not touch it. By a similar standard, I haven't shocked myself on the flyback transformer on a CRT in almost two decades. The fact that I haven't cracked open a CRT in nearly that long might have something to do with that.

Had he done that, he would have been fired the instant the passwords hit the paper. The only reason he remained employed for so long is because no one else knew the passwords. He was, in essence, blackmailing the city. They tolerated him because he did actually keep the network running. I don't know what the last straw was that has brought us to today's farce.

It's actually porous, like a fine mesh or fine screen door. It works ok, but eventually it wears down from gardening and other maintenance requiring your to cut a hole in it. Some weeds can still get through it (we have tough spiked weeds in the desert). I would now go with a natural alternative considering you end up having to replace it anyways. A thick weed resistant lawn helps more than anything.

Aero offloads the GUI onto your graphics card if it is capable of DirectX 9. It provides a faster, tear free interface, and if you notice DWM.exe (Desktop Window Manager) uses only 0-1% of CPU during use.
If you disable Aero and fall back to GDI, DWM.exe will disappear, and explorer.exe instead takes the load, usually using 1-5% of my CPU (at least on this machine).
In general, you should get better performance if you have a decent video card. If you are using the desktop anyways, why not utilize the GPU?
A couple of considerations:
1. Vista uses more GPU ram with each window. If you have a shared memory GPU, it's conceivable that it would be too slow when you start opening many windows. Or if your GPU just doesn't have a lot of RAM.
2. Maybe your GPU isn't as power efficient as using the CPU for rendering the windows. Battery life could be affected.
3. Windows 7 with driver model 1.1 uses a constant amount of GPU ram for any amount of windows (steaming in textures instead of keeping them loaded). It also re-enables GDI 2D HW acceleration which was disabled in Vista, but available in XP. Windows 7 also accelerates Cleartype text.

From the pictures, this device appears to be a made up of a ARM board with lots of usb ports. Internally there are two usb ports, and if I'm right that's a wireless usb dongle, and a SD card in a usb dongle for storage. The demo device also has a Dell keyboard, the same as the one on my 4 year old Inspiron 700m. What this guy did is put together a compelling package using various parts as a demo, AFAIK. I wonder if laptop manufactures share a lot of parts? (besides the intel centrino chipset)

I meant 1500GB.