Comment Re:What happened on Feb 25 2010 ? (Score 1) 154
The Olympics happened?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/searching-for-gold-during-games.html
The Olympics happened?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/searching-for-gold-during-games.html
Steam is slightly better than the absolute worst of the DRM systems yes, but it still can take all your games away if you so much as look at it funny. Even SecuROM or StarForce can't do that. If you travel with a laptop, I suggest you buy your games somewhere else. Steam has a tendency to lock accounts that log in from multiple IP addresses. 'Cause, you know, that's a crime.
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 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.
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