Comment Re:Blowing it out of proportion (Score 1) 334
... uhmmm... personal recreation. I'm not sure whether prohibiting something like that is remotely legally enforceable.
Talk to the Catholics.
... uhmmm... personal recreation. I'm not sure whether prohibiting something like that is remotely legally enforceable.
Talk to the Catholics.
That's how it used to be.
And it's how it still is, except the memory manager handles it all transparently for you in the background, so you can simply mmap() in a file, which can even exceed your total physical RAM many times over, and the system takes care of reading / writing & mapping the pages to / from disk as necessary. All that's changed is transparent support for it in hardware and the amount of memory involved.
I have Morton's toe, which occurs in about 10% of the population
Now I know what to call that thing that I've got that you also have.
As for traction control, if you can't drive a vehicle safely WITHOUT it, you shouldn't be driving.
As soon as the engine is off and not producing torque, you won't be needing it anyway. Turning the engine off is kinda the ultimate traction control.
Power brakes would still work with the engine off and car in gear,
With a manual transmission, yes.
Dell just has to suggest a workaround "Recommend you plug in an external $5 speaker"
That's hardly a reasonable workaround for a laptop computer.
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