You should check with your bank to see if you can turn this "feature" off. I recently did with my bank account. All it took was simply stopping by any branch and signing a piece of paper to initiate the change in terms. Problem solved! :-)

To make sure I understand correctly, you're saying that newer laptops should recognize that the battery is charged and then stop charging?

That would make sense, considering my laptop is about 4 years old.

The action that kills laptop batteries quicker than anything is using the computer, plugged into the wall AND the battery inserted into the machine. FWIU, if the battery is in the machine, you should be using only battery power, unless it's charging.

Once the battery is full, either unplug the computer from the wall and use only the battery, or take the battery out and use only the AC power.

The issue that will get me to upgrade is when I want to increase the RAM of my computer. If I want to have a Windows machine running more than 4GB of RAM, I have to upgrade to a 64-bit OS and Vista/7 is better than XP in that regard.

Yes, that equates him with a fungus or swine flu.

No, he's in a committed relationship with the woman (one woman!) that he loves. There is a level of trust built between the two; a trust built upon the fact that neither one of them will go flirting with other people.

As I've grown up I developed my signature with its own style. I never write cursive and someone got past that requirement in grade school. What I find fascinating is after about 5 years of tweaking it and getting to a consistent style that I like and is easy to write, it has turned out very similar to my dad's. Great minds think alike, I guess. :-)

I got that message a couple days ago. What happened was Flash did an automatic update as my computer was starting up. I had Firefox open at the time, so I had to close it to complete the update. I did and launched Firefox again, only to find that it didn't update successfully. So, I had to download it again, this time manually, and install the software. Then I went ahead and rebooted the computer for good measure. Everything's been fine since then.

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Hahaha...I thought the same thing. However, I think it's good that it is being modded up, so people can see the entire discourse between him and everyone else, it seems.

Not when you distrust Microsoft for a reason that has no bearing on Google whatsoever.

If people distrusted Microsoft because they gathered lots of information about people, yeah, they should distrust Google as well.

But people don't.

They distrust Microsoft for a completely different reason than you distrust Google. And that's okay. We can have a difference of opinion on this. You can live your life and not use any Google product and stay as far away from them as possible. And guess what? They won't have any information on you!

Just don't try to make up some fake argument about how if you distrust one you must distrust the other. It is simply not true.