I hear the latency is pretty high, though.

To the user, "the cloud" may as well be "the website" or "the internet" or "the server". They interchange all freely, when talking about the desktop, their word processing package, the printer, the coffee machine, the keypad for the front gate...

Yes, your ID card doesn't work because there is a virus in the reader, and nothing to do with the fact that it looks like you folded it in half to fit it into your purse.

The popular phrase you're looking for here is "A + B + C = X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

It's the way big business has always been.

I live in the state of England, where it is simply not possible to override your statutory rights with contracts or waivers.

Further, Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations anyone? This passage simply does not exist, as far as the UK is concerned. You folks over the pond should get something like this; It's quite handy.

"... if US officials are at the airport..."

I'm doing this more often, nowadays. I need to spend less time around knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers.

Julian has never been to the US. His extradition to the US from the UK would not be possible, even with the "special relationship" status we have.

I wouldn't be surprised if US officials aren't at the airport in Sweden waiting for him, with a page of trumped up waffle with a scary looking TLA agency seal on the top of the page.

So this wasn't a bad spin-off of Under Siege?

I should have stipulated that the graphics card upgrade was going to be a second 8800GTX in SLI, meaning graphics alone would have drawn around 650W.

I don't think the parent is suggesting that you buy components to replace fully functioning and useful parts just to save electricity. Potentially, though, you could save real, actual money buy buying newer parts than upgrading your current, old hardware.

I ran an 8800GTX until it died, but it was around 6 months ago and I decided I needed an upgrade (before it failed). If I had gone ahead with the upgrade, I would have paid £100 for the card, and another for a 1kW PSU to handle the draw. Those cards pull north of 320W under load! Thankfully (?) it failed before I upgraded, so I went with an AMD HD6950 instead, and haven't looked back. Performance improvement is wonderful, power draw is down 50%, and I didn't need to upgrade the PSU (meaning the £200 budget could go on the card).

However, having just also upgraded the bare-bones too, I can safely say that the biggest power saving you'll make is upgrading to an SSD. Power draw isn't the issue; It's the fact that you can go from power-down (hibernate or cold start) to working in ~20 seconds. It makes sleep and low-power (but still working) states pointless, so you'll power-off almost every time you leave the thing for any period of time. Again, only if you're looking to upgrade, but worth considering.

Geeknat must have added Dolan to the list of editors.

Dashslot plz.