2.5 to 3 year old Gateway E-100m type laptop.

12" screen size, Core Solo U1300, 1GB of RAM, Intel 945GM graphics, Intel 3945 b/g WiFi, and the 9 cell battery...

$ acpi -i
Battery 0: Discharging, 49%, 02:02:08 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 86580 mAh, last full capacity 69930 mAh = 80%

I'm assuming that it has an extra zero on the end, I don't see how it could hold 10x the charge of any other 7000mAh battery people are posting and still only get 4 hours...

Exactly - they went and spouted "Oh, look at us, we disproved (Great Person X)'s work!" when all they really did was use selective reading and ignore the other half the book about the Uncertainty Principle

So they took UltraVNC from a couple of years ago, which includes its own webserver with a Java interface accessible from a browser - and added a conversion program to change the Java into Javascript w/Canvas?

Except ed is pretty much the predecessor to ALL text entry methods, including echo and cat? The only thing I think is older is writing your binary data by placing pebbles on the ground...

Even then, at least Nvidia is getting slightly easier on Ubuntu with their newer hardware - https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa allows you to install the Nvidia binaries and then have them update with the rest of the system.

Yes, it is Ubuntu/Deb only, and it would be better if it were hosted by Nvidia with proper regression testing. Or to just have an open driver to begin with that could be included in the main kernel. But you know what? It's a step (maybe a half a step) in the right direction...

There is currently every reason to just get the fansub instead of buying it...

I started with fansubs because when you were in high school and early college, you don't really have the money - especially not when a box set cost $90 to $120 USD. Yeah, the prices have come down considerably now, but even at 40 to 50 USD, you've got to realize those shows are 5 to 10 years old now.

That brings up another point - delay in releases. I'll watch the fansub, for example Burst Angel / AKA Bakuretsu Tenshi - it came out in 2004, I watched it at least 2 or 3 years ago on fansub - and only about 6 months to a year ago did I see it in the anime magazines "Burst Angel the next big anime?!?" That'd be like for all the people that somehow enjoy watching 24 and American Idol having to wait a year to find out what happens. "Hey guys, did you know Jack Bauer is in exile?" "Dude, that episode was like 2 years ago."

The 3rd big issue is quality. Fansubs are generally made from ripping the show from over the air TV that it airs on in Japan and add the subs. Every time I've tried "doing the right thing" and going and buying the DVD box-set, the DVD version looks like shit compared to what I downloaded a year or 2 ago. And I mean recently, within the past 3 months, where HDTV's are more common than ever. Also, as many other people have said, the English voice actors on dubbed DVD's tend to have retarded voice pitch, no emotion, and FUBAR the timing on the lines

I'll end my rant now, being as my lunch is over and I've gotta get back to work...

do you use Ubuntu? If so and you didn't know about it already, use: NVidia Launchpad PPA

No, no, no... the GF abbreviation is for "Girl Friend 100"

FTFA: "However, in some countries like the US, Google will tie up with one or more network operators and sell it as part of a bundled 3G plan"

Also, I forgot to mention that the general "living planet" theme of the movie is a bit much like the "Gaia" theme of a lot of Final Fantasy games, myths, and fiction in general.

People rage on about how "insanely innovative" the movie is - when the majority of monsters/alien life and general story plots are just the same as countless others retold with different names.

Most people are comparing the general plot to "White Man vs Native American" - honestly I'm not so familiar with that history, so I've likened it to the Vietnam war.

At least a good 3 or so of the alien wild-life are not at all unique to Avatar. The dog-like creature is a Coeurl, and I'm pretty sure the horse creature is a lightning horse from Final Fantasy though I don't remember the name. The flyer I'm sure enough that the flyer is also from Final Fantasy.

even though the "Tow Rating" says it should... Should FORD be sued because they advertised it wrong?

I think you just answered your own question. Ford put that "Tow Rating" sticker declaring tow capacity, his boat falls in the advertised capable capacity whether it's a generic sticker they put on for the large and small engines for the F150, or if the sticker is specific to that engine class. So at that point, either way the truck should be good for it, meaning that yes, Ford did falsely advertise to him, and therefor yes, they should get sued.

Somebody gave an example of an ISP having a maximum of 100Gbps on their end, and selling it to customers by evenly dividing it up. Now if what they allocate per customer is 10Mbps, that's what is advertised and the line is capped at that speed, and even if it has like a 100GiB per month total limit - ok enough. Depending on pricing that may or may not be a crappy deal for you, but at that point, that's your decision as a customer.

The problem is though, is they aren't doing things that way. What happens is the ISP advertises 20 to 30Mbps, they give you that speed alright, but because they oversold, they cap you at 50GiB per month, meaning either you have to throttle yourself to 10Mbps or only download for the first week - AND they still charge you at that $100 USD a month for a 30Mbps connection, even though as I said, you are forced to throttle yourself. THAT is where this entire problem comes from.

It's fine enough if they lower the speed, but it better be what's advertised and priced accordingly. Right now I pay $50USD a month for a 6Mbps cable line (you bastards are lucky if you're getting 20 or 30Mbps for the same price). If they lowered it to 2Mbps, ok that would really suck, but if it's priced accordingly at like $15 a month or so, that wouldn't be too bad. It's just that most of the ISP's seem to be wanting to force you to use that lower speed (whatever it is) while still charging you $50 a month...