On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 08:25 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I have a terrible urge to send replies to your private address even if > > they are rejected. > > You can go right ahead, but yahoo deletes mail sent to it without some > magic words in the subject line. ;-) I know nothing abouneed not argue about it.t the mail it > deletes. I get zero spam from the list, that way. Spamassassin removes spam very effectively. In my fedora-list folder I have never seen a spam message.Your solution to my mind is overkill and somewhat impolite. I feel the same way about people with unlisted phone numbers but that is a whole other story.That is my hang up and I will stick with it. We need not argue about it. > > > So what are you suggesting. That when I run the laptop on power I > > remove the battery. > > I don't know for that particular model, but for some laptops you'll get > that advice. Not on my laptop. > > > I would not buy a laptop that could not be run on wall power even if > > the battery is installed. > > Me either, if I were going to buy one, and could make that sort of > decision about which one I'd buy. > > > I always thought Toshiba made high class laptops. If I found my > > Toshiba laptop needed to have the battery removed when I ran it on > > wall power I would sell it the next day. > > You may not have to, I don't know the reputation for their laptops. But > there have been people who've found their hardly used battery to be an > utter lemon by the time they got around to wanting to use the laptop on > battery power. I have used it on both wall power and with the battery alone and have not found that problem. > > Yes, I agree with you and say that sort of thing's crap design. I also > think it's crap how so many battery powered devices don't handle a > flattening battery properly. e.g. Not shutting down before the battery > goes too flat, and the device behaving badly in its last moments. > > > Would you buy a cell phone that did not stop charging when the battery > > was fully charged. I would not. > > Slightly different situation: Most mobile phones are unplugged for a > great portion of their time, and used powered from their battery. > > > We are in the 21th century and we know how to construct a device with > > a battery that works correctly. > > You'd think so, but then there's plenty of examples of bad design out > there, even ones with billions of dollars behind the companies and their > products. I don't think we need to name names, we know who they are. > -- ======================================================================= Q: How many Harvard MBA's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Just one. He grasps it firmly and the universe revolves around him. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
