We geeks may know how to deal with bloatware,
but the average computer buyer is getting stuck with a laptop made worse by its manufacturer.
But average computer users don't really need to encrypt everything.
Not exact matches
The largest one has 4 TB of storage spread between two internal drives that delivered «zippy write speeds and
average read speeds» for
Computer Shopper, which may not match up to SSD speeds,
but still serve up «as much speed as you can squeeze out of platters.»
The Patriots aren't likely to match their playoff
average of 40 points in this one, even though the Odds Shark
computer says they will get 35,
but this year's team is good enough to earn the win and dethrone the defending champions.
But with such a bamboozling array of gadgets available to buy, at a huge range of prices, and with many families on tight budgets, it can be difficult to choose which option will best suit the
average computer and entertainment enthusiast.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a maximum of two hours of screen time a day (including time spent surfing the Internet and playing video games) for children ages 2 and up
but research shows that preschoolers
average between two and three hours of TV alone — excluding
computer, video game, or movie time.
But with daily practice — the
average computer user makes more than 1000 mouse clicks per day — you have become such an expert that you don't even think about this amazing feat of dexterity.
In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15 - year period after 1998, during which globally
averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards,
but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex
computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.
«Of course, we can not predict individual rainstorms in California and their local impacts months or seasons ahead,
but we can use our climate
computer model to determine whether on
average the next year will have drier or wetter soils or more or less wildfires.
Flash memory may not mean much to the
average consumer in the West,
but it does to manufacturers of personal
computers and other electronic consumer goods in the Far East, whom Clarke is trying to persuade that flash must be part of their future.
Flash memory may not mean much to the
average consumer in the West,
but it does to manufacturers of personal
computers and other electronic consumer goods in the Far East, whom Clarke is trying to persuade that flash must be part -LSB-...]
The work could help
average users and companies measure the strength of passwords, says Thomas Ristenpart, a
computer scientist who studies
computer security at Cornell Tech in New York City
but was not involved with the study.
But these models require
computer «
averaging» of data from analysis of thousands, or even millions of like molecules, because it is so difficult to resolve the features of a single particle.
But check this out: A study done at the Donald Bren School of Information and
Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, found that the
average worker is interrupted every three minutesâ $» thatâ $ ™ s almost 20 times per hour.
«The Macintosh product line offers a wide variety of models,» Simeone noted, «
but even the entry level eMac allows the
average computer user to make very cool projects for school and for home, especially in the area of moviemaking.
No one doubts that most workers have to use
computers,
but many students may already possess the skills they need and it seems doubtful that raising
average computer skills would lead to significant changes in employment outcomes — and that's assuming we can improve
computer skills in a meaningful way.
Freeman found that scores fluctuated year by year,
but the
average scores of boys in calculus,
computer science, and science on Advanced Placement examinations were higher than those of girls.
But diesel does give the 435d some unarguable benefits — foremost (according to the trip
computer) the ability to
average 100mph and 40mpg at the same time.
I hadn't noticed how empty it was on the way up here
but the warning light is now flashing and the trip
computer is telling me that over the last 500 miles, this car has
averaged 6.2 mpg.
The trip
computer told me I was getting above 30 mpg on the highway,
but it dropped precipitously in city driving, bringing my
average way down.
Having covered around 500 kilometers with it (two - thirds of which on the open road, one third in the city), the trip
computer showed an
average fuel consumption of just 6.7 liters / 100 km — far from the advertised 4.8 l / 100 km
but lower than what you'd expect from an SUV of this size.
Average fuel economy hovered around 8.0 L / 100 km, according to the trip
computer,
but to minimise fuel use the transmission tends to choose the highest gear possible around town, which sometimes results in the engine laboring at around 1000rpm.
Monitoring the trip
computer during the long freeway drive, I saw the
average fuel economy steadily top 20 mpg,
but city driving at either end of this trip brought the review total down to 18.7 mpg.
The car's
computer uses a pretty short polling time for the
average mpg, which is bad for drivers who want to rate mileage over a longer period of time
but quite interesting as a tool to help drive in a more economical manner.
Of course, all of this accelerator work and hard cornering isn't in line with the hybrid's main virtue, fuel economy,
but we still rolled into the garage with an
average mpg of 31.7 on the trip
computer.
As a result, at one stage the trip
computer showed an
average 22.0 L / 100 km, although this settled around 19.0 L / 100 km once we dropped to a less demanding 80 - 90 km / h cruising speed —
but that's still around double what we were getting driving solo.
One concern was the gas mileage rating
but on a recent 800 mile trip the
computer indicated 28 mpg
average for the trip.
I have test driven the 1.4 S
but found it to sluggish
but when i drove my 110 HDi SPORT, i knew it had to be the one, what more could you ask for, 16 inch alloys, white sporty speed dials, air con, trip
computer, cd player with steering mounted remote and with an
average 60 mpg and # 120 a year road tax.
Monitoring the trip
computer, I saw my
average spike at 34 mpg on the freeway at 65 mph,
but drop to 11 mpg in heavy urban traffic.
The car's EPA numbers registered at 24 mpg city and 33 mpg highway,
but when monitoring the trip
computer, I saw the
average mpg holding around 35 mpg at freeway speeds.
This particular screen wasn't the typical trip
computer,
but Chevy's Eco screen, which recorded the best
average over 50 miles.
The
average person tends to read the news on their
computer,
but traction is starting to mount for dedicated apps for Android and iOS.
The few titles that did not have digital rights management can be saved to your
computer,
but the
average user will likely not receive the email from Shelfie in time to do anything about it.
Even so, it should be obvious, and I tried this out on a 9 year old this week, new generations, those whose eyesight will not deteriorate for a long time to come, those people can read prints I can't even read with my reading glasses, thus they could care less about the size of the font available in a Kindle, leaving the Kindle sadly to the declining Boomers, who are spending $ 500 on the
average when they buy a Kindle, while an entirely new
computer generation is buying this new crop of Netbooks that are full
computers in pretty much all senses,
but are even smaller in size than the Kindles, and smaller in price.
It might be easy to report on digital usage,
but what about the metrics of e-readers being loaned out, people coming into the library and the
average duration of a
computer session?
Many of you may remember author C.J. West, who gave away a copy of his book, The End of Marking Time, to the blog's readers in 2011 (it's $ 2.99 now,
but I liked it and it as an
average user rating of 4.5 stars based on 130 customer reviews — click here or type in http://amzn.to/f2xFZA into your
computer's web browser to see it.)
Sure, the latest game may run smoothly on something using two Titan Cards and an i7 CPU,
but on the
average person's
computer at home we may discover that poor optimisation makes it hard to run on common hardware and that the Youtuber's setup was pushing through these problems with raw grunt.
Instead this will be from the opinion of the
average user, someone who is pretty good with a
computer but views routers as something essential when working, and like something built by Satan when not.
Thumbs up for using social networking to get more people to go green,
but thumbs down for setting the
computer just
average power settings and not allowing the user to determine their own settings.
I don't have the contents of my
computer hard drive here with me,
but a better bet would be from a 10 - year
average of some accepted metric (I'd prefer satellites
but Hadley CRUT would be OK if we just had to use the old dinosaur surface record).
Several years ago, the team assembled an arched metal building to house the high - tech,
computer - controlled drill used to extract the cores in sections that
average 2.7 meters in length —
but the building's now nearly covered in snow.
69) In explaining the
average temperature standstill we are currently experiencing, the Met Office Hadley Centre ran a series of
computer climate predictions and found in many of the
computer runs there were decade - long standstills
but none for 15 years — so it expects global warming to resume swiftly.
First, was the simplistic application of statistics beyond an
average in the form of a straight line trend analysis: Second, predictions were given awesome,
but unjustified status, as the output of
computer models.
However, I know that we're probably outliers when it comes to kids and media, and that many children have quite a bit more access to not only a TV or DVD player,
but a
computer, tablet, or smartphone as well, and that the amount of screen time that the
average American kid gets is huge - 5 to 7 hours per day - much of it unsupervised.
They found an
average of 65 vampire power loads in homes, including things like appliances, devices in standby mode (even things like garage door openers), electronics in sleep mode like game consoles and TVs, and devices like
computers that are left fully on,
but are not in use.
Perhaps in theory it can be done
but that isn't how your
average computer works.
For example, a three year old
computer would not fetch much money from an insurer if the renter carried ACV coverage,
but someone with full replacement protection would get a check for the
average cost of a new machine at current market prices, less deductible.
The scaling issues inherent in public blockchain architecture are known,
but computational power could prove a significant problem for ethereum, which looks to be a «world
computer» that supports a richer variety of complex applications similar to those found in an
average app store.
But, for now, the
average computer user shouldn't have to obsess over encryption.
Even an
average computer user may sometimes —
but probably rarely — want to use encryption.