Wal-Mart does not sell guns for the most part anymore.

I am glad it hasn’t been hard for you. Pretty much everybody I know has moved to other states because of how bad the jobs are here. I would if I could afford it.

The thoughts are added to the ether and the ones that happen to make contact with the previous node become the next link.

I wish I still had your optimism and naivety. Last time this happened to me I was let go for “not fitting in with the culture” (the aforementioned culture of working all day), which is a completely legal reason in my state. I was denied unemployment despite being able to prove that I had been told to work all night. 10 years earlier I was let go for the same reason after refusing to participate in prayer during a meeting.

There is no protection for employees in the manner you are speaking of, at least not here.

I think maybe you don’t understand the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees here in the US. The law absolutely backs employers up on this unfortunately. Especially if, like me, you live in an at-will state.

let’s ignore XP as a more glossy consumer version of 2000

That feels like a dangerous argument;

• 2000 = NT 5.0
• XP = NT 5.1
• XP x64 = NT 5.2
• Vista = NT 6.0
• 7 = NT 6.1
• 8 = NT 6.2
• 8.1 = NT 6.3
• 10 = NT 6.4 (Later NT 10.0 then 1507 for July 2015 when they made the switch to ‘agile’.)

Unless you are prepared to argue that everything since has just been an updated version of Vista.

I was literally told once “yes we can have meetings all day because you have all night to finish your code.” The same was expected when they had ‘team building’ outings.

I was saying that my theory is that this functionality is broken or being bypassed on Windows such that when it gets hit by for instance the Network Discovery or “Do you have this update already downloaded?” ping from another Windows computer it wakes up to have a chat. I meant other systems are looking for active machines and those pings are waking it up or keeping it from going to sleep. I may have chosen a bad slang since ‘ping’ is a net command.

This theory is based on my understanding that computers don’t go all the way to sleep anymore and reenabling S3 restores normal sleeping. I included WoL because I have a machine that doesn’t have the S3 option but disabling WoL seemed to help on that one.

Right but my point was that doesn’t matter if your machine is in S3 or S4 instead of S1.

I’m not sure what you are trying to say.

I have had some luck disabling Wake-On-LAN on the systems that don’t need it, or enabling higher sleep modes on the systems where that is available. My pet theory is that a lot of systems are constantly looking at what is active on the network and those pings are keeping the machine awake.

The same reason the National Aeronautics and Space Administration isn’t NAASA.

No it’s Windows ME, the universe just doesn’t have ACPI compatibility.

Anything not currently open should be fine, is reverting to a previous restore point an option?

Are we really so worried about saving things that we needed a graceful shutdown? This feels more like a ‘flip the switch on the power strip’ kinda situation.

They were used in the Dell Latitude D400 series. As well as other pre-netbook era ultra-portables.

There were even smaller hard drives. The iPod used a 1.8in drive.

I feel like somebody already tried this a few years ago. I vaguely remember there being an Atom powered C64. I wonder what their product line will be like this time.

Not great.

Yes, but I would still need Windows for that. I meant I could remove Windows/Mac entirely from my life except that I need access to Adobe products.