Late last year, I sold my iPad I wasn't using much and replaced it with
a Macbook Air. After using the laptop on a couple of roadtrips and
during long and boring meetings downtown, I was really impressed with
its battery life. I was getting 10-11 hours on a charge, and even at
that point, the laptop was not entirely out of juice.

Couple of weeks ago, I installed the new Apple OS X Mavericks OS on the
laptop and noticed that I got two full workdays of use out of the
device...around 14 hours, and the Macbook Air was still running strong.

An article on ArsTechnica backs up this long battery life, among other
points about the newly released Mac OS:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10...ery-benchmarks

If you have to attend long meetings and use your laptop during them, you
might want to read the article.

On 10/24/13, 11:50 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:52:36 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Late last year, I sold my iPad I wasn't using much and replaced it with
a Macbook Air. After using the laptop on a couple of roadtrips and
during long and boring meetings downtown, I was really impressed with
its battery life. I was getting 10-11 hours on a charge, and even at
that point, the laptop was not entirely out of juice.

Couple of weeks ago, I installed the new Apple OS X Mavericks OS on the
laptop and noticed that I got two full workdays of use out of the
device...around 14 hours, and the Macbook Air was still running strong.

An article on ArsTechnica backs up this long battery life, among other
points about the newly released Mac OS:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10...ery-benchmarks

If you have to attend long meetings and use your laptop during them, you
might want to read the article.

That battery in my wife's Note II will last her all day and she is a
power user, The new technology is certainly getting a lot better.



I *think* the battery in my iPhone 5 is supposed to be good for up to
eight hours of talk time. If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman. At most, with a day's full of calls (for me), I burn up
maybe an hour to an hour and a half of "talk time." Short calls, that's
the ticket! I hate long phone calls.

On 10/24/13, 7:48 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:19:26 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

That battery in my wife's Note II will last her all day and she is a
power user, The new technology is certainly getting a lot better.



If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman.

Or just someone who works away from an office.



Even when I do, I try to keep my phone calls to a minimum and short. I
have a cell phone as a convenience to me, not to others.

wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:56:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman.

Or just someone who works away from an office.



Even when I do, I try to keep my phone calls to a minimum and short. I
have a cell phone as a convenience to me, not to others.

You must not have had much going on in your day.
My wife's typical day involves a couple dozen emergencies (everything
is an emergency to these people) that require talking to as many
vendors.
The Note is also far more than just a phone.

I have five active clients who do not need daily attention and a handful of
vendors to whom I feed projects. They aren't attention freaks either. A lot
of my interaction is via email.

On 10/25/2013 12:59 AM, wrote:
On 25 Oct 2013 00:46:43 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:56:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman.

Or just someone who works away from an office.



Even when I do, I try to keep my phone calls to a minimum and short. I
have a cell phone as a convenience to me, not to others.

You must not have had much going on in your day.
My wife's typical day involves a couple dozen emergencies (everything
is an emergency to these people) that require talking to as many
vendors.
The Note is also far more than just a phone.

I have five active clients who do not need daily attention and a handful of
vendors to whom I feed projects. They aren't attention freaks either. A lot
of my interaction is via email.

She has 799 doors with whining residents behind every one of them., 7
swimming pools, 4 tennis courts, 2 bocci courts, 11 lakes with pumps
and aerators, 3 commercial kitchens, 2 dining rooms, 2 bars , a fairly
large IT system, 4 large HVAC systems and several smaller ones, 10 ice
machines, 4 gates and 22 bathrooms.

There is always something broken.


Harry's life is winding down rapidly. Pretty soon he'll be abandoning
email in favor of texting.

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On 10/25/13, 12:59 AM, wrote:
On 25 Oct 2013 00:46:43 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:56:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman.

Or just someone who works away from an office.



Even when I do, I try to keep my phone calls to a minimum and short. I
have a cell phone as a convenience to me, not to others.

You must not have had much going on in your day.
My wife's typical day involves a couple dozen emergencies (everything
is an emergency to these people) that require talking to as many
vendors.
The Note is also far more than just a phone.

I have five active clients who do not need daily attention and a handful of
vendors to whom I feed projects. They aren't attention freaks either. A lot
of my interaction is via email.

She has 799 doors with whining residents behind every one of them., 7
swimming pools, 4 tennis courts, 2 bocci courts, 11 lakes with pumps
and aerators, 3 commercial kitchens, 2 dining rooms, 2 bars , a fairly
large IT system, 4 large HVAC systems and several smaller ones, 10 ice
machines, 4 gates and 22 bathrooms.

There is always something broken.



Better your wife than me. I don't have the patience required for that
kind of job.

Growing up in a town with lots of Italians, I learned how to spell
"bocce" as "bocce," but the "bocci" spelling works.

Here's a little video on the game, for those wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhN6S-1urM

I always saw it played on formal hard-surfaced indoor and outdoor
courts, usually by older Italian men dressed in suit coats and pants,
but with their neckties removed and, if it was warm outside, their
suitcoats removed, too.

"F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 10/25/13, 12:59 AM, wrote:
On 25 Oct 2013 00:46:43 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:56:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman.

Or just someone who works away from an office.



Even when I do, I try to keep my phone calls to a minimum and short. I
have a cell phone as a convenience to me, not to others.

You must not have had much going on in your day.
My wife's typical day involves a couple dozen emergencies (everything
is an emergency to these people) that require talking to as many
vendors.
The Note is also far more than just a phone.

I have five active clients who do not need daily attention and a handful of
vendors to whom I feed projects. They aren't attention freaks either. A lot
of my interaction is via email.

She has 799 doors with whining residents behind every one of them., 7
swimming pools, 4 tennis courts, 2 bocci courts, 11 lakes with pumps
and aerators, 3 commercial kitchens, 2 dining rooms, 2 bars , a fairly
large IT system, 4 large HVAC systems and several smaller ones, 10 ice
machines, 4 gates and 22 bathrooms.

There is always something broken.



Better your wife than me. I don't have the patience required for that kind of job.

Growing up in a town with lots of Italians, I learned how to spell
"bocce" as "bocce," but the "bocci" spelling works.

Here's a little video on the game, for those wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhN6S-1urM

I always saw it played on formal hard-surfaced indoor and outdoor courts,
usually by older Italian men dressed in suit coats and pants, but with
their neckties removed and, if it was warm outside, their suitcoats removed, too.

That is not the way you see it played in parts of Italy. They will lob the
ball 20' in the air to knock other balsa away, etc. and I saw working
class people, so no suits and ties.

On 10/25/13, 5:53 PM, Califbill wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 10/25/13, 12:59 AM, wrote:
On 25 Oct 2013 00:46:43 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:56:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

If I spent eight hours a day on the phone, I'd
be a woman.

Or just someone who works away from an office.



Even when I do, I try to keep my phone calls to a minimum and short. I
have a cell phone as a convenience to me, not to others.

You must not have had much going on in your day.
My wife's typical day involves a couple dozen emergencies (everything
is an emergency to these people) that require talking to as many
vendors.
The Note is also far more than just a phone.

I have five active clients who do not need daily attention and a handful of
vendors to whom I feed projects. They aren't attention freaks either. A lot
of my interaction is via email.

She has 799 doors with whining residents behind every one of them., 7
swimming pools, 4 tennis courts, 2 bocci courts, 11 lakes with pumps
and aerators, 3 commercial kitchens, 2 dining rooms, 2 bars , a fairly
large IT system, 4 large HVAC systems and several smaller ones, 10 ice
machines, 4 gates and 22 bathrooms.

There is always something broken.



Better your wife than me. I don't have the patience required for that kind of job.

Growing up in a town with lots of Italians, I learned how to spell
"bocce" as "bocce," but the "bocci" spelling works.

Here's a little video on the game, for those wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhN6S-1urM

I always saw it played on formal hard-surfaced indoor and outdoor courts,
usually by older Italian men dressed in suit coats and pants, but with
their neckties removed and, if it was warm outside, their suitcoats removed, too.

That is not the way you see it played in parts of Italy. They will lob the
ball 20' in the air to knock other balsa away, etc. and I saw working
class people, so no suits and ties.


That's wonderful, Bilious. But I wasn't describing what you saw in
Italy, and I never said whether the old Italian men were working class
or otherwise. In the good old days, at the Italian social clubs and
social events in New Haven, where I grew up, most of the men wore suits
when "socializing." I went to a lot of these events. Everyone I knew
attended the annual Feast of the Assumption, and just about everyone
there, Italian or not, dressed up.

Sadly, on my two trips to Italy, I never saw anyone playing bocce.

wrote:
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:53:55 -0500, Califbill
wrote:



I always saw it played on formal hard-surfaced indoor and outdoor courts,
usually by older Italian men dressed in suit coats and pants, but with
their neckties removed and, if it was warm outside, their suitcoats removed, too.

That is not the way you see it played in parts of Italy. They will lob the
ball 20' in the air to knock other balsa away, etc. and I saw working
class people, so no suits and ties.

These courts are about 6" below grade with some kind of special sand
in them and a fairly hard bottom. They are about 70 feet long

A lot of the courts in Italy were either crushed granite or crushed sea
shells.