Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

(I missed this bit when making my earlier reply)

On 2008-04-03, Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> For what it's worth, my computer takes approximately two seconds,
> although for obvious reasons I haven't measured it.

*Boggle*  Are you sure you're not talking about suspend-to-RAM rather
than suspend-to-disk-and-power-off?

If it's a laptop (especially Mac) it almost certainly is not
hibernating (S4), just suspending (S3).  Many will only hibernate
automatically when the battery runs low, probably after days to weeks.

Since desktop systems don't have any meanigful amount of internal
battery backup, this obviously isn't a viable strategy for them.  The
choices are either to continue to require wall power, or fully
hibernate with the associated slow wakeup.


Just as a point of note, I haven't seen a recent BIOS and hardware
combination that can even *start* nontrivial disk activity from
power-on within two seconds.  Most haven't even finished initializing
the video subsystem by then.


- Tim