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Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards
schussat writes: "This brief AP article describes a lawsuit that alleges that syncing a Palm Pilot "damages or destroys the motherboards on certain PC brands." Does anyone know more or have experience with this? Is it even possible to cause damage? The article is not very detailed."
When we get mod points, we don't all sit reloading every thirty seconds like f1r5T p0sT biznatchiz. I check back every 30-45 minutes or so, sometimes reloading as soon as I've read every comment (score=0, nested) if it's a really hot or interesting topic.
It was a DAMNED funny post, and if I had points today, I'd've blown one on that... it was one of the best jokes I've seen in a long time here. +2 Funny, +2 Subtle, +3 read three times to make sure you got it, +2 COMPLETELY on-topic, blah blah pak chooie.
As it was, I got in here with 72 posts showing and your rant was under a +4 Funny post. Calm down. I'd mod more if I had more points (I'd start some modding down, as well), but I only gets five points of love to share maybe once every week or two.
I find that most people quit bitching about moderators when they 1) read the mods guidelines and 2) actually mod a couple times. Nothing sucks more on /. than having a perfect comment (informative/insightful) and having to post it AC because you don't want the points you gave to some other post to be lost. Except maybe Taco's spelling and some lame complaints about moderators.
This will probably be modded down -1 Offtopic (rightfully so), but it needed to be said. Bu-bye, karma.
woof.
Looks like the win CE marketeers are alive again. First bluetooth now this.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
My mobo is a quality Asus, her's is a cheapo Fry's special.
Am I (er, either on of us) in danger?
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas"
Sen. Davy Crocket to US Congress, Nov. 1, 1835
You know, they really should make Mod -5: What a friggin' dick an option.
Actually, since I've been playing EverQuest more and more, my desktop has been Windows 98 almost exclusively for the last few months (while I use Red Hat Linux at work and on my server).
Windows has never blue-screened on me (at least not since the last major update which was at least several months ago; can't remember before that...), but here's what I do that might make me unique:
1. I run Mozilla, not IE. Browser as core OS component... oops.
2. I do most of my work on Linux systems via SecureCRT. No office, no big, flashy Real Player, etc.
3. I don't run any services off of my Windows desktop. Any file-sharing, Web serving, etc is done from the Linux server.
So the 1/week crash myth seems to be a little far-fetched. This was CERTAINLY the case with 3.1 and 95, but 98 was fairly stable. NT 2000 is not too bad, but I use it rarely.
Windows does get better, which you have to be aware of, if you're going to rationally explain to others why the should use something else.
Of course, if EverQuest ran under Linux, I would forget I had a Windows partition....
I suppose you could damage a motherboard if you were to throw a palm at it... or dip the cradle in a tub of water or something....