Tom's Hardware Investigates Michael's Computers

cojsl writes "Tom's Hardware has an extensive article raising questions about Michael's Computers and their claims of a laptop with a "3DMark03 Average Score - 15,417"." It gets funnier as you go along.

Comments

Not much funnier

[Anonymous Coward]

...not much at all.

duh..

[Anonymous Coward]

This is easy...

I bet Michael's computers have a lot of kiddie porn on them, or they have info. about hijacking other people's domains.

Michael sucks. huh? what do you mean no our Michael???

Re:Michael's Computers

[Orgazmus]

That was a total overkill

Re:Not in doubt, but....

[FatherOfONe]

Fire beatle?

Ape/people? I would imagine that we would find some race of people that didn't evolve as fast as the rest... and no you can't count your harry uncle Bill...

I am not saying evolution is wrong, but to say that it IS absolutely correct would also be inaccturate, you can show that some things have evolved, and that humans have evolved to a point, but we cannot say with absolute certainty that humans evolved from apes.

Also, as far as winning the 1 million; it has be repeatable. Man that one would have been tough even for the people who saw Christ after his death. Just because someone can't reproduce something time and time again doesn't make it wrong. Granted that isn't the point of the contest, but it is the spirit of the contest...

Now back to the topic.

The guy posted processors and hard drives that DON'T EXIST. He only takes pay-pal. Hmmmm you would have to have some real FAITH to buy from him :-)

Re:Not in doubt, but....

[the gnat]

but we cannot say with absolute certainty that humans evolved from apes.

Two points:

- All of the available evidence supports this model. The fact that we can't conclusively prove the hypothesis does not make it any less compelling. Furthermore, no null hypothesis which fits the data well or better has been presented, much less proven.

- Careful with your terminology here; what you really meant to say was ". . . that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor." We do not expect chimps to evolve into humans; these species are diverged from a more primitive ape. One branch became fully bipedal and sentient, the other did not.

Re:Not in doubt, but....

[TwinkieStix]

And now that you've posted, you can't use them at all.

randis $1 mil is as fanciful as your parochial vie

[waspleg]

the prize IS NOT IN ESCROW he doesn't even have the money to put it up, he refuses challenges from world-reknowned psychics like Sylvia Browne

Re:randis $1 mil is as fanciful as your parochial

[LordK3nn3th]

Bullshit, it is in escrow. In fact, the rules state that they will not pander to escrow requests due to the large amount of claims they need to test, but the JREF bent over backwards of Sylvia Browne and indeed placed it in escrow. Your little idol, Sylvia is the one evading the JREF. In fact, Sylvia won't accept any mail from the JREF.

www.randi.org

Re:Not in doubt, but....

[idontgno]

Thanks, Obvious Obviousington. As I pointed out, I couldn't decide between the two alternatives, so I chose "(c) none of the above" (aka the "Cowboyneal poll option").

Maybe we'll get lucky and someone will mod both of us "-1 Overrated" or "-1 Offtopic". Unless they can't decide between, in case they may post a moderately amusing reply about their dilemma. In which case, you can helpfully point out that they can no longer moderate this thread. ad infinitum.