Guess he never used^H^H^H^Howned an Acer before. After my laptop underwent half a year of destruction^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrepairs, the repair note said they "reattached the cooling block to the video card". They cleverly had removed it during the first repair. No wonder my laptop died every time within 24 hours after I got it back. After the last repair, they had also put a scratch on my screen, and when I reported it, they said there wasn't a single 15" tft panel left in Europe. I would have to wait for months to have it fixed. One colleague had similar problems. After hearing what happend to our laptops, a second colleague literally ducttaped the disintegrating body of his Acer laptop together instead of sending it in for repair, even though it was still under warranty.
The Tesla roadster goes from 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds if you have the sports version. The Ariel Atom does that in less than 3 seconds. So you basically have no idea what you are talking about.
His point is that you _currently_ cannot boot from it, so it is useless for many people _today_. That point cannot become moot unless find a way to time travel back to today with your Q4 firmware. It's not like we need to wait just a few more days until you release it.
I'm sorry, but this has been known for ages. May I suggest "Influence, Science and Practice" from Robert Cialdini for an overview of the area of influence. It's an amazing mix of simplicity/readability and excellent science.
I really don't care if my macbook pro is made of a single block of aluminium or not. I do however care about non-glossy screens, and not having to lug around a connector for a mini display port. Both of these, however, seem to be a thing of the past. In addition, I think the black border around the screen is ugly as hell.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/contactemail.html
I asked them what they were going to do about this. If they get enough complaints, maybe they'd just do something about it. Of course you can also choose to spend the next two minutes writing a smart comment instead of trying to do something about it. If you do what you did, you get what you got.
Only faster. I plan to have no in-house data center by 2009! I could also do it by tomorrow, but saying 2009 allows room to do even better than I promised.
It's just like the very cheap Chinese luxury cars that came to the European market one or two years ago. They were crash tested by EuroNCAP, after which they were immediately pulled off the market. The cars had the worst safety score of all the cars they tested. This Indian car is just the same.
This crash test from fifth gear nicely illustrates the difference between old and new cars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86M_fV-1yKY I bet that Volvo is still stronger than the Indian car.
A Ford Mustang! *gasp* It's a bloody muscle car! And this one is just plain ugly. Why not take the chassis of a Lamborghini Reventon? It looks like a sci-fi stealth car and is gorgeous (btw, it looks much better in black). Other than that, the Shelby is a horrible car. They fit a huge supercharger and do nothing about the already medieval suspension of the original Mustang. That thing going around a corner quickly just has 'special effect' written all over it.
It seems to be speeding up. Now it sucked up 500+MB in about 5 minutes. No extensions installed. Think Java and C# are slow memory hogs? Try Firefox! They should give it codename Cartman.
In OS X, I had to kill it when it used more than 600MB of real memory. I opened slashdot.org and dpreview.com and left it open for 15-30 minutes. Pathetic.
The statement about eliminating second-guessing without conscious thought has been proven a long time ago for humans. Read Robert Cialdini's brilliant 'Influence: science & practice' for the explanation and references to studies. For example, one of the studies has shown that for court juries, a public vote results in a deadlock more often than an anonymous vote. Once people have expressed their opinion in public, they are very unlikely to change, even if additional evidence shows that they are dead wrong.
Ahem, there are other people in the world than americans. About 6.3 billion actually. In europe, many people buy small light cars. On top of that, they are often much safer than an SUV. The previous Range Rover has a 2 star euroNCAP safety rating, while my little citroen C3 has a 4 star rating. In a frontal collision at normal speed, I'll be the one stepping out of my car. The guy in the previous Range Rover can't walk because the pedals will have broken his legs, the roof will have come down, the steering wheel which will be pushed backwards will either block him or have broken his ribs, and because of the deformation, the door won't open anymore.
The reason why my little car doesn't have that much storage space in the front is because it is filled with strengthening beams and airbags. More and more newer cars even have a 5 star rating. And trust me, if you have seen the results, you don't want to drive in a car with less than 4 euroNCAP stars.
I must say that I found the Miami Vice movie pretty good. Not because of the story or acting, but because the physics wasn't ridiculous. When things were shot, they did not explode but just made the sound of an object being hit by a bullet, and people did not fly away when shot. This certainly made the action feel more real and thrilling to me.
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Guess he never used^H^H^H^Howned an Acer before. After my laptop underwent half a year of destruction^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrepairs, the repair note said they "reattached the cooling block to the video card". They cleverly had removed it during the first repair. No wonder my laptop died every time within 24 hours after I got it back. After the last repair, they had also put a scratch on my screen, and when I reported it, they said there wasn't a single 15" tft panel left in Europe. I would have to wait for months to have it fixed. One colleague had similar problems. After hearing what happend to our laptops, a second colleague literally ducttaped the disintegrating body of his Acer laptop together instead of sending it in for repair, even though it was still under warranty.
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The Tesla roadster goes from 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds if you have the sports version. The Ariel Atom does that in less than 3 seconds. So you basically have no idea what you are talking about.
What is the difference between an endless task and an infinite task?
Stealing half a car sounds more like Small Theft Auto.
His point is that you _currently_ cannot boot from it, so it is useless for many people _today_. That point cannot become moot unless find a way to time travel back to today with your Q4 firmware. It's not like we need to wait just a few more days until you release it.
Sound from bird wings acts .... Sounds act, sound acts, mr. samzenpus.
As all type system people know, preservation means nothing without progress ;-)
welcome our new magnetospheric region.
The following tool allows you to track the failure rate of your media, and allows you to recover the files and replace the cd/dvd when it starts failing. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/03/197254
I'm sorry, but this has been known for ages. May I suggest "Influence, Science and Practice" from Robert Cialdini for an overview of the area of influence. It's an amazing mix of simplicity/readability and excellent science.
I really don't care if my macbook pro is made of a single block of aluminium or not. I do however care about non-glossy screens, and not having to lug around a connector for a mini display port. Both of these, however, seem to be a thing of the past. In addition, I think the black border around the screen is ugly as hell.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/contactemail.html I asked them what they were going to do about this. If they get enough complaints, maybe they'd just do something about it. Of course you can also choose to spend the next two minutes writing a smart comment instead of trying to do something about it. If you do what you did, you get what you got.
Only faster. I plan to have no in-house data center by 2009! I could also do it by tomorrow, but saying 2009 allows room to do even better than I promised.
Sure. And we could use it in nuclear fusion reactors, flying cars, and holographic memory, and possibly even in Duke Nukem Forever ...
It's just like the very cheap Chinese luxury cars that came to the European market one or two years ago. They were crash tested by EuroNCAP, after which they were immediately pulled off the market. The cars had the worst safety score of all the cars they tested. This Indian car is just the same.
This crash test from fifth gear nicely illustrates the difference between old and new cars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86M_fV-1yKY I bet that Volvo is still stronger than the Indian car.
A Ford Mustang! *gasp* It's a bloody muscle car! And this one is just plain ugly. Why not take the chassis of a Lamborghini Reventon? It looks like a sci-fi stealth car and is gorgeous (btw, it looks much better in black). Other than that, the Shelby is a horrible car. They fit a huge supercharger and do nothing about the already medieval suspension of the original Mustang. That thing going around a corner quickly just has 'special effect' written all over it.
It seems to be speeding up. Now it sucked up 500+MB in about 5 minutes. No extensions installed. Think Java and C# are slow memory hogs? Try Firefox! They should give it codename Cartman.
In OS X, I had to kill it when it used more than 600MB of real memory. I opened slashdot.org and dpreview.com and left it open for 15-30 minutes. Pathetic.
The statement about eliminating second-guessing without conscious thought has been proven a long time ago for humans. Read Robert Cialdini's brilliant 'Influence: science & practice' for the explanation and references to studies. For example, one of the studies has shown that for court juries, a public vote results in a deadlock more often than an anonymous vote. Once people have expressed their opinion in public, they are very unlikely to change, even if additional evidence shows that they are dead wrong.
Ahem, there are other people in the world than americans. About 6.3 billion actually. In europe, many people buy small light cars. On top of that, they are often much safer than an SUV. The previous Range Rover has a 2 star euroNCAP safety rating, while my little citroen C3 has a 4 star rating. In a frontal collision at normal speed, I'll be the one stepping out of my car. The guy in the previous Range Rover can't walk because the pedals will have broken his legs, the roof will have come down, the steering wheel which will be pushed backwards will either block him or have broken his ribs, and because of the deformation, the door won't open anymore. The reason why my little car doesn't have that much storage space in the front is because it is filled with strengthening beams and airbags. More and more newer cars even have a 5 star rating. And trust me, if you have seen the results, you don't want to drive in a car with less than 4 euroNCAP stars.
I must say that I found the Miami Vice movie pretty good. Not because of the story or acting, but because the physics wasn't ridiculous. When things were shot, they did not explode but just made the sound of an object being hit by a bullet, and people did not fly away when shot. This certainly made the action feel more real and thrilling to me.
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> Main sight is back up as of now, though forums are still down.
I see.
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