I don't even buy AppleCare for cheap machines anymore - I've had Apple replace parts gratis (SuperDrives, power supplies, top case etc), for machines over a year out of warranty.
Yeah, I pay an Apple premium for my Apple machines, but what I paid for pays for a lot more.
My Macbook Pro's been with me from hot and dusty (Niger/Nigeria) to hot and humid (Burma, Cambodia) for weeks and months without AC without heating issues. So have my colleagues Macbooks. Most laptops built won't overheat in ~40+ conditions unless something's wrong with that specific machine.
What are you talking about? The A-Team movie was great. They fly a TANK by using the recoil of the main gun rounds. They play a shell game with cargo containers. They break Murdoch out while the looney ward is watching the A-Team. What is there NOT to like?
Allow me to make a car analogy for you. When someone farts, you have to roll down your windshield before you run out of gas. Otherwise, your carburetor get sludged up, but not before your treads are too worn down.
Okay, I, for all intents and purposes, was living under a rock during this period. Looking back, why wasn't it launched? What was so different about it from the first eee?
Dude, at heart, I'm a video gaming geek who happened to stumble into racing. After the Army and grad school, I ended up working for the better part of the last decade working for a bunch of NGOs, mostly in Africa.
Years ago, I was in Uganda and it turned out that the guy (importer/refurbisher/mechanic) from whom I was buying and renting cars and drivers was this big East African rally legend, who'd won the Pearl and placed in the Safari. We got along really well and we got drunk and chased women together. He'd long since retired from active racing but he had a team of drivers and to make a long story short, as an expat, I had money and he had a whole crew up great driver/mechanics with no funds. So one thing lead to another and I got a short course in performance driving, got to co-drive, then drive in local rallies at first, then pre-ran courses and after a year and half of dumping all my free time into it, got to co-drive and drive our beaters in the lower classes of the big events (by the time I did it, Safari wasn't on the WRC circuit anymore). Haven't really done it since.
Oh, and before this, the closest I'd gotten to rallies were the rally stages on GT3.:) With a Dual Shock, not the wheel.
More recently, I did some SCCA AutoCross and RallyCross but it doesn't really float my boat. I think it's great to do if you want to learn car control (I'd say the average SCCA Auto/RallyCross drivers have better car control than me) and is a great place to start but the speed just isn't there so it doesn't tickle me - once you've dodged goats at 90mph+ on Kenyan and Tanzanians courses, it feels a little constrained. Also, I learned performance driving RHD and even though I shift better LHD, my car control is better RHD. Or so that's what I tell myself when.
That said, RallyCross is one of the cheapest ways to get into competitive driving so I'd definitely encourage you to look into it.
I don't know how much you'd get out of a simulated clutch pedal. Even with stock cars, half the shifting is clutchless and the other half, you're kind of using the force to momentarily tag the friction point. Does an analog clutch pedal provide force feedback?
I have an extremely strong neck. I've been a competitive judo player and wrestler since I could walk and one of the first things an experience training partner or opponent notices about me is my neck strength.
I've driven, co-driven and pre-run some fairly competitive Group N rallies - Safari Rally, Pearl of Africa (rarely finished, never placed). I'd say my neck strength endurance is about average for a upper nationals rally driver.
The neck strength required for F-1 is an order of magnitude higher. Most people don't quite literally physically don't have what it takes to take an F-1 car around just half a lap without either hurting themselves or stalling out.
The first time my kid runs to Mommy because Daddy said no is when Daddy will hit for distance. When Junior comes down from orbit, he's not going to pull that shit ever again. Or will be more deceptive and conniving about it, which I fully approve of.
Dude, the Isle of Man TT is insane. At the speed at which those guys go, every 3mm dip or bump in the road leads to those huge wobbles and instability. The roads that make up the course are some of the smoothest and best maintained IRL roads in the world, but it's still not a glassy smooth, purpose built racetrack.
It's one of those things that only translates one way. Race/high performance drivers can use GT3/4 games to learn tracks but being awesome at GT4 isn't going to make you great on the track. Normal people have a danger threshold that kicks in when they're actually doing 120mph IRL in a car as opposed to pixels on a screen.
The inherent physical danger and risk is what makes it a sport, not just the competition. Once the drivers are out of the vehicles, they're no longer sportsmen, they're just controllers. In the military, there's a reason that guys who physically face the enemy are given more due than those who don't, the latter category which includes UCAV controllers.
Back to motor racing, that part of the human brain which tells the average Joe to slow down before he gets himself killed is the part that keeps even the most skilled non racing driver from being able to attain the same speeds and track times as they can in a simulator.
I went through a steady stream of these - some with integrated DSL some without - Linksys, DLink, Netgear etc.
Eh, Linksys made some of the most hackable little consumer devices made with the original WRT54G line. I still have an early version that I bought back in 2003, if memory serves. I wrote about my feelings for D-Link on another post here. Complete garbage. Dunno so much about Netgear, but I used to use their old CardBus PCMCIA wireless cards without too much trouble.
Finally I broke down and bought a Cisco 857W which is a real Cisco device running IOS including DSL, Wireless, Statefull Firewall and IPSEC VPN. I was studying for my CCNA so it was a good device to learn on and was how I justified the purchase to the Mrs.
It might cost AU$450 and have a pretty massive learning curve to configure it properly but man is it solid and a great performer. It has an uptime currently of over six months with only 2 DSL activations (ie it has only had to reconnect to my ISP once in six months) and I do quite a bit of bittorrenting via wireless with hundreds of connections and with the firewall on getting over 16MBit/sec out of my ADSL2+ link.
Man, you got that right. Years ago, I was working for a small NGO in Kenya that wanted to set up a wireless network at one of their hospital. My plan was to set up a bunch of WRT54Gs with open firmware, like I had at a sister hospital with no trouble. Simple, but full featured and you can train anyone to run it. Somehow, one of the well meaning morons back in the US got Cisco to donate over 10k USD of equipment. Problem - no one knew IOS and since I was the only remotely IT savvy of anyone there, expat or Kenyan, it fell on my lap to figure it out. Very steep learning curve. Plateaus fast tho. Complete overkill for the home consumer, though.
I mentioned this in another post but the Apple Extreme Base Station is a great home solution. The one I set up at my parent's house had an uptime of over 16 months before it went down for an update.
You're the third to accuse anyone of not liking it to be an automatic Apple hater.
I did nothing of the sort. Quote to me the line where this is stated or implied. You can't, because it doesn't exist.
You're the third to whom I will now reply (in thegarbz stead) Apple doesn't sell a product with a built in ADSL2 modem, which incidentally makes your lovely product recommendation completely off topic.
No, it doesn't. The article mentions routers with these features, not modem routers. It stands to reason that if the ISP can't provide a modem/router with these features at this price point, they ought to provide the modem and the consumer can provide the full featured router.
AC, you could try working on your reading comprehension.
I've gone through so many bad experiences with D-Link equipment over the years that I will never buy any equipment from D-Link ever again. I will go out of my way to get people I know to replace these craptacular pieces of shit every chance I get.
I've had D-Link PCMCIA cards, routers, modems, etc and every single one of them is an overheating piece of garbage. It's like no one in the company has ever heard of heat management.
OTOH, I set up an Airport Extreme Base Station at my parents' house last year. It has all of the features Sholto says you can't find (Dual band-N, great range, USB print and storage, etc) and does it without needing to be reset every ten fucking days. Care to venture a guess the uptime this AEBS, D-Link? 16 MONTHS. I'm usually pleasantly surprised when D-Link crap can make it 16 days without needing a reset.
I suppose I have to give the old Linksys WRT-54 units their props.
Erm... I didn't mean to be an asshole with that "run your mouth" comment. I meant that in a let your mouth run ahead of your brain before you gave it thought kind of way. Which still sounds pretty bad, but trust me, I didn't mean it that way.:)
This has already been pointed out to you shouldn't let your preconceived notions of Thailand based on the sex trade jokes, protests and/or kickboxing movies run your mouth.
Thailand has some very good private hospitals that are the best in the region and are staffed by some very competent folks. Bangkok is a medevac destination for expat organizations in SE Asia. To give you an idea, when I was working for MSF in SE Asia, at one point we had 5-6 expats in Bangkok for various reasons we felt couldn't be treated with confidence in the country of their assigned project, three of whom were themselves physicians, two German, one Japanese. No complaints.
I won't comment on the Thai clinic that performed this procedure, because I don't know and wouldn't know much about it that side of the coin.
And to give you some more perspective, it's funny that you mention Johns Hopkins, because that's where I was trained in my medical specialty.
We've gone well past the point where, to the majority of the population, science is distinguishable from magic.
This ranges from the meta-arguments on the internets regarding science vs religion to the everyday, "Mom/Dad, it's not like I just wave a magic wand to fix your broken computer" to everyone complaining about how there's an article in the news about how some study says this is good for you health one day another bad for you the next (no, you're just not reading the boundary conditions of the study properly.)
Or maybe the majority of humanity is just always one step behind the science/magic curve, I dunno know, but most science to most people most of the time is just plain fucking magic.
In what state was this and in what kind of business was he involved?
I come from an immigrant community that's built on the back of small business, individual proprietors and this paper ad requirement sounds to me like its either specific to a specific type of business and/or location.
Ars' Science section is great but aside from the longer technical articles, such as Siracusa's OS X reviews, I get the sense that more and more of their writers are wannabe geeks that like to write about technology but aren't real geeks themselves.
Lifehacker? Hahaha. Sorry, but I can't take a site whose 30 something founder just put together her first desktop from parts LAST YEAR as a serious tech head's site. Again, this site is about being a fan of geek/nerddom but isn't really run by real geeks and nerds. Take Lifehacker and then take a look at Hackaday. One is a hipster fansite for hacker wannabes and the other actually shows you how to do interesting hacks.
TomsHardware, don't have any opinion.
Jerry Pournelle is the shit. John C. Dvorak IS shit.
You're not accounting for a number of factors and observed phenomena, primary among them the expansion of space (the universe) itself, a process that is accelerating.
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No? Random power failures and voltage fluctuations don't have a potential to corrupt data in any one of a dozen different failure modes? Interesting.
I don't even buy AppleCare for cheap machines anymore - I've had Apple replace parts gratis (SuperDrives, power supplies, top case etc), for machines over a year out of warranty.
Yeah, I pay an Apple premium for my Apple machines, but what I paid for pays for a lot more.
My Macbook Pro's been with me from hot and dusty (Niger/Nigeria) to hot and humid (Burma, Cambodia) for weeks and months without AC without heating issues. So have my colleagues Macbooks. Most laptops built won't overheat in ~40+ conditions unless something's wrong with that specific machine.
What are you talking about? The A-Team movie was great. They fly a TANK by using the recoil of the main gun rounds. They play a shell game with cargo containers. They break Murdoch out while the looney ward is watching the A-Team. What is there NOT to like?
Allow me to make a car analogy for you. When someone farts, you have to roll down your windshield before you run out of gas. Otherwise, your carburetor get sludged up, but not before your treads are too worn down.
Okay, I, for all intents and purposes, was living under a rock during this period. Looking back, why wasn't it launched? What was so different about it from the first eee?
Dude, at heart, I'm a video gaming geek who happened to stumble into racing. After the Army and grad school, I ended up working for the better part of the last decade working for a bunch of NGOs, mostly in Africa.
Years ago, I was in Uganda and it turned out that the guy (importer/refurbisher/mechanic) from whom I was buying and renting cars and drivers was this big East African rally legend, who'd won the Pearl and placed in the Safari. We got along really well and we got drunk and chased women together. He'd long since retired from active racing but he had a team of drivers and to make a long story short, as an expat, I had money and he had a whole crew up great driver/mechanics with no funds. So one thing lead to another and I got a short course in performance driving, got to co-drive, then drive in local rallies at first, then pre-ran courses and after a year and half of dumping all my free time into it, got to co-drive and drive our beaters in the lower classes of the big events (by the time I did it, Safari wasn't on the WRC circuit anymore). Haven't really done it since.
Oh, and before this, the closest I'd gotten to rallies were the rally stages on GT3. :) With a Dual Shock, not the wheel.
More recently, I did some SCCA AutoCross and RallyCross but it doesn't really float my boat. I think it's great to do if you want to learn car control (I'd say the average SCCA Auto/RallyCross drivers have better car control than me) and is a great place to start but the speed just isn't there so it doesn't tickle me - once you've dodged goats at 90mph+ on Kenyan and Tanzanians courses, it feels a little constrained. Also, I learned performance driving RHD and even though I shift better LHD, my car control is better RHD. Or so that's what I tell myself when.
That said, RallyCross is one of the cheapest ways to get into competitive driving so I'd definitely encourage you to look into it.
I don't know how much you'd get out of a simulated clutch pedal. Even with stock cars, half the shifting is clutchless and the other half, you're kind of using the force to momentarily tag the friction point. Does an analog clutch pedal provide force feedback?
The Russians are buying it. What other proof do you need?
Heh, you're preaching to the choir.
I have an extremely strong neck. I've been a competitive judo player and wrestler since I could walk and one of the first things an experience training partner or opponent notices about me is my neck strength.
I've driven, co-driven and pre-run some fairly competitive Group N rallies - Safari Rally, Pearl of Africa (rarely finished, never placed). I'd say my neck strength endurance is about average for a upper nationals rally driver.
The neck strength required for F-1 is an order of magnitude higher. Most people don't quite literally physically don't have what it takes to take an F-1 car around just half a lap without either hurting themselves or stalling out.
The first time my kid runs to Mommy because Daddy said no is when Daddy will hit for distance. When Junior comes down from orbit, he's not going to pull that shit ever again. Or will be more deceptive and conniving about it, which I fully approve of.
Dude, the Isle of Man TT is insane. At the speed at which those guys go, every 3mm dip or bump in the road leads to those huge wobbles and instability. The roads that make up the course are some of the smoothest and best maintained IRL roads in the world, but it's still not a glassy smooth, purpose built racetrack.
It's one of those things that only translates one way. Race/high performance drivers can use GT3/4 games to learn tracks but being awesome at GT4 isn't going to make you great on the track. Normal people have a danger threshold that kicks in when they're actually doing 120mph IRL in a car as opposed to pixels on a screen.
The inherent physical danger and risk is what makes it a sport, not just the competition. Once the drivers are out of the vehicles, they're no longer sportsmen, they're just controllers. In the military, there's a reason that guys who physically face the enemy are given more due than those who don't, the latter category which includes UCAV controllers.
Back to motor racing, that part of the human brain which tells the average Joe to slow down before he gets himself killed is the part that keeps even the most skilled non racing driver from being able to attain the same speeds and track times as they can in a simulator.
WTF is going on with moderation these days?
The above is an opinion and not an inflammatory one at that. It's somewhat rational, even if you disagree with it.
If I'd have had any moderation points after the AJAX debacle of the past few days, I'd correct this immediately.
I went through a steady stream of these - some with integrated DSL some without - Linksys, DLink, Netgear etc.
Eh, Linksys made some of the most hackable little consumer devices made with the original WRT54G line. I still have an early version that I bought back in 2003, if memory serves. I wrote about my feelings for D-Link on another post here. Complete garbage. Dunno so much about Netgear, but I used to use their old CardBus PCMCIA wireless cards without too much trouble.
Finally I broke down and bought a Cisco 857W which is a real Cisco device running IOS including DSL, Wireless, Statefull Firewall and IPSEC VPN. I was studying for my CCNA so it was a good device to learn on and was how I justified the purchase to the Mrs.
It might cost AU$450 and have a pretty massive learning curve to configure it properly but man is it solid and a great performer. It has an uptime currently of over six months with only 2 DSL activations (ie it has only had to reconnect to my ISP once in six months) and I do quite a bit of bittorrenting via wireless with hundreds of connections and with the firewall on getting over 16MBit/sec out of my ADSL2+ link.
Man, you got that right. Years ago, I was working for a small NGO in Kenya that wanted to set up a wireless network at one of their hospital. My plan was to set up a bunch of WRT54Gs with open firmware, like I had at a sister hospital with no trouble. Simple, but full featured and you can train anyone to run it. Somehow, one of the well meaning morons back in the US got Cisco to donate over 10k USD of equipment. Problem - no one knew IOS and since I was the only remotely IT savvy of anyone there, expat or Kenyan, it fell on my lap to figure it out. Very steep learning curve. Plateaus fast tho. Complete overkill for the home consumer, though.
I mentioned this in another post but the Apple Extreme Base Station is a great home solution. The one I set up at my parent's house had an uptime of over 16 months before it went down for an update.
You're the third to accuse anyone of not liking it to be an automatic Apple hater.
I did nothing of the sort. Quote to me the line where this is stated or implied. You can't, because it doesn't exist.
You're the third to whom I will now reply (in thegarbz stead) Apple doesn't sell a product with a built in ADSL2 modem, which incidentally makes your lovely product recommendation completely off topic.
No, it doesn't. The article mentions routers with these features, not modem routers. It stands to reason that if the ISP can't provide a modem/router with these features at this price point, they ought to provide the modem and the consumer can provide the full featured router.
AC, you could try working on your reading comprehension.
I've gone through so many bad experiences with D-Link equipment over the years that I will never buy any equipment from D-Link ever again. I will go out of my way to get people I know to replace these craptacular pieces of shit every chance I get.
I've had D-Link PCMCIA cards, routers, modems, etc and every single one of them is an overheating piece of garbage. It's like no one in the company has ever heard of heat management.
OTOH, I set up an Airport Extreme Base Station at my parents' house last year. It has all of the features Sholto says you can't find (Dual band-N, great range, USB print and storage, etc) and does it without needing to be reset every ten fucking days. Care to venture a guess the uptime this AEBS, D-Link? 16 MONTHS. I'm usually pleasantly surprised when D-Link crap can make it 16 days without needing a reset.
I suppose I have to give the old Linksys WRT-54 units their props.
Erm... I didn't mean to be an asshole with that "run your mouth" comment. I meant that in a let your mouth run ahead of your brain before you gave it thought kind of way. Which still sounds pretty bad, but trust me, I didn't mean it that way. :)
This has already been pointed out to you shouldn't let your preconceived notions of Thailand based on the sex trade jokes, protests and/or kickboxing movies run your mouth.
Thailand has some very good private hospitals that are the best in the region and are staffed by some very competent folks. Bangkok is a medevac destination for expat organizations in SE Asia. To give you an idea, when I was working for MSF in SE Asia, at one point we had 5-6 expats in Bangkok for various reasons we felt couldn't be treated with confidence in the country of their assigned project, three of whom were themselves physicians, two German, one Japanese. No complaints.
I won't comment on the Thai clinic that performed this procedure, because I don't know and wouldn't know much about it that side of the coin.
And to give you some more perspective, it's funny that you mention Johns Hopkins, because that's where I was trained in my medical specialty.
And so is technology.
We've gone well past the point where, to the majority of the population, science is distinguishable from magic.
This ranges from the meta-arguments on the internets regarding science vs religion to the everyday, "Mom/Dad, it's not like I just wave a magic wand to fix your broken computer" to everyone complaining about how there's an article in the news about how some study says this is good for you health one day another bad for you the next (no, you're just not reading the boundary conditions of the study properly.)
Or maybe the majority of humanity is just always one step behind the science/magic curve, I dunno know, but most science to most people most of the time is just plain fucking magic.
In what state was this and in what kind of business was he involved?
I come from an immigrant community that's built on the back of small business, individual proprietors and this paper ad requirement sounds to me like its either specific to a specific type of business and/or location.
Ars' Science section is great but aside from the longer technical articles, such as Siracusa's OS X reviews, I get the sense that more and more of their writers are wannabe geeks that like to write about technology but aren't real geeks themselves.
Lifehacker? Hahaha. Sorry, but I can't take a site whose 30 something founder just put together her first desktop from parts LAST YEAR as a serious tech head's site. Again, this site is about being a fan of geek/nerddom but isn't really run by real geeks and nerds. Take Lifehacker and then take a look at Hackaday. One is a hipster fansite for hacker wannabes and the other actually shows you how to do interesting hacks.
TomsHardware, don't have any opinion.
Jerry Pournelle is the shit.
John C. Dvorak IS shit.
Allais Effect
Does not exist.
You're not accounting for a number of factors and observed phenomena, primary among them the expansion of space (the universe) itself, a process that is accelerating.
How old are you, 12?