Thanks. I guess that would explaing the L. I didn't mention anything to the tech support about making my laptop a dual-boot with Debian and XP, for obvious reasons.
But, I still think it's hardware. When I try various rescues, the kernel always tells me it's not getting interrupts from the drive. Either way, they're letting me return the thing to them for repair.
Hope they don't find my linux doings. Maybe I'll put the drive in the microwave for a few...
My Sony Vaio laptop stopped working entirely after 2 months.
I've spent hours upon hours talking to Indians with american sounding names (Paul, Adam...I think they're all biblical). It's mind numbing, frustrating and entirely useless.
We all know Dell consumer tech support is also in India.
Does anyone know a company that makes laptops and has support in the USA?
(BTW, the problem is it crashes on the Phoenix BIOS splash and just prints L 07 07 07 07 07 infintely, if anyone has any idea what this is...)
Or, he could say "I have decided to fund new technologies that will free us from the chains of fossil fuels, and bring about a new era in sustainable energy."
Oh that we'd elect Al Gore, and he'd said just that.
For the love of God (or whatever entity or non-entity you do or don't worship) don't vote for Bush in November 2003!!!!!!!!
(If you're not an American Citizen, please move along...but not to my town)
I got your biometric/personal/could be used for discrimination data right here...
My driver's license says my eyes are blue, my hair is blond, my height is 6'0", my weight is 165 lbs, my age is 34, my sex is male, and it has a full color picture of my face, which is also kept digitally at the DMV.
AND YOU PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE LINES ON MY FINGERS?????
I've worked at a lot of companies big and small (120,000 employess down to 20 employess)
I've learned that big companies are doomed to becomming appalingly inefficient. I mean, words just can't describe how inefficient they are. The worst part is, most people at big companies started there, and have always worked there, or at another big company so they have no idea what the other world is like.
Honestly there are things that take a month at a big company that take 5 minutes at a small one. (Not because of cutting corners on needed process, but just plain inefficent stupidity).
So how do big companies survive? Just what eveyone's been posting, margin and big-company bullying. This is what balances things out.
But don't assume you can't beat Dell because you don't have their margins. You also don't have their inertia.
Incidentally, one exception is Microsoft (yah I worked there too, probalby should post AC). MS operates like a small company with 20,000 employees. My group consisted of 31 people: 30 engineers, and 1 admin. That would be unheard of at any other big company. They feel much better with like 5 working engineers, 5 people with engineer titles that do nothing, and 20 people that make spreadsheets that track what day today is, and what day tomorrow will be etc...
6 Diet Cokes has the caffeine of 2 cups of coffee. It is perfectly normal that that dosage wouldn't affect you. For coffee drinkers, it is not uncommon to drink 8 or more cups a day.
Yes, RFID is the key to this technology. Now that we have RFID, we can track cows. Prior to RFID it was virtually impossible to have a database of cows. But now, with the invention of RFID, tracking cows is trivial.
how on earth do they figure out that the earth is in the exact same position as it was a 'year' ago? Do they use the background of stars, or some other mechanism?
My example conversation amalgam may have been misleading. I always tell my mother I love the gift, "Thank you so much, It's great, I love it, etc..." It's in the 'off season', like when I'm fixing her comuter or something that I drop very large hints that I don't use Windows (Like saying "I don't use Windows").
My whining is enterely to Slashdot, never to my Mother.
In return you should not be bitter, but give your mom a big hug, that's all she's really asking for...
Of course, this is exactly what I always do, every Christmas and Birthday, and I fully plan on doing the same this year "Thanks mom, it's great, I love it". And I look forward to getting more MS crap for my Birthday this summer.
But, there was a story on Slashdot asking about weird gifts, and I used this wonderful oportunity to vent. (I knew Slashdot had some redeeming value)
No need for Dr. Phil here, I'm not some misunderstood 15 year old my mom is trying to 'connect to'. We get along great. She just buys crappy gifts. This is a sit-com, not an after-school special.
Why does my mother keep giving me Microsoft Games no matter how many times I tell her I don't use Windows!!! She just doesn't get it, "My son's a computer guy so I get him computer games".
-"Mom, I don't use Windows". +"So how do you use Word?" -"I don't". +"Oh, Hmm, how do you use MSN?" -"I Don't!!!!" +"But I know you get email". -"Yes" +"Well that's certainly strange". -"No, it isn't. MSN is not the Internet" +"Oh, well here's you're Chrismas present, a copy of Freelancer". (Which is some MS game I never heard of)
Nevermind the fact that I'm 34 and don't even play computer games.
Most people here are missing the point. These things were orinially built to house the geneology data for the LDS church to survive serious biblical type disasters. This is for like, the end of the world comes and were diggin out, and your data is still there.
I can't believe some of the idiots responding to this saying "this is useless because it doesn't allow restore in near-real-time".
At the other end of the sepctrum is the idiot who is worried about volcanoes in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Please people, get a clue before posting.
Imagine if all the funds the government puts into building and maintaining roads were put into rail. It's estimated at between $400 and $900 billion per year -- far more if you include the costs of policing them (and scraping dead drunk drivers off the roadside of them). The 'cost to society' of the great inneficiencies and danger of car travel make the cost astronomical.
Yet...people say rail is outdated becase it's not self-sufficent. Puh-leaze. If 'self-sufficent' means it survives on 'pay-per-use' money from travelers, car travel is about as self sufficent as a 90 year old invalid on a respirator.
They money you pay on your car, gas, insurance, maintainence *and tolls* is only about half the cost of getting you there. The rest comes out of the taxpayer's pocket.
BTW -- I don't have a car, I only use public trans. All your car people please thank me now for paying for your extravagently expensive daily commute with my taxes. Then, apoligize for making me breathe your poison every time I go running in Central Park.
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Thanks. I guess that would explaing the L. I didn't mention anything to the tech support about making my laptop a dual-boot with Debian and XP, for obvious reasons.
But, I still think it's hardware. When I try various rescues, the kernel always tells me it's not getting interrupts from the drive. Either way, they're letting me return the thing to them for repair.
Hope they don't find my linux doings. Maybe I'll put the drive in the microwave for a few...
My Sony Vaio laptop stopped working entirely after 2 months.
I've spent hours upon hours talking to Indians with american sounding names (Paul, Adam...I think they're all biblical). It's mind numbing, frustrating and entirely useless.
We all know Dell consumer tech support is also in India.
Does anyone know a company that makes laptops and has support in the USA?
(BTW, the problem is it crashes on the Phoenix BIOS splash and just prints L 07 07 07 07 07 infintely, if anyone has any idea what this is...)
Or, he could say "I have decided to fund new technologies that will free us from the chains of fossil fuels, and bring about a new era in sustainable energy."
Oh that we'd elect Al Gore, and he'd said just that.
For the love of God (or whatever entity or non-entity you do or don't worship) don't vote for Bush in November 2003!!!!!!!!
(If you're not an American Citizen, please move along...but not to my town)
I got your biometric/personal/could be used for discrimination data right here...
My driver's license says my eyes are blue, my hair is blond, my height is 6'0", my weight is 165 lbs, my age is 34, my sex is male, and it has a full color picture of my face, which is also kept digitally at the DMV.
AND YOU PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE LINES ON MY FINGERS?????
chill...
Beds should be used for two things only - sleep and sex.
What is this 'sex' you speak of?
I don't think the comparasion to Dot Bombs is entirely accurate
Hemos would know about Dot Bombs.
I've worked at a lot of companies big and small (120,000 employess down to 20 employess)
I've learned that big companies are doomed to becomming appalingly inefficient. I mean, words just can't describe how inefficient they are. The worst part is, most people at big companies started there, and have always worked there, or at another big company so they have no idea what the other world is like.
Honestly there are things that take a month at a big company that take 5 minutes at a small one. (Not because of cutting corners on needed process, but just plain inefficent stupidity).
So how do big companies survive? Just what eveyone's been posting, margin and big-company bullying. This is what balances things out.
But don't assume you can't beat Dell because you don't have their margins. You also don't have their inertia.
Incidentally, one exception is Microsoft (yah I worked there too, probalby should post AC). MS operates like a small company with 20,000 employees. My group consisted of 31 people: 30 engineers, and 1 admin. That would be unheard of at any other big company. They feel much better with like 5 working engineers, 5 people with engineer titles that do nothing, and 20 people that make spreadsheets that track what day today is, and what day tomorrow will be etc...
First message received from Mars rover: PC LOAD LETTER
What the fuck does that mean?
6 Diet Cokes has the caffeine of 2 cups of coffee. It is perfectly normal that that dosage wouldn't affect you. For coffee drinkers, it is not uncommon to drink 8 or more cups a day.
Yes, RFID is the key to this technology. Now that we have RFID, we can track cows. Prior to RFID it was virtually impossible to have a database of cows. But now, with the invention of RFID, tracking cows is trivial.
how on earth do they figure out that the earth is in the exact same position as it was a 'year' ago? Do they use the background of stars, or some other mechanism?
Duh. They use GPS.
Dear Poor Reader,
The capacitors have liquid in them, he was mentioning the ice crystals to identify them. Try reading the parent again.
Sincerely,
Me.
If you take a picture of my source code it will steal my soul!!
Car noise comes from the tires themselves, as discussed earlier?
The breaches that do real damage are ones where private info is stolen, like all the custmers' credit card numbers.
Tar your way out of that.
My example conversation amalgam may have been misleading. I always tell my mother I love the gift, "Thank you so much, It's great, I love it, etc..." It's in the 'off season', like when I'm fixing her comuter or something that I drop very large hints that I don't use Windows (Like saying "I don't use Windows").
My whining is enterely to Slashdot, never to my Mother.
Sorry for you loss, Merry Christmas.
In return you should not be bitter, but give your mom a big hug, that's all she's really asking for...
Of course, this is exactly what I always do, every Christmas and Birthday, and I fully plan on doing the same this year "Thanks mom, it's great, I love it". And I look forward to getting more MS crap for my Birthday this summer.
But, there was a story on Slashdot asking about weird gifts, and I used this wonderful oportunity to vent. (I knew Slashdot had some redeeming value)
No need for Dr. Phil here, I'm not some misunderstood 15 year old my mom is trying to 'connect to'. We get along great. She just buys crappy gifts. This is a sit-com, not an after-school special.
Why does my mother keep giving me Microsoft Games no matter how many times I tell her I don't use Windows!!! She just doesn't get it, "My son's a computer guy so I get him computer games".
-"Mom, I don't use Windows".
+"So how do you use Word?"
-"I don't".
+"Oh, Hmm, how do you use MSN?"
-"I Don't!!!!"
+"But I know you get email".
-"Yes"
+"Well that's certainly strange".
-"No, it isn't. MSN is not the Internet"
+"Oh, well here's you're Chrismas present, a copy of Freelancer". (Which is some MS game I never heard of)
Nevermind the fact that I'm 34 and don't even play computer games.
Anyone want an unopened copy of Freelancer?
Most people here are missing the point. These things were orinially built to house the geneology data for the LDS church to survive serious biblical type disasters. This is for like, the end of the world comes and were diggin out, and your data is still there.
I can't believe some of the idiots responding to this saying "this is useless because it doesn't allow restore in near-real-time".
At the other end of the sepctrum is the idiot who is worried about volcanoes in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Please people, get a clue before posting.
All the other images I have of Traci have far, far more flesh colours in them.
You mean like this one?
Clearly this is the Best Bang per Watt
Only in America the filmmakers are proud of special effects that are easy to notice
Only in Europe is Europe known as "Everywhere except America".
I'm sick of this. I'm buying an island and starting my own government.
Ok, so is your island for or against the war in Iraq?
Evening shadows fall
Heart! betray me not again!
Will I see a tit?
Imagine if all the funds the government puts into building and maintaining roads were put into rail. It's estimated at between $400 and $900 billion per year -- far more if you include the costs of policing them (and scraping dead drunk drivers off the roadside of them). The 'cost to society' of the great inneficiencies and danger of car travel make the cost astronomical.
Yet...people say rail is outdated becase it's not self-sufficent. Puh-leaze. If 'self-sufficent' means it survives on 'pay-per-use' money from travelers, car travel is about as self sufficent as a 90 year old invalid on a respirator.
They money you pay on your car, gas, insurance, maintainence *and tolls* is only about half the cost of getting you there. The rest comes out of the taxpayer's pocket.
BTW -- I don't have a car, I only use public trans. All your car people please thank me now for paying for your extravagently expensive daily commute with my taxes. Then, apoligize for making me breathe your poison every time I go running in Central Park.
Have a nice day.