yeah, I had the same experience - the burning process fails, and then they want to charge you when they send the recovery DVD. costs you time & money.
which can do nothing else, but _delete_ everything from your HDD, and install a 20GB 'recovery partition', which is incidentally the boot partition as well - there is no way you can remove it and maintain a working system.
and yes, it does cause permanent data loss: it deletes all partitions from your drive at the beginning of the 'recovery' process
I ended up installing a 'standard' Windows install DVD - which works a lot better.
whereas if they just included the standard install media in the first place, it would have been much cheaper for everyone: me, their support staff, mailing, etc.
what 'fall' is this article talking about? seriously?
we're using Dells at our SME, and we don't really have problems with them. in 4.5 years, there was only one PC that had an minor issue, and that was fixed in our office by the Dell support technician, within a few days. all the machines still run, despite some of them being 4+ years old.
in house they already new who lost the phone, as prototypes are carefully controlled, and a simple inventory check must have revealed who has a missing phone. thus, gizmondo didn't expose any info here that wasn't already known inside Apple.
companies take such prototype control very seriously - and usually you're fired immediately for such a breach of your contract
around 2000, I knew of a guy who was fired by Nokia just for taking a prototype phone with him, outside of the office. this alone is reason enough - let alone taking it out in public, like in a bar, and then losing it...
I guess this is a great market opportunity - we need to establish a new airline, that does _not_ do any of the silly security checks. advantages would include:
- shorter check in time: about 15 mintes tops, vs. 60 minutes - always on time, as there are no long queues to wait - nice, friendly service - no invasion of privacy ever - cheaper, as the retarted 'security' personell don't have to be paid for
there would be a calculated risk: every 10 years, a plane would be lost to some human activity. this is a lower level of risk than the 'usual' plane crash due to failure - which makes it still the safest way to travel
I guess this will mean this islander nation is more of an islaneder by now. any UK person I'll meet, I can be sure they conceded in having their genitals exposed to some underpaid 'security' asshole
I wonder why these companies need Google's approval to launch on these markets. After all, it's not Google but Motorola & Samsung launching these phones. Android is supposed to be an open OS that you can just use if you want to.
armed thugs stop the travellers on a regular basis, and demand all sorts of things from them, at gun point. like removing clothing, penetration of clothing (tap search inside pants), stealing items like water bottles and knifes, or destroying property as here. in worst cases they can even enslave you (called arrest and inprisonment now, or rendition)
this is not much different from the middle ages, where bandits would stop travellers, and demand all sorts of things from them at the threat of physical violence. at least, at that time one could prepare and fight back.
1) They signed a treaty saying they would not do these things; they must be held accountable.
the did, and they did not breach the treaty - if you mean the nuclear proliferation treaty. Iran has not created nuclear weapons, and under this treaty, they do have the right to pursue nuclear technology for civilian use.
2) They *are* ruled by mad suicidal clerics; their stated goal is to dominate the world with Islam, they don't care who they kill or if they die trying.
oh:) unlike religious fanatics elsewhere:)
3) They have said multiple times that they would "wipe Israel off the map" if they had the means.
like other country have not said such things before - and sometimes have done it, too...
4) These newly disclosed enrichment facilities have nothing to do with the "peaceful Busher nuclear power station".
in our organization we simply employ a project manager as a SCRUM master, not a developer. this makes it easy for him to perform what a SCRUM master does, which is in fact a project management role.
developers are happy, as the SCRUM part of the day really takes 10 minutes of their time, and then they go back to work (or to lunch) right after the SCRUM meeting.
yes, the Toshiba machine, and then the Sony C1V family of 'PictureBooks' were also good precursors. I had one of those, and it was wonderful. 1kg in total, 1024x480 pixels widescreen, Transmeta Crusoe CPU, 12 hours of battery life with the jumbo battery.
The pricetag was high, though..
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but this is still bad news
I don't like companies that don't take their customers seriously
yeah, I had the same experience - the burning process fails, and then they want to charge you when they send the recovery DVD. costs you time & money.
which can do nothing else, but _delete_ everything from your HDD, and install a 20GB 'recovery partition', which is incidentally the boot partition as well - there is no way you can remove it and maintain a working system.
and yes, it does cause permanent data loss: it deletes all partitions from your drive at the beginning of the 'recovery' process
I ended up installing a 'standard' Windows install DVD - which works a lot better.
whereas if they just included the standard install media in the first place, it would have been much cheaper for everyone: me, their support staff, mailing, etc.
what 'fall' is this article talking about? seriously?
we're using Dells at our SME, and we don't really have problems with them. in 4.5 years, there was only one PC that had an minor issue, and that was fixed in our office by the Dell support technician, within a few days. all the machines still run, despite some of them being 4+ years old.
this article just doesn't make sense..
on the newsweek site. has this been disabled? :(
forgive me, but this doesn't seem more like wishful thinking on the 'designers' part, with a few nice drawings.
they haven't actually built a plane, to prove the fuel efficiency claim..
dreaming of more efficient planes & making nice drawings - kids do that all the time in elementary school...
buy it while you can afford to, and then dismantle it..
like how is this news? containers are capable of transporting physical hardware, including military hardware.
how would have thought of that?
it's quite sad and telling that the only use for research the Australian 'innovation minister' finds is how to destroy something.
in this light, I wonder what they have against 'scientific whale hunting' by the Japanese...
in house they already new who lost the phone, as prototypes are carefully controlled, and a simple inventory check must have revealed who has a missing phone. thus, gizmondo didn't expose any info here that wasn't already known inside Apple.
companies take such prototype control very seriously - and usually you're fired immediately for such a breach of your contract
around 2000, I knew of a guy who was fired by Nokia just for taking a prototype phone with him, outside of the office. this alone is reason enough - let alone taking it out in public, like in a bar, and then losing it...
so where is the pattern?
this post is just plain BS - Apple didn't 'create' the PC - the PC was created by Alan Kay.
Woz was pushed out by Jobs very early on, actually right after the Apple II. never since has he influenced Apple in any way.
Apple has always been a walled garden, built on hype & ignorance.
so that he found a copy, where can we download it? :)
I guess this is a great market opportunity - we need to establish a new airline, that does _not_ do any of the silly security checks. advantages would include:
- shorter check in time: about 15 mintes tops, vs. 60 minutes
- always on time, as there are no long queues to wait
- nice, friendly service - no invasion of privacy ever
- cheaper, as the retarted 'security' personell don't have to be paid for
there would be a calculated risk: every 10 years, a plane would be lost to some human activity. this is a lower level of risk than the 'usual' plane crash due to failure - which makes it still the safest way to travel
as I don't live there, I don't have to either.
I guess this will mean this islander nation is more of an islaneder by now. any UK person I'll meet, I can be sure they conceded in having their genitals exposed to some underpaid 'security' asshole
what a bunch of perverts...
I wonder why these companies need Google's approval to launch on these markets. After all, it's not Google but Motorola & Samsung launching these phones. Android is supposed to be an open OS that you can just use if you want to.
Is this some sort of Google censorship scheme?
one should not forget that Apple is partly owned by Microsoft - the 'sales and image war' they have between themselves is quite superficial
armed thugs stop the travellers on a regular basis, and demand all sorts of things from them, at gun point. like removing clothing, penetration of clothing (tap search inside pants), stealing items like water bottles and knifes, or destroying property as here. in worst cases they can even enslave you (called arrest and inprisonment now, or rendition)
this is not much different from the middle ages, where bandits would stop travellers, and demand all sorts of things from them at the threat of physical violence. at least, at that time one could prepare and fight back.
prevented her - like how?
I wonder why there be no ZFS in the Linux-based version - there's ZFS support in Linux via fuse...
1) They signed a treaty saying they would not do these things; they must be held accountable.
the did, and they did not breach the treaty - if you mean the nuclear proliferation treaty. Iran has not created nuclear weapons, and under this treaty, they do have the right to pursue nuclear technology for civilian use.
2) They *are* ruled by mad suicidal clerics; their stated goal is to dominate the world with Islam, they don't care who they kill or if they die trying.
oh :) unlike religious fanatics elsewhere :)
3) They have said multiple times that they would "wipe Israel off the map" if they had the means.
like other country have not said such things before - and sometimes have done it, too...
4) These newly disclosed enrichment facilities have nothing to do with the "peaceful Busher nuclear power station".
which was initially built by the US? :)
Is that enough for you?
from your ignorance - yes...
good to know for the un-initiated :)
I don't know about your android, on mine, I just say:
su -
and then approve that I really want to do that, and there I am...
yes, where's the code?
in our organization we simply employ a project manager as a SCRUM master, not a developer. this makes it easy for him to perform what a SCRUM master does, which is in fact a project management role. developers are happy, as the SCRUM part of the day really takes 10 minutes of their time, and then they go back to work (or to lunch) right after the SCRUM meeting.
yes, the Toshiba machine, and then the Sony C1V family of 'PictureBooks' were also good precursors. I had one of those, and it was wonderful. 1kg in total, 1024x480 pixels widescreen, Transmeta Crusoe CPU, 12 hours of battery life with the jumbo battery. The pricetag was high, though..