Take the MacBookPro. Pick it up in one hand along an edge. If you can't see the entire damn case flexing, I'll eat my UPS.
My R40e flexes when I pick it up in the corner. The keyboard doesn't work either. The Escape key and middle mouse button have broken beyond repair, replacement keyboards are big bucks, I'm on the lookout for a broken chasais. Keyboard flimsy compared with my 380ED too. That machine is a brick, solid as a rock, although not exactly light.
That said, we send thinkpads (t31/32/40 etc) out to Afghanistan and Iraq, but we have more problems with dells that are based in an office in London.
I'm not too happy with my r40e (ACPI doesnt work properly, for example, overheats etc), but that's comparing it to an older thinkpad. Compared to a modern "other" laptop and there's no competition.
Besides, I like nipples (I think I'm the only one in the world), and until anyone else produces a laptop with them, I'll stick with Thinkpads.
We are already bouncing ground based targeting lasers off of satelites.
Hitting a mirror on the moon with a fixed ground based laser was done in the 60s. Hitting it when you are on a plane with a velocity changing almost randomly in 3 dimensions isn't easy
(Hey, I've seen enough people plagiarize this piece over the years, I thought I might as well post it myself for old time's sake.)
Fair enough, maybe even get a couple of "Funny". What worries me if you've been modded "Informative". INFORMATIVE?! What the flying bannanas are these mods on? Do they really believe the moon is a gigantic searchlight?
No; it is realistic and correct. We have already had a significant impact on the composition of the atmosphere in terms of CO2 concentration - the main source of warming.
No, the main source of warming is the Sun. CO2 might trap the heat in the Earths atmosphere, but the bulk of that heat comes from the sun.
No; the Sun is actually slowly warming up.
Is that mankinds fault? Or something we can do something about? If the sun gets hotter, so do the planets.
I assume thats 272 lines (unless you have "narrowscreen", with an aspect ratio of arround 1.76:1 (16:9) with near-square pixels.
My TV is 576 visible lines, with arround 768 discernable samples horizontally. OK it's interlaced, but thats what we're used to, and there are over 3 times as many "pixels" as UMD. That's standard definition PAL TV.
What's with the tags? I dont see them (and they are enabled in my preferences, last time I checked. Just checked and I get "You are unable to read tags at this time.")
If you're going to make up an April Fools hoax at least make it remotely plausible. Only a total muppet could believe this story.
You obviously don't live in the UK. It's a bit of a stretch, but not that much less believable than doing away with parliament next and have ministers pass laws personally.
Which would give some facinating insight into the Calexico Mission School and Canadian Mathematical Society, and maybe even Chronic mountain sickness or Conversational Monitor System.
There is always one little thing that looks different in Mozilla than in IE
So? I bet it looks different to people with super-large fonts and black on white contrast, or screen readers (I suspect unintellegable for the later group). Still does the job though. You're designing a webpage, not a pamplet.
How do you cope with people with large resolution screens, or small windows on that screen? It looks different, but it's no biggy.
My Rule of thumb is whenever possible choose and use the #2 or #3 popular software. The #2 and #3 have enough features to be useful but gets less attention then #1. Use Linux or OS X instead of Windows, Choose Opera, Firefox, Safari over IE.
Since over 90% of visitors use IE, I have to design the site for IE.
Perhaps for your customers. Firefox use is higher at weekends (home computers, people have a choice rather than corporate lock in), and higher in more technological countries (Scandanavia for example)
Sadly for me, the UK is a microsoft bedfellow, but elsewhere in Europe you'll find about 1/3 use firefox in countries like Finland, Slovenia, and Germany. reference
Of course that's at the weekend when people have a choice.
If your site doesn't work in one of the dozens of standard browsers (will it work in IE7? Does it work in IE5?) you wont get many readers. I haven't been to the Odeon website in years for that reason, and of coruse that means I haven't been to the Odeon cinema either, but if you're happy throwing away 20% of your customers that's fine by me.
Whats wrong with designing a site that works in all browsers anyway? Use advanced features available in Firefox, Opera, Safari etc (all of which were last updated this century), and have a graceful fallback to browsers from the 90's like lynx and IE.
Not if it's bouncing off a satellite in geosynchronous orbit!
Which no internet links the average consumer will use does, it adds a 280ms hop. The main overcomable problem is the time taken to convert light to electricity, switch, and convert back to light. Switches that use mirrors and can switch light directly will save time.
strikes "a balance that's good for the music, good for the fans, and good for business.
Bullshit
Wow, with arguments like that you should be a politician, you could probably get an invasion of a country thats done nothing wrong to you through congress
AC:DC converters, as mentioned in the article aren't really that ineffiecient (article itself quotes 90%). AC:DC converters are infact really DC:DC convertors, they just have a rectifier circuit to convert the AC to high volatge DC for DC:DC conversion.
When I was a lad we didn't have new switch mode crap, we had half a ton of iron core to step down ac, then had a handful of diodes, and if we were very lucky we didn't have to make the capacitor ourselves. And we did it in the cold 27 hours a day. And we liked it.
Civil rights are not prevented in any way by gun control (that is a very good thing and we want it. Don't you dare criticise our right not to get shot).
CCTV has reduced crime a lot, and we don't like crime. It doesn't affect our civil rights at all.
Well at least some of the ones that abuse it get jailed
ID cards do not affect civil rights either at all.
Of course not. They are little pieces of plastic. The things that do affect civil rights are what happens when the massive central database is abused, by insiders or outsiders, or even sold off to dodgy criminals
Of course once you are required to carry them arround it will be easier to find out who is at a peaceful demonstration and quietly arrest them a few weeks later
America's problems are much worse, and in fact the UK is ahead of America in civil rights and such. We are just both behind places like Sweden.
Well Duh
Labour are not fascist. Conservatives are not for civil liberties either; they are just not against them.
Torys are against things that Labour are for. Labour are for Spin, PR, the credit economy, "Being seen to do something", Pleasing George, Pleasing Europe, or just Pleasing campaign contributers
I think Americas problems are actually much worse than the UKs, and we are certainally not doing worse things. You are just blind of the problems of America and uninformed about the problems of the UK if you think that.
Yup. America has a lot of problems, however it seems you're blind to the UK's problems, including unprecedent consumer debt, overvalued housing market, london-centric population, shaky stock market, collapsing pensions etc.
Slashdot Mirror
I still boycott DVD's, Long live VHS!
Take the MacBookPro. Pick it up in one hand along an edge. If you can't see the entire damn case flexing, I'll eat my UPS.
My R40e flexes when I pick it up in the corner. The keyboard doesn't work either. The Escape key and middle mouse button have broken beyond repair, replacement keyboards are big bucks, I'm on the lookout for a broken chasais. Keyboard flimsy compared with my 380ED too. That machine is a brick, solid as a rock, although not exactly light.
That said, we send thinkpads (t31/32/40 etc) out to Afghanistan and Iraq, but we have more problems with dells that are based in an office in London.
I'm not too happy with my r40e (ACPI doesnt work properly, for example, overheats etc), but that's comparing it to an older thinkpad. Compared to a modern "other" laptop and there's no competition.
Besides, I like nipples (I think I'm the only one in the world), and until anyone else produces a laptop with them, I'll stick with Thinkpads.
We are already bouncing ground based targeting lasers off of satelites.
Hitting a mirror on the moon with a fixed ground based laser was done in the 60s. Hitting it when you are on a plane with a velocity changing almost randomly in 3 dimensions isn't easy
(Hey, I've seen enough people plagiarize this piece over the years, I thought I might as well post it myself for old time's sake.)
Fair enough, maybe even get a couple of "Funny". What worries me if you've been modded "Informative". INFORMATIVE?! What the flying bannanas are these mods on? Do they really believe the moon is a gigantic searchlight?
No; it is realistic and correct. We have already had a significant impact on the composition of the atmosphere in terms of CO2 concentration - the main source of warming.
No, the main source of warming is the Sun. CO2 might trap the heat in the Earths atmosphere, but the bulk of that heat comes from the sun.
No; the Sun is actually slowly warming up.
Is that mankinds fault? Or something we can do something about? If the sun gets hotter, so do the planets.
why he thinks people should address Linux distribution as GNU/Linux.
It never gets old does it?
Resolution is 480x272 progressive
I assume thats 272 lines (unless you have "narrowscreen", with an aspect ratio of arround 1.76:1 (16:9) with near-square pixels.
My TV is 576 visible lines, with arround 768 discernable samples horizontally. OK it's interlaced, but thats what we're used to, and there are over 3 times as many "pixels" as UMD. That's standard definition PAL TV.
What's with the tags? I dont see them (and they are enabled in my preferences, last time I checked. Just checked and I get "You are unable to read tags at this time.")
If you're going to make up an April Fools hoax at least make it remotely plausible. Only a total muppet could believe this story.
You obviously don't live in the UK. It's a bit of a stretch, but not that much less believable than doing away with parliament next and have ministers pass laws personally.
This has to be another april fools joke.....
You'd think, but the way things are at the moment I did have to check, I don't put anything past the current government.
Which would then lead you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS
Which would give some facinating insight into the Calexico Mission School and Canadian Mathematical Society, and maybe even Chronic mountain sickness or Conversational Monitor System.
A better link would be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
There is always one little thing that looks different in Mozilla than in IE
So? I bet it looks different to people with super-large fonts and black on white contrast, or screen readers (I suspect unintellegable for the later group). Still does the job though. You're designing a webpage, not a pamplet.
How do you cope with people with large resolution screens, or small windows on that screen? It looks different, but it's no biggy.
My Rule of thumb is whenever possible choose and use the #2 or #3 popular software. The #2 and #3 have enough features to be useful but gets less attention then #1. Use Linux or OS X instead of Windows, Choose Opera, Firefox, Safari over IE.
Instead of Apache use IIS
Since over 90% of visitors use IE, I have to design the site for IE.
Perhaps for your customers. Firefox use is higher at weekends (home computers, people have a choice rather than corporate lock in), and higher in more technological countries (Scandanavia for example)
Sadly for me, the UK is a microsoft bedfellow, but elsewhere in Europe you'll find about 1/3 use firefox in countries like Finland, Slovenia, and Germany.
reference
Of course that's at the weekend when people have a choice.
If your site doesn't work in one of the dozens of standard browsers (will it work in IE7? Does it work in IE5?) you wont get many readers. I haven't been to the Odeon website in years for that reason, and of coruse that means I haven't been to the Odeon cinema either, but if you're happy throwing away 20% of your customers that's fine by me.
Whats wrong with designing a site that works in all browsers anyway? Use advanced features available in Firefox, Opera, Safari etc (all of which were last updated this century), and have a graceful fallback to browsers from the 90's like lynx and IE.
Not if it's bouncing off a satellite in geosynchronous orbit!
Which no internet links the average consumer will use does, it adds a 280ms hop. The main overcomable problem is the time taken to convert light to electricity, switch, and convert back to light. Switches that use mirrors and can switch light directly will save time.
Anybody got a mirror?
Yes, I use it to shave
What do you expect? It's The Sun, the most notoriously bad newspaper in the world that only gets sails because of the tits shown on page three.
What a cool boat, with a pair of knockers to propel it!
Wow, with arguments like that you should be a politician, you could probably get an invasion of a country thats done nothing wrong to you through congress
AC:DC converters, as mentioned in the article aren't really that ineffiecient (article itself quotes 90%). AC:DC converters are infact really DC:DC convertors, they just have a rectifier circuit to convert the AC to high volatge DC for DC:DC conversion.
When I was a lad we didn't have new switch mode crap, we had half a ton of iron core to step down ac, then had a handful of diodes, and if we were very lucky we didn't have to make the capacitor ourselves. And we did it in the cold 27 hours a day. And we liked it.
I have never been infected
How do you know?
BTW: If you want to survive the next galactical gravity fabric quake, we suggest you hurry up your nanotechnology advances...
:(
BTW: Yes, I'm running wXP.
Great, Microsoft have a monopoly in outer space too
Predictions of "4-5 years away" never are
In 4-5 years the year will be in 2010
In 4-5 years there will not be enough pr0n to satisfy
In 4-5 years there will still be PHBs
How dare you slander my browser of choice
Civil rights are not prevented in any way by gun control (that is a very good thing and we want it. Don't you dare criticise our right not to get shot).
I take it that The main story of today didn't happen then?
CCTV has reduced crime a lot, and we don't like crime. It doesn't affect our civil rights at all.
Well at least some of the ones that abuse it get jailed
ID cards do not affect civil rights either at all.
Of course not. They are little pieces of plastic. The things that do affect civil rights are what happens when the massive central database is abused, by insiders or outsiders, or even sold off to dodgy criminals
Of course once you are required to carry them arround it will be easier to find out who is at a peaceful demonstration and quietly arrest them a few weeks later
America's problems are much worse, and in fact the UK is ahead of America in civil rights and such. We are just both behind places like Sweden.
Well Duh
Labour are not fascist. Conservatives are not for civil liberties either; they are just not against them.
Torys are against things that Labour are for. Labour are for Spin, PR, the credit economy, "Being seen to do something", Pleasing George, Pleasing Europe, or just Pleasing campaign contributers
I think Americas problems are actually much worse than the UKs, and we are certainally not doing worse things. You are just blind of the problems of America and uninformed about the problems of the UK if you think that.
Yup. America has a lot of problems, however it seems you're blind to the UK's problems, including unprecedent consumer debt, overvalued housing market, london-centric population, shaky stock market, collapsing pensions etc.
Mind that planet!
What planet?
SPLAT
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Yes I make mistakes. Don't we all?
I'd keep that off your resume if I were you