Don't buy a DELL!!! my gateway computer cost me $899, it's got a 120 GB HD, 1 gig ddr2, 15.4 ultrabright widescreen, 128 megs dedicated video and more. I've had no problems at all! or buy a mac!!
It may come as total shock to you, but I know plenty of people who are ready to scream "get a DELL! I've never had problems with it" with as much enthusiasm as you do for your Gateway box, and none of these testimonies prove anything at all about the quality of Dell or Gateway products.
I know it's fashionable here to bash corporate America and all, but not all companies are big bad corps with a will to shaft you out of your hard-earned money. I trust many big companies because they provide quality products and never tried to screw me, and I trust even more small companies, and if you think about it, I'm sure you do too.
That said though, Dell isn't in my white list, that's for sure. Michael Dell is in for the money, period...
threatened him with legal action if he tells people about the problem.
Why bother? they just have to tell him that, to fix the problem, he just has to touch these two tiny screws there with both hands and power on the machine. Problem solved!
Seriously though: where is 130V coming from (or is even used) in a laptop? I was under the impression that there's nothing high voltage in there, save for the LCD backlight perhaps?. So perhaps there's a chance that this is all a bunch of crap from some dude who's pissed off at Dell for some reason (and god knows there are plenty of reasons).
I have a pre-canned explanation of open vs closed
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Closed security: the Titanic is unsinkable - White Star line Open security: the Titanic's hull is made of brittle metal and thus isn't safe - Independent safety inspector
My dream job involves me, a yacht, two super-computers, and hookers. I'm sure the OLPC CTO has it good, but it can't possibly beat super-computing with hookers on a yacht.
My dream job involves a yacht. I'll leave you the computers and the hookers...
Exactly. The problem with web browsers is they were never meant to do any of the things we make them do today. They're essentially document viewers with the ability to retrieve documents remotely. Anything else added to it, especially things that need to maintain state consistency between pages or views, is a kludge and, as you say, a bandaid.
The way forward as I see it either a set of clearly defined standards for networked applications, with either the client taking the brunt of the workload, or the server, or a combination of both, or going back to thin clients and dumb terminals, which shouldn't work all that bad these days with broadband.
the problem I have with the James-Webb telescope is it isn't a *replacement* for Hubble. JW is a non-visible (infrared) scope, and won't produce the type of images Hubble has.
I'm certainly not a specialist, but while visible spectrum images are more stunning for the general public, maybe IR images are more useful to astronomers? What's more, now the Hubble is demised, perhaps it's possible to give the James Webb the option of imaging in other parts of the spectrum as well as IR as an afterthought.
keeping the masses 'in favor' of spending on space involves giving them some of the stuff they want, namely the magnificent pictures Hubble has been providing for years. If they can't see it, then they won't want to fund it as much.
I'm sorry but not everything can be driven by what people can see or appreciate. If it was, there wouldn't be mathematicians or theoretical physicians. I assume that if astronomers are now building a IR space telescope, it's because they have more use for IR signals (that can't be received on the ground) than visible light ones, and in this case the public should learn to appreciate research for what it is, even if they can't marvel at it on a large poster in the outhouse. In any case, I'm sure NASA has a PR department that'll do a great job colorizing IR images for public consumption.
Well now, I'm all for restraining Dubya from spending public money on pointless wars and redirecting that money to more fruitful purposes, but one should examine the cost of fixing Hubble in-situ yet again, or launching another one. Since the James Webb is already been worked on and is supposed to be put in orbit in 2013, I don't think Hubble is worth spending the estimated $1.3bn, unless scientists can make a damn good case for a speedy repair.
Don't be silly, it's not that simple: sure you can spread processes and threads across several cores, as opposed to using just one cpu to do it all, but what distributed computing is about is arranging the code in a single thread to take advantage of the presence of several cores. It's called parallelizing code, and it's an extremely tough branch of computer sciences.
Of course OSes can do load balancing on several cores with several processes, that's trivial... What's not is real parallel code.
Truly spoken like an ignorant retard. Or a troll, in which case I'm falling for it. This "POS" is one of the greatest astronomical instrument ever devised, and has yielded enough data for years of study to come. There's a reason why scientist want to keep it around.
This is bound to be counterproductive: how do you think people will react when they get one, two, three, dozens of unwanted messages? just look at how they react when they get unwanted phone calls...
I for one never buy anything from any company that practices obnoxious in-your-face advertisement, unless I have absolutely have no choice. Advertisement is bad enough, but I just can't stand when they try to shove it down my throat. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I'm actually a MS user and I don't have a rabid irrational hatred of them like many around here.
Neither do we. We have a perfectly rational rabid hatred of them.
Seriously though, that preamble was unnecessary: it's perfectly okay to be a happy MS user and not be so hot about installing a new product from them. But hot or not, one of these days you'll have to bite the bullet anyway.
It's more like a guy with a gun forcing you off the top of the mountain you're currently sitting on, back down to the valley, and up another mountain where the view is pretty much the same as the one you had from the first mountain.
I've been thinking for years, that this country is turning into a police state. When 9/11 happened, many people, including myself, saw a clear case of Reichstag burning. Whenener I posted this opinion on this here forum, I was modded as a troll.
This country is slowly turning into Nazi America. History repeats itself... Still think I'm trolling?
what the hell is the marketing department doing? Are they *that* ethically challenged?
As a matter of fact, yes they are. Corporations (and therefore their various departments), by definitions, only have in mind the interest of their shareholders, therefore if being unethical furthers their interest and a corporation can get away with it, they will be.
I suggest you watch a documentary called The Corporation: they very clearly demonstrate that the laws governing corporations make then sociopathic by nature.
the iPhone will, for a while at least, be more far more expensive than an iPod, for far less capacity. I won't be trading in my 30GB iPod any time soon.....unless it's for an 80GB.
Tell me: how easy is it to place a phone call from an iPod?
Regardless of the type of spam, there is spam because spammers make money out of it. To be a successful spammer, you need:
- A half-convincing scheme - Half-witted people gullible enough to be conned
To get rid of spam, get rid of the half-witted people. It shouldn't be that hard to educate computer users and explain to them that nobody will ever contact them to help them better their lives, just like nobody pop out of the blue and make their lives better in real-life. It's so simple even idiots can grasp the concept, and I fail to understand why nobody ever launched an educational campaign to explain this.
Once too few people respond to spam, then spamming isn't profitable anymore and spams disappear. The only true solution to the spam problem is a basic lesson in electronic social relationship.
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Don't buy a DELL!!! my gateway computer cost me $899, it's got a 120 GB HD, 1 gig ddr2, 15.4 ultrabright widescreen, 128 megs dedicated video and more. I've had no problems at all! or buy a mac!!
It may come as total shock to you, but I know plenty of people who are ready to scream "get a DELL! I've never had problems with it" with as much enthusiasm as you do for your Gateway box, and none of these testimonies prove anything at all about the quality of Dell or Gateway products.
I know it's fashionable here to bash corporate America and all, but not all companies are big bad corps with a will to shaft you out of your hard-earned money. I trust many big companies because they provide quality products and never tried to screw me, and I trust even more small companies, and if you think about it, I'm sure you do too.
That said though, Dell isn't in my white list, that's for sure. Michael Dell is in for the money, period...
I'm on one of those right now. i will be calling Dell ASAP to see if I am affected.
You need to call Dell to check if that painful feeling in your fingers is for real?
threatened him with legal action if he tells people about the problem.
Why bother? they just have to tell him that, to fix the problem, he just has to touch these two tiny screws there with both hands and power on the machine. Problem solved!
Seriously though: where is 130V coming from (or is even used) in a laptop? I was under the impression that there's nothing high voltage in there, save for the LCD backlight perhaps?. So perhaps there's a chance that this is all a bunch of crap from some dude who's pissed off at Dell for some reason (and god knows there are plenty of reasons).
Closed security: the Titanic is unsinkable - White Star line
Open security: the Titanic's hull is made of brittle metal and thus isn't safe - Independent safety inspector
My dream job involves me, a yacht, two super-computers, and hookers. I'm sure the OLPC CTO has it good, but it can't possibly beat super-computing with hookers on a yacht.
My dream job involves a yacht. I'll leave you the computers and the hookers...
Teenagers.
Exactly. The problem with web browsers is they were never meant to do any of the things we make them do today. They're essentially document viewers with the ability to retrieve documents remotely. Anything else added to it, especially things that need to maintain state consistency between pages or views, is a kludge and, as you say, a bandaid.
The way forward as I see it either a set of clearly defined standards for networked applications, with either the client taking the brunt of the workload, or the server, or a combination of both, or going back to thin clients and dumb terminals, which shouldn't work all that bad these days with broadband.
the problem I have with the James-Webb telescope is it isn't a *replacement* for Hubble. JW is a non-visible (infrared) scope, and won't produce the type of images Hubble has.
I'm certainly not a specialist, but while visible spectrum images are more stunning for the general public, maybe IR images are more useful to astronomers? What's more, now the Hubble is demised, perhaps it's possible to give the James Webb the option of imaging in other parts of the spectrum as well as IR as an afterthought.
keeping the masses 'in favor' of spending on space involves giving them some of the stuff they want, namely the magnificent pictures Hubble has been providing for years. If they can't see it, then they won't want to fund it as much.
I'm sorry but not everything can be driven by what people can see or appreciate. If it was, there wouldn't be mathematicians or theoretical physicians. I assume that if astronomers are now building a IR space telescope, it's because they have more use for IR signals (that can't be received on the ground) than visible light ones, and in this case the public should learn to appreciate research for what it is, even if they can't marvel at it on a large poster in the outhouse. In any case, I'm sure NASA has a PR department that'll do a great job colorizing IR images for public consumption.
Norwegian space telescopes stun easily...
while. I'd always post the latest Hubble image as my desktop wallpaper. I'm sure many other people did this too.
You mean this one?
Well now, I'm all for restraining Dubya from spending public money on pointless wars and redirecting that money to more fruitful purposes, but one should examine the cost of fixing Hubble in-situ yet again, or launching another one. Since the James Webb is already been worked on and is supposed to be put in orbit in 2013, I don't think Hubble is worth spending the estimated $1.3bn, unless scientists can make a damn good case for a speedy repair.
Don't be silly, it's not that simple: sure you can spread processes and threads across several cores, as opposed to using just one cpu to do it all, but what distributed computing is about is arranging the code in a single thread to take advantage of the presence of several cores. It's called parallelizing code, and it's an extremely tough branch of computer sciences.
Of course OSes can do load balancing on several cores with several processes, that's trivial... What's not is real parallel code.
Truly spoken like an ignorant retard. Or a troll, in which case I'm falling for it. This "POS" is one of the greatest astronomical instrument ever devised, and has yielded enough data for years of study to come. There's a reason why scientist want to keep it around.
And what did you say to him?
Yeah, we all know how effective CAN SPAM has been. My mailbox receives only 1000+ more spam emails a week now then before.
There's a reason it's not called CAN'T SPAM...
This is bound to be counterproductive: how do you think people will react when they get one, two, three, dozens of unwanted messages? just look at how they react when they get unwanted phone calls...
I for one never buy anything from any company that practices obnoxious in-your-face advertisement, unless I have absolutely have no choice. Advertisement is bad enough, but I just can't stand when they try to shove it down my throat. I'm sure I'm not alone.
It's called "dunking your donut in your morning coffee"
I'm actually a MS user and I don't have a rabid irrational hatred of them like many around here.
Neither do we. We have a perfectly rational rabid hatred of them.
Seriously though, that preamble was unnecessary: it's perfectly okay to be a happy MS user and not be so hot about installing a new product from them. But hot or not, one of these days you'll have to bite the bullet anyway.
It's more like a guy with a gun forcing you off the top of the mountain you're currently sitting on, back down to the valley, and up another mountain where the view is pretty much the same as the one you had from the first mountain.
It's a tradeoff really: what you can offload on the client is processing power and security issues you don't have to worry about for your servers too.
I've been thinking for years, that this country is turning into a police state. When 9/11 happened, many people, including myself, saw a clear case of Reichstag burning. Whenener I posted this opinion on this here forum, I was modded as a troll.
This country is slowly turning into Nazi America. History repeats itself... Still think I'm trolling?
what the hell is the marketing department doing? Are they *that* ethically challenged?
As a matter of fact, yes they are. Corporations (and therefore their various departments), by definitions, only have in mind the interest of their shareholders, therefore if being unethical furthers their interest and a corporation can get away with it, they will be.
I suggest you watch a documentary called The Corporation: they very clearly demonstrate that the laws governing corporations make then sociopathic by nature.
the iPhone will, for a while at least, be more far more expensive than an iPod, for far less capacity. I won't be trading in my 30GB iPod any time soon.....unless it's for an 80GB.
Tell me: how easy is it to place a phone call from an iPod?
Way to compare apples and oranges...
Regardless of the type of spam, there is spam because spammers make money out of it. To be a successful spammer, you need:
- A half-convincing scheme
- Half-witted people gullible enough to be conned
To get rid of spam, get rid of the half-witted people. It shouldn't be that hard to educate computer users and explain to them that nobody will ever contact them to help them better their lives, just like nobody pop out of the blue and make their lives better in real-life. It's so simple even idiots can grasp the concept, and I fail to understand why nobody ever launched an educational campaign to explain this.
Once too few people respond to spam, then spamming isn't profitable anymore and spams disappear. The only true solution to the spam problem is a basic lesson in electronic social relationship.