Too right. The last two times I've been laptop shopping, the breakdown is as follows: - Dell - feels like plastic bricks, unless you spend a fortune, then they feel like expensive heavy bricks - Sony - neat but expensive - Tohshiba - neat but even more expensive - IBM - expensive and ugly - Asus - very economical, more features that a nuclear powerstation - BenQ - as above
You should try travelling to Asia [or Europe if you live in Asia]
The PIN keyboards on their ATMs are flipped [same style as a phone]. This is a fantastic 'weclome to HongKong / BKK / wherever' when you stumble off a plane jetlagged, key in your pin in the same pattern that you usually do, and then the machine eats your card;)
I have troubles seeing how chargebacks are a good thing. I understand the mentality behind them: If there was a fraudulent charge, it can be revesed without argument.
The problem is, people love charging back for things they just don't want to pay for. Online shopping, online pr0n [this is a big one] etc.
Merchants have to operate within incredibly strict chargback %: From memory, MC & VISA are 1% for adult transactions, meaning that out of every 100 transactions, if one jackass decides to chargeback, your entire merchant account is lost.
That type of risk results in higher charges, the growth of unholy blacklists, and the blacklisting of countries.
The motivation for security should be with the vendor? Rubbish - the motivation for security should be VISA and MC. The motivation for the vendor is to make a living.
Going slightly tangental - The thing about surveilance cameras is that it's impossible to surveil them all.
Think about it - you could have ubiquitous surveilance, but you're never going to be able to monitor each camera. The more you add, the larger the problem gets. The data arguably only becomes relevant and useful when a crime has been reported / caught / noticed - digging the data stream becomes useful.
Until such a time when each and every camera can read your mind, or you KNOW it's being watched, odds are with you that what you do will be unnoticed, nefarious or otherwise.
I see your point. Devil's advocate: 1- Is it better that it was never found at all? 2- Can you argue that it would have never been recovered by a museum etc 3- Money is always a good motivation for people to find things. 4- Are you sure they're going to 'destroy the evidence' to feed their greed? So far it seems they've been pretty methodical and patient to go by the book. Perhaps we'll all be pleasantly surprised.
The coolest thing about HalfLife and HalfLife2 was the freedom that you were given. You'd get dumped in a complex or a lab, and you had to work out what to do, and where to go.
For me, at least, HL2:EP1 - there were no alternatives. The maps had a very 'closed' feel to them, there was only one way to go, only one way to do things - it felt very, very static.
I think that you miss the point of the article - it's talking about timeframe, not whether you have the minerals to backup your statements. For example - no matter how brilliant you may have thought you were back then, would you stand behind comments you made online when you were 16?
At the time of posting, sure - but when you're 30? Definitely not.
The problem is, if you're applying for job X and you're being judge by things that were said decades ago, because some zealot is proud of his googling ability.
If all your words and actions were stored endlessly, noone would ever get a job, etc.
I'm with you on this one. A friend and I have banned ourselves and each other from playing TTD, simply because It's Too Much Fun, and It Takes Up Too Much Time - until we both retire.
Here's hoping OpenTTD and computers of some description are around in a few decades.
Photos are down, so I can't confirm this is the same item in question, but a few months ago someone with the same problem [video failing due to the solder-ball seating] - had a remarkable fix.. BURN IT WITH FIRE - and it worked again!
I purposely went and bought the most expensive one[s] I could find to try to avoid any potential problems, perhaps I just got a bad brand / type.
The ones I have don't flicker, but have a 30-40 second warm up period, which would be fine if it was an office environment - but in a house - you generally stumble into a room, and flick on the light to avoid tripping over shit, but with the CFLs, you get to vaguely see what you just stubbed your toe on...
..find these energy efficent bulbs really irritating? I'm all for saving the environment, but I hate the fact the bulbs have a 'warm up' period, and whatever 'colour' bulb I get, it still throws a nasty fluro hue.
I've seen three or four movies w/ polarised projection, using dual projectors. While we are able to perceive 3D, it's not something we're really used to, and perhaps that's where the headaches are induced. I know every time I see one of these films, I end up taking the glasses off.
Slashdot Mirror
Reminds me of the tshirt: Be nice to me or I will replace you with a very small bash script.
www.mp3sugar.com
I would have also accepted:
Don't you worry about fingerprints! Let ME worry about fingerprints!
Or
Fingerprints? FINGERPRINTS?!
This also does the trick!
- Cameras/dp/B00009XVA3/ref=sr_1_1/104-4601399-93479 55?ie=UTF8&s=photo&qid=1181645140&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-TC80N3-Remote-Control
Too right.
The last two times I've been laptop shopping, the breakdown is as follows:
- Dell - feels like plastic bricks, unless you spend a fortune, then they feel like expensive heavy bricks
- Sony - neat but expensive
- Tohshiba - neat but even more expensive
- IBM - expensive and ugly
- Asus - very economical, more features that a nuclear powerstation
- BenQ - as above
I blame my BenQ distro!
You should try travelling to Asia [or Europe if you live in Asia]
;)
The PIN keyboards on their ATMs are flipped [same style as a phone].
This is a fantastic 'weclome to HongKong / BKK / wherever' when you stumble off a plane jetlagged, key in your pin in the same pattern that you usually do, and then the machine eats your card
Sounds like you need to invest in a paperclip. ;)
But it does sound like you're having fun with your other 'method'..
Only if you tell it to. That is *not* the default configuration.
What? No - it reboots your computer without asking.
I have troubles seeing how chargebacks are a good thing.
I understand the mentality behind them: If there was a fraudulent charge, it can be revesed without argument.
The problem is, people love charging back for things they just don't want to pay for.
Online shopping, online pr0n [this is a big one] etc.
Merchants have to operate within incredibly strict chargback %: From memory, MC & VISA are 1% for adult transactions, meaning that out of every 100 transactions, if one jackass decides to chargeback, your entire merchant account is lost.
That type of risk results in higher charges, the growth of unholy blacklists, and the blacklisting of countries.
The motivation for security should be with the vendor? Rubbish - the motivation for security should be VISA and MC. The motivation for the vendor is to make a living.
Out with the old - and in the the new - http://www.mp3sugar.com
Only downer with this is that all music is 256kbps
Going slightly tangental -
The thing about surveilance cameras is that it's impossible to surveil them all.
Think about it - you could have ubiquitous surveilance, but you're never going to be able to monitor each camera. The more you add, the larger the problem gets.
The data arguably only becomes relevant and useful when a crime has been reported / caught / noticed - digging the data stream becomes useful.
Until such a time when each and every camera can read your mind, or you KNOW it's being watched, odds are with you that what you do will be unnoticed, nefarious or otherwise.
I see your point. Devil's advocate:
1- Is it better that it was never found at all?
2- Can you argue that it would have never been recovered by a museum etc
3- Money is always a good motivation for people to find things.
4- Are you sure they're going to 'destroy the evidence' to feed their greed?
So far it seems they've been pretty methodical and patient to go by the book. Perhaps we'll all be pleasantly surprised.
..EP2 will be much better than EP1.
The coolest thing about HalfLife and HalfLife2 was the freedom that you were given. You'd get dumped in a complex or a lab, and you had to work out what to do, and where to go.
For me, at least, HL2:EP1 - there were no alternatives. The maps had a very 'closed' feel to them, there was only one way to go, only one way to do things - it felt very, very static.
Anyone else?
I think that you miss the point of the article - it's talking about timeframe, not whether you have the minerals to backup your statements. For example - no matter how brilliant you may have thought you were back then, would you stand behind comments you made online when you were 16?
At the time of posting, sure - but when you're 30? Definitely not.
The problem is, if you're applying for job X and you're being judge by things that were said decades ago, because some zealot is proud of his googling ability.
If all your words and actions were stored endlessly, noone would ever get a job, etc.
Grim Fandango - best soundtrack... ever.
It almost goes down as my favourite album ever as well.
They released it free, check w/ google.
I'm with you on this one.
A friend and I have banned ourselves and each other from playing TTD, simply because It's Too Much Fun, and It Takes Up Too Much Time - until we both retire.
Here's hoping OpenTTD and computers of some description are around in a few decades.
You're right.
Two words: David Hicks.
Photos are down, so I can't confirm this is the same item in question, but a few months ago someone with the same problem [video failing due to the solder-ball seating] - had a remarkable fix.. BURN IT WITH FIRE - and it worked again!
e te-ibook-logic-board-repair
http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/726/diy-obsol
I purposely went and bought the most expensive one[s] I could find to try to avoid any potential problems, perhaps I just got a bad brand / type.
The ones I have don't flicker, but have a 30-40 second warm up period, which would be fine if it was an office environment - but in a house - you generally stumble into a room, and flick on the light to avoid tripping over shit, but with the CFLs, you get to vaguely see what you just stubbed your toe on...
..find these energy efficent bulbs really irritating?
I'm all for saving the environment, but I hate the fact the bulbs have a 'warm up' period, and whatever 'colour' bulb I get, it still throws a nasty fluro hue.
Is that just me?
I've seen three or four movies w/ polarised projection, using dual projectors.
While we are able to perceive 3D, it's not something we're really used to, and perhaps that's where the headaches are induced. I know every time I see one of these films, I end up taking the glasses off.
..the polarized glasses, that produce a so-so effect that induces migranes? It's been around for years. It's always been pretty average.
Would that make passports get that new hardware smell?
I'd be hooked.
I tryyyyyyy Meeesta Fawlty! I trrrrrrry!