I'm not sure precisely what you need to do with your computer, I can do anything and everything I could do on a PC on my Mac computers, and I am more stylish to boot. =D
The EeePCs are pretty resilient, I've had one for several years now, granted I don't use it for much now, but it did indeed take a hefty beating.
I am definitely looking at the Dell pin connectors, but also HP/Compaq, Sony and Toshiba. Perhaps it was because I was known for being willing to actually take apart and repair a laptop at the motherboard component level that I saw so many of these, but it is very common, I'm sure someone has worked support for Dell or others could comment.
Micro USB feels fragile to me, I've seen people who have hosed their phones (somehow... you know how users can be). I've seen users hose the 30 pin connector on their iPhones too, same deal. All I'm saying is they made a connector that is better than the old one, maybe not a ton better, but some better - you can't argue it's not progress.
Glad you phone still works! It's ok to pretend like micro USB connectors are invincible. I've personally had the displeasure of telling several people their phones are useless pieces of junk because their phone fell off a desk hooked to power and it broke the connector, or some other story.
You can't argue a point proved invalid by my own eyes. Anything a company can do to make something better even if they have to "think outside the box" is forward progress. Why do people have such a hard time getting past that. If it were Motorola with a new connector type that increased potential charging power and made it easier to plug in people would sing its praises.
Speaking of Motorola. If the micro USB charging mechanism is so awesome why can't you charge a Xoom with it? You have to use the provided pole style power adaptor that is ridiculously fragile... Seriously.
The article suggests the safety of using a micro USB connector for higher load devices is the issue, not necessarily the gain of 10%. At what percentage does it become ok? 30%? 50%?
The micro USB Connector is a piece of junk, why oh WHY would you want to curse MORE devices with it? Seriously.
Just because it is a "Standard" doesn't make it the best connector for the job.
Let's take for example the "Standard" laptop connector (You know, the round one with the pin in the middle that constantly breaks it's connector free from the motherboard of the laptop), vs the magnetic laptop connector on the MacBook line. Would you argue that the infinitely more fragile "Standard" laptop adapter is in *any* way better than the magnetic connector? It is not, not in the slightest. I *happily* pay more for the power adaptor knowing that it is going to be far better in the long run. I don't have to treat it gingerly, or make plugging it or unplugging it some sort of slow ritual. It just works, and it works well.
I pride myself in taking some of my precious time to mess with scammers that call. My co-workers get a kick out of it when I get one, I just go wherever my mind leads me and usually get hung up on.
I love the typo in the pasted fake error message from the command prompt.
A sound and rational statement. I wasn't expecting to see one of those in these commends =D
That's what I do, I say I am going to buy it as soon as it comes out, but my conscience always wears me down and I wind up waiting... just... in... case...
So... we had a devil of a time spending tons of money to patch a teensie oil leak under water... and now we want to potentially make more things leak worse intentionally?
Have we lost our minds completely... ?
I mean, I've lost mine but I didn't realize that everyone else had as well.
That thinks that the best way to combat these stiff penalties is to *not steal* the software/music/movies?
For the love of all things good... what sort of lot will get all bent out of proportion because someone made a law with a stiff penalty to combat something that is morally and ethically wrong?
"They made the penalty for murder... DEATH.. WTF?"
Obviously someone did as a law has been passed to stop the practice.
There is that side of the coin, then there is the OVERWHELMINGLY large amount of the populous (spanning all demographics) that lives off of food stamps, welfare, continually popping out large numbers of children because they can't seem to grasp simple contraceptive concepts and they are P E R F E C T L Y content with that. You have these people to thank for not having enough food for your kids, because if they weren't abusing the horse poop out of the system, the system would be able to support those whom it is supposed to support - people who have been out of work for a year and need a leg up until the rest of the country gets their head out of their asses and stops exporting all of our jobs to another country.
All of *that* aside, yes, on top of everything else that has been done to you, don't let them steal your private life too. Write a congressman and tell them you don't like your privacy being invaded as a requirement for employment.... Modern day 'revolution' isn't taking up arms and fighting 'the man' it is taking up a cause and telling them why you believe what you do.
If you just take it, they'll think you like it and keep feeding it to you.
The "Mommy and Daddy's basement" cliche is so overused... I've never known anyone to actually live in a basement underneath their parents. I'm sure there are people that do, but I bet the ratio is much smaller than people seem to imply.
I work for a living and have been since I was 16... I've been unemployed from time to time, and if chunking out my personal passwords for ANYTHING was required I would have walked any job or interview.
I feel for the jobless that truly want jobs, and applaud the decision by the state to keep employers from intruding on their personal lives. However selling your soul to the devil for a job is beyond my reasonable thought process. Employers preying on people's desperation to intrude on their private lives is also beyond my reasonable thought process.
So me, sitting here in this chair that I paid for myself that is decidedly NOT in my parents basement is saying that you can't give in to corporate privacy invasion because if you do they will keep doing it and the problem will get m u c h w o r s e.
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From this is this:
You mean to tell me in 15 years we'll still have these silly patent squabbles?
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I'm not sure precisely what you need to do with your computer, I can do anything and everything I could do on a PC on my Mac computers, and I am more stylish to boot. =D
Bah! Beat me to it!
Has ADD
The EeePCs are pretty resilient, I've had one for several years now, granted I don't use it for much now, but it did indeed take a hefty beating.
I am definitely looking at the Dell pin connectors, but also HP/Compaq, Sony and Toshiba. Perhaps it was because I was known for being willing to actually take apart and repair a laptop at the motherboard component level that I saw so many of these, but it is very common, I'm sure someone has worked support for Dell or others could comment.
Micro USB feels fragile to me, I've seen people who have hosed their phones (somehow... you know how users can be). I've seen users hose the 30 pin connector on their iPhones too, same deal. All I'm saying is they made a connector that is better than the old one, maybe not a ton better, but some better - you can't argue it's not progress.
I thought it stood for people eating tasty animals.
Why do they care?
Lol.
Obviously you have never worked in PC repair.
Glad you phone still works! It's ok to pretend like micro USB connectors are invincible. I've personally had the displeasure of telling several people their phones are useless pieces of junk because their phone fell off a desk hooked to power and it broke the connector, or some other story.
You can't argue a point proved invalid by my own eyes. Anything a company can do to make something better even if they have to "think outside the box" is forward progress. Why do people have such a hard time getting past that. If it were Motorola with a new connector type that increased potential charging power and made it easier to plug in people would sing its praises.
Speaking of Motorola. If the micro USB charging mechanism is so awesome why can't you charge a Xoom with it? You have to use the provided pole style power adaptor that is ridiculously fragile... Seriously.
The article suggests the safety of using a micro USB connector for higher load devices is the issue, not necessarily the gain of 10%. At what percentage does it become ok? 30%? 50%?
The micro USB Connector is a piece of junk, why oh WHY would you want to curse MORE devices with it? Seriously.
Just because it is a "Standard" doesn't make it the best connector for the job.
Let's take for example the "Standard" laptop connector (You know, the round one with the pin in the middle that constantly breaks it's connector free from the motherboard of the laptop), vs the magnetic laptop connector on the MacBook line. Would you argue that the infinitely more fragile "Standard" laptop adapter is in *any* way better than the magnetic connector? It is not, not in the slightest. I *happily* pay more for the power adaptor knowing that it is going to be far better in the long run. I don't have to treat it gingerly, or make plugging it or unplugging it some sort of slow ritual. It just works, and it works well.
If you choose IE you loose automatically correct?
But reading the 9/11 page has rocked my soul with floods of memories from that day. I have no words.
Keep it up slashdot, the internet needs you.
Brilliant.
I pride myself in taking some of my precious time to mess with scammers that call. My co-workers get a kick out of it when I get one, I just go wherever my mind leads me and usually get hung up on.
I love the typo in the pasted fake error message from the command prompt.
Hey, at least they have jobs... (or had)
When you try to bid against people who actually have money...
I say allow the Open community to use them to create an Open Space Exploration Foundation....
A sound and rational statement. I wasn't expecting to see one of those in these commends =D
That's what I do, I say I am going to buy it as soon as it comes out, but my conscience always wears me down and I wind up waiting... just... in... case...
Well said!
And the Apple Haters who need to feed from time to time...
So... we had a devil of a time spending tons of money to patch a teensie oil leak under water... and now we want to potentially make more things leak worse intentionally?
Have we lost our minds completely... ?
I mean, I've lost mine but I didn't realize that everyone else had as well.
So apparently people don't get when people are actually being serious.
I don't see how I'm baiting flame here, I am speaking my O P I N I O N - which is D O N O T S T E A L S T U F F.
Kids with the mod points go back to your torrents... nothing to see here, you wouldn't listen anyway.
No, not trolling, perhaps I could have put "insert crime and harsh punishment here".
Slashdot, I love you.
That thinks that the best way to combat these stiff penalties is to *not steal* the software/music/movies?
For the love of all things good... what sort of lot will get all bent out of proportion because someone made a law with a stiff penalty to combat something that is morally and ethically wrong?
"They made the penalty for murder... DEATH.. WTF?"
Sounds like a lifetime movie to me.
Ba dun tss!
All the nutcases will be busting out the Kool-aid
Obviously someone did as a law has been passed to stop the practice.
There is that side of the coin, then there is the OVERWHELMINGLY large amount of the populous (spanning all demographics) that lives off of food stamps, welfare, continually popping out large numbers of children because they can't seem to grasp simple contraceptive concepts and they are P E R F E C T L Y content with that. You have these people to thank for not having enough food for your kids, because if they weren't abusing the horse poop out of the system, the system would be able to support those whom it is supposed to support - people who have been out of work for a year and need a leg up until the rest of the country gets their head out of their asses and stops exporting all of our jobs to another country.
All of *that* aside, yes, on top of everything else that has been done to you, don't let them steal your private life too. Write a congressman and tell them you don't like your privacy being invaded as a requirement for employment.... Modern day 'revolution' isn't taking up arms and fighting 'the man' it is taking up a cause and telling them why you believe what you do.
If you just take it, they'll think you like it and keep feeding it to you.
The "Mommy and Daddy's basement" cliche is so overused... I've never known anyone to actually live in a basement underneath their parents. I'm sure there are people that do, but I bet the ratio is much smaller than people seem to imply.
I work for a living and have been since I was 16... I've been unemployed from time to time, and if chunking out my personal passwords for ANYTHING was required I would have walked any job or interview.
I feel for the jobless that truly want jobs, and applaud the decision by the state to keep employers from intruding on their personal lives. However selling your soul to the devil for a job is beyond my reasonable thought process. Employers preying on people's desperation to intrude on their private lives is also beyond my reasonable thought process.
So me, sitting here in this chair that I paid for myself that is decidedly NOT in my parents basement is saying that you can't give in to corporate privacy invasion because if you do they will keep doing it and the problem will get m u c h w o r s e.