That sucks. Isn't the whole point to be able to determine if the thing is a bomb? Can a bomb as small as an iPhone/Blackberry/Trio even do any damage to anyone who's not talking on it at the time?
To date, abnormal failure rates with systems other than certain notebook systems have not been seen.
Another educated estimate says about half the parts are potentially affected
So is it certain notebooks or half of all GPUs Nvidia shipped during a 16 month period? And where did the Enquirer get their "educated estimate?" They then use this "estimate" to assume a failure rate that goes in the divisor part of a rather nasty equation to come up with an outrageous recall estimate, even though there is no recall. Conclusion: Nvidia is going bankrupt. This is journalism?
He was wrong to begin with. Powerpoint merely enables people with either marginal skills or marginal effort to create a presentation. There's no reason to believe that presentation would be any more insightful on a chalkboard. It would, however, last longer. So bring on the slides, I say.
What I want to know is what's something you can make presentations with that you don't have to take out of your bag at airport security. For me that's the worst part of "lugging around" a laptop. Not only does it take too long, I always worry that somewhere in the process the laptop is going to get owned. Even as a backup, something that qualifies as not-enough-of-a-laptop by TSA standards would be nice.
You mean like they should have a whole different ratings system, wherein interactive acts of violence gains you higher ratings more quickly than passive scenes in a TV show?
The very internal dissent that China tries to suppress contradicts your idea of a populace satisfied with their government. Corruption is a factor in all governments that China does not deny. In fact, they actively combat it. Besides, I wouldn't call the government corrupt as a whole, just authoritarian and heavy handed.
Clearly the Chinese government does care what outsiders think. Much is revealed both by their attempts to clean up Beijing and to the attempts to keep foreign journalists in the dark about strife elsewhere.
I read the complaint. They're suing for trademark and copyright. I'm still unclear as to whether the copyright complaint was based on their hosting of the word list/dictionary only or something else.
Symptoms? The fan would start, stop, and restart. No output of any kind ever. DOA. I will say, it could have been the CPU. I tend to think of Intel as the less likely culprit, but anything is possible. I didn't have another compatible CPU to test with. I RMAed the CPU and the mobo with no trouble, but they were out of the mobo. Hence the A-bit.
Well post-installation you are right. Whenever you change certain kinds of hardware though there's pretty decent odds you're going to have to play with some config file. Video and network cards mostly. Anything with proprietary drivers is going to be a PITA. Ubuntu seems to have made the most progress on this front.
Windows has its fair share of driver trouble too. I think the difference is that OEMs preinstall windows and make sure stuff at least sorta works. If Linux was shipped this way, you probably wouldn't need to edit.confs often.
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I never got the pilgrim angle. Sure they were Puritans, but most of us aren't descended from them. So the tendency must come from somewhere else.
That sucks. Isn't the whole point to be able to determine if the thing is a bomb? Can a bomb as small as an iPhone/Blackberry/Trio even do any damage to anyone who's not talking on it at the time?
To date, abnormal failure rates with systems other than certain notebook systems have not been seen.
Another educated estimate says about half the parts are potentially affected
So is it certain notebooks or half of all GPUs Nvidia shipped during a 16 month period? And where did the Enquirer get their "educated estimate?" They then use this "estimate" to assume a failure rate that goes in the divisor part of a rather nasty equation to come up with an outrageous recall estimate, even though there is no recall. Conclusion: Nvidia is going bankrupt. This is journalism?
He was wrong to begin with. Powerpoint merely enables people with either marginal skills or marginal effort to create a presentation. There's no reason to believe that presentation would be any more insightful on a chalkboard. It would, however, last longer. So bring on the slides, I say.
What I want to know is what's something you can make presentations with that you don't have to take out of your bag at airport security. For me that's the worst part of "lugging around" a laptop. Not only does it take too long, I always worry that somewhere in the process the laptop is going to get owned. Even as a backup, something that qualifies as not-enough-of-a-laptop by TSA standards would be nice.
I don't believe most IPSs will allow you to spoof a random IP and start sending stuff.
You mean like they should have a whole different ratings system, wherein interactive acts of violence gains you higher ratings more quickly than passive scenes in a TV show?
Well if you survive getting shot at or worse getting shot you're fit (enough). Nothing to upset Darwin at all.
The very internal dissent that China tries to suppress contradicts your idea of a populace satisfied with their government. Corruption is a factor in all governments that China does not deny. In fact, they actively combat it. Besides, I wouldn't call the government corrupt as a whole, just authoritarian and heavy handed.
Clearly the Chinese government does care what outsiders think. Much is revealed both by their attempts to clean up Beijing and to the attempts to keep foreign journalists in the dark about strife elsewhere.
It's not self defence to make sure they don't come back?
I read the complaint. They're suing for trademark and copyright. I'm still unclear as to whether the copyright complaint was based on their hosting of the word list/dictionary only or something else.
There are some MIPS Linux distros out there, including gentoo and debian. I imagine this thing ships with a distro as well.
Yeah but kids can take laptops home, which is why various projects are piloting them.
In my experience flash will eat 100% time on any CPU.
I have had positive experiences with JIRA. The integration with svn works fine.
Really? Vista never actually reboots for me unless I tell it to. It will nag. XP does however when updates get installed and you're not Administrator.
I kept the PSU, and another mobo/CPU combo works to this day.
Symptoms? The fan would start, stop, and restart. No output of any kind ever. DOA. I will say, it could have been the CPU. I tend to think of Intel as the less likely culprit, but anything is possible. I didn't have another compatible CPU to test with. I RMAed the CPU and the mobo with no trouble, but they were out of the mobo. Hence the A-bit.
I got one Gigabyte mobo. I heard they're quality. It was DOA. So much for that. Got an A-bit, which I'm beginning to regret.
You don't need different tables for different (modern) operating systems if you implement ACPI properly. That's where they fscked up.
Oh well, BIOS code for ACPI in generally is notoriously bad, and the Linux kernel is full of hacks for poorly written stuff.
Well post-installation you are right. Whenever you change certain kinds of hardware though there's pretty decent odds you're going to have to play with some config file. Video and network cards mostly. Anything with proprietary drivers is going to be a PITA. Ubuntu seems to have made the most progress on this front.
Windows has its fair share of driver trouble too. I think the difference is that OEMs preinstall windows and make sure stuff at least sorta works. If Linux was shipped this way, you probably wouldn't need to edit .confs often.
Well there's one way Vista is better than XP. You at least get a nag screen.
Oh come on I know you punched the monkey. Nobody does not punch the monkey.
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Well that's one way to do an end run around the no talking on your hand held cell phone in the car law.
From your earlier post, it sounds like we might be correcting the increase in acidity we caused in the past.