I work on laptops at my job and I see alot of mistreated laptops. Most people, but not all, don't seem to realize that just because it's portable doesn't mean you can toss it around like a pillow. Is it really smart to put something this fragile in a machine and sell it to the general public? I've seen screens ripped off, hinges broken and hard drive failures from shock because truck drivers like to velcro them down in the truck, and anything else you can think of from them being treated roughly. All we need is for mom to let the kids play on the laptop and boom, it crashes to the floor and water goes all over the place.
This probably doesn't take into account the countless desktop PC's built by people who know how to build their own, and who had their friends/relatives who know how to build computers build one for them.
Actually I like Windows 2000 despite it's crashing. It impressed me with it's higher stability that previous versions of Windows the first time I installed it. I realize Linux crashes too. I'm actually not much of a Linux head. My point was that I hope they make an effort for the good of our troups to make sure they have good drivers and that everything is stable before they're caught out on the battle field with a blue screen error.
Does this price include working out the bugs and making everything work correctly? The last thing we need is the blue screen of death in the battle field. (fp)
I have to agree. They're comparing a 2.2GHz AMD chip with a 3.2Ghz P4 and the AMD chip is holding it's own against a CPU that is an entire 1GHz faster in terms of clock speed. If they would A.) Compared the AMD chip with a 2.2 GHz P4 or B.) Compared the 3.2GHz P4 to a 3.2GHz Athlon, if one existed, then AMD would be far ahead. Which is why we recognise the Athlon as the supperior CPU.
Too bad this has been on Mini-ITX.com for a week now. I hardly think this is slashdot worthy news. People put Mini-ITX boards in everything and submit the idea to Mini-itx.com. If we posted every new mini-itx idea on slashdot we'd have to have a page devoted to Mini-itx designs. But wait, that already exists, it's called Mini-itx.com
As for "sometimes don't work on a 10 year old player", you do realize that the goal of copy protection is to not work on a computer cdrom drive of any generation? This is why we have discs with garbled TOC tracks, this is a scheme targeted directly at computer drives which read the TOC to determine if the drive is audio or data.
This doesn't only affect PC's. My DVD player uses a standard IDE DVD-ROM to read disks. If I were to try and play one of these shiny original copies in my DVD Player(which is what I use to play CD's anyway because it's connected to my stereo and I find it redundant to have a seperate machine to perform this function because I already have one that does it, not to mention the playstation and Sega saturn etc. ) It would not play. This is why I burn my own CD's. Especially since this DVD Player will play MP3's off of a data disk.
The overall goals of the competition are to modify an existing Ford Explorer (make and model dependant on year) to improve fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining or exceeding customer expectations
Not hard to do, just make it a Chevy instead!
Of course all SUV's are gas hogs.
It doesn't spin backwards. As a matter of a fact, even though you can't read the files on a PC, if you click the disk info button in Nero it will give you info on the disk. I don't think it would do that if the tracks were written backwards.
People who think this way aren't thinking. Basically what they'd rather have is a snot nosed teenager who is just learning to write programs in his highschool or freshman college programming class than an older programmer who not only has a programming degree, but also has many years of experience. No wonder today's software is turning into bug infested bloat ware.
They'd have a hard time getting me to put one of those things on my car. Even if they did I'd cut the power to it. Besides my car is 27 Years old. I imagine there would be some issues in putting a new device like this on an older car.
This idea is good in theory, it would certainly solve the worn out strip problem. However, it would only be a matter of time before a smart hacker genius crook would come up with a portable device he could carry around with him. He could steel money from your card just by brushing up against you on the bus or in a croud, or just by walking around the mall. Also it'd still need a strip for all the thousands of busineses that won't migrate to this technology until it catches on.
"You missed the episode about the crusades, didn't you?"
The quote was:
"Christ preached tolerance and forgiveness"
Christ did preach tolerance and forgiveness and had nothing to do with the crusades. The crusades were led by a bunch of idiots claiming the name of Christ who didn't know what the heck they were doing. If they had studied the scripture they would have realised they had no business trying to take Israel. Claiming the name of Christ brings someone forgiveness, but unfortunatly it doesn't mean they stop being idiots, or human for that matter.
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I work on laptops at my job and I see alot of mistreated laptops. Most people, but not all, don't seem to realize that just because it's portable doesn't mean you can toss it around like a pillow. Is it really smart to put something this fragile in a machine and sell it to the general public? I've seen screens ripped off, hinges broken and hard drive failures from shock because truck drivers like to velcro them down in the truck, and anything else you can think of from them being treated roughly. All we need is for mom to let the kids play on the laptop and boom, it crashes to the floor and water goes all over the place.
So where would you put the airport?
This probably doesn't take into account the countless desktop PC's built by people who know how to build their own, and who had their friends/relatives who know how to build computers build one for them.
That's ok, you posted that 2 seconds before I was going to post the same thing.
Actually I like Windows 2000 despite it's crashing. It impressed me with it's higher stability that previous versions of Windows the first time I installed it. I realize Linux crashes too. I'm actually not much of a Linux head. My point was that I hope they make an effort for the good of our troups to make sure they have good drivers and that everything is stable before they're caught out on the battle field with a blue screen error.
I had one yesterday with Windows 2000, which I have to use at work.
Does this price include working out the bugs and making everything work correctly? The last thing we need is the blue screen of death in the battle field. (fp)
I have to agree. They're comparing a 2.2GHz AMD chip with a 3.2Ghz P4 and the AMD chip is holding it's own against a CPU that is an entire 1GHz faster in terms of clock speed. If they would A.) Compared the AMD chip with a 2.2 GHz P4 or B.) Compared the 3.2GHz P4 to a 3.2GHz Athlon, if one existed, then AMD would be far ahead. Which is why we recognise the Athlon as the supperior CPU.
you don't neccesarily need a VGA input. The Mini-ITX boards have either an Svideo or RCA output, i'm not sure which. Maybe both.
Too bad this has been on Mini-ITX.com for a week now. I hardly think this is slashdot worthy news. People put Mini-ITX boards in everything and submit the idea to Mini-itx.com. If we posted every new mini-itx idea on slashdot we'd have to have a page devoted to Mini-itx designs. But wait, that already exists, it's called Mini-itx.com
... Don't move to Sweden!
No problem, I have an old SCSI 1X CD-ROM I can use to rip music. Thanks for the warning!
As for "sometimes don't work on a 10 year old player", you do realize that the goal of copy protection is to not work on a computer cdrom drive of any generation? This is why we have discs with garbled TOC tracks, this is a scheme targeted directly at computer drives which read the TOC to determine if the drive is audio or data.
This doesn't only affect PC's. My DVD player uses a standard IDE DVD-ROM to read disks. If I were to try and play one of these shiny original copies in my DVD Player(which is what I use to play CD's anyway because it's connected to my stereo and I find it redundant to have a seperate machine to perform this function because I already have one that does it, not to mention the playstation and Sega saturn etc. ) It would not play. This is why I burn my own CD's. Especially since this DVD Player will play MP3's off of a data disk.
The overall goals of the competition are to modify an existing Ford Explorer (make and model dependant on year) to improve fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining or exceeding customer expectations
Not hard to do, just make it a Chevy instead! Of course all SUV's are gas hogs.
It doesn't spin backwards. As a matter of a fact, even though you can't read the files on a PC, if you click the disk info button in Nero it will give you info on the disk. I don't think it would do that if the tracks were written backwards.
Step 1: Move within 2000 feet of DSL provider
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
People who think this way aren't thinking. Basically what they'd rather have is a snot nosed teenager who is just learning to write programs in his highschool or freshman college programming class than an older programmer who not only has a programming degree, but also has many years of experience. No wonder today's software is turning into bug infested bloat ware.
No, But I hope to get my WIFE pregnant some day.
I believe it had an 8-bit CPU and a 16-bit Graphics chip which still doesn't make it 16-bit.
They'd have a hard time getting me to put one of those things on my car. Even if they did I'd cut the power to it. Besides my car is 27 Years old. I imagine there would be some issues in putting a new device like this on an older car.
It's a good thing I never use Maxtor drives.
This idea is good in theory, it would certainly solve the worn out strip problem. However, it would only be a matter of time before a smart hacker genius crook would come up with a portable device he could carry around with him. He could steel money from your card just by brushing up against you on the bus or in a croud, or just by walking around the mall. Also it'd still need a strip for all the thousands of busineses that won't migrate to this technology until it catches on.
Count me in, I store them face down in a pile on my desk, with a stack here and there. Some are even stuck together with remnants of a spilt beverage.
"You missed the episode about the crusades, didn't you?"
The quote was:
"Christ preached tolerance and forgiveness"
Christ did preach tolerance and forgiveness and had nothing to do with the crusades. The crusades were led by a bunch of idiots claiming the name of Christ who didn't know what the heck they were doing. If they had studied the scripture they would have realised they had no business trying to take Israel. Claiming the name of Christ brings someone forgiveness, but unfortunatly it doesn't mean they stop being idiots, or human for that matter.
I remember reading an article about someone booting a Sega Genesis on a modified version of the 68k MacOS on a cartridge.