Yes, but even the metal case doesn't guarantee it is shock proof. I got another Thinkpad, did I say I used to buy Thinkpads only for business purpose for a long time, and it was the fancy one when titanium was first introduced. It fell from about 2-3 feet in its padded case and just cracked as any other plastic one.
Plastic doesn't equate to fragile. There is planes build with composite material which is essentially plastic. This is a bit short to say a plastic case cannot endure.
I used to buy Thinkpads and top of line ones once I encountered a famous hardware problem and the manufacturer (Lenovo) refused to recognized the problem beyond the guarantee expiration. In fact, there was a recall for specific serial numbers which my laptop wasn't included in. My laptop failed not longer after the guarantee expiration and due to this exact manufacturing problem. Since the only option was to buy an expensive replacement motherboard I decided I will no longer and ever buy top of line laptops and I then bought a so called "cheap shit computer hardware", all plastic and that with a good processor and memory. This was three years ago and I am writing this post on this shitty computer which happen to last longer than the top of line Lenovo Thinkpad computer for a fraction of the price and for an equivalent performance. Yes, I compile a lot of stuff on my crappy piece of shit.
I am very sorry to tell you so, but this piece of crap cost me about 300$, not 1000$ as you are trying to let people think to justify the 2000$ and more for top of line laptop. I am also very sorry to tell you the problem ain't with plastic. You cannot justify 1600$ and more just because you use aluminum, titanium or whatever shitty marketing metal name is trendy these days to build the case.
Never ever will I build a top of line piece of crap in a metallic case.
Seriously? Are you retard or what? The amended thing is the new thing. So the thing has actually evolved. The thing WITHOUT the amendment is no longer valid.
Who can take seriously a guy who was involved in the development of Internet Explorer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... That guy is obviously full of shit and self-proclaimed "technologist" for whatever it means.
Wrong, if we do not experience these problems, or at a less obvious level since it affects everyone at the approximate same pace, it is largely due to the Earth's magnetic field which deviates a lot of cosmic rays. Beside that, you should know that cosmic rays that make their way to us can penetrate deep into concrete and Earth's crust. That's why the neutrino observatories are installed in very deep old mines. I doubt any asteroid without a magnetic field can offer a sufficient protection of any kind.
What if the developer isn't around anymore to fix it?
It means you have picked the wrong library since there isn't enough interest in it to sustain it. You should then drop it for a replacement or write your own code. I know, there is plenty of examples of good libraries that are not well funded, so they went unsecure since developers cannot dedicate time to maintain them properly, one recent example comes to mind: OpenSSL and Heartbleed bug. On one side you have all these companies buying expensive Linux distros from respectable vendors with the guarantee if something goes wrong the vendor will fix it and on the other side, the vendor pocket the money and doesn't fund the developers that make him existing in first place or at least the most critical libraries that justify the companies to buy Linux instead of getting it for free and funding directly the projects they believe they critically depend on.
Exactly, that's part of the problem. Beside the requirement to have a charging station at home, there isn't charging station spreaded in the country to make this car useful. Even the guy that teamed with Tesla to install charging stations recognized the problem when he attempted to do a long roadtrip with his Tesla car. There is a whole logistic behind spreading Tesla cars at large which cannot be neglected since sales will heavily depend on it. Seems someone at Tesla is beliving in some kind of magic to solve this problem.
Right, but at the end you have a fuel-cell that will not burn carbon and produce CO2. You are using natural gaz to produce hydrogen (not oil, petrol or diesel) for now, but wait, what if you stopped doing research because lead-acid batteries were not efficient to make a car? Do you have an idea of the cost of running a complete reliable electricity network with enough capacity to recharge Musk's batteries in all the developing countries and even in remote areas in developed countries? There may be a market for now for electric cars running on batteries, but I don't believe this is the future of the automobile and road transportation.
That's probably the reason Tesla fired a third of its employees in China and is having more cars in its inventory than it sold. I'm very sorry, but Musk is overrated. The strategy in China was just plain dumb ignoring the reality of the market and the infrastructures. The electricity distribution network in China (and many other countries) is just not ready. In fact, hydrogen fuel-cell is probably a better alternative to oil. The distribution network for fuel-cells can easily capitalizes on the existing network for oil distribution, something Tesla's car and the likes cannot do.
Anesthesia doesn't equate no pain at all. It is subject to research at Stanford to help anesthesists to determine if the patient under anesthesia actually suffer or not when he/she is unable to communicate. You can administer drugs to create short term amnesia, hence, someone may have actually suffer under anesthesia, but because he was under such drugs, no memory of this episode can come to his/her mind. Here is the article: http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
Well, this is just a very thin part of what the web/internet is. Just consider all the components that interact together to make the internet possible. The level of sophistication and efficiency of routing, transmission algorithms. The management of the whole thing. The cryptography field which has litterally boomed with the internet, and so on, and so on.
It is not because someone makes an insignificant usage of the internet, the internet is insignificant. It has changed much more the lives of people than the space race in much less time. Try to imagine the world without it. It is just the beginning. This is still work-in-progress.
Frankly guys, I believe you are complaining the belly full. At my place, everything is so obscure and cryptic that even the guys responsibles for the DNS succeeded to defeat the purpose of a DNS in first place. It is almost easier to remember the hosts by their IP addresses than by their names. Imagine now the password rules.
Exactly! It is silly to say the space shuttle is far more complex than the internet/web. The size of a project like the space shuttle is dwarf by the size of a project like the internet/web by many magnitudes of order. There is much more technology into the internet than in the space shuttle.
For the AC poster who seems to believe there is an argument about making a distinction between the web and the internet, there is none. HTTP is running on top of the protocol stack that runs the whole thing and the network is the hardware part without which the protocol has no purpose.
Perhaps you should think a bit before replying such things. The web is certainly the most complex engineering project ever made by the human kind. You obviously have no idea of its complexity and the algorithms that makes it running day after day. It is not because you can use it for futile purposes it isn't the greatest thing yet built by the human kind.
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BTW, if your mission critically depend on your laptop, you are in much deeper troubles than you think and not metal case can save you.
Yes, but even the metal case doesn't guarantee it is shock proof. I got another Thinkpad, did I say I used to buy Thinkpads only for business purpose for a long time, and it was the fancy one when titanium was first introduced. It fell from about 2-3 feet in its padded case and just cracked as any other plastic one.
Plastic doesn't equate to fragile. There is planes build with composite material which is essentially plastic. This is a bit short to say a plastic case cannot endure.
Right, I am tired of these fucking bullshit reports. Someone can get his pants down to show us what he really got in? If not, just shut the fuck up.
I used to buy Thinkpads and top of line ones once I encountered a famous hardware problem and the manufacturer (Lenovo) refused to recognized the problem beyond the guarantee expiration. In fact, there was a recall for specific serial numbers which my laptop wasn't included in. My laptop failed not longer after the guarantee expiration and due to this exact manufacturing problem. Since the only option was to buy an expensive replacement motherboard I decided I will no longer and ever buy top of line laptops and I then bought a so called "cheap shit computer hardware", all plastic and that with a good processor and memory. This was three years ago and I am writing this post on this shitty computer which happen to last longer than the top of line Lenovo Thinkpad computer for a fraction of the price and for an equivalent performance. Yes, I compile a lot of stuff on my crappy piece of shit.
I am very sorry to tell you so, but this piece of crap cost me about 300$, not 1000$ as you are trying to let people think to justify the 2000$ and more for top of line laptop. I am also very sorry to tell you the problem ain't with plastic. You cannot justify 1600$ and more just because you use aluminum, titanium or whatever shitty marketing metal name is trendy these days to build the case.
Never ever will I build a top of line piece of crap in a metallic case.
Seriously? Are you retard or what? The amended thing is the new thing. So the thing has actually evolved. The thing WITHOUT the amendment is no longer valid.
Did he produces something?
Who can take seriously a guy who was involved in the development of Internet Explorer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... That guy is obviously full of shit and self-proclaimed "technologist" for whatever it means.
Why not calling everyone Mr ? Since it no longer means anything or drop the title for everyone.
I worked for IBM in the late 80s and these guys were even toxic inside the company. They led us to the first layoff of the IBM history early 90s.
First example the excellence of a product has nothing to do with business success.
Wrong, if we do not experience these problems, or at a less obvious level since it affects everyone at the approximate same pace, it is largely due to the Earth's magnetic field which deviates a lot of cosmic rays. Beside that, you should know that cosmic rays that make their way to us can penetrate deep into concrete and Earth's crust. That's why the neutrino observatories are installed in very deep old mines. I doubt any asteroid without a magnetic field can offer a sufficient protection of any kind.
Terrifuck!
What if the developer isn't around anymore to fix it?
It means you have picked the wrong library since there isn't enough interest in it to sustain it. You should then drop it for a replacement or write your own code. I know, there is plenty of examples of good libraries that are not well funded, so they went unsecure since developers cannot dedicate time to maintain them properly, one recent example comes to mind: OpenSSL and Heartbleed bug. On one side you have all these companies buying expensive Linux distros from respectable vendors with the guarantee if something goes wrong the vendor will fix it and on the other side, the vendor pocket the money and doesn't fund the developers that make him existing in first place or at least the most critical libraries that justify the companies to buy Linux instead of getting it for free and funding directly the projects they believe they critically depend on.
Exactly, that's part of the problem. Beside the requirement to have a charging station at home, there isn't charging station spreaded in the country to make this car useful. Even the guy that teamed with Tesla to install charging stations recognized the problem when he attempted to do a long roadtrip with his Tesla car. There is a whole logistic behind spreading Tesla cars at large which cannot be neglected since sales will heavily depend on it. Seems someone at Tesla is beliving in some kind of magic to solve this problem.
I don't know where you picked you stats, but recently Tesla just announced otherwise.
Right, but at the end you have a fuel-cell that will not burn carbon and produce CO2. You are using natural gaz to produce hydrogen (not oil, petrol or diesel) for now, but wait, what if you stopped doing research because lead-acid batteries were not efficient to make a car? Do you have an idea of the cost of running a complete reliable electricity network with enough capacity to recharge Musk's batteries in all the developing countries and even in remote areas in developed countries? There may be a market for now for electric cars running on batteries, but I don't believe this is the future of the automobile and road transportation.
So, you bought Musk's BS about the speculators? Seriously, this was far to be the problem.
That's probably the reason Tesla fired a third of its employees in China and is having more cars in its inventory than it sold. I'm very sorry, but Musk is overrated. The strategy in China was just plain dumb ignoring the reality of the market and the infrastructures. The electricity distribution network in China (and many other countries) is just not ready. In fact, hydrogen fuel-cell is probably a better alternative to oil. The distribution network for fuel-cells can easily capitalizes on the existing network for oil distribution, something Tesla's car and the likes cannot do.
Anesthesia doesn't equate no pain at all. It is subject to research at Stanford to help anesthesists to determine if the patient under anesthesia actually suffer or not when he/she is unable to communicate. You can administer drugs to create short term amnesia, hence, someone may have actually suffer under anesthesia, but because he was under such drugs, no memory of this episode can come to his/her mind. Here is the article: http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
Obviously you got the story from a third hand. That is not what happened at all and certainly not due to deficiencies in the microkernel technology.
Well, this is just a very thin part of what the web/internet is. Just consider all the components that interact together to make the internet possible. The level of sophistication and efficiency of routing, transmission algorithms. The management of the whole thing. The cryptography field which has litterally boomed with the internet, and so on, and so on.
It is not because someone makes an insignificant usage of the internet, the internet is insignificant. It has changed much more the lives of people than the space race in much less time. Try to imagine the world without it. It is just the beginning. This is still work-in-progress.
Frankly guys, I believe you are complaining the belly full. At my place, everything is so obscure and cryptic that even the guys responsibles for the DNS succeeded to defeat the purpose of a DNS in first place. It is almost easier to remember the hosts by their IP addresses than by their names. Imagine now the password rules.
Exactly! It is silly to say the space shuttle is far more complex than the internet/web. The size of a project like the space shuttle is dwarf by the size of a project like the internet/web by many magnitudes of order. There is much more technology into the internet than in the space shuttle.
For the AC poster who seems to believe there is an argument about making a distinction between the web and the internet, there is none. HTTP is running on top of the protocol stack that runs the whole thing and the network is the hardware part without which the protocol has no purpose.
It probably explains why our IT department decided to finally move from IE8 to a much modern browser like Chrome.
Perhaps you should think a bit before replying such things. The web is certainly the most complex engineering project ever made by the human kind. You obviously have no idea of its complexity and the algorithms that makes it running day after day. It is not because you can use it for futile purposes it isn't the greatest thing yet built by the human kind.