"... I also found an unverified claim from a disgruntled ex-employee on ripoffreport.com that claims the company charges their customers from $3,000 to over $15,000 for their matchmaking services."
So yes, if you go to the site and shell out big bucks, you can get a date. (at least according to one unverified disgruntled employee.)
If they arent smart enough to give him more than $600 to add more air, do you think they are going to actually think of anything other than cash-in-hand logic?
I ran into similar at a company when calculating the ROI on an investment. When I tried to introduce lost man hours and other non-concrete concepts I was told "they dont factor that into the budgetary plans."
It was 100% how much do I have to write a check for, and how much will this effect the cash coming in from customers. Nothing about worker efficiency, etc, just how much currency changes hands each way.
But to get back on topic...
we have several remote sites that have a rack in a small room off the warehouse. they cut a square hole in the wall, permanently mounted a $200 high output window AC unit in the hole, and ran a drain tube to the floor drain in the warehouse.
Not elegant, but VERY cheap. Hell, those racks run cooler than my data center. And since they are off the shelf product, when they fail (not if) they just go buy another at the big box store and replace it.
I think the last one we did we installed for LESS than $600 and that included the lumber for the room that we built in the warehouse!
"Ahh, nothing like feeling protected. Pretty soon you'll find you can receive the same level of service and "protection" AS Verizon provides by cancelling your internet service entirely and save yourself $40/month in the process."
nope. They'll continue to bill you the $40 even AFTER they disconnect you. They'll just either:
A: claim its all taxes, and its not thier fault. B: call it a fee for your protection. After all, they saved you from being exposed to the bad bad people of the interweb.
I claim we are ALL developing. Some are just more "developed" than others.
Its like me saying my family isnt smart enough to do something. Maybe 95% of my extended family is a bunch of hilljacks that can barely form coherent sentences, but there is a small % that are doctors, lawyers, computer geeks, etc.
So by China's logic, because the masses are ignorant rural farmers there is no way they could have done it. Bull. They are conveniently "forgetting" about the very small part of their population that can (and do) things like this in their sleep.
Sorry, the Developing nation excuse is lame. Developing nations dont produce and design electronics devices, design and build ICBMs, submarines, warships, launch GPS satellites, etc.
And using thier logic, the USA is also a developing nation. Maybe we are a little more developed, but we still have a way to go and are making progress.
I was educated in gov't schools. Ok, it was really a typo.
I meant to say that it would drop to 80% output in the first couple hours, then decrease an additional 5% to 75% of original output over the rest of the life and the original author's statement would still be valid.
"Bullshit. This applies to very cheap LED's bought from China (or similar). Leading manufacturers like Cree [cree.com], Lumileds [lumileds.com] and the rest claim 75% of lumen maintenance after 50'000 hours."
What you stated does not render the original statement of the loss of brightness dropping to 85% in single digit hours incorrect.
With the claim from those "premium" LED manufacturers stated above it can STILL drop to 80% in the first 6 hours (random number for sake of discussion)during a break-in period then drop slowly another 10% to 75% of original strength over the next 49,994 hours.
There are other materials out there as well that have a break-in period that happens all at once, then slowly degrades from that point so nothing new there.
They generally dont get paid per message sent. they get paid per message REPLIED TO (by acting on the offer).
Its all about odds. It costs you virtually nothing to send an email. Yes, you have to pay for the list of emails you bought but by using open relays, etc. your cost is minimal.
Assume you make $10 per rube that actually takes your offer. Assume that your rate of response is 2%.
so for every 100 messages you send, 2 people acutally fall for it and give you money.
With that being said, do you want to make $20 (100 emails), or $20,000 (a million emails)? Its all in the amount of email you send.
THAT my friend is why you get so much. The more they send, the more $$ they are likely to make. Anytime you can increase your income without increasing expenses its a good thing and you are going to do it.
So its not the number of emails, its the number of customers those messages entice.
Beware what they DONT tell you up front about the data wipe option...
You have two choices when a laptop is stolen. Trace it or wipe the data off it to keep it out of the wrong hands. thats for stuff like SSNs, etc. You dont get the HW back, but they dont get your important info. In some cases an acceptible trade-off.
Our company started using them for a few key laptops located in our service vehicles that run in bad neighborhoods. We bought it primarily for the tracking mechanism, but considered them for sensitive systems like for HR, etc. where we would wipe to prevent any release of proprietary/confidential info.
After signing up the first laptop, I investigated the wipe option. To use it you have to sign a LONG contract, designate no more than 3 employees that can initiate a wipe, and the kicker... buy an RSA key fob from them at a cost of $700 each, and they are only good for 2 years at which point you have to re-purchase. So for my company we were looking at $1000 per year in addition to the normal subscription costs that we pay per unit.
Still a reasonable price to pay to prevent a catastrophic data breach, but that extra cost and hassle would have been nice to know up front.
You would be surprised. Cops LOVE computrace. The know that generally when they go to find a laptop using this service, they will find OTHER criminal activity in the process.
One example computrace boasts is the chop shop that was inadvertantly raided thanks to a computrace recovery.
Besides, Computrace makes it easy on the cops. they get directions to the loot. No real investigative hassle on thier part.
Yeah. Right. THAT prevents "hacking"... A little piece of paper that can be reproduced with off the shelf equipment and cardstock. Great job Brownie.
I am sure I can walk downtown to "little Mexico" here in Indy and get a fake one for $50 very quickly. (well I could if I could speak spanish)
Not saying the biometric system is any better or worse, just that if we are comparing it to our SSC's its no contest. At least with biometrics it takes more than some guy with The Gimp and a nice color laser to create a fake. (it takes a Geek with some really COOL toys to create a fake)
I agree with another poster. The only way this system could truly work would be an always-on connected authenticator that could pull up an official copy of the info/picture from a central DB for an immediate comparison to validate it. Otherwise its just a pretty piece of plastic that makes the ignorant/gullible sleep well at nite.
exactly. as a packet8 customer on a commiecast network, I find it odd that none of my comcast voice freinds have call quality issues, yet I am constantly fighting the issues. And if I take my packet8 equipment to my office I NEVER have any quality issues.
Kinda makes me wonder what ELSE they are throttling.
Yes, the "S" does stand for "suggested". It stands for suggested the same way cousin vinny "Suggests" you pay him back in a timely manner, or the way a mugger "suggests" you hand him your wallet.
I am all for Slackers selling them for the max profit. Price controls dont work. They hinder the market and cause problems. Just ask those in the south that needed their roofs fixed or needed generators after a hurricane.
Since price controls went into effect, it did two things. First it forced retailers to maintain artificially low prices for items such as batteries so that they ran out too quick. Instead of the price of a D cell jumping to say $6 each that would make a person say "hey, maybe I only need enough to get me through this by conserving my light" instead the first few bought all they could carry, forcing others to go without even if they had enough in thier hands to run thier light constantly for 3 months. So instead of alot of people getting what they NEEDED, you had a few greedy bastards that bought extra leaving others without. Generators? cant charge extra even if they had to be shipped in special(which costs more $$), so vendors didnt go through the hassle of getting the extra units down there. Why sell at a loss? They maintained the normal (inadequate) flow of materials because there was no monetary incetive to do otherwise. Once again, people went without.
Second, out of state contractors didnt have an incentive to travel to work, leaving the locals under-covered for construction workers. Instead of companies packing up and coming down with a "hey, due to teh demand, this is what it costs because of the demand, my travel expenses, etc." they were told by the gubment "you cant charge any more than the regular rate." so they said "psssh... screw that, I'll stay here instead of travelling down there to help and lose money." years later many roofs still had blue tarps because of the backlog. Even if somebody WANTED to pay more to get it done sooner, they couldnt (in theory).
They need to GTF outta da way and let the market decide. They'll make thier cash either way.
Retailers will charge no more than the market will bear. Nintendo wont see any less sales even if this is allowed. If the retailers cant move the units at $500, they'll drop the prices down until they DO move. Eventually the pricing will settle out and they'll sell briskly and at a reasonable amount. Eventually once production increases to match demand, or demand drops, they will be back to where the vendor wants them to be.
No. Its more like not closing your windows when baking them and the smell wafts out to the street for people to smell. Just because I can smell you baking your cookies, doesnt mean you want me to eat them.
His point was that if you dont KNOW to lock the door, its not wrong if you dont and you get what you deserve when somebody barges in.
Your analogy works for the parent of my comment but not mine. He advertises his as open.
what about the people in my company that think this?: "wow, that was easy to install. I jsut went to walmart, bought that linksys wireless router, plugged it in and now it works! I cant beleive it was so easy."
Does he deserve to let you leech the bandwidth he pays for because he didnt understand the ramifications of leaving his AP open? I dont think so.
Besides, every time I mention to these novices "you realize anyone that pulls up to your house can get on your network, right?" I am greeted with a shocked look. Even those that tell me "yeah, before I got my wireless I would connect to any signal I could find" are shocked when I tell them others are doing the same to them. They just dont think it through. The next question of of thier mouth is always "wow. how can I close the hole?".
I have never had somebody say "meh... I dont care. let them use my wifi." during that conversation. (which averages about 1 every 2 weeks).
Your statement makes as much sense as the cops saying they cant prosecute your neighbor when when you caught him in your kitchen eating your cookies because you didnt lock your front door.
"I still don't think that force is a civilized way of dealing with political dissenters, even if they are out of line..."
I take GREAT exception to your statement above.
That is the whole point. He was out of line. He was impeding on the discussion and being disruptive. end of story. Had he followed the rules, this would never have happened.
f the following had happened I would agree with you:
Student: Mr Kerry, I have a question... Do you...[insert offensive yet calm question here]? police: come with us, you! Student: no sir, i would rather not. police: ZZZZZZAP!
But it didnt. he was rude, unruly, disruptive and physically resisted reasonable requests to leave. I dont care if its a political event, PTA meeting or any other public event where rules must be followed. Without rules there is anarchy.
So you wouldnt have a problem with the following scenario?:
I walk up to you on the street while you were discussing something with other people on your lunch hour, so there is a limit to the time you can take. I ask if I can make a comment and you say yes. I then start rambling, ranting, YELLING, etc. You are unable to respond or continue the discussion with the others. You start to walk away but I still continue to impede your discussion forcefully by standing in your way and yelling at you. no physical contact but you still cant proceed with what you want to do, or even leave to go to work. You are at my mercy.
They did turn off his mic. He then started yelling since the PA was no longer functioning.
I agree this person is an asshat that was looking for trouble. he got what he deserved. The police were also justified as he was refusing to cooperate. Somebody was gonna get hurt. Honestly, I prefer the idiot gets it over our officers doing thier jobs.
Here is why I think he was TRYING to cause trouble and get tasered:
We have several major issues going in our city right now like property taxes jumping 200%+ for some people. Watching the council meetings I have seen similar things happen by people who are overly amped up and get unruly and not there JUST to make a scene and disrupt. They want to make a statement, ask a question, etc but just get overcome by emotions; they arent TRYING To cause grief.
When they are asked to leave for being out of order, they are pulled forcibly (usually yelling) from the room by 1, MAYBE two officers. They are still upright and walking. They dont push the officer, they dont drop to the ground and refuse to be removed and make 5 or 6 pick officers them up and carry them as they are fighting to not be picked up, handcuffed, etc.
If this guy just wanted to make a comment, ask a question, etc. he would have been removed by the officers without the ensuing strugggle.
Interesting. My SN95 is whisper quiet ***when set properly***. Wonder if they didnt have it set optimally for testing?
Sure it ramps up and gets louder when I put it under load (FPS gaming) as the smart fan does its job, but when its idle or even being used lightly like web/email usage, I can barely hear it. Hell, most of the noise comes from the GPU fan!
I think the heatpipe design of their standard air cooled line is one of the best out there. Instead of just recirculating the CPU waste heat around inside the case to be sucked out by a separate chassis fan (and consequently driving up the other chip temps), The biggest amount of heat is dumped straight out the back where it belongs. Pure genius.
The SFF isnt for everyone, but they are great systems overall.
Now, when are they gonna release that bad boy as a barebones without the obnoxious paint? Good systems, but way too expensive as pre-built. (I built my SN95 for $1500(thanks Newegg!), they wanted $2800 for the same pre-built config)
Dont forget the pain and hassle of being without your cell for however many days/weeks it takes to actually get it fixed.
I dont know about you, but when my Motorola battery dies, I dont consider the phone broke, but with the iphone, it is. I go to the store and buy a new battery and I am good to go. You have to send the phone off and wait.
A dead (broken) battery on an iphone is on par with a broken screen, etc. IMHO, which is unacceptable.
This is like having a flat tire and having the following telephone conversation on the roadside:
You: "yeah, my tire is flat and I cant find a jack or a spare anywhere on this new car."
Dealership: "I'm sorry sir that your tire is flat. Have it towed in to the dealership and we'll get that replaced. is tomorrow OK to get it back to you?"
You: "Tomorrow?!?!?! Its morning rush hour and there are two other cars here that ran over the same box of nails, and they are almost done repairing the damage themselves!"
Dealer: "Yes, I know its only 7am, but you know how these things go... Repairs take time!"
I can see the next apple invention... the iFlashlight. Its not just a flashlight, its a SOLAR POWERED flashlight! No batteries needed!
OOOH!!! or from the new Apple Defense Contracts Division, the iSubmarine... it has screen doors!
I am buying one because I have exactly TWO usable freqencies in my area that I can use... one for the east side of town where I work, and the other on the south side where I live... And both of those still get stepped on a bit.
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if you RTFA he states:
"... I also found an unverified claim from a disgruntled ex-employee on ripoffreport.com that claims the company charges their customers from $3,000 to over $15,000 for their matchmaking services."
So yes, if you go to the site and shell out big bucks, you can get a date. (at least according to one unverified disgruntled employee.)
Also let me know so I can explain it to my fellow employees. They arent "getting it" when I talk to them like adults, so I gotta try a different tack.
(No Bob, rebooting your PC is NOT pushing the button on your monitor or logging off and back on again.)
If they arent smart enough to give him more than $600 to add more air, do you think they are going to actually think of anything other than cash-in-hand logic?
I ran into similar at a company when calculating the ROI on an investment. When I tried to introduce lost man hours and other non-concrete concepts I was told "they dont factor that into the budgetary plans."
It was 100% how much do I have to write a check for, and how much will this effect the cash coming in from customers. Nothing about worker efficiency, etc, just how much currency changes hands each way.
But to get back on topic...
we have several remote sites that have a rack in a small room off the warehouse. they cut a square hole in the wall, permanently mounted a $200 high output window AC unit in the hole, and ran a drain tube to the floor drain in the warehouse.
Not elegant, but VERY cheap. Hell, those racks run cooler than my data center. And since they are off the shelf product, when they fail (not if) they just go buy another at the big box store and replace it.
I think the last one we did we installed for LESS than $600 and that included the lumber for the room that we built in the warehouse!
"Ahh, nothing like feeling protected. Pretty soon you'll find you can receive the same level of service and "protection" AS Verizon provides by cancelling your internet service entirely and save yourself $40/month in the process."
nope. They'll continue to bill you the $40 even AFTER they disconnect you. They'll just either:
A: claim its all taxes, and its not thier fault.
B: call it a fee for your protection. After all, they saved you from being exposed to the bad bad people of the interweb.
I claim we are ALL developing. Some are just more "developed" than others.
Its like me saying my family isnt smart enough to do something. Maybe 95% of my extended family is a bunch of hilljacks that can barely form coherent sentences, but there is a small % that are doctors, lawyers, computer geeks, etc.
So by China's logic, because the masses are ignorant rural farmers there is no way they could have done it. Bull. They are conveniently "forgetting" about the very small part of their population that can (and do) things like this in their sleep.
Sorry, the Developing nation excuse is lame. Developing nations dont produce and design electronics devices, design and build ICBMs, submarines, warships, launch GPS satellites, etc.
And using thier logic, the USA is also a developing nation. Maybe we are a little more developed, but we still have a way to go and are making progress.
I was educated in gov't schools. Ok, it was really a typo.
I meant to say that it would drop to 80% output in the first couple hours, then decrease an additional 5% to 75% of original output over the rest of the life and the original author's statement would still be valid.
Or am I missing something?
"Bullshit. This applies to very cheap LED's bought from China (or similar). Leading manufacturers like Cree [cree.com], Lumileds [lumileds.com] and the rest claim 75% of lumen maintenance after 50'000 hours."
What you stated does not render the original statement of the loss of brightness dropping to 85% in single digit hours incorrect.
With the claim from those "premium" LED manufacturers stated above it can STILL drop to 80% in the first 6 hours (random number for sake of discussion)during a break-in period then drop slowly another 10% to 75% of original strength over the next 49,994 hours.
There are other materials out there as well that have a break-in period that happens all at once, then slowly degrades from that point so nothing new there.
Ok, so not exactly hobbyist, but would be neat to have. A Toshibiba Micro Nuclear Reactor.
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html
FTA:
-20x6 feet in size
-200Kw
-Failsafe, totally automatic.
-lasts up to 40 years
-produces energy at 5 cents per KW/H
They generally dont get paid per message sent. they get paid per message REPLIED TO (by acting on the offer).
Its all about odds. It costs you virtually nothing to send an email. Yes, you have to pay for the list of emails you bought but by using open relays, etc. your cost is minimal.
Assume you make $10 per rube that actually takes your offer.
Assume that your rate of response is 2%.
so for every 100 messages you send, 2 people acutally fall for it and give you money.
With that being said, do you want to make $20 (100 emails), or $20,000 (a million emails)? Its all in the amount of email you send.
THAT my friend is why you get so much. The more they send, the more $$ they are likely to make. Anytime you can increase your income without increasing expenses its a good thing and you are going to do it.
So its not the number of emails, its the number of customers those messages entice.
Beware what they DONT tell you up front about the data wipe option...
You have two choices when a laptop is stolen. Trace it or wipe the data off it to keep it out of the wrong hands. thats for stuff like SSNs, etc. You dont get the HW back, but they dont get your important info. In some cases an acceptible trade-off.
Our company started using them for a few key laptops located in our service vehicles that run in bad neighborhoods. We bought it primarily for the tracking mechanism, but considered them for sensitive systems like for HR, etc. where we would wipe to prevent any release of proprietary/confidential info.
After signing up the first laptop, I investigated the wipe option. To use it you have to sign a LONG contract, designate no more than 3 employees that can initiate a wipe, and the kicker... buy an RSA key fob from them at a cost of $700 each, and they are only good for 2 years at which point you have to re-purchase. So for my company we were looking at $1000 per year in addition to the normal subscription costs that we pay per unit.
Still a reasonable price to pay to prevent a catastrophic data breach, but that extra cost and hassle would have been nice to know up front.
You would be surprised. Cops LOVE computrace. The know that generally when they go to find a laptop using this service, they will find OTHER criminal activity in the process.
One example computrace boasts is the chop shop that was inadvertantly raided thanks to a computrace recovery.
Besides, Computrace makes it easy on the cops. they get directions to the loot. No real investigative hassle on thier part.
Yeah. Right. THAT prevents "hacking"... A little piece of paper that can be reproduced with off the shelf equipment and cardstock. Great job Brownie.
I am sure I can walk downtown to "little Mexico" here in Indy and get a fake one for $50 very quickly. (well I could if I could speak spanish)
Not saying the biometric system is any better or worse, just that if we are comparing it to our SSC's its no contest. At least with biometrics it takes more than some guy with The Gimp and a nice color laser to create a fake. (it takes a Geek with some really COOL toys to create a fake)
I agree with another poster. The only way this system could truly work would be an always-on connected authenticator that could pull up an official copy of the info/picture from a central DB for an immediate comparison to validate it. Otherwise its just a pretty piece of plastic that makes the ignorant/gullible sleep well at nite.
exactly. as a packet8 customer on a commiecast network, I find it odd that none of my comcast voice freinds have call quality issues, yet I am constantly fighting the issues. And if I take my packet8 equipment to my office I NEVER have any quality issues. Kinda makes me wonder what ELSE they are throttling.
Here's hoping other companies follow this lead. I am getting tired of swapping CDs.
Ask Kevin Bacon about that... That premise was already used. It was called Tremors and *gag* Tremors II.
Yes, the "S" does stand for "suggested". It stands for suggested the same way cousin vinny "Suggests" you pay him back in a timely manner, or the way a mugger "suggests" you hand him your wallet.
I am all for Slackers selling them for the max profit. Price controls dont work. They hinder the market and cause problems. Just ask those in the south that needed their roofs fixed or needed generators after a hurricane.
Since price controls went into effect, it did two things. First it forced retailers to maintain artificially low prices for items such as batteries so that they ran out too quick. Instead of the price of a D cell jumping to say $6 each that would make a person say "hey, maybe I only need enough to get me through this by conserving my light" instead the first few bought all they could carry, forcing others to go without even if they had enough in thier hands to run thier light constantly for 3 months. So instead of alot of people getting what they NEEDED, you had a few greedy bastards that bought extra leaving others without. Generators? cant charge extra even if they had to be shipped in special(which costs more $$), so vendors didnt go through the hassle of getting the extra units down there. Why sell at a loss? They maintained the normal (inadequate) flow of materials because there was no monetary incetive to do otherwise. Once again, people went without.
Second, out of state contractors didnt have an incentive to travel to work, leaving the locals under-covered for construction workers. Instead of companies packing up and coming down with a "hey, due to teh demand, this is what it costs because of the demand, my travel expenses, etc." they were told by the gubment "you cant charge any more than the regular rate." so they said "psssh... screw that, I'll stay here instead of travelling down there to help and lose money." years later many roofs still had blue tarps because of the backlog. Even if somebody WANTED to pay more to get it done sooner, they couldnt (in theory).
They need to GTF outta da way and let the market decide. They'll make thier cash either way.
Retailers will charge no more than the market will bear. Nintendo wont see any less sales even if this is allowed. If the retailers cant move the units at $500, they'll drop the prices down until they DO move. Eventually the pricing will settle out and they'll sell briskly and at a reasonable amount. Eventually once production increases to match demand, or demand drops, they will be back to where the vendor wants them to be.
...and only outlaws will have internet. (no I didnt RTFA)
No. Its more like not closing your windows when baking them and the smell wafts out to the street for people to smell. Just because I can smell you baking your cookies, doesnt mean you want me to eat them.
His point was that if you dont KNOW to lock the door, its not wrong if you dont and you get what you deserve when somebody barges in.
Your analogy works for the parent of my comment but not mine. He advertises his as open.
what about the people in my company that think this?: "wow, that was easy to install. I jsut went to walmart, bought that linksys wireless router, plugged it in and now it works! I cant beleive it was so easy."
Does he deserve to let you leech the bandwidth he pays for because he didnt understand the ramifications of leaving his AP open? I dont think so.
Besides, every time I mention to these novices "you realize anyone that pulls up to your house can get on your network, right?" I am greeted with a shocked look. Even those that tell me "yeah, before I got my wireless I would connect to any signal I could find" are shocked when I tell them others are doing the same to them. They just dont think it through. The next question of of thier mouth is always "wow. how can I close the hole?".
I have never had somebody say "meh... I dont care. let them use my wifi." during that conversation. (which averages about 1 every 2 weeks).
So
Ditto to that.
Your statement makes as much sense as the cops saying they cant prosecute your neighbor when when you caught him in your kitchen eating your cookies because you didnt lock your front door.
"I still don't think that force is a civilized way of dealing with political dissenters, even if they are out of line..."
I take GREAT exception to your statement above.
That is the whole point. He was out of line. He was impeding on the discussion and being disruptive. end of story. Had he followed the rules, this would never have happened.
f the following had happened I would agree with you:
Student: Mr Kerry, I have a question... Do you...[insert offensive yet calm question here]?
police: come with us, you!
Student: no sir, i would rather not.
police: ZZZZZZAP!
But it didnt. he was rude, unruly, disruptive and physically resisted reasonable requests to leave. I dont care if its a political event, PTA meeting or any other public event where rules must be followed. Without rules there is anarchy.
So you wouldnt have a problem with the following scenario?:
I walk up to you on the street while you were discussing something with other people on your lunch hour, so there is a limit to the time you can take. I ask if I can make a comment and you say yes. I then start rambling, ranting, YELLING, etc. You are unable to respond or continue the discussion with the others. You start to walk away but I still continue to impede your discussion forcefully by standing in your way and yelling at you. no physical contact but you still cant proceed with what you want to do, or even leave to go to work. You are at my mercy.
Still dont want somebody to forcefully intervene?
They did turn off his mic. He then started yelling since the PA was no longer functioning.
I agree this person is an asshat that was looking for trouble. he got what he deserved. The police were also justified as he was refusing to cooperate. Somebody was gonna get hurt. Honestly, I prefer the idiot gets it over our officers doing thier jobs.
Here is why I think he was TRYING to cause trouble and get tasered:
We have several major issues going in our city right now like property taxes jumping 200%+ for some people. Watching the council meetings I have seen similar things happen by people who are overly amped up and get unruly and not there JUST to make a scene and disrupt. They want to make a statement, ask a question, etc but just get overcome by emotions; they arent TRYING To cause grief.
When they are asked to leave for being out of order, they are pulled forcibly (usually yelling) from the room by 1, MAYBE two officers. They are still upright and walking. They dont push the officer, they dont drop to the ground and refuse to be removed and make 5 or 6 pick officers them up and carry them as they are fighting to not be picked up, handcuffed, etc.
If this guy just wanted to make a comment, ask a question, etc. he would have been removed by the officers without the ensuing strugggle.
Interesting. My SN95 is whisper quiet ***when set properly***. Wonder if they didnt have it set optimally for testing?
Sure it ramps up and gets louder when I put it under load (FPS gaming) as the smart fan does its job, but when its idle or even being used lightly like web/email usage, I can barely hear it. Hell, most of the noise comes from the GPU fan!
I think the heatpipe design of their standard air cooled line is one of the best out there. Instead of just recirculating the CPU waste heat around inside the case to be sucked out by a separate chassis fan (and consequently driving up the other chip temps), The biggest amount of heat is dumped straight out the back where it belongs. Pure genius.
The SFF isnt for everyone, but they are great systems overall.
Now, when are they gonna release that bad boy as a barebones without the obnoxious paint? Good systems, but way too expensive as pre-built. (I built my SN95 for $1500(thanks Newegg!), they wanted $2800 for the same pre-built config)
Dont forget the pain and hassle of being without your cell for however many days/weeks it takes to actually get it fixed.
I dont know about you, but when my Motorola battery dies, I dont consider the phone broke, but with the iphone, it is. I go to the store and buy a new battery and I am good to go. You have to send the phone off and wait.
A dead (broken) battery on an iphone is on par with a broken screen, etc. IMHO, which is unacceptable.
This is like having a flat tire and having the following telephone conversation on the roadside:
You: "yeah, my tire is flat and I cant find a jack or a spare anywhere on this new car."
Dealership: "I'm sorry sir that your tire is flat. Have it towed in to the dealership and we'll get that replaced. is tomorrow OK to get it back to you?"
You: "Tomorrow?!?!?! Its morning rush hour and there are two other cars here that ran over the same box of nails, and they are almost done repairing the damage themselves!"
Dealer: "Yes, I know its only 7am, but you know how these things go... Repairs take time!"
I can see the next apple invention... the iFlashlight. Its not just a flashlight, its a SOLAR POWERED flashlight! No batteries needed!
OOOH!!! or from the new Apple Defense Contracts Division, the iSubmarine... it has screen doors!
Farking idiots.
Try this on for size. (Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator, $30)P rodView.asp?g=771&I=142FMMOD01
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-PA0p6u2g1Jg/cgi-bin/
This bad boy connects to your antenna connection behind the dash, and as soon as you power it up to use it, it "disconnects" the aerial antenna, eliminating that interference.
I am buying one because I have exactly TWO usable freqencies in my area that I can use... one for the east side of town where I work, and the other on the south side where I live... And both of those still get stepped on a bit.