Lenovo bought the right to manufacture notebooks under the Thinkpad TM from IBM. Thinkpads were only allowed to continue bearing the IBM logo for a year or so after the purchase. I was under the impression that when the IBM logo went byebye so did any design/mfg support by IBM.
Either way the T61 is a very nice buisness class notebook that I'd buy any day over a MBP.
The last game I had a joystick set up for was BF2 (for the jets/choppers), but wound up preferring kb/mouse. The last game I preferred a joystick/mouse as primary control on was MechWarrior3. A 6 button joystick (+ Hat) with 4 analog axises and a 3 button wheel-mouse gave a pretty immersive experience.
Harry Blackitt: Look at them, bloody Catholics, filling the bloody world up with bloody people they can't afford to bloody feed. Mrs. Blackitt: What are we dear? Harry Blackitt: Protestant, and fiercely proud of it. Mrs. Blackitt: Hmm. Well, why do they have so many children? Harry Blackitt: Because... every time they have sexual intercourse, they have to have a baby. Mrs. Blackitt: But it's the same with us, Harry. Harry Blackitt: What do you mean? Mrs. Blackitt: Well, I mean, we've got two children, and we've had sexual intercourse twice. Harry Blackitt: That's not the point. We could have it any time we wanted. Mrs. Blackitt: Really? Harry Blackitt: Oh, yes, and, what's more, because we don't believe in all that Papist claptrap, we can take precautions. Mrs. Blackitt: What, you mean... lock the door? Harry Blackitt: No, no. I mean, because we are members of the Protestant Reformed Church, which successfully challenged the autocratic power of the Papacy in the mid-sixteenth century, we can wear little rubber devices to prevent issue. Mrs. Blackitt: What d'you mean? Harry Blackitt: I could, if I wanted, have sexual intercourse with you... Mrs. Blackitt: Oh, yes, Harry. Harry Blackitt:...and, by wearing a rubber sheath over my old feller, I could insure... that, when I came off, you would not be impregnated. Mrs. Blackitt: Ooh. Harry Blackitt: That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas... [sniff] Harry Blackitt:... and, Protestantism doesn't stop at the simple condom. Oh, no. I can wear French Ticklers if I want. Mrs. Blackitt: You what? Harry Blackitt: French Ticklers. Black Mambos. Crocodile Ribs. Sheaths that are designed not only to protect, but also to enhance the stimulation of sexual congress. Mrs. Blackitt: Have you got one? Harry Blackitt: Have I got one? Uh, well, no, but I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice, 'Harry, I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a French Tickler, for I am a Protestant.' Mrs. Blackitt: Well, why don't you? Harry Blackitt: But they - Well, they cannot, 'cause their church never made the great leap out of the Middle Ages and the domination of alien Episcopal supremacy.
In my comparative religions class (20 odd years ago) the term cult was used to describe any religious group of less than x members (where x = some number I forget, but I want to say ~10,000). At that time Zoroastrians, who were credited as being probable originators of a morality based heaven/hell eschatology, were sliding back into cult status. Sikhs had graduated to religion. The Church of Satan claimed full religion status (and I believe were even recognised by the US Army).
As a result when anyone refers to something as a cult as a derogatory comment my subconcious says, "So their dogmatic ideas don't agree with your dogmatic ideas", but I just nod, smile, and try to find someway to shift the conversation to the real pronunciation of Gigabyte.
Fascism has at its core, the philosophy that the people exist to support the government's needs. The first thing that fascist governments usually do is to remove corporate posession from owners and stockholders (a type of corporati). The merging you describe, refers to the people and how their goals and power become the goals and power of the government. Those people's groups (corporata, iirc) then no longer need to exist and, in a fascist state, will not be allowed outside of the government.
Conversely, a trend towards allowing corporate entities more rights and responsibilities removes everyday power from the government and places it in the control of the officers and owners of the corporations. This is a move towards oligarchical control and is the antithesis of fascism.
While a fascist state could itself be oligarchical in nature, it would still seek direct control of power and not divest it to the political systems that exist in and serve corporate interests.
I like that its under 2KG. But the thinness doesn't matter to me when it sacrifices functionality this much. I was really just hoping for a new, Intel+GF8800GS 13" Macbook Pro.
I have a feeling, though, that some usability studies were done on the size of the notebook regarding purse capacity or something. I can almost hear Jobs saying "Make it thinner! If you can make it just 3mm thinner someone could fit a CPR How-to Booklet into their purse. and that could save a life! Making it thinner could save a life!"
Actually It's worse than that. The net heat output of a peltier cooled chip is higher. So you need even more of whatever cooling you were going to use to begin with. So the fan can still fail as well.
The popularized advantage of peltier cooled cpus was that, with very efficient cooling (say, water cooling and a well ventilated computer room), you could get the cpu below ambient temperature, sometimes below freezing temp. It was an "easy" way to get a "stable" 1GHz out of an old Slot A Athlon
The concern about peltier failure prompted some people with too much time on their hands (like me) to mount a 120w pelt on top of the 65w cpu's waterblock (to cool the copper waterblock which would cool the cpu) and then mount a second waterblock just for the hot side of the peltier. the idea being, temperature monitoring would have the time needed to shut the system down if the peltier failed while the waterblock would act as the heatplate for the cpu (you need one anyways). The limitation of this araingement was room temperature (at best) water flowing between the peltier and the cpu.
Naw, I wore one out and gave two away as xmas gifts to programmer friends years ago. I only have one left and it's an AT model with a PS/2 adapter. I actually learned to love the huge, clicky, Mouse Systems ergo Keyboards and when they went bankrupt I got a couple of them too.
In my opinion the non-commission sales people are even worse. The only incentive they have to help you, is if they could win the monthly prize for performing the most upsells of overpriced crap or if the store manager is standing there staring at them.
"Doesn't know anything. Asks his fourteen year old cousin. Ends up with a monster PC for gaming that is just as outdated in three years as the cheap one the salesman wanted to sell him"
I'm of the experience that high end gaming machines don't become outdated after three years, they tend to become "the cheap one the salesman wants to sell him" in the stores 3 years later. So you're talkng 6+ years. That gaming machines typically have twice as much memory, faster harddrives, in addition to CPUs that are significantly faster, no doubt helps. However JB thinks differently because 3 years of indescriminant porn surfing has left his machine with very few cycles not dedicated serving malware.
Small pellets are only ineffective if they are allowed to spread from the barrel of a gun. However if you confine the spread to an entry wound (glaser/magsafe) the effect can be quite effective. Admittedly, penetration is not ideal compared to a good hollow point round like a 10mm Norma Black Talon, but it's a sensible compromise if you want to stop an attacker and minimize the chance of a stray shot killing a neighbor in an adjoining apartment.
"But still, these things are important, especially now."
I think now is the perfect time to stay put, bolt the doors, shutter the windows, and start turning our homes into Neuschwanstein-esque Winchester Mystery Houses.
Feed the grid with your ElectroExerBike! Now you too can reduce your waistline AND your electricity bill by up to $3.50 per month with only 6 hours of work per day!
I'd certainly consider it. From what I've read you could design a PBR to run on some of the more common radioactive materials and the design is inherently safe. But I don't know if they are cost efficient than a coal fired generator and I don't really want to have religious wackos picketing my front yard.
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Lenovo bought the right to manufacture notebooks under the Thinkpad TM from IBM. Thinkpads were only allowed to continue bearing the IBM logo for a year or so after the purchase. I was under the impression that when the IBM logo went byebye so did any design/mfg support by IBM.
Either way the T61 is a very nice buisness class notebook that I'd buy any day over a MBP.
The last game I had a joystick set up for was BF2 (for the jets/choppers), but wound up preferring kb/mouse. The last game I preferred a joystick/mouse as primary control on was MechWarrior3. A 6 button joystick (+ Hat) with 4 analog axises and a 3 button wheel-mouse gave a pretty immersive experience.
Harry Blackitt: Look at them, bloody Catholics, filling the bloody world up with bloody people they can't afford to bloody feed. ...and, by wearing a rubber sheath over my old feller, I could insure... that, when I came off, you would not be impregnated. ... and, Protestantism doesn't stop at the simple condom. Oh, no. I can wear French Ticklers if I want.
Mrs. Blackitt: What are we dear?
Harry Blackitt: Protestant, and fiercely proud of it.
Mrs. Blackitt: Hmm. Well, why do they have so many children?
Harry Blackitt: Because... every time they have sexual intercourse, they have to have a baby.
Mrs. Blackitt: But it's the same with us, Harry.
Harry Blackitt: What do you mean?
Mrs. Blackitt: Well, I mean, we've got two children, and we've had sexual intercourse twice.
Harry Blackitt: That's not the point. We could have it any time we wanted.
Mrs. Blackitt: Really?
Harry Blackitt: Oh, yes, and, what's more, because we don't believe in all that Papist claptrap, we can take precautions.
Mrs. Blackitt: What, you mean... lock the door?
Harry Blackitt: No, no. I mean, because we are members of the Protestant Reformed Church, which successfully challenged the autocratic power of the Papacy in the mid-sixteenth century, we can wear little rubber devices to prevent issue.
Mrs. Blackitt: What d'you mean?
Harry Blackitt: I could, if I wanted, have sexual intercourse with you...
Mrs. Blackitt: Oh, yes, Harry.
Harry Blackitt:
Mrs. Blackitt: Ooh.
Harry Blackitt: That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas...
[sniff]
Harry Blackitt:
Mrs. Blackitt: You what?
Harry Blackitt: French Ticklers. Black Mambos. Crocodile Ribs. Sheaths that are designed not only to protect, but also to enhance the stimulation of sexual congress.
Mrs. Blackitt: Have you got one?
Harry Blackitt: Have I got one? Uh, well, no, but I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice, 'Harry, I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a French Tickler, for I am a Protestant.'
Mrs. Blackitt: Well, why don't you?
Harry Blackitt: But they - Well, they cannot, 'cause their church never made the great leap out of the Middle Ages and the domination of alien Episcopal supremacy.
Or Windows98? :X
I think I've gone nutz, because not only did I understand (I think) what you typed but I believed it. Maybe it's the vodka.
In my comparative religions class (20 odd years ago) the term cult was used to describe any religious group of less than x members (where x = some number I forget, but I want to say ~10,000). At that time Zoroastrians, who were credited as being probable originators of a morality based heaven/hell eschatology, were sliding back into cult status. Sikhs had graduated to religion. The Church of Satan claimed full religion status (and I believe were even recognised by the US Army).
As a result when anyone refers to something as a cult as a derogatory comment my subconcious says, "So their dogmatic ideas don't agree with your dogmatic ideas", but I just nod, smile, and try to find someway to shift the conversation to the real pronunciation of Gigabyte.
Fascism has at its core, the philosophy that the people exist to support the government's needs. The first thing that fascist governments usually do is to remove corporate posession from owners and stockholders (a type of corporati). The merging you describe, refers to the people and how their goals and power become the goals and power of the government. Those people's groups (corporata, iirc) then no longer need to exist and, in a fascist state, will not be allowed outside of the government.
Conversely, a trend towards allowing corporate entities more rights and responsibilities removes everyday power from the government and places it in the control of the officers and owners of the corporations. This is a move towards oligarchical control and is the antithesis of fascism.
While a fascist state could itself be oligarchical in nature, it would still seek direct control of power and not divest it to the political systems that exist in and serve corporate interests.
$1700 is only 1156 Euros. Sounds quite reasonable that way.
I like that its under 2KG. But the thinness doesn't matter to me when it sacrifices functionality this much. I was really just hoping for a new, Intel+GF8800GS 13" Macbook Pro.
I have a feeling, though, that some usability studies were done on the size of the notebook regarding purse capacity or something. I can almost hear Jobs saying "Make it thinner! If you can make it just 3mm thinner someone could fit a CPR How-to Booklet into their purse. and that could save a life! Making it thinner could save a life!"
With explosisives it's called, "Making the rubble bounce."
The redheaded sobsucker is particularly facinating to watch.
That's ok, I prefer bourbon. Oh, wait...
Actually It's worse than that. The net heat output of a peltier cooled chip is higher. So you need even more of whatever cooling you were going to use to begin with. So the fan can still fail as well.
The popularized advantage of peltier cooled cpus was that, with very efficient cooling (say, water cooling and a well ventilated computer room), you could get the cpu below ambient temperature, sometimes below freezing temp. It was an "easy" way to get a "stable" 1GHz out of an old Slot A Athlon
The concern about peltier failure prompted some people with too much time on their hands (like me) to mount a 120w pelt on top of the 65w cpu's waterblock (to cool the copper waterblock which would cool the cpu) and then mount a second waterblock just for the hot side of the peltier. the idea being, temperature monitoring would have the time needed to shut the system down if the peltier failed while the waterblock would act as the heatplate for the cpu (you need one anyways). The limitation of this araingement was room temperature (at best) water flowing between the peltier and the cpu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN0LQJLabqA
Naw, I wore one out and gave two away as xmas gifts to programmer friends years ago. I only have one left and it's an AT model with a PS/2 adapter. I actually learned to love the huge, clicky, Mouse Systems ergo Keyboards and when they went bankrupt I got a couple of them too.
In my opinion the non-commission sales people are even worse. The only incentive they have to help you, is if they could win the monthly prize for performing the most upsells of overpriced crap or if the store manager is standing there staring at them.
"Doesn't know anything. Asks his fourteen year old cousin. Ends up with a monster PC for gaming that is just as outdated in three years as the cheap one the salesman wanted to sell him"
I'm of the experience that high end gaming machines don't become outdated after three years, they tend to become "the cheap one the salesman wants to sell him" in the stores 3 years later. So you're talkng 6+ years. That gaming machines typically have twice as much memory, faster harddrives, in addition to CPUs that are significantly faster, no doubt helps. However JB thinks differently because 3 years of indescriminant porn surfing has left his machine with very few cycles not dedicated serving malware.
That's not the cure for cancer, they're just saying "AK ak, AK AK Ak." ... while drawing the international symbol of the donut.
Small pellets are only ineffective if they are allowed to spread from the barrel of a gun. However if you confine the spread to an entry wound (glaser/magsafe) the effect can be quite effective. Admittedly, penetration is not ideal compared to a good hollow point round like a 10mm Norma Black Talon, but it's a sensible compromise if you want to stop an attacker and minimize the chance of a stray shot killing a neighbor in an adjoining apartment.
"But still, these things are important, especially now."
I think now is the perfect time to stay put, bolt the doors, shutter the windows, and start turning our homes into Neuschwanstein-esque Winchester Mystery Houses.
Feed the grid with your ElectroExerBike! Now you too can reduce your waistline AND your electricity bill by up to $3.50 per month with only 6 hours of work per day!
Yours for only $299 in 3 easy monthly payments.
I'd certainly consider it. From what I've read you could design a PBR to run on some of the more common radioactive materials and the design is inherently safe. But I don't know if they are cost efficient than a coal fired generator and I don't really want to have religious wackos picketing my front yard.
That was my thought too. While I'm sure the actual sail is expensive I'd imagine the computer controlled part is much much more expensive.
Now we're getting our ideas from Waterworld. Just go to 2:00minutes in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1kIXMr6440&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9o3_daDZw&feature=related