I use to own a Dell Inspiron 5150 that had to have a motherboard replaced out of warranty. (I've since given it to my wife as she is a lighter user and it'll probably last longer with her). The most likely cause is a known but never acknowledged issue where with normal use the case wears against a component on the motherboard severing it. It's not the first such issue I've heard of.
I too have an Inspiron 5150, and I too had the motherboard replaced past the original warranty; however it was still free as a result of a class action lawsuit over this problem in the 5150. http://www.lieffcabraser.com/dell-inspiron-2.htm
Exactly. I used to work for a company where there was one smoker who chain-smoked all day long in her office. She went through computer components and printers like the rest of the office went through coffee. The other computers had hardly any hardware problems. From motherboard failures, dead CPU (heatsink was covered in that fuzzy residue you mentioned), to hard drive failures, multiple dead printers (the electronics apparently, not the mechanical parts); I was always replacing something in her office. It was ridiculous.
I don't blame Apple at all for voiding warranties of computers kept in such damaging conditions. Just seems they are citing the wrong reasons here.
"Long-winded 'explanations' of the code in the application's comments (that is, the ones that read like excuses), indicate that the developer probably didn't understand what he was doing.'"
That's right, I'm an expert and I keep my code comments short and sweet. Observe:
// This function kicks ass.
function kick_ass()
{ ...
// This following code is like Chuck Norris. It doesn't know how to fail.
It would be difficult to add any more arrogance to your comment.
As a computer science (BS) student I too had a lot of difficulty with calculus. I'm not bad at math, but calculus in particular was just completely unintuitive to my brain. No other course in the CS program gave me as much trouble as did calculus.
I'm glad I suffered through it (though unfortunately my GPA suffered too) because I do think that calculus is valuable even if rarely used directly in computer science. I'm very good at programming and at problem solving, however I don't think calculus had anything to do with that at all.
Why is calculus required for CS? Probably because CS is frequently offered through the school of engineering and most engineering degrees require calculus. My university has since added a new CS degree (BA) through the college of arts and sciences that does not require calculus. Historically CS got lumped in with engineering because they didn't know where else to put it and that seemed like the closest fit. It is not a perfect fit, and CS does not necessarily require calculus; certainly not in the way the more traditional engineering disciplines do.
As someone with long experience working with lawyers I can tell you that the percentage that are dirty, crooked scumbags is just as high as in IT or the general population. If no lawyer did anything dodgy then there wouldn't be many disciplinary or disbarment hearings, yet they happen all the time. Just look up news reports of lawyers busted for fraud involving millions or billions of dollars. There are several from just the past few days, and that's only one type of dodgy act and only the high-profile cases that make the news.
Why is this so funny? I use the digital equivalent all the time. No need to store massive amounts of data when you can backup the md5 hash instead. It's never more than thirty-some bytes so I haven't even needed to overwrite older backups.
Nobody thinks picking a good meal over a bad one is unethical.
But most people agree that picking the best parts off a buffet is at least questionable.
You're related to that bad analogy guy, aren't you?
for $10. I had considered buying WoG in the past but always hesitated because I wasn't sure it was worth $20 to me.
Sure, I could have got it for $1 or $0.10 or $0.01, but the site says "Pay whatever you think it is worth" which isn't quite the same as "name the amount you want to spend". Considering the game is fairly simple but a lot of fun, Linux native, and DRM free; I think it's definitely worth what I paid.
It was an biography in which he mentioned having sex with "boys" of an unspecified age. It's not clear whether that meant young men or something else, but he claims they were within 5 years of his own age (which I don't necessarily believe).
In any case it certainly was NOT "a book about buggering young Thai boys" and your conclusion based on that claim is absurd.
You sir, are a grade A troll.
Men just suck!
A man wrote a book about buggering young Thai boys.
What a joke of a gender.
Old people just suck!
Someone over 60 wrong a book about buggering young Thai boys.
What a joke of a generation.
Bad arguments just suck!
A member of a population wrote a book about buggering young Thai boys.
Therefore the whole population sucks.
What a joke of an argument!
I take it you don't watch basic cable TV or basic satellite TV. You pay for it, but it still has ads.
I only have broadcast and the only channels unblocked are PBS. The commercials/sponsor mentions only come between programs and are just long enough to go get a snack or go to the bathroom. When people talk about a certain ad on TV, I generally have no idea what they are taking about. I can't stand being bombarded with advertising.
So do I get a cookie? Whoops, I mean.. do I get a delicious NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® cookie?
I'd just assume get an Airport if I was going to use a commercial router
Ugh, no...
Airports have no web interface. You HAVE to use a mac or windows binary app in order to configure an Airport. Could they be any more anti-open source? They also have no support for static routes. And for that you pay 3x the price of devices that don't suffer these limitations. I generally like Apple but their access points are overpriced crap.
Don't forget that both WEP and WPA/TKIP are using proprietary algorithms and stream ciphers. Using proprietary crypto has always been a bad thing, and using it with a stream cipher is worse.
The real problem with proprietary ciphers is that they are usually secret black boxes. RC4 may be proprietary but it is no more secret than say, CSS. The difference is CSS was revealed to be crap where RC4, even after it was "outed" was found to be pretty decent for its time. I definitely agree that proprietary ciphers that aren't open for review shouldn't be trusted for anything, but that's really not relevant to problems with RC4 in WEP/WPA. RC4 had a good run but is showing its age, so it's time to move on to newer, better ciphers.
If you look at the Wikipedia site you can quickly see that TKIP was implemented for easy upgrades of WEP. Seems they took it a bit too easy.
You call it "easy upgrades" but the point of WPA was to fix the glaring problems with WEP in a way that could be implemented on most existing hardware designed for WEP. It was always meant to be an intermediate solution until that hardware was replaced with newer devices supporting WPA2, etc. If that was too easy, you think they should have skipped WPA and gone right to WPA2, requiring everyone to buy new access points and adapters right away?
In response to GP: you're never "completely protected" no matter what and security is a process not a product. (Meaning; you always have to be working on the next protocol or cipher. The last one will be broken eventually).
Oh my god. I dropped my cheesy fries, ice cream and XXL soda and almost had a heart attack just thinking about walking up to half a block! Please resuscitate me when somebody comes up with a drive-through parking meter payment system.
After several instances of your company being evil towards the community bnetd & removal of LAN play on your newest titles, please give me a good reason to buy what you are selling.
If I were Blizzard my reply would say something about how the new battle net will be full of improvements to provide the best possible user experience and because that's is what we want for our customers, we aren't supporting LAN mode or independent game servers.
Of course I don't agree with that line of marketing BS, but the problem is how you phrased your question. "...please give me a good reason to buy...". You asked to be fed some BS. What else are they going to say?
I would rather see Blizzard answer this:
I am a big fan of Starcraft and I was really looking forward to Starcraft 2, but the removal of LAN mode is a deal breaker. If SC2 ships without a LAN mode that doesn't require any sort of Internet access to play a multiplayer game on a LAN, then I won't buy it. Period. My question is: do you care? And if so, what are you going to do about it?
We were supposed to have a BMW 335D but it was "not available" when we arrived.
Sounds familiar. When I vacationed in Germany a number of years ago I had reserved an Audi A4 sedan, but when I showed up it was "not available". They started to give me a Volvo wagon and I was not happy, but what could I do? Well, I'm not fluent in German, but I was visiting a German friend and thankfully she pointed out the sign that said, in German, that if they don't have the car you reserved you will get something else from the same tier or a higher tier. The rental staff grumbled at this, but they complied so we got a Mercedes C-class instead and at the same rate. The rental was through EuropCar; YMMV.
Go to a VW dealer and drive either a diesel Jetta or Bug - they have GREAT pickup - way better than a gas engine, especially at highway speed where the torque in a gas engine totally falls off.
I agree; if you're a diesel doubter, go drive one!
However, you can't get a diesel Beetle in North America anymore. Right now the new 2.0L diesel is available in the Jetta sedan and Sportwagen, and will soon be available in the Mk6 Golf.
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Like, will it still count as masturbation if he uses the cybernetic hand?
And, can they give you control without feeling sensation? Because that would totally feel like somebody else's hand...
I use to own a Dell Inspiron 5150 that had to have a motherboard replaced out of warranty. (I've since given it to my wife as she is a lighter user and it'll probably last longer with her). The most likely cause is a known but never acknowledged issue where with normal use the case wears against a component on the motherboard severing it. It's not the first such issue I've heard of.
I too have an Inspiron 5150, and I too had the motherboard replaced past the original warranty; however it was still free as a result of a class action lawsuit over this problem in the 5150.
http://www.lieffcabraser.com/dell-inspiron-2.htm
Computers are made of all kinds of toxic substances. Just don't lick them, and wear surgical gloves, and you should be okay.
Oh, shit. I was in mid-lick when I read that. If I go put on some gloves after the fact, will I be protected?
Exactly. I used to work for a company where there was one smoker who chain-smoked all day long in her office. She went through computer components and printers like the rest of the office went through coffee. The other computers had hardly any hardware problems. From motherboard failures, dead CPU (heatsink was covered in that fuzzy residue you mentioned), to hard drive failures, multiple dead printers (the electronics apparently, not the mechanical parts); I was always replacing something in her office. It was ridiculous.
I don't blame Apple at all for voiding warranties of computers kept in such damaging conditions. Just seems they are citing the wrong reasons here.
He said one million, but maybe he was just having a Dr. Evil moment.
So what he really meant was ONE HUNDRED... BILLION DOLLARS!
"Long-winded 'explanations' of the code in the application's comments (that is, the ones that read like excuses), indicate that the developer probably didn't understand what he was doing.'"
// This function kicks ass.
...
// This following code is like Chuck Norris. It doesn't know how to fail.
...
That's right, I'm an expert and I keep my code comments short and sweet. Observe:
function kick_ass()
{
while(true)
{
It would be difficult to add any more arrogance to your comment.
As a computer science (BS) student I too had a lot of difficulty with calculus. I'm not bad at math, but calculus in particular was just completely unintuitive to my brain. No other course in the CS program gave me as much trouble as did calculus.
I'm glad I suffered through it (though unfortunately my GPA suffered too) because I do think that calculus is valuable even if rarely used directly in computer science. I'm very good at programming and at problem solving, however I don't think calculus had anything to do with that at all.
Why is calculus required for CS? Probably because CS is frequently offered through the school of engineering and most engineering degrees require calculus. My university has since added a new CS degree (BA) through the college of arts and sciences that does not require calculus. Historically CS got lumped in with engineering because they didn't know where else to put it and that seemed like the closest fit. It is not a perfect fit, and CS does not necessarily require calculus; certainly not in the way the more traditional engineering disciplines do.
As someone with long experience working with lawyers I can tell you that the percentage that are dirty, crooked scumbags is just as high as in IT or the general population. If no lawyer did anything dodgy then there wouldn't be many disciplinary or disbarment hearings, yet they happen all the time. Just look up news reports of lawyers busted for fraud involving millions or billions of dollars. There are several from just the past few days, and that's only one type of dodgy act and only the high-profile cases that make the news.
it can always get me home from any bar in any area.
Yeah, but if you get cited for too many RUI/RWI's they can impound your horse or at least issue you a pink saddle to publicly shame you.
RTFM, Grandma!
Why is this so funny? I use the digital equivalent all the time. No need to store massive amounts of data when you can backup the md5 hash instead. It's never more than thirty-some bytes so I haven't even needed to overwrite older backups.
Exactly.
Nobody thinks picking a good meal over a bad one is unethical. But most people agree that picking the best parts off a buffet is at least questionable.
You're related to that bad analogy guy, aren't you?
for $10. I had considered buying WoG in the past but always hesitated because I wasn't sure it was worth $20 to me.
Sure, I could have got it for $1 or $0.10 or $0.01, but the site says "Pay whatever you think it is worth" which isn't quite the same as "name the amount you want to spend". Considering the game is fairly simple but a lot of fun, Linux native, and DRM free; I think it's definitely worth what I paid.
Have you been to a GM dealership in the past decade? They already do the tire iron thing.
I'm waiting for them to erect a Rack of Fortune on the showroom floor.
It was an biography in which he mentioned having sex with "boys" of an unspecified age. It's not clear whether that meant young men or something else, but he claims they were within 5 years of his own age (which I don't necessarily believe).
In any case it certainly was NOT "a book about buggering young Thai boys" and your conclusion based on that claim is absurd.
You sir, are a grade A troll.
Men just suck!
A man wrote a book about buggering young Thai boys.
What a joke of a gender.
Old people just suck!
Someone over 60 wrong a book about buggering young Thai boys.
What a joke of a generation.
Bad arguments just suck!
A member of a population wrote a book about buggering young Thai boys.
Therefore the whole population sucks.
What a joke of an argument!
I take it you don't watch basic cable TV or basic satellite TV. You pay for it, but it still has ads.
I only have broadcast and the only channels unblocked are PBS. The commercials/sponsor mentions only come between programs and are just long enough to go get a snack or go to the bathroom. When people talk about a certain ad on TV, I generally have no idea what they are taking about. I can't stand being bombarded with advertising.
So do I get a cookie? Whoops, I mean.. do I get a delicious NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® cookie?
Well, such communistic activities are clearly un-american...
Ugh, no...
Airports have no web interface. You HAVE to use a mac or windows binary app in order to configure an Airport. Could they be any more anti-open source? They also have no support for static routes. And for that you pay 3x the price of devices that don't suffer these limitations. I generally like Apple but their access points are overpriced crap.
The attack area of IE is roughly equal to infinity, therefore:
infinity*2 => infinity
So there, no effect.
Don't forget that both WEP and WPA/TKIP are using proprietary algorithms and stream ciphers. Using proprietary crypto has always been a bad thing, and using it with a stream cipher is worse.
The real problem with proprietary ciphers is that they are usually secret black boxes. RC4 may be proprietary but it is no more secret than say, CSS. The difference is CSS was revealed to be crap where RC4, even after it was "outed" was found to be pretty decent for its time. I definitely agree that proprietary ciphers that aren't open for review shouldn't be trusted for anything, but that's really not relevant to problems with RC4 in WEP/WPA. RC4 had a good run but is showing its age, so it's time to move on to newer, better ciphers.
If you look at the Wikipedia site you can quickly see that TKIP was implemented for easy upgrades of WEP. Seems they took it a bit too easy.
You call it "easy upgrades" but the point of WPA was to fix the glaring problems with WEP in a way that could be implemented on most existing hardware designed for WEP. It was always meant to be an intermediate solution until that hardware was replaced with newer devices supporting WPA2, etc. If that was too easy, you think they should have skipped WPA and gone right to WPA2, requiring everyone to buy new access points and adapters right away?
In response to GP: you're never "completely protected" no matter what and security is a process not a product. (Meaning; you always have to be working on the next protocol or cipher. The last one will be broken eventually).
Oh my god. I dropped my cheesy fries, ice cream and XXL soda and almost had a heart attack just thinking about walking up to half a block! Please resuscitate me when somebody comes up with a drive-through parking meter payment system.
After several instances of your company being evil towards the community bnetd & removal of LAN play on your newest titles, please give me a good reason to buy what you are selling.
If I were Blizzard my reply would say something about how the new battle net will be full of improvements to provide the best possible user experience and because that's is what we want for our customers, we aren't supporting LAN mode or independent game servers.
Of course I don't agree with that line of marketing BS, but the problem is how you phrased your question. "...please give me a good reason to buy...". You asked to be fed some BS. What else are they going to say?
I would rather see Blizzard answer this:
I am a big fan of Starcraft and I was really looking forward to Starcraft 2, but the removal of LAN mode is a deal breaker. If SC2 ships without a LAN mode that doesn't require any sort of Internet access to play a multiplayer game on a LAN, then I won't buy it. Period. My question is: do you care? And if so, what are you going to do about it?
We were supposed to have a BMW 335D but it was "not available" when we arrived.
Sounds familiar. When I vacationed in Germany a number of years ago I had reserved an Audi A4 sedan, but when I showed up it was "not available". They started to give me a Volvo wagon and I was not happy, but what could I do? Well, I'm not fluent in German, but I was visiting a German friend and thankfully she pointed out the sign that said, in German, that if they don't have the car you reserved you will get something else from the same tier or a higher tier. The rental staff grumbled at this, but they complied so we got a Mercedes C-class instead and at the same rate. The rental was through EuropCar; YMMV.
Go to a VW dealer and drive either a diesel Jetta or Bug - they have GREAT pickup - way better than a gas engine, especially at highway speed where the torque in a gas engine totally falls off.
I agree; if you're a diesel doubter, go drive one! However, you can't get a diesel Beetle in North America anymore. Right now the new 2.0L diesel is available in the Jetta sedan and Sportwagen, and will soon be available in the Mk6 Golf.