All the money you pay for these cases could better be spent on the technology that is inside them. If I was a shareholder and 'my' company wasted money om this I would invest my money elsewhere.
And should 'your companies' also dump their nice oak desks, and Aeron chairs for Ikea crap?
Many of these custom cases take standard sized mother boards, power supplies, and drives. I suspect that a 10 year life span is reasonable for anyone with even a moderate ability to swap out components for newer editions. The only difficulty I see is adapting to newer ports - at some point USB will be as much of a legacy port as a PS2 keyboard port, and it might take a bit more ability to stay current.
Although you might have a point - I'm often surprised by a $200,000 office suite with a $700 crap HP mini tower sitting on a $20,000 desk.
Caltech is primarily a research institute, and the majority of PhD holding researchers do not teach.
If you include those associated with JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs), there are around 900 to 1,000 PhD's.
When I was an undergrad, there were fewer undergrads (my freshman class had 186) than PhD's on campus. There were also fewer women in my freshman class than Caltech Nobel winners...
On a drive from Denver to Chicago, I had some asshat in a BMW pacing me as soon as I entered Illinois. He (?) was going about 63, and I passed with my cruise at 73. It was midnight, and he stayed 3 or 4 car lengths behind. It was distracting, and not what I wanted after 12 hours of driving. I sped up to 95, lost him, and then slowed down to 73. Fucker caught up and hung on my tail again.
Did this once more, and then finally exited the highway for a minute. Back on the highway at 73, passed the 63 mph asshat, and sure enough he was on my ass again.
This time I simply called 911 and asked how to report a drunk driver. Gave the license plate (Michigan WOODY2) and car description, and about 4 minutes later an Illinois Trooper came out of nowhere and pulled him over. This was 79 miles into his asshattedness.
If he was drunk, he got what was coming. If not, then he was delayed by about as much time as he saved by pacing me.
Hehe... apparently Steve Ballmer isn't compatible with Zune: "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience". Does he even know how the Zune works? There should be a rule against putting the word 'Squirt' in a sentence with Steve Ballmer... ugh, nasty.
In other news, Balmer's secretary's Zune was RMA'd today when a chair was forcefully squirted at it.
If it's true that you need to purchase a new license after one significant upgrade, I suspect that for many, something like this will be their second upgrade.
Seconds earlier that night, said EC spokesman was was overheard in an Amsterdam cafe, "Dude! Can you believe it? $1.4 Billion. Pass that shit over here, some jackass American reporter is ringing my mobile."
... that the project name for the orbiting satellite was Balanced Orbit Autonomous Rondezvous Drone.
The dealbreaker for me... (No DVD-DL burning)
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I currently have a 1.5GHz 12" PB. I was all ready to buy a white 2.0 GHz for the academic price of $1,199.
DIY 2GB ram would add $200 or so, and when 160GB SATA drives came down in price, that would be the next DIY upgrade. I figured I could suffer through the nasty keyboard and lack of aluminum enclosure.
But the lack of dual layer DVD burning killed it for me.
While making my yearly trip to Radio Shack for size 386 watch batteries (cyclocomputer), the creepy 55 year old grey-haired, fat, bearded, handlebar-mustachioed clerk asked, "Would you like a cell phone for a penny?"
"Cool! Gimme a thousand of 'em," I replied as I smacked a ten dollar bill on the counter.
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Let's see of the results hold after Serenity makes a sequel with Jar Jar Binks.
I thought so.
So now when I stalk my ex, I need only disguise myself as a mobile coverage extender robot.
You've obviously never met my ex-wife.
Yes, but as we discussed, those were pig and dog genes.
All the money you pay for these cases could better be spent on the technology that is inside them. If I was a shareholder and 'my' company wasted money om this I would invest my money elsewhere.
And should 'your companies' also dump their nice oak desks, and Aeron chairs for Ikea crap?
Many of these custom cases take standard sized mother boards, power supplies, and drives. I suspect that a 10 year life span is reasonable for anyone with even a moderate ability to swap out components for newer editions. The only difficulty I see is adapting to newer ports - at some point USB will be as much of a legacy port as a PS2 keyboard port, and it might take a bit more ability to stay current.
Although you might have a point - I'm often surprised by a $200,000 office suite with a $700 crap HP mini tower sitting on a $20,000 desk.
The new drives are like hybrid cars
So they get 50mpg?
And drive slow in the car pool / HOV lane?
Stupid people live outside the US too, you insensitive clod!
Yeah. And most of us post to Slashdot.
The good news: everything in the article is true, and they've already started production with a major worldwide OEM.
The bad news: it's Sony.
Caltech is primarily a research institute, and the majority of PhD holding researchers do not teach.
If you include those associated with JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs), there are around 900 to 1,000 PhD's.
When I was an undergrad, there were fewer undergrads (my freshman class had 186) than PhD's on campus. There were also fewer women in my freshman class than Caltech Nobel winners...
... when you hear:
Forty Two.
On a drive from Denver to Chicago, I had some asshat in a BMW pacing me as soon as I entered Illinois. He (?) was going about 63, and I passed with my cruise at 73. It was midnight, and he stayed 3 or 4 car lengths behind. It was distracting, and not what I wanted after 12 hours of driving. I sped up to 95, lost him, and then slowed down to 73. Fucker caught up and hung on my tail again.
Did this once more, and then finally exited the highway for a minute. Back on the highway at 73, passed the 63 mph asshat, and sure enough he was on my ass again.
This time I simply called 911 and asked how to report a drunk driver. Gave the license plate (Michigan WOODY2) and car description, and about 4 minutes later an Illinois Trooper came out of nowhere and pulled him over. This was 79 miles into his asshattedness.
If he was drunk, he got what was coming. If not, then he was delayed by about as much time as he saved by pacing me.
I wonder if he saw me wave as the cop pulled up?
Hehe ... apparently Steve Ballmer isn't compatible with Zune: "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience". Does he even know how the Zune works? There should be a rule against putting the word 'Squirt' in a sentence with Steve Ballmer ... ugh, nasty.
In other news, Balmer's secretary's Zune was RMA'd today when a chair was forcefully squirted at it.
I know I had my DVR set to record it, but I can imagine many other /.ers did not... and now undoubtedly, some will.
You are correct. I'm a case in point.
I saw the headline, immediately queued it up on the Tivo, and only then came back to rtfa and comments.
How much would a link farm pay for the name?
How much would a YouTube competitor pay to auto-redirect to their site?
If it's true that you need to purchase a new license after one significant upgrade, I suspect that for many, something like this will be their
second upgrade.
... what his, umm, sharing ratio will be in prison.
Do you think he'll leave it open for peers after he's done?
Or try this sign.
We all remember the tense few days tracking down the sulphur leak that lead to the conspicuous posting of
this sign.
They're options, so cancelling them cannot result in a benefit to the issued party.
Here's a one-pager link for Anand:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2795
Is it shark mountable?
An EC spokesman was unwilling to comment.
Seconds earlier that night, said EC spokesman was was overheard in an Amsterdam cafe, "Dude! Can you believe it? $1.4 Billion. Pass that shit over here, some jackass American reporter is ringing my mobile."
... that the project name for the orbiting satellite was Balanced Orbit Autonomous Rondezvous Drone.
I currently have a 1.5GHz 12" PB. I was all ready to buy a white 2.0 GHz for the academic price of $1,199.
DIY 2GB ram would add $200 or so, and when 160GB SATA drives came down in price, that would be the next DIY upgrade. I figured I could suffer through the nasty keyboard and lack of aluminum enclosure.
But the lack of dual layer DVD burning killed it for me.
Now I wait.
This post is just stupid. It's full of lies. How did this get onto the main page?
Stop your rant. Save your breath. You'll need to rest up for the dupe.
For those who hate upselling:
While making my yearly trip to Radio Shack for size 386 watch batteries (cyclocomputer), the creepy 55 year old grey-haired, fat, bearded, handlebar-mustachioed clerk asked, "Would you like a cell phone for a penny?"
"Cool! Gimme a thousand of 'em," I replied as I smacked a ten dollar bill on the counter.