No problem 99% of the time. I was asked to open it years ago while going through LAX and then also Kansai and Narita. Ever since then, I just open it up and let them scan it open.
Personally, I bought a case similiar to the haliburton from Office Depot for $100 then packed the other $282.50 around the computer for protection and $.50 coffees.
I subscribe to two financial rules: 1)Don't spend the seed money. 2) It's all seed money.
Buy a cheaper case, find a simple padding solution and go save an entire african family for a year with the rest of the money.
I can imagine your righteous indignation schtick ends up being a BIG BUNCH of fun every time someone orders an extra hit of malt in their milkshake or orders a regular fries instead of a small. You'll always have that little nugget of information ready at the get-go about how that extra sixteen cents could pay for water filtration for a thousand endangered macaques in Nothern Kreplakistan.
Sometimes it's considered being frugal, but when you make it out like spending an extra couple hundred bucks for a case that has a LIFETIME WARRANTY to protect an invest of perhaps a couple THOUSAND dollars, you just end up sounding like a TIGHTASS.
I bet you're the type of person who contemplates turning the fridge off every now and again to 'save a few cents.'
Normally I hate hurling abuse and burning up karma but man, you made yourself sound like such an egotistical I-earn-$85k-a-year-but-still-clip-coupons-and-rati on-my-butter tightwad I just snapped.
I might just add that my father bought a set of Halliburton suitcases back when he used to be a travelling project engineer and it's lasted him 37 years and somewhere in the vicinity of six and a half million frequent flyer points worth of travelling. He still uses it to this day. I personally have a Halliburton briefcase that's lasted me seven years, about 1.2 million miles worth of travel, countless trips down stairs and other trials and tribulations in some of the most inhospitable parts of Northern Africa and bitter cold parts of Southern America (I'm a photographer in case you're wondering). I can't even begin to imagine how many dozens of $100 Office Depot briefcases I would have gone through during those times.
Imagine how many starving fucking African families that would save. Jackass.
I always thought Booq made some fantastic laptop bags and accessories. Although it's predominantly aimed at Mac owners, the bags are obviously suited to other models as well. I have a Toshiba Portege which just loves the Booq bag it calls a cozy home.
Concerns over youth suicide being a prevalent issue in Japanese culture have been around a lot longer than 2002 (the year that film was made). That's like saying the movie 8 Mile predicted a future full of rap music.
Why is the rating system linear instead of exponential. I would like a song that has one more star than another to play TWICE more often.
Man, do you really want your favorite song to play 32 times for every 0-star rated song you have on your iPod? I don't care how much you love a song, after listening to it that often, you're bound to want to stab your iPod in the face. Or the closest fan of The Cure. Come to think of it, that'd be a win-win situation.
I have had to uninstall Norton a few times and the 'Add and Remove Programs' feature in Windows did not work. So, I had to go to this link [symantec.com] and do it manually....talk about a pain in the #*$%.
I have to admit that manually removing Norton is always a pain in the ass but Norton has provided a total removal tool for years. Before, it was called Rnav2003 and was available for free download on their website. Newer versions of Norton require SymNRT, which is also available free on their website:
It works like a charm and means you don't have to sit there manually removing Norton for two hours, secretly and silenting wanting to find a pencil, sharpen it and shove it in your eye.
So this power supply is running continously at 91% of its rated peak power. That's totally mad.
Why is it mad? Different strokes for different folks. A normal car engine would probably shriek and prolapse if you tried to run it at 91% for 99% of the time, but most jet engines are run very near peak nearly all the time. They're just designed differently.
I would hazard a guess that most reputable computer PSU manufacturers design their units to manage such a load over extended periods. Albeit some are more successful than others but I don't see it as being all that crazy a proposition.
You can start to "fight this stupidity" by not using Windows.
See, that's the thing. It's easy to say those three words, "Don't use Windows." But it's just not that simple. Hell, it's not even practical. Perhaps it's a bad analogy but it would be like saying to people who are complaining about gas prices, "Don't drive cars that run on gas." It's not as simple as just flicking a fucking switch and bam, you're home free. A lot of people know a thing or two about internal combustion engines and like to tinker around under the hood, but who would know the first fucking thing about a hybrid engine or a hydrogen-powered engine? If you have a problem with your car, you take it to your local friendly mechanic; how far do you have to go to find a mechanic who knows how a hydrogen fuel cell works? Perhaps you need your car to drive to work; what if your workplace doesn't allow you to drive a hybrid car onto the grounds? I used to be a manager at a shipping port and the only vehicles that were allowed on the premises ran on diesel. If your car wasn't a diesel, you weren't allowed within a hundred yards of the port due to safety concerns (tanker refuelling and the transportation of dangerous chemicals were common).
Perhaps I may have gone overboard, but the purpose of the analogy was to demonstrate that there are a plethora of reasons why "not using Windows" just isn't a very likely option. A lot of people find it hard enough trying to understand that there are different browser options out there other than "the blue 'e'", yet alone that they could replace their entire operating system. I've played around with a dozen flavors of Linux, UNIX, IRIX and all those others and I'd like to think I'm fairly competent in the field, but that doesn't mean I *like* having to dick around with the stuff. Most people don't look at computers the same way we do and I don't blame them for not wanting to be 'adventurous' when it comes to their PC. Unless you actually enjoying the tinkering, it can seem like a colossal waste of time.
And even if they did, trying to find a good quality source of support for insert-name-of-nix-platform-here is nowhere near as likely as Windows support. Sure, that nephew of the neighbor next door or your friend Bob's brother who's the assistant manager at Costco might not be the greatest person to turn to for Windows advice, but at least it's something tangible to lean on; not just a link to a FAQ from some obscure no-name blog.
Sometimes the environment dictates what OS to use. I've liaised with countless businesses that maintain a Windows-only environment for numerous justifiable reasons. Employees have to use company computers because connecting non-company PCs can cause a security issue, a compliancy issue, even a legal issue. Sometimes such a rule is enforced because management got stuck with the bill of having to hire contractors to provide support for additional platforms. Why pay someone else a premium rate just because you have a couple of cowboys who want to use their G4 Powerbooks at work? Fact is, a LOT of people spend a LOT of their time in front of computers which they DON'T own and therefore do not have the final say in how it is configured. They might be allowed to install iTunes or Winamp or maybe even their own choice of email client... but it's wishful thinking if you think that the operating system could be considered a variable.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with pretty much everything you say... but you had me until the final sentence. Sometimes it's just not that simple.
Yeah, Sony definitely wants to support all the 30+ platforms outthere.
See, it's that sort of naivete that I'm talking about. If Sony put all their information through their Supercalculamotron 4000(TM) and somehow came to the conclusion that it would be in their own interests to invest millions upon millions on fundamentally flawed DRM methods using dubious moral standards, what makes you think that they won't suddenly wake up one morning and think, "Holy shit! Linux users are getting a free lunch! Let's fuck them over somehow! Get First4Internet on the phone, I'm sure they'll be able to come up with something!" If that happened, then the very best you could expect would be a putrid aborted foetus of a DRM clusterfuck. Heaven forbid that a company like First4Internet actually do the job right. Knowing their competency, they'd just manage to send your mp3s to/dev/null or something.
Obviously *nix is a much more difficult problem for them to deal with... but you're just asking for it by sitting around lazily thinking it could never happen to you.
You know, I'm not a Microsoft fan by any stretch of the imagination (I have more than my fair share of Mac equipment for video editing) and I abhor sneaky DRM as much as the next Slashdot geek... but I must confess part of me is secretly glad that Mac users weren't entirely immune to this crap.
Why?
Because there are only a few things in this world more annoying than a bunch of Mac zealots chanting "I don't care because I don't run Windows! Ha-ha!"
Mac users (you too, Linux users) seem to have repeated their "Ha-ha, it doesn't affect us!" mantra so often, a lot have convinced themselves that they're invulnerable; as if not running Windows was like their own version of God mode. Just because you're not the average target demographic doesn't mean you're invincible. Expect more of these ludicrous steps in the future. Mac and Linux users still may not be the most common demographic and you might be able to hurdle over this somewhat inert attempt because it asks for admin rights, but this just goes to show they're putting in the man-hours trying to think of a way to screw you over too.
Your coffee break of naivete is over. Time to lift up your skirt, grab your balls and help fight this stupidity.
I "met" my wife on irc in 1993. It wasn't totally nerdy though because we were both on #drugs.
Are you sure? One time a friend met the Dalai Lama on #drugs, traded home brew beer recipes with him and over the course of the next three months, befriended him, resulting in receiving a ride on the Dalai Lama's personal flying dragon and a thousand lifetime's worth of enlightenment.
But then he woke up hungry with a broken bong in one hand and the TV remote in the other. Oddly enough he hadn't even left his dorm room.
You sure that's not just your buddy pretending to be a chick?
These babies are solar powered and NASA figured that dust from the atmosphere would render the solar panels useless after two months. The wind kept pushing the dust off the panels so.. there they go again.
Damn, I thought the solar panels provided partial recovery so as to extend mission life; this is great stuff.
Does anyone have any information on how exactly these Rovers are powered? When the Rovers exceeded expectations by a couple of months, I was under the impression the end was nigh due to inevitably failing power supplies. But now it's been a couple of years and the things still have juice. What gives?
Why learn Korean? I thought Sony was Japanese !! Or do they now make everything in Taiwan ?
Read TFA man. It's Sony Korea who have released it, hence Korean. Not to mention that last time I was in Taiwan (read: Republic of China), they spoke Mandarin Chinese, not Korean or Japanese.
Are there people really walking around with the Korean version of Windows running on their laptops simply because they bought it in Korea? What's the Korean word for fdisk?
I'd imagine it was a reference to the fact that you'd have to speak Korean to successfully order it from a Korean retailer/website, rather than language problems using the OS.
My laptop was overheating (cpu 80+).
Finally tracked down the problem.
I had Slashdot and The Register open constantly and the Macromedia adverts from both pages were making the cpu spin a lot.
Uninstall macromedia, cpu 50-60.
Problem solved.
Dude, I don't care how bloated a flash ad is, if it's making your CPU run 30 degrees hotter, I think you have other more serious problems on your hands than a plugin.
Like a high school friend of mine who never wore his good shoes - when he tried them the first time he had grown to large for them.
Yes, but do a pair of shoes lose any of its functionality if it gets scratched?
You'll find that a lot of iPod owners would prefer to keep their iPods aesthetically pristine but a lot more I believe are concerned about functionality. Scratch the iPod, that's a mere annoyance. Scratch the screen however, then it becomes an issue. You look at the screen all the time and you interact with it regularly. When it starts to lose its functionality it becomes very annoying very quickly. A bad scratch can make the damn thing near useless.
It's a bit like my laptop. I try to treat it with care but its seen its fair share of knocks. One thing about it however, that I take completely seriously is the screen. At the end of the day, I'd rather a deep scratch on the outside than a light scratch on the screen, so I find myself babying it when it's open and treating it with a little more gusto when it's closed. I also recommended to my parents that they spend a decent amount of money on a good monitor for their home PC. The computer might be outdated in 12 or 18 months but good monitors (read: Samsung) have five year warranties and considering the screen is the one component you're always looking at, it makes sense to spend a decent amount on it.
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No problem 99% of the time. I was asked to open it years ago while going through LAX and then also Kansai and Narita. Ever since then, I just open it up and let them scan it open.
Personally, I bought a case similiar to the haliburton from Office Depot for $100 then packed the other $282.50 around the computer for protection and $.50 coffees.
i on-my-butter tightwad I just snapped.
I subscribe to two financial rules: 1)Don't spend the seed money. 2) It's all seed money.
Buy a cheaper case, find a simple padding solution and go save an entire african family for a year with the rest of the money.
I can imagine your righteous indignation schtick ends up being a BIG BUNCH of fun every time someone orders an extra hit of malt in their milkshake or orders a regular fries instead of a small. You'll always have that little nugget of information ready at the get-go about how that extra sixteen cents could pay for water filtration for a thousand endangered macaques in Nothern Kreplakistan.
Sometimes it's considered being frugal, but when you make it out like spending an extra couple hundred bucks for a case that has a LIFETIME WARRANTY to protect an invest of perhaps a couple THOUSAND dollars, you just end up sounding like a TIGHTASS.
I bet you're the type of person who contemplates turning the fridge off every now and again to 'save a few cents.'
Normally I hate hurling abuse and burning up karma but man, you made yourself sound like such an egotistical I-earn-$85k-a-year-but-still-clip-coupons-and-rat
I might just add that my father bought a set of Halliburton suitcases back when he used to be a travelling project engineer and it's lasted him 37 years and somewhere in the vicinity of six and a half million frequent flyer points worth of travelling. He still uses it to this day. I personally have a Halliburton briefcase that's lasted me seven years, about 1.2 million miles worth of travel, countless trips down stairs and other trials and tribulations in some of the most inhospitable parts of Northern Africa and bitter cold parts of Southern America (I'm a photographer in case you're wondering). I can't even begin to imagine how many dozens of $100 Office Depot briefcases I would have gone through during those times.
Imagine how many starving fucking African families that would save. Jackass.
I always thought Booq made some fantastic laptop bags and accessories. Although it's predominantly aimed at Mac owners, the bags are obviously suited to other models as well. I have a Toshiba Portege which just loves the Booq bag it calls a cozy home.
Check them out at http://www.booqbags.com/
Well, that's easy for the green and red part, the blue laser is other business.. they don't come cheap nor small.
Yet another reason for Slashdot to hate Sony and Blu-Ray!
Clearly movies predict the future http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312843/
Concerns over youth suicide being a prevalent issue in Japanese culture have been around a lot longer than 2002 (the year that film was made). That's like saying the movie 8 Mile predicted a future full of rap music.
Why is the rating system linear instead of exponential. I would like a song that has one more star than another to play TWICE more often.
Man, do you really want your favorite song to play 32 times for every 0-star rated song you have on your iPod? I don't care how much you love a song, after listening to it that often, you're bound to want to stab your iPod in the face. Or the closest fan of The Cure. Come to think of it, that'd be a win-win situation.
I have had to uninstall Norton a few times and the 'Add and Remove Programs' feature in Windows did not work. So, I had to go to this link [symantec.com] and do it manually....talk about a pain in the #*$%.
f /docid/2005033108162039?Open&src=bar_sch_nam&docid =2004093015165236&nsf=tsgeninfo.nsf&view=docid&dty pe=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=
I have to admit that manually removing Norton is always a pain in the ass but Norton has provided a total removal tool for years. Before, it was called Rnav2003 and was available for free download on their website. Newer versions of Norton require SymNRT, which is also available free on their website:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.ns
It works like a charm and means you don't have to sit there manually removing Norton for two hours, secretly and silenting wanting to find a pencil, sharpen it and shove it in your eye.
So this power supply is running continously at 91% of its rated peak power. That's totally mad.
Why is it mad? Different strokes for different folks. A normal car engine would probably shriek and prolapse if you tried to run it at 91% for 99% of the time, but most jet engines are run very near peak nearly all the time. They're just designed differently.
I would hazard a guess that most reputable computer PSU manufacturers design their units to manage such a load over extended periods. Albeit some are more successful than others but I don't see it as being all that crazy a proposition.
A link would be nice...
Obviously your phone isn't Spinal Tap approved. Spinal Tap phones go to eleven.
You can start to "fight this stupidity" by not using Windows.
See, that's the thing. It's easy to say those three words, "Don't use Windows." But it's just not that simple. Hell, it's not even practical. Perhaps it's a bad analogy but it would be like saying to people who are complaining about gas prices, "Don't drive cars that run on gas." It's not as simple as just flicking a fucking switch and bam, you're home free. A lot of people know a thing or two about internal combustion engines and like to tinker around under the hood, but who would know the first fucking thing about a hybrid engine or a hydrogen-powered engine? If you have a problem with your car, you take it to your local friendly mechanic; how far do you have to go to find a mechanic who knows how a hydrogen fuel cell works? Perhaps you need your car to drive to work; what if your workplace doesn't allow you to drive a hybrid car onto the grounds? I used to be a manager at a shipping port and the only vehicles that were allowed on the premises ran on diesel. If your car wasn't a diesel, you weren't allowed within a hundred yards of the port due to safety concerns (tanker refuelling and the transportation of dangerous chemicals were common).
Perhaps I may have gone overboard, but the purpose of the analogy was to demonstrate that there are a plethora of reasons why "not using Windows" just isn't a very likely option. A lot of people find it hard enough trying to understand that there are different browser options out there other than "the blue 'e'", yet alone that they could replace their entire operating system. I've played around with a dozen flavors of Linux, UNIX, IRIX and all those others and I'd like to think I'm fairly competent in the field, but that doesn't mean I *like* having to dick around with the stuff. Most people don't look at computers the same way we do and I don't blame them for not wanting to be 'adventurous' when it comes to their PC. Unless you actually enjoying the tinkering, it can seem like a colossal waste of time.
And even if they did, trying to find a good quality source of support for insert-name-of-nix-platform-here is nowhere near as likely as Windows support. Sure, that nephew of the neighbor next door or your friend Bob's brother who's the assistant manager at Costco might not be the greatest person to turn to for Windows advice, but at least it's something tangible to lean on; not just a link to a FAQ from some obscure no-name blog.
Sometimes the environment dictates what OS to use. I've liaised with countless businesses that maintain a Windows-only environment for numerous justifiable reasons. Employees have to use company computers because connecting non-company PCs can cause a security issue, a compliancy issue, even a legal issue. Sometimes such a rule is enforced because management got stuck with the bill of having to hire contractors to provide support for additional platforms. Why pay someone else a premium rate just because you have a couple of cowboys who want to use their G4 Powerbooks at work? Fact is, a LOT of people spend a LOT of their time in front of computers which they DON'T own and therefore do not have the final say in how it is configured. They might be allowed to install iTunes or Winamp or maybe even their own choice of email client... but it's wishful thinking if you think that the operating system could be considered a variable.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with pretty much everything you say... but you had me until the final sentence. Sometimes it's just not that simple.
Yeah, Sony definitely wants to support all the 30+ platforms outthere.
/dev/null or something.
See, it's that sort of naivete that I'm talking about. If Sony put all their information through their Supercalculamotron 4000(TM) and somehow came to the conclusion that it would be in their own interests to invest millions upon millions on fundamentally flawed DRM methods using dubious moral standards, what makes you think that they won't suddenly wake up one morning and think, "Holy shit! Linux users are getting a free lunch! Let's fuck them over somehow! Get First4Internet on the phone, I'm sure they'll be able to come up with something!" If that happened, then the very best you could expect would be a putrid aborted foetus of a DRM clusterfuck. Heaven forbid that a company like First4Internet actually do the job right. Knowing their competency, they'd just manage to send your mp3s to
Obviously *nix is a much more difficult problem for them to deal with... but you're just asking for it by sitting around lazily thinking it could never happen to you.
You know, I'm not a Microsoft fan by any stretch of the imagination (I have more than my fair share of Mac equipment for video editing) and I abhor sneaky DRM as much as the next Slashdot geek... but I must confess part of me is secretly glad that Mac users weren't entirely immune to this crap.
Why?
Because there are only a few things in this world more annoying than a bunch of Mac zealots chanting "I don't care because I don't run Windows! Ha-ha!"
Mac users (you too, Linux users) seem to have repeated their "Ha-ha, it doesn't affect us!" mantra so often, a lot have convinced themselves that they're invulnerable; as if not running Windows was like their own version of God mode. Just because you're not the average target demographic doesn't mean you're invincible. Expect more of these ludicrous steps in the future. Mac and Linux users still may not be the most common demographic and you might be able to hurdle over this somewhat inert attempt because it asks for admin rights, but this just goes to show they're putting in the man-hours trying to think of a way to screw you over too.
Your coffee break of naivete is over. Time to lift up your skirt, grab your balls and help fight this stupidity.
I "met" my wife on irc in 1993. It wasn't totally nerdy though because we were both on #drugs.
Are you sure? One time a friend met the Dalai Lama on #drugs, traded home brew beer recipes with him and over the course of the next three months, befriended him, resulting in receiving a ride on the Dalai Lama's personal flying dragon and a thousand lifetime's worth of enlightenment.
But then he woke up hungry with a broken bong in one hand and the TV remote in the other. Oddly enough he hadn't even left his dorm room.
You sure that's not just your buddy pretending to be a chick?
As anyone who has ever had to deal with 13 year old script kiddies sucking their way up to 499 ops status can vouch for, this isn't entirely true
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
If you're going to be an 80s geek, don't half-ass it like most people. The correct line from WarGames is "SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?"
These babies are solar powered and NASA figured that dust from the atmosphere would render the solar panels useless after two months. The wind kept pushing the dust off the panels so.. there they go again.
Damn, I thought the solar panels provided partial recovery so as to extend mission life; this is great stuff.
Does anyone have any information on how exactly these Rovers are powered? When the Rovers exceeded expectations by a couple of months, I was under the impression the end was nigh due to inevitably failing power supplies. But now it's been a couple of years and the things still have juice. What gives?
Isn't that what Babelfish is for?
If you want to order a laptop and end up with six low-grade pairs of headphones and a guide to haircare written by Kim Jong-il, sure!
Why learn Korean? I thought Sony was Japanese !! Or do they now make everything in Taiwan ?
Read TFA man. It's Sony Korea who have released it, hence Korean. Not to mention that last time I was in Taiwan (read: Republic of China), they spoke Mandarin Chinese, not Korean or Japanese.
Are there people really walking around with the Korean version of Windows running on their laptops simply because they bought it in Korea? What's the Korean word for fdisk?
I'd imagine it was a reference to the fact that you'd have to speak Korean to successfully order it from a Korean retailer/website, rather than language problems using the OS.
I wonder what would have had to happen for it to be considered a failure.
A failure would be if a percentage of their elderly voted for Pat Buchanan.
Maybe they need the batteries to fuel their 15000-strong robot replacement workforce!
I for one welcome our robotic HP overlords.
My laptop was overheating (cpu 80+).
Finally tracked down the problem.
I had Slashdot and The Register open constantly and the Macromedia adverts from both pages were making the cpu spin a lot.
Uninstall macromedia, cpu 50-60.
Problem solved.
Dude, I don't care how bloated a flash ad is, if it's making your CPU run 30 degrees hotter, I think you have other more serious problems on your hands than a plugin.
Like a high school friend of mine who never wore his good shoes - when he tried them the first time he had grown to large for them.
Yes, but do a pair of shoes lose any of its functionality if it gets scratched?
You'll find that a lot of iPod owners would prefer to keep their iPods aesthetically pristine but a lot more I believe are concerned about functionality. Scratch the iPod, that's a mere annoyance. Scratch the screen however, then it becomes an issue. You look at the screen all the time and you interact with it regularly. When it starts to lose its functionality it becomes very annoying very quickly. A bad scratch can make the damn thing near useless.
It's a bit like my laptop. I try to treat it with care but its seen its fair share of knocks. One thing about it however, that I take completely seriously is the screen. At the end of the day, I'd rather a deep scratch on the outside than a light scratch on the screen, so I find myself babying it when it's open and treating it with a little more gusto when it's closed. I also recommended to my parents that they spend a decent amount of money on a good monitor for their home PC. The computer might be outdated in 12 or 18 months but good monitors (read: Samsung) have five year warranties and considering the screen is the one component you're always looking at, it makes sense to spend a decent amount on it.