People have no trouble 'installing' free demoware like McAfee and thinking they have some value even though they let it run out and it's junk as a result. No the reason that Linux has difficulty encroaching on windows is because people want a fast yet low-end machine that does all the multimedia and Office crap out of the box with zero extra buttons.
I don't know whether it will be a building collapse, a tainted product scandal, a massive protest, a large fire or what but I just know there's going to be some kind huge PRC meltdown overreaction replete with tanks in the streets, and deaths during this Olympics.
Hey guess what else gobbles up ENORMOUS quantities of electricity?
Aluminum smelting. Yeah so the next time you wrap up some brownies for that bake sale outside your No Nukes protest - remember how much juice was used for that.
Except when it does. Anyone who ever owned a 760, 765, 770, 600, T41 or a T61 will attest to that. They were/are fragile, some broke when you hold them by the keyboard, two of my 760's actually caught on fire. We're seeing a huge number of in the field failures with T61's now. I wouldn't take one if they offered to swap out my T40 for one, tomorrow.
Yes I have tried and failed to use Lenovo System update often. Typically SU updates itself and then fails to update anything it's intended to be used for.
It's heavier and bigger. It costs more and it wraps up more features whether you like them or not. That's IBM/Lenovo in spades.
Why is a removable battery such a big deal? It's really only the corporate owners who keep laptops for 4 years or more; THEN a replaceable battery is a big deal. But ordinary users are more likely to replace (or break) their machines in 4 years. Though to be fair, this is actually the complaint I have with the iTouch: either make the battery replaceable OR make the case waterproof. Not NEITHER, please.
A problem I have with IBM/Lenovo (And this post is being written on a corporate owned 4 year old T40) is that they have an obsessive need to crank out hundreds of subvariant models. And as a result there's an endless flood of patches, fixes, firmware updates, BIOS updates and on and on and on. Moreover IBM/Lenovo seems to have a poor track record with ALL of their X model TP's - they announce them to great fanfare and then for no clear reason discontinue them soon thereafter. The X21 was a nice albeit low powered micro laptop that IBM rolled out then, since corporate America didn't buy it, they pulled the plug and left that segment of the market. Will this happen again? Or will it become yet another orphan?
Clearly - since this is a THINKPAD brand and NOT a Lenovo brand the intended market is corporate America, AND given the price it's going to be targeted at executives who want bragging rights in business class. People who user their machines as glorified Blackberries and DVD players.
Ergo, the built in DVD player.
So even though I've used nothing but Thinkpads since 1996, I have to say I'm a little underwhelmed by this one.
Surely there are large numbers of DoD employees and Federal employees generally who are illegally sharing too. The Federal government's networks are famous for a lack of policing. It will be interesting to see what happens when the RIAA goes after millions of attorneys who are paid to be a lot more ruthless than the RIAA.
It's about on-board security sub applications or attributes which are specific to that application or that applications vendor. Such as MS applications using MS specific DRM. Is this a bad thing? I don't think that it is.
A big complex of cheap computers that can tolerate appreciable levels of failure in individual nodes and a custom made high performance file system to keep it all running.
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
My spouse is utterly untrainable in anything vaguely related to anything invented later than the Renaissance. Anything electronic or technical or related to any repetitive task, operating a cell phone, hearing and giving directions to anywhere. Any device, appliance, application. Online purchases of all kinds are impossible. She 'learns' such as it is, the simplest things by brute force endless repetition, if it's possible at all. Every appliance in my home has been broken in one way or another by her absolute inability to even listen to simple instructions.
I'm one of those exempt employees who's expected to bill 15% unpaid OT per year. If course all my billings go right to customer accounts so I am in theory a straight profit center.
Our T60's T61's have huge problems in the field. The T41's had a characteristic motherboard problem where if you held the machine in your hands the wrong way you could break the motherboard. In comparison, the older T40's seems rock solid - at least as robust as to the old model 600's. But now it's like the bad old days of the model 760's when every other week there would be another submodel and another set of hardware problems. We don't have any R or X models.
Or maybe just the Lenovo mass market takeover of Thinkpad has become obvious, or, Thinkpad quality is a lot crappier than we own up to. In any case our Thinkpads have been dropping like flies, requiring motherboard, fan, powersupply and battery replacements. I get an employee discount and a) the discounts are not that great and b) I wouldn't get one anyway. It's too risky, it will probably break. On the other hand I have a great little Lenovo branded Lenovo which, as a low cost low feature machine is great and solid. But I think the great era of Thinkpads is over.
For the same reason the UNC public university system is openly biased against instate students. It's about the money. $24k/yr vs $8k/yr. The UNC system has said they want to increase the out of state enrollment to 50% of the total. Now of course they're not going to spend 25% more in capital improvements to keep the number of instate students whole.
there is a variant of the giant palm that propagates from lightening strikes. A bolt hits the tree, explodes its seed pods and sends them all over the place.
Half the graduate students in hard sciences in the US are foreign. They're the ones who shine. I don't mean second generation I mean foreign students on academic visas. If they stay in the US, yaay for us. If not? Oh well, the US is indigenously now a nation of retards.
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People have no trouble 'installing' free demoware like McAfee and thinking they have some value even though they let it run out and it's junk as a result. No the reason that Linux has difficulty encroaching on windows is because people want a fast yet low-end machine that does all the multimedia and Office crap out of the box with zero extra buttons.
I don't know whether it will be a building collapse, a tainted product scandal, a massive protest, a large fire or what but I just know there's going to be some kind huge PRC meltdown overreaction replete with tanks in the streets, and deaths during this Olympics.
Hey guess what else gobbles up ENORMOUS quantities of electricity?
Aluminum smelting. Yeah so the next time you wrap up some brownies for that bake sale outside your No Nukes protest - remember how much juice was used for that.
You can sizzle in a molten steel shower too.
Gargle the devils's balls in hell, Rush. Die screaming.
Except when it does. Anyone who ever owned a 760, 765, 770, 600, T41 or a T61 will attest to that. They were/are fragile, some broke when you hold them by the keyboard, two of my 760's actually caught on fire. We're seeing a huge number of in the field failures with T61's now. I wouldn't take one if they offered to swap out my T40 for one, tomorrow.
Yes I have tried and failed to use Lenovo System update often. Typically SU updates itself and then fails to update anything it's intended to be used for.
It's heavier and bigger. It costs more and it wraps up more features whether you like them or not. That's IBM/Lenovo in spades.
Why is a removable battery such a big deal? It's really only the corporate owners who keep laptops for 4 years or more; THEN a replaceable battery is a big deal. But ordinary users are more likely to replace (or break) their machines in 4 years. Though to be fair, this is actually the complaint I have with the iTouch: either make the battery replaceable OR make the case waterproof. Not NEITHER, please.
A problem I have with IBM/Lenovo (And this post is being written on a corporate owned 4 year old T40) is that they have an obsessive need to crank out hundreds of subvariant models. And as a result there's an endless flood of patches, fixes, firmware updates, BIOS updates and on and on and on. Moreover IBM/Lenovo seems to have a poor track record with ALL of their X model TP's - they announce them to great fanfare and then for no clear reason discontinue them soon thereafter. The X21 was a nice albeit low powered micro laptop that IBM rolled out then, since corporate America didn't buy it, they pulled the plug and left that segment of the market. Will this happen again? Or will it become yet another orphan?
Clearly - since this is a THINKPAD brand and NOT a Lenovo brand the intended market is corporate America, AND given the price it's going to be targeted at executives who want bragging rights in business class. People who user their machines as glorified Blackberries and DVD players.
Ergo, the built in DVD player.
So even though I've used nothing but Thinkpads since 1996, I have to say I'm a little underwhelmed by this one.
Surely there are large numbers of DoD employees and Federal employees generally who are illegally sharing too. The Federal government's networks are famous for a lack of policing. It will be interesting to see what happens when the RIAA goes after millions of attorneys who are paid to be a lot more ruthless than the RIAA.
They prefer to 'suspend', 'go on hiatus'. Why can't they simply stop. Are they THAT BIG OF A EGOMANIAC?
It has $12/hr fatassed shitheads telling you what's what.
It's about on-board security sub applications or attributes which are specific to that application or that applications vendor. Such as MS applications using MS specific DRM. Is this a bad thing? I don't think that it is.
A big complex of cheap computers that can tolerate appreciable levels of failure in individual nodes and a custom made high performance file system to keep it all running.
That I already put a deposit on.
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I am Spartacus
and so on.....
Except that rockets accelerate over a period of time. What's the G force on shooting a an object into orbit from a gun? 50,000 G's?
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
My spouse is utterly untrainable in anything vaguely related to anything invented later than the Renaissance. Anything electronic or technical or related to any repetitive task, operating a cell phone, hearing and giving directions to anywhere. Any device, appliance, application. Online purchases of all kinds are impossible. She 'learns' such as it is, the simplest things by brute force endless repetition, if it's possible at all. Every appliance in my home has been broken in one way or another by her absolute inability to even listen to simple instructions.
She is an attorney, and, ironically, a teacher.
I'm one of those exempt employees who's expected to bill 15% unpaid OT per year. If course all my billings go right to customer accounts so I am in theory a straight profit center.
Our T60's T61's have huge problems in the field. The T41's had a characteristic motherboard problem where if you held the machine in your hands the wrong way you could break the motherboard. In comparison, the older T40's seems rock solid - at least as robust as to the old model 600's. But now it's like the bad old days of the model 760's when every other week there would be another submodel and another set of hardware problems. We don't have any R or X models.
When everyone comes to work at 830am and powers up will your DHCP servers rollover and die?
Or maybe just the Lenovo mass market takeover of Thinkpad has become obvious, or, Thinkpad quality is a lot crappier than we own up to. In any case our Thinkpads have been dropping like flies, requiring motherboard, fan, powersupply and battery replacements. I get an employee discount and a) the discounts are not that great and b) I wouldn't get one anyway. It's too risky, it will probably break. On the other hand I have a great little Lenovo branded Lenovo which, as a low cost low feature machine is great and solid. But I think the great era of Thinkpads is over.
For the same reason the UNC public university system is openly biased against instate students. It's about the money. $24k/yr vs $8k/yr. The UNC system has said they want to increase the out of state enrollment to 50% of the total. Now of course they're not going to spend 25% more in capital improvements to keep the number of instate students whole.
there is a variant of the giant palm that propagates from lightening strikes. A bolt hits the tree, explodes its seed pods and sends them all over the place.
Half the graduate students in hard sciences in the US are foreign. They're the ones who shine. I don't mean second generation I mean foreign students on academic visas. If they stay in the US, yaay for us. If not? Oh well, the US is indigenously now a nation of retards.