What you state is that (for instance) the Dell Inspiron series is always an Inspiron, regardless of the actual power inside the box which is true.
Now if you want to compare with cars, imagine you order a car advertised as having a 300hp engine. You check the specs of the engine and see that you can achieve 300hp with a turbo-compressor. Now you check back your car and guess what? There was not room enough to put the turbo and you're left with 250hp. That would really piss me off. Even if the car performs like one with a 250hp engine, it does not performs as advertised, no matter the technical reasons that prevents the turbo to be present.
Providing you have a recent car (1996 in the US, 2K2 in Europe), it must offer a standard connection (OBD-II) reachable within a meter from driving position.
Using the good chips (ELM323 for instance) you can hook up a computer and query some diagnostic informations.
But probably the most cool feature of this is to query for RPM/Speed/... and display some cute GFX of your running car. Well of course you should already have some kind of counters on your car but hey, they are not comptuter generated, so they are totaly not cool;) .
Raah, I can't bear this...
I've just re-installed my Gentoo Laptop this week-end and it took me only 7 hours to get a full GNOME 2.4.0 desktop up and running from stage 3.
(Of course I protected myself of the evil QT/KDE dependencies...)
This is a message for the Gentoo Advocacy movement.
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Your analogy is flawed...
What you state is that (for instance) the Dell Inspiron series is always an Inspiron, regardless of the actual power inside the box which is true.
Now if you want to compare with cars, imagine you order a car advertised as having a 300hp engine. You check the specs of the engine and see that you can achieve 300hp with a turbo-compressor. Now you check back your car and guess what? There was not room enough to put the turbo and you're left with 250hp. That would really piss me off. Even if the car performs like one with a 250hp engine, it does not performs as advertised, no matter the technical reasons that prevents the turbo to be present.
Am I wrong?
This is at least 1 year since Mozilla Mail has this feature, Thunderbird has it also and so has The Bat and Mail.app (OSX)...
I would like to know how much Gina Venolia got paid to find something so much obvious...
Well, actually, you can :)
;) .
Providing you have a recent car (1996 in the US, 2K2 in Europe), it must offer a standard connection (OBD-II) reachable within a meter from driving position.
Using the good chips (ELM323 for instance) you can hook up a computer and query some diagnostic informations.
But probably the most cool feature of this is to query for RPM/Speed/... and display some cute GFX of your running car. Well of course you should already have some kind of counters on your car but hey, they are not comptuter generated, so they are totaly not cool
Raah, I can't bear this... I've just re-installed my Gentoo Laptop this week-end and it took me only 7 hours to get a full GNOME 2.4.0 desktop up and running from stage 3.
(Of course I protected myself of the evil QT/KDE dependencies...)
This is a message for the Gentoo Advocacy movement.
Actualy the sky on Mars is already blue and not because of oceans:
http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html