Here, allow me to explain to you why someone would purchase one of these gaming laptops (I would think this would be obvious, but what do I know)...
Say you have a job that requires travel, via plane even. Say you are going on a trip and need to take your computer. Say you have a choice between: 1. SFF cube system, bag with mouse/keyboard, small speaker set, monitor (I guess you could repack it in its box and check it in with the rest of this mountain of luggage)... or 2. 17" widescreen notebook in a carrying case.
hmmm, um, I'm guessing most would select option 2.
Your situation works for you. Thankfully, you aren't supplying the only options to the rest of us for portable-gaming-capable-computer-systems.
Love em or hate em, but we've got a ton of legacy and newer Gateway servers, desktops and notebooks and we rarely look anywhere else for equipment -- call it luck, call it whatever, but given the torture we put this stuff through, it has performed very well in all facets.
That being said, when issues have come up, our support contract provides for 4 hour onsite parts replacement for most of our servers and that timeframe has been met on all but 2 instances (that I can recall), and the parts in question were very, very dated. Thankfully, we had spares onhand that were useful until the Gateway replacements arrived (and in both instances the replacements arrived the next day).
But as with anything, call them. Go over your warranty agreement. Understand what is covered and what isn't. If it isn't covered, have a backup solution ready. The one kink you leave in your chain is the one that will bite you.
You can customize any of the Gateway M460's to reach ~10 hours of battery life when configured with their Primary 12-Cell lithium ion battery + the modular 6-Cell lithium ion battery.
The 12-Cell is obviously the primary battery... while the 6-Cell fits into the modular bay.
This is kind of in the same vein, but what if you were to do something akin to what rappers/hip-hop artists do when they sample?
I see it ALL over the web were someone has changed another site's image -- or altered it and incorporated it into another image -- where does one stand in this regard? Is this legal? (Or, as Ali G would ask, "What is legal?")
Looking at this strictly from a legal standpoint, is permission still required here regardless of what is done to said image(s)?
I haven't read any of the other comments...
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Salon Asks for Help
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so I'm prolly late with this question:
But how in the fuck did they burn through $80 million??
I made the following comment recently in another thead, I think it applies here as well:
I'm assuming that the majority of Slashdot folk are in favor of keeping the Internet tax-free -- at least for the time being. (IMO, new regulations forced on the internet sector for online sales and Internet access would have a horrible affect on an already hard-hit portion of our economy... but then again, I'm biased... but aren't we all.)
As mentioned in the article, legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate that will extend the current moratorium on new taxes for Internet access and e-commerce activity.
Contact your members of Congress and voice your support for House Bill H.R. 49 and Senate Bill S.52
Contact Congress concerning H.R.49 Here Contact Congress concerning S.52 Here
Polite emails (and/or snail-mailed letters, as they carry the most weight) simply stating your support for these bills will suffice.
Support Internet Tax bills already in Committee
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Congress' Tech Agenda
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I'm assuming that the majority of Slashdot folk are in favor of keeping the Internet tax-free -- at least for the time being. (IMO, new regulations forced on the internet sector for online sales and Internet access would have a horrible affect on an already hard-hit portion of our economy... but then again, I'm biased... but aren't we all.)
As mentioned in the article, legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate that will extend the current moratorium on new taxes for Internet access and e-commerce activity.
Contact your members of Congress and voice your support for House Bill H.R. 49 and Senate Bill S.52
Speaking of computer component suppliers... we've been looking over the pricing of all of the larger suppliers and have yet to find one we want to work with for the majority of our purchases (price is our biggest concern).
Why would you want to kill my solid karma whoring effort like this? Booo on you.
And where would we be without these thoughtful karma whores posting article text? I'll tell you where: Thumb-twiddling Hell
Granted, THG seems to be able to withstand the weight of a/.ing, but for those unlucky souls using shared hosting accounts, or limited bandwidth accounts -- karma whores are a savior, both to us and to them.
I've been looking for a solid Power Supply review for a few days now. Thanks Tom.
From the article:
Fortron FSP, Verax and Herolchi
With its generous maximum output of 390 watts (at which point it powers down in an orderly fashion), the Verax FSP300-60ATV is an impressive performer. Thanks to its quiet fan, the Verax is practically inaudible in use. Also recommended is the Fortron FSP. This model achieved a maximum output of 450 watts - and it was quiet. The Herolchi HEC-300LR-PT was one of the least expensive units in our test. Despite its low price of about $50, this 300-watt power supply performed well. It also addressed safety issues adequately with a built-in safety cutout.
For those looking for a more readily available solution, we recommend the Antec True Power 380P. Antec has done a good job in making their products available from a variety of sources including many local retailers. Chances are that you will have no problems being able to find the Ture Power 380P. The True Power 380P offers a good balance of performance for the money, but expect to pay a little more for this unit, but you will get excellent packaging and a manual that is ahead of the others.
To sum up: More support for consumers
Our comparative power supply test indicates, beyond question, that some manufacturers need to make serious quality and accuracy improvements in the information provided with their products and with the performance statistics claimed in order to make these products perform as represented. Time and time again, our lab measurements were unable to verify the output figures represented on the model identification sticker. And how, exactly, is a computer purchaser supposed to check the output of a power supply? This kind of feature marketing is not possible with other hardware components, such as processors or graphics chips, because the user can check for performance using benchmark-testing software.
Here are some of the salient facts from our lab test. The 520-watt rating of the Maxtron TOP520P4 was overly optimistic. In our test, it burned out well before this, when it reached a combined load of 446 watts. The Leadman LP-6100E also performed well below its manufacturer's specification; the specification claimed a 500-watt rating, but in practice it only delivered 426 watts. On the other hand, the power supplies from Conrad, TSP and Verax were able to provide stable voltages, even when stressed in excess of their specification. With a measured peak output of 454 watts, the Fortron FSP exceeded its specification by 23%. The 300-watt Verax was able to deliver an astonishing 390 watts.
We do not recommend the models we tested from Noise Magic, PC-World and Maxtron, as none of these models offer any safety overload protection (auto cutout) and their capacitors explode with an audible "bang!" well short of their maximum rated output.
There are a few surprises for the potential power supply customer in the area of price. With the exception of the SCS, retailing at approximately $30, all of the other test models retail for at least $50. The highest priced example is from Engelking, with its 300-watt model retailing at about $235.
For a while there, many phone companies started pulling those numbers from the rotation (ie, removing them from service because of all the prank calls those numbers generated).
It is nice to see they are making their way back into the wild.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have some calls to make.:)
I travel all the time and my phone works fine everywhere I go.
Aerial/VoiceStream/T-Mobile == best bang for buck
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T-Mobile Sidekick Reviewed
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I've been with them for a while... but my current plan is 3000 anytime-minutes for $60 per month. Yea, ATT has an unlimited promotion going-on, but I've never come close to using my 3000 minutes... and I've essentially replaced my land-line w/ my cell phone.
Unlimited nights/weekends and free long distance if I call from anywhere within a 4 state "Home" area. Yea, their coverage might be spotty (whose isn't?), and I've had a couple of billing issues over the 3 years I've been with em... but this plan speaks for itself.
Compared with the best plans offered by Sprint PCS (250 anytime minutes?!? hahahaahaa), Verizon, AT&T Mobile and Cingular (what is there new thing? oh, your minutes rollover!?! hahahahaa) -- my current run with T-Mobile will last for a few months more.
Speed of installation comes from not having to dig up the road to lay conduits. Free-space optics may thus be an answer to the difficulty of providing broadband connections to customers' homes and offices-the so-called "last mile". Free-space links that operate at speeds of up to 20 gigabits a second-as good as fibre-have now been demonstrated. They can be installed in hours rather than the weeks or months normally needed for broadband access. And if they can be put into place quickly, they can be upgraded quickly, too.
Whatever happened to those start-up-.com-wonder-companies who were developing those laser-fiber-hybrid boxes that we were gonna see on rooftops throughout the inner city? You know, the ones where they envisioned a mesh of broadband laser links lighting up the city sky... something akin to a Pink Floyd laser show?
Has this.com craze really gone bye-bye? Please, say it ain't so.
Herndon, VA - September 17, 2002 - A new survey released by Information Security magazine reveals that large organizations are at far greater risk to hacking and viruses than small companies due to organizational dynamics that hinder the implementation of effective security practices. According to the survey, the first of its kind to benchmark critical IT security trends and practices by organization size, small companies spend nearly 20 percent of their IT budgets on security, while large companies spend only 5 percent, and suffer five times as many security incidents.
Some of the major findings of the Information Security Magazine survey include:
Malicious code, such as viruses, worms and Trojans, remains the number one most concern of most IT security professionals. Some 31 percent of survey respondents said it was their most important problem, followed by the security of authorized users (23 percent) and security vulnerabilities in IT and telecommunications equipment (15 percent).
IT security remains a cottage industry when it comes to the establishment and implementation of formal policies and procedures. In multiple ways, IT security is still trying to gain a foothold in the day-to-day activities that govern an organization's operation and culture.
As organizations get larger in size, their security departments are not keeping up with the demands of increasingly complex organizational infrastructures. Security spending per user and per machine declines exponentially as organizations grow, leaving most handcuffed when it comes to implementing effective security practices.
Spending money on security does not reduce the number of incidents or the probability or extent of loss stemming from those incidents. But allocating more budget and resources to security does not increase an organization's ability to detect loss.
Senior IT security professionals have little authority in driving the overall security mission in their organizations. Only 10 percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) report to the board of directors. And while 88 percent of CISOs prepare security budgets, only 37 percent of them approve budgets.
Slashdot Mirror
Here, allow me to explain to you why someone would purchase one of these gaming laptops (I would think this would be obvious, but what do I know)...
Say you have a job that requires travel, via plane even. Say you are going on a trip and need to take your computer. Say you have a choice between: 1. SFF cube system, bag with mouse/keyboard, small speaker set, monitor (I guess you could repack it in its box and check it in with the rest of this mountain of luggage)... or 2. 17" widescreen notebook in a carrying case.
hmmm, um, I'm guessing most would select option 2.
Your situation works for you. Thankfully, you aren't supplying the only options to the rest of us for portable-gaming-capable-computer-systems.
Love em or hate em, but we've got a ton of legacy and newer Gateway servers, desktops and notebooks and we rarely look anywhere else for equipment -- call it luck, call it whatever, but given the torture we put this stuff through, it has performed very well in all facets.
That being said, when issues have come up, our support contract provides for 4 hour onsite parts replacement for most of our servers and that timeframe has been met on all but 2 instances (that I can recall), and the parts in question were very, very dated. Thankfully, we had spares onhand that were useful until the Gateway replacements arrived (and in both instances the replacements arrived the next day).
But as with anything, call them. Go over your warranty agreement. Understand what is covered and what isn't. If it isn't covered, have a backup solution ready. The one kink you leave in your chain is the one that will bite you.
Good luck.
When?
http://products.gateway.com/products/gconfig/prodh mseries.asp?seg=hm&gcseries=gtwym460&clv=Img
You can customize any of the Gateway M460's to reach ~10 hours of battery life when configured with their Primary 12-Cell lithium ion battery + the modular 6-Cell lithium ion battery.
The 12-Cell is obviously the primary battery... while the 6-Cell fits into the modular bay.
Pretty sweat setup and no accessories needed.
Yes, both movies are Scifi (space, aliens, etc)... but where exactly does The Last Starfight qualify as a ripoff of Star Wars?
Gateway has had a similar device for a while now. It can be found right here.
Geez, thanks for making us sound as though we've got cooties or something.
This is kind of in the same vein, but what if you were to do something akin to what rappers/hip-hop artists do when they sample?
I see it ALL over the web were someone has changed another site's image -- or altered it and incorporated it into another image -- where does one stand in this regard? Is this legal? (Or, as Ali G would ask, "What is legal?")
Looking at this strictly from a legal standpoint, is permission still required here regardless of what is done to said image(s)?
so I'm prolly late with this question:
But how in the fuck did they burn through $80 million??
I made the following comment recently in another thead, I think it applies here as well:
I'm assuming that the majority of Slashdot folk are in favor of keeping the Internet tax-free -- at least for the time being. (IMO, new regulations forced on the internet sector for online sales and Internet access would have a horrible affect on an already hard-hit portion of our economy... but then again, I'm biased... but aren't we all.)
As mentioned in the article, legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate that will extend the current moratorium on new taxes for Internet access and e-commerce activity.
Contact your members of Congress and voice your support for House Bill H.R. 49 and Senate Bill S.52
Contact Congress concerning H.R.49 Here
Contact Congress concerning S.52 Here
Polite emails (and/or snail-mailed letters, as they carry the most weight) simply stating your support for these bills will suffice.
I'm assuming that the majority of Slashdot folk are in favor of keeping the Internet tax-free -- at least for the time being. (IMO, new regulations forced on the internet sector for online sales and Internet access would have a horrible affect on an already hard-hit portion of our economy... but then again, I'm biased... but aren't we all.)
As mentioned in the article, legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate that will extend the current moratorium on new taxes for Internet access and e-commerce activity.
Contact your members of Congress and voice your support for House Bill H.R. 49 and Senate Bill S.52
Contact Congress concerning H.R.49 Here
Contact Congress concerning S.52 Here
Polite emails (and/or snail-mailed letters, as they carry the most weight) simply stating your support for these bills will suffice.
"You're just sitting there, being immobilized and spoon fed artificial ideals..."
Do people still like watch tv like this? I can't remember the last time I didn't have a computer in-sight while watching a little tube.
Speaking of computer component suppliers... we've been looking over the pricing of all of the larger suppliers and have yet to find one we want to work with for the majority of our purchases (price is our biggest concern).
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
And what about Banks (ATM's), grocery stores and other industries where transactions via a video screen are common-place?
And where would we be without these thoughtful karma whores posting article text? I'll tell you where: Thumb-twiddling Hell
Granted, THG seems to be able to withstand the weight of a /.ing, but for those unlucky souls using shared hosting accounts, or limited bandwidth accounts -- karma whores are a savior, both to us and to them.
From the article:
Fortron FSP, Verax and Herolchi
With its generous maximum output of 390 watts (at which point it powers down in an orderly fashion), the Verax FSP300-60ATV is an impressive performer. Thanks to its quiet fan, the Verax is practically inaudible in use. Also recommended is the Fortron FSP. This model achieved a maximum output of 450 watts - and it was quiet. The Herolchi HEC-300LR-PT was one of the least expensive units in our test. Despite its low price of about $50, this 300-watt power supply performed well. It also addressed safety issues adequately with a built-in safety cutout.
For those looking for a more readily available solution, we recommend the Antec True Power 380P. Antec has done a good job in making their products available from a variety of sources including many local retailers. Chances are that you will have no problems being able to find the Ture Power 380P. The True Power 380P offers a good balance of performance for the money, but expect to pay a little more for this unit, but you will get excellent packaging and a manual that is ahead of the others.
To sum up: More support for consumers
Our comparative power supply test indicates, beyond question, that some manufacturers need to make serious quality and accuracy improvements in the information provided with their products and with the performance statistics claimed in order to make these products perform as represented. Time and time again, our lab measurements were unable to verify the output figures represented on the model identification sticker. And how, exactly, is a computer purchaser supposed to check the output of a power supply? This kind of feature marketing is not possible with other hardware components, such as processors or graphics chips, because the user can check for performance using benchmark-testing software.
Here are some of the salient facts from our lab test. The 520-watt rating of the Maxtron TOP520P4 was overly optimistic. In our test, it burned out well before this, when it reached a combined load of 446 watts. The Leadman LP-6100E also performed well below its manufacturer's specification; the specification claimed a 500-watt rating, but in practice it only delivered 426 watts. On the other hand, the power supplies from Conrad, TSP and Verax were able to provide stable voltages, even when stressed in excess of their specification. With a measured peak output of 454 watts, the Fortron FSP exceeded its specification by 23%. The 300-watt Verax was able to deliver an astonishing 390 watts.
We do not recommend the models we tested from Noise Magic, PC-World and Maxtron, as none of these models offer any safety overload protection (auto cutout) and their capacitors explode with an audible "bang!" well short of their maximum rated output.
There are a few surprises for the potential power supply customer in the area of price. With the exception of the SCS, retailing at approximately $30, all of the other test models retail for at least $50. The highest priced example is from Engelking, with its 300-watt model retailing at about $235.
"Tastes like burning."
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I sculpt some bad-ass custom computers. This guy sitting next to me does as well. And so does that guy over there. We are CrushPC.
Please, check us out.
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Very nice custom computers... hand-crafted for your enjoyment.
Please, check us out.
It is nice to see they are making their way back into the wild.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have some calls to make. :)
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I build custom computers. They kick serious ass. Please, check us out.
I build custom computers. They kick serious ass. Please, check us out.
I travel all the time and my phone works fine everywhere I go.
Unlimited nights/weekends and free long distance if I call from anywhere within a 4 state "Home" area. Yea, their coverage might be spotty (whose isn't?), and I've had a couple of billing issues over the 3 years I've been with em... but this plan speaks for itself.
Compared with the best plans offered by Sprint PCS (250 anytime minutes?!? hahahaahaa), Verizon, AT&T Mobile and Cingular (what is there new thing? oh, your minutes rollover!?! hahahahaa) -- my current run with T-Mobile will last for a few months more.
Anyone else with a plan I should know about?
Has this .com craze really gone bye-bye? Please, say it ain't so.
British-government-owned company involved: QinetiQ
Article from The Economist: "Free-space" optics
'"Free-space" optics requires no fibre' (oh, how I love that British English)
Quantum secure key exchange paper: here
Some of the major findings of the Information Security Magazine survey include: