Just to add another data point, my eeepc 1000H is currently at Asus for the third time in the first year. All 3 repairs are for different things (LCD controller or connector, headphones connector, fan bearings), and all 3 were covered under warranty, although I had to pay shipping to them 3 different times.
On the other hand, the Acer that I got as a replacement that I'm typing this on right now has being working flawlessly, in spite of several people I know having Acer problems.
You just never know if you're going to get a lemon or not, I guess.
Ugh, Ok. Yes, some people are biggoted assholes, it's true. We have them here in the US, but clearly you have them in Canada as well, judging from:
If there is one thing that is certain in this world, its that if someone says "The French" or "France" within hearing of any US Citizen, the immediate response will be an endless string of "Surrender" or "SurrenderMonkey" Jokes.
Emphasis mine.
Any blanket statement applied to all of the people that live within some certain arbitrary geographical area is dumb and bigoted. For instance, USians who say that the French are cowardly are bigots. Also, (English) Canadians such as yourself that say that USians are bigots... are also bigots. And, of course, there are people that say things like:
I know--stop trying to compete with Wikipedia and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.
Also, asking for the google cache of an Experts-Exchange page will give you the unblocked version.
Blockbuster is also being killed by how incredibly expensive it is!
I was amazed when I went to Family Video for the first time a few weeks ago. New movies are $2.60 for 5 nights ($4.50 or so at Blockbuster). Older movies and newer TV shows are $1 for 5 nights!
But the biggest difference is games: $3 for 1 night, $4 for 2 nights, $5 for 5 nights with Family Video, $8 for 5 nights at Blockbuster.
Ouch.
Ars had an article about GT HD where they found that it would cost around $600 to buy absolutly everything in the game. And, although most people wouldn't do that, that's just entirely insane.
This is a poor solution because it actually disables devices. A better solution would be a box that sends out a message (via bluetooth?) to phones that says, "hey, please go to silent" and then either the phone does it automatically, or prompts the user for input (depending on settings set by the user previously).
Most people just forget to turn their phones off in theaters, they aren't being malicious. This would serve as a reminder or, better yet, just silence the phone for them.
The city isn't stuck pay to rehab a wrecked building, the cops, lacking a HQ, wouldn't be as efficient at coluding to be corrupt, a monopoly gets shafted, then outs themselves as greedy bastards, and the citizens get free WiFi!
Why are you u$ing a dollar $ign for the letter "s" in company name$? I$ it more $la$hdot-like? I$ it more bad-a$$, a$ it in$ult$ the companie$ them$elve$?
The speed of the electrons is on the order of cm/s, and is related to the current density.
Slightly more correctly, the drift velocity of electrons in standard copper cable is on the order of (tens of) cm/s. Actual electron velocity is close to c (as they bounce around in a cable), and electron drift velocities can be on the order of 10^7 m/s in some media.
While his contemporaries believed the world to be flat (along with science at the time)...
It's a common misconception that anyone anywhere ever thought that the world was flat. The only major group to ever believe this seems to be grade school teachers of the last fifty years. You cannot explain the horizon in any way other than that the world is round, and people figured this out across all cultures very early on.
Well, there are a few rare exceptions, such as tribes in the Amazon or other major jungles that never got to see far enough out notice the horizon or its properties, but that's a digression.
At one time most people thought the world was flat, including many scientists.
The only major group to ever think that the world is flat seems to be elementary school teachers in the last 50 years. It was well known that the earth was round in the times of Columbus and for many MANY years before then too. How? There's a horizon. Once you see that the visible world seems to end at a line, and that where that line is moves when you do, it doesn't take long to conclude that the world is round (or, at the very least, not flat).
In my high school there was a rumor that 3 pigs were obtained and left in the school. They had the numbers 1, 2, and 4 written on them. The adminitstration closed down the school looking for number 3.
The time when the second amendment allowed a population to overthrow a corrupt government is far behind us.
For one thing, the weapons that you and I own (and know how to use) are a world apart from what the military uses. The days of minute men grabbing their hunting muskets is over. Neither you nor I know where to get an Apache helicopter, much less how to fly one.
For another thing, we're too damn big. For a real revolution to happen, you need an entire people (or at least a large majority of them) to stand up against the governing body. If you find out about some corruption, how are you going to tell the rest of us? How are you going to be more than some crazy guy living in a shed in Montana plotting your revenge? Do you think network news will give you airtime? Do you think anyone will ever believe the word of mouth? If someone told you that the last election was a fraud, would you believe them? It's been on slashdot a few times and what have you done? Did you stand up and lead a campaign to inform the public? No, you sat back down and scratched your ass mumbling something about how this country's going to shit. Then you clicked a link to read about soccer-playing robots.
Revolution my ass, you just want guns because you like having toys that can kill people.
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It's not the police, it's the prosecutor. The police may have agitated for this, but the prosecutor is the person who should know better.
And should face disbarment for dereliction of his duty as an officer of the court.
I originally read that as "should face dismemberment for dereliction of his duty." I wasn't sure that I disagreed.
So know someone with a great deal of economic leverage is trying to push exactly such a system, and all of slashdot goes ...
Congratulations, GP (Hijacked Public), you speak for all of Slashdot. Well done.
Just to add another data point, my eeepc 1000H is currently at Asus for the third time in the first year. All 3 repairs are for different things (LCD controller or connector, headphones connector, fan bearings), and all 3 were covered under warranty, although I had to pay shipping to them 3 different times.
On the other hand, the Acer that I got as a replacement that I'm typing this on right now has being working flawlessly, in spite of several people I know having Acer problems.
You just never know if you're going to get a lemon or not, I guess.
Ugh, Ok. Yes, some people are biggoted assholes, it's true. We have them here in the US, but clearly you have them in Canada as well, judging from:
If there is one thing that is certain in this world, its that if someone says "The French" or "France" within hearing of any US Citizen, the immediate response will be an endless string of "Surrender" or "SurrenderMonkey" Jokes.
Emphasis mine.
Any blanket statement applied to all of the people that live within some certain arbitrary geographical area is dumb and bigoted. For instance, USians who say that the French are cowardly are bigots. Also, (English) Canadians such as yourself that say that USians are bigots... are also bigots. And, of course, there are people that say things like:
I don't even particularly like the French myself.
Well done.
Since when does American patiotism imply anti-French bigotry?
Of course, the police don't tell you about the Spectre IV, which has a radar-detector-detector-detector detector circuit in them.
That's nothing compared to the Spectre N, which have a radar(-detector)^(N-1) detector circuit in them!
I know--stop trying to compete with Wikipedia and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.
Also, asking for the google cache of an Experts-Exchange page will give you the unblocked version.
Nope, that would be $6.00.
Blockbuster is also being killed by how incredibly expensive it is!
I was amazed when I went to Family Video for the first time a few weeks ago. New movies are $2.60 for 5 nights ($4.50 or so at Blockbuster). Older movies and newer TV shows are $1 for 5 nights!
But the biggest difference is games: $3 for 1 night, $4 for 2 nights, $5 for 5 nights with Family Video, $8 for 5 nights at Blockbuster.
Ouch.
In my high school was a girl, a very unfortunatly named girl, named "Terran Hymen." I don't know why her parents hated her enough to name her that.
Ars had an article about GT HD where they found that it would cost around $600 to buy absolutly everything in the game. And, although most people wouldn't do that, that's just entirely insane.
The cover of Sunday's New York Times had a picture of 16 dead Lebanese, which were mostly children. Business as usual?
Yes, sadly.
Ummm, I think your numbers may be a little off... you wound up with units of MB/sec.
Springfield, IL (the capitol), is very very close to Shelbyville, IL.
Most people just forget to turn their phones off in theaters, they aren't being malicious. This would serve as a reminder or, better yet, just silence the phone for them.
As a student Net-Tech at U of I, Champaign, thanks, we've been using it all the time!
What's the downside here?
Shit, that's cynical!
Why are you u$ing a dollar $ign for the letter "s" in company name$? I$ it more $la$hdot-like? I$ it more bad-a$$, a$ it in$ult$ the companie$ them$elve$?
Slightly more correctly, the drift velocity of electrons in standard copper cable is on the order of (tens of) cm/s. Actual electron velocity is close to c (as they bounce around in a cable), and electron drift velocities can be on the order of 10^7 m/s in some media.
It's a common misconception that anyone anywhere ever thought that the world was flat. The only major group to ever believe this seems to be grade school teachers of the last fifty years. You cannot explain the horizon in any way other than that the world is round, and people figured this out across all cultures very early on.
Well, there are a few rare exceptions, such as tribes in the Amazon or other major jungles that never got to see far enough out notice the horizon or its properties, but that's a digression.
The only major group to ever think that the world is flat seems to be elementary school teachers in the last 50 years. It was well known that the earth was round in the times of Columbus and for many MANY years before then too. How? There's a horizon. Once you see that the visible world seems to end at a line, and that where that line is moves when you do, it doesn't take long to conclude that the world is round (or, at the very least, not flat).
In my high school there was a rumor that 3 pigs were obtained and left in the school. They had the numbers 1, 2, and 4 written on them. The adminitstration closed down the school looking for number 3.
One in particular that I've used for a few years is Dragonfort.
Become redundant? No. Competition is always good and is always needed. Does a Toyota Camry make a Ford Taurus redundant?
For one thing, the weapons that you and I own (and know how to use) are a world apart from what the military uses. The days of minute men grabbing their hunting muskets is over. Neither you nor I know where to get an Apache helicopter, much less how to fly one.
For another thing, we're too damn big. For a real revolution to happen, you need an entire people (or at least a large majority of them) to stand up against the governing body. If you find out about some corruption, how are you going to tell the rest of us? How are you going to be more than some crazy guy living in a shed in Montana plotting your revenge? Do you think network news will give you airtime? Do you think anyone will ever believe the word of mouth? If someone told you that the last election was a fraud, would you believe them? It's been on slashdot a few times and what have you done? Did you stand up and lead a campaign to inform the public? No, you sat back down and scratched your ass mumbling something about how this country's going to shit. Then you clicked a link to read about soccer-playing robots.
Revolution my ass, you just want guns because you like having toys that can kill people.