Hmm, yes, quite like the Exploding Nokia batteries, indistinguishable from genuine Nokia batteries (according to Nokia), but fake batteries nonetheless (according to Nokia again).
Here's my thoughts: Nokia bought a batch of faulty batteries bud didn't want to admit it. Therefore they said the batteries weren't theirs, even though they coulod not make the distinction.
The real reason you should be buying laptop batteries directly from the manufacturer (or in this case, the vendor: Apple, Dell or IBM) and not a reseller, is that the Li-ion batteries start degrading as soon as they're manufactured due to stresses in the crystal matrix. It does not matter much, therefore, how the batteries are used, for they will only last up to three years before cells will break. Thus, you want the batteries as fresh from the factory as possible, which is why you buy them from the vendor and not a reseller, because the turnover speed at the vendor is greater.
Explosions are quite common to high-capacity batteries. It's the energy, you see.
the absence of evidence is no evidence, right? There will always be a sequence of bits on the hard drive that are potentially copyrighted. I think the safest way around such a lawsuit is to incinerate the hard drives, some magnesium powder should do the trick.
Actually, untrained dogs are shit unreliable for that purpose. Have you ever seen the tv program where they try to knock some sense into home owners by having an (ex-)thief break in? When there are dogs, they do nothing.
"In a 2005 poll covering 33 countries, Americans are the least likely (except for Turkish respondents)..."
So actually it should be: In a 2005 poll covering 33 countries _Turks_ are the least likely... Just that the Americans score low doesn't mean they won..
Basically, I took your configuration, switched to the right intel processor (5150), added a second processor, increased the hard drive size to make it comparable, increased memory speed to make it comparable, added wireless (not even bluetooth, add another 40), switched to a comparable video card (with 256 Mb thankyouverymuch), and selected a sound card.... and arrived at a price of 3500 approx.
Next time, don't even bother trying to make a fool of yourself, mr./mrs. Coward.
Well, I'm still a student too, and I too make mistakes every now and then. If we don't correct each other, however, we are doomed to a downwards spiral. I don't really know what to turn the cheese-grater G5 case into that won't let it look too tacky though. Plastic a la HP or dell is a big no-no, so you're left with metal or wood.
"...s simply the G5 tower case with another whole in it."
Ouch. A spelling checker did not catch your debauchery on the english language here.
Second of all, the G5 case is a splendid design, and whilst it looks the same on the outside, the innards have been thoroughly adapted, especially with respect to airflow and memory placement.
Let me be the one to crush your arguments... please?
First of all, why post in this particular thread? Your issues are unrelated to this.
Sure, the hardware _could_ be easily abused, but as of yet it isn't. So all your speculations, whilst nice, remain nothing more than that.
And yes, each chip has a unique serial number. Which is more or less the point. Of a _serial_ number. That it is different, unique. So you can track its production history if it decides to fail, for instance.
Well, if you have 62 online comics you want to keep track with like me, dashboard really isn't up to the task. I keep a bookmark auto-open folder with all my online comics; at the press of a button, all 62 of them load in tabs in the Safari window.
... No iPhone or new iPod. Guess we'll have to wait for the next speech. On the plus side, though, I hope the text-to-speech engine is now that good that you can understand that what is being said without reading it a the same time...
Nah, people just instinctively want to do nothing to help, in order not to stray from their daily activities, or get involved in something else.
I've had this a few times now, with a girl on a hot day stepping out a train and fainting, her boyfriend asking people for help for he could barely keep her up. all people approached, none helped, and it was up to me to drop my bag and help him carry the girl.
A second time was with a man fainting in a train, lots of people standing around gawking or asking wether someone knows first aid (hint: even if you haven't been trained, you can still help, check for pulse and breathing, and massage/respirate when required). So I went and got the train personell to come over.
My tips to people finding themselves in such situations: step forward (the hardest thing to do) take charge (for noone else will), point at people you want to get into action (i.e. get personell, call the ambulance, or get material), and do the best you can to help the injured.
quoted: "Was going to be a grammer nazi then I realized it wasnt half life they were talking about.."
You might want to brush up on your sentence construction skills and apostrophe (as well as punctuation) use before proclaiming yourself a grammar nazi.
quote: A trick I've used to get better range from my car alarm transmitters, hold the transmitter against your cheek and raise your other arm. You will get at least 25% more distance, really. end quote.
Provided there's a thunderstorm around and you're the object in the otherwise empty parking lot.
You don't have to give your key without a warrant, for it would be self-incriminating behavior. AFAIK, that was the law in the US (and I'm not even a US citizen).
That's bad, IMHO. It will stifle the innovation of the bicycle. That would be like not allowing faster automatic transmissions in racecars because that would make them faster... oh wait.
That would be like not allowing scientists to present using beamers and laptops because it would be unfair competing with them for those unfamiliar with beamers and laptops (for want of a better analogy).
Over here we have an inventive bike called a "ligfiets", loosely translated a "lying down-bike". You basically lie on your back (with your back supported), and have much more power to push on the pedals. Additionally, the riding prosition reduces drag by a significant amount. Have these bikes been forbidden for use in the tour, or is nobody interested in using them? They go damn fast (and the steering is less prompt), so I'd have expected that to be the new "klapschaats".
Instead of having friends over to watch a movie and comment on it, you can now buy a soundtrack with people pretending to be your friends, commenting on the movie, and still keeping all the beer to yourself!
the trouble with a homebrew system is that it is made using the cheap(est) parts. so no redundancy in your power supply, difficult to replace disks, no redundancy in the system disks. Additionally there's the limited raid volumes (your volume size is the number of data disks in one cabinet divided by the redundancy factor), and low network throughput. Not to mention the non-redundant powersupply's that break once every six months and take down an entire shelf. Not to mention the sheer time one needs to spend to build and moreover maintain it...
honestly, I think you're better off with one of these sun's.
quoted:"And it's not exciting (for most people) to watch a race where only two cars out of twenty have any chance at all of winning."
Well, then we ahve to make the distinction wether we want the prime factor to be the driver or the technology.
If you want it to be the driver, then why not give everyone the same car right away.
If you want it to be technology, then as you said, everything should be allowed. So what if lunatic drivers are willing to spend their lives racing a drag racer down the track. If they have a chance of winning (as can be ovserved through qualification rounds), and they accept their risk (which they do when they agree to race the race), they should be allowed to compete. This will drive technology greatly. I think rally cars have some restrictions, it's not as ridiculous as formula one, yet it still entertains and improves the technological abilities.
why would you want to standardize the intake? why not allow everything? double turbo's, turbine engines, wankel engines... As long as you can go fast with it and the driver is still relatively safe...
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I seem to remember him saying he had a speech synthesizer. plausible... not with such pronunciation though..
B.
Hmm, yes, quite like the Exploding Nokia batteries, indistinguishable from genuine Nokia batteries (according to Nokia), but fake batteries nonetheless (according to Nokia again).
Here's my thoughts: Nokia bought a batch of faulty batteries bud didn't want to admit it. Therefore they said the batteries weren't theirs, even though they coulod not make the distinction.
The real reason you should be buying laptop batteries directly from the manufacturer (or in this case, the vendor: Apple, Dell or IBM) and not a reseller, is that the Li-ion batteries start degrading as soon as they're manufactured due to stresses in the crystal matrix. It does not matter much, therefore, how the batteries are used, for they will only last up to three years before cells will break. Thus, you want the batteries as fresh from the factory as possible, which is why you buy them from the vendor and not a reseller, because the turnover speed at the vendor is greater.
Explosions are quite common to high-capacity batteries. It's the energy, you see.
B.
Alternatively, you could just do your coding anywhere outside of the USA, where software patents have no legal binding.
B.
the absence of evidence is no evidence, right?
There will always be a sequence of bits on the hard drive that are potentially copyrighted. I think the safest way around such a lawsuit is to incinerate the hard drives, some magnesium powder should do the trick.
B.
There's this book, quite old now, called "how to lie with statistics".
B.
Actually, untrained dogs are shit unreliable for that purpose. Have you ever seen the tv program where they try to knock some sense into home owners by having an (ex-)thief break in? When there are dogs, they do nothing.
B.
No. If you lie and get caught you also have to pay lawyer fees and a hefty fine.
B.
"In a 2005 poll covering 33 countries, Americans are the least likely (except for Turkish respondents)..."
So actually it should be: In a 2005 poll covering 33 countries _Turks_ are the least likely... Just that the Americans score low doesn't mean they won..
B.
When will the hurting stop?
B.
That configuration is not even close.
... and arrived at a price of 3500 approx.
Basically, I took your configuration, switched to the right intel processor (5150), added a second processor, increased the hard drive size to make it comparable, increased memory speed to make it comparable, added wireless (not even bluetooth, add another 40), switched to a comparable video card (with 256 Mb thankyouverymuch), and selected a sound card.
Next time, don't even bother trying to make a fool of yourself, mr./mrs. Coward.
B.
Well, I'm still a student too, and I too make mistakes every now and then. If we don't correct each other, however, we are doomed to a downwards spiral.
I don't really know what to turn the cheese-grater G5 case into that won't let it look too tacky though. Plastic a la HP or dell is a big no-no, so you're left with metal or wood.
B.
"...s simply the G5 tower case with another whole in it."
Ouch. A spelling checker did not catch your debauchery on the english language here.
Second of all, the G5 case is a splendid design, and whilst it looks the same on the outside, the innards have been thoroughly adapted, especially with respect to airflow and memory placement.
B.
Let me be the one to crush your arguments... please?
First of all, why post in this particular thread? Your issues are unrelated to this.
Sure, the hardware _could_ be easily abused, but as of yet it isn't. So all your speculations, whilst nice, remain nothing more than that.
And yes, each chip has a unique serial number. Which is more or less the point. Of a _serial_ number. That it is different, unique. So you can track its production history if it decides to fail, for instance.
Bye for now!
"Web Clip looks killer. "
Well, if you have 62 online comics you want to keep track with like me, dashboard really isn't up to the task. I keep a bookmark auto-open folder with all my online comics; at the press of a button, all 62 of them load in tabs in the Safari window.
B.
... No iPhone or new iPod. Guess we'll have to wait for the next speech.
On the plus side, though, I hope the text-to-speech engine is now that good that you can understand that what is being said without reading it a the same time...
B.
Nah, people just instinctively want to do nothing to help, in order not to stray from their daily activities, or get involved in something else.
I've had this a few times now, with a girl on a hot day stepping out a train and fainting, her boyfriend asking people for help for he could barely keep her up. all people approached, none helped, and it was up to me to drop my bag and help him carry the girl.
A second time was with a man fainting in a train, lots of people standing around gawking or asking wether someone knows first aid (hint: even if you haven't been trained, you can still help, check for pulse and breathing, and massage/respirate when required). So I went and got the train personell to come over.
My tips to people finding themselves in such situations: step forward (the hardest thing to do) take charge (for noone else will), point at people you want to get into action (i.e. get personell, call the ambulance, or get material), and do the best you can to help the injured.
B.
quoted: "Was going to be a grammer nazi then I realized it wasnt half life they were talking about.."
You might want to brush up on your sentence construction skills and apostrophe (as well as punctuation) use before proclaiming yourself a grammar nazi.
B.
quote:
A trick I've used to get better range from my car alarm transmitters, hold the transmitter against your cheek and raise your other arm. You will get at least 25% more distance, really.
end quote.
Provided there's a thunderstorm around and you're the object in the otherwise empty parking lot.
B.
You don't have to give your key without a warrant, for it would be self-incriminating behavior. AFAIK, that was the law in the US (and I'm not even a US citizen).
B.
That's bad, IMHO. It will stifle the innovation of the bicycle. That would be like not allowing faster automatic transmissions in racecars because that would make them faster... oh wait.
That would be like not allowing scientists to present using beamers and laptops because it would be unfair competing with them for those unfamiliar with beamers and laptops (for want of a better analogy).
B.
Over here we have an inventive bike called a "ligfiets", loosely translated a "lying down-bike". You basically lie on your back (with your back supported), and have much more power to push on the pedals. Additionally, the riding prosition reduces drag by a significant amount. Have these bikes been forbidden for use in the tour, or is nobody interested in using them? They go damn fast (and the steering is less prompt), so I'd have expected that to be the new "klapschaats".
Here's what they look like: http://flevobike.nl/
B.
Instead of having friends over to watch a movie and comment on it, you can now buy a soundtrack with people pretending to be your friends, commenting on the movie, and still keeping all the beer to yourself!
It's a win-win situation!
B.
the trouble with a homebrew system is that it is made using the cheap(est) parts. so no redundancy in your power supply, difficult to replace disks, no redundancy in the system disks. Additionally there's the limited raid volumes (your volume size is the number of data disks in one cabinet divided by the redundancy factor), and low network throughput.
Not to mention the non-redundant powersupply's that break once every six months and take down an entire shelf.
Not to mention the sheer time one needs to spend to build and moreover maintain it...
honestly, I think you're better off with one of these sun's.
B.
quoted:"And it's not exciting (for most people) to watch a race where only two cars out of twenty have any chance at all of winning."
Well, then we ahve to make the distinction wether we want the prime factor to be the driver or the technology.
If you want it to be the driver, then why not give everyone the same car right away.
If you want it to be technology, then as you said, everything should be allowed. So what if lunatic drivers are willing to spend their lives racing a drag racer down the track. If they have a chance of winning (as can be ovserved through qualification rounds), and they accept their risk (which they do when they agree to race the race), they should be allowed to compete. This will drive technology greatly. I think rally cars have some restrictions, it's not as ridiculous as formula one, yet it still entertains and improves the technological abilities.
B.
why would you want to standardize the intake? why not allow everything? double turbo's, turbine engines, wankel engines... As long as you can go fast with it and the driver is still relatively safe...