From the Wikipedia article on Stanford: "The University has approximately 1,700 faculty members, including 17 Nobel laureates and 23 MacArthur fellows."
According to the article "Nobel Prize Laureates by Country" in Wikipedia, there have been 26 Nobel laureates from both Germany and Switzerland (granted, there is some overlap between the two). Sure, some of them are dead by now, but you write that "when any country in Europe has as many Nobel Lauriates as can be found at Stanford, [you]'ll start to worry," and make no requirements as to whether the country's laureates need still be alive.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition considers "to lay" as an intransitive verb nonstandard usage. So let's let the
"old computer that had been laying around" lie around instead.
The hard drives in the ThinkPad have for the last year been manufactured by another department IBM sold off, now called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies http://www.hitachigst.com/. These are and will continue to be developed independently from anything Lenovo does, and it's more than likely that Lenovo will continue using these hard drives. So the Lenovo ThinkPads should support about the same falling distances as the ones by IBM.
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From the Wikipedia article on Stanford:
"The University has approximately 1,700 faculty members, including 17 Nobel laureates and 23 MacArthur fellows."
According to the article "Nobel Prize Laureates by Country" in Wikipedia, there have been 26 Nobel laureates from both Germany and Switzerland (granted, there is some overlap between the two). Sure, some of them are dead by now, but you write that "when any country in Europe has as many Nobel Lauriates as can be found at Stanford, [you]'ll start to worry," and make no requirements as to whether the country's laureates need still be alive.
So, better start worrying!
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition considers "to lay" as an intransitive verb nonstandard usage. So let's let the
"old computer that had been laying around" lie around instead.
Source: http://www.answers.com/lay&r=67
Just some friendly pedantry...
Blocking all IDN sites isn't really a good long-term solution either...
The hard drives in the ThinkPad have for the last year been manufactured by another department IBM sold off, now called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies http://www.hitachigst.com/. These are and will continue to be developed independently from anything Lenovo does, and it's more than likely that Lenovo will continue using these hard drives. So the Lenovo ThinkPads should support about the same falling distances as the ones by IBM.
There's a checkbox in the installer that's enabled by default to reset your homepage to that site.