I just had my video card replaced under warranty by Dell after it started to have problems @ 8 months old. The biggest issues I have with Dell is the over 2 hour tech support phone call, to tell them that it was a video card issue, not a windows driver issue when the text displayed in BIOS is garbled. It was amazing the things the tech support guy wanted me to try to figure out if it was the display or the graphics card, like wanting me to go find a magnet so I can wave it over the keyboard... I had to keep fighting the "reload windows" path by telling them that the graphics hardware was bad when their BIOS logo on boot is corrupted, and that fixing anything in windows, Linux, BIOS or anything on a CD would not help. Half of the call was strange questions injected during the debuggin session about "how" I use my laptop trying to figure out if I abuse it. Its basically a gaming desktop for me so it looks brand new and has sat on the desk never handled for months. Truly amazing (and frustrating).
I really like the idea of saving the earth by changing habits by using CFL's (and I do use them), I just wish that the retail packaging for them wouldn't be the big plastic encasements they come in (which I think are probably just as bad to the environment, as well as a hassle to open.)
What ever happened to efficient packaging (not $ efficiency) - I mean we are already paying 10-20x to get a CFL, give it to me in a recycled box for $.20 more. Be green all the way, not just half way.
Just think how much profit CoinStar could make collecting pennies and melting them down. They have the machines, network and infrastructure to collect a huge percentage of loose coins every day!
Funny you say this. A few days ago on the news they were interviewing the cheif sound guy for Windows Vista. He spent something like 2 years to develop the default "beep" for vista. How much did that cost?
Sorry Sony, I have a PSOne and PS2 and may take a look at your shiny new flagship someday. And Microsoft, well you blew it when you announced that it wouldn't be 100% backwards compatible with the XBOX that I had just spent a ton of money over the last 2 years in games.
Just wanted to point out that a bug doesn't mean any OS is insecure. It could be that a pixel is green where it should be blue... And sometimes one man's "bug" is another's "by design".
Yea, I am in Redmond helping to save energy too! Although, traveling to Seattle to get a warm cup of coffee and my Internet fix kind of cancles out some of the overall energy usage...
how mind blowing it would have been if the sub-surface radar showed roads or infrastructure of a previous existance... It would have turned the way funding is for space all around, as well as change text books all over the world.
Really impressive technology being used here. Kudos to those who make it happen.
Could have been 3.2M + 1, but there are no Wii's to be found here, the store had 20 units the first day, and sold out since.
Sony keeps heavy advertising about the PS3, but what good does it do if they get me interested in it, all to have me go down to the store to look at an empty shelf... It's having the opposite effect, more of a turn off than getting me to want one at this point.
Last night I saw a TV spot from Verizon with their new phone that looks a lot like an iPod in its white version... If it just had the little apple logo on it somewhere I could confuse it with an iCellPod.
I got fed up with ad's using up my hard earned bandwidth (highspeed cable is not enough as it is!) I just changed my host file to send all anoying ad sites to 127.0.0.1 ala Mike's Ad Blocking host file I found on google... (I use his because I got tired of editing my host file every time a new ad came up).
This cuts down on a lot of ads, even in things link MSN IM.
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from the good 'o days of "Hunt the Wumpus". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_wumpus/
I just had my video card replaced under warranty by Dell after it started to have problems @ 8 months old. The biggest issues I have with Dell is the over 2 hour tech support phone call, to tell them that it was a video card issue, not a windows driver issue when the text displayed in BIOS is garbled. It was amazing the things the tech support guy wanted me to try to figure out if it was the display or the graphics card, like wanting me to go find a magnet so I can wave it over the keyboard... I had to keep fighting the "reload windows" path by telling them that the graphics hardware was bad when their BIOS logo on boot is corrupted, and that fixing anything in windows, Linux, BIOS or anything on a CD would not help. Half of the call was strange questions injected during the debuggin session about "how" I use my laptop trying to figure out if I abuse it. Its basically a gaming desktop for me so it looks brand new and has sat on the desk never handled for months. Truly amazing (and frustrating).
just by knowing its no "real threat to decryption"
I really like the idea of saving the earth by changing habits by using CFL's (and I do use them), I just wish that the retail packaging for them wouldn't be the big plastic encasements they come in (which I think are probably just as bad to the environment, as well as a hassle to open.)
What ever happened to efficient packaging (not $ efficiency) - I mean we are already paying 10-20x to get a CFL, give it to me in a recycled box for $.20 more. Be green all the way, not just half way.
I doubt much of that $700K goes to anyone but the lawyers...
Just think how much profit CoinStar could make collecting pennies and melting them down. They have the machines, network and infrastructure to collect a huge percentage of loose coins every day!
MS to know how to support Linux for Wal-Mart???
Now I know its time to get out of this industry and do something else...
Funny you say this. A few days ago on the news they were interviewing the cheif sound guy for Windows Vista. He spent something like 2 years to develop the default "beep" for vista. How much did that cost?
lol
Actually, its kinda creepy...
We all had a chance to put our votes for the best science show in the sidebar just a few weeks ago ;-)
I want them to bring back Bill Nye!
Lawyers are always trying to make a new market for themselves... If there wasn't money to be made in it, this wouldn't be a story at all.
Even back then we used the CD's & floppys for coasters...
to be involved professionally in politics!
Sorry Sony, I have a PSOne and PS2 and may take a look at your shiny new flagship someday. And Microsoft, well you blew it when you announced that it wouldn't be 100% backwards compatible with the XBOX that I had just spent a ton of money over the last 2 years in games.
does this mean that next months "Month of OSX bugs" is now one day (bug) short?
Just wanted to point out that a bug doesn't mean any OS is insecure. It could be that a pixel is green where it should be blue... And sometimes one man's "bug" is another's "by design".
Yea, I am in Redmond helping to save energy too! Although, traveling to Seattle to get a warm cup of coffee and my Internet fix kind of cancles out some of the overall energy usage...
how mind blowing it would have been if the sub-surface radar showed roads or infrastructure of a previous existance... It would have turned the way funding is for space all around, as well as change text books all over the world.
Really impressive technology being used here. Kudos to those who make it happen.
Why has Redmond been so friendly to linux recently?
Could have been 3.2M + 1, but there are no Wii's to be found here, the store had 20 units the first day, and sold out since.
Sony keeps heavy advertising about the PS3, but what good does it do if they get me interested in it, all to have me go down to the store to look at an empty shelf... It's having the opposite effect, more of a turn off than getting me to want one at this point.
Last night I saw a TV spot from Verizon with their new phone that looks a lot like an iPod in its white version... If it just had the little apple logo on it somewhere I could confuse it with an iCellPod.
I got fed up with ad's using up my hard earned bandwidth (highspeed cable is not enough as it is!) I just changed my host file to send all anoying ad sites to 127.0.0.1 ala Mike's Ad Blocking host file I found on google... (I use his because I got tired of editing my host file every time a new ad came up).
This cuts down on a lot of ads, even in things link MSN IM.
If the file format is "Open XML" why do they need to fork just for MSFT?? Did the word Open just change to mean something else?
Wasn't there an article recently about Gates for President??? I think MSFT is attacking on several fronts now...
I wonder if my meal choice of the little bag of 9 peanuts will put me on the list?