In a related news story, a group of scientists have formed a company named Magrathea with long term plans of building a massive planet which will be capable of fostering the design and manufacture of custom luxury planets.
Dry sump systems make a hell of a lot more sense, considering that in a "normal wet-sump system" the pump is bolted to the engine block and is driven by the engine, costing power, not to mention the power loss by having the crankshaft slosh around in a pool of oil stored in the sump (oil pan).
Yes, ideally it would be an electric pump in either case, but it doesn't make sense for a conventional configuration to be electrically driven if the goal is to increase efficiency. If you're going to put an electric pump in, you may as well as eliminate the large capacity sump (oil pan) and move it into an auxiliary tank which will be a) easier to drain b) decrease engine assembly size and c) make it overall much, much easier to service the oiling system. It also makes it easier to install oil coolers, better oil filter systems, and so on.
A better oil filter system would be a big win for engine longevity and long-term efficiency. Conventional "oil filters" actually don't "filter" oil like a fuel filter does; the bypass is nearly always open (they typically begin open at like 12psi and by typical pressure at cruising RPM, oil can't flow through the paper substrate at all so the bypass fully opens) so the sludge and particulates are not "filtered" out but deposited as they flow alongside the filter substrate. I've seen filters dissected by race crews and it's amazing what oil filter manufacturers have gotten away with for so long.
If they made one of these stainless steel filters for my Saab, I'd have put one in already: http://www.gopurepower.com/site/products/default.asp#FILTERS - They actually filter the oil. Unfortunately they don't have a model that fits my 2.0t but when I put my ZR-1 back on the road after it's restored, I'm definitely switching to these oil filters in that car.
Replacing the starter is cheap and easy enough on most engines (with the exception of the LT5, where GM marketing departments bonehead requirements demanded the same bore spacing as the smallblock so the starter sits in the lifter valley underneath the intake plenum - a royal pain in the ass to swap it out). It's certainly much cheaper and easier to replace than the other parts that excessive start/stop cycles will destroy: the bearings, lifters, valves stems, and so on. In other words, the engine will be an expensive casualty of this "feature" and the material/oil/pollution costs of building a new engine to replace the worn out one will more than offset any theoretical savings. Of course, if they're smart enough to include a dry sump oiling system to pre-pressurize the oiling system prior to start up, it's a non-issue. Just make the starter easy to replace; or more specifically, design the starter to be in an accessible location with the brushes replaceable by swapping out a cartridge.
What is the real goal of this? Is it really to decrease fossil fuel consumption, or is it planned obsolescence, considering that most engine wear occurs during engine start up when oil has drained back into the crankcase? Will all vehicles with this feature be equipped with electrically-driven dry sump systems so the bearings and lifters are already pressurized at start-up?
Linking is the equivalent to pointing and shouting "Oh look, a deer!" in the real world.
Now, if I were to do that, I am not putting the deer there. I am simply mentioning that I see one and pointing it out to people. Now, if you mis-use the information if you happen to be within earshot and hear me and you poach that deer, it's not my fault nor my responsibility you did so - even if you are holding a shotgun when I point it out.
I am sick and tired of gamer-looking cases, loud fans (even my Antec Sonatas are louder than I'd like), and uber-bright blue LEDs. To me the ultimate case mod would involve:
Large grilles made of wire for the cooling fans. Why? Because the tiny holes with sharp angles for the grilles cut into sheet metal create and amplify wind noise
All fans mounted using silicon or felt bushings (and possibly even silicone studs/rivets) to isolate the chassis to reduce amplification of fan motor noise
A total absence of pimple face geek-inspired clear windows, scoops, double-decker wings, cold cathode tubes, USB-powered beverage chiller/heater, greddy turbo or type-R decals, and other stupid crap (oh wait, I'm confusing case modders with ricers aren't I? Meh, same mentality)
Front-panel things like CPU, HDD, and ambient temp are nice, but make them dimmable
Power LEDs should be dimmable. Auto-dimmable would be ideal. Currently one of the first things I do for the desktop in my bedroom is apply purple or black nail polish to the HDD and power LEDs so that they are just barely visible with the lights on, and not bright enough to cast shadows with the lights off.
I like running certain cables under the motherboard, so I beg to differ with the folks above who hate it. I have a better idea to make everybody happy though: instead of the motherboard mount being a flat plate, why not make a chassis with a steel or forged aluminum spaceframe, and as far as EMF rejection/ground plane/etc. are concerned, the stamped steel or aluminum chassis will handle shielding? That way, the back/bottom side of the motherboard remains accessible which allows for easy servicing in the event you do want to run cables under the board, and CPU heatsinks will be much, much easier to swap. This would hold doubly true for servers; make a sort of a space subframe assembly which can be removed to service systems more easily.It would be kind of like some of Inwin's and Enlight's from the '90s, but with sturdier and more open construction to make the back side of the heatsink mounts fully acccessible.
The case should not intrude on my bedroom, living room, or any other room any more than a box of tissues. In other words, while it doesn't have to win Martha Stewart's approval, let's try to make it so it will be right at home regardless of decor, kind of like a set top box. I don't want to notice the case at all; all I want is enough space inside to house the components, enough quiet airflow to keep it cool, indicator lights to be very dim, and easy access to a DVD or Blu-Ray drive. It should be nondescript so the only time I notice it is if I need to insert a disc. As an HTPC it should be quiet and fit well into a living room, and as a productivity PC in my bedroom, it should be quiet and not have bright search lights for power or HDD activity indicators. Don't get me wrong - blue LEDs are cool. I love blue LEDs. However, like the old blink tag years ago, and HDR in photography, blue LEDs are everywhere now, are over-used and mis-used in so many ways that I don't care to see another one for quite a while.
I don't want to even think about the chassis until it's time to insert an optical disc, or to service the unit. Otherwise, the case should be unnoticeable.
It couldn't be done that way; legacy fighters are mostly aluminum, newer ones are built mostly of pressed composite layups or molded composite plastics.
The aircraft is being towed just as with conventional catapults; you can plainly see the brackets in the video. One bracket in front of the wheel at about 45* angle, and one in the back at about a 30* angle. The piston (not the correct term) upon which the linear motor works is what those rods are connected to. The aircraft is basically going along for the ride, and is not part of the linear motor.
Good thing I chose AmEx. Otherwise, i would not be able to buy anything off Amazon and feeBay any more.
Case in point: Most Windows Server licenses you see on feeBay are counterfeit. Why resort to feeBay for Windows Server? When you NEED older releases for a particular purpose, you can't buy it anywhere. You can buy Win2K8 and then use downgrade rights, but that won't last forever. The same problem with a lot of vendors exists on Amazon. (disputed the charges with amazon, amazon reversed them. Paypal/feeBay cancelled my charges so in neither case did I have to resort to asking AmEx to do a chargeback).
Also, on Amazon, I've bought used movies (out of print, imports, etc) and have received some counterfeit ones. Those are professional pirates. The only reason I didn't return the merchandise and push to have charges reversed was I was glad to get my hands on the movies at all, but I did report the counterfeiters to both Amazon and the copyright holders.
So, I guess neither feeBay/Paypal nor Amazon will be able to accept Mastercard/Visa any more since "pirates" (yar!) sell via those sites. I'm glad I use AmEx because I will still be able to buy stuff.;)
Cholesterol is necessary for proper cardiovascular and adrenal function. Most people synthesize enough so that they don't really need to eat a significant amount of cholesterol. However, some people's bodies do not synthesize enough cholesterol to remain healthy (folks with certain adrenal gland disorders for example - more specifically the liver may be functioning what would normally be adequate but due to the adrenal disorder supplemental cholesterol intake may be required to make the adrenal glands function - or go on a concoction of steroids with nasty side effects) and need to eat quite a bit.
So yes, cholesterol intake can be a good thing in some cases. Normally you need minimal cholesterol intake.
Then communities should build their own local ISPs and revoke the monopolies they granted, and if the telephone company, cable company, etc. complains about using their rights of way, use eminent domain since this is a rare case where eminent domain would actually be for the public good.
Radio Shack = a micro version of (the late) Circuit City and cellphone kiosk, only higher priced than everyone else for bottom of the line items, with few electronic parts and cables. They abandoned their core market that made them successful for three quarters of a century. They used to be THE go-to place for electronics components for repairs and projects, but now they're a high priced purveyor of Wal-Mart quality goods. Gee, why is Radio Shack Corporation performing so poorly?
Not all stores even honor their web site pricing. Take Sprawl*Mart for example: I went to buy one of my lower end air purifiers from them. Their web site had a price that was $40 less than the in-store price. I printed the page and brought it to the Sprawl*Mart and they absolutely would not honor the price. Their excuse: It's technically another company running the web store. Needless to say, I didn't buy from Sprawl*Mart; I ordered online from another company.
Bed, Bath and Beyond though, will honor their web pricing and will even price match competitors, or at least come close.:-)
Best Buy won't, at least the store I tried to get them to price match Amazon on an item wouldn't.
The local "hi fi" shops will meet or beat Best Buy's pricing. I want a new AV receiver and I happen to like Pioneer Elite's line - I've had fairly good luck with them for years. However, I don't want to buy from Best Buy's Magnolia Home Theater. So, I checked with a local Pioneer dealer and they quoted me a price that beat Best Buy's. I won't even bother haggling at Best Buy. Plus, their return policies suck. Remember years back during the christmas season they were really emphasizing their no hassle return policies, and ran ads with animals returning stuff to the store, one of the items was an open dvd? Well I happened to buy a DVD around that time and the labeling did not indicate whether it was widescreen or pan&scan (very unusual for a DVD). So, I buy it, take it home, and found it was P&S so I went right back to best buy to return it. They refused. WTF? So, in their ads they were commiting outright fraud. I ended up just throwing the DVD away. To me, Best Buy is the place to go when you need a cable in a real pinch and can't wait for one to ship, or to buy DVDs and maybe small peripherals, and that's about it.
In other news, workers are becoming less productive, companies complain about ever-higher turnover rates and total lack of loyalty to the employer, and workers are more ill and suffer more stress, and that trend is expected to continue until at least 2015.
Good CGI continues to impress me, because I've been around computers since age 7, back when the original Trash 80 was bleeding edge and when the Amiga came out I lusted over it for years (but went with a complete C=128 system due to access to pirated software from a pirate BBS board a friend ran - and yet I still worked odd jobs to buy games and a few apps like geos and wordwriter pro for doing my homework). When CGI started to show up in movies,it was interesting but looked obviously fake but gradually grew better and better. When CGI became so good that visually one cannot discern the practical from CGI, it was awe-striking. It was astounding how quickly computer technology advanced!
I still find well-done, well-integrated CGI to be impressive, where the special effects actually add to the story rather than being there "because they can," when you can't tell visually what is CGI and what is practical. There is still a lot done very poorly, and I chalk it up to producers using CGI like many would-be photographers use HDR; slap it on everything and it's bound to come out horrible looking. I guess it's not so much CGI that impresses me any more, but just how well some producers implement and integrate it to make it seamless with the live action footage.
There have always been great special effects artists, and poor ones. Some films from the 30s with their practical special effects stand the test of time against modern CGI quite well (particularly The Wizard of Oz), whereas there are a lot of productions from the '80s and '90s that are downright painful to watch (see: the original V miniseries from the 80s) despite really good effects in other productions (Star Trek:TNG, the original Star Wars trilogy, and so forth) from the same time period.
Government effectively increasing the cost of living by $5,000-$12,000 per year per person by forcing everyone to buy health care whether they want to or not != reform. It = tyranny.
Working on the CR-48 can feel like walking a tightrope without a net (pardon the pun). If you're not connected to the Internet on this laptop, you're dead in the water. I wrote this article in Google Docs on the CR-48 during my commute. I should have been fine, because I had a Verizon Mi-Fi card for connectivity (our CR-48 arrived without a SIM card, so I couldn't test out the built-in 3G connection). But halfway through my commute, Chrome reported that it couldn't reach Google Docs. On any other laptop, this would be no problem. I'd copy my existing text into Word and continue working there. But on the CR-48, my options were severely limited. I pasted my changes into an Evernote note instead and hoped that I wouldn't lose my connection to that service.
That's the problem with the cloud. Any problems on your end, at google, or anywhere in between, or if you forget to pay your cellular bill, you're not getting that proposal out to clients, you're not getting your tax returns in on time, you're not getting your paper in on time, etc.
The reason you don't see bumper covers fixed is that the ignorant assholes in Boston, New York, etc. slam into the cars in front of and behind them so that they know where the front and back of their car is. They just don't give a fuck about other people's property. You can have your bumper fixed today, and if you park around the city, in a week the bumper will be dinged again.
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I have one that rotates (it's an Acer. Ick.) but it maxes out at 1920x1200. My other monitor is a Samsung and it is limited to 1920x1080. The problem with rotating it result in a horizontal dimension of 1080 pixels wide. Whether you view it in portrait or landscape orientation, the lowered screen estate is annoying. You could say I could use my multiple monitor setup more efficiently, and on the desktop you'd be right. I'm sick of the clutter though so I will be eliminating one monitor - the Acer is getting the heave-ho soon (the Samsung looks nicer in my bedroom and vertical resolution isn't as critical for me at home any more), and the Samsung doesn't rotate.
However, it's a bigger problem on my laptop; I do 99% of my real work on my laptop and the maximum resolution is 1920x1200. How do you propose I rotate the screen on that?:) At the office I do often set up an external monitor when I need to edit product specs and run spreadsheets, but it doesn't resolve the basic issue of the limited resolutions of today's mainstream monitors.
I know, I know, suck it up and drop $1,100 on a monitor. It is hard to justify it though when that cash can go to other stuff.
I like widescreen for movies. Give me more vertical screen estate on computer monitors though, mmmkay?
Even worse, more and more mainstream monitors are only 1920x1080. I understand why - the manufacturers are being cheap and using the same LCD panels for both monitor and 1080p television offerings. Another 120 vertical pixels lost.:(
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In a related news story, a group of scientists have formed a company named Magrathea with long term plans of building a massive planet which will be capable of fostering the design and manufacture of custom luxury planets.
Right, and 4chan has long been known known for aggregating interesting news and fostering enlightened discussion. ;)
Dry sump systems make a hell of a lot more sense, considering that in a "normal wet-sump system" the pump is bolted to the engine block and is driven by the engine, costing power, not to mention the power loss by having the crankshaft slosh around in a pool of oil stored in the sump (oil pan).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_sump
Yes, ideally it would be an electric pump in either case, but it doesn't make sense for a conventional configuration to be electrically driven if the goal is to increase efficiency. If you're going to put an electric pump in, you may as well as eliminate the large capacity sump (oil pan) and move it into an auxiliary tank which will be a) easier to drain b) decrease engine assembly size and c) make it overall much, much easier to service the oiling system. It also makes it easier to install oil coolers, better oil filter systems, and so on.
A better oil filter system would be a big win for engine longevity and long-term efficiency. Conventional "oil filters" actually don't "filter" oil like a fuel filter does; the bypass is nearly always open (they typically begin open at like 12psi and by typical pressure at cruising RPM, oil can't flow through the paper substrate at all so the bypass fully opens) so the sludge and particulates are not "filtered" out but deposited as they flow alongside the filter substrate. I've seen filters dissected by race crews and it's amazing what oil filter manufacturers have gotten away with for so long.
If they made one of these stainless steel filters for my Saab, I'd have put one in already: http://www.gopurepower.com/site/products/default.asp#FILTERS - They actually filter the oil. Unfortunately they don't have a model that fits my 2.0t but when I put my ZR-1 back on the road after it's restored, I'm definitely switching to these oil filters in that car.
Replacing the starter is cheap and easy enough on most engines (with the exception of the LT5, where GM marketing departments bonehead requirements demanded the same bore spacing as the smallblock so the starter sits in the lifter valley underneath the intake plenum - a royal pain in the ass to swap it out). It's certainly much cheaper and easier to replace than the other parts that excessive start/stop cycles will destroy: the bearings, lifters, valves stems, and so on. In other words, the engine will be an expensive casualty of this "feature" and the material/oil/pollution costs of building a new engine to replace the worn out one will more than offset any theoretical savings. Of course, if they're smart enough to include a dry sump oiling system to pre-pressurize the oiling system prior to start up, it's a non-issue. Just make the starter easy to replace; or more specifically, design the starter to be in an accessible location with the brushes replaceable by swapping out a cartridge.
What is the real goal of this? Is it really to decrease fossil fuel consumption, or is it planned obsolescence, considering that most engine wear occurs during engine start up when oil has drained back into the crankcase? Will all vehicles with this feature be equipped with electrically-driven dry sump systems so the bearings and lifters are already pressurized at start-up?
He is Russian. He probably doesn't care too much for beer, but would never turn down free vodka!
Sorry, but linking is not the same is publishing.
Linking is the equivalent to pointing and shouting "Oh look, a deer!" in the real world.
Now, if I were to do that, I am not putting the deer there. I am simply mentioning that I see one and pointing it out to people. Now, if you mis-use the information if you happen to be within earshot and hear me and you poach that deer, it's not my fault nor my responsibility you did so - even if you are holding a shotgun when I point it out.
I am sick and tired of gamer-looking cases, loud fans (even my Antec Sonatas are louder than I'd like), and uber-bright blue LEDs. To me the ultimate case mod would involve:
I like running certain cables under the motherboard, so I beg to differ with the folks above who hate it. I have a better idea to make everybody happy though: instead of the motherboard mount being a flat plate, why not make a chassis with a steel or forged aluminum spaceframe, and as far as EMF rejection/ground plane/etc. are concerned, the stamped steel or aluminum chassis will handle shielding? That way, the back/bottom side of the motherboard remains accessible which allows for easy servicing in the event you do want to run cables under the board, and CPU heatsinks will be much, much easier to swap. This would hold doubly true for servers; make a sort of a space subframe assembly which can be removed to service systems more easily.It would be kind of like some of Inwin's and Enlight's from the '90s, but with sturdier and more open construction to make the back side of the heatsink mounts fully acccessible.
The case should not intrude on my bedroom, living room, or any other room any more than a box of tissues. In other words, while it doesn't have to win Martha Stewart's approval, let's try to make it so it will be right at home regardless of decor, kind of like a set top box. I don't want to notice the case at all; all I want is enough space inside to house the components, enough quiet airflow to keep it cool, indicator lights to be very dim, and easy access to a DVD or Blu-Ray drive. It should be nondescript so the only time I notice it is if I need to insert a disc. As an HTPC it should be quiet and fit well into a living room, and as a productivity PC in my bedroom, it should be quiet and not have bright search lights for power or HDD activity indicators. Don't get me wrong - blue LEDs are cool. I love blue LEDs. However, like the old blink tag years ago, and HDR in photography, blue LEDs are everywhere now, are over-used and mis-used in so many ways that I don't care to see another one for quite a while.
I don't want to even think about the chassis until it's time to insert an optical disc, or to service the unit. Otherwise, the case should be unnoticeable.
No slashdot editors were involved in the production of the list. ;)
It couldn't be done that way; legacy fighters are mostly aluminum, newer ones are built mostly of pressed composite layups or molded composite plastics.
The aircraft is being towed just as with conventional catapults; you can plainly see the brackets in the video. One bracket in front of the wheel at about 45* angle, and one in the back at about a 30* angle. The piston (not the correct term) upon which the linear motor works is what those rods are connected to. The aircraft is basically going along for the ride, and is not part of the linear motor.
Good thing I chose AmEx. Otherwise, i would not be able to buy anything off Amazon and feeBay any more.
Case in point: Most Windows Server licenses you see on feeBay are counterfeit. Why resort to feeBay for Windows Server? When you NEED older releases for a particular purpose, you can't buy it anywhere. You can buy Win2K8 and then use downgrade rights, but that won't last forever. The same problem with a lot of vendors exists on Amazon. (disputed the charges with amazon, amazon reversed them. Paypal/feeBay cancelled my charges so in neither case did I have to resort to asking AmEx to do a chargeback).
Also, on Amazon, I've bought used movies (out of print, imports, etc) and have received some counterfeit ones. Those are professional pirates. The only reason I didn't return the merchandise and push to have charges reversed was I was glad to get my hands on the movies at all, but I did report the counterfeiters to both Amazon and the copyright holders.
So, I guess neither feeBay/Paypal nor Amazon will be able to accept Mastercard/Visa any more since "pirates" (yar!) sell via those sites. I'm glad I use AmEx because I will still be able to buy stuff. ;)
It is if you're syldexic!
Cholesterol is necessary for proper cardiovascular and adrenal function. Most people synthesize enough so that they don't really need to eat a significant amount of cholesterol. However, some people's bodies do not synthesize enough cholesterol to remain healthy (folks with certain adrenal gland disorders for example - more specifically the liver may be functioning what would normally be adequate but due to the adrenal disorder supplemental cholesterol intake may be required to make the adrenal glands function - or go on a concoction of steroids with nasty side effects) and need to eat quite a bit.
So yes, cholesterol intake can be a good thing in some cases. Normally you need minimal cholesterol intake.
Then communities should build their own local ISPs and revoke the monopolies they granted, and if the telephone company, cable company, etc. complains about using their rights of way, use eminent domain since this is a rare case where eminent domain would actually be for the public good.
Radio Shack = a micro version of (the late) Circuit City and cellphone kiosk, only higher priced than everyone else for bottom of the line items, with few electronic parts and cables. They abandoned their core market that made them successful for three quarters of a century. They used to be THE go-to place for electronics components for repairs and projects, but now they're a high priced purveyor of Wal-Mart quality goods. Gee, why is Radio Shack Corporation performing so poorly?
Not all stores even honor their web site pricing. Take Sprawl*Mart for example: I went to buy one of my lower end air purifiers from them. Their web site had a price that was $40 less than the in-store price. I printed the page and brought it to the Sprawl*Mart and they absolutely would not honor the price. Their excuse: It's technically another company running the web store. Needless to say, I didn't buy from Sprawl*Mart; I ordered online from another company.
Bed, Bath and Beyond though, will honor their web pricing and will even price match competitors, or at least come close. :-)
Best Buy won't, at least the store I tried to get them to price match Amazon on an item wouldn't.
The local "hi fi" shops will meet or beat Best Buy's pricing. I want a new AV receiver and I happen to like Pioneer Elite's line - I've had fairly good luck with them for years. However, I don't want to buy from Best Buy's Magnolia Home Theater. So, I checked with a local Pioneer dealer and they quoted me a price that beat Best Buy's. I won't even bother haggling at Best Buy. Plus, their return policies suck. Remember years back during the christmas season they were really emphasizing their no hassle return policies, and ran ads with animals returning stuff to the store, one of the items was an open dvd? Well I happened to buy a DVD around that time and the labeling did not indicate whether it was widescreen or pan&scan (very unusual for a DVD). So, I buy it, take it home, and found it was P&S so I went right back to best buy to return it. They refused. WTF? So, in their ads they were commiting outright fraud. I ended up just throwing the DVD away. To me, Best Buy is the place to go when you need a cable in a real pinch and can't wait for one to ship, or to buy DVDs and maybe small peripherals, and that's about it.
In other news, workers are becoming less productive, companies complain about ever-higher turnover rates and total lack of loyalty to the employer, and workers are more ill and suffer more stress, and that trend is expected to continue until at least 2015.
Good CGI continues to impress me, because I've been around computers since age 7, back when the original Trash 80 was bleeding edge and when the Amiga came out I lusted over it for years (but went with a complete C=128 system due to access to pirated software from a pirate BBS board a friend ran - and yet I still worked odd jobs to buy games and a few apps like geos and wordwriter pro for doing my homework). When CGI started to show up in movies,it was interesting but looked obviously fake but gradually grew better and better. When CGI became so good that visually one cannot discern the practical from CGI, it was awe-striking. It was astounding how quickly computer technology advanced!
I still find well-done, well-integrated CGI to be impressive, where the special effects actually add to the story rather than being there "because they can," when you can't tell visually what is CGI and what is practical. There is still a lot done very poorly, and I chalk it up to producers using CGI like many would-be photographers use HDR; slap it on everything and it's bound to come out horrible looking. I guess it's not so much CGI that impresses me any more, but just how well some producers implement and integrate it to make it seamless with the live action footage.
There have always been great special effects artists, and poor ones. Some films from the 30s with their practical special effects stand the test of time against modern CGI quite well (particularly The Wizard of Oz), whereas there are a lot of productions from the '80s and '90s that are downright painful to watch (see: the original V miniseries from the 80s) despite really good effects in other productions (Star Trek:TNG, the original Star Wars trilogy, and so forth) from the same time period.
Did you catch the new Futurama series online?
Government effectively increasing the cost of living by $5,000-$12,000 per year per person by forcing everyone to buy health care whether they want to or not != reform. It = tyranny.
Is that what powers Zoolander's cellphone?
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1333/856357878_bb4a4ae794_o.jpg
http://www.phonedog.com/img/blog/2009/04/Zoolander.jpg
First look at the CR-48:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/213168/google_cr48_first_look_at_the_first_chrome_os_laptop.html?tk=rel_news
That's the problem with the cloud. Any problems on your end, at google, or anywhere in between, or if you forget to pay your cellular bill, you're not getting that proposal out to clients, you're not getting your tax returns in on time, you're not getting your paper in on time, etc.
The reason you don't see bumper covers fixed is that the ignorant assholes in Boston, New York, etc. slam into the cars in front of and behind them so that they know where the front and back of their car is. They just don't give a fuck about other people's property. You can have your bumper fixed today, and if you park around the city, in a week the bumper will be dinged again.
I have one that rotates (it's an Acer. Ick.) but it maxes out at 1920x1200. My other monitor is a Samsung and it is limited to 1920x1080. The problem with rotating it result in a horizontal dimension of 1080 pixels wide. Whether you view it in portrait or landscape orientation, the lowered screen estate is annoying. You could say I could use my multiple monitor setup more efficiently, and on the desktop you'd be right. I'm sick of the clutter though so I will be eliminating one monitor - the Acer is getting the heave-ho soon (the Samsung looks nicer in my bedroom and vertical resolution isn't as critical for me at home any more), and the Samsung doesn't rotate.
However, it's a bigger problem on my laptop; I do 99% of my real work on my laptop and the maximum resolution is 1920x1200. How do you propose I rotate the screen on that? :) At the office I do often set up an external monitor when I need to edit product specs and run spreadsheets, but it doesn't resolve the basic issue of the limited resolutions of today's mainstream monitors.
I know, I know, suck it up and drop $1,100 on a monitor. It is hard to justify it though when that cash can go to other stuff.
I like widescreen for movies. Give me more vertical screen estate on computer monitors though, mmmkay?
Even worse, more and more mainstream monitors are only 1920x1080. I understand why - the manufacturers are being cheap and using the same LCD panels for both monitor and 1080p television offerings. Another 120 vertical pixels lost. :(
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