Actually there's someone singing his soulful best on this machine who had actually passed away earlier this year, God Blesss Him.
So if you think about it: There is actually a Ghost-in-the-Machine!
Will he be trapped there forever ?
Well, this is a new machine.
My last one lasted about two years before it started dragging.........
What happens to the ghost if the memory is a flash drive but the system wont ever boot up again ? Will he be trapped for eternity in a toxic wate dump ? Does it matter ?
Dell dont make their own components. Typical of US Multinationals whose CEO's have other people to answer their e-mails.
Dell may have been onto something once, but I think they are now more concern about the stock price than their products.
More gloss than substance.
They are concerned enough to squeeze suppliers down to the last penny, thinking that they can sell their systems cheaper.
OK the suppliers will send them well tested components to be installed into test units in Dell's labs.
But do you think the bits that go into the actual units being sold is of the same quality ? How can the suppliers make any money if they do just as rigorous testing for those parts?
I have bought 4 Dell notebooks, from the days of Windows ME to these Windows XP days. And I have also bought other brand's notebooks.
The best I have used are by this Taiwanese brand called "Twinhead" in Asia. They also have different brands in the US.
I thought that the "crash" was from software only.
I finally realised this is not so.
The Twinhead notebooks (and Acer) I have bought have hardly ever crashed, and I have never seen the dreaded "blue screen" on the others.
The Dells, I have NEVER had one that dont crash.
The latest one in my family I bought for myson specially assembled for a college my son's attending, with 256 MB Rams dedicated video,1920 X 1200 resolution 15.4" screens, no less. He's doing a lot of graphics and video editing work.
Report from my son's that his classmates are all bitching 'cos this "special" Dell machines are so 'freezing-up" & crash-prone that they are all using portable hard disks & frash drives to back their ongoing work 'cos their Dells are so unreliable.
He had also had the system crash as he was burning a CD to save a completed work, and had to go and explain why he didnt complete his work to the powers that be.
I knew this before and had sworn that I'd never buy another Dell again after my 3 previous experiences, but I couldnt find anyone else' brand to come up close with Dell's proposal for the college (The closest was Acer).
(By the way one of my son's buddies did opt for the Acer rather than the Dell, and it works fine.)
My conclusion now: NEVER BUY ANOTHER DELL.
Ideally, for notebooks, buy it from an outfit/brand that makes their own components (.ie., now, Taiwanese, Korean, or Japanese) even if the brand is not well known.
Or, if you know how, assemble your own system from parts by reputable manufacturers (as opposed to assemblers loke Dell).
Some years ago Union Carbide had a chemical plant accident in Bhopal, India. The resulting catastrophy killed a bunch of people immediately, and maimed a whole bunch more.
I recall reading about the later lawsuits, etc.
Basically, they didnt get much. Unlike if it were in the US.
Yet did US citizens stop buying Union Carbide products? Did you ?
But what if the company is overseas based, makes the drugs by way of parallel synthesis pathways, and sells them overseas as a generic, and it turns out to be effective and popular, and demands in the US wants the drugs to be sold in the US eventually ? (Re: the "morning-after" contraceptive pill).
Maybe the Chinese and Indians really love them and willing to pay for them cheap (and'cos there's so many of them then the company makes money anyway),
the Africans want them (for free of course 'cos they mostly cant afford to pay, and they'll get it 'cos Bono will lobby for them).
Yeah, and lets just say that the stuff keeps your dick hard and pussy horny and cures AIDS and makes you immune from bird flu and makes your hair grow back and keep you young forever (with no side effects) and you only have to take one pill a day. Then what?
(And by the way, that's good stuff...how can I get some of that shit?)
--------------And whatever happened to the guy who first tasted the tomato ?
This is cool stuff
But when someone figures out how to trap a ghost with this technology......now we're talking.
And, will someone please teach me how to write an equation for ghost so we can finally fix them.
Great Stuff, Ace !
And by the way, the South did win the Civil War (about 100+ years later, that is, it always takes awhile to do things right. Things are always slower down there)......I mean the last 2 elections.....anyways.
And the face of the US Policy overseas (the soldiers, that is) tend to confirm the adjectives (or are they nouns?) "redneck, ignorant, overbearing, bullies,"
Any ways it just goes to confirm the saying that no country or region has a monopoly over idiots and fools.
Maybe it's that there's too many people around.
Maybe it's just the polluted water everybody's drinking.....you think ?
So people die slowly of degenerative and and other wierd diseases rather than a quick one from infections ( thanks to that Greatest Miracle of the 20th Century....antibiotics)
But I bet you originally couldnt get people to swallow them if you told them that it's fungus vomit !
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Actually there's someone singing his soulful best on this machine who had actually passed away earlier this year, God Blesss Him.
.........
So if you think about it: There is actually a Ghost-in-the-Machine!
Will he be trapped there forever ?
Well, this is a new machine.
My last one lasted about two years before it started dragging
What happens to the ghost if the memory is a flash drive but the system wont ever boot up again ? Will he be trapped for eternity in a toxic wate dump ? Does it matter ?
Any silicon philisophers out there ?
And I've been jerked around by their tech support too.
Like I said on another post here, I'll never buy another Dell.
So I'm not alone.
Dell dont make their own components. Typical of US Multinationals whose CEO's have other people to answer their e-mails.
Dell may have been onto something once, but I think they are now more concern about the stock price than their products.
More gloss than substance.
They are concerned enough to squeeze suppliers down to the last penny, thinking that they can sell their systems cheaper.
OK the suppliers will send them well tested components to be installed into test units in Dell's labs.
But do you think the bits that go into the actual units being sold is of the same quality ? How can the suppliers make any money if they do just as rigorous testing for those parts?
I have bought 4 Dell notebooks, from the days of Windows ME to these Windows XP days. And I have also bought other brand's notebooks.
The best I have used are by this Taiwanese brand called "Twinhead" in Asia. They also have different brands in the US.
I thought that the "crash" was from software only.
I finally realised this is not so.
The Twinhead notebooks (and Acer) I have bought have hardly ever crashed, and I have never seen the dreaded "blue screen" on the others.
The Dells, I have NEVER had one that dont crash.
The latest one in my family I bought for myson specially assembled for a college my son's attending, with 256 MB Rams dedicated video,1920 X 1200 resolution 15.4" screens, no less. He's doing a lot of graphics and video editing work.
Report from my son's that his classmates are all bitching 'cos this "special" Dell machines are so 'freezing-up" & crash-prone that they are all using portable hard disks & frash drives to back their ongoing work 'cos their Dells are so unreliable.
He had also had the system crash as he was burning a CD to save a completed work, and had to go and explain why he didnt complete his work to the powers that be.
I knew this before and had sworn that I'd never buy another Dell again after my 3 previous experiences, but I couldnt find anyone else' brand to come up close with Dell's proposal for the college (The closest was Acer).
(By the way one of my son's buddies did opt for the Acer rather than the Dell, and it works fine.)
My conclusion now: NEVER BUY ANOTHER DELL.
Ideally, for notebooks, buy it from an outfit/brand that makes their own components (.ie., now, Taiwanese, Korean, or Japanese) even if the brand is not well known.
Or, if you know how, assemble your own system from parts by reputable manufacturers (as opposed to assemblers loke Dell).
Some years ago Union Carbide had a chemical plant accident in Bhopal, India. The resulting catastrophy killed a bunch of people immediately, and maimed a whole bunch more.
I recall reading about the later lawsuits, etc.
Basically, they didnt get much. Unlike if it were in the US.
Yet did US citizens stop buying Union Carbide products? Did you ?
But what if the company is overseas based, makes the drugs by way of parallel synthesis pathways, and sells them overseas as a generic, and it turns out to be effective and popular, and demands in the US wants the drugs to be sold in the US eventually ? (Re: the "morning-after" contraceptive pill).
Maybe the Chinese and Indians really love them and willing to pay for them cheap (and'cos there's so many of them then the company makes money anyway), the Africans want them (for free of course 'cos they mostly cant afford to pay, and they'll get it 'cos Bono will lobby for them).
Yeah, and lets just say that the stuff keeps your dick hard and pussy horny and cures AIDS and makes you immune from bird flu and makes your hair grow back and keep you young forever (with no side effects) and you only have to take one pill a day. Then what?
(And by the way, that's good stuff...how can I get some of that shit?)
--------------And whatever happened to the guy who first tasted the tomato ?
This is cool stuff But when someone figures out how to trap a ghost with this technology......now we're talking. And, will someone please teach me how to write an equation for ghost so we can finally fix them.
Great Stuff, Ace ! And by the way, the South did win the Civil War (about 100+ years later, that is, it always takes awhile to do things right. Things are always slower down there)......I mean the last 2 elections.....anyways. And the face of the US Policy overseas (the soldiers, that is) tend to confirm the adjectives (or are they nouns?) "redneck, ignorant, overbearing, bullies," Any ways it just goes to confirm the saying that no country or region has a monopoly over idiots and fools. Maybe it's that there's too many people around. Maybe it's just the polluted water everybody's drinking.....you think ? So people die slowly of degenerative and and other wierd diseases rather than a quick one from infections ( thanks to that Greatest Miracle of the 20th Century....antibiotics) But I bet you originally couldnt get people to swallow them if you told them that it's fungus vomit !