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Comment Here in Holland (Score 1) 1651

Over here in Holland, we rarely see people wearing such helmets. Actually the only ones who wear them are some children, and that's only because they tend to be more reckless and/or can't estimate the dangers too well. After the age of 8-9, they too stop wearing them. Almost everybody here knows how to ride a bike and if you see how we do that; driving through busy traffic, together with cars, buses etc. on the same lane, all without helmets. Sure, accidents happen, but I can't remember one incident where a helmet would've proven useful. Most of the times a protective suit like you wear on a motorcycle would've been better :)

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$50 Sound Cards Impress Versus Integrated Audio 245

crookedvulture writes "Most PCs have audio integrated right on the motherboard. There's much to be gained from upgrading to a discrete sound card, though. This look at a couple of sub-$50 sound cards from Asus explores what can be found at the budget end of the spectrum. In blind listening tests, both cards produced better sound than an integrated solution. They also offered superior signal quality, but neither had an impact on gaming performance. The days of hardware-accelerated game audio seem to be behind us, with developers handling positional audio processing in software."

Comment Re:It's still a Dell. (Score 1) 218

You're so right. The company I work for allows you to buy a Dell laptop for a certain budget. I can't choose anything else, even if I wanted to. So my new laptop was a Precision M4500 which has Windows pre-installed. I changed Windows to Linux and all was well. Until after a few weeks the battery would no longer charge. Fine, small problem and one call to CS ensured a new battery was shipped the next day. Then a few weeks later the keyboard malfunctioned. Okay, that was replaced as well. And then the charger failed on me. And then the harddisk. And meanwhile I discovered the nvidia card was having problems (doesn't want to refresh the screen sometimes, leaving you editing a file in vim in the wrong place) but they didn't want to swap the mainboard because I couldn't show that the card was running fine in Windows.

Right now everything works fine again, but I won't be surprised if next month I'll have to contact CS again. It's good that I have a 3yr warranty but it would be better if I never had to use it. Hopefully the company's policy will change and I can buy something else.

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