Alienware used to be quite the boutique vendor. Remember when their ads were the back cover of nearly every Maximum PC? The area 51 was about the single most powerful laptopyou could get, if you didnt mind 30 minute battery life and a huge price tag. Then Dell bought them and they, to my mind and at least, have largely ceased to have much relevance.
However, Dell does have the money due to its humongous other operations to push this market a little nwith the steam box and see where it goes. I have a feeling that after the initial push, it will settle down to just two to three manufacturers with two to four models each. even that selection I hope will give the console wars a push in a better direction.
Also, d + e = 5 and l = 12. 12 - 5 = 3. Half life 3 confirmed.

If you move enough units, try Dell. We are a small shop and don't move many but dell ships us Win 7 loaded machines to resell. Cheaper than a new OS license, less setup time.

Of course, because nicely formulated ad hominem is an excellent logical rebuttal.

...until the fear mongering military industrial complex bankrupts this country. Rome was not built in a day, but neither did it fall in a day. We are falling now, will we catch it?

But no prototype. I am not a physicist, but I ran it through a little thought experiement. If it is some sort of standing pressure wave, it would have to move with the piston, that may be possible, but difficult. The problem I see is that any type of wave would hbe dependent on the frequency/speed of the piston in the cylinder. Therefore, it would have to be there across the entire operating range of the engine, not just it's peak power band. That is a large range. If it falls off anywhere along this range then you get oil control issues, compression issues, or both just as if you had bad rings. Oil control leads to plug/combustion chamber issues and expensive oil replacement. Compression issues lead to huge ineffeciencies, that would offset some or all of the gains from reducing friction. In addition, while the friction may be less, this pressure wave would by its nature have to exert some pressure on the piston and cylinder walls to seal. It may be less friction and less metal to metal contact, but not zero friction. In short a laudable goal, but seems more like a funding grab than a workable idea.

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Sorry to Gowdin the thread,but just as a point of fact that legal != moral, it was legal to gas Jews in Nazi Germany. It is legal now for the US to waterboard terrorist suspects. It was legal for Pilate to have Jesus crucified.

New movie idea: iception

Found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDj7gvc_dsA

I typoed and my silly android keyboard corrected it incorrectly. My brain saw it about .25 ms after hitting submit.

But I posted this a week ago. http://slashdot.org/submission/3219009/abc-streaming-to-require-catv-provider-subscription

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