Yes. This. Thank you. Amazing how this "fragmentation recipe for failure" has caused the PC to fail so badly that PC sales have blown Mac out of the water for *decades.*

Here's another way to look at it: If you don't like something about the iPhone, you buy an Android. If you don't like something about the Droid X, you buy a . . different Android. So if developers want to write for a single-device market, and not get sales from everyone on an Android phone, have at. Enjoy. Let us know how that works for you.

Well, I'm not arguing that we should be *given* housing and food as a matter of course, but let's look at the scenario:

You get food. Nutritionally balanced, but nothing fancy. It'd probably be like those food packets they make for starving kids - Rice, cornmeal, chicken powder for protein, and dried vegetables for vitamins. I tried some of that once. I wouldn't want it to be my breakfast lunch and dinner 365 days a year.

You get housing. A tiny little apartment in a soulless cement block building somewhere. It has a bathroom, and a bedroom, and a portable stove to heat the food packs. It'd basically be a jail cell without bars.

You're saying you wouldn't be motivated to go make money so that you could buy *better* stuff than that?

And by the way, as far as filling the time with drugs, hey, drugs cost money, which means they have to get it somehow.

Come to think of it, what would probably happen is that employers would be forced to start paying decent wages and stop treating their employees like shit, because the employee no longer has to worry about starving and being homeless if he stands up to his jackass boss.

Of course, such a move would have to be made only after we repeal NAFTA and GATT so that companies can't just outsource their jobs to countries where people still ARE afraid of starving to death.

"while other companies like Dell or Sun just suffered for no reason but not being appetising."

Yeah, I know, reading is hard.

If you swap the front fan for a non-LED one, the Sword-M is pretty much what you're looking for, including under-mobo cable management.

This, this, and this.

Plus in general airflow in the cheap cases just sucks, and so you have to put a bunch of high-rpm noisy fans in there just to keep it barely cool. Contrast that with the Armor that my machine is in (and it's the 3rd build I've done in the same case). I've got a few large fans in there. It's quieter than the ceiling fan. And I *never* overheat. Also, I mentioned that this was the 3rd computer I've put in this case for a reason: That means instead of spending $50 per case for crappy cases on the last three builds, I spent $150 at the front end and got an excellent case that will probably house builds 4 and 5 as well. If you do it that way, you end up saving money long term.

I'll put forth that Dell suffered because they sucked. They used to be great. I swore by them in the 90's. Then they got greedy, started putting cheap crap in the boxes and scaled back customer service to where you couldn't get a warranty fix unless you practically got the Mafia involved.

I'll also say the same thing I say about the ricermobiles: As long as it's not dangerous, and you like it, do it and be happy. And unlike the ricers who do stupid shit like cutting their springs so that their handling goes in the toilet, it's pretty hard to be unsafe with a PC mod unless you get a cheap inverter for the CCD's.

I build computers from time to time for people who want extreme gaming machines, and sometimes they ask me to doll them up. And I do it, because it's cheap and makes them happy.

I'm also glad that the era of the beige box is at an end. As functional as it was, my black TT Armor looks much better (in addition to being a fantastic case for airflow). Maybe I have an untapped artistic side or something, but I kind of like some of the cooler case mods, just like I like hot rods. No, making your case look like the warp core from the Enterprise doesn't add any functionality, but. . .actually that would be pretty cool. I might have to look in to doing that ;)

You know, I thought you were just rude, but now I realize you're an asshole. Even if you're convinced you're right, there are nicer ways to go about saying it, but you can't quite manage them, can you? I'm not trying to deceive, or use trickery to prove a point. You, on the other hand, are attempting to veil your complete failure to grasp basic concepts in insults. Internet bullies don't impress me or anyone else with a modicum of intelligence. Next time, try harder when you want to troll.

And by the way, no, we're not talking purely about metal fatigue, or had you forgotten that airplanes aren't just slugs of steel?

On second thought, don't bother answering that. I try not to waste too much time arguing with jackasses.

What's easier on you, if I put my hand on your head and push, or if I punch you? Call it silly all you want, but the sudden impact start is going to be harder on the airframe than the sloped acceleration.

And if you give the launcher full power from the beginning, it jolts the aircraft. My entire point was that avoiding the jolt is easier on the aircraft. If you think that's a poor-silly-incorrect-false-logic-formed opinion designed to misdirect, then it says something about your grasp of physics, much less that of common sense.

Why would that be a reasonable assumption. Far more reasonable would be that the curve would get steeper over time. It would be easier on the airplane if you started (relatively) slow and increased power to get to the required takeoff speed by the end.

Think of a car. It's pretty easy to take 1g of lateral acceleration if you're on a skid pad and build up to it - quite another to take 1g when it's from being hit by a truck.

Looking at current common applications of these motors in launch situation - roller coasters, you'll notice that the LIM doesn't just blast them instantly to 90mph. It actually starts out somewhat slow and then accelerates them (relatively) gently over time.

Of course they are. Don't forget the Russians have fucking nuclear missiles too, and they have an annoying plan to launch them if we ever launch ours.

The nukes will be deployed only when it's obvious we're about to lose the conventional war in a big way, just as theirs will be.

Even if they sniff the data coming down as a result of the web request?

I'm not trying to argue, but to get educated here - - Wouldn't it be possible (technically, leave legal aside) to analyze the data coming across, discover "oh, hey, this is coming from cbs.com, and since Comcast just merged with NBC, we're gonna drop the speed until we see data that is *not* coming from cbs.com?"

Actually I was going the opposite direction. If I were running a provider and I wanted to give myself an advantage, I'd implement the protocol myself and then discriminate against anything that doesn't use my protocol.

Ah, but would companies start using them if they saw an economic advantage to it?

I've found (hey check this out - someone's gonna mod this one as offtopic or flamebait) that if you pay attention to the mod points on this site, you just get irritated. There's a reason other sites actually screen who gets to moderate. . .

I've gotten to where I don't even use a desktop email client anymore. When I'm home, I'm usually busy doing non-email things, and my phone has a nice, robust client (K-9 for Android) that suits me just fine. Especially since I don't do a whole lot of emailing anymore. That's what Skype is for.