I started using a MacBook air after the 3rd replacement of my Lenovo T410s. The screen would have a large white line across it (happened 2 weeks after i got it) and each time it was replaced, it happend again. The body was also brittle, and cracked. Half the people on my team had the same laptop, and had near the same experience. How such a flawed laptop could pass quality control is past me, but I'll definitely never buy a laptop from them.
> How such a flawed laptop could pass quality control is past me
Every manufacturer has a few lines of lemons. Apple for instance had a few generations of iBooks where the graphics chip would come loose (since it was placed unprotected under the wrist rest), everyone who I've ever known with a plastic MacBook (5+ people) had the front plastic crack, one generation of MacBook Pro 15" had an issue where the LCD would randomly turn on with every other row of LED lighting turned off (so it looked like stage lighting), and then of course the classic "mooing" MacBook.
This is why anecdotal evidence is difficult to take to heart - it's always black and white.
That was a problem with the t400s and t410s that were manufactured for a period. The problem is now fixed in newer t410s and all t420s.
I love my Lenovo t400s. I went around the world with it, dropped it, smashed it, and just did terrible things to it. And yet, it keeps on chugging along. My t400s is like a car that never wants to die. The consumer in me wants to upgrade but I can't find a sensible reason to do so.
It's like my mother: always present, reliable and stable. It's the only piece of hardware that ever made me smile.
Extreme rudeness aside, you will be "your grandma" soon. Do you want to be perplexed by 2030's technology presenting tons of options inelegantly?
A good interface reduces visual clutter. Seldom used options don't belong on the front row UI seat. I wouldn't want them on a F16 cockpit, and I don't want them on my file browser.
Wow. This is a huge vulnerability. I hope they fix this very soon. The cognitive dissonance going on with that twitter conversation makes me think he was talking to a bot. Also I love the "These cookies are secure" bit on the admin interface.
I would guess they're banking on LTE for the iPhone 5... so in that step up you'll see a much bigger upgrade, but as a technology LTE is probably a bit immature for Apple's standards.
Unless data caps get overhauled with LTE rollouts (hahaha, right), it's impossible for me to get excited about stupid fast connections you can only use at full throttle for about 45 minutes per month.
Sprint just capped their WiMax phone tethering and modems, they'll surely cap the phones themselves when load increases.
Well I think in LTE the number of resource elements assigned to a UE will vary depending on the other phones connected to the eNodeB. So in theory it's not a problem anyways, because everyone will have an iPhone ;)
If it's not a unique disadvantage, do you really think it will affect sales? To overcome it I suppose they would need to find a more power efficient processor. MIMO is kind of a power hungry application what with the calculating a new spatial correlation matrix every few milliseconds. It would seem like the limitation will be universal to all other phones unless a phone manufacture buys some chip manufacturer with a mythical chip that solves the problem then keeps the tech to themselves.
It's hard to simulate poverty. Of course I can make the right decisions. I'm not hungry, and this is a game. Sure I'll choose to buy the cheapest, and healthiest food I can. Real life is different, after being hungry for a while my decisions would be different. I don't feel this game highlighted how the mentality of the situation compounds itself.
Burning out is a terrible feeling. As someone who got a job before finishing school, I spent the first few years of my career working literally 16 hour days. I felt the need to prove myself, and I worked hard to do it. After 3 or 4 years my life changed in some big ways, and the life style started to affect me extremely negatively. I continued to try to work more hours but I wasn't getting anything more done. It was like I had no more ambition to work. On one particular project I hit a big dip. I became depressed, I started neglecting things like laundry, or brushing my teeth, or eating. When the project ended, I got some time to recover a bit (but not fully) a year or so later I was on another stressful project. I think I hit my low during that. I almost became completely separated from reality for lack of a better description. I started having deep almost philosophical thoughts about what the point of life even is. Again my productivity dropped lower (and also my quality of work, and my communication) I tried to make up for it with extra hours, but it only made things worse. Eventually I quit, and found a better job that has been pretty strictly 9-5. Additionally I also stopped working on side projects for a while. I think a really important part is realizing that the situation I was in was not going to get better, and a complete change was necessary.
I pre-ordered a fire. Honestly if i'm reading about some random topic (i was just reading a page about econometrics) if Amazon all of the sudden started recommending me books about econometrics, i'd be okay with it. As long as the recommendations are good.
