Nerd Power!
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Lady Reiha
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*pokes* you have unlimited access to looking at my piccies, Tromby ^^Trombonus said:Sure thing.
(he knows why lol)
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*sneaks in, dusted in kitty nip, snuggles Rei and runs back out*
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O.O!lil_squirter said:
SQUIRTUM!!!!! *chases after her, knocking her down*
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Lady Reiha said:
Well *I* think it's cute.
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EndCredits said:
*shows all, pointing frantically*
SEE?!!!!!
CUTE!
Credikity said cute! NOT sexy!!!!!
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Nerds rock
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why thank-you Celty ^^CelticFlame said:Nerds rock
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Lady Reiha said:Credikity said cute! NOT sexy!!!!!
*sigh* Picky, picky.
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lol I'm just shy -_-EndCredits said:
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Lady Reiha said:
Well you have no reason to be.
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I know <.<EndCredits said:
I just am lol.
anyways, I'm gonna call it an early night. Have a good Easter!!!
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before I actually go to bed, I came across the 10 worst PC's list that msn put up. I think it's rather funny.. considering I used to own number 10.
here's the list. Goodnight everyone *crawls up on her fav chair*
#10. Dell Dimension 4600 (2003)
#9. New Internet Computer (2000)
#8. eMachines eTower 366c (1999)
#7. Commodore VIC 20 (1981)
#6. Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (1979)
#5. IBM PS/1 (1990-1994)
#4. Apple III (1980-1984)
#3. Coleco Adam (1983) * this company also created Cabage Patch Kids!!!*
#2. Mattel Barbie PC (1999-2000)
and the worst of them all:
#1. Packard Bell PCs (1986-1996)
and the reason why:
When PC World decided to name the ten worst PCs of all time, it was a virtual lock that a Packard Bell machine would grace the list at number one. The only question was, which model? It was an impossible choice.
Part of the problem was Packard Bell's strategy of selling nearly identical systems under different names, depending on where they were sold. So the Packard Bell Legend 406CD hawked at Circuit City was more or less the same as the Axcel 467 on the shelves at Staples or the Force 480CD sold at CompUSA, making apples-to-apples (or in this case, lemons-to-lemons) comparisons impossible.
But in other ways Packard Bell was maddeningly consistent. Between 1994 and 1996 the company was a perennial bottom dweller in PC World's reliability and service ratings. One out of six Packard Bell machines sold at retail was returned by dissatisfied customers--more than twice the industry average.
And odds are good that if you bought a new Packard Bell system in 1994 or 1995, at least some of its components had been previously owned. The company was sued several times for selling used parts as new, ultimately paying out millions of dollars in settlements.
After Packard Bell merged with NEC in 1996, things got a little better. But when Packard Bell exited the US market in 2000 to focus on selling machines to European consumers, few users on this side of the pond shed any tears.
here's the list. Goodnight everyone *crawls up on her fav chair*
#10. Dell Dimension 4600 (2003)
#9. New Internet Computer (2000)
#8. eMachines eTower 366c (1999)
#7. Commodore VIC 20 (1981)
#6. Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (1979)
#5. IBM PS/1 (1990-1994)
#4. Apple III (1980-1984)
#3. Coleco Adam (1983) * this company also created Cabage Patch Kids!!!*
#2. Mattel Barbie PC (1999-2000)
and the worst of them all:
#1. Packard Bell PCs (1986-1996)
and the reason why:
When PC World decided to name the ten worst PCs of all time, it was a virtual lock that a Packard Bell machine would grace the list at number one. The only question was, which model? It was an impossible choice.
Part of the problem was Packard Bell's strategy of selling nearly identical systems under different names, depending on where they were sold. So the Packard Bell Legend 406CD hawked at Circuit City was more or less the same as the Axcel 467 on the shelves at Staples or the Force 480CD sold at CompUSA, making apples-to-apples (or in this case, lemons-to-lemons) comparisons impossible.
But in other ways Packard Bell was maddeningly consistent. Between 1994 and 1996 the company was a perennial bottom dweller in PC World's reliability and service ratings. One out of six Packard Bell machines sold at retail was returned by dissatisfied customers--more than twice the industry average.
And odds are good that if you bought a new Packard Bell system in 1994 or 1995, at least some of its components had been previously owned. The company was sued several times for selling used parts as new, ultimately paying out millions of dollars in settlements.
After Packard Bell merged with NEC in 1996, things got a little better. But when Packard Bell exited the US market in 2000 to focus on selling machines to European consumers, few users on this side of the pond shed any tears.
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Lady Reiha said:
Heh, I was just reading about the Apple III. THAT is an interesting excercise in poor engineering. Pretty much, the circuitboard required finer-detail work than Apple was capable of, and many of the circuits were acidentally soldered together in places where they shouldn't have. Chips that would normally be replaceable were attached permanently to the motherboard, and were not checked for defects before being installed. The case had no cooling fans, and had very minimal room inside the case for the circuitboards. When they got too hot, they'd expand inside the tight confines and become warped, popping chips out of their solders.
On top of that, it wasn't even compatible with much of the Apple ][ stuff, using an emulator that was designed with limitations on the kinds of software that could be run (IIRC, the emulator set a low cap for memory usage).
And if your Apple III didn't work? If it was within warranty, they'd replace it with another, identical Apple III... with all the same design flaws. There was a redesigned version with some of the bigger problems fixed, but you had to buy one of those if you wanted on.
That said, I think the TI-83 (as opposed to the TI-99 mentioned here) should win an award for best computer ever, just because you could get it to do things no calculator was designed to do, including playing RPGs and a game very similar to Duck Hunt.
I've also heard a story where a National Guard artillery unit used some variety of TI calculators with some custom-made programs to do their gunnery calculations, while the regular army guys had an expensive and somewhat failure-prone computer specific for that job. They did a joint-training exercise, and the regular Army guys' computer broke, leaving them with no choice but to do the calculations by hand with pencil and paper. The National Guard guys, using their own money, had invested in 20 of the TI calculators, so if one broke, or if ten of them broke, they still had spares they could use (and they only needed one of them at a time).
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You nerdy girls are hot, don't deny it! I've enjoyed the show and tell time 
SexyCleric
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RavenousRae said:You nerdy girls are hot, don't deny it! I've enjoyed the show and tell time
It is final then.
We all agree.
Rei is sexy.
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