Scrap centers are everywhere. I live in a rural area, and there are several places that accept this stuff. It's just kind of 'known' around here as to who takes it. Not sure how you would locate them...Yellowpages under Scrap maybe?
What you will have to dissassemble probably depends on what it is and where you take it. Cabling you can bring in insulation and all...some places want the plug ends removed though, some don't. Once you locate one, they can tell you exactly what they will take. Many places even take old refrigerators, washers/dryers, etc. whole.
Are you sure you aren't referring to Lenovo's non-Thinkpad lines (N series, etc)? Those are made of plastic and are not designed much like the Thinkpads at all. The Thinkpad series itself is still a very durable line...I'd put them at the top of the 'standard' laptop scale with regards to ruggedness, the best thing short of a Panasonic Toughbook.
And yes, restoring data is more important then backing up.
I understand what you're getting at, but it's not exactly true.
Restoring data is equally as important as backing up. If you have no worthwhile data to restore, then it doesn't matter how efficiently you can restore. And likewise, if you have backed up data but can't restore, then what good is the backup? You have to make regular backups and test them regularly.
Scrapping it is a very good idea. The copper in wires will yield the most money. My mother works as a sales rep for a large scrap company, and they buy Cat5, power cables, everything. We had a bunch of old PC power cables where I work and we got about $1.50 per pound for them. I think Cat5 is about $0.50/lb. Similar cabling should see similar prices. Aluminum heatsinks will also sell well. You can sell steel cases and whatnot too, but they will not be as valuable (even though steel prices are up, you have to have some serious poundage to get much).
Exactly...the pilot's training and mission objectives are what should decide the trigger pull, never emotions or feelings, whether they be good or bad. A soldier in any part of the military who hesitates because of guilt could end up dead themselves (or cause others to die), and a soldier who acts because of anger or rage could end up killing innocents.
This does not mean they should be not be respectful of the lives they take, but they should not feel guilty. It was their assigned duty, and if they acted according to objectives and training, they should not feel personally responsible.
And to play devil's advocate to your devil's advocate what happens to you if your good health turns out not to be as good as you think it is?
I kind of mentioned that. You'd pay more as you developed conditions that required higher premiums.
I don't think someone should be made to pay higher healthcare costs for stuff that isn't his fault.
That statement is a double-edged sword. Why should you pay higher healthcare costs if it isn't your fault AND it's not even happening to you?
And much of the time, it's hard to tell if lifestyle choices caused certain medical conditions. Do you have a heart condition due to genes, or because you had one Big Mac too many? Are you getting skin cancer because you were pre-disposed, or because you sat in a tanning bed for a few of your younger years? I would be willing to bet those instances are far more common than a smoker getting lung cancer, or someone that clearly had way too many Big Macs and Supersize fries has heart trouble (as opposed to someone just a moderately overweight). And to play devil's advocate to your devil's advocate what happens to you if your good health turns out not to be as good as you think it is?
And you're right, I don't think the healthcare itself sucks at all, it's great. It's a number of other things. Drug costs are high here and lower elsewhere because the US pays for much of the world's pharmeceutical research. Bogus medical malpractice lawsuits drive doctor's insurance costs up very, very high. Some people think the sniffles is enough reason to go to the doctor because it only costs $10 for the visit. Big insurance companies force down doctor's rates to be in their network causing them to charge the uninsured more or lose a ton of business. Some people can claim massages as a necessary medical treatment. I could go on all day.
Everyone gets sick. Just some people develop recurring or more serious problems, and therefore cost a lot more than others. And I did kinda mention that if you do develop a more serious problem, you would then be someone who had to pay more for health care. Kind of like how car insurance goes up after a wreck much more than if you get a speeding ticket.
To play devil's advocate, why should those of us with good health have to pay extra for your problems? We still need heath insurance in case an accident happens (if we develop a condition, then we would be in the 'bad' health boat with you), but paying higher rates because 80% of the population has more problems (or visits the doctor more frequently because they think they do) isn't exactly fair either.
This is a very complex issue that I don't even remotely pretend to have the answer to, and US helth costs are quite high for a variety of reasons and something needs done about it. I just want to make sure both sides of the coin get presented.
And this health score thing is definately NOT the answer. Even people in good health would really rather not let additional people know they had a vasectemy, eh?
WoW looks pretty good (fantastic if you consider the poly counts and limited shaders) and is very entertaining. Beautiful and rich are not words most people would use to describe the game, however.
They already have-X58 and Skulltrail (Extreme Gaming platform or whatever BS they decided to call it). And the Intel chipsets are just as good as the nVidia ones. Sometimes the nVidia's perform better, and sometimes the Intel's perform better. And that can of course vary by application too. Claiming the Intel chipsets are superior is just plain ignorant.
Shhh....there are Apple fanboys on Slashdot. And you know damn well what that koolaid does to them. It changes them. Makes them all 'wierd' in the head. You can't win against them in a glorious online geek battle of logic and reasoning because they don't have a logical thought left in them.
Many review sites now use custom replays to test video cards, so they would have to optimize for the entire game and not just the default time demo or anything...and if it's a game I play, all the more reason for me to buy that card. But I always look at a few different games just to make sure it performs competitively in all games.
And this is partly why I generally ignore benchmark scores, and look at real-world performance. It's possible for the benchmark or the hardware being benchmarked to 'cheat' or at least behave very differently and produce bogus scores. If i'm looking for a new video card, I don't look at 3DMark scores, I look at framerates in games that I play (or that use the same engine). If I'm looking for a CPU, I'll look at RAR compression times or video encoding speeds. If I'm looking for a storage solution at work, I look at file copy speeds of similar file quantities and sizes, or I/O performance of a similar database.
To be fair, 10.3 was released in 2003. Windows 98 was released in....1998. A little bit of a difference there.
Basically, you are forced to pay to get a security update that older OSes, even Microsoft ones are recieving for free (as they should). I'd be really pissed if MS forced us to pay to upgrade our Win2k3 domain controller for the update. You could have bought an Xserve in 2005 with 10.3, and not be able to get this update without upgrading your entire OS. Only 3-year support on a server? That's ludicrious. Anyone remotely considering Apple for their enterprise hardware will probably immediately disregard them after this.
There isn't any bacteria on Mars. Earth is the only planet that God chose to bless with life.
I mean seriously, do you realize what kind of damage control the Roman Catholic Church would have to deal with after something like that? They have way to many altar boy molestation lawsuits to deal with.
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Scrap centers are everywhere. I live in a rural area, and there are several places that accept this stuff. It's just kind of 'known' around here as to who takes it. Not sure how you would locate them...Yellowpages under Scrap maybe?
What you will have to dissassemble probably depends on what it is and where you take it. Cabling you can bring in insulation and all...some places want the plug ends removed though, some don't. Once you locate one, they can tell you exactly what they will take. Many places even take old refrigerators, washers/dryers, etc. whole.
Are you sure you aren't referring to Lenovo's non-Thinkpad lines (N series, etc)? Those are made of plastic and are not designed much like the Thinkpads at all. The Thinkpad series itself is still a very durable line...I'd put them at the top of the 'standard' laptop scale with regards to ruggedness, the best thing short of a Panasonic Toughbook.
And yes, restoring data is more important then backing up.
I understand what you're getting at, but it's not exactly true.
Restoring data is equally as important as backing up. If you have no worthwhile data to restore, then it doesn't matter how efficiently you can restore. And likewise, if you have backed up data but can't restore, then what good is the backup? You have to make regular backups and test them regularly.
Scrapping it is a very good idea. The copper in wires will yield the most money. My mother works as a sales rep for a large scrap company, and they buy Cat5, power cables, everything. We had a bunch of old PC power cables where I work and we got about $1.50 per pound for them. I think Cat5 is about $0.50/lb. Similar cabling should see similar prices. Aluminum heatsinks will also sell well. You can sell steel cases and whatnot too, but they will not be as valuable (even though steel prices are up, you have to have some serious poundage to get much).
They failed and get a cookie? I should have a friggin cake by now. (Assuming, of course, the cake is not a lie.)
Exactly...the pilot's training and mission objectives are what should decide the trigger pull, never emotions or feelings, whether they be good or bad. A soldier in any part of the military who hesitates because of guilt could end up dead themselves (or cause others to die), and a soldier who acts because of anger or rage could end up killing innocents.
This does not mean they should be not be respectful of the lives they take, but they should not feel guilty. It was their assigned duty, and if they acted according to objectives and training, they should not feel personally responsible.
Bah, ignore the 2nd Devil's advocate line...copy and paste malfunction...and failure to preview...I'm a noob...
And to play devil's advocate to your devil's advocate what happens to you if your good health turns out not to be as good as you think it is?
I kind of mentioned that. You'd pay more as you developed conditions that required higher premiums.
I don't think someone should be made to pay higher healthcare costs for stuff that isn't his fault.
That statement is a double-edged sword. Why should you pay higher healthcare costs if it isn't your fault AND it's not even happening to you?
And much of the time, it's hard to tell if lifestyle choices caused certain medical conditions. Do you have a heart condition due to genes, or because you had one Big Mac too many? Are you getting skin cancer because you were pre-disposed, or because you sat in a tanning bed for a few of your younger years? I would be willing to bet those instances are far more common than a smoker getting lung cancer, or someone that clearly had way too many Big Macs and Supersize fries has heart trouble (as opposed to someone just a moderately overweight).
And to play devil's advocate to your devil's advocate what happens to you if your good health turns out not to be as good as you think it is?
And you're right, I don't think the healthcare itself sucks at all, it's great. It's a number of other things. Drug costs are high here and lower elsewhere because the US pays for much of the world's pharmeceutical research. Bogus medical malpractice lawsuits drive doctor's insurance costs up very, very high. Some people think the sniffles is enough reason to go to the doctor because it only costs $10 for the visit. Big insurance companies force down doctor's rates to be in their network causing them to charge the uninsured more or lose a ton of business. Some people can claim massages as a necessary medical treatment. I could go on all day.
Everyone gets sick. Just some people develop recurring or more serious problems, and therefore cost a lot more than others. And I did kinda mention that if you do develop a more serious problem, you would then be someone who had to pay more for health care. Kind of like how car insurance goes up after a wreck much more than if you get a speeding ticket.
To play devil's advocate, why should those of us with good health have to pay extra for your problems? We still need heath insurance in case an accident happens (if we develop a condition, then we would be in the 'bad' health boat with you), but paying higher rates because 80% of the population has more problems (or visits the doctor more frequently because they think they do) isn't exactly fair either.
This is a very complex issue that I don't even remotely pretend to have the answer to, and US helth costs are quite high for a variety of reasons and something needs done about it. I just want to make sure both sides of the coin get presented.
And this health score thing is definately NOT the answer. Even people in good health would really rather not let additional people know they had a vasectemy, eh?
WoW looks pretty good (fantastic if you consider the poly counts and limited shaders) and is very entertaining. Beautiful and rich are not words most people would use to describe the game, however.
Look at the editor who posted it...you suprised? Time to bust out the kdawsonfud tag.
They already have-X58 and Skulltrail (Extreme Gaming platform or whatever BS they decided to call it). And the Intel chipsets are just as good as the nVidia ones. Sometimes the nVidia's perform better, and sometimes the Intel's perform better. And that can of course vary by application too. Claiming the Intel chipsets are superior is just plain ignorant.
6. Pissing off an army of angry geeks who like free music (or at least disagree with stupid copyright law and corporate bullying)
Shhh....there are Apple fanboys on Slashdot. And you know damn well what that koolaid does to them. It changes them. Makes them all 'wierd' in the head. You can't win against them in a glorious online geek battle of logic and reasoning because they don't have a logical thought left in them.
Many review sites now use custom replays to test video cards, so they would have to optimize for the entire game and not just the default time demo or anything...and if it's a game I play, all the more reason for me to buy that card. But I always look at a few different games just to make sure it performs competitively in all games.
And this is partly why I generally ignore benchmark scores, and look at real-world performance. It's possible for the benchmark or the hardware being benchmarked to 'cheat' or at least behave very differently and produce bogus scores. If i'm looking for a new video card, I don't look at 3DMark scores, I look at framerates in games that I play (or that use the same engine). If I'm looking for a CPU, I'll look at RAR compression times or video encoding speeds. If I'm looking for a storage solution at work, I look at file copy speeds of similar file quantities and sizes, or I/O performance of a similar database.
To be fair, 10.3 was released in 2003. Windows 98 was released in....1998. A little bit of a difference there.
Basically, you are forced to pay to get a security update that older OSes, even Microsoft ones are recieving for free (as they should). I'd be really pissed if MS forced us to pay to upgrade our Win2k3 domain controller for the update. You could have bought an Xserve in 2005 with 10.3, and not be able to get this update without upgrading your entire OS. Only 3-year support on a server? That's ludicrious. Anyone remotely considering Apple for their enterprise hardware will probably immediately disregard them after this.
Right, just like he said, nothing important is hosted on Apple servers.
(Side note: Mountain climbers???)
There isn't any bacteria on Mars. Earth is the only planet that God chose to bless with life.
I mean seriously, do you realize what kind of damage control the Roman Catholic Church would have to deal with after something like that? They have way to many altar boy molestation lawsuits to deal with.
I need to learn to type. Or proofread. Or hit prieview. Or all three. Please mod me down as an epic failure, for I deserve it.
As opposed to Games for Linuz? C'mon, even OSX has better games available.
Also, maybe because Europeans are nicer and less willing to complain when they get ripped off.
You should really start. Have you looked at those prices? Talk about an ass-raping.
You're thinking of Pagemaker. Unless I'm wrong and they're the same thing.
I just wish the people where I work were actually smart enough to export customer data and manipulate it so I wouldn't have to for them.