Unless you plan to buy all the parts and assemble them - but that's been a more expensive proposition for at least 16 years
I still build all of my desktops. For me, long term, it works out better. Consumers have gotten more computer savvy over the years and look for more specs than they used to. The computer manufacturers know very well what specs they look for and advertise accordingly. The problem I have is with things like power supplies. Many prebuilt machines come with barely adequate power. I've seen a few that didn't' even meet the min spec for the CPU that was in it. If I need to add another SSD, or spinning disk, there may not be enough connectors, or power available. Open slots for cards or more RAM is another factor. Plus, I generally keep the same case, optical disks, and other stuff. I haven't had a PSU that I've purchased separately nuke an entire system in 30 years or so. I can't say the same of prebuilt systems.
I still have a few 15K SCSI drives on 320 MB/s. They used to be my primary drives in several machines. But since I switched to SSD for the primary system, the wok great as swap space.
Not at all. But in this case it is supposed to represent how likely we are to be in a nuclear war. It seems to me that if Trump and Putin as such great pals, then this thing should be set to 2:00 pm. And given how much closer we were to "doomsday" in the examples I cited, it makes little sense. So in this case, for its supposed purpose, it is meaningless.
Given that the political climate probably has a lot of bearing on the potential for the use of nuclear weapons, how is this wrong?
The "Doomsday Clock" was set at 7 minutes in 1962. During the Cuban missile crisis the US was at DEFCON 2. There were US bombers in the air carrying nukes 24 hours a day in Europe. The Soviet Union was at the same state of readiness. Fortunately Khrushchev wasn't willing to see if Kennedy was bluffing.
On November 9, 1979, NORAD experienced a computer glitch. The US thought the Soviet Union had launched multiple missiles at North America. The president's doomsday plane was launched and preparations for a retaliatory strike were under way. The Clock was at 9 minutes at that time.
September 26,1983. The clock was at 4 minutes.A Soviet satellite mistakenly reported the sun reflecting off of a cloud over Montana as the US launching 5 ICBMs. If a Soviet Colonel hadn't thought better of it, they would have launched a return strike.
That same year in November there was the Able Archer exercise. Able Archer was so convincing to the Soviets, that they readied for launch. The clock was still at 4 minutes.
But Donald Trump is in office now. So it's at 2.5 minutes. The closest it's ever been. Because, he doesn't believe in climate change? While questionable at best, and stupid at worst, I fail to see how this makes us closer to nuclear war than any time since 1947. It's meaningless, other than to tell you what the people in charge of it are feeling.
Advantages? Empty and abandoned. Warm and comfortable ground. Appealing name.
You also forgot that due to the mine fire, toxic crap is already being spewed into the air. So the EPA won't notice a little more crap in the air from manufacturing. The highway already has an exit. They can probably just slap new houses onto the foundations of the ones they tore down. Whatever infrastructure has not been destroyed by the fire is still in place(for the moment). Additionally, if no one likes the plant being there, there's a good chance of it catching on fire/melting at any time.
If that doesn't work out, they can always go to Times Beach in Missouri, Picher, OK. But Detroit would probably be a smart move for all kinds of reasons.
The casino didn't provide the cards, he provided the cards and his assistant marked them as they were playing.
RTFA. The casino provided the cards. He requested they use eight decks of purple Gemaco Borgata playing cards shuffled together. They happened to have a defect that they exploited. They also exploited how superstitious baccarat players are. Apparently the casino didn't think it was odd to ask the dealer to rotate all of the 6 through 9 cards 180 degrees in the decks before putting them in an auto-shuffler.
I get yellow jackets digging holes in my yard. I used to think they were hornets but they are wasps. Anyhow, running over a nest hole with the lawn mower generally unleashes the Horde from Hell and they don't stop stinging until you more or less assicate the area and kill those that came along as you run for your life.
Those yellow jackets are nasty little bastards. I didn't have any luck with the traditional bee sprays. I spoke to a bee keeper and he recommended the pellet type insecticide that you use to kill ants and grubs and such. That was the only way I could get rid of them. I had three nests in my yard last summer. None of them were where I could directly run over them with a lawn mower, but they stung the hell out of me if I got within 20 feet of the nest. I hadn't been stung by a bee in at least thirty years prior to last summer.
If you used good tape and a quality cassette deck the high frequencies were fabulous.
A good type II tape like Maxell UD-XLII or TDK-SA made amazing recordings.
I had a Teac C3-RX which was one of their higher end decks. The tapes still sound amazingly good.
I used to be a musician and still have my Dolby S deck. But even the best tape you could buy that I'm aware of cut off at 17kHz. But those were considerably more expensive than TDK-SA-X. The ones you mentioned were really good consumer grade media. I think by the last time they were manufactured they cut off at 16kHz. I recorded hundreds of vinyl albums to TDK SA-X cassettes back in the day though. Granted, those recordings I made sounded better than the prerecorded cassettes of those albums. But the vinyl still sounded better. But my hearing was/is better than most, and I can still hear up to around 22kHz.
The metal tapes add some of the missing dynamic range back.
Some, but not much. I think prerecorded tapes cut off around 13 kHz and metal cut off around 15kHz. I don't remember what the bottom end was. CD has a frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz.
Maybe if you were lucky they used Dolby B noise reduction which helped the sound suck less, but on home cassette recorders you could use the superior Dolby C. And worse, manufacturers didn't always tell if they used Dolby B when they did, so all you could do was play the tape and try to figure out if it sounded better with it on or off.
I actually still have my tape deck. I recently redid my theater room and had room on the AV cart, so I hooked up my VCR and tape deck. I haven't used either, but I figured it couldn't hurt. Anyhow, my tape deck has Dolby B, C, and S. Dolby S was better than B or C. But on my deck you only needed to set those for recording. It auto-selected the appropriate one for all playback.
If we send somebody to Mars and are listening to their final screams of agony as they realize there was a conversion error between Metric and Imperial, are they dying right now or have they been dead for 13 minutes?
let's hope she doesn't get to lead any company for the rest of her laugh.
Does she now have a fluffy white cat and live under a volcano on a tropical island? She seems a bit young to be doing the evil laugh for the rest of her life.
That's a rather odd definition of "unlimited" from Verizon.
Maybe when they first released it they advertised that it was "literally unlimited". But since the definition of "literally" has changed, they might as well change the definition of "unlimited" too.
Yes, I understand that English is not Latin and is not a dead language. I just find that in this particular case it's fairly silly. Perhaps it's because I remember Watergate. Or perhaps it's because I'm old enough to remember Watergate.
What you gonna do if Bill Gates is ever involved in a scandal? Call it Gatesgate?
No kidding. Why do large scandals get "gate" attached to them anyhow? I understand the Watergate thing as it was the actual name of the complex it happened in. But the hundreds of scandals since, that have used it, just seem silly. "Deflategate", "Donutgate[sic]", "Nannygate(1, 2 &3)", "Antennagate", "Pengate", "Nipplegate", and my current favorite, "Pussygate". "Pussygate" sounds more like a chastity belt than a scandal.
That's a link to a discussion board. Current OLED is still much more susceptible to burn in than LCD. Samsung has recently announced 10 yr warranties against burn in, on it's LCD panels, as a shot at LG's OLED TV. I'm sure it's better than the original Plasma's, but it's still an issue. Also, the blue tends to dim faster on OLED. As far as I know, that has also not been addressed.
I'm not in the market for a new TV myself. But isn't burn in still a major concern with current OLED? Also, don't the colors wear unevenly with what's being sold at the moment?
I still prefer to watch movies and television on a large display, but it seems to me that a lot of people don't. My wife uses her tablet for almost all of the video she watches. My daughter prefers her phone. It's going to be interesting to see how this affects television in the future as well.
One would presume the same way the US can gain jobs that had yet to be lost
I believe that's called "jobs saved". At least that's what I was hearing the president say 6 or 7 years ago. I think the claim was over 1 million jobs were saved from the auto bailout alone.
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Unless you plan to buy all the parts and assemble them - but that's been a more expensive proposition for at least 16 years
I still build all of my desktops. For me, long term, it works out better. Consumers have gotten more computer savvy over the years and look for more specs than they used to. The computer manufacturers know very well what specs they look for and advertise accordingly. The problem I have is with things like power supplies. Many prebuilt machines come with barely adequate power. I've seen a few that didn't' even meet the min spec for the CPU that was in it. If I need to add another SSD, or spinning disk, there may not be enough connectors, or power available. Open slots for cards or more RAM is another factor. Plus, I generally keep the same case, optical disks, and other stuff. I haven't had a PSU that I've purchased separately nuke an entire system in 30 years or so. I can't say the same of prebuilt systems.
I still have a few 15K SCSI drives on 320 MB/s. They used to be my primary drives in several machines. But since I switched to SSD for the primary system, the wok great as swap space.
Not at all. But in this case it is supposed to represent how likely we are to be in a nuclear war. It seems to me that if Trump and Putin as such great pals, then this thing should be set to 2:00 pm. And given how much closer we were to "doomsday" in the examples I cited, it makes little sense. So in this case, for its supposed purpose, it is meaningless.
Given that the political climate probably has a lot of bearing on the potential for the use of nuclear weapons, how is this wrong?
The "Doomsday Clock" was set at 7 minutes in 1962. During the Cuban missile crisis the US was at DEFCON 2. There were US bombers in the air carrying nukes 24 hours a day in Europe. The Soviet Union was at the same state of readiness. Fortunately Khrushchev wasn't willing to see if Kennedy was bluffing.
On November 9, 1979, NORAD experienced a computer glitch. The US thought the Soviet Union had launched multiple missiles at North America. The president's doomsday plane was launched and preparations for a retaliatory strike were under way. The Clock was at 9 minutes at that time.
September 26,1983. The clock was at 4 minutes.A Soviet satellite mistakenly reported the sun reflecting off of a cloud over Montana as the US launching 5 ICBMs. If a Soviet Colonel hadn't thought better of it, they would have launched a return strike.
That same year in November there was the Able Archer exercise. Able Archer was so convincing to the Soviets, that they readied for launch. The clock was still at 4 minutes.
But Donald Trump is in office now. So it's at 2.5 minutes. The closest it's ever been. Because, he doesn't believe in climate change? While questionable at best, and stupid at worst, I fail to see how this makes us closer to nuclear war than any time since 1947. It's meaningless, other than to tell you what the people in charge of it are feeling.
I suggest they be given Centralia.
Advantages? Empty and abandoned. Warm and comfortable ground. Appealing name.
You also forgot that due to the mine fire, toxic crap is already being spewed into the air. So the EPA won't notice a little more crap in the air from manufacturing. The highway already has an exit. They can probably just slap new houses onto the foundations of the ones they tore down. Whatever infrastructure has not been destroyed by the fire is still in place(for the moment). Additionally, if no one likes the plant being there, there's a good chance of it catching on fire/melting at any time.
If that doesn't work out, they can always go to Times Beach in Missouri, Picher, OK. But Detroit would probably be a smart move for all kinds of reasons.
Squirrels are rats with hairy tails, that's all.
My father jokingly called them "tree rats" when I was a kid.
So you are saying that Autopilot is mis-named even for aviation?
Then Autopilot should just be deflated and no longer used.
I'm going to guess by your screen name that you must have used the manual inflation nozzle on the automatic pilot.
The casino didn't provide the cards, he provided the cards and his assistant marked them as they were playing.
RTFA. The casino provided the cards. He requested they use eight decks of purple Gemaco Borgata playing cards shuffled together. They happened to have a defect that they exploited. They also exploited how superstitious baccarat players are. Apparently the casino didn't think it was odd to ask the dealer to rotate all of the 6 through 9 cards 180 degrees in the decks before putting them in an auto-shuffler.
I get yellow jackets digging holes in my yard. I used to think they were hornets but they are wasps. Anyhow, running over a nest hole with the lawn mower generally unleashes the Horde from Hell and they don't stop stinging until you more or less assicate the area and kill those that came along as you run for your life.
Those yellow jackets are nasty little bastards. I didn't have any luck with the traditional bee sprays. I spoke to a bee keeper and he recommended the pellet type insecticide that you use to kill ants and grubs and such. That was the only way I could get rid of them. I had three nests in my yard last summer. None of them were where I could directly run over them with a lawn mower, but they stung the hell out of me if I got within 20 feet of the nest. I hadn't been stung by a bee in at least thirty years prior to last summer.
I live in North(ish) Georgia, and have bumblebees digging holes in my deck.
Those are carpenter bees and not bumble bees. The males don't even have a stinger. Only the females do.
If you used good tape and a quality cassette deck the high frequencies were fabulous. A good type II tape like Maxell UD-XLII or TDK-SA made amazing recordings. I had a Teac C3-RX which was one of their higher end decks. The tapes still sound amazingly good.
I used to be a musician and still have my Dolby S deck. But even the best tape you could buy that I'm aware of cut off at 17kHz. But those were considerably more expensive than TDK-SA-X. The ones you mentioned were really good consumer grade media. I think by the last time they were manufactured they cut off at 16kHz. I recorded hundreds of vinyl albums to TDK SA-X cassettes back in the day though. Granted, those recordings I made sounded better than the prerecorded cassettes of those albums. But the vinyl still sounded better. But my hearing was/is better than most, and I can still hear up to around 22kHz.
The metal tapes add some of the missing dynamic range back.
Some, but not much. I think prerecorded tapes cut off around 13 kHz and metal cut off around 15kHz. I don't remember what the bottom end was. CD has a frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz.
Maybe if you were lucky they used Dolby B noise reduction which helped the sound suck less, but on home cassette recorders you could use the superior Dolby C. And worse, manufacturers didn't always tell if they used Dolby B when they did, so all you could do was play the tape and try to figure out if it sounded better with it on or off.
I actually still have my tape deck. I recently redid my theater room and had room on the AV cart, so I hooked up my VCR and tape deck. I haven't used either, but I figured it couldn't hurt. Anyhow, my tape deck has Dolby B, C, and S. Dolby S was better than B or C. But on my deck you only needed to set those for recording. It auto-selected the appropriate one for all playback.
If we send somebody to Mars and are listening to their final screams of agony as they realize there was a conversion error between Metric and Imperial, are they dying right now or have they been dead for 13 minutes?
Schrodinger's cat scoffs at your scenario.
let's hope she doesn't get to lead any company for the rest of her laugh.
Does she now have a fluffy white cat and live under a volcano on a tropical island? She seems a bit young to be doing the evil laugh for the rest of her life.
That's a rather odd definition of "unlimited" from Verizon.
Maybe when they first released it they advertised that it was "literally unlimited". But since the definition of "literally" has changed, they might as well change the definition of "unlimited" too.
When I read the title I thought of the scene in The Fountain when Hugh Jackman drinks from the tree of life. It's at 8:30 here.. But then I read TFS.
Yes, I understand that English is not Latin and is not a dead language. I just find that in this particular case it's fairly silly. Perhaps it's because I remember Watergate. Or perhaps it's because I'm old enough to remember Watergate.
What you gonna do if Bill Gates is ever involved in a scandal? Call it Gatesgate?
No kidding. Why do large scandals get "gate" attached to them anyhow? I understand the Watergate thing as it was the actual name of the complex it happened in. But the hundreds of scandals since, that have used it, just seem silly. "Deflategate", "Donutgate[sic]", "Nannygate(1, 2 &3)", "Antennagate", "Pengate", "Nipplegate", and my current favorite, "Pussygate". "Pussygate" sounds more like a chastity belt than a scandal.
That's a link to a discussion board. Current OLED is still much more susceptible to burn in than LCD. Samsung has recently announced 10 yr warranties against burn in, on it's LCD panels, as a shot at LG's OLED TV. I'm sure it's better than the original Plasma's, but it's still an issue. Also, the blue tends to dim faster on OLED. As far as I know, that has also not been addressed.
I'm not in the market for a new TV myself. But isn't burn in still a major concern with current OLED? Also, don't the colors wear unevenly with what's being sold at the moment?
I still prefer to watch movies and television on a large display, but it seems to me that a lot of people don't. My wife uses her tablet for almost all of the video she watches. My daughter prefers her phone. It's going to be interesting to see how this affects television in the future as well.
What is the Battery range?
At around 10 seconds in the video, it claims "over 700Km"(435mi) on a single charge.
Shouldn't the pericardium also be classified as a separate organ rather than part of the heart then? It's certainly more complicated in its function.
One would presume the same way the US can gain jobs that had yet to be lost
I believe that's called "jobs saved". At least that's what I was hearing the president say 6 or 7 years ago. I think the claim was over 1 million jobs were saved from the auto bailout alone.
Once someone decides to start watering crops with water instead of Brawndo everyone will be unemployed.