Think run-down no longer profitable smaller shopping mall that gets completely bought out for the sole purpose of using it as a datacenter/office space. Unfortunately those malls are usually not in the best parts of town. Maybe that's good in a way because property is cheap and it's not bad for business.
Not all water tanks are metal. Plus, this is not a water TOWER. It's a water tank that sits on the ground. You didn't even have to RTFA, just had to look at the picture.
There are many mostly-aluminum Audi's out there. But they ain't cheap and they ain't light. Also, even the steel Audi's are pretty good with rust due to a coating process during manufacturing.
How big exactly do you think a tank engine is? An M1A1 Abrams Turbine Engine + Gearbox is pretty big (and heavy), but the actual Turbine isn't much bigger than a large deisel pickup truck engine. If you figure you need to replace that turbine engine with some sort of electric motors / gearboxes capable of carrying not only the weight of the trank but now a reactor and undoubtedly some big heavy batteries for load leveling and such... Yeah, doesn't really add up.
It's not rare, it's EXPENSIVE. Very big difference. People have voted with their money and the average consumer doen't know better or doesn't care, or actually prefers a lower DPI for the simple fact that their vision is less than perfect.
The Police don't typically negotiate or even discuss price (in jurisdictions I'm familiar with). They don't do anything but hand a person a ticket. The court decides what the fee will be. Same should apply here I would think for lack of a better solution. However, in the greater scheme of things the real correct way to deal with this is to roll it into property taxes instead of being opt in.
Fire-protection should be a common right for all. The mere fact that a fire response would be held up even for a second to check whether a resident had 'paid up' sickens me to no end.
Lets be clear about this though, the cost of Microsoft licences are a drop in the bucket in any large organizations IS budget. The big money goes towards specialty applications, 'consulting', and support contracts for said software and 'consultants'. I'm speaking with a primary experience in the health care field mind you but as a consultant I am pretty confident it applies elsewhere.
And the bottom line is, even though the OS and much of the productivity applications may be free to use, they are by far not free to implement, free to support, or free to train to use. In health care at least, good luck finding any specialty application suite that would run natively in Linux. The particular application set I'm familiar with (Siemens Soarian, et al) are so Microsoft encumbered as to use not only all Windows Servers on the backend, but ActiveX Webpages as a front end. WHAT.A.NIGHTMARE. Good for business though:D
Keep in mind, just because they are using old TECHNOLOGY, don't mistake that with thinking they are using old EQUIPMENT. You can be sure they are using brand new hardware when necessary. Hardened 386 era and older hardware is still being manufactured today FYI.
While I don't disagree with your point either in principle or in practice, there is something one of us is confused on.
You mention "timing", I'm assuming it's in reference to the engine. Ignition timing changes with engine speed and load in virtually every EFI vehicle made in the past 30 years. Also, cam timing, on both intake and exhaust valves, is variable (whether in steps or 'infinitely') on-the-fly in a huge number of vehicles built today and for the past 20 years has been done in mass produced vehicles in some form (vtec) or another.
So I'm really not sure what kind of timing you refer to that changes while running, but all the important ones I'm aware of are changed all the time.
When they say "They don't make them like they used to", they mean the old ones were still good. So your anecdotal evidence only further supports it.
If your mother thinks she's going to get another 15-20 reliable years out of her new appliance she's probably going to be disappointed. That's what everybody is getting at.
Linux has been ready for the desktop for years now...
Too bad it still sucks donkey balls. It would be trading one small problem for a million others. Windows may have it's flaws but my mother knows how to use comfortably because things haven't changed much since Windows 95 and she's been using the PC since then.
As it is, Windows causes me enough of a support nightmare already with my mother. I don't need to add linux to the mix and have to deal with the "Why can't I play XXX game." or "How do I change my background" or "etc, etc, etc, etc".
Sure, it's a great solution for me. And I would run Linux as a desktop if OSX didn't have most of the benefits of linux with few of the downfalls.
Yeah, that's what everybody says. Except why don't you try it and see what kind of madness ensues with text getting cut off on certain websites and applications.
It'd be a great solution except it doesn't work well at all beyond a 10/20% change or so. When you need to essentially double the text size it fails. Miserably. In Windows.
I'm looking forward to higher pixel density because hopefully it will allow monitors to run at lower resolutions with less aliasing. The biggest single problem with LCDs is that they look like shit at anything besides native resolution.
My mother can't read text on even a 'low resolution" 23" monitor at native resolution. And no OS's I've tried are very good at dpi scaling either.
A Ballistic Missile follows a different trajectory than something that was placed into a very low parking orbit for the purpose of testing ASAT technology. A low temporary orbit might be 160-200km, whereas the apogee of an ICBM could be as much as 1200km.
Basically, if you were to shoot down a sat in a low low earth orbit, around that 200km mark, most of the junk would fall out of orbit relatively quickly because of the high drag on the atmosphere. And the basic technology to do so would scale to the higher LEO pretty easily. Hopefully the Chinese took the more responsible approach.
Also, I'm not sure I can put a price on standing, and reaching things that you can only reach while standing. $150k sounds pretty good if I'm otherwise stuck in a wheelchair.
I'd have to lower all my tools down two feet. That'd be a pain.
Sorry, the Prius does not have an electronic brake. The brake is still directly hydraulically actuated like every other car on the road. Because it's a REQUIREMENT. Sure it has ABS that can intervene in some capacity, but it's still a simple hydraulic system.
"Dell releases a new drive based on their patented WORN architecture. Because this device forgoes the need to read your data they can be made lighter and faster and more power efficient than even the latest SSD drive technology."
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Think run-down no longer profitable smaller shopping mall that gets completely bought out for the sole purpose of using it as a datacenter/office space. Unfortunately those malls are usually not in the best parts of town. Maybe that's good in a way because property is cheap and it's not bad for business.
Not all water tanks are metal. Plus, this is not a water TOWER. It's a water tank that sits on the ground. You didn't even have to RTFA, just had to look at the picture.
There are many mostly-aluminum Audi's out there. But they ain't cheap and they ain't light. Also, even the steel Audi's are pretty good with rust due to a coating process during manufacturing.
I just don't think that the content has added much of anything actually useful.
Riiiiight. And this post is SOOO useful. Time to get off your high horse and shovel some manure.
How big exactly do you think a tank engine is? An M1A1 Abrams Turbine Engine + Gearbox is pretty big (and heavy), but the actual Turbine isn't much bigger than a large deisel pickup truck engine. If you figure you need to replace that turbine engine with some sort of electric motors / gearboxes capable of carrying not only the weight of the trank but now a reactor and undoubtedly some big heavy batteries for load leveling and such... Yeah, doesn't really add up.
It's not rare, it's EXPENSIVE. Very big difference. People have voted with their money and the average consumer doen't know better or doesn't care, or actually prefers a lower DPI for the simple fact that their vision is less than perfect.
57 Chevy's do not have timing belts. LOLz.
Either of these solutions are easier and cheaper than going out and spending $100 on a new copy of Windows. So I fail to see your point here.
The Police don't typically negotiate or even discuss price (in jurisdictions I'm familiar with). They don't do anything but hand a person a ticket. The court decides what the fee will be. Same should apply here I would think for lack of a better solution. However, in the greater scheme of things the real correct way to deal with this is to roll it into property taxes instead of being opt in.
Fire-protection should be a common right for all. The mere fact that a fire response would be held up even for a second to check whether a resident had 'paid up' sickens me to no end.
Well, isn't that about all the Police are good for? Collecting money for the government?
Why can't the fire-fighters do the same?
Somebody has to 'Prevent Crime', the police don't refuse to help people who haven't yet paid their taxes or speeding tickets.
So this is ridiculous and you know it.
When the hard drive dies, what's stopping you from just re-installing XP using the license you already have? Seriously?
Lets be clear about this though, the cost of Microsoft licences are a drop in the bucket in any large organizations IS budget. The big money goes towards specialty applications, 'consulting', and support contracts for said software and 'consultants'. I'm speaking with a primary experience in the health care field mind you but as a consultant I am pretty confident it applies elsewhere.
And the bottom line is, even though the OS and much of the productivity applications may be free to use, they are by far not free to implement, free to support, or free to train to use. In health care at least, good luck finding any specialty application suite that would run natively in Linux. The particular application set I'm familiar with (Siemens Soarian, et al) are so Microsoft encumbered as to use not only all Windows Servers on the backend, but ActiveX Webpages as a front end. WHAT.A.NIGHTMARE. Good for business though :D
Keep in mind, just because they are using old TECHNOLOGY, don't mistake that with thinking they are using old EQUIPMENT. You can be sure they are using brand new hardware when necessary. Hardened 386 era and older hardware is still being manufactured today FYI.
While I don't disagree with your point either in principle or in practice, there is something one of us is confused on.
You mention "timing", I'm assuming it's in reference to the engine. Ignition timing changes with engine speed and load in virtually every EFI vehicle made in the past 30 years. Also, cam timing, on both intake and exhaust valves, is variable (whether in steps or 'infinitely') on-the-fly in a huge number of vehicles built today and for the past 20 years has been done in mass produced vehicles in some form (vtec) or another.
So I'm really not sure what kind of timing you refer to that changes while running, but all the important ones I'm aware of are changed all the time.
Well the Opterons don't come with heatsink/fan's, but that certainly doesn't tip the scales in Intel's favor...
And finally they will need the official presidential release form....
Umm.
When they say "They don't make them like they used to", they mean the old ones were still good. So your anecdotal evidence only further supports it.
If your mother thinks she's going to get another 15-20 reliable years out of her new appliance she's probably going to be disappointed. That's what everybody is getting at.
Linux has been ready for the desktop for years now...
Too bad it still sucks donkey balls. It would be trading one small problem for a million others. Windows may have it's flaws but my mother knows how to use comfortably because things haven't changed much since Windows 95 and she's been using the PC since then.
As it is, Windows causes me enough of a support nightmare already with my mother. I don't need to add linux to the mix and have to deal with the "Why can't I play XXX game." or "How do I change my background" or "etc, etc, etc, etc".
Sure, it's a great solution for me. And I would run Linux as a desktop if OSX didn't have most of the benefits of linux with few of the downfalls.
Yeah, that's what everybody says. Except why don't you try it and see what kind of madness ensues with text getting cut off on certain websites and applications.
It'd be a great solution except it doesn't work well at all beyond a 10/20% change or so. When you need to essentially double the text size it fails. Miserably. In Windows.
I'm looking forward to higher pixel density because hopefully it will allow monitors to run at lower resolutions with less aliasing. The biggest single problem with LCDs is that they look like shit at anything besides native resolution.
My mother can't read text on even a 'low resolution" 23" monitor at native resolution. And no OS's I've tried are very good at dpi scaling either.
A Ballistic Missile follows a different trajectory than something that was placed into a very low parking orbit for the purpose of testing ASAT technology. A low temporary orbit might be 160-200km, whereas the apogee of an ICBM could be as much as 1200km.
Basically, if you were to shoot down a sat in a low low earth orbit, around that 200km mark, most of the junk would fall out of orbit relatively quickly because of the high drag on the atmosphere. And the basic technology to do so would scale to the higher LEO pretty easily. Hopefully the Chinese took the more responsible approach.
A Lathe???
It's a bench top belt sander.
Also, I'm not sure I can put a price on standing, and reaching things that you can only reach while standing. $150k sounds pretty good if I'm otherwise stuck in a wheelchair.
I'd have to lower all my tools down two feet. That'd be a pain.
Sorry, the Prius does not have an electronic brake. The brake is still directly hydraulically actuated like every other car on the road. Because it's a REQUIREMENT. Sure it has ABS that can intervene in some capacity, but it's still a simple hydraulic system.
I thought Audi 5000 fiasco was the result of the floor mat getting pushed up and the drivers not noticing?
Or having developed a new memory technology.
"Dell releases a new drive based on their patented WORN architecture. Because this device forgoes the need to read your data they can be made lighter and faster and more power efficient than even the latest SSD drive technology."