That's why you have more than one. If one fails, you can still operate your machine with slightly reduced utility. In the meantime, you can repair the non-functioning monitor or order another.
I also have the swap file disabled on my XP box. I find that the interface is unresponsive unless I disable it. Windows 7, on the other hand, seems to work fine with the swap file enabled.
The search function is not small time at all. It completely revolutionizes the user interface. I don't know where device manager is in the control panel, or where the display properties are, or in what sequence I have to wave dead chickens over sub-menus to remove a piece of software. I just hit the Windows key (actually, the macro key--I have an old keyboard) and type "resolution," or "remove," or "firefox," and there it is. I never even have to remove my hands from the keyboard.
Oh, and windows XP doesn't use the ctrl+shift+n shortcut to create a new directory.
In windows 7, some swapping is ok. I have to turn off swapping on windows XP machines, or else it swaps everything out and shits bricks when I come back from lunch.
I find that the search function and the ability to run a responsive system without disabling the swap file to be quite groundbreaking in comparison to XP.
In a superconductor, yes, it takes zero energy to move an electron from one point to another. In material with nonzero resistance, it takes nonzero energy to move an electron from one place to another. Unless that element is something that stores energy, like a capacitor or electrochemical cell, the work done to move the electron becomes heat.
Are you serious?
From room temperature to 1000 C, nichrome increases in resistance by only 10%, according to wikipedia. Note that this is much hotter than a heating element should be running for safety and longevity. Also, observe that power decreases with increasing resistance. Furthermore, ALL ENERGY CONSUMED BY AN ELECTRICAL APPARATUS IS EVENTUALLY CONVERTED TO HEAT. In the case of a fan, most of the energy will be converted to heat before it leaves your house.
But the approximation doesn't have to have uniform precision. Only the Earth and its immediate surroundings have to be a perfect simulation. Most of the universe only has to be good enough that the trick isn't revealed by the occasional photon.
Why shouldn't convicted sex offenders be able to own guns? Violent offenders, sure, but there are quite a few 'sex offenses' that aren't indicative of a proclivity toward violence. Should shoplifters be allowed to own guns? What about software pirates?
This tablet soundly trounces the EEE 701. In hardware specs, anyway. My EEE runs a full desktop OS (Xubuntu linux), but the screen resolution is quite crippling, as is the requirement to reinstall the OS every now and then to prevent running out of disk space. This tablet appears to solve those issues, but does it have USB? Can I install an operating system of my choosing? Does it run nmap and aircrack-ng? Can I conveniently SSH into an 8 core SMP server with Maple and MATLAB when I need a little extra oomph? How usable is the onscreen keyboard?
No, infact. Windows XP sucks donkey balls in comparison to a modern operating system. The UI looks like either something drawn by a kindergartner or something from 1997, a situation which can only be rectified by boogering around with the innards of the OS or installing fly-by-night third party software with questionable license agreements.
There is no native desktop search. The ctrl-shift-n shortcut to create a new directory doesn't exist. There's not a convenient way to find the uptime of your system (unless you have professional edition). The memory manger swaps out user applications when you get up to go to the bathroom. And on top of all that, the godawful security model gives you the choice between doing your regular user business with root privileges or having to log out and disrupt currently running applications every time a program wants an update.
If you use your computer for gaming, either you are a masochist or your hardware is sufficient for Windows 7. If you use your computer for browsing, email, and desktop publishing, all of that can be done in Linux. If you use your computer for CAD, most of that software has a Unix or Linux version. If you use your computer(s) for batch processing, Linux is the obvious choice. If you are using legacy or low power portable hardware, there are a variety of lightweight window managers available. I have a 900 MHz Celeron which runs Xubuntu quite happily, and my sister is using a 450 MHz Pentium III, also with Xubuntu.
There really aren't many reasons to be running Windows XP in 2010. I am particularly puzzle by those people who insist on running 32 bit operating systems on 64 bit CPUs.
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So do I sir. So do I.
That's why you have more than one. If one fails, you can still operate your machine with slightly reduced utility. In the meantime, you can repair the non-functioning monitor or order another.
Clinging damnit.
Heheh... "Body of Evidence". So that's what they're calling it these days?
I also have the swap file disabled on my XP box. I find that the interface is unresponsive unless I disable it. Windows 7, on the other hand, seems to work fine with the swap file enabled.
The search function is not small time at all. It completely revolutionizes the user interface. I don't know where device manager is in the control panel, or where the display properties are, or in what sequence I have to wave dead chickens over sub-menus to remove a piece of software. I just hit the Windows key (actually, the macro key--I have an old keyboard) and type "resolution," or "remove," or "firefox," and there it is. I never even have to remove my hands from the keyboard.
Oh, and windows XP doesn't use the ctrl+shift+n shortcut to create a new directory.
In windows 7, some swapping is ok. I have to turn off swapping on windows XP machines, or else it swaps everything out and shits bricks when I come back from lunch.
I find that the search function and the ability to run a responsive system without disabling the swap file to be quite groundbreaking in comparison to XP.
Remember the shitstorm the last time somebody posted a slashdot story about a high res image and the website required silverlight? Yeah.
If your friend had said 'live performance' he would have been correct. Analog, however, sucks donkey balls.
What a winning hand!
In a superconductor, yes, it takes zero energy to move an electron from one point to another. In material with nonzero resistance, it takes nonzero energy to move an electron from one place to another. Unless that element is something that stores energy, like a capacitor or electrochemical cell, the work done to move the electron becomes heat.
Are you serious? From room temperature to 1000 C, nichrome increases in resistance by only 10%, according to wikipedia. Note that this is much hotter than a heating element should be running for safety and longevity. Also, observe that power decreases with increasing resistance. Furthermore, ALL ENERGY CONSUMED BY AN ELECTRICAL APPARATUS IS EVENTUALLY CONVERTED TO HEAT. In the case of a fan, most of the energy will be converted to heat before it leaves your house.
On that note, are you Tei from above?
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Ten?! On average I doubt I send more than one per week. I'm 19. Those people who send 200 text messages per day must have bluetooth keyboards.
Ten?! On average, I doubt I send more than one a week. I'm 19. Those people who send 200 must have bluetooth keyboards.
Packet switched CPU interconnect.
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But the approximation doesn't have to have uniform precision. Only the Earth and its immediate surroundings have to be a perfect simulation. Most of the universe only has to be good enough that the trick isn't revealed by the occasional photon.
This post should not be modded troll, and I'm out of mod points. Someone please fix it.
Why shouldn't convicted sex offenders be able to own guns? Violent offenders, sure, but there are quite a few 'sex offenses' that aren't indicative of a proclivity toward violence. Should shoplifters be allowed to own guns? What about software pirates?
This tablet soundly trounces the EEE 701. In hardware specs, anyway. My EEE runs a full desktop OS (Xubuntu linux), but the screen resolution is quite crippling, as is the requirement to reinstall the OS every now and then to prevent running out of disk space. This tablet appears to solve those issues, but does it have USB? Can I install an operating system of my choosing? Does it run nmap and aircrack-ng? Can I conveniently SSH into an 8 core SMP server with Maple and MATLAB when I need a little extra oomph? How usable is the onscreen keyboard?
That might have been funny had you not misspelled Rohypnol.
Call it 18 Gb/s, to allow for error correction.
No, infact. Windows XP sucks donkey balls in comparison to a modern operating system. The UI looks like either something drawn by a kindergartner or something from 1997, a situation which can only be rectified by boogering around with the innards of the OS or installing fly-by-night third party software with questionable license agreements.
There is no native desktop search. The ctrl-shift-n shortcut to create a new directory doesn't exist. There's not a convenient way to find the uptime of your system (unless you have professional edition). The memory manger swaps out user applications when you get up to go to the bathroom. And on top of all that, the godawful security model gives you the choice between doing your regular user business with root privileges or having to log out and disrupt currently running applications every time a program wants an update.
If you use your computer for gaming, either you are a masochist or your hardware is sufficient for Windows 7. If you use your computer for browsing, email, and desktop publishing, all of that can be done in Linux. If you use your computer for CAD, most of that software has a Unix or Linux version. If you use your computer(s) for batch processing, Linux is the obvious choice. If you are using legacy or low power portable hardware, there are a variety of lightweight window managers available. I have a 900 MHz Celeron which runs Xubuntu quite happily, and my sister is using a 450 MHz Pentium III, also with Xubuntu.
There really aren't many reasons to be running Windows XP in 2010. I am particularly puzzle by those people who insist on running 32 bit operating systems on 64 bit CPUs.