It's only a very small handful of businesses with more than 10 PCs/laptops I've seen without a domain (and none with more than 25 client machines), especially if they have any sort of central file or application server. To say that domains are limited to Fortune 100 companies is misguided at best.
Premium gasoline is different from regular, and some cars do require it to keep working properly. That many people improperly think it's worth the price in their 15 year old Civic isn't the fault of the people selling the gas. That's like saying SSDs aren't worth the money just because some idiot stuck it in a budget system running Vista on a Pentium II.
Personally, we get enterprise grade drives at work for performance and support reasons more than reliability. As long as the RAID is configured properly, swapping out dead drives doesn't even rank "nuisance" on my list of common tasks.
The problem with that is they wouldn't ticket you for every car that ran the redlight, only yours. However, you might be on the hook for something like conspiracy to run red lights (it's an imperfect analogy).
I've always had more luck doing USB-B blindly than USB-A. The only real problem with USB-B is on printers that have USB and Ethernet ports close to each other, as the plug will fit fairly snuggly into either one.
I remap CapsLock on every computer I regularly use, usually to Shift or Tab, on rare occasions to Enter depending on what works best for that keyboard.
I noticed that my old throwaway Tracfones all had 2.5mm headphones jacks, but all higher-end tablets/phones I've seen use 3.5mm jacks... I know the 3.5mm is much more universal but the 2.5mm standard is already there, with plenty of adapters for 3.5mm devices, any time someone wants to make a slightly thinner device.
"So... the fact that people is proof that USB cables are 4-dimensional?
No, seriously. I must be the only human being alive who . I guess those reports about being well behind the rest of the world in education must be true if the rest of my country , and I'll bet the apes figure it out before do."
A lot of times, that's by design. If the laptop is jerked, you'd want it to become disconnected rather than stay plugged in and risk mangling the plug (or worse, the receiving port).
I don't know of any households with zero PCs except for a few older relatives who never had one to begin with. I know plenty that only have laptops and no longer have desktops, but I don't see them being completely replaced by smaller devices anytime soon - especially with the rise of streaming media. It's great that you can watch a movie on your tablet or phone, but you'll still want at least a 14" screen to watch a movie *with* someone else.
And the PC games that do catch on are lasting a lot longer, which means fewer PC upgrades. Look at WoW - it's in decline, but it's still pretty popular in spite of being 9 years old. There's plenty of other older games that still enjoy large followings. Then some newer games don't require much at all. I ran Diablo III off integrated graphics when it first came out, Minecraft runs fine on my 7 year old laptop, etc. Games don't drive hardware nearly as much as they did 5 or 10 years ago.
High-end PCs are still worth building IMO because you're trying to squeeze as much performance as possible out of it and it's easier to upgrade a year or two down the line. It's similar to how high-end cars usually have a lot of custom work put into them. However, for the bulk of PCs it's cheaper, easier, and causes fewer warranty headaches to buy from Dell or HP, and the PCs will likely not see so much as a RAM upgrade before being replaced in 3 to 6 years.
I built my last PC but I'm seriously considering just buying my next one because my only "special" requirement is that I need it to run at least 4 monitors, and that's easy enough to do with any two video cards (or even one card plus integrated graphics these days).
In my experience, the larger something is the more value people associate with it. I've known dozens of people who buy $20 dust covers to protect their $5 desktop keyboard, but have lost (usually multiple) $300+ phones due to stupidity... err.. negligence (washing machines, sitting on them, etc). They'll also spend hours trying to clean out a keyboard they spilled beer on, but half the time won't even try waiting for their phone to dry out before getting a replacement.
It depends on what you're doing. Amazon has many thousands of unrelated chunks of data from different users spread all over that are accessed at random times, in random orders and in random chunks. They can also move chunks of data to all different places. The LHC however would probably prefer to keep its data all together, as it is likely to all be accessed in a considerably more sequential order. The lesson I get is that tape is still better *for large chunks of related data* while HDDs may be better for *large amounts of unrelated data*.
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Is that why girls are throwing them at fighter jocks pilots rather than at me, even though I own Microsoft Flight Simulator AND Jane's USAF?
It's only a very small handful of businesses with more than 10 PCs/laptops I've seen without a domain (and none with more than 25 client machines), especially if they have any sort of central file or application server. To say that domains are limited to Fortune 100 companies is misguided at best.
"Realistically the first part to fail on a PC will be the hard drive."
Only because the user isn't technically part of the PC.
Yeah, because no business ever adds computers to a domain, has users log in via Remote Desktop, uses group policies or roaming profiles.
Better than being Reliant SSDs. I hear they can be accessed remote with prefix code 16309.
"a laptop bouncing around in a purse"
And I thought my fiancee's purse was huge, but even she can't fit her laptop in with enough room for it to bounce.
Premium gasoline is different from regular, and some cars do require it to keep working properly. That many people improperly think it's worth the price in their 15 year old Civic isn't the fault of the people selling the gas. That's like saying SSDs aren't worth the money just because some idiot stuck it in a budget system running Vista on a Pentium II.
Personally, we get enterprise grade drives at work for performance and support reasons more than reliability. As long as the RAID is configured properly, swapping out dead drives doesn't even rank "nuisance" on my list of common tasks.
Maybe it's a BOGO special. Buy a cop, get a prison inmate free!
The problem with that is they wouldn't ticket you for every car that ran the redlight, only yours. However, you might be on the hook for something like conspiracy to run red lights (it's an imperfect analogy).
I've always had more luck doing USB-B blindly than USB-A. The only real problem with USB-B is on printers that have USB and Ethernet ports close to each other, as the plug will fit fairly snuggly into either one.
I remap CapsLock on every computer I regularly use, usually to Shift or Tab, on rare occasions to Enter depending on what works best for that keyboard.
I noticed that my old throwaway Tracfones all had 2.5mm headphones jacks, but all higher-end tablets/phones I've seen use 3.5mm jacks... I know the 3.5mm is much more universal but the 2.5mm standard is already there, with plenty of adapters for 3.5mm devices, any time someone wants to make a slightly thinner device.
"So... the fact that people is proof that USB cables are 4-dimensional?
No, seriously. I must be the only human being alive who . I guess those reports about being well behind the rest of the world in education must be true if the rest of my country , and I'll bet the apes figure it out before do."
Fixed that for you.
It's a practical application of the Monty Hall Problem
A lot of times, that's by design. If the laptop is jerked, you'd want it to become disconnected rather than stay plugged in and risk mangling the plug (or worse, the receiving port).
Turns out that Tux is a zombie process
I don't know of any households with zero PCs except for a few older relatives who never had one to begin with. I know plenty that only have laptops and no longer have desktops, but I don't see them being completely replaced by smaller devices anytime soon - especially with the rise of streaming media. It's great that you can watch a movie on your tablet or phone, but you'll still want at least a 14" screen to watch a movie *with* someone else.
Which, of course, means an end to the tattered remnants of literacy on the Internet.
And the PC games that do catch on are lasting a lot longer, which means fewer PC upgrades. Look at WoW - it's in decline, but it's still pretty popular in spite of being 9 years old. There's plenty of other older games that still enjoy large followings. Then some newer games don't require much at all. I ran Diablo III off integrated graphics when it first came out, Minecraft runs fine on my 7 year old laptop, etc. Games don't drive hardware nearly as much as they did 5 or 10 years ago.
High-end PCs are still worth building IMO because you're trying to squeeze as much performance as possible out of it and it's easier to upgrade a year or two down the line. It's similar to how high-end cars usually have a lot of custom work put into them. However, for the bulk of PCs it's cheaper, easier, and causes fewer warranty headaches to buy from Dell or HP, and the PCs will likely not see so much as a RAM upgrade before being replaced in 3 to 6 years.
I built my last PC but I'm seriously considering just buying my next one because my only "special" requirement is that I need it to run at least 4 monitors, and that's easy enough to do with any two video cards (or even one card plus integrated graphics these days).
In my experience, the larger something is the more value people associate with it. I've known dozens of people who buy $20 dust covers to protect their $5 desktop keyboard, but have lost (usually multiple) $300+ phones due to stupidity... err.. negligence (washing machines, sitting on them, etc). They'll also spend hours trying to clean out a keyboard they spilled beer on, but half the time won't even try waiting for their phone to dry out before getting a replacement.
Our dogs should team up to host the First Annual Courteous Pooping Convention, for fine crappers everywhere.
A gig is a performance, usually given by a band. It's a little known fact that the Higgs boson likes to rock out.
It depends on what you're doing. Amazon has many thousands of unrelated chunks of data from different users spread all over that are accessed at random times, in random orders and in random chunks. They can also move chunks of data to all different places. The LHC however would probably prefer to keep its data all together, as it is likely to all be accessed in a considerably more sequential order. The lesson I get is that tape is still better *for large chunks of related data* while HDDs may be better for *large amounts of unrelated data*.
Dog crap is pretty crappy as fertilizers go (depending on their diet). More often than not, it will harm the grass more than help it.
See http://voices.yahoo.com/common-misconceptions-dog-feces-fertilizing-1285581.html?cat=32