They did that in response to the many, many trillions of dollars of "digital dollars" that disappeared in the crash. And even after "printing" all that money, the USD was practically deflationary for about 6 months. Don't you remember how the price of EVERYTHING dropped in 2009? That's deflation, and you can't get that when unneeded dollars are being printed.
I noticed this about the same time. The machine I use at work is a Compaq Deskpro 733 with 512 mb of ram. It is perfectly adequate for my uses (mainly a terminal emulator, office and the web)- the only thing that is making it start to show its age is the fact that it can't take any more RAM, and the occasional fucked-up website will peg the CPU with some kind of java crap.
My work laptop is a Dell D600 with a 1.5ghz Pentium M processor (basically a Pentium 3 with extra extensions) and 1.5gb of ram. Its only real downside is that it is a touch heavy compared to newer units, and that it only has USB-1. The upside, and the reason I'll keep it as long as I can, is that it has real serial and parallel ports.
My home media machine is super-fancy- it has an $89 Intel motherboard with $20 worth of RAM (4gb ddr3) and a $49 celeron dual-core processor, and it takes anything I throw at it.
Hell, I've got another machine, some kind of dual core, that has a few virtual machines running on it. A computer so powerful that it is literally capable of being a half dozen separate computers. And it is mostly cast-off parts.
You are right, hardware isn't the problem any more.
Web surfing? Most home computers were windows 3.1, NCSA Mosiac was only two years old, and, if you believe Wikipedia, there were only 50 websites to visit, and yahoo had just begun. (And if I remember right, all yahoo was was a static list of the other web pages, and the coolest thing ever.)
If you count AOL, maybe you are right. They had 2 million subscribers in 1995.
Yes, and you had to press the gas pedal to engage the choke (plus prime the engine a little) before starting. Hated those damn things, but it was true joy to get one really adjusted right.
Because the non-10-year-manufacturers know they would go broke fixing 7 year old transmissions. Anyway, this is about initial quality, not long term quality.
What you are missing is the idea that a car can go 2 years or 3.5 years without ANYTHING breaking is downright miraculous, compared to other machines and other times in history. Especially when the numbers start to play out that it is no longer an exception to get a good one (remembering that whole cars built on monday or friday thing), but the rule, and from many different manufacturers. For the longest time, Honda gained the reputation for quality because they were dead simple. Now, it seems, even the complicated cars go forever.
Thanks, Rush. If you idiots knew anything besides namecalling, you'd know that Obama had nothing to do with Chicago politics, except that he was a citizen of Chicago.
Bullshit. He's a republican hiding in libertarian's clothing. Otherwise, he'd, you know, run as a libertarian. And it doesn't matter anyway, as all he would do is move the fascism down to the state level instead of the federal level.
You tell the application you want to print on letter paper and it renders its content to fit on that size. The application tells the printer "print this on letter paper". The printer figures out which tray has letter paper, or uses its default. No mucking about with settings in the drivers to tell the driver which paper is in what tray.
Wouldn't a better way be to have the printer send out the occasional broadcast to the subnet announcing its availability, rather than every machine's CUPS sending out broadcasts? Once every 90 seconds, the printer can send out a "hi, I'm a laserjet IIId, I have 8mb of ram and I can print on letter and legal. Hit me up on port 9100 if you want to get busy wit me."
Part of that is people's insistence upon printing "wrong". The way it is supposed to work is that you put your various media into the printer, tell the printer what that media is, and then tell your document what media to print on, and the printer figures it out. But most people want to tell the printer what tray to print to.
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No, because you get to keep the dividend and use it to buy more stock if you prefer.
Neither of those governors resigned. Blago, in fact, was especially defiant.
No, it means 5 people agreed.
They did that in response to the many, many trillions of dollars of "digital dollars" that disappeared in the crash. And even after "printing" all that money, the USD was practically deflationary for about 6 months. Don't you remember how the price of EVERYTHING dropped in 2009? That's deflation, and you can't get that when unneeded dollars are being printed.
It costs a lot more than that, it is just that someone else is subsidizing the rest.
Duh. Sorry.
I noticed this about the same time. The machine I use at work is a Compaq Deskpro 733 with 512 mb of ram. It is perfectly adequate for my uses (mainly a terminal emulator, office and the web)- the only thing that is making it start to show its age is the fact that it can't take any more RAM, and the occasional fucked-up website will peg the CPU with some kind of java crap.
My work laptop is a Dell D600 with a 1.5ghz Pentium M processor (basically a Pentium 3 with extra extensions) and 1.5gb of ram. Its only real downside is that it is a touch heavy compared to newer units, and that it only has USB-1. The upside, and the reason I'll keep it as long as I can, is that it has real serial and parallel ports.
My home media machine is super-fancy- it has an $89 Intel motherboard with $20 worth of RAM (4gb ddr3) and a $49 celeron dual-core processor, and it takes anything I throw at it.
Hell, I've got another machine, some kind of dual core, that has a few virtual machines running on it. A computer so powerful that it is literally capable of being a half dozen separate computers. And it is mostly cast-off parts.
You are right, hardware isn't the problem any more.
Web surfing? Most home computers were windows 3.1, NCSA Mosiac was only two years old, and, if you believe Wikipedia, there were only 50 websites to visit, and yahoo had just begun. (And if I remember right, all yahoo was was a static list of the other web pages, and the coolest thing ever.)
If you count AOL, maybe you are right. They had 2 million subscribers in 1995.
Pine is not elm. Get off my lawn.
I just bought an Accent and had the same impression- that engine looks very well engineered and very well put together.
Yes, and you had to press the gas pedal to engage the choke (plus prime the engine a little) before starting. Hated those damn things, but it was true joy to get one really adjusted right.
Because the non-10-year-manufacturers know they would go broke fixing 7 year old transmissions. Anyway, this is about initial quality, not long term quality.
CR can mention it all they want, but when people are filling out the surveys, their biases come through.
If you look at all the badge-engineered models, quite a few of them show that effect. You are right, most of this is perception.
Dude, you bought a G6. Of course it is crap- they gave them away for free on TV.
What you are missing is the idea that a car can go 2 years or 3.5 years without ANYTHING breaking is downright miraculous, compared to other machines and other times in history. Especially when the numbers start to play out that it is no longer an exception to get a good one (remembering that whole cars built on monday or friday thing), but the rule, and from many different manufacturers. For the longest time, Honda gained the reputation for quality because they were dead simple. Now, it seems, even the complicated cars go forever.
What credit cards have rfid chips in them?
That's cynicism, not math.
Thanks, Rush. If you idiots knew anything besides namecalling, you'd know that Obama had nothing to do with Chicago politics, except that he was a citizen of Chicago.
Bullshit. He's a republican hiding in libertarian's clothing. Otherwise, he'd, you know, run as a libertarian. And it doesn't matter anyway, as all he would do is move the fascism down to the state level instead of the federal level.
You tell the application you want to print on letter paper and it renders its content to fit on that size. The application tells the printer "print this on letter paper". The printer figures out which tray has letter paper, or uses its default. No mucking about with settings in the drivers to tell the driver which paper is in what tray.
The application would be doing that.
Most inkjets are stupid like this.
That is enraging. How can they not have a quasi-standard driver like Laserjet 4 or Optra L included?
Wouldn't a better way be to have the printer send out the occasional broadcast to the subnet announcing its availability, rather than every machine's CUPS sending out broadcasts? Once every 90 seconds, the printer can send out a "hi, I'm a laserjet IIId, I have 8mb of ram and I can print on letter and legal. Hit me up on port 9100 if you want to get busy wit me."
Part of that is people's insistence upon printing "wrong". The way it is supposed to work is that you put your various media into the printer, tell the printer what that media is, and then tell your document what media to print on, and the printer figures it out. But most people want to tell the printer what tray to print to.