I knew all that. It's the reason I chose BMW, because I knew it's a series 3, 1.8l engine versus 2.0l engine. You have to give the Germans that: their car model numbers do make a lot of sense. Well, most of the time anyway;-)
However, you'll have to explain me this. Both the 318 and the 320 are still in production (sure the i is there, but as you say it means "inline"... even though I though it stands for "injection"...)
Descriptive product names? You know what "Turion 64 X2 TL56" means? I don't.... That said, I don't know what "Core 2 Duo E6600" means either. Is a "Turion TL60" better than a "Turion TL56"? Or a "Core 2 Duo E6800" better than a "Core 2 Duo E6600"? Heck, it's like with graphic cards: you cannot say squat based on the names of graphics cards. It's all dust and mirrors.
For the bad car analogy: is a BMW 318 better than a BMW 320? You're gonna say the BMW 320 is better, evidently! I might argue that the BMW 318 I was talking about is full option and that the BMW 320 doesn't even have power windows.
Yeah, yeah, I know you're kidding... but really: the chip names of all manufacturers are pretty much a joke.
Yes, it's all market related... but not how you think.
There is no such thing as a xyz GHz chip. They are all the same (except for caches on chip and so, but let's neglect that) The chips are all made from the same wafers and then are tested: those that are tested at high speeds and work, get sold als "high speed chips", the chips that fail are tested at lower speed and then, if they work, sold for that speed.
Now, that's fine in theory, the problem is that when the yields of high speed chips are very high. At that point Intel has a problem: their high-premium chips are plentiful and hence they should sell them at lower cost. Especially that they don't have lower speed chips that are for the middle and low-segment market. But wait! Why not just sell the chips that work at high speeds, but tell the customer that they are slower speed chips. The (average) customer will not test if it runs higher speeds, and frankly, it is not in their interest to do because they would lose warranty.
I wasn't saying that it couldn't be profitable. I just stated what the article said.
I saw a programme on TV of a German taxi driver taking grease from McDonalds and so on to fuel his car. So essentially he drove for free. That said, imagine McDonalds or KFC driving their own fleet on the waste grease they produce...
If this guy uses vegetable oil because it's cheaper when wtf is the problem!?
He doesnt... He spends more than on normal diesel. I think it's a political statement or simply for enviromental reasons(from the article):
He bought soybean oil in 5-gallon jugs at Costco, spending about 30 percent more than diesel would cost.
I'm from Europe too, and I tell you that you had better also converted litres to US gallons, because our US friends might interpret that value you gave as "low" (After all, they pay 2$ per gallon is some places). So, as a freebie, here is the conversion: it's 6.5 USD/gallon.
Now, now, now.... It is true that I find magnificent machines in the dumpster. I doubt however, that they all will find their way to the landfills. I have found an AMD 1.2GHz in the dumpster (no RAM, but I still had some around), and the gem I found in a dumpster was a P-IV 1.9GHz/512Meg/40Gig harddisk/Dualhead Matrox card. Now, I saved those and intend to give them away to less fortunate people. Alas, there are no institutions that take them in my country as far as I know (if you know anyone in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or nearby...I'm not driving 100km to deposit used computers). I'm willing to load them with Ubuntu and give them away.
I am the first level of "recycling", what is dumped will most probably be inspected by many people after me. Perhaps not in my country, but whenever there is someone with a clue, those machines can and will be saved.
I also know about a kid that replaced his P-IV 2.6GHz/1Gig RAM machine with a newer gaming system. I'll simply refurbish his machine for his parents.
I know this is a drip on a hot plate, but many of us dumpster divers will save machines to help the less fortunate. True enough, I don't even take P-III class machines, but only because for now I do not have enough storage space. A 1GHz/512Meg RAM machine is more than capable of running Ubuntu with basic Office applications.
Interesting... I've never come accross such laptops. All the ones I've had (professionally and privately) had dedicated buttons. Of course, I do believe you.
Exactly... There are critical Cobol applications that run in a virtual machine in another virtual machine on big IBM iron that keep making money for big banks. The source is not documented and the coders that work on those patches of code make a lot of money. Especially, because I know that a bug in one of those pieces of code can cost millions to a bank. I've seen it happen, and that guy (earning easily 10x what I did) made the bank stall for two hours. With the big bosses in his neck (it was a bug in a change request) he figured it out in no time, the financial cost was huge though.
I don't think he got a bonus that year... or perhaps he did, after all he saved the day.;-)
Actually, I'd love to know Cobol. It would give me access to one of the securest best paid IT jobs in the banking industry.
Then why do I see Hummers H2 over here? I don't even understand who would like to drive them. And yes, I live in Europe. The EU to be a bit more precise.
Oh, yeah, the EU is not very old.... except it got many many predecessors before it was called the EU and they were essentially the same thing. Nobody calls it the ECSC anymore you know... If we talk about the EU, we talk about what it has been in history and do not consider it "15 years old", because it is not.
No, I didn't... Read again: Okay, that and technically they are responsible for keeping peace (within EU members states) for over 50 years. . I was quite clear, and you need to work on your reading comprehension.
I'm a EU citizen, and I applauded the Galileo program. Especially, because at least we would gain a bit independence to the US. (I was for a European Army too, provided that all national armied be disbanded... That idea was highly critisized by the US too). Anyway, this is typical EU technology stuff. Good idea in the beginning, bureaucracy kicks in, budgets get busted, scientists get frustrated and leave for the greener pastures in the US (or elsewhere), etc... etc... etc...
Eurofighter... same kind of mess. The only thing the EU is good at is creating papers and using my tax money. Okay, that and technically they are responsible for keeping peace (within EU members states) for over 50 years. A fucking long time in Europes history.... Well, it's a high price for peace, but it's the only reason I'm not against the EU.
They need the money! Do you buy each CD? I do... but I have made my own ISOs when I was low on cash. It's not hard at
all.
I have a standing order that gives them 15€ a month. If more people would do that, perhaps they just might start posting ISOs. Other than that, they rely on the "sales". It how business works.
Ehm, I don't know... I guess we have a general dislike of "in-your-face slogans"? Just guessing? Can't speak for other Europeans but I for one do not want any sticker on my car. I'm not a driving billboard.
www.cafepress.com lets you make bumper stickers, tshirts, caps. No, I have never used them because I'm euro-based. In Europe, you can go to www.spreadshirt.de. Dunno if they have bumper stickers there... You never see bumper stickers in Europe (or very rarely).
It's functional, it has games and I still have it. In a shoebox somewhere in the closet. It's a Japanese import: all manuals are in Japanese and so was the first game I got for it. Out of memory, I have "Castle of Illusion", "Sonic I", "Sonic II", "Lemmings", some F1 racing game, some plane action game, and a game with Taz the Tasmanian Devil. I might have others, but I have to find that shoebox.
I wasn't being serious about people calling me about it, after all, how could they have known...
Hehehe, actually those new 2500mAh NiMH AA cells should work for quite a long time. Back in the day, I only had NiCad, and not rated that high. 1h30 playtime at best...
Now, that I think of it, I should really try it with modern batteries.
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The 318 is in another PDF, findable on the .de website. You miss out a lot of models in the US because you guys freak out on big engines.
I knew all that. It's the reason I chose BMW, because I knew it's a series 3, 1.8l engine versus 2.0l engine. You have to give the Germans that: their car model numbers do make a lot of sense. Well, most of the time anyway ;-)
However, you'll have to explain me this. Both the 318 and the 320 are still in production (sure the i is there, but as you say it means "inline"... even though I though it stands for "injection"...)
Descriptive product names? You know what "Turion 64 X2 TL56" means? I don't.... That said, I don't know what "Core 2 Duo E6600" means either. Is a "Turion TL60" better than a "Turion TL56"? Or a "Core 2 Duo E6800" better than a "Core 2 Duo E6600"? Heck, it's like with graphic cards: you cannot say squat based on the names of graphics cards. It's all dust and mirrors.
For the bad car analogy: is a BMW 318 better than a BMW 320? You're gonna say the BMW 320 is better, evidently! I might argue that the BMW 318 I was talking about is full option and that the BMW 320 doesn't even have power windows.
Yeah, yeah, I know you're kidding... but really: the chip names of all manufacturers are pretty much a joke.
Yes, it's all market related... but not how you think.
There is no such thing as a xyz GHz chip. They are all the same (except for caches on chip and so, but let's neglect that) The chips are all made from the same wafers and then are tested: those that are tested at high speeds and work, get sold als "high speed chips", the chips that fail are tested at lower speed and then, if they work, sold for that speed.
Now, that's fine in theory, the problem is that when the yields of high speed chips are very high. At that point Intel has a problem: their high-premium chips are plentiful and hence they should sell them at lower cost. Especially that they don't have lower speed chips that are for the middle and low-segment market. But wait! Why not just sell the chips that work at high speeds, but tell the customer that they are slower speed chips. The (average) customer will not test if it runs higher speeds, and frankly, it is not in their interest to do because they would lose warranty.
That's what really happens...
Be my guest...
Just letting it run will cause stuff to happen.... You don't even have to touch it. Internally state is changing constantly.
I wasn't saying that it couldn't be profitable. I just stated what the article said.
I saw a programme on TV of a German taxi driver taking grease from McDonalds and so on to fuel his car. So essentially he drove for free. That said, imagine McDonalds or KFC driving their own fleet on the waste grease they produce...
If this guy uses vegetable oil because it's cheaper when wtf is the problem!?
He doesnt... He spends more than on normal diesel. I think it's a political statement or simply for enviromental reasons(from the article):
He bought soybean oil in 5-gallon jugs at Costco, spending about 30 percent more than diesel would cost.
I'm from Europe too, and I tell you that you had better also converted litres to US gallons, because our US friends might interpret that value you gave as "low" (After all, they pay 2$ per gallon is some places). So, as a freebie, here is the conversion: it's 6.5 USD/gallon.
Now, now, now.... It is true that I find magnificent machines in the dumpster. I doubt however, that they all will find their way to the landfills. I have found an AMD 1.2GHz in the dumpster (no RAM, but I still had some around), and the gem I found in a dumpster was a P-IV 1.9GHz/512Meg/40Gig harddisk/Dualhead Matrox card. Now, I saved those and intend to give them away to less fortunate people. Alas, there are no institutions that take them in my country as far as I know (if you know anyone in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or nearby...I'm not driving 100km to deposit used computers). I'm willing to load them with Ubuntu and give them away.
I am the first level of "recycling", what is dumped will most probably be inspected by many people after me. Perhaps not in my country, but whenever there is someone with a clue, those machines can and will be saved.
I also know about a kid that replaced his P-IV 2.6GHz/1Gig RAM machine with a newer gaming system. I'll simply refurbish his machine for his parents.
I know this is a drip on a hot plate, but many of us dumpster divers will save machines to help the less fortunate. True enough, I don't even take P-III class machines, but only because for now I do not have enough storage space. A 1GHz/512Meg RAM machine is more than capable of running Ubuntu with basic Office applications.
Strange, for me "Turbo" always meant "whilwind"... because that's where it comes from . Of course, I did have Latin in high school...
Interesting... I've never come accross such laptops. All the ones I've had (professionally and privately) had dedicated buttons. Of course, I do believe you.
I've never seen a laptop that lacks Home,End,PgUp and PgDn... They usually not positioned in the same way as on a normal keyboard, but they are there.
Exactly... There are critical Cobol applications that run in a virtual machine in another virtual machine on big IBM iron that keep making money for big banks. The source is not documented and the coders that work on those patches of code make a lot of money. Especially, because I know that a bug in one of those pieces of code can cost millions to a bank. I've seen it happen, and that guy (earning easily 10x what I did) made the bank stall for two hours. With the big bosses in his neck (it was a bug in a change request) he figured it out in no time, the financial cost was huge though.
I don't think he got a bonus that year... or perhaps he did, after all he saved the day. ;-)
Actually, I'd love to know Cobol. It would give me access to one of the securest best paid IT jobs in the banking industry.
Then why do I see Hummers H2 over here? I don't even understand who would like to drive them. And yes, I live in Europe. The EU to be a bit more precise.
The EU 15 year old?
Oh, yeah, the EU is not very old.... except it got many many predecessors before it was called the EU and they were essentially the same thing. Nobody calls it the ECSC anymore you know... If we talk about the EU, we talk about what it has been in history and do not consider it "15 years old", because it is not.
No, I didn't... Read again: Okay, that and technically they are responsible for keeping peace (within EU members states) for over 50 years. . I was quite clear, and you need to work on your reading comprehension.
I'm a EU citizen, and I applauded the Galileo program. Especially, because at least we would gain a bit independence to the US. (I was for a European Army too, provided that all national armied be disbanded... That idea was highly critisized by the US too). Anyway, this is typical EU technology stuff. Good idea in the beginning, bureaucracy kicks in, budgets get busted, scientists get frustrated and leave for the greener pastures in the US (or elsewhere), etc... etc... etc...
Eurofighter... same kind of mess. The only thing the EU is good at is creating papers and using my tax money. Okay, that and technically they are responsible for keeping peace (within EU members states) for over 50 years. A fucking long time in Europes history.... Well, it's a high price for peace, but it's the only reason I'm not against the EU.
They need the money! Do you buy each CD? I do... but I have made my own ISOs when I was low on cash. It's not hard at all.
I have a standing order that gives them 15€ a month. If more people would do that, perhaps they just might start posting ISOs. Other than that, they rely on the "sales". It how business works.
Ehm, I don't know... I guess we have a general dislike of "in-your-face slogans"? Just guessing? Can't speak for other Europeans but I for one do not want any sticker on my car. I'm not a driving billboard.
I checked before posting if they have DeCSS shirts.... They did, that's why I posted them.
Boston/Mooninite scare? WTF is that? I guess I could google, but I'm about to go to bed.
www.cafepress.com lets you make bumper stickers, tshirts, caps. No, I have never used them because I'm euro-based. In Europe, you can go to www.spreadshirt.de. Dunno if they have bumper stickers there... You never see bumper stickers in Europe (or very rarely).
No, I don't have one... I lusted for one back in the day though.
I do have a Master System adapter, but that thing was really clunky.
It's functional, it has games and I still have it. In a shoebox somewhere in the closet. It's a Japanese import: all manuals are in Japanese and so was the first game I got for it. Out of memory, I have "Castle of Illusion", "Sonic I", "Sonic II", "Lemmings", some F1 racing game, some plane action game, and a game with Taz the Tasmanian Devil. I might have others, but I have to find that shoebox.
I wasn't being serious about people calling me about it, after all, how could they have known...
Hehehe, actually those new 2500mAh NiMH AA cells should work for quite a long time. Back in the day, I only had NiCad, and not rated that high. 1h30 playtime at best...
Now, that I think of it, I should really try it with modern batteries.
How serious do you think I was with that statement? Frankly?