Important people get preferential treatment all the time. I've got a nice chunk of change stored at my bank. Ever since I put it there, my customer service calls have been diverted directly to Executive Customer Service. I don't even have to do anything. My phone number is linked to my account so my calls go straight there, picked up by Frank or Veronica in Texas before the third ring. I rarely need to call them but it's nice not to sit in a queue like a schmuck listening to hold music warble in and out.
And what's the deal with hold music? Why is it always distorted and fading in and out? Shouldn't we be able to fix that by now?
Touchscreens are terrible in cars because you have to look at the screen to see where to touch. Knobs, levers, switches, and buttons can be operated by touch while keeping visual focus on the road. It might take a couple weeks to learn a new vehicle but you can learn to operate it by feel.
You can have electronic communication on an isolated network. And there are plenty of ways to input data accurately with error checking. Add CRC to the input. If they don't match, find the error(s). Or dual/triple/quad entry so that it's only accepted if the fields match. Like when you're creating a password for a new account. Or print a QR code and scan it on the isolated system. You can pack a lot of data and error correction into QR codes.
Of course, this all assumes that the input is legitimate.
Oh, my Lord. They screwed with the yellow light durations to increase the fines issued by the cameras. Without the cameras, nobody would have messed with the timings of the traffic signals.
They did if they were expecting a standard yellow light, then it changed red in 2.5 seconds instead of the federal minimum of 3 seconds and slammed on the brakes to avoid running the red light. And 3 seconds is the minimum. It needs to be even longer on fast roads.
Generally, the yellow light should last a bit more than 1 second per 10 miles per hour. A 45mph road should have a yellow light that lasts about 5 seconds. But it's not required to be 5 seconds. It can be as low as 3 seconds. And many cities got caught going below even that minimum requirement at intersections with cameras. So people who drive that road know they have to stop fast on a yellow even if they can't do it safely. They have to balance the will get a ticket or might get rear ended.
I imagine they'll keep him in a cage like an Oompa Loompa. They'll throw some leaves in his cage and poke him with a stick right before the tour group comes thru.
I'm an American. We do our dates MM-DD-YYYY the way Jebus intended! (Also, I can sort by date with a click on every file manager I've seen in the last 20 years or so. I assume that feature will persist. Since the folders were created in the order the pictures were taken, that'll work just fine for me.)
With minimal snark, how hard is it to look at the file names and figure out which ones will have what I'm looking for? If I'm looking thru my pictures, it's because I want to look at my pictures. I'm not worried about being able to search for a specific picture with optimal efficiency.
Verizon and AT&T are the only two reasonable choices if the coverage area is the whole of the United States. If they drop down to Sprint or T-Mobile, they're making significant compromises in coverage. After that, you're getting into the range of Cletus' Phone Emporium.
Dude, I was soldering tabbed NiCD batteries into packs for my RC car when I was 12. Being afraid of small, low-voltage power sources because high-power sources could hurt you is like being afraid of house cats because lions and tigers can hurt you.
Okay. Next time, I'll just pop the battery from my old laptop into my new laptop. Because there's nothing at all proprietary about the shape of the case.
From my mostly uneducated point of view, the concern isn't processing capacity but having a reliable source for parts. Is anyone still making PowerPC 750FX processors? If not, what's the shelf life on them? What about the ancillary chips/hardware? Nothing lasts forever, even if it's not being used.
...upgrading your wife to a more compatible model?
Alternatively, get a big case with lots of slow fans. I built an i7-3930k and 2x GTX680 4 gig gaming rig a couple years ago and I can barely hear it. I've got those ugly, yellow SilenX Effizio fans. Around 12dBA moving around 45cfm. A reasonable person couldn't complain about the noise it makes. I can hear my wall clock ticking from across the room. The GPU fans crank up while I'm gaming but you can't hear that over the sound of the game. Or go with liquid cooling and it'll be even quieter.
Of course, I don't think the noise is the real issue.
I've been using Seagate's hybrids for a couple years and the combination of performance, simplicity, and economy hit the spot. I have 750 gig and 1tb drives in my laptops and a 2tb in my gaming rig. The hybrid drives were a small price bump for a big performance bump. Sure, gigantic SSDs would give me a slight performance boost but it's a big jump in price for a small jump in performance over hybrid.
Comparing a $10 USB stick with an SSD is like comparing turtles to cheetahs. Those USB sticks might write at 2-5 megs/sec. Maybe. 1/100 the speed of a good SSD. It's not a cromulent comparison.
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Important people get preferential treatment all the time. I've got a nice chunk of change stored at my bank. Ever since I put it there, my customer service calls have been diverted directly to Executive Customer Service. I don't even have to do anything. My phone number is linked to my account so my calls go straight there, picked up by Frank or Veronica in Texas before the third ring. I rarely need to call them but it's nice not to sit in a queue like a schmuck listening to hold music warble in and out.
And what's the deal with hold music? Why is it always distorted and fading in and out? Shouldn't we be able to fix that by now?
Touchscreens are terrible in cars because you have to look at the screen to see where to touch. Knobs, levers, switches, and buttons can be operated by touch while keeping visual focus on the road. It might take a couple weeks to learn a new vehicle but you can learn to operate it by feel.
You can have electronic communication on an isolated network. And there are plenty of ways to input data accurately with error checking. Add CRC to the input. If they don't match, find the error(s). Or dual/triple/quad entry so that it's only accepted if the fields match. Like when you're creating a password for a new account. Or print a QR code and scan it on the isolated system. You can pack a lot of data and error correction into QR codes.
Of course, this all assumes that the input is legitimate.
Oh, my Lord. They screwed with the yellow light durations to increase the fines issued by the cameras. Without the cameras, nobody would have messed with the timings of the traffic signals.
They did if they were expecting a standard yellow light, then it changed red in 2.5 seconds instead of the federal minimum of 3 seconds and slammed on the brakes to avoid running the red light. And 3 seconds is the minimum. It needs to be even longer on fast roads.
Generally, the yellow light should last a bit more than 1 second per 10 miles per hour. A 45mph road should have a yellow light that lasts about 5 seconds. But it's not required to be 5 seconds. It can be as low as 3 seconds. And many cities got caught going below even that minimum requirement at intersections with cameras. So people who drive that road know they have to stop fast on a yellow even if they can't do it safely. They have to balance the will get a ticket or might get rear ended.
SHOCKED! SHOCKED!
I'm sure that cutting the yellow light times didn't help.
I imagine they'll keep him in a cage like an Oompa Loompa. They'll throw some leaves in his cage and poke him with a stick right before the tour group comes thru.
It's so reassuring to know there are people more pedantic than me.
I'm an American. We do our dates MM-DD-YYYY the way Jebus intended! (Also, I can sort by date with a click on every file manager I've seen in the last 20 years or so. I assume that feature will persist. Since the folders were created in the order the pictures were taken, that'll work just fine for me.)
With minimal snark, how hard is it to look at the file names and figure out which ones will have what I'm looking for? If I'm looking thru my pictures, it's because I want to look at my pictures. I'm not worried about being able to search for a specific picture with optimal efficiency.
Vacation
|--->October 2011 - Caribbean
|--->10-27-2011 - Jamaica
Transfers to/from any platform with a copy/paste.
I keep slimmed down albums (nee: sets) on flickr where I (and others) can add notes.
Yeah, because those licensed cab drivers are sooooooo much better.
Or is it like the current 8 and 10tb drives that only seem to exist at the fantastipotamus store?
Verizon and AT&T are the only two reasonable choices if the coverage area is the whole of the United States. If they drop down to Sprint or T-Mobile, they're making significant compromises in coverage. After that, you're getting into the range of Cletus' Phone Emporium.
Dude, I was soldering tabbed NiCD batteries into packs for my RC car when I was 12. Being afraid of small, low-voltage power sources because high-power sources could hurt you is like being afraid of house cats because lions and tigers can hurt you.
Okay. Next time, I'll just pop the battery from my old laptop into my new laptop. Because there's nothing at all proprietary about the shape of the case.
From my mostly uneducated point of view, the concern isn't processing capacity but having a reliable source for parts. Is anyone still making PowerPC 750FX processors? If not, what's the shelf life on them? What about the ancillary chips/hardware? Nothing lasts forever, even if it's not being used.
Looks like that quote got cut off. Should have been, "Ultimately, our users will decide to use Inbox when we discontinue gmail."
And it wasn't proportional.
...upgrading your wife to a more compatible model?
Alternatively, get a big case with lots of slow fans. I built an i7-3930k and 2x GTX680 4 gig gaming rig a couple years ago and I can barely hear it. I've got those ugly, yellow SilenX Effizio fans. Around 12dBA moving around 45cfm. A reasonable person couldn't complain about the noise it makes. I can hear my wall clock ticking from across the room. The GPU fans crank up while I'm gaming but you can't hear that over the sound of the game. Or go with liquid cooling and it'll be even quieter.
Of course, I don't think the noise is the real issue.
It sucked. Why did they have to be on a train? That didn't make any sense at all.
I've been using Seagate's hybrids for a couple years and the combination of performance, simplicity, and economy hit the spot. I have 750 gig and 1tb drives in my laptops and a 2tb in my gaming rig. The hybrid drives were a small price bump for a big performance bump. Sure, gigantic SSDs would give me a slight performance boost but it's a big jump in price for a small jump in performance over hybrid.
Comparing a $10 USB stick with an SSD is like comparing turtles to cheetahs. Those USB sticks might write at 2-5 megs/sec. Maybe. 1/100 the speed of a good SSD. It's not a cromulent comparison.
Do you really think any government wants its citizens to have secure communication?
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