I can attest to a good laser printer lasting 10+ years with light use.
I bought a Brother brand laser printer back in collage a good decade ago (I feel old now...) and it's still kicking.
Neatly tucked away in a closet but hooked up to the network, so it's both out of sight, as well as still able to print a few pages when the need arises.
30% growth is what the gain has been over the course of the year, aggregated, but against the pattern that we've seen since October where it's been sharply higher.
At 20% a week (and it's been sharply higher than that since November), by the end of August, there will be more wealth in Bitcoin than the entire rest of the world combined.
At my office (30 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah, just off a major freeway, and in a county of over half a million) my reception is so bad on Verizon to be practically unusable.
I tried to do a speedtest, and the first one resulted in:
816ms ping
0.00 mbps down
0.25 mbps up
Subsequent runs either failed to complete or failed to run.
16GB can be downright painful. 8GB taken up by a work-essential VM, and running lots of memory-intensive programs. Even with the fancy compressed memory algorithms that the system runs, it easily max out physical memory usage, and the system slows to a crawl when it fills up.
I'm really disappointed that the 32GB option still isn't available.
Oh well. Memory "witch hunts" looking for things that I can close to free up a bit more ram so that my computer stays usable is productive, right?
It would really help the X1 in my eyes if they focused more effort on making XBLA-exclusives backwards compatible.
As it is, they tend to go for "big" titles, which are also available on the PC, which does kind of hurt it in my eyes.
As it is, my X1 is mainly a Halo box.
I also wish that higher frame rates were more common.
The funny thing is, Youtube of all places is becoming the premiere place for high frame rate video.
It's mostly used for videogame footage, but I eagerly await it being used in more big-budget movies.//Low framerates in movies have always looked bad to me.
I watch movies with my friends, usually old ones, and usually bad ones.
We recently watched Rambo: First Blood Part 2, and while I can easily say that it's a bad movie, "Real explosions will always look good" and as a result, the action was still engaging. Likewise, the tanker explosion in The Terminator is still gorgeous.
The explosions in such movies have so much more "physicality" to them, which seems to lack in modern CG. Especially how the fire works. I'm not saying that they *can't* make CG look that good, but it isn't there yet.
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I can attest to a good laser printer lasting 10+ years with light use. I bought a Brother brand laser printer back in collage a good decade ago (I feel old now...) and it's still kicking. Neatly tucked away in a closet but hooked up to the network, so it's both out of sight, as well as still able to print a few pages when the need arises.
30% growth is what the gain has been over the course of the year, aggregated, but against the pattern that we've seen since October where it's been sharply higher. At 20% a week (and it's been sharply higher than that since November), by the end of August, there will be more wealth in Bitcoin than the entire rest of the world combined.
At my office (30 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah, just off a major freeway, and in a county of over half a million) my reception is so bad on Verizon to be practically unusable. I tried to do a speedtest, and the first one resulted in: 816ms ping 0.00 mbps down 0.25 mbps up Subsequent runs either failed to complete or failed to run.
16GB can be downright painful. 8GB taken up by a work-essential VM, and running lots of memory-intensive programs. Even with the fancy compressed memory algorithms that the system runs, it easily max out physical memory usage, and the system slows to a crawl when it fills up. I'm really disappointed that the 32GB option still isn't available. Oh well. Memory "witch hunts" looking for things that I can close to free up a bit more ram so that my computer stays usable is productive, right?
It would really help the X1 in my eyes if they focused more effort on making XBLA-exclusives backwards compatible. As it is, they tend to go for "big" titles, which are also available on the PC, which does kind of hurt it in my eyes. As it is, my X1 is mainly a Halo box.
I also wish that higher frame rates were more common. The funny thing is, Youtube of all places is becoming the premiere place for high frame rate video. It's mostly used for videogame footage, but I eagerly await it being used in more big-budget movies. //Low framerates in movies have always looked bad to me.
I watch movies with my friends, usually old ones, and usually bad ones. We recently watched Rambo: First Blood Part 2, and while I can easily say that it's a bad movie, "Real explosions will always look good" and as a result, the action was still engaging. Likewise, the tanker explosion in The Terminator is still gorgeous. The explosions in such movies have so much more "physicality" to them, which seems to lack in modern CG. Especially how the fire works. I'm not saying that they *can't* make CG look that good, but it isn't there yet.