The math coprocessor did exist in the time of the 386, it was just a separate chip (80387) and fairly rare. I've never actually seen one. However, I do still have an IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 with a genuine Intel 80287XL mathco in my basement.
Oh I don't know about that. I'm an engineer for a large, multinational aerospace and electronics company. For what I do, I need several computers running different operating systems. Out of the 8 machines I have, two are macs, an imac and a 2011 macbook pro. The macbook pro is seriously the best machine I've ever used for work. I really despise Steve Jobs, but I cannot fault a good product, I really like my macbook pro for work.
More specifically, its American market cars that are crap. My favorite American car you can't actually buy in America: I had a 2008 Vauxhall Zafira 1.9 CDTi SRi when I lived in England. 6-speed manual, turbo diesel, sport button, and I could fit all my friends in it (seating for 7!). It got over 40mpg, and was fun, quick, nimble, and felt well built. But even though its a GM car, since the engine hasn't passed emissions testing in the US, it is illegal to own here.
I own a Volvo and my girlfriend has a Saab, so I understand where you're coming from. European built cars are of a far superior build quality. I laughed out loud after a hailstorm this year here in Kansas. All the American, Japanese, and Korean cars around mine in the parking lot were damaged or totaled by hail. The Volvo was unscathed.
Not all American cars were bad though. While I have a recent Volvo XC70, I also drive an 83 Chevy Suburban 6.2 Diesel, mostly as a daily driver. Its in nearly perfect shape, with 247k miles, power windows, power locks, comfy seating, and it gets 23mpg. Not bad for a 6300 lb truck that can haul a 5000 lb trailer. Its one of the most reliable vehicles I've ever had.
Yeah I know there are 1500 people in my department, and all I can say is "there aren't many" women. I don't know all 1500 people. If I were to hazard a guess I'd say they are 5-10% of the engineering workforce.
Maybe I'm feeding an AC troll, but there are 1500 people in the engineering department where I work, the majority being software engineers. While there aren't many women, all of them can code in C and C++, because that's what we use for our products.
I take quality every time. My sound system at home includes a mid 80s Yamaha receiver/amp driving two mid 80s Bang & Olufsen RL35 speakers up front and two late 70s Bang & Olufsen Beovox S75 speakers in back. The CD player is a Bang & Olufsen Beogram CD X from the early 80s, and there is an old TEI 10 band stereo graphic equalizer that components hook up through. The whole rig cost me about $100 from garage and rummage sales. I haven't heard anything that sounds as good for less than 100 times the cost.
It will work. Like AC says though, you can get in trouble for not paying road tax. Also, the price varies wildly depending on where you live and who you buy from. In the Chicago area Jet-A is between $6.60 and $7.00, San Francisco area is $5.90-$7.60, and in KC $4.25-$7.10.
Not entirely. I have a Dell Precision workstation with a Core2 Quad and it still has PS/2 ports. I'm happily using a 26 year old IBM Model M keyboard with it.
"Drive through the middle of Iowa sometime, a wind farm can stretch for hours of driving down the interstate."
I drive through Iowa all the time, the longest time you'll spend driving through a wind farm is 15 minutes, and I believe that's the one north of Des Moines on I-35.
"Sprint will be fighting over users. They want users, and they'll whore themselves out 'till they get them."
Maybe Sprint should have thought of that 3-4 years ago. But they were busy driving away all their users with abusive customer service, atrocious billing mistakes and anomalies that were always in Sprint's favor, castrated phones, and a corporate desire to bleed as much money from their customers as possible. Of course, you can't make money if your customers leave, and if you can't make money, you can't have employees, which led to their operational headquarters (which is MASSIVE) to end up looking like a ghost town. Sprint has nobody to blame for their problems but themselves; had they not been asshats to people, they wouldn't be fearing for their continued existence.
I'm pretty sure I can control the universe from my N900. Its the best portable computing device I've ever used. I do Android platform work for fun as well, and I like to use the N900 to scare people. "Why yes, my two year old phone can run Gingerbread, what, your brand new phone can't?":)
Our company actually used to stamp "Designed in USA, Made in Taiwan" on our products. However, we own our manufacturing facility in Taiwan. While we still design in the USA and manufacture in Taiwan, we only have "Made in Taiwan" on our products today, which I find slightly disappointing.
The owner of said old busted Mercedes diesel really doesn't care, because while most other people are making car payments and crying at the pumps, he's laughing his way to the bank.
Its designed for fighter pilots. I'm an aerospace engineer and pilot, and have flown the USAF T-6 simulator. Its an actual T-6 cockpit with full, real instrumentation and 120 degree wraparound screen. The T-6 is the most similar to the aircraft I normally fly. But you know what? This was HARD. The T-6 is a very unstable aircraft and I had to be more cautious with my maneuvers. The engine develops tons of shaft horsepower so on my takeoff roll I needed a lot more right rudder than I anticipated (and I needed a bit of rudder trim once airborne), and the instrumentation is not as friendly as civilian avionics. After about 10 minutes in the air I got most everything figured out and was able to fly it and land it, but I had a bad landing and "damaged" the gear.
Flash on Windows Mobile is fine, it worked just fine back in the day...six years ago. I never had any trouble watching Strong Bad Emails on my old Sprint PPC6700/HTC Apache.
Hutchinson is home to one of the most famous and high profile space museums in the country, their collection includes an SR-71, the Mercury 7, and Apollo 13, and the largest collection of Russian space equipment outside of Russia.
In the city I used to live in (which was a major college town) the school district spend $3M to build a new track and new football stadium. Teachers were fired, those that stayed took pay cuts (entry level teachers make $22k/yr), and an entire elementary school was closed. But gotta have that football!
And before anyone says "oooh, it came from different funds or something", I think that makes the problem even worse. Screw the football stadium, make sure the kids can read and the teachers can put food on the table for their families.
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I think you mean BLONY.
The math coprocessor did exist in the time of the 386, it was just a separate chip (80387) and fairly rare. I've never actually seen one. However, I do still have an IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 with a genuine Intel 80287XL mathco in my basement.
Oh I don't know about that. I'm an engineer for a large, multinational aerospace and electronics company. For what I do, I need several computers running different operating systems. Out of the 8 machines I have, two are macs, an imac and a 2011 macbook pro. The macbook pro is seriously the best machine I've ever used for work. I really despise Steve Jobs, but I cannot fault a good product, I really like my macbook pro for work.
An Ultrabook is an old Ultrasparc II based laptop. Way to be creative, Intel.
I guess you missed the one in Kansas City last month.
More specifically, its American market cars that are crap. My favorite American car you can't actually buy in America: I had a 2008 Vauxhall Zafira 1.9 CDTi SRi when I lived in England. 6-speed manual, turbo diesel, sport button, and I could fit all my friends in it (seating for 7!). It got over 40mpg, and was fun, quick, nimble, and felt well built. But even though its a GM car, since the engine hasn't passed emissions testing in the US, it is illegal to own here.
I own a Volvo and my girlfriend has a Saab, so I understand where you're coming from. European built cars are of a far superior build quality. I laughed out loud after a hailstorm this year here in Kansas. All the American, Japanese, and Korean cars around mine in the parking lot were damaged or totaled by hail. The Volvo was unscathed.
Not all American cars were bad though. While I have a recent Volvo XC70, I also drive an 83 Chevy Suburban 6.2 Diesel, mostly as a daily driver. Its in nearly perfect shape, with 247k miles, power windows, power locks, comfy seating, and it gets 23mpg. Not bad for a 6300 lb truck that can haul a 5000 lb trailer. Its one of the most reliable vehicles I've ever had.
Yeah I know there are 1500 people in my department, and all I can say is "there aren't many" women. I don't know all 1500 people. If I were to hazard a guess I'd say they are 5-10% of the engineering workforce.
Maybe I'm feeding an AC troll, but there are 1500 people in the engineering department where I work, the majority being software engineers. While there aren't many women, all of them can code in C and C++, because that's what we use for our products.
I take quality every time. My sound system at home includes a mid 80s Yamaha receiver/amp driving two mid 80s Bang & Olufsen RL35 speakers up front and two late 70s Bang & Olufsen Beovox S75 speakers in back. The CD player is a Bang & Olufsen Beogram CD X from the early 80s, and there is an old TEI 10 band stereo graphic equalizer that components hook up through. The whole rig cost me about $100 from garage and rummage sales. I haven't heard anything that sounds as good for less than 100 times the cost.
Dude, the Tesla Roadster is no longer in production because Lotus (who made the body) ceased production of the body.
It will work. Like AC says though, you can get in trouble for not paying road tax. Also, the price varies wildly depending on where you live and who you buy from. In the Chicago area Jet-A is between $6.60 and $7.00, San Francisco area is $5.90-$7.60, and in KC $4.25-$7.10.
Jet-A at my local airport is $4.03/gal.
Not entirely. I have a Dell Precision workstation with a Core2 Quad and it still has PS/2 ports. I'm happily using a 26 year old IBM Model M keyboard with it.
Hey, cool, you're the guy who bought the iQue m5! You really made my day when I heard someone bought one.
I have an iQue m5 and iQue 3600 in the "museum" on my desk. :)
"Drive through the middle of Iowa sometime, a wind farm can stretch for hours of driving down the interstate."
I drive through Iowa all the time, the longest time you'll spend driving through a wind farm is 15 minutes, and I believe that's the one north of Des Moines on I-35.
Speaking from experience, Asus didn't even release the kernel source to their partner on those phones...
"Sprint will be fighting over users. They want users, and they'll whore themselves out 'till they get them."
Maybe Sprint should have thought of that 3-4 years ago. But they were busy driving away all their users with abusive customer service, atrocious billing mistakes and anomalies that were always in Sprint's favor, castrated phones, and a corporate desire to bleed as much money from their customers as possible. Of course, you can't make money if your customers leave, and if you can't make money, you can't have employees, which led to their operational headquarters (which is MASSIVE) to end up looking like a ghost town. Sprint has nobody to blame for their problems but themselves; had they not been asshats to people, they wouldn't be fearing for their continued existence.
I'm pretty sure I can control the universe from my N900. Its the best portable computing device I've ever used. I do Android platform work for fun as well, and I like to use the N900 to scare people. "Why yes, my two year old phone can run Gingerbread, what, your brand new phone can't?" :)
Our company actually used to stamp "Designed in USA, Made in Taiwan" on our products. However, we own our manufacturing facility in Taiwan. While we still design in the USA and manufacture in Taiwan, we only have "Made in Taiwan" on our products today, which I find slightly disappointing.
The owner of said old busted Mercedes diesel really doesn't care, because while most other people are making car payments and crying at the pumps, he's laughing his way to the bank.
Its designed for fighter pilots. I'm an aerospace engineer and pilot, and have flown the USAF T-6 simulator. Its an actual T-6 cockpit with full, real instrumentation and 120 degree wraparound screen. The T-6 is the most similar to the aircraft I normally fly. But you know what? This was HARD. The T-6 is a very unstable aircraft and I had to be more cautious with my maneuvers. The engine develops tons of shaft horsepower so on my takeoff roll I needed a lot more right rudder than I anticipated (and I needed a bit of rudder trim once airborne), and the instrumentation is not as friendly as civilian avionics. After about 10 minutes in the air I got most everything figured out and was able to fly it and land it, but I had a bad landing and "damaged" the gear.
Flash on Windows Mobile is fine, it worked just fine back in the day...six years ago. I never had any trouble watching Strong Bad Emails on my old Sprint PPC6700/HTC Apache.
Hutchinson is home to one of the most famous and high profile space museums in the country, their collection includes an SR-71, the Mercury 7, and Apollo 13, and the largest collection of Russian space equipment outside of Russia.
deserved one more than NYC did.
In the city I used to live in (which was a major college town) the school district spend $3M to build a new track and new football stadium. Teachers were fired, those that stayed took pay cuts (entry level teachers make $22k/yr), and an entire elementary school was closed. But gotta have that football!
And before anyone says "oooh, it came from different funds or something", I think that makes the problem even worse. Screw the football stadium, make sure the kids can read and the teachers can put food on the table for their families.