No, why would it? With no load you should be able to run an engine at full throttle for hours, the only likely casualty would be the catalytic converter.
Actually the cost per GB has exceeded Moore's law, in 1980 the cost per GB for HDD storage was $1,000,000, thirty years later it was $.10 exceeding Moore's law by over 3 18 month cycles. citation.
I think some of the big unix vendors may be comparable or better though.
Nope, AIX, HPUX, and Solaris all have support windows of less than 10 years on their COTS support contracts. If you're willing to fork over millions of dollars a year to support a development team you can get continued support, but the same thing is also available from Microsoft.
IBM sold off OS/2 to one of their customers and there were enough other parties still running it that they formed a company to do continued support called ecomstation.
Your Civic was $6,300 new? Also the MPG on electricity is infinite so you can't compare the two vehicles based on MPG alone. Oh and I call shenanigans on 50MPG for a 07 Civic, best reported numbers at fueleconomy.gov is 40 and that's for someone with 90% highway use (fueleconomy.gov is full of hypermilers so achieving 25% better fuel economy than the best reported number is highly, highly suspicious)
Nope, the device has a list of allowed phone numbers and it's a fairly short list. These devices are absolutely aimed at consumers and business users who have a weak signal either at their office or home.
mainly because telcos don't care about their customers to send a test guy
Not true at all, we had some indoor repeaters installed by a bunch of idiots (they were not our vendor choice, our selection was overruled by management) and between the amp and the yagi antenna we were putting out enough signal strength to blind one quadrant on the tower we were pointing at. Verizon not only sent out a tech but he climbed the tower to figure out the source of the interference and then came to our location to talk to us. We then had our original choice (actually licensed installers) come in and fix the problem after explaining FCC fines to management.
The biggest problem is that Paramount US might not own the distribution rights to every Paramount film in France (or Germany, or the UK, etc), those rights might be held by a third party that is not a party to the negotiation. It's a pretty messy industry from a legal perspective so I can understand why they might not get deals done in other markets quite as quickly as for the US.
Every array or controller that doesn't suck does background data scrubbing, disk failure prediction, etc. The vast majority of the drives that I replace in my enterprise arrays haven't hard failed, rather they've indicated a problem and the array has proactively rebuilt the data to a spare (or the distributed spare space in the case of the EVA). Over about 500 drives (average) over the last 6 years I'd say I've had a handfull of hard failures and a few dozen predictive failure replacements.
Better would be to add whitelist support, like say a trusted zone? Yeah, it's one thing I love about IE, I can lock down the default configuration and allow all sorts of known bad configuration changes to the trusted sites zone to allow for legacy compatibility. It's exactly why IE's marketshare in the enterprise isn't going away.
Maybe java applications never got popular with end users but they're pretty much the standard for advanced GUI management interfaces on enterprise equipment. I hope for the sake of people who need older java versions to access the management interface on their switches, storage arrays, etc that there is an advanced preference to turn this feature off (if not globally then on a per-domain basis).
Spending thousands of voice minutes a month definitely puts you into a corner case compared to the vast majority of users today. Btw why are you paying for a cellphone for business use, are you an independent contractor or does your employer just give you a stipend?
My wife is still on the best plan ever, Virgin Mobile's $25/month unlimited data plan. 300 voice minutes, 2.5GB of data before throttle and unlimited SMS. Overage minutes are only $.10/minute so on the rare occasion that the wife goes over 300 minutes in a month it's the same cost as we were paying on T-Mobile prepaid previously. The only real downside is when we go on vacation and get outside the Sprint coverage area since there's no roaming with VM.
The thumbwheels were easy to replace and failed about 4x less frequently according to our data, from a user perspective the trackball was obviously a big gain as two axes is obviously better than one. As far as the optical trackpad, it was the GP complaining about them that elicited my response =)
I disagree, science works best when all experimental results are shared. One of the biggest problems in modern science is that groups rarely publish negative results thus necessitating that other groups working on the same problem will inevitably try the same failed experiments. Publishing anomalous results and asking for others to critique your work shouldn't tarnish anyone's reputation, only falsifying data or repeatedly pressing dis-proven results should do that.
The trackballs were horrible for businesses. They were by FAR the largest cause of cases for our email admin, they would either gunk up or worse break requiring a fairly lengthy process to replace (read expensive). The web browsing experience was by far the worst part of the platform. The lack of apps wasn't really a technological problem so much as it was a marketing one, RIM didn't have a reality distortion field to draw in the developers.
Hmm, fundamentally wealth is work and work is energy so wealth IS limited by available energy. If we're not going to allow nuclear due to fear and we're going to eventually run out of fossil fuels (or so mess up our planet that we decide not to continue using whatever is left) then wealth is going to be severely contracted in the coming decades unless we find alternatives and yet all I hear out of conservatives is how anything but more drilling is bad.
Amazon reversed those actions under public pressure and AFAIR released a statement that they would not take a similar action going forward except for certain limited circumstances (like when someone ripped off an entire book that normally sold for like $9.99 and sold it as their own work for $.99).
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Power steering has almost no effect above ~30MPH, even granny can steer a car into the breakdown lane at highway speed without power steering.
No, why would it? With no load you should be able to run an engine at full throttle for hours, the only likely casualty would be the catalytic converter.
Actually the cost per GB has exceeded Moore's law, in 1980 the cost per GB for HDD storage was $1,000,000, thirty years later it was $.10 exceeding Moore's law by over 3 18 month cycles. citation.
Apple had a one year exclusive on host ports which is why it hasn't been popular yet.
I think some of the big unix vendors may be comparable or better though.
Nope, AIX, HPUX, and Solaris all have support windows of less than 10 years on their COTS support contracts. If you're willing to fork over millions of dollars a year to support a development team you can get continued support, but the same thing is also available from Microsoft.
Better yet run it in a vm =)
IBM sold off OS/2 to one of their customers and there were enough other parties still running it that they formed a company to do continued support called ecomstation.
98SE was the least buggy of the win9x variants followed by 95 OSR2.1.
Which real world? 90+% of American driving is around town or in a commute less than 20 miles, for most of the rest of the world it's probably 95+%.
Your Civic was $6,300 new? Also the MPG on electricity is infinite so you can't compare the two vehicles based on MPG alone. Oh and I call shenanigans on 50MPG for a 07 Civic, best reported numbers at fueleconomy.gov is 40 and that's for someone with 90% highway use (fueleconomy.gov is full of hypermilers so achieving 25% better fuel economy than the best reported number is highly, highly suspicious)
Nope, the device has a list of allowed phone numbers and it's a fairly short list. These devices are absolutely aimed at consumers and business users who have a weak signal either at their office or home.
mainly because telcos don't care about their customers to send a test guy
Not true at all, we had some indoor repeaters installed by a bunch of idiots (they were not our vendor choice, our selection was overruled by management) and between the amp and the yagi antenna we were putting out enough signal strength to blind one quadrant on the tower we were pointing at. Verizon not only sent out a tech but he climbed the tower to figure out the source of the interference and then came to our location to talk to us. We then had our original choice (actually licensed installers) come in and fix the problem after explaining FCC fines to management.
The biggest problem is that Paramount US might not own the distribution rights to every Paramount film in France (or Germany, or the UK, etc), those rights might be held by a third party that is not a party to the negotiation. It's a pretty messy industry from a legal perspective so I can understand why they might not get deals done in other markets quite as quickly as for the US.
No, even the p4x0i that's built into every HP DL3xx server does background scrubbing and predictive failure notification.
Every array or controller that doesn't suck does background data scrubbing, disk failure prediction, etc. The vast majority of the drives that I replace in my enterprise arrays haven't hard failed, rather they've indicated a problem and the array has proactively rebuilt the data to a spare (or the distributed spare space in the case of the EVA). Over about 500 drives (average) over the last 6 years I'd say I've had a handfull of hard failures and a few dozen predictive failure replacements.
Better would be to add whitelist support, like say a trusted zone? Yeah, it's one thing I love about IE, I can lock down the default configuration and allow all sorts of known bad configuration changes to the trusted sites zone to allow for legacy compatibility. It's exactly why IE's marketshare in the enterprise isn't going away.
Maybe java applications never got popular with end users but they're pretty much the standard for advanced GUI management interfaces on enterprise equipment. I hope for the sake of people who need older java versions to access the management interface on their switches, storage arrays, etc that there is an advanced preference to turn this feature off (if not globally then on a per-domain basis).
Spending thousands of voice minutes a month definitely puts you into a corner case compared to the vast majority of users today. Btw why are you paying for a cellphone for business use, are you an independent contractor or does your employer just give you a stipend?
My wife is still on the best plan ever, Virgin Mobile's $25/month unlimited data plan. 300 voice minutes, 2.5GB of data before throttle and unlimited SMS. Overage minutes are only $.10/minute so on the rare occasion that the wife goes over 300 minutes in a month it's the same cost as we were paying on T-Mobile prepaid previously. The only real downside is when we go on vacation and get outside the Sprint coverage area since there's no roaming with VM.
The thumbwheels were easy to replace and failed about 4x less frequently according to our data, from a user perspective the trackball was obviously a big gain as two axes is obviously better than one. As far as the optical trackpad, it was the GP complaining about them that elicited my response =)
I disagree, science works best when all experimental results are shared. One of the biggest problems in modern science is that groups rarely publish negative results thus necessitating that other groups working on the same problem will inevitably try the same failed experiments. Publishing anomalous results and asking for others to critique your work shouldn't tarnish anyone's reputation, only falsifying data or repeatedly pressing dis-proven results should do that.
The trackballs were horrible for businesses. They were by FAR the largest cause of cases for our email admin, they would either gunk up or worse break requiring a fairly lengthy process to replace (read expensive). The web browsing experience was by far the worst part of the platform. The lack of apps wasn't really a technological problem so much as it was a marketing one, RIM didn't have a reality distortion field to draw in the developers.
Hmm, fundamentally wealth is work and work is energy so wealth IS limited by available energy. If we're not going to allow nuclear due to fear and we're going to eventually run out of fossil fuels (or so mess up our planet that we decide not to continue using whatever is left) then wealth is going to be severely contracted in the coming decades unless we find alternatives and yet all I hear out of conservatives is how anything but more drilling is bad.
Nope, I fire up steam games all the time while on vacation without an internet connection.
Amazon reversed those actions under public pressure and AFAIR released a statement that they would not take a similar action going forward except for certain limited circumstances (like when someone ripped off an entire book that normally sold for like $9.99 and sold it as their own work for $.99).