I doubt they are using old 8088's. They have been manufacturing previous generation CPU's but in much smaller form factors for embedded systems. So the original 8088 CPU's you would find in say a home PC are being put to use in landfills.
Nope. If you read the fine print it usually says something like "We can change the terms of service whenever we feel like it, however we want to" so basically, they can say whatever they want in their advertising, and change it the next day. May cable internet provider did that wtih their pricing recently....
I've noticed this with Windows installers too. They are usually really stupid about just installing the files from the original download. It usually it goes like this ->
Download ZIP file
Program extracts zip file to a temporary directory
Executable is copied out of the temporary directory back into a folder
Executable runs and extracts setup files
Setup files execute and install the program
So you end up having 3 aditional copies of the program on the HD just to install the program.
$40????? You're very lucky. As a result of the ATTBI/COMCAST merger, my bill is now $57!!! That was without my consent, they just one day started charging me more. With this tax, that would raise my bill to $63/month!
That's a good way to kill technological inovation. Just keep taxing new technology till no one can afford it.
US cell phone carriers are too busy selling people custom "ring tones" for $1 each. Wow... isn't that an amazing inovation? Ring tones...
The problem is, U.S. cell phone carriers are not interested in innovation. I've been waiting for years for a cellphone I could check my e-mail on without getting some outrageous service fee.
I think people still use old versions of Word Perfect simply because there is no need to upgrade. I mean, once you create a product that does what the users want it to do, what is the purpose of upgrading it and adding features people are not going to use? I'm happy using vesion Word Perfect version 9 and I hope that I will never have to upgrade ever again. Well, maybe I'll just start using Open Office
I've had PGP for quite awhile, but it's not very useful to me for sending e-mail because I don't know anyone else who uses it. I coudln't imagine trying to explain to my computer-challenged friends how encryption works and why it should always be used.
Even if a standard encryption system for e-mail was created it's highly likely the government would require it to have several back doors.
Yes, I'm super confused about what the author wrote.
He said:. "The optimal resolution while in PC use is 1024 x 768 @ 75Hz"
But the screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio, and a maximum of 1280x768, so why would anyone run it at 1024x768 on a PC??? This would just give an UGLY blurry image, or worse it would be in a small box with black bars around all 4 sides.
At a price of $3000, you'd be better off getting a plasma screen.
Excellent article, although I have to disagree about military bases being a complete waste. They provide a long-term economic advantage, being that they secure our country. That's worth at least several trillion dollars.
Same reason they hire security gaurds at companies. Sure it seems like a waste because nothing usually goes wrong, but it's an effective deterent.
This is the main reason I never want to live in Oregon. It says a lot about the culture there. If the people of that state think I'm incapable of putting gas in my own car then I have no respect for those who voted such ludicrous laws into place.
Oh I don't buy the excuse it's for employment either.
I don't think the average consumer wants to be able to take 10MByte pictures. Most people I know with digital cameras don't really understand resolution very well anyway. For most people, 128MB flash memory is probably sufficient for a 3Megapixel camera storing JPeg images. Remember, most people want to be able to e-mail a picture in reasonable time over a dial up modem.
Where these HD's will really be interesting would be in palm pilots, camcorders, and MP3 players.
Could you imagine the confusion of someone say substituted a T for a 7 because of bad handwriting? Your package could end up half way around the world! This scheme should only suplement the address, not replace it.
Yes, I actually read 1984. The parallels usually being made to this book are about how a central authority is always watching you.
It's going too far putting so many cameras in 'public' places. Once they have cameras everywhere in public, the only place left will be inside the homes. It would be very simple to extend the vast infrastructure they set up for public monitoring into private dwellings of citizens.
In 1984 the book, I don't remember there being any cars.
This doesn't make sense to me. We originally get the nuclear material from the earth in a not-so-radioactive form, we process it, extract energy out of it, and then we get waste. Why can't they simply dilute in or de-process it to be returned back into the planet as a harmless product?
Maybe even send it down into a volcano where it would mix in with the other various radioactive substances already in the earth. I wonder what studies have been done on something like this?
ah, but I bought my cable modem originally with the assumption that it would be a certain price per month. By them suddenly increasing the rate, I lose all the advertised benefits of actually purchasing the modem.
That reads very much like my cable internet service agreement. Basically they advertise price X and then in the terms of service they say "we can change the price and service whenever we feel like and there is nothing you can do"
It amazes me they can have such fluid license agreements that say they can change them whenever they want. How can you change an agreement without the person agreeing to those new changes?
I hope they actually did a pilot program with say 100 users to make sure this was a good decision. Remember, there are a lot of applications that simply do not run on Linux. They are probably not doing this to be anti-Microsoft, but simply to save money. Most of their users probably just use standard office applications, so standardizing on one platform that is open source probably gives them substantial savings.
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I remember "Find Fast". It never really helped you find anything, but it sure did a good job of slowing your computer down/wearing out your hard drive. It would essentially read through EVERY file on your hard drive and try to index it. I'd say that most people never used this feature, but there it was consuming system resources.
Actually, I think with some compilers while(1) is actually just a little bit slower than for(;;). The while(1) instruction may compile to a compare statement in assembly, while the for(;;) loop won't.
from turning heat into light, or even into prized terahertz rays I don't see why this would be prized. Light is in the terahertz already. 380THz to about 790THz is visible light.
They have been doing this with aluminum for decades. They put aluminum oxide in molten sodium aluminum floride and use electricity to seperate the oxygen from aluminum. I'm suprised that a similar technique for silicon was just recently invented.
And how would one move into this city if it was car free? How would you get furniture to your new home? Carry it?
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I've already started throwing U.S. pennies away in the garbage. If cashiers try to give them to me as change I refuse to take them. I mean, they are completely useless to me. The time it would take to count them to make a purchase isn't even worth their value. You can't use them in vending machines either.
They should get rid of the penny and release $200 bills insteasd. That would be much more useful.
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I doubt they are using old 8088's. They have been manufacturing previous generation CPU's but in much smaller form factors for embedded systems. So the original 8088 CPU's you would find in say a home PC are being put to use in landfills.
Nope. If you read the fine print it usually says something like "We can change the terms of service whenever we feel like it, however we want to" so basically, they can say whatever they want in their advertising, and change it the next day. May cable internet provider did that wtih their pricing recently....
Download ZIP file
Program extracts zip file to a temporary directory
Executable is copied out of the temporary directory back into a folder
Executable runs and extracts setup files
Setup files execute and install the program
So you end up having 3 aditional copies of the program on the HD just to install the program.
$40????? You're very lucky. As a result of the ATTBI/COMCAST merger, my bill is now $57!!! That was without my consent, they just one day started charging me more. With this tax, that would raise my bill to $63/month!
That's a good way to kill technological inovation. Just keep taxing new technology till no one can afford it.
US cell phone carriers are too busy selling people custom "ring tones" for $1 each. Wow... isn't that an amazing inovation? Ring tones...
The problem is, U.S. cell phone carriers are not interested in innovation. I've been waiting for years for a cellphone I could check my e-mail on without getting some outrageous service fee.
I think people still use old versions of Word Perfect simply because there is no need to upgrade. I mean, once you create a product that does what the users want it to do, what is the purpose of upgrading it and adding features people are not going to use? I'm happy using vesion Word Perfect version 9 and I hope that I will never have to upgrade ever again. Well, maybe I'll just start using Open Office
I've had PGP for quite awhile, but it's not very useful to me for sending e-mail because I don't know anyone else who uses it. I coudln't imagine trying to explain to my computer-challenged friends how encryption works and why it should always be used.
Even if a standard encryption system for e-mail was created it's highly likely the government would require it to have several back doors.
But the McNuggets do contain:
dimethylpolysiloxane
sodium acid pyrophosphate
sodium aluminum phosphate
monocalcium phosphate
whatever those are!
Yes, I'm super confused about what the author wrote.
He said:. "The optimal resolution while in PC use is 1024 x 768 @ 75Hz"
But the screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio, and a maximum of 1280x768, so why would anyone run it at 1024x768 on a PC??? This would just give an UGLY blurry image, or worse it would be in a small box with black bars around all 4 sides.
At a price of $3000, you'd be better off getting a plasma screen.
Excellent article, although I have to disagree about military bases being a complete waste. They provide a long-term economic advantage, being that they secure our country. That's worth at least several trillion dollars.
Same reason they hire security gaurds at companies. Sure it seems like a waste because nothing usually goes wrong, but it's an effective deterent.
This is the main reason I never want to live in Oregon. It says a lot about the culture there. If the people of that state think I'm incapable of putting gas in my own car then I have no respect for those who voted such ludicrous laws into place.
Oh I don't buy the excuse it's for employment either.
I don't think the average consumer wants to be able to take 10MByte pictures. Most people I know with digital cameras don't really understand resolution very well anyway. For most people, 128MB flash memory is probably sufficient for a 3Megapixel camera storing JPeg images. Remember, most people want to be able to e-mail a picture in reasonable time over a dial up modem.
Where these HD's will really be interesting would be in palm pilots, camcorders, and MP3 players.
Could you imagine the confusion of someone say substituted a T for a 7 because of bad handwriting? Your package could end up half way around the world! This scheme should only suplement the address, not replace it.
Yes, I actually read 1984. The parallels usually being made to this book are about how a central authority is always watching you.
It's going too far putting so many cameras in 'public' places. Once they have cameras everywhere in public, the only place left will be inside the homes. It would be very simple to extend the vast infrastructure they set up for public monitoring into private dwellings of citizens.
In 1984 the book, I don't remember there being any cars.
This doesn't make sense to me. We originally get the nuclear material from the earth in a not-so-radioactive form, we process it, extract energy out of it, and then we get waste. Why can't they simply dilute in or de-process it to be returned back into the planet as a harmless product?
Maybe even send it down into a volcano where it would mix in with the other various radioactive substances already in the earth. I wonder what studies have been done on something like this?
ah, but I bought my cable modem originally with the assumption that it would be a certain price per month. By them suddenly increasing the rate, I lose all the advertised benefits of actually purchasing the modem.
Bleh...
That reads very much like my cable internet service agreement. Basically they advertise price X and then in the terms of service they say "we can change the price and service whenever we feel like and there is nothing you can do"
It amazes me they can have such fluid license agreements that say they can change them whenever they want. How can you change an agreement without the person agreeing to those new changes?
What's the point of modding an AC all the way up to 4?
I hope they actually did a pilot program with say 100 users to make sure this was a good decision. Remember, there are a lot of applications that simply do not run on Linux. They are probably not doing this to be anti-Microsoft, but simply to save money. Most of their users probably just use standard office applications, so standardizing on one platform that is open source probably gives them substantial savings.
I remember "Find Fast". It never really helped you find anything, but it sure did a good job of slowing your computer down/wearing out your hard drive. It would essentially read through EVERY file on your hard drive and try to index it. I'd say that most people never used this feature, but there it was consuming system resources.
Actually, I think with some compilers while(1) is actually just a little bit slower than for(;;). The while(1) instruction may compile to a compare statement in assembly, while the for(;;) loop won't.
from turning heat into light, or even into prized terahertz rays
I don't see why this would be prized. Light is in the terahertz already. 380THz to about 790THz is visible light.
They have been doing this with aluminum for decades. They put aluminum oxide in molten sodium aluminum floride and use electricity to seperate the oxygen from aluminum. I'm suprised that a similar technique for silicon was just recently invented.
And how would one move into this city if it was car free? How would you get furniture to your new home? Carry it?
I've already started throwing U.S. pennies away in the garbage. If cashiers try to give them to me as change I refuse to take them. I mean, they are completely useless to me. The time it would take to count them to make a purchase isn't even worth their value. You can't use them in vending machines either.
They should get rid of the penny and release $200 bills insteasd. That would be much more useful.