If you can't find DDR or DDR2 RAM, you can always migrate to a 30GB SSD for $50 and have a very very quick system. 30GB is plenty enough for Windows 7 and Office Professional, with plenty (10-15GB) left over, and if you want to get really slick, mount the left over platter disk on C:\Users (must be done with diskpart from the pre-install environment) and use that for all your data storage. That makes a nice setup that is completely transparent to the user. It just takes a little finagling to set up.
I already have a patent application for that. It covers:
1) Ad-hoc sensing of other portable devices' profile settings via peer-to-peer wireless network 2) Detection of environmental variables to determine when to be silent (i.e. when it's dark) 3) Detecting a low-power "silence" beacon that can be placed in locations where phones are requested to be silent
The state of the industry is that even a 5-8 year old PC can still do everything most people need a PC for.
I'm writing this post on a Dual-core Athlon machine I built back in 2005. This machine does everything I need a PC to do, from standard office type stuff to running Cadence for schematic capture and layout.
New PCs stopped being necessary for anything other than games YEARS ago. Nothing the remaining 99% of the PC market does requires modern horsepower.
... on Processors and platforms that will run Linux, because their days are numbered. They couldn't beat Linux on the IP front, so they will just collude to lock it out in the architecture.
He was clever with his language to say that he has not made $1.5M selling android apps, but he certainly has made that and much much more selling the PC apps.
He flies a $500,000 Cirrus SR-22, and drives a Corvette.
"Researchers say they've found a way to store artificial short-term memories in isolated brain tissue. 'This is the first time anyone has found a way to store information over seconds about both temporal sequences andstimulus patterns directly in brain tissue,' says the study's lead. 'This paves the way for government to do all sorts of cool things, like tamper with judicial witnesses, implant false memories of political opponents in voters' minds, and directly program children with State-friendly thought patterns."
I drive a yellow SUV (Xterra). My wife and I were visiting NYC once. I had dropped her off to see a play with some of her old friends, and was supposed to pick her up after it was over. When I came by I circled the block a couple of times because I didn't see her. On the third go-around, I saw her waving at me from down the street, so I pulled over and she got in and I drove off.
Next think we know, NYPD pulls me over and accuses me of operating an illegal taxi, impounds our car, and hauls us both "downtown." They wouldn't listen. "Tell it to the judge" and "you'll have your opportunity to prove your innocence" were the motifs.
Prove my innocence? What the fuck?
Way to go treat tourists. We'll never go back there again. Cost us almost $5K in the end ($500 just to get our car back) for missed work, lawyers, and so on.
Operating temp and storage temp are completely different animals. The product doesn't have to meet temperature rise or timing specifications when it's off, so the temperature can be much higher.
I don't see too many components anymore with a storage temperature below 125C or 150C.
Central banks of any kind are simply a means for politicians to take more power away from the people. Whether it be central money banks, central food banks, central anything - they put people in line to ask someone else's permission to do what they want or need to do.
My first computer was that 1977 TRS-80 Model I, with the 600 baud cassette tape player. It finally bit the dust around 1990.
My favorites, though, were the Tandys I had. In 1985, my dad brought home a shiny new Tandy 1000A. He spent the money to upgrade it to dual 360K floppy disks, and bought the DRAM on the aftermarket to upgrade it to 640K. It took a lot longer to boot with 640K than it did with the factory 128K it came with.
DOS 2.11 was the O/S at the time, and DeskMate was something revolutionary to my 10 year old eyes.
He added 1200bps modem to the mix for his business in 1988 or 89, and it was then that I discovered the online Bulletin Board System. I spent the next couple of years monopolizing the PC, starting my own BBS that ran on floppies, running MiniHost.
So in 1990 for my birthday, I came home to find a new Tandy 1000TX sitting on the desk in the basement. I had originally thought he had just bought a 3.5" floppy drive for the existing PC, but I was elated to learn I had received a new PC for my birthday.
The 3.5" floppy was amazing. With the companion 5.25" floppy, I was able to copy everything over no problem. My new PC had its own 1200bps modem in it. Having the larger floppy meant I could put a few precious more programs on my BBS, which ran Phoenix RCS. I installed a couple of door games, and even a sub-BBS since Phoenix could do that. I also borrowed a 2400bps modem from a friend who had an extra one, and expanded my BBS to consume 2 of the 4 phone lines we had in the house, primarily for my dad's business.
When I was 15, my brother "handed me down" an old rusted out Honda Accord that I could fix up and use for a car when I turned 16. I promptly traded it to a guy at school for a 40-megabyte hard card that was compatible with the TX. It used a Miniscribe 8450 RLL Hard Disk, and an ST-412 RLL controller.
Boy, that was epic. My BBS could finally store files! I started leeching everything I could from other BBSes in the area: Tiny BBS, PC Paradise, The Works, The Outer Limit, The Open Door, and many others. Tiny in particular had become a huge BBS in the Hudson Valley - I think he grew to 3 or 4 phone lines, two of which were reserved for donators.
I would have friends over and stay up all night downloading from two different BBSes on two computers and phone lines. I was so officially a nerd by then, also having gotten my ham radio license in 1987.
When 1990/1991 rolled around, I had gotten my drivers license and a car, and was getting to the point that my juvenile computer pursuits were falling by the wayside in favor of being outside more. But, I still worked on the BBS, and spent late nights writing code in BASIC to do various things, and playing with things like DESQview, bimodem, MNP/5, and other cool things that came about during my formative years.
1992 brought about graduation from high school and a move away from home for college. I had built myself a 286 machine over the summer, with 1MB of RAM and QEMU on it. So, I left a lot behind. The Tandy 1000TX stayed home, but the hard drive came with me, so the BBS was no more. The 2400bps modem I had borrowed went back to its owner as well, but that didn't matter since the dorms at Ga Tech had their very own DB25 with a direct serial connection to Hydra - it was like being on a 9600bps BBS all the time! And this email thing - whoa - it was instant, too.
I dabbled in BBSes here and there, especially after I moved out of the dorm and could do it again, but it was never the same. By 1996 the Internet was starting to take shape in a big way, and I realized that BBSes were to quickly become a thing of the past, in favor of this World Wide Web thing everyone was talking about.
In 1997, I still had floppies in my computer. By then I was still in school, having taken the requisite year or two off to get in-state tuition. I started playing with Linux, and built myself a whopping dual-CPU machine. Floppies were still handy, as I'd still had all of the ones I had used on the old Tandy 10
A 1987 Honda CRX HF meets the standard. It was originally rated at 52/57 under the old test, which is a combined average fuel economy of 54.5MPG, which is the new standard.
I routinely got 60+ MPG in that car just driving along at 60MPH back in the day.
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If you can't find DDR or DDR2 RAM, you can always migrate to a 30GB SSD for $50 and have a very very quick system. 30GB is plenty enough for Windows 7 and Office Professional, with plenty (10-15GB) left over, and if you want to get really slick, mount the left over platter disk on C:\Users (must be done with diskpart from the pre-install environment) and use that for all your data storage. That makes a nice setup that is completely transparent to the user. It just takes a little finagling to set up.
Hah, now THAT's funny!
I already have a patent application for that. It covers:
1) Ad-hoc sensing of other portable devices' profile settings via peer-to-peer wireless network
2) Detection of environmental variables to determine when to be silent (i.e. when it's dark)
3) Detecting a low-power "silence" beacon that can be placed in locations where phones are requested to be silent
There are only two vital government services: national defense, and defense of our enumerated rights.
Government has zero business doing anything beyond.
The state of the industry is that even a 5-8 year old PC can still do everything most people need a PC for.
I'm writing this post on a Dual-core Athlon machine I built back in 2005. This machine does everything I need a PC to do, from standard office type stuff to running Cadence for schematic capture and layout.
New PCs stopped being necessary for anything other than games YEARS ago. Nothing the remaining 99% of the PC market does requires modern horsepower.
... on Processors and platforms that will run Linux, because their days are numbered. They couldn't beat Linux on the IP front, so they will just collude to lock it out in the architecture.
He was clever with his language to say that he has not made $1.5M selling android apps, but he certainly has made that and much much more selling the PC apps.
He flies a $500,000 Cirrus SR-22, and drives a Corvette.
15 platters on conventional disks = 3 motors, 3 actuators, 3 electronic boards, and 3 power supplies to fail.
14 platters on two He disks = 33% fewer of these, with more storage.
Nope... pretty sure you're not special at all.
Detonating nuclear bombs in downtown Chicago may lead to breakthroughs which could result in nuclear bomb-proof building design.
Sounds like there is nothing wrong with you. The details you give here are not any more thorough than most people would remember.
"Researchers say they've found a way to store artificial short-term memories in isolated brain tissue. 'This is the first time anyone has found a way to store information over seconds about both temporal sequences andstimulus patterns directly in brain tissue,' says the study's lead. 'This paves the way for government to do all sorts of cool things, like tamper with judicial witnesses, implant false memories of political opponents in voters' minds, and directly program children with State-friendly thought patterns."
There, fixed it.
Isn't that how leftists think? Do as I say, not as I do.
Has consensus effectively become science?
Is this particle "consistent" with what we believe to be a Higgs Boson, or is it actually a Higgs Boson?
I drive a yellow SUV (Xterra). My wife and I were visiting NYC once. I had dropped her off to see a play with some of her old friends, and was supposed to pick her up after it was over. When I came by I circled the block a couple of times because I didn't see her. On the third go-around, I saw her waving at me from down the street, so I pulled over and she got in and I drove off.
Next think we know, NYPD pulls me over and accuses me of operating an illegal taxi, impounds our car, and hauls us both "downtown." They wouldn't listen. "Tell it to the judge" and "you'll have your opportunity to prove your innocence" were the motifs.
Prove my innocence? What the fuck?
Way to go treat tourists. We'll never go back there again. Cost us almost $5K in the end ($500 just to get our car back) for missed work, lawyers, and so on.
Fuck New York City.
Those are electronic communication devices also.
" I would be really curious to see the paperwork with the USPTO from filing to allowance"
What is stopping you?
Operating temp and storage temp are completely different animals. The product doesn't have to meet temperature rise or timing specifications when it's off, so the temperature can be much higher.
I don't see too many components anymore with a storage temperature below 125C or 150C.
Not all OTA broadcasts are HD. In my area, only one OTA channel is in HD. The rest are in SD, but have multiple streams on multiple sub-channels.
I'm reading it on a 22" 1080p display, and only because I'm not using the 17" 1080p display in my laptop.
And I don't mean "energy" power.
Central banks of any kind are simply a means for politicians to take more power away from the people. Whether it be central money banks, central food banks, central anything - they put people in line to ask someone else's permission to do what they want or need to do.
Well, since we're already on the Security != Privacy train, I just thought I'd call attention to the pachyderm in the room.
My first computer was that 1977 TRS-80 Model I, with the 600 baud cassette tape player. It finally bit the dust around 1990.
My favorites, though, were the Tandys I had. In 1985, my dad brought home a shiny new Tandy 1000A. He spent the money to upgrade it to dual 360K floppy disks, and bought the DRAM on the aftermarket to upgrade it to 640K. It took a lot longer to boot with 640K than it did with the factory 128K it came with.
DOS 2.11 was the O/S at the time, and DeskMate was something revolutionary to my 10 year old eyes.
He added 1200bps modem to the mix for his business in 1988 or 89, and it was then that I discovered the online Bulletin Board System. I spent the next couple of years monopolizing the PC, starting my own BBS that ran on floppies, running MiniHost.
So in 1990 for my birthday, I came home to find a new Tandy 1000TX sitting on the desk in the basement. I had originally thought he had just bought a 3.5" floppy drive for the existing PC, but I was elated to learn I had received a new PC for my birthday.
The 3.5" floppy was amazing. With the companion 5.25" floppy, I was able to copy everything over no problem. My new PC had its own 1200bps modem in it. Having the larger floppy meant I could put a few precious more programs on my BBS, which ran Phoenix RCS. I installed a couple of door games, and even a sub-BBS since Phoenix could do that. I also borrowed a 2400bps modem from a friend who had an extra one, and expanded my BBS to consume 2 of the 4 phone lines we had in the house, primarily for my dad's business.
When I was 15, my brother "handed me down" an old rusted out Honda Accord that I could fix up and use for a car when I turned 16. I promptly traded it to a guy at school for a 40-megabyte hard card that was compatible with the TX. It used a Miniscribe 8450 RLL Hard Disk, and an ST-412 RLL controller.
Boy, that was epic. My BBS could finally store files! I started leeching everything I could from other BBSes in the area: Tiny BBS, PC Paradise, The Works, The Outer Limit, The Open Door, and many others. Tiny in particular had become a huge BBS in the Hudson Valley - I think he grew to 3 or 4 phone lines, two of which were reserved for donators.
I would have friends over and stay up all night downloading from two different BBSes on two computers and phone lines. I was so officially a nerd by then, also having gotten my ham radio license in 1987.
When 1990/1991 rolled around, I had gotten my drivers license and a car, and was getting to the point that my juvenile computer pursuits were falling by the wayside in favor of being outside more. But, I still worked on the BBS, and spent late nights writing code in BASIC to do various things, and playing with things like DESQview, bimodem, MNP/5, and other cool things that came about during my formative years.
1992 brought about graduation from high school and a move away from home for college. I had built myself a 286 machine over the summer, with 1MB of RAM and QEMU on it. So, I left a lot behind. The Tandy 1000TX stayed home, but the hard drive came with me, so the BBS was no more. The 2400bps modem I had borrowed went back to its owner as well, but that didn't matter since the dorms at Ga Tech had their very own DB25 with a direct serial connection to Hydra - it was like being on a 9600bps BBS all the time! And this email thing - whoa - it was instant, too.
I dabbled in BBSes here and there, especially after I moved out of the dorm and could do it again, but it was never the same. By 1996 the Internet was starting to take shape in a big way, and I realized that BBSes were to quickly become a thing of the past, in favor of this World Wide Web thing everyone was talking about.
In 1997, I still had floppies in my computer. By then I was still in school, having taken the requisite year or two off to get in-state tuition. I started playing with Linux, and built myself a whopping dual-CPU machine. Floppies were still handy, as I'd still had all of the ones I had used on the old Tandy 10
A gallon is the global standard for measuring volume.
A 1987 Honda CRX HF meets the standard. It was originally rated at 52/57 under the old test, which is a combined average fuel economy of 54.5MPG, which is the new standard.
I routinely got 60+ MPG in that car just driving along at 60MPH back in the day.