The thing with modern cars is that they are entirely dependent on complicated electronic systems to even run. At some point new parts will stop being made for them, and over time obtaining functioning spare parts will get harder and harder for them. It's going to be a bit like in TFA, where you're going to be fighting with a finicky 30-year old propriety electronic computer system that is completely unsupported by the manufacturer and nearly impossible to get parts for, and whatever parts you do find are salvaged from other cars and are just as old.
On the other hand, a competent machinist with some mechanical aptitude and a basic understanding of electronics can keep an old car going pretty much forever. It wouldn't surprise me at all that in 30 years they'll be more cars from the 1940's and 1950's driving around than cars driving around from today.
That's a flawed argument. First, if I give away everything I have, I will likely die of exposure and hunger, therefore what you are essentially saying is that I should give my life to maybe save other people's lives. Second, there's no guarantee that even if I did so, even one other life would be saved.
As the poster said, that's an extreme. But you could take the money you spend on luxuries you don't need to survive (video games, cable TV, smart phone, whatever) in and donate it to a cause that will use the money towards saving lives.
Well, all that they need is some of the radiation to make it back, the rest can pass through. Not enough made it back? Turn up the power! How do you think the x-ray body scanners work? However, in the case of radar guns I expect that the typical car body will shield the passengers pretty well. The windows maybe not so well.
Less than 451 degrees F, as the point of those safes is that any papers stored in them will survive. The way they work is that they release liquids on the contents during a fire which keeps the contents cool. Your papers may be damp, but they will still be readable. Hard to say if a hard drive would survive those conditions. In any case I'd put the drive into a waterproof bag or container.
I would think that without the military, the biggest threat would remote areas where a country like Russia would do something like seize Alaska (and all its natural resources). Whereas militia would do a pretty good job at defending urban areas they would be totally unequipped to defend Alaska from the Russian military.
It's simple. If you purchased Mac hardware capable of running Leopard you also had purchased a license for a previous version of OS X that ran on it. Since you cannot buy a Mac without OS X and you can't run OS X on anything but a Mac the fact you have the hardware is proof enough.
It's not always true. There are lots of things that are correlated where one of them causes the other. However pretty much anyone who parrots that tired old line are usually doing it because they don't want to get into that.
Until someone with some backbone actually vetoes a bill like that, they'll keep slipping stupid crap like that into these "must pass" bills. It's clear that Obama is not going to be the one to do it though.
Depending on what you were doing, the full speed on-die 128k L2 cache on the overclocked 300A could be faster than the half-speed off-die 512k cache on the P2.
They use a good fraction of the amount of power that a CFL does, and CFLs do get hot when running. I have one LED bulb (so far) and it gets pretty warm after its been on a while.
The other thing is that nowadays, the Celeron is really low end. What Intel now calls the "Pentium" is closer to what the Celeron used to be, with the Celeron seemingly targeted for more embedded type applications. With that said, Celerons will still work just fine for many server applications.
(1) I doubt the veracity of those numbers. The first seems too low. Way back in the Atari era, they paid solo programmers upto 1 million dollars to make games. The price would have gone up ten years later (SNES era), not down.
I don't think those numbers are too low. Sure, the top-tier games certainly cost a lot more than that. But remember all the crappy games that are all but forgotten now? They're driving the average down.
I find it more interesting that the HD4000 can supposedly drive up to three monitors. That in itself would make it "good enough" for some people I know.
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It includes the caucus states and the delegates that have yet to be awarded. Even if all of the unawarded delegates in the states that have held contests so far were awarded to Paul he'd still be well behind Romney, though he'd be giving Gingrich a run for his money. Granted, Paul winning is is still mathematically possible, and as much as I would like to see him beat Romney (and Santorum and Gingrich) I just don't see it happening.
That person told me I shouldn't be lying to people. (sigh) They just don't understand how data is being collected and sold, not just by corporations but also the DHS.
Well, they do have a point. If you don't agree with the way Facebook runs their business, the most ethical thing would be to not use Facebook at all.
I work for an engineering college at a big university and we have some departments that really need cutting. I'm talking departments that, literally, have less than 10 students. Well when you have low enrollment numbers like that you don't really bring in the money to support a department head, a few professors, support staff, and so on. They are a drain on resources and need to be cut.
They do need to take some care about that. Just because they have very few students with that major doesn't mean the department should be cut, as that department may be providing support to other departments in terms of lower level courses that those other departments need. For example, my school graduated only a small number of physics majors a year (well into single digits), however, the school considered the program important as the engineering and other departments relied heavily upon the 100- and 200-level courses. If the school didn't have the physics major and 300- and 400-level courses to go with it they figured they would have a lot harder time finding good professors who wanted to teach there.
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The thing with modern cars is that they are entirely dependent on complicated electronic systems to even run. At some point new parts will stop being made for them, and over time obtaining functioning spare parts will get harder and harder for them. It's going to be a bit like in TFA, where you're going to be fighting with a finicky 30-year old propriety electronic computer system that is completely unsupported by the manufacturer and nearly impossible to get parts for, and whatever parts you do find are salvaged from other cars and are just as old.
On the other hand, a competent machinist with some mechanical aptitude and a basic understanding of electronics can keep an old car going pretty much forever. It wouldn't surprise me at all that in 30 years they'll be more cars from the 1940's and 1950's driving around than cars driving around from today.
As the poster said, that's an extreme. But you could take the money you spend on luxuries you don't need to survive (video games, cable TV, smart phone, whatever) in and donate it to a cause that will use the money towards saving lives.
Well, all that they need is some of the radiation to make it back, the rest can pass through. Not enough made it back? Turn up the power! How do you think the x-ray body scanners work? However, in the case of radar guns I expect that the typical car body will shield the passengers pretty well. The windows maybe not so well.
Even the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal relegates that drivel to the opinion section. Are you an idiot?
Less than 451 degrees F, as the point of those safes is that any papers stored in them will survive. The way they work is that they release liquids on the contents during a fire which keeps the contents cool. Your papers may be damp, but they will still be readable. Hard to say if a hard drive would survive those conditions. In any case I'd put the drive into a waterproof bag or container.
I would think that without the military, the biggest threat would remote areas where a country like Russia would do something like seize Alaska (and all its natural resources). Whereas militia would do a pretty good job at defending urban areas they would be totally unequipped to defend Alaska from the Russian military.
As far as I'm concerned the less money given to MPEG-LA the better.
You do realize that Apple dropped iDVD on new Macs?
It's simple. If you purchased Mac hardware capable of running Leopard you also had purchased a license for a previous version of OS X that ran on it. Since you cannot buy a Mac without OS X and you can't run OS X on anything but a Mac the fact you have the hardware is proof enough.
It's not always true. There are lots of things that are correlated where one of them causes the other. However pretty much anyone who parrots that tired old line are usually doing it because they don't want to get into that.
That's only if they don't put salt down. If they do, ice won't form until the salt and water mixture reaches... 0 degrees F.
Most of us DGAF whether or not you know what that means.
Until someone with some backbone actually vetoes a bill like that, they'll keep slipping stupid crap like that into these "must pass" bills. It's clear that Obama is not going to be the one to do it though.
What if we miss and hit Iraq, again?
I have a call from some patent troll on line 2 for you. Something about a joke.
Depending on what you were doing, the full speed on-die 128k L2 cache on the overclocked 300A could be faster than the half-speed off-die 512k cache on the P2.
They use a good fraction of the amount of power that a CFL does, and CFLs do get hot when running. I have one LED bulb (so far) and it gets pretty warm after its been on a while.
Do you really believe those numbers?
The other thing is that nowadays, the Celeron is really low end. What Intel now calls the "Pentium" is closer to what the Celeron used to be, with the Celeron seemingly targeted for more embedded type applications. With that said, Celerons will still work just fine for many server applications.
I don't think those numbers are too low. Sure, the top-tier games certainly cost a lot more than that. But remember all the crappy games that are all but forgotten now? They're driving the average down.
Really? Because he was 90% done 2 years ago.
I find it more interesting that the HD4000 can supposedly drive up to three monitors. That in itself would make it "good enough" for some people I know.
I'm still not sure how you're coming up with your numbers. Here's a chart of the delegates awarded so far:
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates
It includes the caucus states and the delegates that have yet to be awarded. Even if all of the unawarded delegates in the states that have held contests so far were awarded to Paul he'd still be well behind Romney, though he'd be giving Gingrich a run for his money. Granted, Paul winning is is still mathematically possible, and as much as I would like to see him beat Romney (and Santorum and Gingrich) I just don't see it happening.
Well, they do have a point. If you don't agree with the way Facebook runs their business, the most ethical thing would be to not use Facebook at all.
They do need to take some care about that. Just because they have very few students with that major doesn't mean the department should be cut, as that department may be providing support to other departments in terms of lower level courses that those other departments need. For example, my school graduated only a small number of physics majors a year (well into single digits), however, the school considered the program important as the engineering and other departments relied heavily upon the 100- and 200-level courses. If the school didn't have the physics major and 300- and 400-level courses to go with it they figured they would have a lot harder time finding good professors who wanted to teach there.