I'm counting booting off a disk as running an executable on the disk, genius. Now, the Mac would scan a disk as soon as you put it into the drive with no action on the user's part, which was enough to pwn them back in the day.
I used to do that, but once the hardware got to the point where I could reliably put the computer to sleep and have it wake back up, I stopped doing it in favor of putting the computer to sleep when I'm not using it. I figure the few watts draw while suspended is an acceptable price to pay for not having to wait for it to boot up again.
Those are pretty nice screens, but I would prefer something more like 2048x1536 at 20" or so. The problem with LCD monitors nowadays is the DPI. In order to get decent resolution the screens become too large.
They're probably used off-lease corporate machines, given the processor speed and price. There are lots of places that'll sell you an old Dell/HP/Lenovo/whatever P4 or early Core system for $100 - $150 or so with an XP license.
This is the single biggest reason why macs upgrade fast. Apple doesn't overprice their upgrades, and they do a terrific job of advertising them. It makes it much more palatable to upgrade than the budget killer that MS drops on us every so often.
The real budget killer is periodically having to buy a whole new computer to run a supported OS. It especially has to painful given how expensive the computers are. Microsoft supports older versions of Windows for so long that the support will likely outlast the hardware. I could have bought an XP machine a full 10 years ago, and it will still be getting updates for it for almost another 2 more years, without giving another dime to Microsoft.
So is an illuminated keyboard an energy waste or an energy saving? How much power does it use versus a light bulb?
If the keyboard is powered from the USB port (all that I have seen are), the most it should be drawing is 2.5 W per the USB specification. Now granted, some hardware does play loose with that specification but it's not like illuminated keyboards are going to be pulling tens of watts like a light bulb.
I find light text on a dark background much, much more readable in a dark room. A bright monitor in a dark room is uncomfortable, and I have to turn on a light or my eyes start to hurt after a while. Granted, I won't pick white on black, but more like a light pastel-like color on a darker background. Also I find just about every new LCD monitor uncomfortably bright at its default settings.
With that said, in a bright room light text on a dark background is also hard to read. At work where I don't have control over the lighting I use dark text on a light greyish background.
It's a lot less noticeable when watching TV. Try hooking a computer up and it'll look like shit. It's actually kind of amazing how really bad LCDs (judged by sending them test patterns via a PC) can still look acceptable for video.
It's game to prop up the markets by forcing anyone who wants any return on their money to move from safe investments to riskier ones like stocks. It's all a bubble and will come crashing down at some point.
It was even easier on the Mac. Back in those days, you could infect a Mac just by putting the floppy disk into the drive. On a PC you generally would have to run an infected executable on the floppy before your system got owned.
I don't think they'll be too worried about that. Generally if a car is not sold in the US it's difficult to get it registered with the DMV so that you can drive it on public roads, with some exceptions for older collector cars. If you want to import a foreign car it's nearly impossible to get it past customs if it's not a collector car (over 25 years old). If anything, they'll start going after the millions of older cars that will be grandfathered in when the new system goes into place.
So what "year" was a car made if the chassis was from 2010, the engine is from 2017, the transmission is from 2013, and the ECU is from 2008 and running custom firmware? There are so many loopholes that this isn't even funny.
Easy. When you register the car with the DMV, you have to give them a VIN. And that VIN will have a model year baked into it, and that's what year they'll consider the car to be.
I'm sure the Republicans would love your new law. Just like the stupid "Godwin!!!" posts that do nothing other than derail any conversation involving Nazi Germany, the Republicans could use this new law to derail any conversation about Bush they don't like.
When I rented I would replace all the incandescent bulbs with CFLs when I moved in, and store the incandescents in a box in one of the closets. When I moved out I removed my CFLs and put the incandescents back in.
Man, having to provide your own appliances? I'm glad that's the norm in the places I rented.
Windows 7 is supported until 2020, so if you don't like Windows 8 sit it out and hope that Windows 9 is better. Or wait until Windows 10, which will almost certainly be out before Windows 7 is EOL'd. I'm sure a lot of people will do just that.
At least around here, if it's winter you can just shut off the water, turn off the heat, and open some windows for a few days. Most pests can't survive freezing temperatures. You can also quarantine any suspect used furniture outside for a few days too before bringing it in.
You could argue that to do the measurement the "correct" way that you would need to know the temperature of the air (as its density depends on it) requiring that you have a thermometer.
My car won't let you turn the key all the way to lock if the transmission is not in park. Seems like a pretty reasonably design to me, though granted you can't play this game on a car with a manual transmission.
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I'm counting booting off a disk as running an executable on the disk, genius. Now, the Mac would scan a disk as soon as you put it into the drive with no action on the user's part, which was enough to pwn them back in the day.
I used to do that, but once the hardware got to the point where I could reliably put the computer to sleep and have it wake back up, I stopped doing it in favor of putting the computer to sleep when I'm not using it. I figure the few watts draw while suspended is an acceptable price to pay for not having to wait for it to boot up again.
Nowadays I think it's just Intel more or less taking easy as there isn't much pressure on them from AMD.
Those are pretty nice screens, but I would prefer something more like 2048x1536 at 20" or so. The problem with LCD monitors nowadays is the DPI. In order to get decent resolution the screens become too large.
They're probably used off-lease corporate machines, given the processor speed and price. There are lots of places that'll sell you an old Dell/HP/Lenovo/whatever P4 or early Core system for $100 - $150 or so with an XP license.
10.6 for existing Intel Mac owners was $25.
This is the single biggest reason why macs upgrade fast. Apple doesn't overprice their upgrades, and they do a terrific job of advertising them. It makes it much more palatable to upgrade than the budget killer that MS drops on us every so often.
The real budget killer is periodically having to buy a whole new computer to run a supported OS. It especially has to painful given how expensive the computers are. Microsoft supports older versions of Windows for so long that the support will likely outlast the hardware. I could have bought an XP machine a full 10 years ago, and it will still be getting updates for it for almost another 2 more years, without giving another dime to Microsoft.
If the keyboard is powered from the USB port (all that I have seen are), the most it should be drawing is 2.5 W per the USB specification. Now granted, some hardware does play loose with that specification but it's not like illuminated keyboards are going to be pulling tens of watts like a light bulb.
I find light text on a dark background much, much more readable in a dark room. A bright monitor in a dark room is uncomfortable, and I have to turn on a light or my eyes start to hurt after a while. Granted, I won't pick white on black, but more like a light pastel-like color on a darker background. Also I find just about every new LCD monitor uncomfortably bright at its default settings.
With that said, in a bright room light text on a dark background is also hard to read. At work where I don't have control over the lighting I use dark text on a light greyish background.
And if the push is for darker web pages, the CRTs will last even longer as the phosphors will not wear out as fast :)
It's a lot less noticeable when watching TV. Try hooking a computer up and it'll look like shit. It's actually kind of amazing how really bad LCDs (judged by sending them test patterns via a PC) can still look acceptable for video.
It's game to prop up the markets by forcing anyone who wants any return on their money to move from safe investments to riskier ones like stocks. It's all a bubble and will come crashing down at some point.
It was even easier on the Mac. Back in those days, you could infect a Mac just by putting the floppy disk into the drive. On a PC you generally would have to run an infected executable on the floppy before your system got owned.
I don't think they'll be too worried about that. Generally if a car is not sold in the US it's difficult to get it registered with the DMV so that you can drive it on public roads, with some exceptions for older collector cars. If you want to import a foreign car it's nearly impossible to get it past customs if it's not a collector car (over 25 years old). If anything, they'll start going after the millions of older cars that will be grandfathered in when the new system goes into place.
Easy. When you register the car with the DMV, you have to give them a VIN. And that VIN will have a model year baked into it, and that's what year they'll consider the car to be.
I suppose they could drop the suit if it looks like it might go that way, though the whole premise seems to be a stretch.
If the parking lot was icy, an unintentional 360 could be entirely possible.
I'm sure the Republicans would love your new law. Just like the stupid "Godwin!!!" posts that do nothing other than derail any conversation involving Nazi Germany, the Republicans could use this new law to derail any conversation about Bush they don't like.
When I rented I would replace all the incandescent bulbs with CFLs when I moved in, and store the incandescents in a box in one of the closets. When I moved out I removed my CFLs and put the incandescents back in.
Man, having to provide your own appliances? I'm glad that's the norm in the places I rented.
Windows 7 is supported until 2020, so if you don't like Windows 8 sit it out and hope that Windows 9 is better. Or wait until Windows 10, which will almost certainly be out before Windows 7 is EOL'd. I'm sure a lot of people will do just that.
At least around here, if it's winter you can just shut off the water, turn off the heat, and open some windows for a few days. Most pests can't survive freezing temperatures. You can also quarantine any suspect used furniture outside for a few days too before bringing it in.
The next big thing (supposedly) is 4k resolution. Plus at some point OLED may become affordable enough to make it into mainstream models.
A 359MB PDF file? I think that's a record in itself.
You could argue that to do the measurement the "correct" way that you would need to know the temperature of the air (as its density depends on it) requiring that you have a thermometer.
Actually, Minecraft does run in a browser. I know there's an .exe client for Windows, but the browser version is the easiest to get going on Linux.
My car won't let you turn the key all the way to lock if the transmission is not in park. Seems like a pretty reasonably design to me, though granted you can't play this game on a car with a manual transmission.