It's the cable that mechanically links the rear brakes to whatever mechanism that's in the car to engage the brake (lever, pedal, whatever). I've never had problems with the lubrication of the cable itself, but you can get water in there that leads to corrosion which leads to the cable eventually breaking. Which is a good reason to check up on it occasionally and make sure that the grease or whatever is used to keep the water away from the cable is still doing its job. On some cars the cable is in tension to release the parking brake which means when that happens the car is effectively immobilized.
I've heard that there are less than one hundred 3D live action films made, ever. That counts films from the previous 3D fads. Almost all 3D films are conversions of some sort.
Technically, the PC came with a Windows 7 license (check the sticker on the case) and was downgraded to XP. I'm sure this will continue to go on for a long, long time.
The main problem with XP 64 is the lack of drivers. This really was the same problem Vista 64 initially had, but XP 64 was never really considered mainstream and a lot of hardware manufacturers simply ignored it (and continue to do so).
My impression of Windows 95 and 98 is that they don't really know what to do with more than about 256MB of ram. The OSes can use it, but they don't utilize it effectively.
The so-called 64MB "limit" for Windows 95 may come from most of the original Pentium chipsets back in the day where the L2 cache would only cache the first 64MB of ram. Since Windows 95 tended to allocate memory at the end first, you could take.a pretty big performance hit by putting more than 64MB into those systems unless you actually had need for large amounts of ram (in which case why are you using Windows 95?).
Have you ever used Vista recently? They've patched it up to the point where it's more or less Windows 7 but missing a few interface tweaks. The main difference is the PR game, where everyone thinks that Vista is bad and 7 is good, even though the differences aren't huge.
Actually, the command prompt can be somewhat easier for technical support. Trying to get some people to successfully navigate a UI over the phone can be a challenge. It doesn't help that Microsoft loves to rearrange the icons in Control Panel with every release for no good reason.
The only computer that Apple makes that is a box is the Mac Pro. I guess you might be able to count the Mini as a really small box. The rest are a variety of slabs and wedges.
Oh course, that only matters if she doesn't need a car after 5 years so that she can sell them off. Otherwise, she's still got $13k stuck in a car that she can't sell (without buying another car). Also, you need to add in the cost of gas for the new car.
What in the hell are you talking about? Hard drives don't have pins for the LED activity light. At least, not anything made since drive sizes were spec'd in megabytes. Certainly nothing with a SATA port on it. The temperature information on any modern hard drive is read through the SATA cable just like everything else. No need for special cables or firmware. I'm not sure what exactly Apple is doing (though it reeks of their typical proprietary hardware lock-in schemes), but people like you blatantly making shit up doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.
It's probably a Pentium, if anything. Never was a 75Mhz 386, and while there was a 75Mhz 486DX4 those were pretty rare. The Pentium 75 was an extremely common chip back in the day.
Another benefit is that at least around here, pawn shops have to check serial numbers of items brought in against a list of stolen items provided by the police. Thus, if you've documented the serial numbers of your stuff there is a chance that it might lead to the thief being busted and you getting at least some of your stuff back.
Actually, as a general rule of thumb when it comes to electronics the heavier it is generally the higher quality it is. Not to defend the Best Buy sales weasel, but a higher quality power supply, thicker gauge wiring, and more robust mechanical parts do tend to add weight.
I've always wondered what they do when it doesn't make sense to repair the appliance. I mean, if my 17 year-old fridge breaks down it makes no sense to repair it. Is the insurance going to buy me a new fridge? Repair my old fridge anyway? Tell me that the fridge is a write off and not pay out anything?
A microwave is the only time where I managed to get an extended warranty to pay out. I usually don't buy them, but the warranty offed at the time covered the microwave for 9 years(!) and I knew it was pretty unlikely that a cheap microwave would last that long. And sure enough, it failed around year 5 or so. I almost wonder if their model was to assume that people would forget that they still had a warranty by the time it failed.
The problem with that is the quarter, which will now be worth 2.5 dimes. If everything is priced in increments of dimes then this would become pretty annoying pretty fast, especially with the elimination of the five cent or half-dime coin*. So what you would have to also do is eliminate the quarter, and either replace it with a 20 cent piece as seen in many other countries or not replace it at all.
*The five cent piece in the US used to be called the half-dime when it was minted out of silver.
What odd is that several of the ones from 199* look crappier.
It's not really that odd. Zinc is a pretty reactive metal, which means that once the thin copper layer on the post 1982 coins gets compromised the coin tends to break down pretty fast. And there is also the whole thing with the mint continually lowering the relief of the coins (this makes the dies last longer which lowers the cost of minting the coins), to the point now where new coins are almost completely flat.
Actually, it's working from both ways. The largest denomination, $100, is worth less and less as time progresses. And furthermore, having enough cash on hand to buy a decent used car is now considered suspicious by the police.
Bottom line: if you post a price, and people can't pay it because of your policy, you are committing fraud.
Well, the precedent is already there with gas stations their stupid $x.xx9/gallon fuel prices that usually won't come out to an whole number of dollars and cents (I'm not even sure how the gas stations do the rounding, to be honest). Also, sales tax causes a similar problem, though you can certainly make the case that it's not the merchant's fault there.
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It's the cable that mechanically links the rear brakes to whatever mechanism that's in the car to engage the brake (lever, pedal, whatever). I've never had problems with the lubrication of the cable itself, but you can get water in there that leads to corrosion which leads to the cable eventually breaking. Which is a good reason to check up on it occasionally and make sure that the grease or whatever is used to keep the water away from the cable is still doing its job. On some cars the cable is in tension to release the parking brake which means when that happens the car is effectively immobilized.
The Pixar films are pretty well done in 3D.
I've heard that there are less than one hundred 3D live action films made, ever. That counts films from the previous 3D fads. Almost all 3D films are conversions of some sort.
Technically, the PC came with a Windows 7 license (check the sticker on the case) and was downgraded to XP. I'm sure this will continue to go on for a long, long time.
The main problem with XP 64 is the lack of drivers. This really was the same problem Vista 64 initially had, but XP 64 was never really considered mainstream and a lot of hardware manufacturers simply ignored it (and continue to do so).
My impression of Windows 95 and 98 is that they don't really know what to do with more than about 256MB of ram. The OSes can use it, but they don't utilize it effectively.
The so-called 64MB "limit" for Windows 95 may come from most of the original Pentium chipsets back in the day where the L2 cache would only cache the first 64MB of ram. Since Windows 95 tended to allocate memory at the end first, you could take.a pretty big performance hit by putting more than 64MB into those systems unless you actually had need for large amounts of ram (in which case why are you using Windows 95?).
Have you ever used Vista recently? They've patched it up to the point where it's more or less Windows 7 but missing a few interface tweaks. The main difference is the PR game, where everyone thinks that Vista is bad and 7 is good, even though the differences aren't huge.
Actually, the command prompt can be somewhat easier for technical support. Trying to get some people to successfully navigate a UI over the phone can be a challenge. It doesn't help that Microsoft loves to rearrange the icons in Control Panel with every release for no good reason.
The only computer that Apple makes that is a box is the Mac Pro. I guess you might be able to count the Mini as a really small box. The rest are a variety of slabs and wedges.
Well, it's not like GM is known for their high quality vehicles to start with.
Oh course, that only matters if she doesn't need a car after 5 years so that she can sell them off. Otherwise, she's still got $13k stuck in a car that she can't sell (without buying another car). Also, you need to add in the cost of gas for the new car.
The 1920's were peaceful. You could also count the 1900's as it kind of squeezes in there between the Spanish-American war and the start of WWI.
You're fired!
Or were you talking about the other one?
What in the hell are you talking about? Hard drives don't have pins for the LED activity light. At least, not anything made since drive sizes were spec'd in megabytes. Certainly nothing with a SATA port on it. The temperature information on any modern hard drive is read through the SATA cable just like everything else. No need for special cables or firmware. I'm not sure what exactly Apple is doing (though it reeks of their typical proprietary hardware lock-in schemes), but people like you blatantly making shit up doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.
It's probably a Pentium, if anything. Never was a 75Mhz 386, and while there was a 75Mhz 486DX4 those were pretty rare. The Pentium 75 was an extremely common chip back in the day.
You can get Windows XP to boot on as little as 18 MB of ram:
Source.
Probably anyone who cares about things like power usage - for example something that's expected to run for a while on a pair of AA batteries.
Another benefit is that at least around here, pawn shops have to check serial numbers of items brought in against a list of stolen items provided by the police. Thus, if you've documented the serial numbers of your stuff there is a chance that it might lead to the thief being busted and you getting at least some of your stuff back.
Actually, as a general rule of thumb when it comes to electronics the heavier it is generally the higher quality it is. Not to defend the Best Buy sales weasel, but a higher quality power supply, thicker gauge wiring, and more robust mechanical parts do tend to add weight.
I've always wondered what they do when it doesn't make sense to repair the appliance. I mean, if my 17 year-old fridge breaks down it makes no sense to repair it. Is the insurance going to buy me a new fridge? Repair my old fridge anyway? Tell me that the fridge is a write off and not pay out anything?
A microwave is the only time where I managed to get an extended warranty to pay out. I usually don't buy them, but the warranty offed at the time covered the microwave for 9 years(!) and I knew it was pretty unlikely that a cheap microwave would last that long. And sure enough, it failed around year 5 or so. I almost wonder if their model was to assume that people would forget that they still had a warranty by the time it failed.
Well, if you can do it really really fast, it would be kind of a meatspace equivalent of high-frequency trading.
The problem with that is the quarter, which will now be worth 2.5 dimes. If everything is priced in increments of dimes then this would become pretty annoying pretty fast, especially with the elimination of the five cent or half-dime coin*. So what you would have to also do is eliminate the quarter, and either replace it with a 20 cent piece as seen in many other countries or not replace it at all.
*The five cent piece in the US used to be called the half-dime when it was minted out of silver.
It's not really that odd. Zinc is a pretty reactive metal, which means that once the thin copper layer on the post 1982 coins gets compromised the coin tends to break down pretty fast. And there is also the whole thing with the mint continually lowering the relief of the coins (this makes the dies last longer which lowers the cost of minting the coins), to the point now where new coins are almost completely flat.
Actually, it's working from both ways. The largest denomination, $100, is worth less and less as time progresses. And furthermore, having enough cash on hand to buy a decent used car is now considered suspicious by the police.
Well, the precedent is already there with gas stations their stupid $x.xx9/gallon fuel prices that usually won't come out to an whole number of dollars and cents (I'm not even sure how the gas stations do the rounding, to be honest). Also, sales tax causes a similar problem, though you can certainly make the case that it's not the merchant's fault there.