I still commonly get the pre-1982 copper ones in change. I would figure that people (myself included) would have managed to hoard them out of circulation by now, but alas there still seem to be lots of them out there.
The easiest way to tell them apart is to drop them onto a hard surface. The copper ones have a bit of a ring to them when they hit, whereas the zinc ones just go thud.
. But it obviously isn't (or else you would hear about serious politicans suggesting it) so people obviously care more about GDP.
That's why instead we do things like use government money to pay people to destroy perfectly good cars then count the new replacements we have to build towards the GDP.
My biggest complaint about Simcity 3000 was that I had to spend to much time micromanaging things like each water pump or police station, instead of focusing on the big picture stuff like planning out and building my city. I think I spent about 10 hours playing SimCity 3000 before I shelved it. And this is after spending countless hours playing the original (mostly on the SNES) and Simcity 2000 (on the PC).
I do seem to remember at the time I thought SimCity 3000 was a bit heavy on the system requirements, though I was trying to play it on a K6 which was outdated even when the game came out. I don't remember the graphics being too improved over SimCity 2000 which ran quite happily on a 486 DX2.
The bad thing about Steam is when my internet connection unexpectedly goes down, I can't play my (single player) Steam games while I wait for it to come back up.
My guess is that he himself wasn't detained, but rather they "detained" his vehicle for some time so he had no where to go. The government has shown repeatedly that they have little respect for your legally acquired property.
It's not a terrible idea. I'm tall, and in some cars the gauges can be partially obscured by the steering wheel. Or by my arm if I'm not sticking to the 10 and 2 positions for holding the wheel. It's even worse in some of the newer cars where they think it's a good idea to bury the gauges into deep wells for some reason.
It's because people didn't like the digital gauges when they first came out in the 1980's. Not sure why, maybe it was just because they were too different, or maybe it was nothing against the gauges themselves but the general unreliability of the electronics in some of the cars that had them *cough*GM*cough*. In any case, they seemed to be a fad that more or less died out by the early 1990's. However, they do seem to be making a comeback now and I haven't really head anyone complaining about them as much.
If it was any good, Apple would actually use it in their latest iPad and iPhones. Instead, they go with a screen with exactly twice the resolution of the previous version because they can't figure out any other way to scale the applications and still have them look good.
Actually, it wouldn't be so terrible. You could probably replace a dual 4:3 or 5:4 set up with one monitor then and keep all your resolution and not have to deal with the black bar through the middle of the screen. Part of the reason I dislike 16:9 is that it's too narrow to effectively replace a dual monitor set up with one screen, and two 16:9 screens is awkward and takes up too much desk space.
I'm sure that part of the reason is due to the limitation of the graphics hardware available back then. If I recall correctly the refresh rate was also well below 60Hz too, which may or may not matter depending on what you're doing with it. In some ways, that monitor was ahead of its time. My guess is that a decent GPU from 2012 wouldn't have a problem handling that resolution at a refresh rate of 60 Hz.
Then you end up with a monitor that only has 1080 horizontal pixels. That's only tad more than XGA. The other problem is almost no one supports subpixel rendering of fonts on rotated screens.
Yeah, but they are huge. I find that the 20" 4:3 screens are a pretty good balance between desk space and being able to see everything without having to move my head around. I just want some higher DPI. The 1600x1200 that the 20" monitors come in is okay (and I easily prefer that over 1920x1080 despite slightly less pixels) but if they were 2048x1536 (as seen in the iPad) or even greater it would be awesome.
You're talking about something that knowingly exploiting will probably land you in jail if you are found out. All for $10 and that's probably only if you pull it off perfectly - one slip-up and you're earning less than minimum wage for that hour. I'd take the notoriety for pointing out the flaw myself.
Actually, it started out as a comic book series, so what many consider "the original TV show" is actually considered a bastardization to some. Like many, I grew up with the TV series and wasn't even aware of the existence of the comic books until years later. So in some ways, it's kind of hard to get all worked up over the reboot supposedly wrecking the franchise, as different people have different views on just what the franchise is. That, and I suspect that simply rewatching the 80's TV show 20+ years later would end up completely changing what I remember from my childhood. Probably something that's simply best not revisited.
Haven't you heard the updated version of this story?
Five men walk into the bar. They can't afford to drink there, but rather they clock in because they work there. The next four walk in, and between them manage to scrape up enough money to buy a pitcher of the cheapest stuff to share. The rich man walks in, and gets his drink for free because he owns the place.
A lot of stuff is snapped together and isn't really made to be taken apart. You can get them apart, but you risk breaking enough of the plastic fasteners that it won't go back together right, and/or marring the case trying to work a knife or something in to get it started. I haven't taken apart an iPad but it doesn't look easy. As the GP suggested there may not be much repairing going on, though perhaps part of the refurbishment process is transplanting the guts to a new case after busting the old one open to get to the battery.
An Acer? I would guess that my Thinkpad will easily outlast that Acer, and my Thinkpad is already 5 years old. Still somewhat surprised that laptops similar to mine still fetch about $200-$250 on eBay, and most of the ones on eBay don't have the premium screen I paid extra for (1400x1050 at 14" is awesome and you simply can't buy anything like that in a new laptop).
You can also just order both cable and DSL if you have both available in your area. The added cost isn't that much, and besides your company is probably helping anyway with the internet cost. Has the added bonus that your torrenting one one of the connections won't affect your VPN or IP phone on the other.
That's what I wanted to know. I was hoping he'd pop off a heat sink and tell us what it was running. It's curious that it has DDR memory and 6GB of it. On the Intel side of things, I don't believe there was ever a 64-bit processor that worked with a chipset that accepted DDR memory, as the first 64-bit processors were the late P4's (and the associated Xeons) and those worked with DDR2 and later DDR3. So does it sport an AMD processor? Or were they just using PAE to access that much memory?
Windows 95 (and the later Windows ME) were preemptive multi-tasking operating systems. Unless you're considering the DOS mode that you could start them in. You must be thinking of Windows 3.1 and older, or the Mac OSes of the time which were cooperative multi-tasking systems.
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I still commonly get the pre-1982 copper ones in change. I would figure that people (myself included) would have managed to hoard them out of circulation by now, but alas there still seem to be lots of them out there.
The easiest way to tell them apart is to drop them onto a hard surface. The copper ones have a bit of a ring to them when they hit, whereas the zinc ones just go thud.
That's why instead we do things like use government money to pay people to destroy perfectly good cars then count the new replacements we have to build towards the GDP.
It works the other way too. It's possible that advances would eliminate the need for those stem cells at all, reducing the 0.25% chance down to zero.
My biggest complaint about Simcity 3000 was that I had to spend to much time micromanaging things like each water pump or police station, instead of focusing on the big picture stuff like planning out and building my city. I think I spent about 10 hours playing SimCity 3000 before I shelved it. And this is after spending countless hours playing the original (mostly on the SNES) and Simcity 2000 (on the PC).
I do seem to remember at the time I thought SimCity 3000 was a bit heavy on the system requirements, though I was trying to play it on a K6 which was outdated even when the game came out. I don't remember the graphics being too improved over SimCity 2000 which ran quite happily on a 486 DX2.
The bad thing about Steam is when my internet connection unexpectedly goes down, I can't play my (single player) Steam games while I wait for it to come back up.
My guess is that he himself wasn't detained, but rather they "detained" his vehicle for some time so he had no where to go. The government has shown repeatedly that they have little respect for your legally acquired property.
Well, Pi puts you halfway around the circle, or at the 9 o'clock position. So his math is right.
It's not a terrible idea. I'm tall, and in some cars the gauges can be partially obscured by the steering wheel. Or by my arm if I'm not sticking to the 10 and 2 positions for holding the wheel. It's even worse in some of the newer cars where they think it's a good idea to bury the gauges into deep wells for some reason.
It's because people didn't like the digital gauges when they first came out in the 1980's. Not sure why, maybe it was just because they were too different, or maybe it was nothing against the gauges themselves but the general unreliability of the electronics in some of the cars that had them *cough*GM*cough*. In any case, they seemed to be a fad that more or less died out by the early 1990's. However, they do seem to be making a comeback now and I haven't really head anyone complaining about them as much.
A lot of cars won't let you engage the cruise control below about 35 mph or so.
If it was any good, Apple would actually use it in their latest iPad and iPhones. Instead, they go with a screen with exactly twice the resolution of the previous version because they can't figure out any other way to scale the applications and still have them look good.
Actually, it wouldn't be so terrible. You could probably replace a dual 4:3 or 5:4 set up with one monitor then and keep all your resolution and not have to deal with the black bar through the middle of the screen. Part of the reason I dislike 16:9 is that it's too narrow to effectively replace a dual monitor set up with one screen, and two 16:9 screens is awkward and takes up too much desk space.
I'm sure that part of the reason is due to the limitation of the graphics hardware available back then. If I recall correctly the refresh rate was also well below 60Hz too, which may or may not matter depending on what you're doing with it. In some ways, that monitor was ahead of its time. My guess is that a decent GPU from 2012 wouldn't have a problem handling that resolution at a refresh rate of 60 Hz.
Then you end up with a monitor that only has 1080 horizontal pixels. That's only tad more than XGA. The other problem is almost no one supports subpixel rendering of fonts on rotated screens.
Yeah, but they are huge. I find that the 20" 4:3 screens are a pretty good balance between desk space and being able to see everything without having to move my head around. I just want some higher DPI. The 1600x1200 that the 20" monitors come in is okay (and I easily prefer that over 1920x1080 despite slightly less pixels) but if they were 2048x1536 (as seen in the iPad) or even greater it would be awesome.
You're talking about something that knowingly exploiting will probably land you in jail if you are found out. All for $10 and that's probably only if you pull it off perfectly - one slip-up and you're earning less than minimum wage for that hour. I'd take the notoriety for pointing out the flaw myself.
Actually, it started out as a comic book series, so what many consider "the original TV show" is actually considered a bastardization to some. Like many, I grew up with the TV series and wasn't even aware of the existence of the comic books until years later. So in some ways, it's kind of hard to get all worked up over the reboot supposedly wrecking the franchise, as different people have different views on just what the franchise is. That, and I suspect that simply rewatching the 80's TV show 20+ years later would end up completely changing what I remember from my childhood. Probably something that's simply best not revisited.
Haven't you heard the updated version of this story?
Five men walk into the bar. They can't afford to drink there, but rather they clock in because they work there.
The next four walk in, and between them manage to scrape up enough money to buy a pitcher of the cheapest stuff to share.
The rich man walks in, and gets his drink for free because he owns the place.
A lot of stuff is snapped together and isn't really made to be taken apart. You can get them apart, but you risk breaking enough of the plastic fasteners that it won't go back together right, and/or marring the case trying to work a knife or something in to get it started. I haven't taken apart an iPad but it doesn't look easy. As the GP suggested there may not be much repairing going on, though perhaps part of the refurbishment process is transplanting the guts to a new case after busting the old one open to get to the battery.
An Acer? I would guess that my Thinkpad will easily outlast that Acer, and my Thinkpad is already 5 years old. Still somewhat surprised that laptops similar to mine still fetch about $200-$250 on eBay, and most of the ones on eBay don't have the premium screen I paid extra for (1400x1050 at 14" is awesome and you simply can't buy anything like that in a new laptop).
You can also just order both cable and DSL if you have both available in your area. The added cost isn't that much, and besides your company is probably helping anyway with the internet cost. Has the added bonus that your torrenting one one of the connections won't affect your VPN or IP phone on the other.
That's what I wanted to know. I was hoping he'd pop off a heat sink and tell us what it was running. It's curious that it has DDR memory and 6GB of it. On the Intel side of things, I don't believe there was ever a 64-bit processor that worked with a chipset that accepted DDR memory, as the first 64-bit processors were the late P4's (and the associated Xeons) and those worked with DDR2 and later DDR3. So does it sport an AMD processor? Or were they just using PAE to access that much memory?
Windows 95 (and the later Windows ME) were preemptive multi-tasking operating systems. Unless you're considering the DOS mode that you could start them in. You must be thinking of Windows 3.1 and older, or the Mac OSes of the time which were cooperative multi-tasking systems.
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That's better.