In case you haven't noticed, people like running their current software on new hardware they buy. The desktop market isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Why do you think x86 has dominated the last 25 years?
My favorite version of that is when they want to keep the previous version of the product around as a low cost budget option or some other nonsense. Yes, I've actually seen an inferior product that cost significantly more to build being sold for less than the improved product with reduced costs to build. Pointing out that we weren't really making any money when someone ordered the budget option really didn't get anywhere. Sales guys loved having it as a fall-back option, and they still got their commission so they didn't care.
Let me get this straight: your security plan assumes that no one does this?
You can buy routers and switches that can enforce this. So while you can't really assume that no one will try it, you can reasonably assume that any casual attempts to connect an unknown device to the network will fail.
A wheel in any reasonable sense. It's round and turns, and the spike it sits on is an axle. You're right that most could never be turned on their side, but they are still wheels.
There's a sweet spot where prices drop enough that you buy future spare parts, and then it becomes sufficiently antiquated it's impractical to buy spares unless it's an emergency. Most consumer electronics have a ~50% failure rate at 6 years anyway as capacitors give out.
Well, eventually you get to the point where you can get spare parts out of dumpsters. I've gotten several DDR2-era computers out of dumpsters. Either low-end AMD AM2 systems or early LGA775 (Hyper-threading P4s). Of course, you have to deal with the failures - only one of them actually worked and the rest got disassembled for parts. Still waiting for my first dumpstered dual core system.
My experience is that XP SP3 is pretty miserable on 512MB. XP has gotten more and more bloated with each service pack. When it first came out it would run pretty well on 256MB. Now you generally need 1GB.
Well, the EV1 was very much a first-generation vehicle. If they continued developing the technology we'd now be up to the EV5 or something like that by now, with a decade of improvements to build upon. Instead they threw the EV1 away and had to do everything over again for the Volt.
I'd sell GM based upon the fact that they seem to have based their business around trucks and SUVs (again), and the price of gasoline is starting to climb (again). I see their generic GM small SUVs and crossovers driving around all the time, but I don't see a nearly as many of newer cars like the Cruze or Malibu driving around. If the bottom falls out of the SUV market GM is going to be in serious trouble.
You have to remember the Prius uses about every trick in the book to make an efficient car. The teardrop shape is due to aerodynamics, and the small tires is done to reduce the unsprung mass. This is also why other electric cars also have a similar look. Of course, the Prius also has some Toyota-ugly baked into the design, but it's not nearly as bad as, say, the Camry.
Well, for the car to know how to generate heat, the car would have factor in the cost of gasoline versus the cost of electricity, Does the Volt know this?
The Crown Vic didn't change much for something like 30 years. They are relatively simple, easy to fix, parts are everywhere, and since they have changed relatively little people know what to expect from them. So with all of that it's not too terribly hard to keep one on the road for a long time, even if it's not a terribly reliable car.
While the endpoints are well understood, what it looks like between them is not well understood. Or in other words you may not have a nice curve with a nice well-defined peak.
The type of insurance that is required for automobiles is liability for damage that you may cause in the case of an accident for others property and their medical expenses. Insuring your own car for damage that you might do it in an accident is strictly optional.
There are other possibilities, such as they simply aren't interested in our solar system, much like how large sections of the Earth aren't developed. Or that we're in the middle of an intergalactic nature preserve. Or we are the aliens, in some lost colony. Or that they are already here and we simply can't detect them or don't recognize them yet.
How many of them pursue that path right away? In order to get an engineering degree in a timely manner, you would usually have to start out in your freshmen year with some fairly rigorous math and science courses, like Calc I and II as well as physics and the like. I would look at the kids who go into those courses right away as the ones serious about the degree, versus the ones that might have listed M.E. as their major but are really just undecided at that point.
From what I have seen is that when companies want to fill a senior-level position, they want a senior-level person to fill it. However, with all the entry-level jobs being outsourced, there aren't as many experienced scientists and engineers being created as there used to be. So when you hear that there is a shortage of S&E's, it's usually companies complaining that they can't fill their senior-level positions while simultaneously outsourcing all the junior-level positions. This is already happening, and as the system breaks down further it's only going to get worse.
I have seen BA in Physics before. It was mostly geared towards high school science teachers, who mostly had to take a ton of education courses and a few science courses on the side.
The broken window fallacy assumes that we would be better off if the money was invested in something else other than fixing the (intentionally) broken window. If we sunk $1T into rebuilding the grid, we would probably end up with an improved electric grid. But that doesn't automatically mean that we should sink $1T into the grid, if that money could be better spent elsewhere. That's the fallacy.
I can guarantee you that a strong enough EMP would kill a modern diesel car just like it would a gasoline car. It's the ECU and associated electronics that are most likely going to be affected. Of course, older diesel cars would not be affected, but the same thing more or less applies to older gasoline cars too.
You'll also want off-line backups of your data, as it is vulnerable whenever it's on your computer when it's plugged in and running, or any other system that is plugged in and running, such as another off-site server that's always running. It shouldn't matter what the off-line backup is, as the solar storm shouldn't affect external hard drives that are disconnected, or tapes, or optical media. If you go with external drives you might want to consider two sets of drives, as if you only have one backup drive you would be potentially vulnerable to losing everything if you're running the backup when the storm hits.
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In case you haven't noticed, people like running their current software on new hardware they buy. The desktop market isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Why do you think x86 has dominated the last 25 years?
My favorite version of that is when they want to keep the previous version of the product around as a low cost budget option or some other nonsense. Yes, I've actually seen an inferior product that cost significantly more to build being sold for less than the improved product with reduced costs to build. Pointing out that we weren't really making any money when someone ordered the budget option really didn't get anywhere. Sales guys loved having it as a fall-back option, and they still got their commission so they didn't care.
Yeah, but try and convince my employer it's time to upgrade!
You can buy routers and switches that can enforce this. So while you can't really assume that no one will try it, you can reasonably assume that any casual attempts to connect an unknown device to the network will fail.
A wheel in any reasonable sense. It's round and turns, and the spike it sits on is an axle. You're right that most could never be turned on their side, but they are still wheels.
Well, eventually you get to the point where you can get spare parts out of dumpsters. I've gotten several DDR2-era computers out of dumpsters. Either low-end AMD AM2 systems or early LGA775 (Hyper-threading P4s). Of course, you have to deal with the failures - only one of them actually worked and the rest got disassembled for parts. Still waiting for my first dumpstered dual core system.
My experience is that XP SP3 is pretty miserable on 512MB. XP has gotten more and more bloated with each service pack. When it first came out it would run pretty well on 256MB. Now you generally need 1GB.
Well, one of the "launch" states for the Volt was Michigan, though politics probably played into that decision.
Well, the EV1 was very much a first-generation vehicle. If they continued developing the technology we'd now be up to the EV5 or something like that by now, with a decade of improvements to build upon. Instead they threw the EV1 away and had to do everything over again for the Volt.
I'd sell GM based upon the fact that they seem to have based their business around trucks and SUVs (again), and the price of gasoline is starting to climb (again). I see their generic GM small SUVs and crossovers driving around all the time, but I don't see a nearly as many of newer cars like the Cruze or Malibu driving around. If the bottom falls out of the SUV market GM is going to be in serious trouble.
You have to remember the Prius uses about every trick in the book to make an efficient car. The teardrop shape is due to aerodynamics, and the small tires is done to reduce the unsprung mass. This is also why other electric cars also have a similar look. Of course, the Prius also has some Toyota-ugly baked into the design, but it's not nearly as bad as, say, the Camry.
Well, for the car to know how to generate heat, the car would have factor in the cost of gasoline versus the cost of electricity, Does the Volt know this?
What are you talking about? Decent mileage has been something like 30MPG or higher for decades.
The Crown Vic didn't change much for something like 30 years. They are relatively simple, easy to fix, parts are everywhere, and since they have changed relatively little people know what to expect from them. So with all of that it's not too terribly hard to keep one on the road for a long time, even if it's not a terribly reliable car.
Except the part that after 5 years the house is suddenly only worth $950,000. Oops.
While the endpoints are well understood, what it looks like between them is not well understood. Or in other words you may not have a nice curve with a nice well-defined peak.
The type of insurance that is required for automobiles is liability for damage that you may cause in the case of an accident for others property and their medical expenses. Insuring your own car for damage that you might do it in an accident is strictly optional.
Unfortunately there are still many Ford Explorers still on the road.
There are other possibilities, such as they simply aren't interested in our solar system, much like how large sections of the Earth aren't developed. Or that we're in the middle of an intergalactic nature preserve. Or we are the aliens, in some lost colony. Or that they are already here and we simply can't detect them or don't recognize them yet.
How many of them pursue that path right away? In order to get an engineering degree in a timely manner, you would usually have to start out in your freshmen year with some fairly rigorous math and science courses, like Calc I and II as well as physics and the like. I would look at the kids who go into those courses right away as the ones serious about the degree, versus the ones that might have listed M.E. as their major but are really just undecided at that point.
From what I have seen is that when companies want to fill a senior-level position, they want a senior-level person to fill it. However, with all the entry-level jobs being outsourced, there aren't as many experienced scientists and engineers being created as there used to be. So when you hear that there is a shortage of S&E's, it's usually companies complaining that they can't fill their senior-level positions while simultaneously outsourcing all the junior-level positions. This is already happening, and as the system breaks down further it's only going to get worse.
I have seen BA in Physics before. It was mostly geared towards high school science teachers, who mostly had to take a ton of education courses and a few science courses on the side.
The broken window fallacy assumes that we would be better off if the money was invested in something else other than fixing the (intentionally) broken window. If we sunk $1T into rebuilding the grid, we would probably end up with an improved electric grid. But that doesn't automatically mean that we should sink $1T into the grid, if that money could be better spent elsewhere. That's the fallacy.
I can guarantee you that a strong enough EMP would kill a modern diesel car just like it would a gasoline car. It's the ECU and associated electronics that are most likely going to be affected. Of course, older diesel cars would not be affected, but the same thing more or less applies to older gasoline cars too.
You'll also want off-line backups of your data, as it is vulnerable whenever it's on your computer when it's plugged in and running, or any other system that is plugged in and running, such as another off-site server that's always running. It shouldn't matter what the off-line backup is, as the solar storm shouldn't affect external hard drives that are disconnected, or tapes, or optical media. If you go with external drives you might want to consider two sets of drives, as if you only have one backup drive you would be potentially vulnerable to losing everything if you're running the backup when the storm hits.