Probably talking about the eMac's predecessor, the all-in-one Perfoima machines that were sold primary in the education market. Absolutely terrible computers.
You have to remember though, that these are eMacs. Apple built them as cheaply as possible, and that includes the screen too. Since the screen is built into the computer, it's not like you can just replace the screen with a LCD, or even one of the nicer CRTs that people seemingly can't give away nowadays.
The business with Iraq had to do with Iraq accepting Euros for their oil instead of the US Dollar. What started off as possibly just a bizarre anti-US political move by Saddam Hussein, turned into a nice profit for Iraq once the US economy went into recession in 2001. Since other countries might have followed Iraq and this threatened the mighty petro-dollar, Iraq was made an example of by the oilmen running the US. If you think gas is expensive now, imaging how expensive it would be (or would have been before Europe's economy started to meltdown) if we couldn't pay for our oil with our own dollars?
Well, it depends on how you order them, whether or not you include the server releases, how finely you split hairs about things like 98 and 98SE, and how you deal with the consumer/professional split before Windows XP. Generally, looking at what you might find on a typical home PC, you might have:
3.1 (good) -> 95 (bad) -> 98 (good) -> ME (bad) -> XP (good) -> Vista (bad) -> 7 (good) -> 8 (bad?).
I've used both quite a bit, and the main difference performance-wise between Vista and 7 is that Vista's implementation of superfetch seems overly aggressive and tends to churn the disk a lot which overall hurts performance if you're trying to use the computer at the same time. Windows 7's Superfetch tends to chill out and is a lot better about keeping the superfetch thing in the background. Other than that, both the OSes are very similar (think Windows 2000 and XP) and the only other differences I tend to notice are the user interface tweaks.
Why the hell isn't it a _priority_ to have these devices fully functional within 1 second?? Is firmware (software in cars) _already_ that bloated??
It's the lawyers. They have to display a legal disclaimer on the screen that basically attempts shifts any liability for anything that happens while using the system to the driver. Most can be skipped by pushing a button or you can wait for it to time out after several seconds. On some cars it never times out until a button is pushed.
The real problem is that in the US the car manufacturers can't put curved mirrors on the driver's side of the car (they can and often are found on the passenger side). With a curved mirror you'd still be able to see the side of your car and what's in your blind spot. However, you can still buy those cheap stick-on curved mirrors for a few bucks and stick them on, which more or less solves the problem.
"Oh, I'll check my camera, then put the Jeep in gear and hope no one runs behind my vehicle before I start moving"
Actually, that's almost the way the camera should work. It's something that you should check before you start moving to make sure the area is clear, but otherwise you should be looking behind you as you reverse instead of staring at the dashboard. If you are looking you'll see anything that might enter your blind spot long before it actually gets there.
Actually, the nanny state makes it really hard to import foreign cars even if you have no intention of ever driving them on public roads, or even driving them at all. Generally the car must either be so heavily modified that it's unsuitable for normal driving (like a drag racer or a Formula 1 car) or the car is over 25 years old so it qualifies as a collector car. But good luck importing something like a Nissan Skyline.
Well, you have to figure in that Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich have voted the same way quite a few times, and Dennis Kucinich is probably has one of the most solid liberal voting records of anyone in Congress. Of course, we also seem to live in an era where having an isolationist foreign policy, voting to reduce spending, wanting to shrink the government, and respecting the Constitution are good ways to get thrown out of the Republican party.
I've been wondering is the case of single-threaded apps on a mulit-core, Hyperthreading chip if it is better to turn Hyperthreading off. Theory being that giving the thread one whole core may be better than giving it one of two threads on a core where it may have to share the load with something else. On your 2600k you would still have three other cores/threads to handle other processes. I guess I could try it at work, where the single-threaded application I have to use runs pretty well on the Hyperthreaded i5-680 (at 3.6 Ghz and up to 3.86 Ghz turbo boost it's one of the faster clocked chips out there, even though it's "only" a dual core).
Bulldozer is AMD's Pentium IV, hopefully it's not quite as terrible as Intel's where they had to scrap it and start over from P3 designs but right now it looks awfully similar.
I'd actually say it's worse than the P4. The P4 may not have been much of a performer, but at least it was a solid, reliable chip. AMD's Bulldozer is full of bugs.
Yeah, but if you're doing an all-new build, why would you buy a AM3+ motherboard, and then shove an AM3 chip into it? It seems to me that you'd just go AM3+ all the way. The only reason I can see to put an AM3 chip into an AM3+ board is if you already have a Socket AM3 system and you had to replace the motherboard for some reason. It would have been much better if AMD had made the AM3+ chips usable in older socket AM3 boards (such as what they have done in the past) but that's not the direction they went.
Assuming that they are replacing typical vapor street lighting with LEDs, you're not going to get any energy savings from efficiency as vapor lights, particularly sodium, are more energy efficient than LEDs. The only way they would be able to save energy would be by dimming the lights or hooking them to sensors that turn them off when no one is around, which is more easily done with LEDs that vapor lights.
It's also a lot easier to notice that your lights are off when you can no longer see your gauges. However, a lot of newer cars have the dashboard lit up all the time. Combine this with the weakish daytime running lights and I see a lot of cars nowadays running around in the dark without their proper headlights on.
In the US, it depends on the car manufacturers. GM has daytime running lights in all their cars since sometime in the mid-90's, hence your Corvette. Other manufacturers may vary. Toyota and Honda have them on many of their vehicles, maybe all of them now. On the other hand, some manufacturers like Nissan generally don't offer daytime running lights, even as an option.
I'm kind of surprised they haven't tried their hand in some kind of gaming console. I'm not sure if there is room for another major manufacturer to make a console, but it might make things interesting for a while.
That's something I don't get when people get all worked up about the Oscars when their favorite movie doesn't win. I figured out a long time ago that what won at the Oscars and the types of movies I like to watch don't overlap much, so I just ignore the Oscars. The Oscars are more or less just the opinion of a bunch of Hollywood insiders anyway.
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Probably talking about the eMac's predecessor, the all-in-one Perfoima machines that were sold primary in the education market. Absolutely terrible computers.
Well, with the Dells you can specify "not completely useless in a few years". Hopefully they learned their lessons with the eMacs.
You have to remember though, that these are eMacs. Apple built them as cheaply as possible, and that includes the screen too. Since the screen is built into the computer, it's not like you can just replace the screen with a LCD, or even one of the nicer CRTs that people seemingly can't give away nowadays.
The business with Iraq had to do with Iraq accepting Euros for their oil instead of the US Dollar. What started off as possibly just a bizarre anti-US political move by Saddam Hussein, turned into a nice profit for Iraq once the US economy went into recession in 2001. Since other countries might have followed Iraq and this threatened the mighty petro-dollar, Iraq was made an example of by the oilmen running the US. If you think gas is expensive now, imaging how expensive it would be (or would have been before Europe's economy started to meltdown) if we couldn't pay for our oil with our own dollars?
Well, it depends on how you order them, whether or not you include the server releases, how finely you split hairs about things like 98 and 98SE, and how you deal with the consumer/professional split before Windows XP. Generally, looking at what you might find on a typical home PC, you might have:
3.1 (good) -> 95 (bad) -> 98 (good) -> ME (bad) -> XP (good) -> Vista (bad) -> 7 (good) -> 8 (bad?).
I've used both quite a bit, and the main difference performance-wise between Vista and 7 is that Vista's implementation of superfetch seems overly aggressive and tends to churn the disk a lot which overall hurts performance if you're trying to use the computer at the same time. Windows 7's Superfetch tends to chill out and is a lot better about keeping the superfetch thing in the background. Other than that, both the OSes are very similar (think Windows 2000 and XP) and the only other differences I tend to notice are the user interface tweaks.
It's the lawyers. They have to display a legal disclaimer on the screen that basically attempts shifts any liability for anything that happens while using the system to the driver. Most can be skipped by pushing a button or you can wait for it to time out after several seconds. On some cars it never times out until a button is pushed.
The real problem is that in the US the car manufacturers can't put curved mirrors on the driver's side of the car (they can and often are found on the passenger side). With a curved mirror you'd still be able to see the side of your car and what's in your blind spot. However, you can still buy those cheap stick-on curved mirrors for a few bucks and stick them on, which more or less solves the problem.
Actually, that's almost the way the camera should work. It's something that you should check before you start moving to make sure the area is clear, but otherwise you should be looking behind you as you reverse instead of staring at the dashboard. If you are looking you'll see anything that might enter your blind spot long before it actually gets there.
Actually, the nanny state makes it really hard to import foreign cars even if you have no intention of ever driving them on public roads, or even driving them at all. Generally the car must either be so heavily modified that it's unsuitable for normal driving (like a drag racer or a Formula 1 car) or the car is over 25 years old so it qualifies as a collector car. But good luck importing something like a Nissan Skyline.
Actually, chances are the cheaper the gear the better they will sound, as that's what they are mastered for.
Then why not vote for Gingrich? Obama can probably beat Santorum in the general election, but he would utterly destroy Gingrich.
Well, you have to figure in that Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich have voted the same way quite a few times, and Dennis Kucinich is probably has one of the most solid liberal voting records of anyone in Congress. Of course, we also seem to live in an era where having an isolationist foreign policy, voting to reduce spending, wanting to shrink the government, and respecting the Constitution are good ways to get thrown out of the Republican party.
I've been wondering is the case of single-threaded apps on a mulit-core, Hyperthreading chip if it is better to turn Hyperthreading off. Theory being that giving the thread one whole core may be better than giving it one of two threads on a core where it may have to share the load with something else. On your 2600k you would still have three other cores/threads to handle other processes. I guess I could try it at work, where the single-threaded application I have to use runs pretty well on the Hyperthreaded i5-680 (at 3.6 Ghz and up to 3.86 Ghz turbo boost it's one of the faster clocked chips out there, even though it's "only" a dual core).
I'd actually say it's worse than the P4. The P4 may not have been much of a performer, but at least it was a solid, reliable chip. AMD's Bulldozer is full of bugs.
Yeah, but if you're doing an all-new build, why would you buy a AM3+ motherboard, and then shove an AM3 chip into it? It seems to me that you'd just go AM3+ all the way. The only reason I can see to put an AM3 chip into an AM3+ board is if you already have a Socket AM3 system and you had to replace the motherboard for some reason. It would have been much better if AMD had made the AM3+ chips usable in older socket AM3 boards (such as what they have done in the past) but that's not the direction they went.
Assuming that they are replacing typical vapor street lighting with LEDs, you're not going to get any energy savings from efficiency as vapor lights, particularly sodium, are more energy efficient than LEDs. The only way they would be able to save energy would be by dimming the lights or hooking them to sensors that turn them off when no one is around, which is more easily done with LEDs that vapor lights.
It's also a lot easier to notice that your lights are off when you can no longer see your gauges. However, a lot of newer cars have the dashboard lit up all the time. Combine this with the weakish daytime running lights and I see a lot of cars nowadays running around in the dark without their proper headlights on.
In the US, it depends on the car manufacturers. GM has daytime running lights in all their cars since sometime in the mid-90's, hence your Corvette. Other manufacturers may vary. Toyota and Honda have them on many of their vehicles, maybe all of them now. On the other hand, some manufacturers like Nissan generally don't offer daytime running lights, even as an option.
That probably got pushed down because from the sounds of it, the connection is so heavily restricted that those options aren't going to work.
With one button and no windows...
You mean something something like this?
My one and only SSD (so far) was an Intel. It was fast, but until the tech matures some more I'll stick to HDDs.
Well, it depends on who you ask. If you ask North Korea the US owes them 75 trillion dollars in "compensation" for "war damages". Link.
That's something I don't get when people get all worked up about the Oscars when their favorite movie doesn't win. I figured out a long time ago that what won at the Oscars and the types of movies I like to watch don't overlap much, so I just ignore the Oscars. The Oscars are more or less just the opinion of a bunch of Hollywood insiders anyway.