The people pulling pennies out of circulation are pulling out the older cents made until 1982 which are almost pure copper. They aren't bothering with the zinc coins, as the amount of copper is negligible and the zinc isn't that valuable (yet).
The only coin we've had smaller than a cent was the half-cent, which was done away with 1857 when it was worth about 11 cents in today's money. That left the smallest coin as the cent, which at the time was worth almost as much a modern quarter. Originally, there were going to be coins called 'mils' which were to be worth one-tenth of a cent (or one thousandth of a dollar, hence the name), but the founding fathers decided that it wasn't worth minting a coin worth so little at the time.
You can also start sorting out the pre-1982 pennies (and the copper 1982 pennies if you wanted to sort those from the zinc 1982 ones) from your change as they are basically pure copper and are worth more than face value too. Each one is worth about 2.5 cents and I still get them in my change on a somewhat regular basis.
Dollar coins are a basically psuedo-subway/bus token in some cities. They are also accepted by many vending machines. They also circulate in some other countries that use the US dollar, like Ecuador.
The really useless coin nowadays is the half dollar. It doesn't circulate, vending machines don't take them, and the US mint hasn't bothered minting them for circulation in over a decade now as there is little demand for the coin. With that said, I wouldn't kill them off until waiting to see if they gain popularity once the cent and dollar bill are killed off.
Actually, it's because our money system was based upon the Spanish milled dollar, which was divided into eight bits. The quarter is a natural in this system, being 2 bits (this is the origin of the phrase "shave and a haircut, 2 bits"). The dime is really the oddball, as it should have been a 12.5 cent piece, but the founding fathers wanted a decimal money system so they made it into the 10 cent piece, but did nothing about changing the quarter. This is also why, when the US minted coins larger than the dollar, that we had a $2.50 coin but never had a $2 coin.
That's something a lot of the "eliminate the nickel" crowd seems to miss. You can't just eliminate the nickel because then the dime and quarter aren't compatible with each other. You can't make a quarter out of dimes alone, you need a nickel too (or 5 pennies I suppose).
That's no surprise, but this article would be like saying that there's a cutoff where a car engine can't last for (picks a random number) 720,000 miles.
Samsung isn't anywhere near the quality of Sony products back in Sony's golden era. Sony used to be a premium brand (and they still seem to believe they are). Samsung at best is a good value brand, offering a decent product at a very attractive price. I might rate them higher, but their reliability record stinks.
That's another fad I never got on board with either. It might have made sense if the screens were really, really wide. As in you could have the same resolution as 2 standard screens but no gap in the middle. Instead they are not wide enough for that so you still need two of them, but when you do that you have monitor hanging off of both sides of your desk, and the vertical resolution still sucks. Two 1600x1200 screens beat two 1920x1080 screens easily even though the latter has slightly more pixels. The only place were I don't find a wide screen annoying is for gaming, where you generally only use one monitor anyway. I guess they are also fine for video, but in that case you're basically treating it like a TV anyway.
I don't care about 4k on a TV either, but as it seems the entire world of computer monitors is stuck at 1080p thanks to HDTV. With any hope 4k televisions would mean that computer monitor technology will start advancing again. With any luck the screens will have more than 100 DPI so the monitor would be reasonably sized. Monitor manufacturers for some reason don't want to make a screen with more than around 100 DPI, and 4k at 100 DPI would be 44" by my calculations, which is too damn big for a computer monitor.
The problem I have seen with Samsung is bad capacitors. Now, bad capacitors is not an uncommon thing, but I've seen them in lots of Samsung TVs and monitors made in 2007-2009ish which is well after everyone else seems to have gotten their shit together. Newer screens may be better, or perhaps they just haven't failed yet. On the upside, at least I haven't run into a Samsung yet that I haven't been able to repair, though it's enough to turn me off of the brand.
They'll probably be fine with 32-bit Windows 7. Sadly a lot of the early 64-bit machines are pretty much 64-bit in name only, including chipsets that limit you to 3.x GB of ram no matter what OS you install.
Compared to the energy (and resources) to recycle and manufacturer electronic equipment, the energy to run it is peanuts. Really, the most green thing to do is to squeeze the most life possible out of the equipment, rather than the throw it away and replace it with new culture that seems to be norm.
Ultimately, all you really have to do is convince them that if they try something, they'll be caught. This should be a controlled environment, you shouldn't let them bring in their own devices but instead they have to use a school computer. Make it clear what isn't allowed, tell them all all traffic is logged, all activity on the computer is logged, and that you can see what they are doing on at any time, and if they break the rules they fail the test. That should stop it.
That's because Apple tightly controls the price that their products sell at. They don't have to worry about onlines stores undercutting the Apple retail stores because the online retailers either sell the products at the price Apple dictates or they get cut off.
I'll also point out that the NYC Apple Store doesn't seem to be made of brick and mortar either.
I'm confused too. Unless anything has changed, it's a standard USB A-B cable for anything you would get at Best Buy. I would figure that Best Buy's market for $35 bog-standard USB cables would have dried up by now as everyone would have a spare or two. But I guess not.
Apple can't control the prices retailers set for their iProducts, but if the retailer decides to sell the iProduct at a reduced price they'll suddenly find that Apple is no longer willing to do business with them. That's why a new Apple product is the same price no matter where you buy from. One thing that retailers apparently can do is bundle the iProduct with some "free" accessories which is about the only way you'll see retailers that sell Apple try and differentiate themselves.
I would design the battery to be in a compartment with a door, where if the door is open or not removed the circuit would be disconnected. Put a plastic arm on the door that sticks out over the cache modules, blocking the modules from being inserted or removed easily. That should be fairly cheap and should get the job done.
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You should get your eyes checked. 1280x800 is horrible looking on anything that has a screen size of larger than about 9".
The people pulling pennies out of circulation are pulling out the older cents made until 1982 which are almost pure copper. They aren't bothering with the zinc coins, as the amount of copper is negligible and the zinc isn't that valuable (yet).
The only coin we've had smaller than a cent was the half-cent, which was done away with 1857 when it was worth about 11 cents in today's money. That left the smallest coin as the cent, which at the time was worth almost as much a modern quarter. Originally, there were going to be coins called 'mils' which were to be worth one-tenth of a cent (or one thousandth of a dollar, hence the name), but the founding fathers decided that it wasn't worth minting a coin worth so little at the time.
You can also start sorting out the pre-1982 pennies (and the copper 1982 pennies if you wanted to sort those from the zinc 1982 ones) from your change as they are basically pure copper and are worth more than face value too. Each one is worth about 2.5 cents and I still get them in my change on a somewhat regular basis.
Dollar coins are a basically psuedo-subway/bus token in some cities. They are also accepted by many vending machines. They also circulate in some other countries that use the US dollar, like Ecuador.
The really useless coin nowadays is the half dollar. It doesn't circulate, vending machines don't take them, and the US mint hasn't bothered minting them for circulation in over a decade now as there is little demand for the coin. With that said, I wouldn't kill them off until waiting to see if they gain popularity once the cent and dollar bill are killed off.
Actually, it's because our money system was based upon the Spanish milled dollar, which was divided into eight bits. The quarter is a natural in this system, being 2 bits (this is the origin of the phrase "shave and a haircut, 2 bits"). The dime is really the oddball, as it should have been a 12.5 cent piece, but the founding fathers wanted a decimal money system so they made it into the 10 cent piece, but did nothing about changing the quarter. This is also why, when the US minted coins larger than the dollar, that we had a $2.50 coin but never had a $2 coin.
That's something a lot of the "eliminate the nickel" crowd seems to miss. You can't just eliminate the nickel because then the dime and quarter aren't compatible with each other. You can't make a quarter out of dimes alone, you need a nickel too (or 5 pennies I suppose).
The difference is the same as saying "The apples are red" versus "These apples are red". It's subtle, but it's different.
That's no surprise, but this article would be like saying that there's a cutoff where a car engine can't last for (picks a random number) 720,000 miles.
Samsung isn't anywhere near the quality of Sony products back in Sony's golden era. Sony used to be a premium brand (and they still seem to believe they are). Samsung at best is a good value brand, offering a decent product at a very attractive price. I might rate them higher, but their reliability record stinks.
That's another fad I never got on board with either. It might have made sense if the screens were really, really wide. As in you could have the same resolution as 2 standard screens but no gap in the middle. Instead they are not wide enough for that so you still need two of them, but when you do that you have monitor hanging off of both sides of your desk, and the vertical resolution still sucks. Two 1600x1200 screens beat two 1920x1080 screens easily even though the latter has slightly more pixels. The only place were I don't find a wide screen annoying is for gaming, where you generally only use one monitor anyway. I guess they are also fine for video, but in that case you're basically treating it like a TV anyway.
You know, if this Apple company could make a decent computer they might be onto something.
I don't care about 4k on a TV either, but as it seems the entire world of computer monitors is stuck at 1080p thanks to HDTV. With any hope 4k televisions would mean that computer monitor technology will start advancing again. With any luck the screens will have more than 100 DPI so the monitor would be reasonably sized. Monitor manufacturers for some reason don't want to make a screen with more than around 100 DPI, and 4k at 100 DPI would be 44" by my calculations, which is too damn big for a computer monitor.
The problem I have seen with Samsung is bad capacitors. Now, bad capacitors is not an uncommon thing, but I've seen them in lots of Samsung TVs and monitors made in 2007-2009ish which is well after everyone else seems to have gotten their shit together. Newer screens may be better, or perhaps they just haven't failed yet. On the upside, at least I haven't run into a Samsung yet that I haven't been able to repair, though it's enough to turn me off of the brand.
Yeah, I don't care about the iPad 3. But give me that screen with a DVI port on the back please.
They'll probably be fine with 32-bit Windows 7. Sadly a lot of the early 64-bit machines are pretty much 64-bit in name only, including chipsets that limit you to 3.x GB of ram no matter what OS you install.
If Google wants your data and they made the OS I can't see how TrueCrypt is going to help you.
Compared to the energy (and resources) to recycle and manufacturer electronic equipment, the energy to run it is peanuts. Really, the most green thing to do is to squeeze the most life possible out of the equipment, rather than the throw it away and replace it with new culture that seems to be norm.
Good idea. Forcing them to read XKCD would probably stop the users from doing that in a hurry.
You mean something like a computer lab, which any decent university should have several of?
Ultimately, all you really have to do is convince them that if they try something, they'll be caught. This should be a controlled environment, you shouldn't let them bring in their own devices but instead they have to use a school computer. Make it clear what isn't allowed, tell them all all traffic is logged, all activity on the computer is logged, and that you can see what they are doing on at any time, and if they break the rules they fail the test. That should stop it.
That's because Apple tightly controls the price that their products sell at. They don't have to worry about onlines stores undercutting the Apple retail stores because the online retailers either sell the products at the price Apple dictates or they get cut off.
I'll also point out that the NYC Apple Store doesn't seem to be made of brick and mortar either.
I'm confused too. Unless anything has changed, it's a standard USB A-B cable for anything you would get at Best Buy. I would figure that Best Buy's market for $35 bog-standard USB cables would have dried up by now as everyone would have a spare or two. But I guess not.
Apple can't control the prices retailers set for their iProducts, but if the retailer decides to sell the iProduct at a reduced price they'll suddenly find that Apple is no longer willing to do business with them. That's why a new Apple product is the same price no matter where you buy from. One thing that retailers apparently can do is bundle the iProduct with some "free" accessories which is about the only way you'll see retailers that sell Apple try and differentiate themselves.
I would design the battery to be in a compartment with a door, where if the door is open or not removed the circuit would be disconnected. Put a plastic arm on the door that sticks out over the cache modules, blocking the modules from being inserted or removed easily. That should be fairly cheap and should get the job done.