If the Mac really was about Fitt's Law, the windows would have a goddamn proper maximize button so I can make Fitt's Law apple to the scrollbars on the side and bottom of the screen. However, Apple doesn't do this. Granted, it's not as big deal nowadays with scroll wheels, but if I had a nickel for every time I under or overshot the scrollbars and clicked on something else on a Mac I'd be rich by now.
Well, lets see. You have the dock connector. You have the ADC interface from around the G3-era. You have the mess of mini-whatever ports that are technically a standard but no one uses on their laptops. Apple occasionally does non-standard things to their USB ports.
The way Detroit plays it is that you'll get a "refresh" after 5 years, where they change the sheetmetal a bit, slap in some new taillights, play around with the options packages, and that's about it. After 10 years once all the bugs are worked out and the car is finally somewhat reliable they'll kill the model and replace it with some all new model with terrible reliability and the cycle starts anew.
(you don't have to restart after windows update, you can disable the auto-reboot timeout).
Windows can't replace files that are open so while you can disable the auto-reboot you're not really patching the system as you're still running with the old versions of DLL files, executables, etc. until you actually reboot the system and let Windows finish replacing those files. With that said, I'm am certainly guilty of neglecting Windows updates for extended periods of time in the interests of not rebooting.
Well, there's some truth to that. That PC running unattended is still clocking up hours on the hard drive and is slowly clogging with dust. Unless you have a good UPS it's also being subject to power spikes and brownouts coming through the electrical line that it wouldn't have to deal with otherwise. Granted, the chances of something happening to a running computer while you're away is not really any different than the chances of something happening while you're using it, but those chances are a lot larger than something happening to the computer when it's off.
I don't see how it would work any different than how sleep mode works right now, with the only difference being that you no longer have to keep the ram powered in order to maintain its contents while the computer sleeps. It won't be the end of the reboot, just the end of hibernate mode.
I wouldn't expect strong magnetic fields from a PC because otherwise it would wreak havoc with the people who put the PC next to their CRT monitor. On the other hand, I have noticed computer monitors are generally better shielded than your typical CRT television.
US nickels are actually 75% copper and 25% nickel which is not enough nickel to make them noticeably magnetic. On the other hand, old Canadian nickels are almost pure nickel and are clearly magnetic. Newer Canadian "nickels" are nickel-plated steel so they are magnetic too.
I've heard of something like 8-10 years for a stored SD card. The media itself should last a long time, but as the data is stored as charges in cells that will slowly discharge over time, a stored card will eventually lose all its data and end up blank.
Ideally they'd give landlines the same protection as cell phones. One of the major perks of having a cell phone versus a landline is the drastic reduction in the amount of phone spam I have to deal with.
There's a good chance that's exactly what this card is, just in one convenient package. Just like the slow trickle of modern AGP cards tend to be PCIe chipsets with a AGP to PCIe bridge. I haven't played around with the PCI to PCIe bridges but the AGP versions never seemed to work quite right, especially on AMD machines.
What in the hell are you talking about? The video stream comes from the card itself and is generated using the textures stored in its onboard memory. That's what a graphics card does. I'd guess that this card will do okay over the PCI bus. The PCI bus may be kind of slow for it, but most graphics cards don't get anywhere near saturating the a PCIe x16 connection or even the AGP bus.
There's still the risk that if the MAFIAA types somehow find out that the content was actually accessed at a business through a VPN, that they would go after the business just because it has deeper pockets.
Actually, it kind of makes sense when you consider that the current trends in large monitors are more suitable for televisions and not for computing. I mean, what else do you expect them to create for a 16:9 monitor with a crappy DPI?
Generally speaking I just download the latest netinst disk and burn it to a CD-RW whenever I need to install the OS again. I guess I do have some Live CDs squirreled away that can be used as an install disk too.
Microsoft won't sell an XP license anymore, but you can buy a Windows 7 license with downgrade rights. From there, you can use the license to install Windows XP (or Vista if you wanted) on the PC. I don't know if Dell will still do this for you and ship you a brand new system with a Windows 7 sticker and XP on the drive, but HP was still doing this as of fairly recently.
A CRT TV set can generate large amounts of RF besides just light. Granted, it can only emit so much in order to pass UL, but it's still there. The analog tuner is especially noisy, which is why you'll often find it encased in it's own little metal box inside the TV.
I have a Samsung monitor that started doing did exactly that. It turned out to be bad caps in the monitor. After it failed completely I pried it apart, saw the bad caps, replaced them, and the monitor has worked fine ever since with no whining.
A lot of the pain of Windows Vista was the new driver model and the move to x64 (for the mainstream), and Windows putting further restrictions on programs that broke a lot of software, because the software was designed under the Windows 9x mindset and Windows Vista put an end to programs writing all over Program Files and shitting all over the registry. By the time Windows 7 had come out, hardware manufacturers had started putting out decent drivers so things ran a lot smoother and the software manufacturers had fixed their software. I use Vista and 7 pretty much everyday, and I don't see a lot of difference between the two. There are a few annoyances in Windows Vista that are fixed in 7, but Windows 7 also adds some annoyances. Windows 7 also has some improvements to the Windows shell (many of which I don't really care for anyway), and a considerably less aggressive prefetching algorithm that speeds up the boot noticeably - which is probably the biggest difference, at least for me.
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They have a better picture, and response times haven't mattered (in the sense that even the worst monitors are good enough) since about 2006.
If the Mac really was about Fitt's Law, the windows would have a goddamn proper maximize button so I can make Fitt's Law apple to the scrollbars on the side and bottom of the screen. However, Apple doesn't do this. Granted, it's not as big deal nowadays with scroll wheels, but if I had a nickel for every time I under or overshot the scrollbars and clicked on something else on a Mac I'd be rich by now.
Well, lets see. You have the dock connector. You have the ADC interface from around the G3-era. You have the mess of mini-whatever ports that are technically a standard but no one uses on their laptops. Apple occasionally does non-standard things to their USB ports.
It's not surprising, as Apple was one of the last to put USB 2.0 on their computers as they busy pushing Firewire at the time.
How about C-SPAN? (hint: boring is not the same as stupid).
The way Detroit plays it is that you'll get a "refresh" after 5 years, where they change the sheetmetal a bit, slap in some new taillights, play around with the options packages, and that's about it. After 10 years once all the bugs are worked out and the car is finally somewhat reliable they'll kill the model and replace it with some all new model with terrible reliability and the cycle starts anew.
Windows can't replace files that are open so while you can disable the auto-reboot you're not really patching the system as you're still running with the old versions of DLL files, executables, etc. until you actually reboot the system and let Windows finish replacing those files. With that said, I'm am certainly guilty of neglecting Windows updates for extended periods of time in the interests of not rebooting.
Well, there's some truth to that. That PC running unattended is still clocking up hours on the hard drive and is slowly clogging with dust. Unless you have a good UPS it's also being subject to power spikes and brownouts coming through the electrical line that it wouldn't have to deal with otherwise. Granted, the chances of something happening to a running computer while you're away is not really any different than the chances of something happening while you're using it, but those chances are a lot larger than something happening to the computer when it's off.
I don't see how it would work any different than how sleep mode works right now, with the only difference being that you no longer have to keep the ram powered in order to maintain its contents while the computer sleeps. It won't be the end of the reboot, just the end of hibernate mode.
I wouldn't expect strong magnetic fields from a PC because otherwise it would wreak havoc with the people who put the PC next to their CRT monitor. On the other hand, I have noticed computer monitors are generally better shielded than your typical CRT television.
US nickels are actually 75% copper and 25% nickel which is not enough nickel to make them noticeably magnetic. On the other hand, old Canadian nickels are almost pure nickel and are clearly magnetic. Newer Canadian "nickels" are nickel-plated steel so they are magnetic too.
StarCraft? A Pentium 133 can play that game.
You do realize that CO2 is a relatively small portion of the total atmosphere, at about 0.039% by volume?
I've heard of something like 8-10 years for a stored SD card. The media itself should last a long time, but as the data is stored as charges in cells that will slowly discharge over time, a stored card will eventually lose all its data and end up blank.
Ideally they'd give landlines the same protection as cell phones. One of the major perks of having a cell phone versus a landline is the drastic reduction in the amount of phone spam I have to deal with.
There's a good chance that's exactly what this card is, just in one convenient package. Just like the slow trickle of modern AGP cards tend to be PCIe chipsets with a AGP to PCIe bridge. I haven't played around with the PCI to PCIe bridges but the AGP versions never seemed to work quite right, especially on AMD machines.
What in the hell are you talking about? The video stream comes from the card itself and is generated using the textures stored in its onboard memory. That's what a graphics card does. I'd guess that this card will do okay over the PCI bus. The PCI bus may be kind of slow for it, but most graphics cards don't get anywhere near saturating the a PCIe x16 connection or even the AGP bus.
Some people actually believe that. For a real WTF, try googling for 'Comet Elenin Dwarf Star'.
There's still the risk that if the MAFIAA types somehow find out that the content was actually accessed at a business through a VPN, that they would go after the business just because it has deeper pockets.
Actually, it kind of makes sense when you consider that the current trends in large monitors are more suitable for televisions and not for computing. I mean, what else do you expect them to create for a 16:9 monitor with a crappy DPI?
Generally speaking I just download the latest netinst disk and burn it to a CD-RW whenever I need to install the OS again. I guess I do have some Live CDs squirreled away that can be used as an install disk too.
Microsoft won't sell an XP license anymore, but you can buy a Windows 7 license with downgrade rights. From there, you can use the license to install Windows XP (or Vista if you wanted) on the PC. I don't know if Dell will still do this for you and ship you a brand new system with a Windows 7 sticker and XP on the drive, but HP was still doing this as of fairly recently.
A CRT TV set can generate large amounts of RF besides just light. Granted, it can only emit so much in order to pass UL, but it's still there. The analog tuner is especially noisy, which is why you'll often find it encased in it's own little metal box inside the TV.
I have a Samsung monitor that started doing did exactly that. It turned out to be bad caps in the monitor. After it failed completely I pried it apart, saw the bad caps, replaced them, and the monitor has worked fine ever since with no whining.
A lot of the pain of Windows Vista was the new driver model and the move to x64 (for the mainstream), and Windows putting further restrictions on programs that broke a lot of software, because the software was designed under the Windows 9x mindset and Windows Vista put an end to programs writing all over Program Files and shitting all over the registry. By the time Windows 7 had come out, hardware manufacturers had started putting out decent drivers so things ran a lot smoother and the software manufacturers had fixed their software. I use Vista and 7 pretty much everyday, and I don't see a lot of difference between the two. There are a few annoyances in Windows Vista that are fixed in 7, but Windows 7 also adds some annoyances. Windows 7 also has some improvements to the Windows shell (many of which I don't really care for anyway), and a considerably less aggressive prefetching algorithm that speeds up the boot noticeably - which is probably the biggest difference, at least for me.