The problem with those peaks of eternal light is that they are at the poles. it's a lot easier to get things on and off the moon at it's equator because anything launched there gets a boost from the moon's spin. Plus technically they aren't peaks of eternal light because very occasionally they do fall in the Earth's shadow so you would have to plan for that.
With that said, they would still make awesome places for a moon base if you ask me.
At this point we might as well make it year-round, as the DST has been extended to the point where there are only a few months in the winter when we are actually on standard time. I'd prefer to make standard time year round and have everybody just move their schedules up by an hour which would be effectively the same thing, but I realize that it would be a lot easier to sell the former to the public than the latter.
Obviously items that are meant to wear like the soles of your shoes or break pads are usually not covered by a warranty. But on a camera, the only thing I might consider a "wear item" like would be the rechargeable battery. Things like switches and lens motors of course can wear out, but that those aren't really consider wear items so I would expect the warranty would cover that kind of thing.
Depends on what you are running. My favorite cheap servers to play around with at home are P3-based from about 500-750 Mhz or so. Those chips only draw about 15-20W, and you can get the entire system down to about 50W or so depending on what you have in it. I know an Atom draws less power, but the P3's are basically free and don't draw that much more power meaning the payback is many years.
Normal wear and tear not covered? Isn't that the whole point of the warranty - that if the device breaks from normal use in the warranty period that it will be repaired or replaced free of charge? What a scam.
I'm going to guess that It's probably cheaper just to use four rails and take up less space when you're talking about building the world's longest rail tunnel.
Really? As far as I can tell, the Democrats and Independents that were in the Tea Party all left it sometime ago in utter disgust. What's left is basically a subset of the Republican Party. You're basically talking about a group of people here that consider Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and Glenn Beck to be their unofficial spokespeople.
Since drives are almost all metal, I would guess they don't land fill them. They probably shred them for scrap, perhaps after removing the circuit board first. Then like a lot of scrap metal they probably ship it to China to be processed.
What the hell you talking about? There must be easily a dozen manufacturers of SSDs, and I keep on seeing now ones popping up all the time. Meanwhile, there's what, four HDD manufacturers left? And I doubt we'll have any new ones enter the market.
You also can't forget that they live on a rocky planet that is rich with heavier elements. While there is emerging evidence that the heaviest of these elements may be slightly toxic to them, they still build all kinds of devices and apparatuses out of reactive elements like iron, nickel, copper, tin, tungsten, and silver that apparently have no effect on them. Actually, their bodies require trace amounts of icon to function properly.
Living on a planet with heavy elements, it's no surprise that they've figured out how to split the atom. As such, they've built tens of thousands of thermonuclear explosive devices. Even one of these devices, if set off on one of our worlds would render it uninhabitable for many generations. However, it seems that they periodically like to set off these devices in uninhabited areas of their own planet including high in the atmosphere and in their oceans - apparently for no reason other than they think it's fun to do. So far this has had no effect on their populations despite them literally setting off hundreds of these devices at this point.
Back on those days the AMD chips depended on the motherboard to detect an overheating condition and shut the system down. Some motherboards included this protection, and some did not. In the case of a cooling fan dying this protection was adequate. In the case of the cooler being completely removed it was usually too slow.
The other thing I remember about those was the exposed die, and the occasional violence that was required to get the heatsinks to clip on. I have yet to damage anything installing the Socket A coolers, but I did have some close calls when the screwdriver slipped on me. On the other hand, even those coolers are better designed (in my opinion) than the incredibly shitty OEM coolers Intel ships nowadays.
Salt water is more dense, so the fresh water ice cube displaces less fluid in the salt water than it does in the fresh water. Yet it will add the same volume of fluid to both glasses when it melts. So for the salt water glass, the fluid level will rise (slightly).
If anything is confusing, it's Intel. The Core series has gone through about 3 sockets in the past 2 years. Just looking at the model numbers you have no idea what you're getting. You've got Core i5's with 4 cores, i7's with 2 cores, and so on. Some have Hyperthreading enabled, and some don't. Intel also likes to arbitrary remove features from their lower-end CPUs for no good reason either (well, market segmentation). And if you're going to compare with AMD you also have to drag in the confusing mess that is Intel's "Pentium" budget line.
On the other hand, AMD has stuck with Socket AM3 for quite a while, they only have three lines (and you can probably ignore the ultra-low end Sempron leaving you with the Phenom and Athlon), and they tell you the number of cores right in the model name. You also don't have to worry that AMD has removed features like VT from their lower end chips because they don't do that.
I guess it depends on how much you use your computer at home. I use mine enough that the cramped keyboard and poor ergonomics of the laptop will start to annoy me. So I'll have to get a docking station, external monitor (or two), keyboard, mouse, etc. which needs a desk to live on. At that point I might as well replace the laptop with a desktop and get a much more powerful machine for less money. Sure, I'll need to buy a laptop too, but since I have a powerful desktop I can buy a less powerful and cheaper laptop and keep it longer. I figure I'll have a desktop for a long time, or at least until the desktop becomes a niche enough product that the laptop is no longer significantly more expensive.
It's no surprise that they won't take TVs. Most people don't want those "clunky" CRTs anymore, and those that don't care (like myself) already have a pretty nice one or two from someone who didn't want it. I see TVs all the time sitting out for the trash, it's not even worth slowing down unless it's a fairly late model Sony Trinitron. I'd be surprised if they bother picking up CRT computer monitors for the same reason.
And that's exactly what will happen. The display will tell the laptop that it needs 80W (or whatever), the laptop will say no way, and the dude with his laptop just sees a black screen.
If Apple expects people to take OS X server seriously, they need some serious server hardware to run it on. If Apple doesn't want to build that hardware, that's fine, but disallowing OS X server to be installed on anything else makes it a bit of a joke.
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The problem with those peaks of eternal light is that they are at the poles. it's a lot easier to get things on and off the moon at it's equator because anything launched there gets a boost from the moon's spin. Plus technically they aren't peaks of eternal light because very occasionally they do fall in the Earth's shadow so you would have to plan for that.
With that said, they would still make awesome places for a moon base if you ask me.
The Excursion is huge even by SUV standards and they don't even make them anymore. Maybe something more like this? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Gas_tank_size_2004_ford_explorer
At this point we might as well make it year-round, as the DST has been extended to the point where there are only a few months in the winter when we are actually on standard time. I'd prefer to make standard time year round and have everybody just move their schedules up by an hour which would be effectively the same thing, but I realize that it would be a lot easier to sell the former to the public than the latter.
Obviously items that are meant to wear like the soles of your shoes or break pads are usually not covered by a warranty. But on a camera, the only thing I might consider a "wear item" like would be the rechargeable battery. Things like switches and lens motors of course can wear out, but that those aren't really consider wear items so I would expect the warranty would cover that kind of thing.
Depends on what you are running. My favorite cheap servers to play around with at home are P3-based from about 500-750 Mhz or so. Those chips only draw about 15-20W, and you can get the entire system down to about 50W or so depending on what you have in it. I know an Atom draws less power, but the P3's are basically free and don't draw that much more power meaning the payback is many years.
Normal wear and tear not covered? Isn't that the whole point of the warranty - that if the device breaks from normal use in the warranty period that it will be repaired or replaced free of charge? What a scam.
Depends on what you buy. If you go for a gaming laptop, you can easily find a fast GPU in a laptop that is otherwise cheap consumer shit quality.
I would have to argue that the Apple II was the first act.
I'm going to guess that It's probably cheaper just to use four rails and take up less space when you're talking about building the world's longest rail tunnel.
Really? As far as I can tell, the Democrats and Independents that were in the Tea Party all left it sometime ago in utter disgust. What's left is basically a subset of the Republican Party. You're basically talking about a group of people here that consider Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and Glenn Beck to be their unofficial spokespeople.
If that looks nothing like an iPad then neither does the Galaxy S.
Since drives are almost all metal, I would guess they don't land fill them. They probably shred them for scrap, perhaps after removing the circuit board first. Then like a lot of scrap metal they probably ship it to China to be processed.
What the hell you talking about? There must be easily a dozen manufacturers of SSDs, and I keep on seeing now ones popping up all the time. Meanwhile, there's what, four HDD manufacturers left? And I doubt we'll have any new ones enter the market.
In 1999 it was fairly common for new PCs to have 64-128MB of ram. New PCs did not cgst $6,400 - $12,800+ at the time.
You also can't forget that they live on a rocky planet that is rich with heavier elements. While there is emerging evidence that the heaviest of these elements may be slightly toxic to them, they still build all kinds of devices and apparatuses out of reactive elements like iron, nickel, copper, tin, tungsten, and silver that apparently have no effect on them. Actually, their bodies require trace amounts of icon to function properly.
Living on a planet with heavy elements, it's no surprise that they've figured out how to split the atom. As such, they've built tens of thousands of thermonuclear explosive devices. Even one of these devices, if set off on one of our worlds would render it uninhabitable for many generations. However, it seems that they periodically like to set off these devices in uninhabited areas of their own planet including high in the atmosphere and in their oceans - apparently for no reason other than they think it's fun to do. So far this has had no effect on their populations despite them literally setting off hundreds of these devices at this point.
Slashdot is pretty broken in Opera too. Not that I blame Opera for that.
Back on those days the AMD chips depended on the motherboard to detect an overheating condition and shut the system down. Some motherboards included this protection, and some did not. In the case of a cooling fan dying this protection was adequate. In the case of the cooler being completely removed it was usually too slow.
The other thing I remember about those was the exposed die, and the occasional violence that was required to get the heatsinks to clip on. I have yet to damage anything installing the Socket A coolers, but I did have some close calls when the screwdriver slipped on me. On the other hand, even those coolers are better designed (in my opinion) than the incredibly shitty OEM coolers Intel ships nowadays.
Salt water is more dense, so the fresh water ice cube displaces less fluid in the salt water than it does in the fresh water. Yet it will add the same volume of fluid to both glasses when it melts. So for the salt water glass, the fluid level will rise (slightly).
If anything is confusing, it's Intel. The Core series has gone through about 3 sockets in the past 2 years. Just looking at the model numbers you have no idea what you're getting. You've got Core i5's with 4 cores, i7's with 2 cores, and so on. Some have Hyperthreading enabled, and some don't. Intel also likes to arbitrary remove features from their lower-end CPUs for no good reason either (well, market segmentation). And if you're going to compare with AMD you also have to drag in the confusing mess that is Intel's "Pentium" budget line.
On the other hand, AMD has stuck with Socket AM3 for quite a while, they only have three lines (and you can probably ignore the ultra-low end Sempron leaving you with the Phenom and Athlon), and they tell you the number of cores right in the model name. You also don't have to worry that AMD has removed features like VT from their lower end chips because they don't do that.
If you're on salary the extra half hour in the office will net you exactly $0.
What the hell were you doing with them that power usage was a concern? A beowolf cluster of IBM 5150s running Linux?
I guess it depends on how much you use your computer at home. I use mine enough that the cramped keyboard and poor ergonomics of the laptop will start to annoy me. So I'll have to get a docking station, external monitor (or two), keyboard, mouse, etc. which needs a desk to live on. At that point I might as well replace the laptop with a desktop and get a much more powerful machine for less money. Sure, I'll need to buy a laptop too, but since I have a powerful desktop I can buy a less powerful and cheaper laptop and keep it longer. I figure I'll have a desktop for a long time, or at least until the desktop becomes a niche enough product that the laptop is no longer significantly more expensive.
It's no surprise that they won't take TVs. Most people don't want those "clunky" CRTs anymore, and those that don't care (like myself) already have a pretty nice one or two from someone who didn't want it. I see TVs all the time sitting out for the trash, it's not even worth slowing down unless it's a fairly late model Sony Trinitron. I'd be surprised if they bother picking up CRT computer monitors for the same reason.
And that's exactly what will happen. The display will tell the laptop that it needs 80W (or whatever), the laptop will say no way, and the dude with his laptop just sees a black screen.
If Apple expects people to take OS X server seriously, they need some serious server hardware to run it on. If Apple doesn't want to build that hardware, that's fine, but disallowing OS X server to be installed on anything else makes it a bit of a joke.