Hell, why don't people think about where they put their A/C compressor? Placing the thing so it's not sitting in the sun all afternoon will save energy, and for new construction would be a minor change. Yet I see new houses all the time with the A/C compressor sitting exposed to the southern sun with no shade.
This is a common fallacy I see nowadays - if it employs people, no matter what it is, it must be good. Keep in mind we're basically paying people to kill and blow stuff up here. We'd actually be better off if we just payed them to stay home - your so-called entitlement spending.
The mileage difference on the highway is probably because the overdrive gear in the automatic is probably a lower gear ratio than the 6th gear in the manual. That's certainly the case in my car, where I've driven both the automatic and manual variants. I've never really understood why the car manufacturers do this - is it because they think people don't want to have to downshift to pass on the highway?
Many devices have a "Loud" button on them that reduces the dynamic range for this reason. Or at least they used to, I haven't seen it on many newer devices, probably because the manufacturers don't think it's needed anymore.
It's not that hard to believe. Presumably he's comparing now to sometime around 2003 when gold was around $350/oz. In that time, the price of wheat has increased by about a factor of around 2 to 2.5, depending on what you want to use as the exact starting point.
They certainly do care, as the house is the collateral on the loan they are making. For that reason, they want a house that they'll be able to sell somewhat easily to cover the loan. So if the house is sufficiently odd or non-traditional, they'll value it down accordingly as the house is an unknown and therefore they consider it a higher risk. Often the house will be valued by the bank at less than it costs to construct, which means that if you're dependent on financing to purchase a house (which is most everyone) then it's pretty difficult to get into a non-traditional house.
Another reason the kitchen was placed in the back and separated in old houses (usually 19th century and earlier) was because it was one of the most likely places a fire could start.
I haven't found any of those adapters that allow you to input the head/cylinder/landing zone/etc information. So basically they only work with drives that auto-configure (properly), which rules out most drives made before about 1995 or so. Anything older and you pretty much have to hook them up to a real IDE port and use the BIOS to manually configure the settings.
And why should we be employing people to build fancy cars and boats for the rich? We could employ people to do more productive things, like constructing roads, or deploying broadband, or manufacturing cheaper cars that the non-rich can afford. You're still employing people and moving money around in the economy, but in this case everyone benefits from the labor instead of a select few.
That's pretty much how the system works right now. General aviation planes are not checked and security at general aviation airports is minimal to none. The hardest part would be buying a plane load's worth of C4 without getting noticed.
Yes, here in the real world where electricity is under.10/kwh, a run-of-the-mill P4 tower idles at around 100W, and people turn off their computers when they go to sleep or are at work, yes it does take decades.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper to just turn the machine off when it's not used. Pretty much any scenario I can envision where you might want to keep a K6 or a P2 going on some stripped version of Windows 7 is one where the computer is only going to be used sparingly as either a backup computer or some low usage application. If the computer is only one for an hour a day, the payoff is going to be decades even using your inflated electricity costs.
Actually with incandescents, the higher quality bulbs will generally last a lot longer. Though usually it's not worth the cost and you're better off with the cheapest and replacing the bulb more often, except for fixtures that are a pain in the ass to get to where it's worth the extra buck (or whatever) to not have to change the bulb so often.
I would think most any computer that can run WIndows XP SP3 comfortably can run Windows 7. Note that I said SP3 - Windows XP has gotten pretty bloated over the years. A P3 with 256MB can run Windows XP SP0 pretty well, but SP3 absolutely crawls on a P4 with 512MB.
I'm pretty sure that came in a service pack, as the initial release of Windows XP predated the P4 HT by a couple of years. I want to say it was SP2 that added the Hyperthreading support, but it might have been SP1 as that's closer to the right time frame.
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Hell, why don't people think about where they put their A/C compressor? Placing the thing so it's not sitting in the sun all afternoon will save energy, and for new construction would be a minor change. Yet I see new houses all the time with the A/C compressor sitting exposed to the southern sun with no shade.
G rated or not, no one wants to see that.
This is a common fallacy I see nowadays - if it employs people, no matter what it is, it must be good. Keep in mind we're basically paying people to kill and blow stuff up here. We'd actually be better off if we just payed them to stay home - your so-called entitlement spending.
Nissan did sell a diesel-based Maxima in the early 80's for a short period of time in the US, or are you referring to something else?
And that's a big truck. Now find me any non-exotic passenger car that offers more than 6 gears in a manual transmission.
The mileage difference on the highway is probably because the overdrive gear in the automatic is probably a lower gear ratio than the 6th gear in the manual. That's certainly the case in my car, where I've driven both the automatic and manual variants. I've never really understood why the car manufacturers do this - is it because they think people don't want to have to downshift to pass on the highway?
But not the manufacturers of DRAM or Flash memory...
Many devices have a "Loud" button on them that reduces the dynamic range for this reason. Or at least they used to, I haven't seen it on many newer devices, probably because the manufacturers don't think it's needed anymore.
It's not that hard to believe. Presumably he's comparing now to sometime around 2003 when gold was around $350/oz. In that time, the price of wheat has increased by about a factor of around 2 to 2.5, depending on what you want to use as the exact starting point.
Source: http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=wheat&months=120
They certainly do care, as the house is the collateral on the loan they are making. For that reason, they want a house that they'll be able to sell somewhat easily to cover the loan. So if the house is sufficiently odd or non-traditional, they'll value it down accordingly as the house is an unknown and therefore they consider it a higher risk. Often the house will be valued by the bank at less than it costs to construct, which means that if you're dependent on financing to purchase a house (which is most everyone) then it's pretty difficult to get into a non-traditional house.
Another reason the kitchen was placed in the back and separated in old houses (usually 19th century and earlier) was because it was one of the most likely places a fire could start.
Then buy two of them. Treat the other as a large external hard drive with built-in redundancy. It's not like the hardware is expensive.
I haven't found any of those adapters that allow you to input the head/cylinder/landing zone/etc information. So basically they only work with drives that auto-configure (properly), which rules out most drives made before about 1995 or so. Anything older and you pretty much have to hook them up to a real IDE port and use the BIOS to manually configure the settings.
And why should we be employing people to build fancy cars and boats for the rich? We could employ people to do more productive things, like constructing roads, or deploying broadband, or manufacturing cheaper cars that the non-rich can afford. You're still employing people and moving money around in the economy, but in this case everyone benefits from the labor instead of a select few.
Well, what happened? Made a mess out of the one city, of course. But the rest of the nation soldered on.
That's pretty much how the system works right now. General aviation planes are not checked and security at general aviation airports is minimal to none. The hardest part would be buying a plane load's worth of C4 without getting noticed.
Both of those debuted with the IBM PS/2 which came out in 1987, which makes them around 24 years old.
Yes, here in the real world where electricity is under .10/kwh, a run-of-the-mill P4 tower idles at around 100W, and people turn off their computers when they go to sleep or are at work, yes it does take decades.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper to just turn the machine off when it's not used. Pretty much any scenario I can envision where you might want to keep a K6 or a P2 going on some stripped version of Windows 7 is one where the computer is only going to be used sparingly as either a backup computer or some low usage application. If the computer is only one for an hour a day, the payoff is going to be decades even using your inflated electricity costs.
Have you ever tried to replace the drive on a MBP? This isn't your PC laptop where you can unscrew one screw and the drive pops out.
That's why you install them with a ground loop. It's a lot easier to pull heat out of the ground (at about 50 degrees) than the air at -20 degrees.
Actually with incandescents, the higher quality bulbs will generally last a lot longer. Though usually it's not worth the cost and you're better off with the cheapest and replacing the bulb more often, except for fixtures that are a pain in the ass to get to where it's worth the extra buck (or whatever) to not have to change the bulb so often.
I would think most any computer that can run WIndows XP SP3 comfortably can run Windows 7. Note that I said SP3 - Windows XP has gotten pretty bloated over the years. A P3 with 256MB can run Windows XP SP0 pretty well, but SP3 absolutely crawls on a P4 with 512MB.
And XP still has three more years of Extended Support. Way to kill Windows 7 off early, Microsoft!
Hey, Microsoft hasn't even announced the end of support of Windows 7, but as Vista is supported until 2017 it's probably going to be a ways off.
I'm pretty sure that came in a service pack, as the initial release of Windows XP predated the P4 HT by a couple of years. I want to say it was SP2 that added the Hyperthreading support, but it might have been SP1 as that's closer to the right time frame.