What kind of failures? I have a first generation Intel SSD that eventually developed horrible stuttering problems. It actually took me a while to figure out it was the SSD as it otherwise worked fine (no data loss or lost capacity or anything, so I initially suspected other sources). Supposedly you can restore performance by backing up the drive, running an Intel utility to wipe the drive, then restore the backup and it will be good again for a while. Well I did that, except I restored the backup onto a standard HDD. The SSD was kind of nifty, but I doubt I'll buy another one for a while.
They make SATA port multipliers already, that allow you to turn one SATA connector into more than one (I've seen up to five). I presume this is also how the external eSATA enclosures that hold more than one disk also work. You could implement that into the combo drive too, though I've always suspected that the SATA port multipliers are kind of a hack.
Why don't you use sleep mode for the computers? That reduces the power usage of the computers down to almost zero, and they'll come back out of sleep in a few seconds.
If you must leave the computers, I hope you're running Folding@Home or SETI or something. Granted, that uses even more power, but I'd rather see 100W doing something as opposed to 60W that's just thrown away.
The wall jump thing is almost certainly a bug. Though unlike things like going through solid walls which shouldn't happen, the wall jump thing can be thought of as more of an unintended feature.
It is not the place of HTML to enforce stifling rules regarding data formats.
It is.
No, it's not. For example, the HTML specification says nothing about what image formats are allowed or not allowed in an IMG tag. That's why I find the whole debate about the VIDEO tag rather curious. I would think that the HTML5 specification would just say how to use the VIDEO tag, and leave it up to the browsers to decide how to deal with the content people put in there. And like with images, we'd probably end up most browsers recognizing multiple formats. However, for some reason the whole thing got political, with the need for one format to be declared the winner, and the others as losers.
I don't get the government debt-to-GDP ratio either. The GDP is a measure of the output of the entire country, whereas the national debt is the money the government owes. To me, that would be like comparing a business owner's personal debt with the amount of revenue his business brings in, which doesn't really make sense. We're long past where the debt could be paid off with 100% of one year's worth of money the government brings in (mostly from taxes). That would take a decade or more.
As for your house, that's a bit different, as generally you could sell your house, take the money you get from the buyer, pay off the bank, and walk away debt free. So while you're technically in debt, your net is still above zero. Unless you meant to say that you're underwater on your mortgage to the tune of one year's worth of income, in which case, ouch.
8) They are also smaller (it was funny the other day when someone commented on how my nothing special Nokia was "so tiny"). 9) Most seem to be simply better at being a phone. Smart phones overall seem to have worse reception and more dropped calls.
I doubt it. A lot of people aren't going to want to pay the $75+ a month for a smart phone plan. I suppose you can still get the smart phone with the dumb phone plan, but if I'm going to just use it as a phone, then I'd rather carry a small candy-bar phone than a large smart phone.
Heating oil is widely used in areas where the weather is cold and natural gas is not widely available. In the US this is mostly in the northeast, as the midwest generally has natural gas available, and the rest of the country either doesn't need heat or gets by with electric for what little heating needs they have.
If I had a dollar for every old P2/P3/Celeron* system I ran across running some pirated version of XP, I'd be rich. Luckily, most of that hardware is long gone by now.
*Early K6-2/early Athlon systems had major problems with XP due to the incredibly shitty AMD chipsets of the era, so most of those stuck with WIn98.
While Lenovos are relatively free of third-party bloatware, at least as of a few years ago they all came with a whole bunch of utilities that more or less duplicated functionality that already existed in Windows (such as managing wireless networks, battery life monitor, display manager, etc.). While the utilities weren't terrible, my laptop sure ran better once I did a fresh install of the OS and stuck with the built-in Windows functionality.
How is that supposed to work? example.com is going to resolve to a specific IP address. However, two computers can't have the same IP address. So the FTP and HTTP server can't both be example.com and be separate computers. Your going to have to give the two computers each their own IP address, and do some kind of network address translation in the router.
In the case of the janitor, it's done as a tax dodge. But for key employees, it's to guarantee that the company will survive until they find a replacement for a key person, or at least to give the company time to adapt to life without them.
I don't see the fundamental problem with launching a probe well beforehand, and then using a slower drive or various tricks in order to bring it up to the required speed over a period of time. However, I suppose then you're not really taking advantage of the asteroid coming so close to Earth either.
That would slow the asteroid down ever so slightly. If the next time around, the asteroid ends up slamming into the Earth, we're all going to blame you.
The record I've seen so far has to be Supreme Commander. The save games are on the order of 100-200MB. No kidding. I couldn't figure out what was eating up my drive space until I figured that one out. Not sure what takes up all that space. Supreme Commander is a RTS, and while the maps can be large, generally you're only going to have a few hundred units/buildings per player in a game.
I remember the issues with the IDE controllers in some of the early G3 PowerMacs, where everything would be going along just fine, then you'd suddenly get hit with data corruption. Apple's response was to more or less tell their customers to go screw themselves.
Another huge culprit is the dynamic sizing of the page file. Not only does this fragment the hard drive terribly, you end up with a badly fragmented page file that can't be defragmented using Window's own built-in defraggfer (as it can't defrag files that are in use). Best thing to do with the page file is to set it to some large fixed size and leave it there. And download a boot-time defragmenter like Defraggler to get your page file back into one continuous chunk. You can also try Page Defrag but that apparently doesn't work on anything newer than XP.
It's only irrelevant if you consider printing said currency as an option to get out of the debt. Well, that is an option, but once you do that no one is going to buy your debt anymore, and then the fun really begins. More likely what is going to happen is that at some point in the future the US government will have to raise the interest rate to convince people to buy its debt, and then the cost of servicing the existing debt is going to go up, meaning selling even more debt, eventually spiraling out of control.
I'll agree that you need deficit spending during a recession. Problem is the you then need to run a surplus in the good times, something the US hasn't done in a while. And with the current debt levels I don't think the US can afford to deficit spend its way out of another crisis.
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I take it your organization doesn't have any Dell GX260's.
Still, their P3-era workstations are solid. Even now when the machines are 10+ years old.
What kind of failures? I have a first generation Intel SSD that eventually developed horrible stuttering problems. It actually took me a while to figure out it was the SSD as it otherwise worked fine (no data loss or lost capacity or anything, so I initially suspected other sources). Supposedly you can restore performance by backing up the drive, running an Intel utility to wipe the drive, then restore the backup and it will be good again for a while. Well I did that, except I restored the backup onto a standard HDD. The SSD was kind of nifty, but I doubt I'll buy another one for a while.
They make SATA port multipliers already, that allow you to turn one SATA connector into more than one (I've seen up to five). I presume this is also how the external eSATA enclosures that hold more than one disk also work. You could implement that into the combo drive too, though I've always suspected that the SATA port multipliers are kind of a hack.
Why don't you use sleep mode for the computers? That reduces the power usage of the computers down to almost zero, and they'll come back out of sleep in a few seconds.
If you must leave the computers, I hope you're running Folding@Home or SETI or something. Granted, that uses even more power, but I'd rather see 100W doing something as opposed to 60W that's just thrown away.
The wall jump thing is almost certainly a bug. Though unlike things like going through solid walls which shouldn't happen, the wall jump thing can be thought of as more of an unintended feature.
Or find one of the third-party controllers that used the Playstation-style 4 buttons instead of the D-pad.
It is not the place of HTML to enforce stifling rules regarding data formats.
It is.
No, it's not. For example, the HTML specification says nothing about what image formats are allowed or not allowed in an IMG tag. That's why I find the whole debate about the VIDEO tag rather curious. I would think that the HTML5 specification would just say how to use the VIDEO tag, and leave it up to the browsers to decide how to deal with the content people put in there. And like with images, we'd probably end up most browsers recognizing multiple formats. However, for some reason the whole thing got political, with the need for one format to be declared the winner, and the others as losers.
I don't get the government debt-to-GDP ratio either. The GDP is a measure of the output of the entire country, whereas the national debt is the money the government owes. To me, that would be like comparing a business owner's personal debt with the amount of revenue his business brings in, which doesn't really make sense. We're long past where the debt could be paid off with 100% of one year's worth of money the government brings in (mostly from taxes). That would take a decade or more.
As for your house, that's a bit different, as generally you could sell your house, take the money you get from the buyer, pay off the bank, and walk away debt free. So while you're technically in debt, your net is still above zero. Unless you meant to say that you're underwater on your mortgage to the tune of one year's worth of income, in which case, ouch.
8) They are also smaller (it was funny the other day when someone commented on how my nothing special Nokia was "so tiny").
9) Most seem to be simply better at being a phone. Smart phones overall seem to have worse reception and more dropped calls.
I doubt it. A lot of people aren't going to want to pay the $75+ a month for a smart phone plan. I suppose you can still get the smart phone with the dumb phone plan, but if I'm going to just use it as a phone, then I'd rather carry a small candy-bar phone than a large smart phone.
Heating oil is widely used in areas where the weather is cold and natural gas is not widely available. In the US this is mostly in the northeast, as the midwest generally has natural gas available, and the rest of the country either doesn't need heat or gets by with electric for what little heating needs they have.
That doesn't make it right.
If I had a dollar for every old P2/P3/Celeron* system I ran across running some pirated version of XP, I'd be rich. Luckily, most of that hardware is long gone by now.
*Early K6-2/early Athlon systems had major problems with XP due to the incredibly shitty AMD chipsets of the era, so most of those stuck with WIn98.
While Lenovos are relatively free of third-party bloatware, at least as of a few years ago they all came with a whole bunch of utilities that more or less duplicated functionality that already existed in Windows (such as managing wireless networks, battery life monitor, display manager, etc.). While the utilities weren't terrible, my laptop sure ran better once I did a fresh install of the OS and stuck with the built-in Windows functionality.
You mean "Buy Quicktime Pro" Apple? The same Apple that preloads all their systems with a trial of MS Office?
Try buying the parts from Newegg and building it yourself. Doing it yourself is the only guaranteed bloatware-free solution.
How is that supposed to work? example.com is going to resolve to a specific IP address. However, two computers can't have the same IP address. So the FTP and HTTP server can't both be example.com and be separate computers. Your going to have to give the two computers each their own IP address, and do some kind of network address translation in the router.
In the case of the janitor, it's done as a tax dodge. But for key employees, it's to guarantee that the company will survive until they find a replacement for a key person, or at least to give the company time to adapt to life without them.
But who launched the moon?
I would think that any satellite that someone launched would be, by definition, an artificial satellite.
I have, with decent success if the floppy is at the latest, from about 1993. If it's newer than that, forget it, even if it's fresh out of the box.
I don't see the fundamental problem with launching a probe well beforehand, and then using a slower drive or various tricks in order to bring it up to the required speed over a period of time. However, I suppose then you're not really taking advantage of the asteroid coming so close to Earth either.
That would slow the asteroid down ever so slightly. If the next time around, the asteroid ends up slamming into the Earth, we're all going to blame you.
The record I've seen so far has to be Supreme Commander. The save games are on the order of 100-200MB. No kidding. I couldn't figure out what was eating up my drive space until I figured that one out. Not sure what takes up all that space. Supreme Commander is a RTS, and while the maps can be large, generally you're only going to have a few hundred units/buildings per player in a game.
I remember the issues with the IDE controllers in some of the early G3 PowerMacs, where everything would be going along just fine, then you'd suddenly get hit with data corruption. Apple's response was to more or less tell their customers to go screw themselves.
Another huge culprit is the dynamic sizing of the page file. Not only does this fragment the hard drive terribly, you end up with a badly fragmented page file that can't be defragmented using Window's own built-in defraggfer (as it can't defrag files that are in use). Best thing to do with the page file is to set it to some large fixed size and leave it there. And download a boot-time defragmenter like Defraggler to get your page file back into one continuous chunk. You can also try Page Defrag but that apparently doesn't work on anything newer than XP.
It's only irrelevant if you consider printing said currency as an option to get out of the debt. Well, that is an option, but once you do that no one is going to buy your debt anymore, and then the fun really begins. More likely what is going to happen is that at some point in the future the US government will have to raise the interest rate to convince people to buy its debt, and then the cost of servicing the existing debt is going to go up, meaning selling even more debt, eventually spiraling out of control.
I'll agree that you need deficit spending during a recession. Problem is the you then need to run a surplus in the good times, something the US hasn't done in a while. And with the current debt levels I don't think the US can afford to deficit spend its way out of another crisis.