Well, you might want to consider that cars nowadays last longer. Sure, they may cost 50% more, but if you can get 50% more life out of them then it's wash. You say you drive an 11 year-old car. It's very common to see a 1999 model year cars on the road in 2010. In 1970 it was a lot less common to see to a 1959 model year car still on the road.
I still get enough of the pre-1982 ones in change that it seems like it could be worthwhile. Order a bunch of cents, separate out the copper ones, and turn the zincolns back in. If I ran Coinstar, I would seriously be considering this if it wasn't illegal. Of course, if someone started an operation like this on a large scale, the pre-1982 ones would probably disappear practically overnight, much like the silver did in the mid 1960's.
Denmark is part of the EU, but chooses not to use the Euro as its currency. This is different from countries like Norway, which is not part of the EU and doesn't use the Euro. Being that Denmark is part of the EU, that's probably why it had to pledge money to bailout Ireland, despite having their own currency.
(if I had a nickel for every time I heard some slob demand "his" bailout when the fed bailed out the bank and loan sector, I'd be as rich as bill gates by now.),
Are you sure they aren't being sarcastic, as in "The banks don't deserve that big pile of money any more than I would." ? At least that's the way I see it.
Keep in mind that Apple is planning to use Lightpeak to try and segment market as they always try to do. So your 12% number is meaningless, as most of those sales are iMacs and Macbooks which don't get LightPeak just like their PC cousins.
So just how big do you think the Macbook Pro/Mac Pro peripheral market is? We're going to see a few high-end cameras, maybe some very expensive (but very fast) external drives, and probably some of Apple's own Cimena displays. And that'll be about it.
The other possibility is that they'll just ignore the new ports, and Apple users get to carry around a bag of overpriced adapters. For example, I don't think I've ever seen a single monitor, television, or projector that uses mini-DVI or mini-DisplayPort, despite Apple using it for years at this point.
FireWire has been subject to demise? When exactly did this happen? It's not the dominant external bus, but it's very much alive and well. Apple had nothing to do with it's status of not being the dominant bus, the fact that it's so expensive is why (and that's also why it's such a great bus and is far from dead).
Apple has had a lot to do with the current state of Firewire. They've removed it from their iPods and dropping it on their lower-end machines. They are also part of the reason it's so expensive, by charging licensing fees that pushed people to USB2 as it was cheaper. Firewire is not dead, but it's pretty much turned into a niche market at this point.
I'd have to disagree about the N64. It predated the original Voodoo card by several months, which is pretty much the first consumer 3D card that could be considered comparable to the capabilities of the N64.
A lot will depend on the last time the computer was powered up. Electrolytic caps tend to break down if they haven't been polarized (by having a voltage put across them) in a long time. If the computer was powered and run for a few hours at least up a couple of times a decade, it's probably OK. If it's been sitting in a box for 25+ years then it's more of a crap shoot whether it's going to work.
Same with old audio equipment and hard drives. Something that's seen somewhat regular use will often work better than a unit that's been in storage for many years.
On the other hand, the electronic viewfinder on my camera blows away the the optical viewfinders on the lower end DSLRs I've played with. The optical viewfinders on those cameras, due to a cheaper penta-mirror design, low magnification, and the smaller mirror resulted in a tiny, dim viewfinder where judging focus was basically impossible. Admittedly, the slow zoom lenses didn't help either. But it felt like using a 35mm P&S camera. However, the gold standard is still the 0.97X magnification (with 50mm lens) pentaprism on my 1970's Pentax.
Did it really fail though? A lot of the work put into OS/2 made it into Windows NT 3.1, which Windows 7 is a direct descendant of. You might even consider OS/2 a winner over Windows 1.0, in the sense that the line started with Windows 1.0 ended with Windows ME over 10 years ago.
A botnet is typically refers to a collection of computers being used in an unauthorized manner. If it's your own computers or computers you have permission to use, then it's just a cluster.
Note that such a train would not be able to make any stops once it got going. It's effectively a way to get from point to point only, and chances are in most cases those two points would be on the surface of the Earth somewhere.
All they really are is a way for the auto manufacturers to get around cafe regulations by building vehicles that classify as a "light truck" instead of a car, even though they are basically just a car. They are roomier than a sedan, but really don't offer any advantages over a wagon, just disadvantages like a higher center of gravity and more unsprung weight (due to larger tires and beefier suspensions) that lower the fuel economy. As far as I'm concerned it's a class of vehicle that really just needs to die.
I also don't get your comment about good visibility. It seems that for some reason, having small rear windows is a design requirement for this class of vehicles.
Presumably, that's the kind of thing they would be looking for with their enhanced pat-downs. I wonder if they even have a procedure in place to deal with a situation where they actually find something?
Well, it won't run well, but Windows will run on some pretty old hardware. If you can get at least 512MB of ram into it and it's a P3 or better, Windows 7 will install. Apple's requirements are a bit more strict - if your hardware is older than Apple's often arbitrary line in the sand, it refuses to install.
Besides, my experience is that Windows 7 runs pretty decent on 2.0Ghz P4 from 2003 once I crammed it full of 1.5GB of PC133 (and a 2.0Ghz P4 that uses SDRAM was low end in 2003).
It's the same situation as the original poster where I work. The problem is that the 15 year-old PC has some specialized ISA (or MCA) cards and interfaces with some old hardware. Virtualization to run the software does nothing for you when you still have to talk to physical device.
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Well, you might want to consider that cars nowadays last longer. Sure, they may cost 50% more, but if you can get 50% more life out of them then it's wash. You say you drive an 11 year-old car. It's very common to see a 1999 model year cars on the road in 2010. In 1970 it was a lot less common to see to a 1959 model year car still on the road.
I still get enough of the pre-1982 ones in change that it seems like it could be worthwhile. Order a bunch of cents, separate out the copper ones, and turn the zincolns back in. If I ran Coinstar, I would seriously be considering this if it wasn't illegal. Of course, if someone started an operation like this on a large scale, the pre-1982 ones would probably disappear practically overnight, much like the silver did in the mid 1960's.
Not surprising, as the PS2 has been out for over 11 years and new games and hardware are still readily available.
You've never run into the Windows installers that look like this?
http://foundationphp.com/images/install04.jpg
Denmark is part of the EU, but chooses not to use the Euro as its currency. This is different from countries like Norway, which is not part of the EU and doesn't use the Euro. Being that Denmark is part of the EU, that's probably why it had to pledge money to bailout Ireland, despite having their own currency.
Are you sure they aren't being sarcastic, as in "The banks don't deserve that big pile of money any more than I would." ? At least that's the way I see it.
He's probably thinking of USB 2.0. Apple was really late to that game, as they were still trying to push Firewire at the time.
Keep in mind that Apple is planning to use Lightpeak to try and segment market as they always try to do. So your 12% number is meaningless, as most of those sales are iMacs and Macbooks which don't get LightPeak just like their PC cousins.
So just how big do you think the Macbook Pro/Mac Pro peripheral market is? We're going to see a few high-end cameras, maybe some very expensive (but very fast) external drives, and probably some of Apple's own Cimena displays. And that'll be about it.
The other possibility is that they'll just ignore the new ports, and Apple users get to carry around a bag of overpriced adapters. For example, I don't think I've ever seen a single monitor, television, or projector that uses mini-DVI or mini-DisplayPort, despite Apple using it for years at this point.
Apple has had a lot to do with the current state of Firewire. They've removed it from their iPods and dropping it on their lower-end machines. They are also part of the reason it's so expensive, by charging licensing fees that pushed people to USB2 as it was cheaper. Firewire is not dead, but it's pretty much turned into a niche market at this point.
I'd have to disagree about the N64. It predated the original Voodoo card by several months, which is pretty much the first consumer 3D card that could be considered comparable to the capabilities of the N64.
A lot will depend on the last time the computer was powered up. Electrolytic caps tend to break down if they haven't been polarized (by having a voltage put across them) in a long time. If the computer was powered and run for a few hours at least up a couple of times a decade, it's probably OK. If it's been sitting in a box for 25+ years then it's more of a crap shoot whether it's going to work.
Same with old audio equipment and hard drives. Something that's seen somewhat regular use will often work better than a unit that's been in storage for many years.
On the other hand, the electronic viewfinder on my camera blows away the the optical viewfinders on the lower end DSLRs I've played with. The optical viewfinders on those cameras, due to a cheaper penta-mirror design, low magnification, and the smaller mirror resulted in a tiny, dim viewfinder where judging focus was basically impossible. Admittedly, the slow zoom lenses didn't help either. But it felt like using a 35mm P&S camera. However, the gold standard is still the 0.97X magnification (with 50mm lens) pentaprism on my 1970's Pentax.
Well, that explains the rapid decline in quality of VW vehicles which started in the mid-late 90's. What were they thinking?
Did it really fail though? A lot of the work put into OS/2 made it into Windows NT 3.1, which Windows 7 is a direct descendant of. You might even consider OS/2 a winner over Windows 1.0, in the sense that the line started with Windows 1.0 ended with Windows ME over 10 years ago.
Charter a private plane?
A botnet is typically refers to a collection of computers being used in an unauthorized manner. If it's your own computers or computers you have permission to use, then it's just a cluster.
It's fraudulent when you use a network of hacked computers to misrepresent who you are to get around restrictions on the purchases of the tickets.
Fine. You can just go sit over in that small room until you either give up the passwords or I feel like letting you go.
Your turn.
Note that such a train would not be able to make any stops once it got going. It's effectively a way to get from point to point only, and chances are in most cases those two points would be on the surface of the Earth somewhere.
All they really are is a way for the auto manufacturers to get around cafe regulations by building vehicles that classify as a "light truck" instead of a car, even though they are basically just a car. They are roomier than a sedan, but really don't offer any advantages over a wagon, just disadvantages like a higher center of gravity and more unsprung weight (due to larger tires and beefier suspensions) that lower the fuel economy. As far as I'm concerned it's a class of vehicle that really just needs to die.
I also don't get your comment about good visibility. It seems that for some reason, having small rear windows is a design requirement for this class of vehicles.
In case you didn't know, Ford actually made an electric version of the Ranger:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV
Sadly long out of production, but supposedly there are some still out there.
Presumably, that's the kind of thing they would be looking for with their enhanced pat-downs. I wonder if they even have a procedure in place to deal with a situation where they actually find something?
Well, it won't run well, but Windows will run on some pretty old hardware. If you can get at least 512MB of ram into it and it's a P3 or better, Windows 7 will install. Apple's requirements are a bit more strict - if your hardware is older than Apple's often arbitrary line in the sand, it refuses to install.
Besides, my experience is that Windows 7 runs pretty decent on 2.0Ghz P4 from 2003 once I crammed it full of 1.5GB of PC133 (and a 2.0Ghz P4 that uses SDRAM was low end in 2003).
It's the same situation as the original poster where I work. The problem is that the 15 year-old PC has some specialized ISA (or MCA) cards and interfaces with some old hardware. Virtualization to run the software does nothing for you when you still have to talk to physical device.