Well, the Google study only mentions that it had drives from "many" manufacturers. Note they they did not say "All". I can only guess that by 2001 Google had learned their lesson about using WD drives and stopped buying them:)
Shornt term thinking like that is why we spent billions on the Y2K problem. I would think that the free market would put any company you run out of business in a hurry.
Well, the thing is, the digital packrat doesn't take up much space. Why not keep those old episodes around? It's not like you need to have a wall of VHS tapes to keep that stuff anymore.
Besides, sometimes it's not really worth going through all that stuff just to figure out what to delete or to keep. I can spend hours sorting through the files in those old directories, and maybe reclaim 20GB. Whoohoo, I just saved myself like $2 worth of drive space!
You mean fresh water supplies like the Ogallala Aquifer that are currently being depleted a rate faster than they can replenish? Just to feed everyone assumes a high level of mechanized farming in areas that would not support it without massive amounts of water being imported from somewhere. I don't see how the US could support the world population (for more than a few years) without rapidly depleting its natural resources, even assuming a drastic cut in the standards of living.
The link only covers enough water for sanitation, cooking, and drinking. What about the water needed for irrigating crops and industrial uses, which totally dwarfs the domestic water use?
Actually, Windows XP can't do DNS lookups over IPv6, so you need at least some IPv4 connectivity for XP to work. I don't expect Microsoft to fix this either (other than telling you to buy Vista/7 which does work properly).
Because terrorism isn't a real world problem? I may not like many of Bush's actions post-9/11, but as someone who worked in Intel in the mid-2000s, a lot of very necessary changes were made. Look at it this way--numerous European (and other) countries have been hit since 9/11. Nothing so spectacular as 9/11 of course but hit nonetheless. We haven't. IMHO, that ain't peanuts.
DC sniper? Anthrax attacks? Shoe bomber? Pants bomber? Times square bomber? Fort Hood shooter? Granted, some of these attacks weren't very successful, but it was more a matter of the attackers stupidity than anything the Feds did about it.
What works really good in cases like this, is to go to the manufacturer's website, go to the tech support section, and download the user's manual for the device in question. In the case with your cameras, the manual will certainly tell you just how convenient and capable the manual focus ability of the camera is to use and how to activate it. I almost always read the user's manual for any expensive device (like a camera) that I'm considering buying before actually making the purchase.
Could you just sleep them instead of turning them off? If they are basically laptop components I would guess they would support sleep mode pretty well. Then you can just wake them with the keyboard/mouse.
A cheap computer from Best Buy and Walmart would almost certainly be running one of the "Home" versions of Windows that's incapable of joining a domain. Sure, you could upgrade it, but that'll eat away your savings right there.
Another problem is that the guy with the scanner is cherry-picking the more desirable items, and leaving the chaff. If a store routinely gets swept by these people with the scanners, the other customers may find that the store no longer has much that interests them anymore and stop shopping there.
High-speed trading adds zero liquidity. They don't purchase a stocks until they have a buyer already lined up. Their whole game is find a buyer before the seller can on their own, and take a cut out of the middle.
You have to keep in mind that those 20" high-end CRTs cost like $1000 or more back in the day. High resolution monitors will still cost you about the same, it's just that now you have a wide selection of cheap monitors that you didn't have before.
Though I really wish that someone would make a high-DPI desktop screen. There really isn't anything with more than 100 DPI widely available.
With the newer ones, you might have some luck by looking for parasitic electrical loads when the car is off. Given that it probably sleeps most of the time and periodically wakes up to take a reading, it would leave a telltale periodic power spike that shouldn't be there (at least I can't think of anything in my car that would do something like that - only a constant, very low draw to maintain things like the clock). Granted, they could defeat this by installing some sensors and only activating the device when the car is on/moving.
I would assume that the Volt would be harder on the batteries than a Prius. The Prius tries really hard to not fully discharge or fully charge the batteries as that is what's hardest on them, instead the Prius generally keeps them around 40-80% charged. On the other hand, batteries on the Volt are going to regularly charged to 100% and nearly fully discharged at times. I expect that will shorten their life somewhat.
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Sigh. A Core i7 is not the same as a Xeon. Intel charges you (and Apple) more for the Xeon as it is a workstation/server CPU. If you can't spec the same, the comparison is useless.
Well, go ahead and spec the i7 for the Mac then. Wait, you can't and have to get the Xeon for more $$$? That's too bad.
Not true. Most Mac laptops use integrated nVidia graphics. Granted, they are better than than Intel's integrated graphics, but they are still integrated graphics.
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Well, the Google study only mentions that it had drives from "many" manufacturers. Note they they did not say "All". I can only guess that by 2001 Google had learned their lesson about using WD drives and stopped buying them :)
Raid 1+0 and similar schemes is basically an array made up of arrays of disks. So can have a RAID array if you really wanted to.
Shornt term thinking like that is why we spent billions on the Y2K problem. I would think that the free market would put any company you run out of business in a hurry.
Well, the thing is, the digital packrat doesn't take up much space. Why not keep those old episodes around? It's not like you need to have a wall of VHS tapes to keep that stuff anymore.
Besides, sometimes it's not really worth going through all that stuff just to figure out what to delete or to keep. I can spend hours sorting through the files in those old directories, and maybe reclaim 20GB. Whoohoo, I just saved myself like $2 worth of drive space!
You mean fresh water supplies like the Ogallala Aquifer that are currently being depleted a rate faster than they can replenish? Just to feed everyone assumes a high level of mechanized farming in areas that would not support it without massive amounts of water being imported from somewhere. I don't see how the US could support the world population (for more than a few years) without rapidly depleting its natural resources, even assuming a drastic cut in the standards of living.
The link only covers enough water for sanitation, cooking, and drinking. What about the water needed for irrigating crops and industrial uses, which totally dwarfs the domestic water use?
Actually, Windows XP can't do DNS lookups over IPv6, so you need at least some IPv4 connectivity for XP to work. I don't expect Microsoft to fix this either (other than telling you to buy Vista/7 which does work properly).
DC sniper? Anthrax attacks? Shoe bomber? Pants bomber? Times square bomber? Fort Hood shooter? Granted, some of these attacks weren't very successful, but it was more a matter of the attackers stupidity than anything the Feds did about it.
What works really good in cases like this, is to go to the manufacturer's website, go to the tech support section, and download the user's manual for the device in question. In the case with your cameras, the manual will certainly tell you just how convenient and capable the manual focus ability of the camera is to use and how to activate it. I almost always read the user's manual for any expensive device (like a camera) that I'm considering buying before actually making the purchase.
Could you just sleep them instead of turning them off? If they are basically laptop components I would guess they would support sleep mode pretty well. Then you can just wake them with the keyboard/mouse.
A cheap computer from Best Buy and Walmart would almost certainly be running one of the "Home" versions of Windows that's incapable of joining a domain. Sure, you could upgrade it, but that'll eat away your savings right there.
I'm pretty sure we don't have the fresh water supplies to accomplish that. Well, we might for a few years while we completely drain the Great Lakes.
Maybe we should nuke Detroit?
Another problem is that the guy with the scanner is cherry-picking the more desirable items, and leaving the chaff. If a store routinely gets swept by these people with the scanners, the other customers may find that the store no longer has much that interests them anymore and stop shopping there.
Well, the reason why we do it is simple: The cost of disposing of them properly outweighs the value of any raw materials recovered from them.
High-speed trading adds zero liquidity. They don't purchase a stocks until they have a buyer already lined up. Their whole game is find a buyer before the seller can on their own, and take a cut out of the middle.
You have to keep in mind that those 20" high-end CRTs cost like $1000 or more back in the day. High resolution monitors will still cost you about the same, it's just that now you have a wide selection of cheap monitors that you didn't have before.
Though I really wish that someone would make a high-DPI desktop screen. There really isn't anything with more than 100 DPI widely available.
With the newer ones, you might have some luck by looking for parasitic electrical loads when the car is off. Given that it probably sleeps most of the time and periodically wakes up to take a reading, it would leave a telltale periodic power spike that shouldn't be there (at least I can't think of anything in my car that would do something like that - only a constant, very low draw to maintain things like the clock). Granted, they could defeat this by installing some sensors and only activating the device when the car is on/moving.
And the more complicated you make the car, the more maintenance that'll need to be done on it. What's so hard to understand about that?
Well, it is made by General Motors...
I would assume that the Volt would be harder on the batteries than a Prius. The Prius tries really hard to not fully discharge or fully charge the batteries as that is what's hardest on them, instead the Prius generally keeps them around 40-80% charged. On the other hand, batteries on the Volt are going to regularly charged to 100% and nearly fully discharged at times. I expect that will shorten their life somewhat.
Well, go ahead and spec the i7 for the Mac then. Wait, you can't and have to get the Xeon for more $$$? That's too bad.
Actually, no. You can't natively boot DOS on a Mac because they lack a BIOS.
Not true. Most Mac laptops use integrated nVidia graphics. Granted, they are better than than Intel's integrated graphics, but they are still integrated graphics.
Don't worry, the 16:9 version of those panels at 2560x1440 pixels are starting to come out.