20" 4:3 screens did get down to just under $300 (for a TN panel) right before widescreen completely took over. This was probably around mid-2007. Should have picked up a few when I had the chance. The remaining 4:3 20" screens seem to IPS screens be aimed at the pro market. For an IPS panel they really aren't too out of line price-wise with the IPS widescreens.
That's my experience. And if it doesn't fully calibrate they'll throw a sticker on it along the lines of "OUT OF SPEC: >40MHz" and be done with it. The lab I work at has a couple of pieces of equipment with stickers like that they will happily calibrate and put a new sticker on every year when it's due. If the piece of equipment is out of spec in a range we don't need, then we don't care.
As someone who has used Labview, That post literally had me LOLing. If only I had mod points...
I much, much prefer Labwindows/CVI (NI's C-based development environment) for working in the NI-ecosystem, where the costs are more or less as you describe. Labwindows is certainly not going to save you any money though.
A suggestion for a cheaper data acquisition system for playing with at home may be VME. Sure, it's archaic, old, and can be a bitch to program for, but it's fast and the hardware can be found on eBay for relatively cheap. And if you want to go with NI later, you can always bend over and buy the VXI crate.
Not true. Only the 666+2/3 Mhz processor got rounded to 667Mhz. Every other model truncated the 2/3 and went with 266, 366Mhz, etc. For example, look at the following list. (the Celerons had the most 66/67 processors due to Intel sticking with the 66Mhz bus speed for so long, but it holds true for the Pentium II/Pentium III also) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#.22Covington.22_.28250_nm.29
The main disadvantages I can see are 1) higher materials cost, since you need a bigger chunk of aluminum, and 2) more flexing in the platters due to their larger diameter.
And 3) Having to overcome the reputation of the Quantum Bigfoot drives.
A Celeron e1500, while a low-end chip, is still a dual-core based off the Core 2 architecture. 2003-era tech is something like a non-Hyperthreading P4 (or Hyperthreading later in the year if you spent some money), a Socket A Athlon, or one of those truly terrible Netburst Celerons.
Generally that's because when you're picking out the parts yourself, you're probably not going to pick the barely adequate, sub-standard power supply, the motherboard with last year's budget chipset, or the 5400RPM hard drive. A few bucks here and a few there and it starts to add up.
AOL can spam the entire country with CDs through the snail mail. Companies like Dell have manufacturing processes down to an exact science. It's not that big of a cost. No really, it isn't.
I'm guessing we won't be able to play that game forever. Being able to pay off debt later with inflated dollars is a good deal for us, but not for the buyer of our debts. Eventually they'll stop buying the debt, and we'll have to raise interest rates to get them to buy again. A few rounds of that and we'll be cooked all the same.
Ever feel how hot those things get now, even when running normally? It's not surprising that they would completely fall over if you push them even moderately hard.
that breaks upgradability. if you put a ROM into the calc's with a base firmware, and a problem with that firmware ever pops up, you'll have to replace/recall all those units. whereas FLASH is upgradeable, and you can just send fixes to people.
Well, that just means it'll be like it was in the 90's when the calculator's firmware was in ROM and they had to pretty sure it was as bug-free as possible before shipping it out the door. Even so, I know the TI-85 (the TI graphing calculator I'm most familiar with) had several ROM revisions. I don't know what the difference between all the ROMs - there are 10 known versions, but some of the earlier ones had some nasty bugs having to do with auto-poweroff sometimes kicking in when a program was running which would corrupt the memory. There were never any recalls over that. Even the last revision (which I own) still has a bug in it, though at least that one would be nearly impossible to run into accidentally, and is fun to play with once you know about it.
Well, did you get away with it (in the sense that they actually did think it was a virus), or did they figure out that you had purposely installed a torrent client and reprimanded you for it?
The thing is, once you've played that game, the company may assume you're leaving one way or the other. Sure, they may give you that raise, but it's only to keep you around long enough that they can find your replacement. So the risk is that you decide to keep your job and turn down the other job offer, only to find yourself unemployed in a few weeks or months.
You sound like one of the people who defends trickle-down economics. In case you haven't noticed, trickle-down economics doesn't work. Yes, money does trickle-down when you give it to the rich, but for the most part the rich just use it to further increase the size of the piece of the pie by moving jobs overseas and creating bizarre financial instruments. Compared to giving tax cuts to the poor, it's incredibly inefficient as the poor directly spend the money on goods and services which keep the economy moving. The high-speed financial trading is much the same way, as it funnels money from the average investors to people who are already very rich. Sure, some of that money will eventually trickle back down to them, but they'd overall be better off if the money wasn't taken from them in the first place. It's inefficient. Maybe you should go back to Economics 1 yourself, and pay more attention to when they explain concepts like opportunity costs.
The reason I hate the idea is that I have to sit it traffic with my traditional 25MPG sedan while some dick driving alone in his enormous 18MPG hybrid Tahoe blows on by. If you want to reward people, it should a mileage requirement, and nothing to do with the powertrain technology.
I'm pretty sure it's just there to pacify people who worry about the range of an electric vehicle. The next step is for the people who buy one and don't travel very far to realize that they are just wasting their money maintaining and hauling around a gasoline system they never use. Then for their next vehicle, they'll be fully ready to save some money by purchasing a full electric. I fully expect the gasoline backup system to be an option on the 2nd-generation.
On the other hand, it's a pretty amazing deal compared to satellite radio, which costs about the same for one physical receiver, you don't get digital files at all, has no on-demand capabilities, the few portable players that exist have awful battery life, and the instant you stop paying it becomes a paperweight. It's actually a pretty good service for trying out various things and discovering new music.
That'll probably work for slides that have degraded partially. The problem with many of my Grandpa's slides is that the ones from the 50's to mid-60's all the blue and green are completely gone, effectively leaving them as monochrome slides. So it's not just a matter of boosting the blues and greens back to where they should be (using a tool like PhotoShop), as there is no greens and blues left to boost. They can be colorized again, but using the same methods as you would employ to colorize a B&W photograph.
Actually, the whole tire noise comment is interesting. Probably the reason why you don't see that many pedestrian fatalities is because at higher speeds, the tires are going to be making enough noise that people will hear the hybrid, and at slower speeds there may be more accidents but rarely is someone going to get killed.
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20" 4:3 screens did get down to just under $300 (for a TN panel) right before widescreen completely took over. This was probably around mid-2007. Should have picked up a few when I had the chance. The remaining 4:3 20" screens seem to IPS screens be aimed at the pro market. For an IPS panel they really aren't too out of line price-wise with the IPS widescreens.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. While the driver would be safe, ramming another vehicle with one of these Volvos would end up destroying the car.
Actually more like Apple.
That's my experience. And if it doesn't fully calibrate they'll throw a sticker on it along the lines of "OUT OF SPEC: >40MHz" and be done with it. The lab I work at has a couple of pieces of equipment with stickers like that they will happily calibrate and put a new sticker on every year when it's due. If the piece of equipment is out of spec in a range we don't need, then we don't care.
As someone who has used Labview, That post literally had me LOLing. If only I had mod points...
I much, much prefer Labwindows/CVI (NI's C-based development environment) for working in the NI-ecosystem, where the costs are more or less as you describe. Labwindows is certainly not going to save you any money though.
A suggestion for a cheaper data acquisition system for playing with at home may be VME. Sure, it's archaic, old, and can be a bitch to program for, but it's fast and the hardware can be found on eBay for relatively cheap. And if you want to go with NI later, you can always bend over and buy the VXI crate.
Not true. Only the 666+2/3 Mhz processor got rounded to 667Mhz. Every other model truncated the 2/3 and went with 266, 366Mhz, etc. For example, look at the following list. (the Celerons had the most 66/67 processors due to Intel sticking with the 66Mhz bus speed for so long, but it holds true for the Pentium II/Pentium III also)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#.22Covington.22_.28250_nm.29
And 3) Having to overcome the reputation of the Quantum Bigfoot drives.
Check your local dumpsters. Though the best I've found so far are hyperthreading P4's and Athlon XP's.
A Celeron e1500, while a low-end chip, is still a dual-core based off the Core 2 architecture. 2003-era tech is something like a non-Hyperthreading P4 (or Hyperthreading later in the year if you spent some money), a Socket A Athlon, or one of those truly terrible Netburst Celerons.
Generally that's because when you're picking out the parts yourself, you're probably not going to pick the barely adequate, sub-standard power supply, the motherboard with last year's budget chipset, or the 5400RPM hard drive. A few bucks here and a few there and it starts to add up.
AOL can spam the entire country with CDs through the snail mail. Companies like Dell have manufacturing processes down to an exact science. It's not that big of a cost. No really, it isn't.
I'm guessing we won't be able to play that game forever. Being able to pay off debt later with inflated dollars is a good deal for us, but not for the buyer of our debts. Eventually they'll stop buying the debt, and we'll have to raise interest rates to get them to buy again. A few rounds of that and we'll be cooked all the same.
Ever feel how hot those things get now, even when running normally? It's not surprising that they would completely fall over if you push them even moderately hard.
Well, that just means it'll be like it was in the 90's when the calculator's firmware was in ROM and they had to pretty sure it was as bug-free as possible before shipping it out the door. Even so, I know the TI-85 (the TI graphing calculator I'm most familiar with) had several ROM revisions. I don't know what the difference between all the ROMs - there are 10 known versions, but some of the earlier ones had some nasty bugs having to do with auto-poweroff sometimes kicking in when a program was running which would corrupt the memory. There were never any recalls over that. Even the last revision (which I own) still has a bug in it, though at least that one would be nearly impossible to run into accidentally, and is fun to play with once you know about it.
Well, did you get away with it (in the sense that they actually did think it was a virus), or did they figure out that you had purposely installed a torrent client and reprimanded you for it?
The thing is, once you've played that game, the company may assume you're leaving one way or the other. Sure, they may give you that raise, but it's only to keep you around long enough that they can find your replacement. So the risk is that you decide to keep your job and turn down the other job offer, only to find yourself unemployed in a few weeks or months.
You sound like one of the people who defends trickle-down economics. In case you haven't noticed, trickle-down economics doesn't work. Yes, money does trickle-down when you give it to the rich, but for the most part the rich just use it to further increase the size of the piece of the pie by moving jobs overseas and creating bizarre financial instruments. Compared to giving tax cuts to the poor, it's incredibly inefficient as the poor directly spend the money on goods and services which keep the economy moving. The high-speed financial trading is much the same way, as it funnels money from the average investors to people who are already very rich. Sure, some of that money will eventually trickle back down to them, but they'd overall be better off if the money wasn't taken from them in the first place. It's inefficient. Maybe you should go back to Economics 1 yourself, and pay more attention to when they explain concepts like opportunity costs.
The reason I hate the idea is that I have to sit it traffic with my traditional 25MPG sedan while some dick driving alone in his enormous 18MPG hybrid Tahoe blows on by. If you want to reward people, it should a mileage requirement, and nothing to do with the powertrain technology.
I'm pretty sure it's just there to pacify people who worry about the range of an electric vehicle. The next step is for the people who buy one and don't travel very far to realize that they are just wasting their money maintaining and hauling around a gasoline system they never use. Then for their next vehicle, they'll be fully ready to save some money by purchasing a full electric. I fully expect the gasoline backup system to be an option on the 2nd-generation.
How about a minivan that can do all of that and has mileage in the low 20's?
...which wouldn't be an issue on a laptop like the original poster had.
Until Apple provided the tools to fix them, there was no way to recover them. So yes, they were bricked.
On the other hand, it's a pretty amazing deal compared to satellite radio, which costs about the same for one physical receiver, you don't get digital files at all, has no on-demand capabilities, the few portable players that exist have awful battery life, and the instant you stop paying it becomes a paperweight. It's actually a pretty good service for trying out various things and discovering new music.
That'll probably work for slides that have degraded partially. The problem with many of my Grandpa's slides is that the ones from the 50's to mid-60's all the blue and green are completely gone, effectively leaving them as monochrome slides. So it's not just a matter of boosting the blues and greens back to where they should be (using a tool like PhotoShop), as there is no greens and blues left to boost. They can be colorized again, but using the same methods as you would employ to colorize a B&W photograph.
Actually, the whole tire noise comment is interesting. Probably the reason why you don't see that many pedestrian fatalities is because at higher speeds, the tires are going to be making enough noise that people will hear the hybrid, and at slower speeds there may be more accidents but rarely is someone going to get killed.