Note that not all motherboards will boot off a M.2 drive connected like that. With Linux, you can just put/boot on something else and everything else can be on the M.2 drive. For Windows it can be a bit more annoying to set up.
If I had to guess, if you take the people who buy desktops, and remove the corporate market, the number of people who build their own computers is probably larger than you might think.
The problem is everyone seems to be like me - built themselves a computer 5 years ago and feel absolutely no reason to build a new one today.
Well, BMW got it wrong too with the original iDrive system, and they were criticized for it pretty heavily. Of course, that was also 15 years ago, it seems that they might have learned a thing or two in the meantime. The system in your car with the knob in the center console looks like a descendant of it.
It kind of got off to a rocky start in the Windows world. Windows 95 in theory had a patch to support USB, but I never managed to get it to work. Windows 98 supported some USB stuff, but many common devices such as USB mass storage devices did not have a built-in driver, so about the only thing you could plug into Windows 98 and count on it just working without having to install something was a standard keyboard or a mouse, and maybe a USB floppy drive. Windows NT4 never supported USB at all. It wasn't until Windows ME and 2000 that USB more or less worked as you would expect it today.
I had one of those for a while. I wasn't very careful with it at all, and it still managed to run for almost 3 years. It ran stock Android too, which puts it above tablets from major manufacturers like Samsung in that regard.
Performance wasn't that great, it really was just fast enough to be useable.
A piece of advice is that in this price range, the Intel Atom based tablets are way slower than the ARM ones.
Exactly this. The single core performance isn't that much improved, which has been the story since Sandy Bridge. The performance improvements come almost entirely from the fact they have more cores. Keep in mind they've already been building chips like this in the Xeon line, so really it's just a matter of taking the Xeon's they were going to sell, disabling some features, and calling them i7's and i5's. And then taking what was going to be the i5 and making it the i3. There really isn't anything that ground-breaking here.
That may be true, but Microsoft's death will be a long slow decline as the corporate world moves too slowly. They'll still be around in some form 10 years from now.
Well, it's not totally implausible. What if they figure there's no way we'd ever get out of the solar system, so that's all they've bothered simulating? Sometimes I wonder if the whole expansion of the universe, dark matter, and the Hubble constant are just a precision error that they thought we'd never notice.
Well, one of things Hyundai does is it's only a lifetime warranty for the original owner of the car. Once the car is sold second hand then the warranty converts into a 10 year/100,000 mile warranty for all subsequent owners (which still isn't bad). So like some of these other lifetime warranties I've seen offered (usually by dealers) one of the things they betting on is that the vast majority of the cars are not going to be sold to people who keep the car that long.
The $200 fee is the question. If the dealership didn't attempt to charge the fee and just removed the device then there would be no issue, and I'm certain that's an arrangement the grandmother would have been fine with. Since the dealership refused to remove their property from the car when offered the chance to do so, then the device would be considered abandoned and the owner of the car could do whatever they liked with it and the dealership would forfeit any right to access it at all.
One of the other concerns is that it could cause the geothermal features at Yellowstone to go dormant if you siphon the heat away that powers them. This has happened in other areas where geothermal plants have been built in areas close to geysers and hot springs.
It would be a shame to lose these features in one of America's top national parks, but I suppose it's better than dying from starvation after the supervolcano blows.
You sure give out some financial advice that is, well, interesting. Insurance really is for things and events that I could not afford to pay for otherwise. That's why I have homeowner's insurance, liability auto insurance, and medical insurance (that also covers a lot of stuff I can pay for, but that's another issue). The insurance company needs to take in more money than the pay out in premiums so they can run all those advertising campaigns on TV, so in the long run it's a bad deal as on average you will give them more money in premiums than you will get back. But a necessary evil to cover things I simply can't afford pay for out of my pocket, which is why I give them money every month so if my house burned to the ground I'm covered.
Now, a phone on the other hand isn't that expensive. Sure, if I dropped it into a lake I would not be happy, but I can easily come up with the $200-$300 or so to replace it. So it's cheaper to deal with a potential $200-$300 event rather than pay more money than that on insuring it. Exact same thing with extended warranties on a $100 microwave at places like Best Buy.
Also, the funny thing about Applecare is that they still charge you for accidental damage to the phone. I guess it's cheaper than another iPhone, but geez.
Keep in mind that it is also $66,500 in 2057 dollars. A 7% return every year is pretty good, but inflation is going to eat away at that. Given the way tech tends to be, I bet that will still be quite a bit of money in terms of fancy phones, but probably not much else.
There's still the problems with the options packages. You can't just buy the options you want, you have to buy a package with a whole bunch of things lumped together. Nowadays they've limited the number of configurations (usually grouped into a small number of "tiers") and available colors to the point where I would be surprised if a decently large dealer didn't have a specific configuration of a popular model in their stock.
They make things like that, do a search for commercial monitors. These are used for things like the electronic displays at the mall and stuff like that. They are expensive - though not as bad as they once were. But are designed to run 24/7 so they should last a long time in a home setting, at least in theory.
Actually, what you need is an external HDMI switch, then all the TV needs is a single port. It would be nice to have the HDMI switch built into the TV, but if big dumb monitors come with only a single port, then I guess that's what is needed.
So basically the same thing as in the article, except the upgrade that broke stuff was to the OS on the HTPC and not the TV firmware. Though one advantage to the HTPC is that it could be rolled back if you were so inclined to do so.
What's wrong with Fortran? Granted, Fortran and Javascript are used for completely different things (well, at least they should be), but Fortran works pretty well for what it's generally used for nowadays - heavy duty number crunching where speed is important.
Also given that Social Security looks like it will be cut down, if not gone completely, rising medical and insurance costs, the outrageous fees the bankers take right off the top, and inflation chipping away at what earnings are left - even as someone who's done a pretty good job of saving I still don't see how it's going last more than a few years into retirement.
I still saw 486's for sale in 1995 and even going into 1996. The Pentiums were initially very expensive and the first generation 5V chips at 60 and 66 MHz were never very popular anyway. The AMD and Cyrix "586" chips (which really were just 486's) helped keep the platform alive a bit longer too.
With that said, computer technology was moving really fast back then, and a 3-4 year old computer in 1997 was feeling pretty dated.
What are you talking about? In the "real world", an Intel (or AMD) x86 core stomps all over ARM. An i7 absolutely crushes those 8 core ARM chips in your phone. The fastest ARM chips perform on the level of a Pentium 4 from 15 years ago, and most of them are more like a Pentium III.
Of course, the ARM chips also sip power which is why they are used in tablets and phones. So really different chips for different purposes.
Keep in mind that the spacecraft have a potential be to be around for a very, very long time. Even if they only pass by a star every few hundred thousand years, in a billion years they will have passed by thousands of stars. It's very likely they'll still be floating through space when the Sun goes into its red giant and engulfs the Earth. Eventually they may hit something or get sucked into a black hole, but they could still exist for billions or even trillions of years after the Earth is gone and the Sun is just a remnant. So while it's still very unlikely they will ever be found, I'd say the chances are better than you might think. Though if they are found chances are humanity will have been long gone and it'll be one of the only records we ever existed.
The problem I think parent is alluding to is that the probe is traveling really fast. If it came sailing through our solar system at 17 km/s, we'd have a heck of a time trying to catch up to it. Even more so as I'm pretty sure we'd not realize just how interesting of an object it is until is was already right on top of us not giving a very big window to react. And that's assuming we'd even detect it and realize what it was in the first place.
Basically if you're willing to spend the money to get more than 4 cores, you might consider upgrading. But if you would get another quad core (which is what you would get for the same amount of money that you spent on the 2600K), don't bother.
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Note that not all motherboards will boot off a M.2 drive connected like that. With Linux, you can just put /boot on something else and everything else can be on the M.2 drive. For Windows it can be a bit more annoying to set up.
If I had to guess, if you take the people who buy desktops, and remove the corporate market, the number of people who build their own computers is probably larger than you might think.
The problem is everyone seems to be like me - built themselves a computer 5 years ago and feel absolutely no reason to build a new one today.
Well, BMW got it wrong too with the original iDrive system, and they were criticized for it pretty heavily. Of course, that was also 15 years ago, it seems that they might have learned a thing or two in the meantime. The system in your car with the knob in the center console looks like a descendant of it.
It kind of got off to a rocky start in the Windows world. Windows 95 in theory had a patch to support USB, but I never managed to get it to work. Windows 98 supported some USB stuff, but many common devices such as USB mass storage devices did not have a built-in driver, so about the only thing you could plug into Windows 98 and count on it just working without having to install something was a standard keyboard or a mouse, and maybe a USB floppy drive. Windows NT4 never supported USB at all. It wasn't until Windows ME and 2000 that USB more or less worked as you would expect it today.
I had one of those for a while. I wasn't very careful with it at all, and it still managed to run for almost 3 years. It ran stock Android too, which puts it above tablets from major manufacturers like Samsung in that regard.
Performance wasn't that great, it really was just fast enough to be useable.
A piece of advice is that in this price range, the Intel Atom based tablets are way slower than the ARM ones.
Exactly this. The single core performance isn't that much improved, which has been the story since Sandy Bridge. The performance improvements come almost entirely from the fact they have more cores. Keep in mind they've already been building chips like this in the Xeon line, so really it's just a matter of taking the Xeon's they were going to sell, disabling some features, and calling them i7's and i5's. And then taking what was going to be the i5 and making it the i3. There really isn't anything that ground-breaking here.
That may be true, but Microsoft's death will be a long slow decline as the corporate world moves too slowly. They'll still be around in some form 10 years from now.
Well, it's not totally implausible. What if they figure there's no way we'd ever get out of the solar system, so that's all they've bothered simulating? Sometimes I wonder if the whole expansion of the universe, dark matter, and the Hubble constant are just a precision error that they thought we'd never notice.
Well, one of things Hyundai does is it's only a lifetime warranty for the original owner of the car. Once the car is sold second hand then the warranty converts into a 10 year/100,000 mile warranty for all subsequent owners (which still isn't bad). So like some of these other lifetime warranties I've seen offered (usually by dealers) one of the things they betting on is that the vast majority of the cars are not going to be sold to people who keep the car that long.
Your floppy disks are almost certainly FAT12 unless you formatted them very strangely.
The $200 fee is the question. If the dealership didn't attempt to charge the fee and just removed the device then there would be no issue, and I'm certain that's an arrangement the grandmother would have been fine with. Since the dealership refused to remove their property from the car when offered the chance to do so, then the device would be considered abandoned and the owner of the car could do whatever they liked with it and the dealership would forfeit any right to access it at all.
One of the other concerns is that it could cause the geothermal features at Yellowstone to go dormant if you siphon the heat away that powers them. This has happened in other areas where geothermal plants have been built in areas close to geysers and hot springs.
It would be a shame to lose these features in one of America's top national parks, but I suppose it's better than dying from starvation after the supervolcano blows.
You sure give out some financial advice that is, well, interesting. Insurance really is for things and events that I could not afford to pay for otherwise. That's why I have homeowner's insurance, liability auto insurance, and medical insurance (that also covers a lot of stuff I can pay for, but that's another issue). The insurance company needs to take in more money than the pay out in premiums so they can run all those advertising campaigns on TV, so in the long run it's a bad deal as on average you will give them more money in premiums than you will get back. But a necessary evil to cover things I simply can't afford pay for out of my pocket, which is why I give them money every month so if my house burned to the ground I'm covered.
Now, a phone on the other hand isn't that expensive. Sure, if I dropped it into a lake I would not be happy, but I can easily come up with the $200-$300 or so to replace it. So it's cheaper to deal with a potential $200-$300 event rather than pay more money than that on insuring it. Exact same thing with extended warranties on a $100 microwave at places like Best Buy.
Also, the funny thing about Applecare is that they still charge you for accidental damage to the phone. I guess it's cheaper than another iPhone, but geez.
Keep in mind that it is also $66,500 in 2057 dollars. A 7% return every year is pretty good, but inflation is going to eat away at that. Given the way tech tends to be, I bet that will still be quite a bit of money in terms of fancy phones, but probably not much else.
There's still the problems with the options packages. You can't just buy the options you want, you have to buy a package with a whole bunch of things lumped together. Nowadays they've limited the number of configurations (usually grouped into a small number of "tiers") and available colors to the point where I would be surprised if a decently large dealer didn't have a specific configuration of a popular model in their stock.
They make things like that, do a search for commercial monitors. These are used for things like the electronic displays at the mall and stuff like that. They are expensive - though not as bad as they once were. But are designed to run 24/7 so they should last a long time in a home setting, at least in theory.
Actually, what you need is an external HDMI switch, then all the TV needs is a single port. It would be nice to have the HDMI switch built into the TV, but if big dumb monitors come with only a single port, then I guess that's what is needed.
So basically the same thing as in the article, except the upgrade that broke stuff was to the OS on the HTPC and not the TV firmware. Though one advantage to the HTPC is that it could be rolled back if you were so inclined to do so.
What's wrong with Fortran? Granted, Fortran and Javascript are used for completely different things (well, at least they should be), but Fortran works pretty well for what it's generally used for nowadays - heavy duty number crunching where speed is important.
Also given that Social Security looks like it will be cut down, if not gone completely, rising medical and insurance costs, the outrageous fees the bankers take right off the top, and inflation chipping away at what earnings are left - even as someone who's done a pretty good job of saving I still don't see how it's going last more than a few years into retirement.
I still saw 486's for sale in 1995 and even going into 1996. The Pentiums were initially very expensive and the first generation 5V chips at 60 and 66 MHz were never very popular anyway. The AMD and Cyrix "586" chips (which really were just 486's) helped keep the platform alive a bit longer too.
With that said, computer technology was moving really fast back then, and a 3-4 year old computer in 1997 was feeling pretty dated.
What are you talking about? In the "real world", an Intel (or AMD) x86 core stomps all over ARM. An i7 absolutely crushes those 8 core ARM chips in your phone. The fastest ARM chips perform on the level of a Pentium 4 from 15 years ago, and most of them are more like a Pentium III.
Of course, the ARM chips also sip power which is why they are used in tablets and phones. So really different chips for different purposes.
Keep in mind that the spacecraft have a potential be to be around for a very, very long time. Even if they only pass by a star every few hundred thousand years, in a billion years they will have passed by thousands of stars. It's very likely they'll still be floating through space when the Sun goes into its red giant and engulfs the Earth. Eventually they may hit something or get sucked into a black hole, but they could still exist for billions or even trillions of years after the Earth is gone and the Sun is just a remnant. So while it's still very unlikely they will ever be found, I'd say the chances are better than you might think. Though if they are found chances are humanity will have been long gone and it'll be one of the only records we ever existed.
The problem I think parent is alluding to is that the probe is traveling really fast. If it came sailing through our solar system at 17 km/s, we'd have a heck of a time trying to catch up to it. Even more so as I'm pretty sure we'd not realize just how interesting of an object it is until is was already right on top of us not giving a very big window to react. And that's assuming we'd even detect it and realize what it was in the first place.
Basically if you're willing to spend the money to get more than 4 cores, you might consider upgrading. But if you would get another quad core (which is what you would get for the same amount of money that you spent on the 2600K), don't bother.