Which is why Microsoft has been trying so hard to break into other markets. Gaming consoles, media PCs, MP3 players, new search engines, and stuff like that.
And thinking like that guarantees that we won't get anything but pro-business, big government, borrow and spend, anti-freedom, corrupt politicians from the two major parties for the foreseeable future.
I have to agree. I used to enjoy watching football games, but the major networks have done their best to make them nearly unwatchable.
If you still like sports, I suggest trying the audio-only feeds (aka radio). The announcers are far better, the advertising is far less in your face, and they generally concentrate more on the play rather than a bajillion useless statistics and promoting whatever crappy show airs after the game.
The actual statistic is 8 hours of TV per day per household. Once you factor in households with more than one TV with more than one person watching a TV at a time, the number is a bit more realistic. Slashdotters have to remember that not everyone lives by their lonesome selves:)
They'll happily give you a for a high end diesel truck, even if you'll be barely able to pay it off - provided you have a credit history. But if you don't have a credit history, you might as well not exist.
Who's to say there aren't probes already in our solar system? Unless they were going out of their way to be noticed by us, at this point it would be pretty unlikely that we would have stumbled upon them. We've only imaged a very small number of asteroids, comets, and other similar objects in any kind of significant detail. Most everything else we only have the crudest of images, if we have anything at all.
It's easy for them to switch back to nVidia at any point. Which is why I see some of these "Why Apple didn't use AMD chips" posts as so silly. It would be very easy for them to use either both Intel and AMD (and VIA too) and switch between them as needed.
On the other hand, even if the LHC is completely harmless, there will still exist a universe that we can never get the LHC to work due to a seemingly never-ending sequence of bizarre and unlikely events. Just like there must exist somewhere a universe where an unlikely and bizarre sequence of events prevents me from ever starting my car.
In that sense, just because we can't get the LHC to work doesn't mean it can potentially destroy us or the universe.
What a bunch of nonsense. You do not need to do anything special to make the code run on the Atom. It's a standard x86 chip. Look at Windows XP - it runs on the Atom despite predating it for years. Linux needed no modifications to run on the Atom. The only reasons OSX won't boot on the Atom would be that:
1. OSX uses x64 and/or SSE4 which the Atom lacks. This may be the case someday, but for the time being disabling support for processors without those features also means OSX won't boot on the original Intel Core Duo Macs. Support hasn't been dropped for those computers, which leaves us with... 2. OSX specifically checks for the Atom and refuses to boot on it.
Now it's possible that the performance might not be the greatest, but Apple has OSX running on the Apple TV and still supports the original Intel Core Solo Mac Mini, both of which are pretty weak in the power department.
Standard support is general bug fixes, and updates to fix things like DST changes. That ends sooner, but the extended support phase, which includes security patches, goes all the way to 2014 for Windows XP. So yes, Microsoft will keep you secure for that long.
After that, you will have to pay for patches. I'm not aware of any set end date for the paid support. Probably depends on how deep your pockets are.
Most US plus for some reason think it is a great idea to stick far further out from the wall than even the huge British plug due to plugging in perpendicular.
Well, one thing the US plug has going for it here is that a plug laying on the floor doesn't tend to have the (nearly unbendable) prongs sticking straight up. Something you might appreciate in when you have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Whenever I've seen that, it generally just penalizes you for completely random guessing. Typically if you can eliminate at least one of the responses as wrong, you're better off statistically to guess one of the remaining answers.
And the 50% is about right. In school, we had those machines that could only see responses filled in with #2 pencil. I used to track which questions I guessed on by making a small mark on the answer sheet whenever I wasn't confident with a pen. I found that typically I could count on getting credit for about half of the questions where I had to guess.
I don't know about other cars, but my Infiniti (aka Nissan) won't let you turn the key enough to engage the steering lock unless you have the car in park. Of course, this doesn't help you if you have a manual - for those there is a small button you must push in to move the key enough to engage the lock, but once I've gotten used to it, I just automatically push the button without even thinking about it.
Well, you can buy a Fusion with a 6-speed manual transmission (in theory, I have yet to see one in person). But you're stuck with the electronic throttle control.
On the other hand, with Apple you will likely have to upgrade at some point to get the bug fixes. You don't really have to upgrade a Microsoft OS because they support them for so long. Anyone who bought a PC in the last 8 years got Windows XP, and is good until 2014 as far as updates are concerned. If I went out and bought a Mac today, it's pretty unlikely that Apple won't be patching the OS that it came with in 2014, because that's the way Apple does things.
Huh? The Atom is a standard x86 chip. There really isn't anything fancy about it, you don't need custom support at the OS level. About the only thing you might have to watch for is that it doesn't have all the latest and greatest tech like SSE4 and x64 (except for the latest model), but an Atom will otherwise run any code that a Pentium 4 or the original Core processor will run.
That seems like an awfully big change for just going from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2, as I would expect changing the kernel like that will randomly break things, no matter how careful they are about it. I could see that for the move to 10.7.0 though.
It may not necessarily be the number of bits in the register, if your counter is not being ticked up at exactly 0.1 seconds. I think this may be what the article was trying to say. For example, what if the embedded system ran at 33 and 1/3 Mhz, and therefore needed to increment the counter every 3,333,333 and 1/3 clock cycles? Except that there is no such thing as a 1/3 of a clock cycle to the software running on the system, so the counter is incremented every 33,333,333th clock cycle instead. Now you've just introduced a tiny accumulating error of 10ns per second, which can start to add up after many hours.
Because people here are geeks, and like to mess around and tinker with stuff because we can, and take pleasure in making old/slow/obsolete hardware do things it wasn't meant to do.
I wonder if Lynx would be good enough for configuring home routers? Unlike older versions of browsers, it supports a lot of modern HTML features but at the same time should not be a resource hog on an older laptop.
On the other hand, $100 is roughly the cost of the needed service plan for one month. The cost of the phone really isn't that much compared to the service needed to use it.
You use computers made in the 80's for a firewall? At best it will be a 386DX, and you'll have to screw around with ISA ethernet adaptors. Well, unless you are lucky enough to find an IBM machine and some MCA ethernet adaptors, and even then you'll still be limited to 10mbps.
I find that late generation P2's work great for firewalls. They have plenty of power, boot from CD, have enough PCI slots, relatively low power (when compared to early P2's and the P3), take standard SDRAM, and usually are free.
Not true at all. While you had better make sure that you have enough generating capacity to cover all the demand if the wind is not blowing, saying that wind power is only good for peak demand is false. Basically how it works is when the wind turbines are generating power, you can scale back generation the other power plants accordingly - most likely the coal and gas-fired ones since they cost more than the hydro/nuclear ones to run. Wind can even be used as part of the "baseline" power if it happens to be blowing during the times when demand is lowest (like the middle of the night).
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Maybe he's a Mac user?
Which is why Microsoft has been trying so hard to break into other markets. Gaming consoles, media PCs, MP3 players, new search engines, and stuff like that.
And thinking like that guarantees that we won't get anything but pro-business, big government, borrow and spend, anti-freedom, corrupt politicians from the two major parties for the foreseeable future.
I have to agree. I used to enjoy watching football games, but the major networks have done their best to make them nearly unwatchable.
If you still like sports, I suggest trying the audio-only feeds (aka radio). The announcers are far better, the advertising is far less in your face, and they generally concentrate more on the play rather than a bajillion useless statistics and promoting whatever crappy show airs after the game.
The actual statistic is 8 hours of TV per day per household. Once you factor in households with more than one TV with more than one person watching a TV at a time, the number is a bit more realistic. Slashdotters have to remember that not everyone lives by their lonesome selves :)
They'll happily give you a for a high end diesel truck, even if you'll be barely able to pay it off - provided you have a credit history. But if you don't have a credit history, you might as well not exist.
Who's to say there aren't probes already in our solar system? Unless they were going out of their way to be noticed by us, at this point it would be pretty unlikely that we would have stumbled upon them. We've only imaged a very small number of asteroids, comets, and other similar objects in any kind of significant detail. Most everything else we only have the crudest of images, if we have anything at all.
It's easy for them to switch back to nVidia at any point. Which is why I see some of these "Why Apple didn't use AMD chips" posts as so silly. It would be very easy for them to use either both Intel and AMD (and VIA too) and switch between them as needed.
On the other hand, even if the LHC is completely harmless, there will still exist a universe that we can never get the LHC to work due to a seemingly never-ending sequence of bizarre and unlikely events. Just like there must exist somewhere a universe where an unlikely and bizarre sequence of events prevents me from ever starting my car.
In that sense, just because we can't get the LHC to work doesn't mean it can potentially destroy us or the universe.
What a bunch of nonsense. You do not need to do anything special to make the code run on the Atom. It's a standard x86 chip. Look at Windows XP - it runs on the Atom despite predating it for years. Linux needed no modifications to run on the Atom. The only reasons OSX won't boot on the Atom would be that:
1. OSX uses x64 and/or SSE4 which the Atom lacks. This may be the case someday, but for the time being disabling support for processors without those features also means OSX won't boot on the original Intel Core Duo Macs. Support hasn't been dropped for those computers, which leaves us with...
2. OSX specifically checks for the Atom and refuses to boot on it.
Now it's possible that the performance might not be the greatest, but Apple has OSX running on the Apple TV and still supports the original Intel Core Solo Mac Mini, both of which are pretty weak in the power department.
Standard support is general bug fixes, and updates to fix things like DST changes. That ends sooner, but the extended support phase, which includes security patches, goes all the way to 2014 for Windows XP. So yes, Microsoft will keep you secure for that long.
After that, you will have to pay for patches. I'm not aware of any set end date for the paid support. Probably depends on how deep your pockets are.
Well, one thing the US plug has going for it here is that a plug laying on the floor doesn't tend to have the (nearly unbendable) prongs sticking straight up. Something you might appreciate in when you have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Whenever I've seen that, it generally just penalizes you for completely random guessing. Typically if you can eliminate at least one of the responses as wrong, you're better off statistically to guess one of the remaining answers.
And the 50% is about right. In school, we had those machines that could only see responses filled in with #2 pencil. I used to track which questions I guessed on by making a small mark on the answer sheet whenever I wasn't confident with a pen. I found that typically I could count on getting credit for about half of the questions where I had to guess.
I don't know about other cars, but my Infiniti (aka Nissan) won't let you turn the key enough to engage the steering lock unless you have the car in park. Of course, this doesn't help you if you have a manual - for those there is a small button you must push in to move the key enough to engage the lock, but once I've gotten used to it, I just automatically push the button without even thinking about it.
Well, you can buy a Fusion with a 6-speed manual transmission (in theory, I have yet to see one in person). But you're stuck with the electronic throttle control.
On the other hand, with Apple you will likely have to upgrade at some point to get the bug fixes. You don't really have to upgrade a Microsoft OS because they support them for so long. Anyone who bought a PC in the last 8 years got Windows XP, and is good until 2014 as far as updates are concerned. If I went out and bought a Mac today, it's pretty unlikely that Apple won't be patching the OS that it came with in 2014, because that's the way Apple does things.
Huh? The Atom is a standard x86 chip. There really isn't anything fancy about it, you don't need custom support at the OS level. About the only thing you might have to watch for is that it doesn't have all the latest and greatest tech like SSE4 and x64 (except for the latest model), but an Atom will otherwise run any code that a Pentium 4 or the original Core processor will run.
That seems like an awfully big change for just going from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2, as I would expect changing the kernel like that will randomly break things, no matter how careful they are about it. I could see that for the move to 10.7.0 though.
It may not necessarily be the number of bits in the register, if your counter is not being ticked up at exactly 0.1 seconds. I think this may be what the article was trying to say. For example, what if the embedded system ran at 33 and 1/3 Mhz, and therefore needed to increment the counter every 3,333,333 and 1/3 clock cycles? Except that there is no such thing as a 1/3 of a clock cycle to the software running on the system, so the counter is incremented every 33,333,333th clock cycle instead. Now you've just introduced a tiny accumulating error of 10ns per second, which can start to add up after many hours.
Actually, if you want to go down this route, it would make a whole lot more sense to take an inflated structure to Venus.
Because people here are geeks, and like to mess around and tinker with stuff because we can, and take pleasure in making old/slow/obsolete hardware do things it wasn't meant to do.
I wonder if Lynx would be good enough for configuring home routers? Unlike older versions of browsers, it supports a lot of modern HTML features but at the same time should not be a resource hog on an older laptop.
On the other hand, $100 is roughly the cost of the needed service plan for one month. The cost of the phone really isn't that much compared to the service needed to use it.
You use computers made in the 80's for a firewall? At best it will be a 386DX, and you'll have to screw around with ISA ethernet adaptors. Well, unless you are lucky enough to find an IBM machine and some MCA ethernet adaptors, and even then you'll still be limited to 10mbps.
I find that late generation P2's work great for firewalls. They have plenty of power, boot from CD, have enough PCI slots, relatively low power (when compared to early P2's and the P3), take standard SDRAM, and usually are free.
Not true at all. While you had better make sure that you have enough generating capacity to cover all the demand if the wind is not blowing, saying that wind power is only good for peak demand is false. Basically how it works is when the wind turbines are generating power, you can scale back generation the other power plants accordingly - most likely the coal and gas-fired ones since they cost more than the hydro/nuclear ones to run. Wind can even be used as part of the "baseline" power if it happens to be blowing during the times when demand is lowest (like the middle of the night).