Well, it used to work like that back in the MFM/RLL days for hard drives. The drive was a box of motors and steppers, and the logic to drive it all was on the controller card. Not sure if I want to go back to those days again. Especially since a controller that only knows how to control the bits of a hard drive would have absolutely no idea on how to talk to a SSD.
Enterprise-grade is designed to be run continuously, and under heavy use. Generally, it's assumed that consumer drives won't be run 24/7, and when they're on most of the time they just idling.
Furthermore, it's also assumed that enterprise drives are going to be in a RAID, so if they have a problem they'll give up a lot faster with the assumption that the RAID controller can better deal with the data loss. Whereas the consumer drive will keep retrying to read the data for a while before giving up. For that reason, you really don't want to use the drives intended for RAID as a standard desktop drive.
Also, I wouldn't buy WD as the failure rates with WD drives are terrible.
I've always considered anything below 0F to be damn cold, and anything above 100F to be damn hot. You could also consider them dangerously cold and dangerously hot, as that's about where you can really start to get into big trouble if you venture out into those temperatures and you are not prepared for it.
The biggest problem I've had with Celsius is that 100C really doesn't mean anything to me on a day to day basis. About 55-60C is about the maximum, which is "can touch momentarily but can't hold your finger against it". Anything greater than that is simply too hot to touch.
Go ahead and try it. A lot of cases already have ducting that funnels air directly from outside the case to the CPU. A few more pieces of cardboard, a hole and chimney in the top of your case, and you should be ready to remove the fan and see what convection can do for you. Sneak preview: unless you've specifically picked components that can run off passive cooling, you'll be in the market for a new one. Especially if you live in a hot place and turn off your AC for this experiment.
Actually, Apple tried this with the G4 cube. It more or less worked, but ran awfully hot which tended to make them less reliable than their PowerMac tower cousins. Not to mention the heat caused cracks in the case, which certainly didn't help much for a computer that people bought mostly for its looks.
Apple had better luck with convection on the early iMacs though, using the heat from the CRT to generate enough convection to cool the rest of the computer. The only problem with that design was that the iMac could not shut off the CRT as a power saving feature as it depended upon it for cooling.
Apple is worse than Acer and Gateway? Wow, that really is an epic fail. I guess the proper comparison would be Apple to Volkswagon. You pay more and get a shoddier product to boot.
The Northwood P4 was the second generation P4, so think 2002-2003 or so. My experience from running Windows 7 on such a PC (2.0Ghz Northwood P4, 1.5GB PC133, GeForce 5200) is that it runs surprisingly well - it even runs Aero on that hardware.
What about naked short selling? While I don't really understand the mechanisms, people claim that naked short selling harms companies and even have gone as far as to suggest it was a contributing factor in the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
He's still right though. The latest Core i7's draw up to 130W, which is more than even the hottest of the Pentium 4's. Sure, the Core i7 can get a lot more done than the Pentium 4 in the same amount of time, and since the increase in power usage didn't scale with the increase in computing power, the i7 ends up being more efficient. But take a Pentium 4 system and a Core i7 and run both at 100% and the Core i7 system will draw considerably more power.
It's called the capacitor plague, and it goes back a while - I've seen it in computers as old as the early slotted P3's. It seems to have gotten better with newer hardware, but it's extremely common in any PC from about 2001-2005 or so. Interesting story behind it, as it turns out to be a case of industrial espionage where a tainted electrolyte recipe was stolen, which led to some Chinese company making capacitors that initially work okay, but with a significantly shortened lifespan. Too bad it affected lots of people around the world and led to countless electronics which would have otherwise been useful landfilled instead.
Granted, they haven't made any new Intel chipsets that I know of since ATI bought AMD, but they were still selling some of their existing products for a bit after the merge.
Even if XP was dead and buried by Windows userbase, it would still be supported by Microsoft. Even Windows 2000 is supported for another year, and that OS will be celebrating its 10th birthday next February. Keep in mind that Win2K supports as far back as the original Pentium processor introduced in 1993.
I don't know about you, but I'm on a salary and can't just bill out hours whenever I feel like. Or in other words, like most people here I have more time on my hands than I have money. And besides, I actually enjoy tinkering around with the hardware.
You do realize that it costs somewhere in the neighborhood of 50% of a year's salary to replace an employee (post job ad, maybe pay headhunter, spend time reading resumes and conducting interviews, and pay relocation expenses for an employee that won't be productive for several months while getting trained and learning how the company operates), right? So, even from the point of view of pure greed, it's not a good idea to fire someone unless (1) they are a total fuck-up, (2) the company just doesn't have money to pay them, or (3) their job just doesn't need to be done anymore and there is no appropriate position to move them into.
Well, nowadays it's more like we'll lay you off, and split up your duties amongst your remaining ex-coworkers. Even when someone quits or retires, a lot of companies are pretty reluctant to go and hire a replacement so long as they think they might get by without one.
It costs a bit more than you might expect, as any of the cheap ubiquitous TN panels do not do well in a vertical orientation due to a poor viewing angle. Once you start getting into the better panel types, you may run into the 1600x1200 4:3 panels that are still being made and aren't that unreasonably priced for an IPS panel.
Still a whole lot cheaper than trying to do something similar 10 years ago.
Under international trademark law, if Apple doesn't defend their trademark against any and all percieved infringements (that is, this story), they/lose their trademark/.
The silliness doesn't originate with Apple, but with international trademark law.
If that was true, we'd also see lots of similar examples, like Burger King suing everyone who uses a crown in their logo, or Nike suing anyone who uses a checkmark in their logo. And you would also have Mercedes suing the crap out of anyone using a peace sign for anything, not to mention Toyota and Mazda for good measure. Except that you don't - it seems that suing people for using even remotely similar trademarks seems to be an Apple thing, despite what the fanboys all want to believe.
Yeah, and Keyes is also the guy who would be for plowing under crops and killing livestock while the people starved (see: The Great Depression). Sure, war may be good for the economy, but you're not counting in the human costs of going to war, the costs of using up supplies of limited resources (such as oil), and costs to the environment. Another example of this kind of thinking is the whole "Cash for Clunkers" fiasco - just how exactly are we supposed to be better off by destroying useful assets then paying people to build replacements?
Sometimes, if you simply can't find anything productive for someone to do, you're just best off justing giving them money and telling them to stay home.
From my understanding, the technology works by showing alternate images every time the screen is redrawn. Should work with any monitor capable of a 120Hz refresh rate. Sounds like nothing more than a vendor lock-in scheme to me.
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Wrong! The Macbook Air also lacks Firewire.
All the shit that iTunes/Quicktime installs in Windows should give you a pretty good idea what's built into OS X. Or in other words, no thanks.
Really, the only solution is to do it yourself and start with a blank harddrive.
Well, it used to work like that back in the MFM/RLL days for hard drives. The drive was a box of motors and steppers, and the logic to drive it all was on the controller card. Not sure if I want to go back to those days again. Especially since a controller that only knows how to control the bits of a hard drive would have absolutely no idea on how to talk to a SSD.
Well, there was this guy:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/06/tampa.crash/index.html
Luckily the only fatality was the pilot.
You know, that's not a bad idea, you know. Though it may get old after a while, you know. So I would try and use it sparingly, you know.
Enterprise-grade is designed to be run continuously, and under heavy use. Generally, it's assumed that consumer drives won't be run 24/7, and when they're on most of the time they just idling.
Furthermore, it's also assumed that enterprise drives are going to be in a RAID, so if they have a problem they'll give up a lot faster with the assumption that the RAID controller can better deal with the data loss. Whereas the consumer drive will keep retrying to read the data for a while before giving up. For that reason, you really don't want to use the drives intended for RAID as a standard desktop drive.
Also, I wouldn't buy WD as the failure rates with WD drives are terrible.
I've always considered anything below 0F to be damn cold, and anything above 100F to be damn hot. You could also consider them dangerously cold and dangerously hot, as that's about where you can really start to get into big trouble if you venture out into those temperatures and you are not prepared for it.
The biggest problem I've had with Celsius is that 100C really doesn't mean anything to me on a day to day basis. About 55-60C is about the maximum, which is "can touch momentarily but can't hold your finger against it". Anything greater than that is simply too hot to touch.
Actually, Apple tried this with the G4 cube. It more or less worked, but ran awfully hot which tended to make them less reliable than their PowerMac tower cousins. Not to mention the heat caused cracks in the case, which certainly didn't help much for a computer that people bought mostly for its looks.
Apple had better luck with convection on the early iMacs though, using the heat from the CRT to generate enough convection to cool the rest of the computer. The only problem with that design was that the iMac could not shut off the CRT as a power saving feature as it depended upon it for cooling.
Apple is worse than Acer and Gateway? Wow, that really is an epic fail. I guess the proper comparison would be Apple to Volkswagon. You pay more and get a shoddier product to boot.
Still, I wouldn't expect the whole country to adopt it. For example, it wouldn't make sense to ban black cars in cold climates.
The Northwood P4 was the second generation P4, so think 2002-2003 or so. My experience from running Windows 7 on such a PC (2.0Ghz Northwood P4, 1.5GB PC133, GeForce 5200) is that it runs surprisingly well - it even runs Aero on that hardware.
What about naked short selling? While I don't really understand the mechanisms, people claim that naked short selling harms companies and even have gone as far as to suggest it was a contributing factor in the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
He's still right though. The latest Core i7's draw up to 130W, which is more than even the hottest of the Pentium 4's. Sure, the Core i7 can get a lot more done than the Pentium 4 in the same amount of time, and since the increase in power usage didn't scale with the increase in computing power, the i7 ends up being more efficient. But take a Pentium 4 system and a Core i7 and run both at 100% and the Core i7 system will draw considerably more power.
It's called the capacitor plague, and it goes back a while - I've seen it in computers as old as the early slotted P3's. It seems to have gotten better with newer hardware, but it's extremely common in any PC from about 2001-2005 or so. Interesting story behind it, as it turns out to be a case of industrial espionage where a tainted electrolyte recipe was stolen, which led to some Chinese company making capacitors that initially work okay, but with a significantly shortened lifespan. Too bad it affected lots of people around the world and led to countless electronics which would have otherwise been useful landfilled instead.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague.
O RLY?
http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonxpress200Intel/
Granted, they haven't made any new Intel chipsets that I know of since ATI bought AMD, but they were still selling some of their existing products for a bit after the merge.
Even if XP was dead and buried by Windows userbase, it would still be supported by Microsoft. Even Windows 2000 is supported for another year, and that OS will be celebrating its 10th birthday next February. Keep in mind that Win2K supports as far back as the original Pentium processor introduced in 1993.
That must get expensive after a while, as you certainly won't be impressing the hipsters with last year's model.
I don't know about you, but I'm on a salary and can't just bill out hours whenever I feel like. Or in other words, like most people here I have more time on my hands than I have money. And besides, I actually enjoy tinkering around with the hardware.
How about metals like copper, nickel, zinc, and tin? They all have practical uses, which is how they derive their value.
Well, nowadays it's more like we'll lay you off, and split up your duties amongst your remaining ex-coworkers. Even when someone quits or retires, a lot of companies are pretty reluctant to go and hire a replacement so long as they think they might get by without one.
It costs a bit more than you might expect, as any of the cheap ubiquitous TN panels do not do well in a vertical orientation due to a poor viewing
angle. Once you start getting into the better panel types, you may run into the 1600x1200 4:3 panels that are still being made and aren't that unreasonably priced for an IPS panel.
Still a whole lot cheaper than trying to do something similar 10 years ago.
If that was true, we'd also see lots of similar examples, like Burger King suing everyone who uses a crown in their logo, or Nike suing anyone who uses a checkmark in their logo. And you would also have Mercedes suing the crap out of anyone using a peace sign for anything, not to mention Toyota and Mazda for good measure. Except that you don't - it seems that suing people for using even remotely similar trademarks seems to be an Apple thing, despite what the fanboys all want to believe.
What exactly will this accomplish? It will certainly piss off Joe Internet User, but to whom will he be able to direct his anger, and how?
Yeah, and Keyes is also the guy who would be for plowing under crops and killing livestock while the people starved (see: The Great Depression). Sure, war may be good for the economy, but you're not counting in the human costs of going to war, the costs of using up supplies of limited resources (such as oil), and costs to the environment. Another example of this kind of thinking is the whole "Cash for Clunkers" fiasco - just how exactly are we supposed to be better off by destroying useful assets then paying people to build replacements?
Sometimes, if you simply can't find anything productive for someone to do, you're just best off justing giving them money and telling them to stay home.
From my understanding, the technology works by showing alternate images every time the screen is redrawn. Should work with any monitor capable of a 120Hz refresh rate. Sounds like nothing more than a vendor lock-in scheme to me.