You might want to keep in mind that your rent will always be going up with inflation, but if you get a conventional mortgage your loan payment will not change. So while today, the costs between renting and buying may not be much different, in several years you could be saving hundreds every month if you had purchased.
The only game I regularly play is GranTurismo, and with version 5 they're going to introduce micropayments as well, appearently if you want to buy all cars and all tracks, it will set you back several thousand dollars. Come on! With GT4, you got all cars and all tracks in the single payment!
Myth 1. Seperate partitions will make your system faster Bullshit, the hard drive will be thrashing even more trying to get to the swap space that's on a partition that's at the edge of the platter.
Windows will fragment whatever partition you install it on. Times ten if you let it auto-resize the page file. I'd much rather defragment a 20GB system partition than 1TB of system files plus data which would take ages. Granted, defragmenting 1TB of data would also take ages, but I never defrag any pure data drives/partitions, as there is no point in doing so.
Actually, the $500 retail for a quad core with 8GB of ram is pretty questionable. Once you deduct the costs of the processor, ram, and the Windows license, you don't have a whole lot left for things like the graphics, power supply, and motherboard.
Why? I saw a lot of advancement in terms of safety and emissions in the 80's and early 90's but comparatively little since. How is a well maintained 10-year-old car considerably worse than a brand a new one? Many 2009 cars are little more than the 1999 version with some changed sheetmetal and a new dashboard.
That's part of the reason why the whole cash for clunkers thing was so incredibly stupid, as lots of perfectly good late 90's and early 00's cars with functioning modern safety and emissions systems got sent to the scrapheap while most of the older unsafe pollutomobiles stayed on the road.
You never know. Plenty of people enjoy restored cars that were extremely common back in their day. Perhaps even more so, if they actually owned that model years ago. I've been rather surprised at some of the restored early 80's cars I've started to see driving around.
The 1959 Bel Air is a comparatively simple machine. A competent machinist who possesses some mechanical ability and knows a few things about cars could keep it running forever. I really can't say the same about modern cars, with their exotic materials, complex electronics, parts machined to an extreme tolerances, control systems locked down with DRM, amongst other things. No matter how much you would want to keep it running, at some point something will break on it that you simply can't fix, and once you can no longer get spare parts for it by cannibalizing other vehicles then you're pretty much done.
Failure of memory is even more rare. The only way for it to happen is on install by static-ing it. If the system doesn't work right after you install the memory, it's pretty obvious that the stick install did it without the POST.
On top of that, my experience is that the POST ram check will very rarely identify bad ram, even when the problems are rather severe it will still say "OK". For that reason I always disable the ram check as I see it as a waste of time and use Memtest86 if I suspect something amiss.
You may want to go into the BIOS and check to see if the "ACPI Standby State" (or similar) is set to "S3". That's the lowest power usage, where basically only the RAM is left powered to hold its state. The other option, "S1" leaves almost everything powered, including the fans and sometimes even the HDDs, so it saves very little power.
It also helps to disable the automatic resizing of the Page file too, as that does little more than cause the page to get really badly fragmented really quickly.
Well, if you were dropped on the surface of the ocean instead of under it, you would last quite a while, assuming you could swim. Worst case would be about 15 minutes for very cold water, to hours and days for warm water.
Probably the factorial function, as that's about the most computationally intensive thing you can do on a non-programmable scientific calculator. Try 69! as that's the biggest you can do assuming that the calculator maxes out at an exponent of 99. Usually takes several seconds to several tens of seconds on slower calculators to run.
Do you have one of the cars where it looks like a helicopter? I can kind of get that it has the general shape of an engine plus transmission, but could never figure out what the line on the top was supposed to represent.
I guess my car might be one of the transitory ones, as some are spelled out like "BRAKE" "AIR BAG" "CHECK ENGINE", while others like fuel, oil, door open, are icons.
I kind of doubt it. Apple can barely handle the heat from the Core 2's they use now, and these Core i7 chips run warmer. It would be like making a G5-based laptop, something Apple refused to do.
Well, your TV will be certainly different than the ones in the US, as you have PAL and the US has NTSC.
The problem seems to be the TV guides an other features that are being integrated into TVs that basically run all the time to keep themselves updated, whether the TV is "on" or "off".
I'll take the consumer version of that drive. In other words, drop the redundancy platters for more data capacity, and no high performance options. Basically one big huge media storage drive, the lower throughput would not bother me.
In order to back it up, give me another one in some kind of external enclosure with Firewire or eSATA connection.
A virtual machine is meaningless here. How well does it run on the bare hardware? Or in other words, when the virtual machine's disk image isn't being cached by the host machine.
XP does it, as well as 2000. What do you think it's doing in the first part with the blue text-based interface? It's copying a bunch of crap to your harddrive. Then it reboots itself and goes about its business of setting everything up. Granted, it will go back to the CD from time to time, but that's because it doesn't bother with copying things that most people won't need in the initial part, so if it finds that you need some obscure driver or you add some weird network protocol it has to go back to the CD. It's even smart enough to leave the cache in place, which is why you rarely need your 2000/XP CD after everything is set up, unlike the Windows 95 days when you would get pestered to present the CD every other time you installed a new driver or changed some network setting in Control Panel.
I installed Windows 2000 on an old Pentium 120Mhz with 128MB of ram, mostly because I could. A Pentium 120 would be a typical computer that would have had Windows 95 on it when new, though the 128MB of FP memory would be a bit unusual. Technically, the computer didn't meet the minimum requirements, as 2k wants a 133Mhz processor, but I did have twice the minimum ram so you would think I would be OK. The install took forever, the computer did run but was dog slow doing absolutely anything, and I had to use a boot disk and some trickery to get it to install because the PC was too old to boot from CD. Overall, installing and running Vista on a 750Mhz P3 laptop with 512MB of ram was less painful.
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You might want to keep in mind that your rent will always be going up with inflation, but if you get a conventional mortgage your loan payment will not change. So while today, the costs between renting and buying may not be much different, in several years you could be saving hundreds every month if you had purchased.
That's because in GTA4 you *steal* the cars. Duh.
Windows will fragment whatever partition you install it on. Times ten if you let it auto-resize the page file. I'd much rather defragment a 20GB system partition than 1TB of system files plus data which would take ages. Granted, defragmenting 1TB of data would also take ages, but I never defrag any pure data drives/partitions, as there is no point in doing so.
Actually, the $500 retail for a quad core with 8GB of ram is pretty questionable. Once you deduct the costs of the processor, ram, and the Windows license, you don't have a whole lot left for things like the graphics, power supply, and motherboard.
Why? I saw a lot of advancement in terms of safety and emissions in the 80's and early 90's but comparatively little since. How is a well maintained 10-year-old car considerably worse than a brand a new one? Many 2009 cars are little more than the 1999 version with some changed sheetmetal and a new dashboard.
That's part of the reason why the whole cash for clunkers thing was so incredibly stupid, as lots of perfectly good late 90's and early 00's cars with functioning modern safety and emissions systems got sent to the scrapheap while most of the older unsafe pollutomobiles stayed on the road.
You never know. Plenty of people enjoy restored cars that were extremely common back in their day. Perhaps even more so, if they actually owned that model years ago. I've been rather surprised at some of the restored early 80's cars I've started to see driving around.
The 1959 Bel Air is a comparatively simple machine. A competent machinist who possesses some mechanical ability and knows a few things about cars could keep it running forever. I really can't say the same about modern cars, with their exotic materials, complex electronics, parts machined to an extreme tolerances, control systems locked down with DRM, amongst other things. No matter how much you would want to keep it running, at some point something will break on it that you simply can't fix, and once you can no longer get spare parts for it by cannibalizing other vehicles then you're pretty much done.
Glad I could be of help :) Though I have no idea why the standby power usage would be less than the "off" usage.
On top of that, my experience is that the POST ram check will very rarely identify bad ram, even when the problems are rather severe it will still say "OK". For that reason I always disable the ram check as I see it as a waste of time and use Memtest86 if I suspect something amiss.
You may want to go into the BIOS and check to see if the "ACPI Standby State" (or similar) is set to "S3". That's the lowest power usage, where basically only the RAM is left powered to hold its state. The other option, "S1" leaves almost everything powered, including the fans and sometimes even the HDDs, so it saves very little power.
It also helps to disable the automatic resizing of the Page file too, as that does little more than cause the page to get really badly fragmented really quickly.
Well, things are a lot easier when you don't allow your customers to put in whatever graphics card they want on most of your products.
The FDIV bug lives on?
Well, if you were dropped on the surface of the ocean instead of under it, you would last quite a while, assuming you could swim. Worst case would be about 15 minutes for very cold water, to hours and days for warm water.
Probably the factorial function, as that's about the most computationally intensive thing you can do on a non-programmable scientific calculator. Try 69! as that's the biggest you can do assuming that the calculator maxes out at an exponent of 99. Usually takes several seconds to several tens of seconds on slower calculators to run.
And here I thought that everyone knew about the TI-82.99999993895874 by now.
Do you have one of the cars where it looks like a helicopter? I can kind of get that it has the general shape of an engine plus transmission, but could never figure out what the line on the top was supposed to represent.
I guess my car might be one of the transitory ones, as some are spelled out like "BRAKE" "AIR BAG" "CHECK ENGINE", while others like fuel, oil, door open, are icons.
I kind of doubt it. Apple can barely handle the heat from the Core 2's they use now, and these Core i7 chips run warmer. It would be like making a G5-based laptop, something Apple refused to do.
Well, your TV will be certainly different than the ones in the US, as you have PAL and the US has NTSC.
The problem seems to be the TV guides an other features that are being integrated into TVs that basically run all the time to keep themselves updated, whether the TV is "on" or "off".
I'll take the consumer version of that drive. In other words, drop the redundancy platters for more data capacity, and no high performance options. Basically one big huge media storage drive, the lower throughput would not bother me.
In order to back it up, give me another one in some kind of external enclosure with Firewire or eSATA connection.
A virtual machine is meaningless here. How well does it run on the bare hardware? Or in other words, when the virtual machine's disk image isn't being cached by the host machine.
On the other hand, apparently running XP in as little as 18MB is apparently doable:
http://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm
Uh what? Part of the whole criticism of the old Mac OS is that hadn't changed significantly in a decade or more.
You pay to post here?
XP does it, as well as 2000. What do you think it's doing in the first part with the blue text-based interface? It's copying a bunch of crap to your harddrive. Then it reboots itself and goes about its business of setting everything up. Granted, it will go back to the CD from time to time, but that's because it doesn't bother with copying things that most people won't need in the initial part, so if it finds that you need some obscure driver or you add some weird network protocol it has to go back to the CD. It's even smart enough to leave the cache in place, which is why you rarely need your 2000/XP CD after everything is set up, unlike the Windows 95 days when you would get pestered to present the CD every other time you installed a new driver or changed some network setting in Control Panel.
I installed Windows 2000 on an old Pentium 120Mhz with 128MB of ram, mostly because I could. A Pentium 120 would be a typical computer that would have had Windows 95 on it when new, though the 128MB of FP memory would be a bit unusual. Technically, the computer didn't meet the minimum requirements, as 2k wants a 133Mhz processor, but I did have twice the minimum ram so you would think I would be OK. The install took forever, the computer did run but was dog slow doing absolutely anything, and I had to use a boot disk and some trickery to get it to install because the PC was too old to boot from CD. Overall, installing and running Vista on a 750Mhz P3 laptop with 512MB of ram was less painful.