The problem with that is there would be a mess of fine metal shavings which would probably end up in some hard-to-clean location, and could be very hazardous in zero-g if they missed finding any of them.
What, did you buy that iMac from some dude in a white van who claimed it "fell off the back of a truck" or something? Even today, you're paying $1499 for a 24" iMac (base model), in in 2007 you would be paying considerably more for it. Though you're right, Apple hardware isn't too expensive once you knock a few hundred off the price.
Well, at least Microsoft fixed this in Vista (it is in Home Premium, not sure about Basic), and I would assume they are carrying it forward in Windows 7.
A question though, are there in fact any slim camera's (say, no larger than a deck of cards) that can run on AAA or AA batteries?
My favorite is the Sony Cybershot U40, though it's been discontinued for several years now and is only 2 megapixel. Though what you gain with standard AAA batteries, Sony takes away with their propriety memorystick formats.
That's not very handy, as there are 3 1/3 30cm lengths in a meter. The math starts getting pretty messy with that - you might as well use feet and yards, where you'll find that there is exactly 3 feet in a yard.
Though why doesn't anyone use the decimeter, an SI unit which already exists that equals 1/10 of a meter?
Picturing a mile is fairly easy when you relate it to time - it's about the distance you can drive in a minute on the highway. Though in rural areas, you can usually do 2 km per minute, or about 75mph on the interstate.
The pound, back in the middle ages, used to be 240 silver pennies. If you managed to actually gather 240 pennies, you would have one pound (by weight) of silver, hence the name. Of course, hauling around a pound of silver was pretty inconvienent (though most wouldn't have this problem - a pound was a lot of money back then) so for large amounts of money gold was used. Of course, a pound nowadays is worth considerably less than one pound of silver, mostly due to inflation.
What, do you keep the MacBook in your freezer or something? There's simply no way you've had a Macbook on for 9 days without it overheating and crashing, the cooling in them is totally inadequate.
Though if you want to compare uptimes, I once went over 6 months without rebooting a Thinkpad running XP, with suspending/resuming it several times a day.
My Grandpa took lots of pictures in the 1940's with Kodachrome. I scanned them recently, and most of them still looked perfect despite being 60 year old slides. Then in the 1950's he got cheap and switched to Ektachrome. Virtually all those slides were monochrome red-and-white slides, with all the blues and greens faded completely leaving just the reds for anything older than about 1970. I'm not really sure how well films like Fujichrome and Afga fair over long periods of time - could we really be without an archival-quality color film once the remaining stock of Kodachrome runs out?
Most movie theatres I have been in are no where close to HD in quality. Not that they couldn't be, but few theatres seem capable of setting up and operating their equipment properly.
The SSN became popular in the US because it is basically the closest thing to a unique identifier for people because everyone has one, everyone's is different, it never changes, and is backed (and paid for) by the government. The fact it was originally used for tax purposes actually didn't factor into it very much. I'm guessing that in Canada, there is an easier way to uniquely identify people, so the SIN has no reason to be overloaded like the SSN.
I think the main problem is that it is dog slow. I suppose it may work acceptably well on a multi-core machine, but it hogs CPU like no tomorrow on my Sempron 3000+. I know that's a bit dated as CPUs go, but I don't see any reason at all that a site like slashdot, which is almost all text, should max any desktop CPU made in this decade. I played around with D2 little bit, and it is pretty cool, but having to wait several seconds for my clicks to register and having the CPU peg at 100% whenever I tried to scroll the page meant I turned it off in a hurry.
How are the harddrives Apple uses any better than anyone elses? As far as I can tell, they are the exact same drive from the same major manufacturers. If anything, I would expect them to last even shorter in most of Apple's cases, because the drives get no airflow and run really hot.
What the hell are you talking about? Things that the Core i7 has like an on-die memory controller, QuickPath interconnect, and single-die quad core chips is the kind of stuff AMD has had for years.
Most benchmarks put the Phenom II's about equal to the Core 2 chips. The big advantage with going with a Socket AM3 Phenom II is that you'll be getting AMD's next generation socket so you should have plenty of future upgradability, whereas with LGA775 Intel is more or less done releasing new processors for that socket (save a few budget models until Core i5 comes out) so you're pretty much putting together a dead-end system. It is true that AMD really doesn't have an answer for Core i7, but that's also vastly more expensive.
In fact, now that I think of it, there's no reason to think that the two couldn't be combined with some sort of smart interface to let the drive itself decide what to put where. I can't believe that nobody else has thought of this, so there must be some sort of hybrid (SSD+platter) drive out there...
Actually, this does kind of exist in a way for Windows with Readyboost - basically when Windows wants to page something out it has some algorithm to decide whether it makes more sense to swap out to flash drive or the spinning disk. I'm not really sure what the criteria is, but on the one system I've tried it on, I noticed that the stick is accessed a lot while the amount of disk thrashing went noticably down while giving an overall speedup - so I would have to say it works pretty well except I'm a bit concerned about the lifetime of the memory stick.
The problem is that 1TB of data is a lot of stuff to sort through. Who want to spend all that time going through all that, deciding what to keep, what to archive to DVD or whatever, and what to delete? I've see some people agonizing on whether or not they should keep a 5MB mp3 file and stuff like that. Sometimes, it's just easier to spend a $100 and get another TB worth of storage.
Ram may be around $10/GB, but it is very difficult to build a computer with more than 8GB in it. Desktop boards typically only have 4 DIMMs slots in them, and if you want cheap memory you're looking at 2GB sticks. So the best you can easily do is 4x2GB for a total of 8GB. Some Core i7 boards have six slots, so you can get 12GB into them. Besides that, you're looking at either an expensive server board (and possibly an expensive server-class processor to match), and/or expensive high density memory sticks - if you can even find them.
Knowing the type, it's probably one nearly new laptop that is scuffed all to hell, scratched up screen, keys missing, dented corners, busted hinge, and is pretty much only good for nicking the RAM out of.
I would assume he's talking about the area just north of the River between Flying Cloud drive and Highway 169. It's pretty much an old rural county road that is now surrounded by suburban-style housing. I don't see what the big deal about it is - there are areas in Bloomington that look much the same, like around Bush Lake.
There are still sections of the interstate system that are from the original Eisenhower-era construction. I think it's been resurfaced as of a couple years ago, but a section of I35 here in Minnesota was that old, lasting for 40 years or more - and Minnesota's climate is not known for being nice to the roads.
Well actually, Apple was already late to that game. I remember you could already buy Packard Bells with interchangable plastic parts on the case which meant you could change the color, and there were also those green/black/purplish Acers. These were early Pentium machines circa 1996/1997 or so, which predates the iMac (which was originally only available in aqua anyway).
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The problem with that is there would be a mess of fine metal shavings which would probably end up in some hard-to-clean location, and could be very hazardous in zero-g if they missed finding any of them.
What, did you buy that iMac from some dude in a white van who claimed it "fell off the back of a truck" or something? Even today, you're paying $1499 for a 24" iMac (base model), in in 2007 you would be paying considerably more for it. Though you're right, Apple hardware isn't too expensive once you knock a few hundred off the price.
Well, at least Microsoft fixed this in Vista (it is in Home Premium, not sure about Basic), and I would assume they are carrying it forward in Windows 7.
But you're forgeting that 2009 is the year of Linux on the desktop!
My favorite is the Sony Cybershot U40, though it's been discontinued for several years now and is only 2 megapixel. Though what you gain with standard AAA batteries, Sony takes away with their propriety memorystick formats.
That's not very handy, as there are 3 1/3 30cm lengths in a meter. The math starts getting pretty messy with that - you might as well use feet and yards, where you'll find that there is exactly 3 feet in a yard.
Though why doesn't anyone use the decimeter, an SI unit which already exists that equals 1/10 of a meter?
Picturing a mile is fairly easy when you relate it to time - it's about the distance you can drive in a minute on the highway. Though in rural areas, you can usually do 2 km per minute, or about 75mph on the interstate.
The pound, back in the middle ages, used to be 240 silver pennies. If you managed to actually gather 240 pennies, you would have one pound (by weight) of silver, hence the name. Of course, hauling around a pound of silver was pretty inconvienent (though most wouldn't have this problem - a pound was a lot of money back then) so for large amounts of money gold was used. Of course, a pound nowadays is worth considerably less than one pound of silver, mostly due to inflation.
What, do you keep the MacBook in your freezer or something? There's simply no way you've had a Macbook on for 9 days without it overheating and crashing, the cooling in them is totally inadequate.
Though if you want to compare uptimes, I once went over 6 months without rebooting a Thinkpad running XP, with suspending/resuming it several times a day.
My Grandpa took lots of pictures in the 1940's with Kodachrome. I scanned them recently, and most of them still looked perfect despite being 60 year old slides. Then in the 1950's he got cheap and switched to Ektachrome. Virtually all those slides were monochrome red-and-white slides, with all the blues and greens faded completely leaving just the reds for anything older than about 1970. I'm not really sure how well films like Fujichrome and Afga fair over long periods of time - could we really be without an archival-quality color film once the remaining stock of Kodachrome runs out?
Most movie theatres I have been in are no where close to HD in quality. Not that they couldn't be, but few theatres seem capable of setting up and operating their equipment properly.
The SSN became popular in the US because it is basically the closest thing to a unique identifier for people because everyone has one, everyone's is different, it never changes, and is backed (and paid for) by the government. The fact it was originally used for tax purposes actually didn't factor into it very much. I'm guessing that in Canada, there is an easier way to uniquely identify people, so the SIN has no reason to be overloaded like the SSN.
I think the main problem is that it is dog slow. I suppose it may work acceptably well on a multi-core machine, but it hogs CPU like no tomorrow on my Sempron 3000+. I know that's a bit dated as CPUs go, but I don't see any reason at all that a site like slashdot, which is almost all text, should max any desktop CPU made in this decade. I played around with D2 little bit, and it is pretty cool, but having to wait several seconds for my clicks to register and having the CPU peg at 100% whenever I tried to scroll the page meant I turned it off in a hurry.
How are the harddrives Apple uses any better than anyone elses? As far as I can tell, they are the exact same drive from the same major manufacturers. If anything, I would expect them to last even shorter in most of Apple's cases, because the drives get no airflow and run really hot.
What the hell are you talking about? Things that the Core i7 has like an on-die memory controller, QuickPath interconnect, and single-die quad core chips is the kind of stuff AMD has had for years.
Most benchmarks put the Phenom II's about equal to the Core 2 chips. The big advantage with going with a Socket AM3 Phenom II is that you'll be getting AMD's next generation socket so you should have plenty of future upgradability, whereas with LGA775 Intel is more or less done releasing new processors for that socket (save a few budget models until Core i5 comes out) so you're pretty much putting together a dead-end system. It is true that AMD really doesn't have an answer for Core i7, but that's also vastly more expensive.
Actually, this does kind of exist in a way for Windows with Readyboost - basically when Windows wants to page something out it has some algorithm to decide whether it makes more sense to swap out to flash drive or the spinning disk. I'm not really sure what the criteria is, but on the one system I've tried it on, I noticed that the stick is accessed a lot while the amount of disk thrashing went noticably down while giving an overall speedup - so I would have to say it works pretty well except I'm a bit concerned about the lifetime of the memory stick.
The problem is that 1TB of data is a lot of stuff to sort through. Who want to spend all that time going through all that, deciding what to keep, what to archive to DVD or whatever, and what to delete? I've see some people agonizing on whether or not they should keep a 5MB mp3 file and stuff like that. Sometimes, it's just easier to spend a $100 and get another TB worth of storage.
Ram may be around $10/GB, but it is very difficult to build a computer with more than 8GB in it. Desktop boards typically only have 4 DIMMs slots in them, and if you want cheap memory you're looking at 2GB sticks. So the best you can easily do is 4x2GB for a total of 8GB. Some Core i7 boards have six slots, so you can get 12GB into them. Besides that, you're looking at either an expensive server board (and possibly an expensive server-class processor to match), and/or expensive high density memory sticks - if you can even find them.
Knowing the type, it's probably one nearly new laptop that is scuffed all to hell, scratched up screen, keys missing, dented corners, busted hinge, and is pretty much only good for nicking the RAM out of.
Don't give them any ideas, or they'll be saying you won't need bridges next.
I would assume he's talking about the area just north of the River between Flying Cloud drive and Highway 169. It's pretty much an old rural county road that is now surrounded by suburban-style housing. I don't see what the big deal about it is - there are areas in Bloomington that look much the same, like around Bush Lake.
Google Streetview:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=opera&q=Riverview+Road,+eden+prairie,+mn&ie=UTF8&ll=44.812349,-93.412542&spn=0.012787,0.052314&z=15&layer=c&cbll=44.812662,-93.418394&panoid=-GQovBO5jnJfi9TojHfKDA&cbp=11,305.95,,0,10.39
There are still sections of the interstate system that are from the original Eisenhower-era construction. I think it's been resurfaced as of a couple years ago, but a section of I35 here in Minnesota was that old, lasting for 40 years or more - and Minnesota's climate is not known for being nice to the roads.
Well actually, Apple was already late to that game. I remember you could already buy Packard Bells with interchangable plastic parts on the case which meant you could change the color, and there were also those green/black/purplish Acers. These were early Pentium machines circa 1996/1997 or so, which predates the iMac (which was originally only available in aqua anyway).
You people have never heard of the Random Personal Picture Finder(tm)?