Actually, I've known a few people who struggled with the concept that the monitor and PC were two seperate devices whose on and off states could be toggled independently. Since the monitor power switch was usually the most visible, that's how they would turn their computer on and off. Usually this would work out okay for them, with the only catch that the PC was actually on 24/7 - until something like a power outage would shut down the PC and they would be confused the next day when turning on the monitor did nothing.
In their defense, there were some Macs that actually did operate in that manner back when Apple used propriety connections between their Mac towers and their monitors, where the power button on the monitor would actually turn the whole computer on and off. That may be how they picked up the habit.
Well, with their billions I'm sure Microsoft could afford to defend themselves well enough that the only people who would think of taking them on would be other developed nations.
You're forgetting the motherboard. It's kind of hard to put a number on the power draw of most motherboards - the manufacturers don't like to give out numbers (I wish they would!), and it's hard to measure the power draw of just the motherboard in a running system. However, most people put motherboards at about 30-40W+ peak, which is going to use up most of the rest of the available power. Throw in some extra draw from the fans, USB devices, etc. and you're uncomfortably (imho) close to the limit. Certainly will make upgrading difficult, to say the least.
Look at what is needed to refine the raw materials, manufacture the computer, then ship it to you. Then at the end of life, the costs of properly disposing of the computer which usually involves shipping it to some facility where they have to deal with some fairly toxic stuff. In comparison, during the computer's life, all that it really needs is electricity, and a relatively small amount of electricity at that. Probably less than 10,000 KWH for the lifetime of most computers out there. Really, the most ecologically friendly thing you can do with your PC is to use it as long as possible, even if it's a power hog.
Seems to me the easiest way would be to hit the site with something fairly good sized moving at a very high rate. Then it would be just another crater.
You do realize that numbers like contrast ratio and response time have been gamed so heavily by the manufacturers that they are completely useless at this point? Kind of like college rankings, actually.
that's a really good point. For example, I don't mind paying extra for a toyota or an apple computer in part because I know that when I sell it, I get more back too. I do take that into account when I compare prices of cars and computers. Oddly I think most people do not.
Most people tend to buy things they plan on keeping around for a while. I pretty much keep a computer around until I have no use for it, at which point I can hardly give it away because most everyone else has no use for it either. Cars are kind of the same way - though I do tend to get ones with higher resale value because there is a strong correlation between resale value and reliability.
I find that most of the people who are concerned the most about "resale value" are the ones who are using twisted reasoning to try to justify something they can't afford. "It's not a $60,000 car, it's a $20,000 car because I'll sell it for $40,000 in a couple of years!" I leave applying the same kind of logic to real estate as an exercise for the reader.
The landlines here have no problems ringing those loud mechanical bells found in old phones from the 70's and earlier, and I imagine those can draw some significant current. Don't sign up for the do-not-call list, and telemarketers will call you enough to almost make it feasible.
I have one of those portable LCD tvs, and since there is no way to connect it to anything externel, it's going to be pretty much a brick here real soon. Heck, the size and shape are even about right.
Interesting that I haven't seen any DTV capable ones in a similar format - I'm assuming that the tuner uses too much power making it impractical.
That doesn't seem like a very good idea. Today's drives are huge and take forever to copy - on the order of hours for dd to do its thing. In most circumstances, with dd you'll be copying 99% worthless crap, like the operating system, installed games, downloaded stuff that can be downloaded again, and lots of empty space - meanwhile the clock is ticking. You'd almost certainly be better off chasing after the important data on the drive right away, which is probably less than a gig, and maybe a few gigs at most.
One thing that could help is fast memory. I've found dual channel DDR400 to be faster than stuff like DDR2-533, which may be the speed you'll find in a low-end newer multi-core machine. And since 3.5Ghz is not actually a speed of P4 Intel ever sold, if he's not making stuff up and is running an overclocked P4 then his bus speeds may be even faster than that. Though I don't get turning off hyperthreading - I've found that the P4 generally performed much better with it on than off, unless you're running one of those few programs that run into trouble with it on (rare, but I've seen them).
I did that when I was young and still living at home, and I didn't want my sister using my computer. It worked for a while, but eventually she learned to type Dvorak too.
You basically start out with a crappy, bloated, unoptimized piece of software that was so terrible only the Apple from the late 90's/early 2000's could have put it out, and then apply the optimizations that should have been in the original release later, so you can gloat about how much faster each release is.
Note that Microsoft seems to be doing something similar with Vista -> Vista SP1 -> Windows 7 (not sure where Vista SP2 fits in yet), though Vista started out better than the original release of OSX.
Any decent ATX power supply includes a physical power switch to cut the juice. Also comes in handy when working in the PC - you can turn the switch off to kill the power but leave the cord plugged in so the chassis is grounded. I hate the cheap ones with no switch on the back.
It's more like the Windows car has adequate door and ignition locks, it's just that most users don't lock their doors and leave their key in the car because they can't be bothered to secure it properly. The Mac and Linux cars are much the same, it's just that they have manual transmissions so the thieves generally don't mess with them.
next time if you dont know what something is, or if you cant evaluate that the sentence 'since 95 internet explorer 4.4 UNTIL 8.1' does not mean '10 years ago' but SINCE 10 YEARS UNTIL !!!! NOW !!!!!, then dont use your mod point.
Actually, that sentence is rather hard to evaluate. Internet Explorer 4.4 never existed, and Internet Explorer 8.1 is only an April Fools' joke at this point. That right there is a pretty big clue that the original poster doesn't know what the hell they are talking about, which may be why they were modded down.
One of the reasons for the fuel economy difference that the highest gear in many automatics has a lower ratio than the highest gear available for the manual. I noticed this when I drove the manual version of the car I own - on the freeway I kept on wanting to shift to the next gear because the engine was running at a higher RPM than I was used to. Not only did this hurt the economy of the manual version, it also meant the car was noticably more noisy. I'm not sure why they do this - do they think that people can't downshift to pass on the freeway?
By the way, this same argument used to take place when dual core was introduced. Some gamers suggested buying single cores due to their higher clock speeds, but those recommendations were short lived once the software caught up.
That doesn't seem like a big deal, anyone who is comfortable building their own PC can swap their CPU. So it would make sense now to go with a cheap dual core now, and then switch to a quad later if it becomes advantageous to do so. Just make sure whatever board you get also supports quad cores (which should be pretty much all of them I would think).
In that sense though, getting a Core 2 chip may not make much sense. The sun is setting on LGA775, and Intel hasn't given us any indication that they plan to release any faster Core 2 chips than what we have now. It might make more sense to get an AMD board if you were build right now in anticipation of even faster quad chips you could drop in later (are the Phenom II X2's out yet?).
You're forgetting that most people here have more time than money. Particularly those that are on salary. And that's not even counting those of us who like to tinker anyway.
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Actually, I've known a few people who struggled with the concept that the monitor and PC were two seperate devices whose on and off states could be toggled independently. Since the monitor power switch was usually the most visible, that's how they would turn their computer on and off. Usually this would work out okay for them, with the only catch that the PC was actually on 24/7 - until something like a power outage would shut down the PC and they would be confused the next day when turning on the monitor did nothing.
In their defense, there were some Macs that actually did operate in that manner back when Apple used propriety connections between their Mac towers and their monitors, where the power button on the monitor would actually turn the whole computer on and off. That may be how they picked up the habit.
Well, with their billions I'm sure Microsoft could afford to defend themselves well enough that the only people who would think of taking them on would be other developed nations.
The only detail that your missing is that you would also his username and password in addition to being able to tap his cell phone.
I wouldn't count on it. We've only gone from 1TB to 2TB in the past 2 1/2 years. Things are definently slowing down in the harddrive industry.
You're forgetting the motherboard. It's kind of hard to put a number on the power draw of most motherboards - the manufacturers don't like to give out numbers (I wish they would!), and it's hard to measure the power draw of just the motherboard in a running system. However, most people put motherboards at about 30-40W+ peak, which is going to use up most of the rest of the available power. Throw in some extra draw from the fans, USB devices, etc. and you're uncomfortably (imho) close to the limit. Certainly will make upgrading difficult, to say the least.
Not by American standards. With our oversized, inefficient engines, completely stock minivans like the Honda Odyssey can post times like that.
Look at what is needed to refine the raw materials, manufacture the computer, then ship it to you. Then at the end of life, the costs of properly disposing of the computer which usually involves shipping it to some facility where they have to deal with some fairly toxic stuff. In comparison, during the computer's life, all that it really needs is electricity, and a relatively small amount of electricity at that. Probably less than 10,000 KWH for the lifetime of most computers out there. Really, the most ecologically friendly thing you can do with your PC is to use it as long as possible, even if it's a power hog.
Seems to me the easiest way would be to hit the site with something fairly good sized moving at a very high rate. Then it would be just another crater.
You do realize that numbers like contrast ratio and response time have been gamed so heavily by the manufacturers that they are completely useless at this point? Kind of like college rankings, actually.
Most people tend to buy things they plan on keeping around for a while. I pretty much keep a computer around until I have no use for it, at which point I can hardly give it away because most everyone else has no use for it either. Cars are kind of the same way - though I do tend to get ones with higher resale value because there is a strong correlation between resale value and reliability.
I find that most of the people who are concerned the most about "resale value" are the ones who are using twisted reasoning to try to justify something they can't afford. "It's not a $60,000 car, it's a $20,000 car because I'll sell it for $40,000 in a couple of years!" I leave applying the same kind of logic to real estate as an exercise for the reader.
The landlines here have no problems ringing those loud mechanical bells found in old phones from the 70's and earlier, and I imagine those can draw some significant current. Don't sign up for the do-not-call list, and telemarketers will call you enough to almost make it feasible.
I have one of those portable LCD tvs, and since there is no way to connect it to anything externel, it's going to be pretty much a brick here real soon. Heck, the size and shape are even about right.
Interesting that I haven't seen any DTV capable ones in a similar format - I'm assuming that the tuner uses too much power making it impractical.
Hell, try finding a VHS tape storage rack. I've been looking for one to organize bare SATA drives, but they're nowhere to be found.
Have you tried garage sales?
That doesn't seem like a very good idea. Today's drives are huge and take forever to copy - on the order of hours for dd to do its thing. In most circumstances, with dd you'll be copying 99% worthless crap, like the operating system, installed games, downloaded stuff that can be downloaded again, and lots of empty space - meanwhile the clock is ticking. You'd almost certainly be better off chasing after the important data on the drive right away, which is probably less than a gig, and maybe a few gigs at most.
One thing that could help is fast memory. I've found dual channel DDR400 to be faster than stuff like DDR2-533, which may be the speed you'll find in a low-end newer multi-core machine. And since 3.5Ghz is not actually a speed of P4 Intel ever sold, if he's not making stuff up and is running an overclocked P4 then his bus speeds may be even faster than that. Though I don't get turning off hyperthreading - I've found that the P4 generally performed much better with it on than off, unless you're running one of those few programs that run into trouble with it on (rare, but I've seen them).
I did that when I was young and still living at home, and I didn't want my sister using my computer. It worked for a while, but eventually she learned to type Dvorak too.
You basically start out with a crappy, bloated, unoptimized piece of software that was so terrible only the Apple from the late 90's/early 2000's could have put it out, and then apply the optimizations that should have been in the original release later, so you can gloat about how much faster each release is.
Note that Microsoft seems to be doing something similar with Vista -> Vista SP1 -> Windows 7 (not sure where Vista SP2 fits in yet), though Vista started out better than the original release of OSX.
Any decent ATX power supply includes a physical power switch to cut the juice. Also comes in handy when working in the PC - you can turn the switch off to kill the power but leave the cord plugged in so the chassis is grounded. I hate the cheap ones with no switch on the back.
It's more like the Windows car has adequate door and ignition locks, it's just that most users don't lock their doors and leave their key in the car because they can't be bothered to secure it properly. The Mac and Linux cars are much the same, it's just that they have manual transmissions so the thieves generally don't mess with them.
Actually, that sentence is rather hard to evaluate. Internet Explorer 4.4 never existed, and Internet Explorer 8.1 is only an April Fools' joke at this point. That right there is a pretty big clue that the original poster doesn't know what the hell they are talking about, which may be why they were modded down.
Because they are stuck in the 80's too.
If they are editting from home from a cable, DSL, or dial-up connection, then they are almost certainly have a dynamic IP address.
One of the reasons for the fuel economy difference that the highest gear in many automatics has a lower ratio than the highest gear available for the manual. I noticed this when I drove the manual version of the car I own - on the freeway I kept on wanting to shift to the next gear because the engine was running at a higher RPM than I was used to. Not only did this hurt the economy of the manual version, it also meant the car was noticably more noisy. I'm not sure why they do this - do they think that people can't downshift to pass on the freeway?
That doesn't seem like a big deal, anyone who is comfortable building their own PC can swap their CPU. So it would make sense now to go with a cheap dual core now, and then switch to a quad later if it becomes advantageous to do so. Just make sure whatever board you get also supports quad cores (which should be pretty much all of them I would think).
In that sense though, getting a Core 2 chip may not make much sense. The sun is setting on LGA775, and Intel hasn't given us any indication that they plan to release any faster Core 2 chips than what we have now. It might make more sense to get an AMD board if you were build right now in anticipation of even faster quad chips you could drop in later (are the Phenom II X2's out yet?).
You're forgetting that most people here have more time than money. Particularly those that are on salary. And that's not even counting those of us who like to tinker anyway.