I even buy my low end workstations at my office with the intent of overclocking them when they start to reach their end of life. Gives me another year out of them, when I would have replaced them anyway. At that point I got nothing to loose. Well, at least it gives me something cool to do with them before retiring them to spare parts.
What's the point in that? I don't see why I would risk crashes/corruption/instability on a machine I count on for a job. Plus, I don't see how overclocking old hardware really makes a difference anyway - does overclocking your P4 1.8Ghz to 2.2Ghz really mean much when a new machine is going to be far faster than either?
I don't see why SSE2 would be a problem for the Atom, as the Atom has that. I believe you can count on the Atom being able to run at least anything that a P4 can run (not acounting any speed-related issues), and that's what you'll need to run OSX.
Laptop parts, as seen in the iMac, are expensive. Since towers are cheaper, often by quite a bit, the tower is going to win purely by price and the all-in-one is going to remain a niche product.
Besides, the current iMacs don't make a lot of sense anyway compared to a laptop. They have all the disadvantages (cost, integrated screen, run hot, hard to upgrade) but none of the advantages (integrated battery, portability).
Note he said DVDs. My experience is that burned CDs last a long time (at least 10-12 years, or the age of my earliest burned CDs) whereas burned DVDs can really only be counted on lasting about 2-3 years. So lesson is, if you are archiving data to optical media for long term storage, use CDs - and preferably some other medium in addition.
You do realize that breaking up most ships for scrap costs more than the value of the materials, unless you do it someplace like India where you can ignore all kinds of environmental and safety rules and pay your workers almost nothing?
The way I see it with Wifi is that once it's set up, the costs of running it really doesn't change a whole lot whether you have a few users on it or a lot. However, instead of making it cheap to attract a lot of users, they seem to be stuck in the "lets gouge them for all their worth" model of doing business. Then when they don't get nearly the users they expected, they raise the prices to even more outrageous levels to try to cover their loss.
I don't know why I would buy from a company that's only sketchy instead of shady, when there are plenty of reputable places that will sell me the same merchandise for a similar price.
it's called marketing and has to do with name recognition. Most general users recognizes and will purchase from circuit city but not tigerdirect or compusa. Some users will purchase from tigerdirect but they will stay far away from compusa.
What the customer don't know actually increase overall sales for systemax.
You might want to ask General Motors how well that worked out for them.
I thought that the Jeep Grand Cherokee was the first "not-a-real-Jeep" Jeeps, though I suppose it's not so bad anymore after looking at the latest travesties to come out of Detroit with a Jeep badge on them.
n Windows 7, I expect we'll see 'broker' services, similar to the ones that some software makers (e.g. Adobe) use to break themselves out of the IE sandbox and to interact with the system. A small broker service that maintains state for a given application will be enough to allow fairly quick task-switching while fooling Windows 7 into believing that there are only 3 apps running at a time.
I kind of doubt that will happen. While the hacker in me would find breaking the 3 applications limit in that way to be an interesting challenge, the users are either going to crack Windows to remove the limit entirely, or will simply pirate a version of Windows 7 that doesn't have the limit.
The requirements for WOW aren't really all that demanding anymore by 2009 standards. I remember running it on an Athlon XP 1700+ with 512MB of ram. Probably the biggest problem with trying to run it on a netbook would be the lack of a decent graphics chipset, though that would be offset somewhat by the fact that most netbooks have low resolution screens.
You might want to cut him some slack. 15 years is a long time for a modern German car, most are rotting away in scrap yards by that point. Even American cars manufactured in Mexico seem to last longer than Audis and VWs nowadays.
I think there's a lot of people like that who just tailgate not because they're wanting to go faster, but because they just like to follow people for some weird reason.
It's probably because they are distracted, most likely on a cell phone. I've noticed that people on phones tend to lock onto a car traveling ahead of them, match its speed, and then emulate what it does. This seems to require less attention than actually trying to drive like they are supposed to, so that's why they do it.
I've gotta say, I've never seen a panda car on sale nor seen any civvies cruising round in a 2nd hand one. Seen an ambulance for sale, minus the lights and sirens, and a couple of the ancient green fire engines but I don't think they have quite the same appeal.
One of my friends has an old state trooper Crown Vic. It's painted dark blue. He even has the front crash bar for it, though most of the rest of the equipment had been removed from the car leaving plenty of holes in random places. He's even had people to pull over when he does things like execute a legal U-turn. Never seen a second-hand one with the black-and-white cop car paint job though, so I'm guessing they must repaint those before selling them.
In some places, trucks have lower speed limits than cars, most noteably California. There are also speed restrictions on vehicles that haul things like dangerous chemicals and such.
Fridges aren't terribly complex devices, and they are made mostly out of plastic and steel. Chances are good the steel is recycled anyway, as fridges can get away with fairly low quality steel (it doesn't have to be strong because it isn't structural, nor does it have to withstand the elements because the fridge is kept inside). Possibily a bigger cost would be the energy spent moving it from the fridge plant to your house - fridges tend to be bulky and heavy.
Plus there is the added benefit that the old ozone-destroying refridgerant in the old fridge will be properly disposed of, as opposed to the possibility that it will leak of the fridge if it's kept in service.
The Smart car more or less depends on the other car having a crumple zone in order to cushion the occupants in a crash, since it really doesn't have much of a crumple zone of its own. There are videos of Smart cars being run into things like concrete barriors - while the car survives many of the impacts amazingly well, it's pretty much a given that the occupants would be killed on impact by the sudden stop. Of course, given its size, the Smart car isn't really unsafe - the only other option would to have it crumple and crush the occupants. With the saftey cage, if the occupants survive the initial crash, they can be removed from the car and rushed to a hospital a whole lot faster.
Right after I come in, about 7-9:30 am (I like to come in early). Mainly because I've had some time to mull over the problem, and because there are less people to bother me that early. Staying late is pointless - by that time I'm mentally exhausted, and my level of care starts to go down to the point where I'm just throwing mud at the problem aiming for the quick fix. I'd be a wreck by night time. I'm much better off if I stop, rest, think about what I'm trying to do, then implement it right away tomorrow morning.
He's still got 1200 pixels in width if his 24" monitors are like most of the ones I've seen. Lots of people are running 1280x1024 yet, with many people running less than that. Just because his set up is unusual doesn't mean it's not a problem.
Dogs aren't very good at dumping waste heat, so if they exert themselves for a long period of time, they will tend to overheat. However, given a way to cool off sufficiently (cool weather, or perhaps a lake they can jump in) they can go for quite a while. There's a reason why wolves tend to live in cooler climates.
Also, as someone else pointed out, most modern breeds of dogs aren't bred for endurance (though there are exceptions like the Husky).
The phone company should care, but does not. They get paid per usage and they simply do not care what the usage is.
They should care, as one of the compelling reasons to dump the landline and to get a cell phone is that there is a lot less junk calls (yes, I'm aware that the car warranty idiots hit cell phones too, but they are an exception). You would think that the phone company might care about booting abusive callers off their network to help them retain customers, but I guess not.
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What's the point in that? I don't see why I would risk crashes/corruption/instability on a machine I count on for a job. Plus, I don't see how overclocking old hardware really makes a difference anyway - does overclocking your P4 1.8Ghz to 2.2Ghz really mean much when a new machine is going to be far faster than either?
I don't see why SSE2 would be a problem for the Atom, as the Atom has that. I believe you can count on the Atom being able to run at least anything that a P4 can run (not acounting any speed-related issues), and that's what you'll need to run OSX.
Laptop parts, as seen in the iMac, are expensive. Since towers are cheaper, often by quite a bit, the tower is going to win purely by price and the all-in-one is going to remain a niche product.
Besides, the current iMacs don't make a lot of sense anyway compared to a laptop. They have all the disadvantages (cost, integrated screen, run hot, hard to upgrade) but none of the advantages (integrated battery, portability).
Note he said DVDs. My experience is that burned CDs last a long time (at least 10-12 years, or the age of my earliest burned CDs) whereas burned DVDs can really only be counted on lasting about 2-3 years. So lesson is, if you are archiving data to optical media for long term storage, use CDs - and preferably some other medium in addition.
You do realize that breaking up most ships for scrap costs more than the value of the materials, unless you do it someplace like India where you can ignore all kinds of environmental and safety rules and pay your workers almost nothing?
The way I see it with Wifi is that once it's set up, the costs of running it really doesn't change a whole lot whether you have a few users on it or a lot. However, instead of making it cheap to attract a lot of users, they seem to be stuck in the "lets gouge them for all their worth" model of doing business. Then when they don't get nearly the users they expected, they raise the prices to even more outrageous levels to try to cover their loss.
I don't know why I would buy from a company that's only sketchy instead of shady, when there are plenty of reputable places that will sell me the same merchandise for a similar price.
You might want to ask General Motors how well that worked out for them.
I thought that the Jeep Grand Cherokee was the first "not-a-real-Jeep" Jeeps, though I suppose it's not so bad anymore after looking at the latest travesties to come out of Detroit with a Jeep badge on them.
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I kind of doubt that will happen. While the hacker in me would find breaking the 3 applications limit in that way to be an interesting challenge, the users are either going to crack Windows to remove the limit entirely, or will simply pirate a version of Windows 7 that doesn't have the limit.
Funny thing is, Apple also has a marketing guy running their company too. It's just that unlike Ballmer, he's really good at what he does.
The requirements for WOW aren't really all that demanding anymore by 2009 standards. I remember running it on an Athlon XP 1700+ with 512MB of ram. Probably the biggest problem with trying to run it on a netbook would be the lack of a decent graphics chipset, though that would be offset somewhat by the fact that most netbooks have low resolution screens.
You might want to cut him some slack. 15 years is a long time for a modern German car, most are rotting away in scrap yards by that point. Even American cars manufactured in Mexico seem to last longer than Audis and VWs nowadays.
If you don't care about using a full-blown computer, you can get a pretty nice used PC for less than $100.
And in a free market, you'd be able to choose whatever mechanic who you think knows what they are doing. So what's the issue?
It's probably because they are distracted, most likely on a cell phone. I've noticed that people on phones tend to lock onto a car traveling ahead of them, match its speed, and then emulate what it does. This seems to require less attention than actually trying to drive like they are supposed to, so that's why they do it.
One of my friends has an old state trooper Crown Vic. It's painted dark blue. He even has the front crash bar for it, though most of the rest of the equipment had been removed from the car leaving plenty of holes in random places. He's even had people to pull over when he does things like execute a legal U-turn. Never seen a second-hand one with the black-and-white cop car paint job though, so I'm guessing they must repaint those before selling them.
In some places, trucks have lower speed limits than cars, most noteably California. There are also speed restrictions on vehicles that haul things like dangerous chemicals and such.
Fridges aren't terribly complex devices, and they are made mostly out of plastic and steel. Chances are good the steel is recycled anyway, as fridges can get away with fairly low quality steel (it doesn't have to be strong because it isn't structural, nor does it have to withstand the elements because the fridge is kept inside). Possibily a bigger cost would be the energy spent moving it from the fridge plant to your house - fridges tend to be bulky and heavy.
Plus there is the added benefit that the old ozone-destroying refridgerant in the old fridge will be properly disposed of, as opposed to the possibility that it will leak of the fridge if it's kept in service.
The Smart car more or less depends on the other car having a crumple zone in order to cushion the occupants in a crash, since it really doesn't have much of a crumple zone of its own. There are videos of Smart cars being run into things like concrete barriors - while the car survives many of the impacts amazingly well, it's pretty much a given that the occupants would be killed on impact by the sudden stop. Of course, given its size, the Smart car isn't really unsafe - the only other option would to have it crumple and crush the occupants. With the saftey cage, if the occupants survive the initial crash, they can be removed from the car and rushed to a hospital a whole lot faster.
Right after I come in, about 7-9:30 am (I like to come in early). Mainly because I've had some time to mull over the problem, and because there are less people to bother me that early. Staying late is pointless - by that time I'm mentally exhausted, and my level of care starts to go down to the point where I'm just throwing mud at the problem aiming for the quick fix. I'd be a wreck by night time. I'm much better off if I stop, rest, think about what I'm trying to do, then implement it right away tomorrow morning.
He's still got 1200 pixels in width if his 24" monitors are like most of the ones I've seen. Lots of people are running 1280x1024 yet, with many people running less than that. Just because his set up is unusual doesn't mean it's not a problem.
Dogs aren't very good at dumping waste heat, so if they exert themselves for a long period of time, they will tend to overheat. However, given a way to cool off sufficiently (cool weather, or perhaps a lake they can jump in) they can go for quite a while. There's a reason why wolves tend to live in cooler climates.
Also, as someone else pointed out, most modern breeds of dogs aren't bred for endurance (though there are exceptions like the Husky).
They should care, as one of the compelling reasons to dump the landline and to get a cell phone is that there is a lot less junk calls (yes, I'm aware that the car warranty idiots hit cell phones too, but they are an exception). You would think that the phone company might care about booting abusive callers off their network to help them retain customers, but I guess not.