But for what benefit? The only benefit most people see from 64bit is the ability to natively address more than 4GB of ram. It's kind of telling that 64bit has been around for years, but really didn't gain any traction until desktop computers started bumping into that 4GB barrior. And like AC said, you don't need 4GB+ of ram to forward chain emails and load up an iPod.
At the time of writing this post, results 1 (Elastic membranes of close-packed nanoparticle arrays : Article...), 8 (Journal of Colloid and Interface Science : Mesoporous silica...), and 9 (Fabrication of Polymeric Composite Nanostructures Containing...) are what I'm talking about, where the blurb that Google shows appears to be from an article, but clicking on the link leads you to either a login page or a "buy this article" link.
For me, I make them feel good about themselves by asking to borrow it when I need a truck. Nothing is more manly than being able to help someone with your massive truck. It's the reason you bought it, right?
I've wondered if I should buy a truck for that reason. With everyone looking to downsize, I could end up being "the guy with a truck" for a lot of people. I figure when they borrow it, if I ask them to put some fuel in it, most people would consider that fair. Since I hardly drive, if I do this right I could have everyone else buying my fuel for me. Plus I would have a truck when I need it for something.
You would have to be crazy to drive a scooter in a lot of suburban areas in the US. The main drags are usually 45-55MPH, full of large vehicles, and are generally off-limits to pedestrians and bicycles, so people aren't used to seeing non-cars/trucks on them. This is different from Italy, where the streets are narrow which discourages fast speeds and large vehicles, and people are used to seeing pedestrians/bicycles/scooters.
Ooh, the battery. What's that, a $7K item, and the failures start at 7 years (depending on your duty cycle)? Hands up anyone who would buy a 5+ year old hybrid with its original battery. Anyone? Anyone at all? You'll get a free bridge with it.
Well, you take your chances with a used car. Who would buy a 5+ year old car with an automatic transmission? The transmission could fail at any time and you could be out a similar amount of money as a new hybrid battery would cost (which is not $7k, by the way). Or a 4WD system, or xenon headlights, or any other big ticket item that can fail. Even if the battery was a given, the general reliability of most hybrids could still make the car a winner. And besides, I suspect that most hybrids would still drive with a bad battery anyway, though you would obviously take a significant hit to your mileage.
The point of HOV lanes is to reduce congestion by removing vehicles from the road during rush hour by encouraging carpooling, rather than promoting fuel efficiency. So that's why a 15MPG SUV can use the HOV lane with 2 people in it, and a Golf can't if it has 1 person in it.
I've always assumed that if this was the case, Google would still cache the site and I would be able to view the content Google sees by hitting the 'Cached' link. Since these sites are apparently not cached, that suggests to me that something else is going on. Of course, I'm willing to be proved wrong here.
I still get hits in Google to articles in journals where you have to be a subscriber to read the article (in other words, Google is somehow indexing content that I can't see without coughing up some money). These search links are also never cached. I've seen enough of it that I'm guessing that Google must be in on it.
Farmers don't need the extra daylight, either. When it's harvest time they're running until midnight or later. With GPS and the lighting systems on tractors they can work anytime.
Farmers have never reallfy cared about DST anyway. Generally, the start of their day is when the sun rises, regardless of what the clock says.
Look outside your window tonight, see when the sun goes down, look at the time and then add three hours. Ask yourself if you wish it was 8:00 PM rather than 5:00 PM or, as we get further into the winter months, 7:00 and 4:00 PM. Not only that, summer vacations would be nicer too as we could stay out at the beach longer or enjoy other outdoor activities longer.
When you get to work tomorrow, look at the clock and ask yourself would you rather it say 6AM instead of 9AM? Not to say I'm not in favor of changing the standard business hours to something earlier (so we can get off work earlier), but please don't screw with my clock!
Still McCain, despite his supporters, ran an honest campaign and honorably conceded the election to his opponent. Surprisingly his constituents appear to be following in his footsteps and not calling for endless recounts or crying about being marginalized as citizens.
It seems pretty obvious to me why - it's not like 2000 or 2004 where flipping a single swing state could change the results. The margin is high enough that the losing side simply isn't going to be able to cheat enough to win (and get away with it), and in the winner-takes-all system there is no point in cheating not enough to win. Not saying that there aren't incidents of cheating from both sides, but overall that seems to have slowed down the flurry of endless recounts and lawsuits, at least this time around.
The problem is that system is not stable. If cars have to stop for any reason at the choke point, (say, to let a construction vehicle cross the lane, or a pedestrian crosswalk, or whatever) then you have a bunch of cars pile up at the choke point because they are forced to stop. When they are allowed to start moving, they can't get going like that again so you're back to the slow one-car-at-a-time form of merging.
The other problem, of course, is to convince everyone to use both lanes. The only way to stop people from cheating in this situation is to make it so that they can't cheat (ignoring stuff like driving on the shoulder). Then you'll get less aggressive driving from all people.
A lot of these smaller shops there is just "the IT guy" that does everything. A lot of these places, when the IT guy goes on vacation, everyone just kind of holds their breath. Chances are pretty good the servers/network will chug along just fine for a couple of weeks unattended, but you never know what unforseen problem that might suddenly crop up and the one guy who runs everything isn't around to fix it.
It should also be noted that 20,000 hours is about the expected lifetime for the backlight on regular LCD panels too, and these backlight generally aren't replaceable in most LCD monitors. I wouldn't worry about it - like your computer monitor you'll probably replace it before it stops working, or if it manages to reach the EOL the comprable replacement is going to be dirt cheap by that time.
It's getting to the point where it's getting cheaper to equip most/all the domes with cameras rather than having a handful of cameras then paying people to move them around when the need arises. Generally the biggest problem now is having the personel to monitor all the cameras, followed by having enough recording devices to capture all the video from the cameras.
That's dirt cheap to someone who used to pay that kind of money for what was considered at the time to be a mid-range system. And that's not even taking into account inflation.
I can see a few good reasons, such as voting in the local elections where your vote may matter, or voting for a third party canidate to help them get the numbers they need to get funding and to get into the debates.
Well, some noises are more annoying than others. The high pitched whine from (mostly older) harddrives I find incredibly annoying, but fan noise isn't that bad. Airport noise doesn't really bother me much either, but the noise from the fart-cans the ricers put on their cars do.
Failures start to rise again once you get past about 45C or so. If you mount the drives in such a way that they aren't getting much airflow you'll easily be running hotter than that and it will shorten the life of the drive.
If you have another known-clean machine, then why not download and burn on there? Since a MD5 check could be intercepted by the virus too on a contaminated machine, I'm still trying to figure out if you could verify the bootable CD was clean given only infected or possibly infected computers to work with.
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But for what benefit? The only benefit most people see from 64bit is the ability to natively address more than 4GB of ram. It's kind of telling that 64bit has been around for years, but really didn't gain any traction until desktop computers started bumping into that 4GB barrior. And like AC said, you don't need 4GB+ of ram to forward chain emails and load up an iPod.
Typically stringing together some technical/scientific terms in order get a bunch of papers works pretty well. For example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nanoparticles+young's+modulus&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
At the time of writing this post, results 1 (Elastic membranes of close-packed nanoparticle arrays : Article ...), 8 (Journal of Colloid and Interface Science : Mesoporous silica ...), and 9 (Fabrication of Polymeric Composite Nanostructures Containing ...) are what I'm talking about, where the blurb that Google shows appears to be from an article, but clicking on the link leads you to either a login page or a "buy this article" link.
For me, I make them feel good about themselves by asking to borrow it when I need a truck. Nothing is more manly than being able to help someone with your massive truck. It's the reason you bought it, right?
I've wondered if I should buy a truck for that reason. With everyone looking to downsize, I could end up being "the guy with a truck" for a lot of people. I figure when they borrow it, if I ask them to put some fuel in it, most people would consider that fair. Since I hardly drive, if I do this right I could have everyone else buying my fuel for me. Plus I would have a truck when I need it for something.
You would have to be crazy to drive a scooter in a lot of suburban areas in the US. The main drags are usually 45-55MPH, full of large vehicles, and are generally off-limits to pedestrians and bicycles, so people aren't used to seeing non-cars/trucks on them. This is different from Italy, where the streets are narrow which discourages fast speeds and large vehicles, and people are used to seeing pedestrians/bicycles/scooters.
Ooh, the battery. What's that, a $7K item, and the failures start at 7 years (depending on your duty cycle)? Hands up anyone who would buy a 5+ year old hybrid with its original battery. Anyone? Anyone at all? You'll get a free bridge with it.
Well, you take your chances with a used car. Who would buy a 5+ year old car with an automatic transmission? The transmission could fail at any time and you could be out a similar amount of money as a new hybrid battery would cost (which is not $7k, by the way). Or a 4WD system, or xenon headlights, or any other big ticket item that can fail. Even if the battery was a given, the general reliability of most hybrids could still make the car a winner. And besides, I suspect that most hybrids would still drive with a bad battery anyway, though you would obviously take a significant hit to your mileage.
The point of HOV lanes is to reduce congestion by removing vehicles from the road during rush hour by encouraging carpooling, rather than promoting fuel efficiency. So that's why a 15MPG SUV can use the HOV lane with 2 people in it, and a Golf can't if it has 1 person in it.
I've always assumed that if this was the case, Google would still cache the site and I would be able to view the content Google sees by hitting the 'Cached' link. Since these sites are apparently not cached, that suggests to me that something else is going on. Of course, I'm willing to be proved wrong here.
I still get hits in Google to articles in journals where you have to be a subscriber to read the article (in other words, Google is somehow indexing content that I can't see without coughing up some money). These search links are also never cached. I've seen enough of it that I'm guessing that Google must be in on it.
Farmers don't need the extra daylight, either. When it's harvest time they're running until midnight or later. With GPS and the lighting systems on tractors they can work anytime.
Farmers have never reallfy cared about DST anyway. Generally, the start of their day is when the sun rises, regardless of what the clock says.
Look outside your window tonight, see when the sun goes down, look at the time and then add three hours. Ask yourself if you wish it was 8:00 PM rather than 5:00 PM or, as we get further into the winter months, 7:00 and 4:00 PM. Not only that, summer vacations would be nicer too as we could stay out at the beach longer or enjoy other outdoor activities longer.
When you get to work tomorrow, look at the clock and ask yourself would you rather it say 6AM instead of 9AM? Not to say I'm not in favor of changing the standard business hours to something earlier (so we can get off work earlier), but please don't screw with my clock!
And built-in GPIB! Now that's a strange feature for a portable computer.
Still McCain, despite his supporters, ran an honest campaign and honorably conceded the election to his opponent. Surprisingly his constituents appear to be following in his footsteps and not calling for endless recounts or crying about being marginalized as citizens.
It seems pretty obvious to me why - it's not like 2000 or 2004 where flipping a single swing state could change the results. The margin is high enough that the losing side simply isn't going to be able to cheat enough to win (and get away with it), and in the winner-takes-all system there is no point in cheating not enough to win. Not saying that there aren't incidents of cheating from both sides, but overall that seems to have slowed down the flurry of endless recounts and lawsuits, at least this time around.
The problem is that system is not stable. If cars have to stop for any reason at the choke point, (say, to let a construction vehicle cross the lane, or a pedestrian crosswalk, or whatever) then you have a bunch of cars pile up at the choke point because they are forced to stop. When they are allowed to start moving, they can't get going like that again so you're back to the slow one-car-at-a-time form of merging.
The other problem, of course, is to convince everyone to use both lanes. The only way to stop people from cheating in this situation is to make it so that they can't cheat (ignoring stuff like driving on the shoulder). Then you'll get less aggressive driving from all people.
I've been stuck in a long queue consisting entirely of people with reservations before.
A lot of these smaller shops there is just "the IT guy" that does everything. A lot of these places, when the IT guy goes on vacation, everyone just kind of holds their breath. Chances are pretty good the servers/network will chug along just fine for a couple of weeks unattended, but you never know what unforseen problem that might suddenly crop up and the one guy who runs everything isn't around to fix it.
It should also be noted that 20,000 hours is about the expected lifetime for the backlight on regular LCD panels too, and these backlight generally aren't replaceable in most LCD monitors. I wouldn't worry about it - like your computer monitor you'll probably replace it before it stops working, or if it manages to reach the EOL the comprable replacement is going to be dirt cheap by that time.
It's getting to the point where it's getting cheaper to equip most/all the domes with cameras rather than having a handful of cameras then paying people to move them around when the need arises. Generally the biggest problem now is having the personel to monitor all the cameras, followed by having enough recording devices to capture all the video from the cameras.
That's an outside group running that ad. Notice no "I approved this message" at the end.
To be fair though, the "swiftboat" ads were the exact same thing.
That's dirt cheap to someone who used to pay that kind of money for what was considered at the time to be a mid-range system. And that's not even taking into account inflation.
I heard it was going to come around full circle, and be the gMac i7.
He's the same as Charles Baldwin of the Alaska Independence party. Check his ballot status here:
http://www.constitutionparty.com/ba_stats.php
I can see a few good reasons, such as voting in the local elections where your vote may matter, or voting for a third party canidate to help them get the numbers they need to get funding and to get into the debates.
Well, some noises are more annoying than others. The high pitched whine from (mostly older) harddrives I find incredibly annoying, but fan noise isn't that bad. Airport noise doesn't really bother me much either, but the noise from the fart-cans the ricers put on their cars do.
Failures start to rise again once you get past about 45C or so. If you mount the drives in such a way that they aren't getting much airflow you'll easily be running hotter than that and it will shorten the life of the drive.
If you have another known-clean machine, then why not download and burn on there? Since a MD5 check could be intercepted by the virus too on a contaminated machine, I'm still trying to figure out if you could verify the bootable CD was clean given only infected or possibly infected computers to work with.