I always find it amusing those that have to upgrade on a schedule like that. I just upgrade and replace "as needed", and lately that's been saving me some money because I haven't really felt the need yet to move from my 2004/2005 vintage hardware yet. I'm currently hoping that I can hold out until the SSD disks are down to a reasonable price (say, 64GB for $200), which shouldn't be that long, really.
Windows lets you resize the windows too, which makes them effectively the same as Mac OS except that you can maximize them easily with a click of a button. I actually find Windows friendlier in this regard. Being able to resize the windows from any edge and corner is nice, and by not having the menubar stuck at the top of the primarly display makes multi-monitor setups a whole lot nicer, and saves mouseclicks as I don't have to click on the application window first before using a menu.
Actually, if you read the report, they concluded that debris from WTC 1 and 2 had little to do with the WTC 7 collapse other than initially starting the fires that brought it down.
It can damage the screen, as a lot of laptops from around the P3 era show pressure marks on the screen from where the keyboard presses against the screen when the lid is closed. It seems that laptop manufacturers have solved this issue as newer laptops don't seem to have this problem.
They are actively cooled, so you can always hear the fan churning away.
Really? That would imply that they are not sealed. How do they keep bugs, water, and dirt from getting inside of them and gumming up the works? Or do they just plan on replacing them every couple of years and just not care?
Wireless USB looks just like USB without the cables. You have hosts, and you have devices. The devices can't communicate with each other, as they don't have the logic onboard to do so. Your Wireless USB camera won't be able to communicate with your Wireless USB camera, you'll need to use a host (a computer) to transfer data between them. The advantages of this is the devices should be simplier and cheaper, both in design and in use. This is different than 802.11 and Bluetooth, where all the devices also have the logic onboard to be hosts too, so in theory your Bluetooth MP3 player can talk directly to your Bluetooth camera.
Well, the original purpose of USB was to make the peripherals cheap by making them as simple as possible by unloading as much work as possible to the host device. This works great for things like keyboards and mice and the stuff that USB was originally intended for. This seems pretty obvious from the original specs, which was 12mbps (not very fast even by the standards of the day, except in comparison to the PS/2, serial, and parallel ports it intended to replace), and the fact you are only supposed to draw a max of 500mA at 5V from the port. Of course, people quickly started abusing USB to run disk drives and such, Intel responded with USB2, and that's where we are today.
I also find it amusing that you blame Intel for the poor performance of your non-Intel machine:)
I can see where you're coming from, but you can get a lot of CPU for the money nowadays. I would rather spend a bit extra and get a quad core CPU than to spend hundreds of extra dollars on specialized hardware to run my sound, network, disk, modem, etc. Besides, if a Pentium 75 was good enough to drive a software modem, I can't imagine it having any impact whatsoever on a Core 2 Quad.
Well, you could take it one step further, and allow the computer automatically regulate its clock speed and adjust things on the fly depending on the demand instead of having a physical switch. In which case, you would have just invented Intel's Speedstep technology and AMD's Cool 'n Quiet technology.
It's pretty simple really, the media wants horse race with a photo finish. If it's a close race, then people are more likely to tune in and watch the election coverage, the debates, etc. and that means more eyeballs for the advertisers. As such, the media has been doing a pretty good job of propping up McCain against Obama the past few weeks, and the shifts in the polls have reflected this as the two canidates are pretty much neck and neck at this point.
You'll also notice they did the same thing earlier this year by doing everything they could to draw out the Obama/Hilary race as long as possible.
Everything already has a unique ID, the serial number. Why not use that? Record all the persons equipment numbers, and they have to have that paper on the way out.
Don't count on it, most cheapo generic cases don't have a serial number on them. Heck, mine doesn't even have a manufacturer on it as far as I can tell. This is a lan party, so I would expect a few home built rigs with cases like that.
If you have a case like mine, you can do what I do and use a label-maker to put a made up serial number on the back of the PC (don't forget to write this number down somewhere!). Then hope that any thief that steals the box is too dumb to realize what was done and peel the label off.
So instead, you have the iPhone. But wait, there are two different iPhones with different features (technically 3, as the first iPhone had two different flash memory sizes for a while). Yet both are known as simply "the iPhone". How is that not confusing? Of course, it may not be so bad now since the iPhone is pretty new, but just wait until we have as many iPhones as we have iMacs.
Actually, FAT32 came in Windows 95b, which was released sometime around 1997. Many of the other things associated with Windows 98 also came out in 95b, or were added when you installed IE4 on Windows 95, like active desktop and Quicklaunch. The main advantage of 98 was the built in USB support (there was that add-on for Windows 95, but I think that was a cruel joke by Microsoft cause it simply didn't work). You also got Windows update in 98, which was nicer than manually applying all those patches for 95. Overall, 98 didn't seem like a big deal - I skipped it, going straight from Windows 95 to 2000. I didn't miss much, though towards the end it was tricky getting 95 to install and boot on anything faster than about 400Mhz.
XP has faster boot times, 2000 is just slow any way you measure it. It also properly supports multi-head graphics cards. You got a built in firewall. Lots of UI tweaks that while they seem minor, I miss them when I'm using 2000 like the taskbar grouping and the new start menu. System restore (granted this was in ME, but not 2000). Remote desktop. Cleartype. Fast user switching. Prefetch. Proper support of hyperthreading processors. With that said, I prefer Windows 2000 over XP, but nowadays I run XP mostly as 2000 really doesn't support most newer hardware very well.
That's my guess, as that's exactly what happened to me the first time I tried to slip-stream, and didn't realize that you had to tell both the installer to use the drivers, and to install the drivers so XP can use them. Result: The first part of the install went fine, then instant blue screen after the reboot.
Nowadays there are tools out there that make this a whole lot easier, but my guess is somehow something got goofed up.
The 12.5 square miles of flat desert land may be no problem out west, but finding several hundred acres of flat land here in the Appalachians just isn't happening. Besides, we'd have to cut down all the trees.
That probably won't be so hard once we're done removing all the mountaintops for the coal buried underneath.
There is no code in the world that I can think of that needs a log line after every two steps in a procedure.
I've had to do stuff like that when the software interfaces with hardware (stepper motors, things like that) that's doing stuff, and timing is critical. In other words, you can't just pause the software in a debugger to examine things, because then the hardware will get itself in a bad state and you can't continue the software where you left off.
So what "disabled" really means here is "poor". Why not just say it? It doesn't matter why she's poor.
Many people seem to have a "blame the victim" mentality when it comes to the poor - basically the reason they are poor is their own fault (they have no drive, they can't manage money, they can't hold a job, etc). These people will have a lot easier time sympathizing with her if they think she's poor for reasons beyond her control, such as she's disabled.
Actually, Fahrenhiet is easier to calibrate. Mix salt into a water/ice mix until the solution is saturated. That's 0. Measure when water freezes, that's 32. Now measure your body temp. Call that 96. Now, you have a thermometer with marks at 0, 32, and 96. You'll note that these are 32 and 64 degrees apart, or nice powers of 2, so you can keep splitting the difference in half to fill out the scale with whole numbers. The boiling point of water is at 212 degrees, or 180 degrees away from the freezing point, which is another convienent number to divide.
Perhaps I'm used to Fahrenheit, but it seems more natural to me. The point where water boils isn't really meaningful to me on a day-to-day basis, as my body really can't differentiate 80C from 100C from 200C, as those are all well within the "you're going to get burned" territory. If instead, you were to make a scale where you put the outside air temperature where it starts to get dangerously cold at 0 degrees, and where the outside air temperature starts to get dangerously hot at 100 degrees, you'd pretty much have the Fahrenheit scale. That's why it seems more natural, especially since temeratures much outside of that range simply become "damn hot" and "damn cold" to the human body. I would guess that a three-year old would find that more natural too, as most three year olds aren't really going to have a good concept of how hot boiling water is (and depending on where they live, how cold ice is too).
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I always find it amusing those that have to upgrade on a schedule like that. I just upgrade and replace "as needed", and lately that's been saving me some money because I haven't really felt the need yet to move from my 2004/2005 vintage hardware yet. I'm currently hoping that I can hold out until the SSD disks are down to a reasonable price (say, 64GB for $200), which shouldn't be that long, really.
Windows lets you resize the windows too, which makes them effectively the same as Mac OS except that you can maximize them easily with a click of a button. I actually find Windows friendlier in this regard. Being able to resize the windows from any edge and corner is nice, and by not having the menubar stuck at the top of the primarly display makes multi-monitor setups a whole lot nicer, and saves mouseclicks as I don't have to click on the application window first before using a menu.
Actually, if you read the report, they concluded that debris from WTC 1 and 2 had little to do with the WTC 7 collapse other than initially starting the fires that brought it down.
It can damage the screen, as a lot of laptops from around the P3 era show pressure marks on the screen from where the keyboard presses against the screen when the lid is closed. It seems that laptop manufacturers have solved this issue as newer laptops don't seem to have this problem.
They are actively cooled, so you can always hear the fan churning away.
Really? That would imply that they are not sealed. How do they keep bugs, water, and dirt from getting inside of them and gumming up the works? Or do they just plan on replacing them every couple of years and just not care?
From what I have seen of these boxes, they tend to be constructed out of somewhat thick steel. I wouldn't count on your car winning the encounter.
Now, the cable TV boxes on the other hand...
Wireless USB looks just like USB without the cables. You have hosts, and you have devices. The devices can't communicate with each other, as they don't have the logic onboard to do so. Your Wireless USB camera won't be able to communicate with your Wireless USB camera, you'll need to use a host (a computer) to transfer data between them. The advantages of this is the devices should be simplier and cheaper, both in design and in use. This is different than 802.11 and Bluetooth, where all the devices also have the logic onboard to be hosts too, so in theory your Bluetooth MP3 player can talk directly to your Bluetooth camera.
Well, the original purpose of USB was to make the peripherals cheap by making them as simple as possible by unloading as much work as possible to the host device. This works great for things like keyboards and mice and the stuff that USB was originally intended for. This seems pretty obvious from the original specs, which was 12mbps (not very fast even by the standards of the day, except in comparison to the PS/2, serial, and parallel ports it intended to replace), and the fact you are only supposed to draw a max of 500mA at 5V from the port. Of course, people quickly started abusing USB to run disk drives and such, Intel responded with USB2, and that's where we are today.
I also find it amusing that you blame Intel for the poor performance of your non-Intel machine :)
I can see where you're coming from, but you can get a lot of CPU for the money nowadays. I would rather spend a bit extra and get a quad core CPU than to spend hundreds of extra dollars on specialized hardware to run my sound, network, disk, modem, etc. Besides, if a Pentium 75 was good enough to drive a software modem, I can't imagine it having any impact whatsoever on a Core 2 Quad.
Well, you could take it one step further, and allow the computer automatically regulate its clock speed and adjust things on the fly depending on the demand instead of having a physical switch. In which case, you would have just invented Intel's Speedstep technology and AMD's Cool 'n Quiet technology.
It's pretty simple really, the media wants horse race with a photo finish. If it's a close race, then people are more likely to tune in and watch the election coverage, the debates, etc. and that means more eyeballs for the advertisers. As such, the media has been doing a pretty good job of propping up McCain against Obama the past few weeks, and the shifts in the polls have reflected this as the two canidates are pretty much neck and neck at this point.
You'll also notice they did the same thing earlier this year by doing everything they could to draw out the Obama/Hilary race as long as possible.
Forget the Toshiba. I'm pretty sure the first PC ever built lacked an optical drive.
Everything already has a unique ID, the serial number. Why not use that? Record all the persons equipment numbers, and they have to have that paper on the way out.
Don't count on it, most cheapo generic cases don't have a serial number on them. Heck, mine doesn't even have a manufacturer on it as far as I can tell. This is a lan party, so I would expect a few home built rigs with cases like that.
If you have a case like mine, you can do what I do and use a label-maker to put a made up serial number on the back of the PC (don't forget to write this number down somewhere!). Then hope that any thief that steals the box is too dumb to realize what was done and peel the label off.
I wouldn't worry about that, given how he likes to show off his hiding place.
And you know you can't help but look :)
So instead, you have the iPhone. But wait, there are two different iPhones with different features (technically 3, as the first iPhone had two different flash memory sizes for a while). Yet both are known as simply "the iPhone". How is that not confusing? Of course, it may not be so bad now since the iPhone is pretty new, but just wait until we have as many iPhones as we have iMacs.
Really, I'd run away from that keyboard FAST.
I agree. Dell should stop copying Apple.
XP Professional was an upgrade from Windows 2000.
XP Home was an upgrade from Windows 98/ME.
Very few people ran Windows 2000 at home. For most people, XP Home is their first OS from the NT line, and they came from 95/98/ME.
Actually, FAT32 came in Windows 95b, which was released sometime around 1997. Many of the other things associated with Windows 98 also came out in 95b, or were added when you installed IE4 on Windows 95, like active desktop and Quicklaunch. The main advantage of 98 was the built in USB support (there was that add-on for Windows 95, but I think that was a cruel joke by Microsoft cause it simply didn't work). You also got Windows update in 98, which was nicer than manually applying all those patches for 95. Overall, 98 didn't seem like a big deal - I skipped it, going straight from Windows 95 to 2000. I didn't miss much, though towards the end it was tricky getting 95 to install and boot on anything faster than about 400Mhz.
XP has faster boot times, 2000 is just slow any way you measure it. It also properly supports multi-head graphics cards. You got a built in firewall. Lots of UI tweaks that while they seem minor, I miss them when I'm using 2000 like the taskbar grouping and the new start menu. System restore (granted this was in ME, but not 2000). Remote desktop. Cleartype. Fast user switching. Prefetch. Proper support of hyperthreading processors. With that said, I prefer Windows 2000 over XP, but nowadays I run XP mostly as 2000 really doesn't support most newer hardware very well.
That's my guess, as that's exactly what happened to me the first time I tried to slip-stream, and didn't realize that you had to tell both the installer to use the drivers, and to install the drivers so XP can use them. Result: The first part of the install went fine, then instant blue screen after the reboot.
Nowadays there are tools out there that make this a whole lot easier, but my guess is somehow something got goofed up.
The coder must have graduated from BASIC, where GOTOs are the crux of the language.
Or never graduated at all, in the case of Visual Basic.
The 12.5 square miles of flat desert land may be no problem out west, but finding several hundred acres of flat land here in the Appalachians just isn't happening. Besides, we'd have to cut down all the trees.
That probably won't be so hard once we're done removing all the mountaintops for the coal buried underneath.
There is no code in the world that I can think of that needs a log line after every two steps in a procedure.
I've had to do stuff like that when the software interfaces with hardware (stepper motors, things like that) that's doing stuff, and timing is critical. In other words, you can't just pause the software in a debugger to examine things, because then the hardware will get itself in a bad state and you can't continue the software where you left off.
So what "disabled" really means here is "poor". Why not just say it? It doesn't matter why she's poor.
Many people seem to have a "blame the victim" mentality when it comes to the poor - basically the reason they are poor is their own fault (they have no drive, they can't manage money, they can't hold a job, etc). These people will have a lot easier time sympathizing with her if they think she's poor for reasons beyond her control, such as she's disabled.
Actually, Fahrenhiet is easier to calibrate. Mix salt into a water/ice mix until the solution is saturated. That's 0. Measure when water freezes, that's 32. Now measure your body temp. Call that 96. Now, you have a thermometer with marks at 0, 32, and 96. You'll note that these are 32 and 64 degrees apart, or nice powers of 2, so you can keep splitting the difference in half to fill out the scale with whole numbers. The boiling point of water is at 212 degrees, or 180 degrees away from the freezing point, which is another convienent number to divide.
Perhaps I'm used to Fahrenheit, but it seems more natural to me. The point where water boils isn't really meaningful to me on a day-to-day basis, as my body really can't differentiate 80C from 100C from 200C, as those are all well within the "you're going to get burned" territory. If instead, you were to make a scale where you put the outside air temperature where it starts to get dangerously cold at 0 degrees, and where the outside air temperature starts to get dangerously hot at 100 degrees, you'd pretty much have the Fahrenheit scale. That's why it seems more natural, especially since temeratures much outside of that range simply become "damn hot" and "damn cold" to the human body. I would guess that a three-year old would find that more natural too, as most three year olds aren't really going to have a good concept of how hot boiling water is (and depending on where they live, how cold ice is too).