On the other hand, most of those countries have little to no facilities to refine the crude oil into gasoline. The real reason it's so cheap is that the governments in thouse countries are subsidizing the cost of the fuel.
Do you have any idea how a modern coal power plant works? Generally, they pulverize the coal into dust, then use compressed air to shoot the dust into the boiler. As such, it's pretty much as easy to control the output of a coal plant as it is a natural gas plant as you can quickly vary the amount of coal dust being shot into the boiler.
Though you're still right, burning coal is still pretty cheap so most coal plants pretty much run at full capacity 24/7.
Generally I find them less precise, and slower to do things like move the cursor across the screen. I also get annoyed by the "helpful" features like registering a tap as a click as I find I tend to trigger it accidently. I also find that they tend to be too small and annoy me when I'm typing when my wrists brush up against them, but that's more an issue with the laptop form factor than the actual touchpad.
I found Opera 9.50 to be a bit buggy, but 9.51 seemed to clear that up. There are some annoyances, like the new location for the "New Tab" button, but overall I find Opera 9.5 to be faster and less of a CPU hog than the 9.2x versions.
That's based on the number of hits on websites. From the people I know that are still on Windows 95/98/ME, they are all light users who almost all are on dial up. It wouldn't surprise me at all if 10% of the PCs used out there on a regular basis are still Windows 98 and ME, even if they only account for 1% of traffic on the internet.
Who's going to lift licenses? Not only would they be hard to fence, I'l assuming that each number is unique and it's pretty likely they'll know where they went missing and who tries to register them.
Having recently looked into heatsinks/cooling fans/water cooling systems at Tom's Hardware, I'd go so far as to say if you can run your computer full blast and peak temperature settles at anything less than 70C, you've got a good system. The best heatsink/fan combos were at about 72C, IIRC. The water cooling systems were obviously cooler but I don't think they got down to 50.
Is that the state of cooling nowadays? I have an old Sempron based system along with a pretty standard fan cooler that you would expect from a few years ago. It idles at around 50C and running full out it's only 56C or so. It's not very quiet, but it works fine. Supposedly the CPU draws about 62W, which isn't all that different from today's mainstream budget CPUs.
Most everyone I know who does the water cooling thing uses standard automotive coolant in their systems. The big problem with plain water is that things will start to grow in it and it will become nasty, and depending on what's in it in terms of minerals, the water can be corrosive to certain metal parts it comes into contact with. Naturally, these problems have already been addressed when it comes to automotive applications, so why not use coolant?
I doubt it, as people consider touchpads inferior to mice, but put up with them on laptops because they require less space. You can buy a touchpad for your desktop if you want, but I don't think they'll ever catch on.
In the context of replacing the bulbs in your home though, the answer may be slightly different, as dimmers on light fixtures intended to power incandescant bulbs aren't going to work properly with the LED bulbs. However, it should only be a matter of replacing the dimmer switches to get them to work.
I've always noticed a "twinkle" effect from the LED Christmas lights that usually blink at the line frequency, since they are too cheap to include a DC power supply. I wonder if someone might intentionally flicker the LED lights on their car in a similar fashion to get a similar effect and to grab people's attention.
Well, bickering about where to put brackets and else statements doesn't help you accomplish that. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is, and why some people seem to treat it almost as a religion. I have my preferences, of course, but I can adapt to how someone else likes to format fairly easily, so long as they are consistent with their style.
That's not the issue. The issue is advertising something as $75 per month when it fact it is $75+X per month and they won't even tell you the value of X. It's deceptive and anti-competitive.
But hey, if you don't mind people tacking on an extra 5-20% onto your monthly bills, I'm sure there are lots of places willing to do business with you.
I think the vehicle should detect whenever someone installs tacky rims or one of those ridiculous fart cans on it, then wait for the owner to get into it and strangle them to death with the automatic seatbelts. We'd all be better off that way.
I think the biggest problem with the self-driving car is the lawyers. It's inevitable that someone will get seriously hurt or killed by one, and ambulance chasers are going to see the auto manufacturer as someone with deep pockets and the lawsuits will start flying. For that reason alone I don't see the self-driving car anytime in the future, save for things like the self-parking car where speeds are so slow that someone is unlikely to be seriously hurt.
He didn't say he wanted to re-liquify the core and spin it up, dumbass. There would be other ways to create a magnetic field around Mars, many of them considerably easier (though any one would still be a major undertaking, naturally).
Cite please. All of my equipment has only become more reliable with each generation. (With the exception of my TI 99-4a. No moving parts, would probably survive an EMP.) Unless you're buying bargain basement stuff, but since this stuff is my business and livelihood it would be foolish to do that.
Well, it could be kind of like the "they don't build them like the used to" fallacy. For example, people tend to think 100+ year old houses are really well built - that's because the exapmles of 100 year old houses that still exist are mostly the ones that were well built, the shoddy ones were torn down years ago.
Those old Dell Optiplexes are extremely reliable machines. I have one here which is a light duty LAMP server, and it never crashes, and it's uptimes are determined by when I have power outages that last longer than my UPS battery. They are the cream of the crop that are most likely to be in service after a decade, when all the crappy eMachines and Compaqs were scrapped years ago. They are also the computers I'm most likely to save when I see one in the scrap pile, as I know it'll be a good computer when I need something for a project.
I was under the impression that suspend to disk just does a ram dump to the drive, then copies that dump back to memory when the computer turns back on. If you can strip the computers down to a low amount of memory, you may find this to be pretty quick as less has to be read from the disk to bring the computer back up.
Is that the same thing? The old infrared ports were two way with both a transmit and recieve LED, and work similar to a serial port. If the only purpose of the port on the Mac is to work with included remote, it may only be one way.
Probably heat related. Most of the recent Macs seem to run really warm, which is likely because Apple wants to make them as thin as possible while skimping on the cooling to keep them quiet. I predict that a lot of the new iMacs/Macbooks/Macbook Pros aren't really going to last more than a couple years because of this, unless they aren't powered on much.
I'm pretty sure that Wall-e keeping his video tapes in an older toaster was a reference to the Amiga Video Toaster, though I've gotten no confirmation of that.
It's not like Apple is the only company capable of producing easy to use hardware. Any one of those phones could be simple and intuitive to use, yet no one would know because they recieve so little press.
Apple's scheme for this is still half-assed compared to the two physical buttons. You can't drag and drop, you can't click both mouse buttons at once (for games and mouse gestures for things like Opera), and I've never been able to get the touchpad to register what I want it to do 100% of the time either with all those fancy clicks you're supposed to be able to do with it. It would just be a whole lot easier if there was a physical 2nd button.
Well, in the PC world, you have a choice. You can get the fancy high resolution screen for a few bucks more, or get the cheap screen and save a few bucks. In the Mac world, you either pay a lot and get the cheap screen and integrated graphics, or you pay a whole lot and get the nice screen and the fancy graphics.
Another fun fact is that the Chevy/Geo Prism always got lower ratings than the Toyota Corolla, despite them being the same car with the exception of some exterior plastic cladding.
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And can I put my tongue across the terminals to make sure its working like I do with my cell phone wall wart?
That depends. Do you need to do it multiple times or just once?
On the other hand, most of those countries have little to no facilities to refine the crude oil into gasoline. The real reason it's so cheap is that the governments in thouse countries are subsidizing the cost of the fuel.
Do you have any idea how a modern coal power plant works? Generally, they pulverize the coal into dust, then use compressed air to shoot the dust into the boiler. As such, it's pretty much as easy to control the output of a coal plant as it is a natural gas plant as you can quickly vary the amount of coal dust being shot into the boiler.
Though you're still right, burning coal is still pretty cheap so most coal plants pretty much run at full capacity 24/7.
Generally I find them less precise, and slower to do things like move the cursor across the screen. I also get annoyed by the "helpful" features like registering a tap as a click as I find I tend to trigger it accidently. I also find that they tend to be too small and annoy me when I'm typing when my wrists brush up against them, but that's more an issue with the laptop form factor than the actual touchpad.
You can buy them at Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826152008
They come either stand alone or integrated into a keyboard.
I found Opera 9.50 to be a bit buggy, but 9.51 seemed to clear that up. There are some annoyances, like the new location for the "New Tab" button, but overall I find Opera 9.5 to be faster and less of a CPU hog than the 9.2x versions.
That's based on the number of hits on websites. From the people I know that are still on Windows 95/98/ME, they are all light users who almost all are on dial up. It wouldn't surprise me at all if 10% of the PCs used out there on a regular basis are still Windows 98 and ME, even if they only account for 1% of traffic on the internet.
Who's going to lift licenses? Not only would they be hard to fence, I'l assuming that each number is unique and it's pretty likely they'll know where they went missing and who tries to register them.
Having recently looked into heatsinks/cooling fans/water cooling systems at Tom's Hardware, I'd go so far as to say if you can run your computer full blast and peak temperature settles at anything less than 70C, you've got a good system. The best heatsink/fan combos were at about 72C, IIRC. The water cooling systems were obviously cooler but I don't think they got down to 50.
Is that the state of cooling nowadays? I have an old Sempron based system along with a pretty standard fan cooler that you would expect from a few years ago. It idles at around 50C and running full out it's only 56C or so. It's not very quiet, but it works fine. Supposedly the CPU draws about 62W, which isn't all that different from today's mainstream budget CPUs.
Most everyone I know who does the water cooling thing uses standard automotive coolant in their systems. The big problem with plain water is that things will start to grow in it and it will become nasty, and depending on what's in it in terms of minerals, the water can be corrosive to certain metal parts it comes into contact with. Naturally, these problems have already been addressed when it comes to automotive applications, so why not use coolant?
I doubt it, as people consider touchpads inferior to mice, but put up with them on laptops because they require less space. You can buy a touchpad for your desktop if you want, but I don't think they'll ever catch on.
In the context of replacing the bulbs in your home though, the answer may be slightly different, as dimmers on light fixtures intended to power incandescant bulbs aren't going to work properly with the LED bulbs. However, it should only be a matter of replacing the dimmer switches to get them to work.
I've always noticed a "twinkle" effect from the LED Christmas lights that usually blink at the line frequency, since they are too cheap to include a DC power supply. I wonder if someone might intentionally flicker the LED lights on their car in a similar fashion to get a similar effect and to grab people's attention.
Well, bickering about where to put brackets and else statements doesn't help you accomplish that. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is, and why some people seem to treat it almost as a religion. I have my preferences, of course, but I can adapt to how someone else likes to format fairly easily, so long as they are consistent with their style.
That's not the issue. The issue is advertising something as $75 per month when it fact it is $75+X per month and they won't even tell you the value of X. It's deceptive and anti-competitive.
But hey, if you don't mind people tacking on an extra 5-20% onto your monthly bills, I'm sure there are lots of places willing to do business with you.
I think the vehicle should detect whenever someone installs tacky rims or one of those ridiculous fart cans on it, then wait for the owner to get into it and strangle them to death with the automatic seatbelts. We'd all be better off that way.
I think the biggest problem with the self-driving car is the lawyers. It's inevitable that someone will get seriously hurt or killed by one, and ambulance chasers are going to see the auto manufacturer as someone with deep pockets and the lawsuits will start flying. For that reason alone I don't see the self-driving car anytime in the future, save for things like the self-parking car where speeds are so slow that someone is unlikely to be seriously hurt.
He didn't say he wanted to re-liquify the core and spin it up, dumbass. There would be other ways to create a magnetic field around Mars, many of them considerably easier (though any one would still be a major undertaking, naturally).
Cite please. All of my equipment has only become more reliable with each generation. (With the exception of my TI 99-4a. No moving parts, would probably survive an EMP.) Unless you're buying bargain basement stuff, but since this stuff is my business and livelihood it would be foolish to do that.
Well, it could be kind of like the "they don't build them like the used to" fallacy. For example, people tend to think 100+ year old houses are really well built - that's because the exapmles of 100 year old houses that still exist are mostly the ones that were well built, the shoddy ones were torn down years ago.
Those old Dell Optiplexes are extremely reliable machines. I have one here which is a light duty LAMP server, and it never crashes, and it's uptimes are determined by when I have power outages that last longer than my UPS battery. They are the cream of the crop that are most likely to be in service after a decade, when all the crappy eMachines and Compaqs were scrapped years ago. They are also the computers I'm most likely to save when I see one in the scrap pile, as I know it'll be a good computer when I need something for a project.
I was under the impression that suspend to disk just does a ram dump to the drive, then copies that dump back to memory when the computer turns back on. If you can strip the computers down to a low amount of memory, you may find this to be pretty quick as less has to be read from the disk to bring the computer back up.
Is that the same thing? The old infrared ports were two way with both a transmit and recieve LED, and work similar to a serial port. If the only purpose of the port on the Mac is to work with included remote, it may only be one way.
Probably heat related. Most of the recent Macs seem to run really warm, which is likely because Apple wants to make them as thin as possible while skimping on the cooling to keep them quiet. I predict that a lot of the new iMacs/Macbooks/Macbook Pros aren't really going to last more than a couple years because of this, unless they aren't powered on much.
I'm pretty sure that Wall-e keeping his video tapes in an older toaster was a reference to the Amiga Video Toaster, though I've gotten no confirmation of that.
It's not like Apple is the only company capable of producing easy to use hardware. Any one of those phones could be simple and intuitive to use, yet no one would know because they recieve so little press.
Apple's scheme for this is still half-assed compared to the two physical buttons. You can't drag and drop, you can't click both mouse buttons at once (for games and mouse gestures for things like Opera), and I've never been able to get the touchpad to register what I want it to do 100% of the time either with all those fancy clicks you're supposed to be able to do with it. It would just be a whole lot easier if there was a physical 2nd button.
Well, in the PC world, you have a choice. You can get the fancy high resolution screen for a few bucks more, or get the cheap screen and save a few bucks. In the Mac world, you either pay a lot and get the cheap screen and integrated graphics, or you pay a whole lot and get the nice screen and the fancy graphics.
Another fun fact is that the Chevy/Geo Prism always got lower ratings than the Toyota Corolla, despite them being the same car with the exception of some exterior plastic cladding.