Actually, you could just use the smartphone's camera as the sensor in cheap optical mice are basically a low resolution digicam. Given you could use the Bluetooth radio to act like a Bluetooth mouse, and the touch screen to act like a set of buttons I don't actually see any reason why a smartphone couldn't be a very expensive, horribly overpowered wireless mouse with terrible battery life.
You'd be surprised, but it seems that gamers tend to hold onto some pretty old stuff. I remember being surprised at how long it took before games finally started shipping on DVDs (instead of multiple CD sets). Heck, Steam only dropped Windows XP support this year. Yes, as in 2019.
I'd actually be surprised if they are many non-Microsoft owned games that don't target Windows 7.
The hilarious thing about the old school media complaining about all the free advertising Trump got is that they really don't have anyone to blame for that but themselves.
Of course, Trump brought in a big pile of money for them too by drawing in eyeballs for them, which is what it is really all about.
I would make sure to get a SSD. Especially on a laptop - nothing slows down a laptop more than a 5400 RPM drive. If it comes down to 4GB upgrade or upgrade to the SSD, get the latter.
I have to agree. The place I work alternates between the corporate Lenovo's and Dell's. Quite frankly after seeing and using both, the Dell's are simply better. Better built, more solid, and more reliable.
With that said, Lenovo is still a pretty solid second choice.
That of course makes the absurd assumption that the people who buy GM cars would instead buy just no car. Instead they would have bought a car from someone else, and those same OEM components would have ended up in a Ford or a Toyota or a Volkswagon or whatever. Sure, it would still have been disruptive but not the end of the world like you suggest.
Besides, when GM would have been broken up, any plant that was worth anything would have been snapped up when it hit the auction block.
That's exactly it. I had a 6x86-"200" (which was really a 166MHz part). It was fine in Windows. It was fine for about anything that didn't require any heavy lifting from the FPU. Admittedly back then that wasn't a big deal when I bought the PC. Windows didn't use FPU math much, and even a lot of games still used mostly integer math.
But that soon changed. The Cyrix chip struggled to play a MP3 file - 50% CPU or more. You could play a MP3 file but don't try to do anything else if you valued smooth playback. The "equivalent" 200 MHz Pentium didn't struggle nearly as hard. The 450 MHz K6 AMD chip that replaced the Cyrix was a revelation - you could play your music in the background with no noticeable impact on system performance, about 3-4% CPU usage.
In may ways the Cyrix 6x86 really was more closely related to the 486 than Intel's 6th generation chips.
How many older 12-15+ year BMW's do you see on road? Not many, compared to Hondas and Chevys. How is that a $100k+ 7 series is only worth a few grand when it's 10 years old? That's because no one wants them - a car that cost $100k new is now one breakdown away from hitting the scrapyard at 10 years because it's completely uneconomical to repair it.
Sure, there's a few classics around, but the whole idea is that older BMW's get scrapped instead of moving down the food chain like a Toyota or a Ford.
Sony used to be top quality stuff. I can easily believe a Sony TV from the 70's lasting 30 years, because I've seen it myself. It wasn't until the 90's that they really started to cheapen their stuff.
Fill with hot, soapy water, close the lid (but not quite enough that it seals), and let it sit overnight. Since they are insulated the hot soapy water stays hot a while. That'll break down quite a bit of the gunk. You can also do the same with something like vinegar if it's deposits from the water being hard.
You don't want to seal the lid all the way because as the inside cools it will create suction that can make it hard to get the lid back off again.
Did you try clicking on the article? There's a bunch of pictures, and I don't see any box trucks at all. Other than a converted bus, they are all RV's of various types and ages.
This only applies to mental work, where you have to spend a lot of time thinking about problems and solutions.
I assume a job that has to be staffed 24 hours a day is either menial labor like a cashier, or is a job like fire fighting where the vast majority of the time they are on the clock they aren't actually "working", but instead are there as they may need to do their jobs at a moment's notice.
Those Atoms in those Netbooks aren't very fast, but they'll stomp all over whatever crappy ARM processor you'll find stuck in a $50 tablet. And I'll take a proper desktop operating system (even running at 1024x600 on a netbook) over the crippled mobile OS the tablet is going to be running.
I don't know what a Protel 99SE, but Windows 8 and later requires the NX-bit be present, which pretty much means you need 64-bit hardware to run it even if you're only running the x86 version - some AMD Opteron's from 2004 could run it which is as far back as you could go.
In theory something from 1999 could run Windows 7, but but earlier this year Microsoft quietly dropped support for a lot of older processors with one of their patches so you'd be running unpatched at this point.
Actually, the Cimarron wasn't the first. A few years earlier, they made the Chevy Nova into a the Cadillac Seville. The thing is they succeeded at that effort because they put a lot of effort into making the Seville its own car and the result, while not like anything else they sold at the time, still was unmistakably a Cadillac. Sure, the two cars share some of the same underpinnings and a few bits here and there, but there's no mistaking the Nova for the Seville or vice versa.
So, drunk off the success of that effort, they figured they could do it again, and on the cheap this time. Hence the Cimarron. Though arguably the Cimarron was just one mistake in a decade of blunders that turned out to be disastrous for Cadillac.
If they they consider it property, then I say they can then pay property taxes on it. If they think that Steamboat Willie is worth $1 billion or whatever, then they can pay 5% of that every year that they want to keep it under copyright. Any new works get something like the first 20 years free, then either pay up every year after that or let it fall into the public domain.
Of course, you have the problem of determining the value, but that seems simple enough - let Disney decide whatever value they want, but anyone can pay the stated value and get a permanent, non-revocable license to use the content however they like. That'll keep Disney from declaring Steamboat Willie is worth $1 or some nonsense like that.
I started using Opera after giving up on Netscape 4.0 and stuck with Opera 12 until sometime in 2015 when sadly it became pretty obvious that Presto-based Opera was past it's sell-by date and was truly dead. Actually one of the pain points with Opera 12 towards the end was just how bad slashcode starting making the browser choke.
Not liking Chrome and not particularly excited with Firefox I started looking for alternatives. I initially dismissed the Chromium-based Opera, but after doing some research it seemed to actually be the best of the Chromium-based browsers, though now that it's owned by the Chinese I'm not so sure about that anymore. I never actually really used it much though, instead moving to Palemoon and Waterfox.
The standard behavior is to let websites screw around with the browser's history. If it's done properly it's practically invisible - sure if you're watching for it you'll see the manipulation going on, but to most users the browser's back button does actually do what they expect it too and they are completely oblivious as to what actually happened and the technical details of how the website really works. However, like a lot of things on the web that were created to make things more user-friendly, this can also be abused by malicious and shitty websites that are up to no good or like being annoying.
However, if you really don't like it, why don't you take control of your browser and not allow websites to rewrite your browser's history? The source code behind the most popular browsers is available, so have at it. Or there may even be an extension available. Then you can go party like it's 1996 all over again.
With cars, you have a title and therefore the past ownership of the car is known, which makes the definition of a "new" or "used" car a bit different. If a car was sold and the title transferred, they can no longer sell it as new if they get it back no matter how many miles it doesn't have. So those "demo" miles were because the car was a loaner, or from test drives, or the dealer letting their employees use it, or whatever, but since the car was never sold and title never transferred they can still sell it as a "new" car.
An interesting result of this was the story of some small town family owned car dealer, where the solution for vehicles they couldn't sell was to park them in the woods behind their house where they sat for decades. When these cars were finally auctioned off they were able to sell them as "new" cars even though some of them were little more than rusted hulks.
Any item that was returned was returned for a reason. It could just be that they didn't like the color, but it could be some flaw or defect that isn't apparent in the 15 second "yeap it's still good" check that the vast majority of this kind of merchandise is going to get. So if I'm paying new prices, I better get a new item rather than having to guess why the previous person rejected it.
IBM's HDD division didn't go under. It was bought by Hitachi, and generally Hitachi's drives are very well regarded nowadays.
As bad as the IBM Deathstars were, I never actually lost any data because of them because they always gave some sign of impending doom before they finally failed, allowing me to grab whatever I needed to get off of them. I also had one last over 10 years in a workstation that was almost never turned off. I'm not even sure how that happened.
The heliosphere in the region dominated by the solar wind from the sun. The sun's gravitational influence extends far beyond that. The Oort cloud is under the gravitational influence of the sun, though a lot of it is rather tenuous which is why other objects that pass nearby like stars can dislodge objects in the Oort cloud and send some of the into the solar system where we usually call them comets.
To answer the original question, if there wasn't any other objects in the universe, the Sun's gravitational influence would extend out to infinity, getting progressively weaker of course. Since there are other objects in the universe as you travel away from the Sun, you'll eventually end up close enough to some other object so that object's influence will be greater than the Sun's. So it depends a bit on which way you travel away from the Sun, but if you pick a direction with nothing significant in the way you could travel up to about 3 lightyears before leaving the Sun's influence (if you get far enough away from anything you'll fall under the gravitational influence of the Milky Way galaxy itself).
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Actually, you could just use the smartphone's camera as the sensor in cheap optical mice are basically a low resolution digicam. Given you could use the Bluetooth radio to act like a Bluetooth mouse, and the touch screen to act like a set of buttons I don't actually see any reason why a smartphone couldn't be a very expensive, horribly overpowered wireless mouse with terrible battery life.
You'd be surprised, but it seems that gamers tend to hold onto some pretty old stuff. I remember being surprised at how long it took before games finally started shipping on DVDs (instead of multiple CD sets). Heck, Steam only dropped Windows XP support this year. Yes, as in 2019.
I'd actually be surprised if they are many non-Microsoft owned games that don't target Windows 7.
The hilarious thing about the old school media complaining about all the free advertising Trump got is that they really don't have anyone to blame for that but themselves.
Of course, Trump brought in a big pile of money for them too by drawing in eyeballs for them, which is what it is really all about.
I would make sure to get a SSD. Especially on a laptop - nothing slows down a laptop more than a 5400 RPM drive. If it comes down to 4GB upgrade or upgrade to the SSD, get the latter.
I have to agree. The place I work alternates between the corporate Lenovo's and Dell's. Quite frankly after seeing and using both, the Dell's are simply better. Better built, more solid, and more reliable.
With that said, Lenovo is still a pretty solid second choice.
So what you're saying is that Linkedin is good for finding those employed in the oldest profession?
That of course makes the absurd assumption that the people who buy GM cars would instead buy just no car. Instead they would have bought a car from someone else, and those same OEM components would have ended up in a Ford or a Toyota or a Volkswagon or whatever. Sure, it would still have been disruptive but not the end of the world like you suggest.
Besides, when GM would have been broken up, any plant that was worth anything would have been snapped up when it hit the auction block.
That's exactly it. I had a 6x86-"200" (which was really a 166MHz part). It was fine in Windows. It was fine for about anything that didn't require any heavy lifting from the FPU. Admittedly back then that wasn't a big deal when I bought the PC. Windows didn't use FPU math much, and even a lot of games still used mostly integer math.
But that soon changed. The Cyrix chip struggled to play a MP3 file - 50% CPU or more. You could play a MP3 file but don't try to do anything else if you valued smooth playback. The "equivalent" 200 MHz Pentium didn't struggle nearly as hard. The 450 MHz K6 AMD chip that replaced the Cyrix was a revelation - you could play your music in the background with no noticeable impact on system performance, about 3-4% CPU usage.
In may ways the Cyrix 6x86 really was more closely related to the 486 than Intel's 6th generation chips.
How many older 12-15+ year BMW's do you see on road? Not many, compared to Hondas and Chevys. How is that a $100k+ 7 series is only worth a few grand when it's 10 years old? That's because no one wants them - a car that cost $100k new is now one breakdown away from hitting the scrapyard at 10 years because it's completely uneconomical to repair it.
Sure, there's a few classics around, but the whole idea is that older BMW's get scrapped instead of moving down the food chain like a Toyota or a Ford.
Sony used to be top quality stuff. I can easily believe a Sony TV from the 70's lasting 30 years, because I've seen it myself. It wasn't until the 90's that they really started to cheapen their stuff.
Arguably, if I was going to start a 10 year old out with programming, I wouldn't use an IDE. Start them with something simple and build up from there.
With that said, when I was 10 I was playing around in QBasic which is an IDE, though a simple one compared to what we have now.
Fill with hot, soapy water, close the lid (but not quite enough that it seals), and let it sit overnight. Since they are insulated the hot soapy water stays hot a while. That'll break down quite a bit of the gunk. You can also do the same with something like vinegar if it's deposits from the water being hard.
You don't want to seal the lid all the way because as the inside cools it will create suction that can make it hard to get the lid back off again.
Did you try clicking on the article? There's a bunch of pictures, and I don't see any box trucks at all. Other than a converted bus, they are all RV's of various types and ages.
This only applies to mental work, where you have to spend a lot of time thinking about problems and solutions.
I assume a job that has to be staffed 24 hours a day is either menial labor like a cashier, or is a job like fire fighting where the vast majority of the time they are on the clock they aren't actually "working", but instead are there as they may need to do their jobs at a moment's notice.
Those Atoms in those Netbooks aren't very fast, but they'll stomp all over whatever crappy ARM processor you'll find stuck in a $50 tablet. And I'll take a proper desktop operating system (even running at 1024x600 on a netbook) over the crippled mobile OS the tablet is going to be running.
I don't know what a Protel 99SE, but Windows 8 and later requires the NX-bit be present, which pretty much means you need 64-bit hardware to run it even if you're only running the x86 version - some AMD Opteron's from 2004 could run it which is as far back as you could go.
In theory something from 1999 could run Windows 7, but but earlier this year Microsoft quietly dropped support for a lot of older processors with one of their patches so you'd be running unpatched at this point.
Actually, the Cimarron wasn't the first. A few years earlier, they made the Chevy Nova into a the Cadillac Seville. The thing is they succeeded at that effort because they put a lot of effort into making the Seville its own car and the result, while not like anything else they sold at the time, still was unmistakably a Cadillac. Sure, the two cars share some of the same underpinnings and a few bits here and there, but there's no mistaking the Nova for the Seville or vice versa.
So, drunk off the success of that effort, they figured they could do it again, and on the cheap this time. Hence the Cimarron. Though arguably the Cimarron was just one mistake in a decade of blunders that turned out to be disastrous for Cadillac.
If they they consider it property, then I say they can then pay property taxes on it. If they think that Steamboat Willie is worth $1 billion or whatever, then they can pay 5% of that every year that they want to keep it under copyright. Any new works get something like the first 20 years free, then either pay up every year after that or let it fall into the public domain.
Of course, you have the problem of determining the value, but that seems simple enough - let Disney decide whatever value they want, but anyone can pay the stated value and get a permanent, non-revocable license to use the content however they like. That'll keep Disney from declaring Steamboat Willie is worth $1 or some nonsense like that.
I started using Opera after giving up on Netscape 4.0 and stuck with Opera 12 until sometime in 2015 when sadly it became pretty obvious that Presto-based Opera was past it's sell-by date and was truly dead. Actually one of the pain points with Opera 12 towards the end was just how bad slashcode starting making the browser choke.
Not liking Chrome and not particularly excited with Firefox I started looking for alternatives. I initially dismissed the Chromium-based Opera, but after doing some research it seemed to actually be the best of the Chromium-based browsers, though now that it's owned by the Chinese I'm not so sure about that anymore. I never actually really used it much though, instead moving to Palemoon and Waterfox.
The standard behavior is to let websites screw around with the browser's history. If it's done properly it's practically invisible - sure if you're watching for it you'll see the manipulation going on, but to most users the browser's back button does actually do what they expect it too and they are completely oblivious as to what actually happened and the technical details of how the website really works. However, like a lot of things on the web that were created to make things more user-friendly, this can also be abused by malicious and shitty websites that are up to no good or like being annoying.
However, if you really don't like it, why don't you take control of your browser and not allow websites to rewrite your browser's history? The source code behind the most popular browsers is available, so have at it. Or there may even be an extension available. Then you can go party like it's 1996 all over again.
That should have been in place and operating 25 years ago. Better late than never I suppose.
With cars, you have a title and therefore the past ownership of the car is known, which makes the definition of a "new" or "used" car a bit different. If a car was sold and the title transferred, they can no longer sell it as new if they get it back no matter how many miles it doesn't have. So those "demo" miles were because the car was a loaner, or from test drives, or the dealer letting their employees use it, or whatever, but since the car was never sold and title never transferred they can still sell it as a "new" car.
An interesting result of this was the story of some small town family owned car dealer, where the solution for vehicles they couldn't sell was to park them in the woods behind their house where they sat for decades. When these cars were finally auctioned off they were able to sell them as "new" cars even though some of them were little more than rusted hulks.
Any item that was returned was returned for a reason. It could just be that they didn't like the color, but it could be some flaw or defect that isn't apparent in the 15 second "yeap it's still good" check that the vast majority of this kind of merchandise is going to get. So if I'm paying new prices, I better get a new item rather than having to guess why the previous person rejected it.
IBM's HDD division didn't go under. It was bought by Hitachi, and generally Hitachi's drives are very well regarded nowadays.
As bad as the IBM Deathstars were, I never actually lost any data because of them because they always gave some sign of impending doom before they finally failed, allowing me to grab whatever I needed to get off of them. I also had one last over 10 years in a workstation that was almost never turned off. I'm not even sure how that happened.
The heliosphere in the region dominated by the solar wind from the sun. The sun's gravitational influence extends far beyond that. The Oort cloud is under the gravitational influence of the sun, though a lot of it is rather tenuous which is why other objects that pass nearby like stars can dislodge objects in the Oort cloud and send some of the into the solar system where we usually call them comets.
To answer the original question, if there wasn't any other objects in the universe, the Sun's gravitational influence would extend out to infinity, getting progressively weaker of course. Since there are other objects in the universe as you travel away from the Sun, you'll eventually end up close enough to some other object so that object's influence will be greater than the Sun's. So it depends a bit on which way you travel away from the Sun, but if you pick a direction with nothing significant in the way you could travel up to about 3 lightyears before leaving the Sun's influence (if you get far enough away from anything you'll fall under the gravitational influence of the Milky Way galaxy itself).