Well, at least with open source, if Microsoft tries to co-opt it or exert too much influence you'll get forks with the Microsoft stuff stripped out. With Apple and their propriety, closed system if Microsoft gets their tentacles in, you won't have much choice except to switch completely away from Apple.
Besides, Apple and Microsoft are more friendly towards each other than either is towards Linux. Microsoft makes Office for Mac, but not for Linux. And Apple makes it a lot easier to get a Mac to boot Windows than it is to boot Linux on one.
I have to echo that. I've found hard drives the past few years to be incredibly reliable compared to what they used to be. Even more so than SSD's, which is pretty remarkable as SSD's, in theory, should be very reliable. I've even given up on running RAID on my home systems as all the problems I experienced were due to the crappy built-in motherboard RAID solutions and never the drives themselves (yes, I could buy a proper RAID solution but in the end decided I didn't need it). I still back up to external drives as well as have my computers automatically back up to each other over the network, which I figure is good enough should I have a drive fail.
Of course, I could be lucky. I did buy four of the infamous Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB drives from several years back. While I don't use them for anything important anymore (they are seven years old), I still have all of them, they all work, and have never given me any trouble.
Even if the drive was not intended to be used for RAID, or designed to spend most of its time sitting on a shelf, I would still expect the drive to last more than 24 hours. Heck, even writing 8TB of data to the drive once then reading it back would take a good fraction of that 24 hour "lifetime". Now, if the drive died after, say, 2 months then maybe your comment would apply.
Since Windows 8, Windows has done a kind of a partial hibernate when you shut down, and when it boots back up it checks if there's any hardware changes, and if not, just loads up the image it created rather than do a full boot for scratch. You can disable this*, but it's on by default.
The thing is, Getty has been caught at this before and has not straightened out. At some point the only way to deal with a repeat offender that won't change their behavior is to sue them out of existence.
Windows 8.1 also seems faster, more responsive, and more stable than Windows 7. I turned down the free Windows 10 upgrade on my main desktop, but kind of wish I had grabbed the Windows 8 upgrade back when it was $10.
The problem is, all the other planets are bad choices for colonization. Mars is the best choice of the 7, and it suffers from low gravity, thin atmosphere, and high radiation.
That's why we should colonize Venus. It doesn't have any of those problems. Of course, the temperature at the surface is hot enough to melt load, but at about 50 km above the surface where the air pressure is about 1 atmosphere, you'll find the temperature to be about the freezing point of water. You still have to deal with 300 mph winds and the long day-night cycle, but a place with Earth-like air pressure, temperature, and gravity isn't a bad place to start. As a bonus, since the atmosphere is mostly CO2, a balloon filled with Earth air (nitrogen and oxygen, both less dense than CO2) will float on Venus.
What I've seen is that the insurance company will sell you your old car back for essentially the scrap value. So if the car is worth $5000, the scrap value $300, so you keep the car and they write you a check for $4700. It can make sense to do this if you think you can get the car fixed cheaper, or in the case of older, low value cars that can be "totaled" from minor damage - just not fix the car and drive it as-is. I've seen them "total" cars for hail damage before.
Actually, the Pentium D supported EMT64, as well as some of the later LGA775 Pentium 4's. I'm guessing the last 32-bit x86 CPU from Intel was one of the Atoms. Otherwise, it's probably the Core Duo/Core Solo lines which were the mobile CPUs out about the same as the Pentium D.
I can't imagine how much it costs a 14 year old, German, large luxury sedan on the road. That's the kind of car you want to buy new, and then dump as soon as the warranty is expired (assuming of course you can afford to) because the maintenance and repairs on a car like that are insane. There's a reason those things depreciate so quickly, you know.
I don't know about Mazda, as their cars from the 00's have some major rust issues. Maybe that's behind them now, but we really won't know about today's cars until 7-10 years from now.
I do have to agree about quality falling. The Japanese, Toyota especially, seem to be just coasting on their reputation. That's not to say they won't sell you a reliable vehicle, but the cost cutting is obvious. The Koreans are really trying. Jury is still out on them, but it's undeniable that they've made impressive amounts of progress in a few years. Things were looking up for the domestics, but it seems they're slipping back into the pre-2008 mode of focusing on trucks/SUVs with a few cars on the side.
Keep in mind that the car is usually several thousand more if you finance versus pay cash. Those ads that say something like "0% financing or $2500 cash back!". That's an instant $2500 discount if you don't finance.
Of course, the best solution is to not use the dealer's financing. That way you can have your cake and eat it too (though likely won't get the 0%, so YMMV).
That's pretty remarkable. Japanese cars from the 70's - 80's are not known for their rust resistance. Here in salt country Japanese vehicles of that vintage are basically extinct from the roads. I bought an '88 Nissan in 1998 that already had significant rust, and it was disintegrating at an alarming rate by 2005. 90's and 2000's cars are much better. A 15 year old Toyota (that's not a Tacoma) will probably just starting to show rust, though a lot depends on how well the owner(s) took care of it. Most rust starts off as cosmetic so it's also up to the owner how much rust they are will to tolerate. Most cars scrapped nowadays may have rust, but were taken off of the road for some other reason.
By the way, the 1992-1996 Camry is legendary around here - dead reliable with many examples still on the road with no rust showing after 20+ winters. Unfortunately the Camry's built after that generation don't seem to be built to the same standard.
They seem to assume you're driving a fairly new car, and you've financed it. Therefore, you have a pretty big depreciation hit every year, insurance is higher, registration fees are higher, and they factor in the financing fees/interest.
A lot people will be well below that. I own my car, so no financing fees. It's 17 years old, so depreciation is minimal, insurance is less, registration is a lot less. I also drive less miles than they seem to assume. Maintenance is probably about the same.
The trucks of today are sold as status symbols. They've grown massively in size, aggressively styled to look like oversized toys, and come loaded with luxury car features with a price tag to match. Kind of sucks for the guys who actually, you know, need a truck to actually do truck things. The basic work/farm truck as a utility vehicle with manual transmission and vinyl interior is dead, to be replaced with today's weekend toy-hauler. It's no wonder I see lots of trucks from the 60's, 70's, 80's, and early 90's still earning a living out in farm country.
The original nForce and nForce 2 was the best you could get on Socket A, which was otherwise plagued with shit chipsets from VIA, SIS, and including AMD's own. Then I later made the mistake of buying some nForce based boards for the AMD64 processors. Utter garbage.
I really want to like AMD, but eventually I switched over to Intel because at least their chipsets work.
That's actually a parked trailer, and the car is under the front of the trailer where the truck would normally hook up to it. Since it was parked, I'm not sure what the legal requirements (if any) would be.
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Well, at least with open source, if Microsoft tries to co-opt it or exert too much influence you'll get forks with the Microsoft stuff stripped out. With Apple and their propriety, closed system if Microsoft gets their tentacles in, you won't have much choice except to switch completely away from Apple.
Besides, Apple and Microsoft are more friendly towards each other than either is towards Linux. Microsoft makes Office for Mac, but not for Linux. And Apple makes it a lot easier to get a Mac to boot Windows than it is to boot Linux on one.
I have to echo that. I've found hard drives the past few years to be incredibly reliable compared to what they used to be. Even more so than SSD's, which is pretty remarkable as SSD's, in theory, should be very reliable. I've even given up on running RAID on my home systems as all the problems I experienced were due to the crappy built-in motherboard RAID solutions and never the drives themselves (yes, I could buy a proper RAID solution but in the end decided I didn't need it). I still back up to external drives as well as have my computers automatically back up to each other over the network, which I figure is good enough should I have a drive fail.
Of course, I could be lucky. I did buy four of the infamous Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB drives from several years back. While I don't use them for anything important anymore (they are seven years old), I still have all of them, they all work, and have never given me any trouble.
Even if the drive was not intended to be used for RAID, or designed to spend most of its time sitting on a shelf, I would still expect the drive to last more than 24 hours. Heck, even writing 8TB of data to the drive once then reading it back would take a good fraction of that 24 hour "lifetime". Now, if the drive died after, say, 2 months then maybe your comment would apply.
VLC runs just fine on Linux, as well as several popular bittorrent clients.
Since Windows 8, Windows has done a kind of a partial hibernate when you shut down, and when it boots back up it checks if there's any hardware changes, and if not, just loads up the image it created rather than do a full boot for scratch. You can disable this*, but it's on by default.
*At least for the time being.
Well, you see what happened is that Windows 9 was supposed to be one of the good ones, which is why they went straight to Windows 10.
The thing is, Getty has been caught at this before and has not straightened out. At some point the only way to deal with a repeat offender that won't change their behavior is to sue them out of existence.
I'd suggest Windows Update, which will bring any Windows 7 system with less than 4GB to its knees whenever it decides to run an update check.
Windows 8.1 also seems faster, more responsive, and more stable than Windows 7. I turned down the free Windows 10 upgrade on my main desktop, but kind of wish I had grabbed the Windows 8 upgrade back when it was $10.
The "joke" degrees come from the school of business. History, Philosophy, Art, Literature, etc. are all fine degrees for a university.
That's why we should colonize Venus. It doesn't have any of those problems. Of course, the temperature at the surface is hot enough to melt load, but at about 50 km above the surface where the air pressure is about 1 atmosphere, you'll find the temperature to be about the freezing point of water. You still have to deal with 300 mph winds and the long day-night cycle, but a place with Earth-like air pressure, temperature, and gravity isn't a bad place to start. As a bonus, since the atmosphere is mostly CO2, a balloon filled with Earth air (nitrogen and oxygen, both less dense than CO2) will float on Venus.
What I've seen is that the insurance company will sell you your old car back for essentially the scrap value. So if the car is worth $5000, the scrap value $300, so you keep the car and they write you a check for $4700. It can make sense to do this if you think you can get the car fixed cheaper, or in the case of older, low value cars that can be "totaled" from minor damage - just not fix the car and drive it as-is. I've seen them "total" cars for hail damage before.
I drive a Chevy Cobalt you insensitive clod!
Actually, the Pentium D supported EMT64, as well as some of the later LGA775 Pentium 4's. I'm guessing the last 32-bit x86 CPU from Intel was one of the Atoms. Otherwise, it's probably the Core Duo/Core Solo lines which were the mobile CPUs out about the same as the Pentium D.
I can't imagine how much it costs a 14 year old, German, large luxury sedan on the road. That's the kind of car you want to buy new, and then dump as soon as the warranty is expired (assuming of course you can afford to) because the maintenance and repairs on a car like that are insane. There's a reason those things depreciate so quickly, you know.
Did you miss the part where Toyota finally had to cough up the source code for their ECM's and it turned out to be a massive mess of spaghetti?
I don't know about Mazda, as their cars from the 00's have some major rust issues. Maybe that's behind them now, but we really won't know about today's cars until 7-10 years from now.
I do have to agree about quality falling. The Japanese, Toyota especially, seem to be just coasting on their reputation. That's not to say they won't sell you a reliable vehicle, but the cost cutting is obvious. The Koreans are really trying. Jury is still out on them, but it's undeniable that they've made impressive amounts of progress in a few years. Things were looking up for the domestics, but it seems they're slipping back into the pre-2008 mode of focusing on trucks/SUVs with a few cars on the side.
Keep in mind that the car is usually several thousand more if you finance versus pay cash. Those ads that say something like "0% financing or $2500 cash back!". That's an instant $2500 discount if you don't finance.
Of course, the best solution is to not use the dealer's financing. That way you can have your cake and eat it too (though likely won't get the 0%, so YMMV).
That's pretty remarkable. Japanese cars from the 70's - 80's are not known for their rust resistance. Here in salt country Japanese vehicles of that vintage are basically extinct from the roads. I bought an '88 Nissan in 1998 that already had significant rust, and it was disintegrating at an alarming rate by 2005. 90's and 2000's cars are much better. A 15 year old Toyota (that's not a Tacoma) will probably just starting to show rust, though a lot depends on how well the owner(s) took care of it. Most rust starts off as cosmetic so it's also up to the owner how much rust they are will to tolerate. Most cars scrapped nowadays may have rust, but were taken off of the road for some other reason.
By the way, the 1992-1996 Camry is legendary around here - dead reliable with many examples still on the road with no rust showing after 20+ winters. Unfortunately the Camry's built after that generation don't seem to be built to the same standard.
They seem to assume you're driving a fairly new car, and you've financed it. Therefore, you have a pretty big depreciation hit every year, insurance is higher, registration fees are higher, and they factor in the financing fees/interest.
A lot people will be well below that. I own my car, so no financing fees. It's 17 years old, so depreciation is minimal, insurance is less, registration is a lot less. I also drive less miles than they seem to assume. Maintenance is probably about the same.
The trucks of today are sold as status symbols. They've grown massively in size, aggressively styled to look like oversized toys, and come loaded with luxury car features with a price tag to match. Kind of sucks for the guys who actually, you know, need a truck to actually do truck things. The basic work/farm truck as a utility vehicle with manual transmission and vinyl interior is dead, to be replaced with today's weekend toy-hauler. It's no wonder I see lots of trucks from the 60's, 70's, 80's, and early 90's still earning a living out in farm country.
The original nForce and nForce 2 was the best you could get on Socket A, which was otherwise plagued with shit chipsets from VIA, SIS, and including AMD's own. Then I later made the mistake of buying some nForce based boards for the AMD64 processors. Utter garbage.
I really want to like AMD, but eventually I switched over to Intel because at least their chipsets work.
The safest car is the one that's always in the shop?
That's actually a parked trailer, and the car is under the front of the trailer where the truck would normally hook up to it. Since it was parked, I'm not sure what the legal requirements (if any) would be.