To be fair, I assumed that I'd never use the integrated GPU in my 2600K, but when it got re-purposed for my Linux desktop I decided the best course of action was to just pull out the PCI-e GPU and try the integrated. Which works perfectly fine.
Except at $1700, you're already well into Xeon territory anyway. At that price, I'm not even sure what the market for this processor is, unless it's just a halo model that they actually don't expect to sell many of.
Except they've truncated every other time. They had the 486 DX2 66MHz, Pentium 166MHz , the Pentium 2 266MHz. They sold Celerons at 366MHz, 466MHz, 566Mhz, and 766Mhz. They had Pentium 3's at 866 Mhz and 1266Mhz. The 666MHz Pentium 3 (and Celeron) are the only time they've rounded up to 667MHz.
That doesn't mean that they won't try to stick a EULA on there anyway in a further attempt to further restrict what you can do with your television. It would almost certainly be completely unenforceable though.
Given the quality of TVs nowadays, it's a crapshoot whether a new LED-backlit LCD will outlast the plasma. Sure, the LCD should, in theory, last a very long time but in reality the power supply board will probably crap out in a few years. Even more so if it's a Samsung as that's the one place they really cheap out.
Japan also has a pretty healthy export market for their used cars. A lot end up in Australasia and New Zealand, being that they are also left hand drive countries. Ex-JDM cars can be imported into Canada after 10 years, I believe (in the US, you typically have to wait until they are 25 years old to be considered a "classic").
I always assumed the images were a mix of case 1 and case 2. Say, 6 images it knows, and 3 images you have to identify. You don't know which is which, but you have to get the 6 it knows correctly to get through. After enough people answer for the other 3, Google has a pretty good idea what they are (or aren't).
The Stanley Steamer claimed to only have 13 moving parts in its engine. It also has no transmission. The simplicity of their power train was one of the Stanley Steamer's big selling points over ICE cars. Of course, the trade off was the complexity of having an on-demand, constant supply of steam to power the engine.
Other than "massively polluting", that would describe the early emissions controls put on cars in the late 70's and early 80's. The early emissions controls killed performance, made the cars use more fuel, and the emissions systems themselves were very finicky and not reliable. Even today's cars could pick up a few extra MPG and some extra performance if they didn't care about emissions (see: Volkswagon).
The Prius, at least the older models that used NiMH, attempt to keep the battery at something like 40-80% charge to maximize the life of the battery. The car will rarely charge the battery more than that or let it run down out of that range. I would imagine a plug-in mod, if it always fully charges the battery, would shorten the life of the battery unless the plug-in mod also only charges the battery to 80%.
Incidentally, this one of the reasons the batteries in the first generation Honda Insight don't last as long as the Prius, as the Insight would regularly charge the battery all the way up to 100% and also let it discharge completely. Though by doing this, the Insight was able to post some pretty impressive fuel economy numbers.
The other problem with many modern ICE cars is that they use the fuel to help keep the fuel pump cool. You don't want to run them down all the way down to completely empty as that can shorten the life of the fuel pump. Though just going down to E should be fine in most cars as the gauges are calibrated to have a few gallons of fuel left when they read empty. I just wouldn't make a habit of going past that.
As far as I'm concerned they are barely keeping their promise anyway, considering how broken Windows Update is in Windows 7. It's been like that for over a year now too, so at this point I figure Microsoft just doesn't give a shit about fixing it.
I mean, yes Microsoft still updates Windows 7, if you can tolerate the hours and hours of svchost.exe and trustedinstaller.exe at 100%, and chewing up 2G+ of ram.
To top it off, even if the rollback all goes correctly, if you don't keep on top of things the computer will just upgrade itself to Windows 10 again anyway.
The SSN is a pretty good unique identifier. The problem is assuming that it's a secret, and someone claiming to be John James Doe that also can rattle off John James Doe's SSN must actually be John James Doe.
You might want to pay attention, because languages (programming and otherwise) most certainly can be copyrighted. Google won the lawsuit not because the API wasn't copyrighted, but because it was ruled that Google's use was fair use.
That, and if you read them carefully you'll also notice they don't actually promise anything at all. The phone company could never actually hook up my DSL and technically be within the terms of the contract.
To me, it feels like I'm driving a pillbox of cheap plastic. However, it's not really too different than a lot of modern cars where crappy visibility is now the norm. But each to their own.
Part of the problem is the use case. E-cigs are very high current devices. Smartphones are low current devices. Take those smartphone batteries and try pulling 30W from them, they might start blowing up. Take the E-cig batteries and never draw more than 1-2W from them, and you may never have a problem with them.
Microsoft seems to come up with new languages and frameworks constantly, but they support them a long time. You can still create an application using MFC like it's 1993 for Windows 10 and it'll work just fine.
This isn't the 70's any more. Any modern car engine can easily go 250k miles with proper maintenance. Just about any car will have lots of life left in it at 100k. Really, nowadays it's not really the powertrain that does most cars in - it's the other things that go wrong with the car that results in it ending up in the scrapyard. Though I haven't been too impressed with Mazda. I don't know where you live, but up in salt country excessive rust is probably going to be the #1 reason most Mazdas like yours get sent to the crusher.
Well, you can always turn that around too. I defy you to find an equivalent Mac to a standard tower PC with a similar level of expandability and upgrade-ability at any price.
The Celerons were actually pretty hit and miss. The first ones (basically the Pentium 2 with the L2 cache deleted) were total dogs, but very short-lived and pretty rare. Those were followed up with the second generation Celerons, which had a full speed L2 128k cache versus the half speed 512k on the Pentium 2. For many things, 1/4 the cache that ran twice as fast was giving nearly Pentium 2 performance at lower cost. Plus this generation also included the legendary Celeron 300A which easily overclocked to 450 MHz and was dual CPU compatible.
The Pentium 3 Celerons were also pretty good, essentially being Coppermine cores with half the L2 cache. The Coppermine didn't seem to suffer too badly from half the L2 cache missing. The main thing that hobbled those CPUs was being stuck with a 66Mhz bus until the 800 MHz Celeron came out.
The Pentium 4 Celerons were pretty bad. The Pentium 4 wasn't that great of a CPU, and really needed all the L2 cache it could get with its deep pipeline. Cutting the L2 cache in half really killed the performance. And then there was the Celeron D, which everyone thought was a dual core Celeron because it was around the same time as the Pentium D, but it really was just a cut-down single core Prescott Pentium 4.
That was about the end of the Celeron as a major player in the desktop CPU market. The line is still around, and some very low-end computers still sport a Celeron, but they are mostly found in embedded stuff and appliance-type boxes nowadays where they do just fine.
There's a bunch of different versions of Windows XP embedded. Some of them were EOL with the regular version of Windows XP. A bunch were just EOL earlier this year. A few specialized versions are supported until sometime in 2019.
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To be fair, I assumed that I'd never use the integrated GPU in my 2600K, but when it got re-purposed for my Linux desktop I decided the best course of action was to just pull out the PCI-e GPU and try the integrated. Which works perfectly fine.
Except at $1700, you're already well into Xeon territory anyway. At that price, I'm not even sure what the market for this processor is, unless it's just a halo model that they actually don't expect to sell many of.
Except they've truncated every other time. They had the 486 DX2 66MHz, Pentium 166MHz , the Pentium 2 266MHz. They sold Celerons at 366MHz, 466MHz, 566Mhz, and 766Mhz. They had Pentium 3's at 866 Mhz and 1266Mhz. The 666MHz Pentium 3 (and Celeron) are the only time they've rounded up to 667MHz.
That doesn't mean that they won't try to stick a EULA on there anyway in a further attempt to further restrict what you can do with your television. It would almost certainly be completely unenforceable though.
Because Chrome has DRM in it, duh.
Given the quality of TVs nowadays, it's a crapshoot whether a new LED-backlit LCD will outlast the plasma. Sure, the LCD should, in theory, last a very long time but in reality the power supply board will probably crap out in a few years. Even more so if it's a Samsung as that's the one place they really cheap out.
Japan also has a pretty healthy export market for their used cars. A lot end up in Australasia and New Zealand, being that they are also left hand drive countries. Ex-JDM cars can be imported into Canada after 10 years, I believe (in the US, you typically have to wait until they are 25 years old to be considered a "classic").
I always assumed the images were a mix of case 1 and case 2. Say, 6 images it knows, and 3 images you have to identify. You don't know which is which, but you have to get the 6 it knows correctly to get through. After enough people answer for the other 3, Google has a pretty good idea what they are (or aren't).
The Stanley Steamer claimed to only have 13 moving parts in its engine. It also has no transmission. The simplicity of their power train was one of the Stanley Steamer's big selling points over ICE cars. Of course, the trade off was the complexity of having an on-demand, constant supply of steam to power the engine.
All the EPA cares about is the emissions, so if you could get a 2 cycle to be clean enough, they'd allow it. Though good luck with that.
Other than "massively polluting", that would describe the early emissions controls put on cars in the late 70's and early 80's. The early emissions controls killed performance, made the cars use more fuel, and the emissions systems themselves were very finicky and not reliable. Even today's cars could pick up a few extra MPG and some extra performance if they didn't care about emissions (see: Volkswagon).
The Prius, at least the older models that used NiMH, attempt to keep the battery at something like 40-80% charge to maximize the life of the battery. The car will rarely charge the battery more than that or let it run down out of that range. I would imagine a plug-in mod, if it always fully charges the battery, would shorten the life of the battery unless the plug-in mod also only charges the battery to 80%.
Incidentally, this one of the reasons the batteries in the first generation Honda Insight don't last as long as the Prius, as the Insight would regularly charge the battery all the way up to 100% and also let it discharge completely. Though by doing this, the Insight was able to post some pretty impressive fuel economy numbers.
The other problem with many modern ICE cars is that they use the fuel to help keep the fuel pump cool. You don't want to run them down all the way down to completely empty as that can shorten the life of the fuel pump. Though just going down to E should be fine in most cars as the gauges are calibrated to have a few gallons of fuel left when they read empty. I just wouldn't make a habit of going past that.
As far as I'm concerned they are barely keeping their promise anyway, considering how broken Windows Update is in Windows 7. It's been like that for over a year now too, so at this point I figure Microsoft just doesn't give a shit about fixing it.
I mean, yes Microsoft still updates Windows 7, if you can tolerate the hours and hours of svchost.exe and trustedinstaller.exe at 100%, and chewing up 2G+ of ram.
To top it off, even if the rollback all goes correctly, if you don't keep on top of things the computer will just upgrade itself to Windows 10 again anyway.
The SSN is a pretty good unique identifier. The problem is assuming that it's a secret, and someone claiming to be John James Doe that also can rattle off John James Doe's SSN must actually be John James Doe.
You might want to pay attention, because languages (programming and otherwise) most certainly can be copyrighted. Google won the lawsuit not because the API wasn't copyrighted, but because it was ruled that Google's use was fair use.
That, and if you read them carefully you'll also notice they don't actually promise anything at all. The phone company could never actually hook up my DSL and technically be within the terms of the contract.
To me, it feels like I'm driving a pillbox of cheap plastic. However, it's not really too different than a lot of modern cars where crappy visibility is now the norm. But each to their own.
Part of the problem is the use case. E-cigs are very high current devices. Smartphones are low current devices. Take those smartphone batteries and try pulling 30W from them, they might start blowing up. Take the E-cig batteries and never draw more than 1-2W from them, and you may never have a problem with them.
Microsoft seems to come up with new languages and frameworks constantly, but they support them a long time. You can still create an application using MFC like it's 1993 for Windows 10 and it'll work just fine.
This isn't the 70's any more. Any modern car engine can easily go 250k miles with proper maintenance. Just about any car will have lots of life left in it at 100k. Really, nowadays it's not really the powertrain that does most cars in - it's the other things that go wrong with the car that results in it ending up in the scrapyard. Though I haven't been too impressed with Mazda. I don't know where you live, but up in salt country excessive rust is probably going to be the #1 reason most Mazdas like yours get sent to the crusher.
Well, you can always turn that around too. I defy you to find an equivalent Mac to a standard tower PC with a similar level of expandability and upgrade-ability at any price.
The Celerons were actually pretty hit and miss. The first ones (basically the Pentium 2 with the L2 cache deleted) were total dogs, but very short-lived and pretty rare. Those were followed up with the second generation Celerons, which had a full speed L2 128k cache versus the half speed 512k on the Pentium 2. For many things, 1/4 the cache that ran twice as fast was giving nearly Pentium 2 performance at lower cost. Plus this generation also included the legendary Celeron 300A
which easily overclocked to 450 MHz and was dual CPU compatible.
The Pentium 3 Celerons were also pretty good, essentially being Coppermine cores with half the L2 cache. The Coppermine didn't seem to suffer too badly from half the L2 cache missing. The main thing that hobbled those CPUs was being stuck with a 66Mhz bus until the 800 MHz Celeron came out.
The Pentium 4 Celerons were pretty bad. The Pentium 4 wasn't that great of a CPU, and really needed all the L2 cache it could get with its deep pipeline. Cutting the L2 cache in half really killed the performance. And then there was the Celeron D, which everyone thought was a dual core Celeron because it was around the same time as the Pentium D, but it really was just a cut-down single core Prescott Pentium 4.
That was about the end of the Celeron as a major player in the desktop CPU market. The line is still around, and some very low-end computers still sport a Celeron, but they are mostly found in embedded stuff and appliance-type boxes nowadays where they do just fine.
There's a bunch of different versions of Windows XP embedded. Some of them were EOL with the regular version of Windows XP. A bunch were just EOL earlier this year. A few specialized versions are supported until sometime in 2019.