Windows 10 requires the NX bit, which rules out most of the Pentium 4 processors, and virtually all of the 32-bit ones. None of the Socket 478 P4's will work. The later LGA775 ones should work if they have EM64T. There may be 1 or 2 models with the NX-bit and no EM64T - I always get confused with the way Intel arbitrarily turns features on and off on their models.
There's also the extra cancer deaths due to the radiation from the scanners. Yes, the chances are small, but with hundreds of millions of scans every year you're going to a get a few.
It's also a jobs program. No politician wants to cut a program and put hundreds of thousands out of a job. It doesn't matter that we'd all be better off if we just paid them to stay home.
China didn't invent nuclear reactors, but it's the one country that is busy replacing their coal-fired power with them.
I wouldn't exactly say that. China has been building a lot of nuclear power, but they've also been constructing coal power plants as fast as they can build them.
I'm curious as to why they are bothering taking LCDs apart? CRTs have a fair amount of copper in them which is valuable, and if you can separate the lead out of the glass that's valuable too. But a non-functional LCD is pretty much a slab of mostly worthless plastic with a couple of small circuit boards in them.
The media loved Trump, because he brought in lots of eyeballs that they could sell for advertising dollars. They (like a lot of people) didn't actually think Trump was going to actually get anywhere so they didn't consider him a threat at first. But he got people to tune in, so they were all over themselves trying to cash in on what was going to be Trump's 15 minutes of fame before he crashed and burned. Well, that didn't happen. If you look back a couple of months, you'll see the media's "Oh shit!" moment when they realized that Trump might actually win this thing, and it's like all of a sudden the media did their best to try to tear Trump down. Didn't seem to work, but they tried.
If you want to see the media ignore a candidate, look at Bernie Sanders, and to a greater extent, Ron Paul in previous elections.
Most people also don't leave their computer running 24/7. If you assume they only turn it on for a couple hours in the evening then the payback is a very long time and really isn't worth it.
Goodwill has a deal with Dell to recycle any computers that get donated. Just keep in mind that Dell gets *everything* not just the junk that gets donated, so don't donate anything that might be useful because it will be taken off the used market.
Lenovo still sells some Thinkpad models with Windows 7. Supposedly that's going away real soon because Microsoft is killing off OEM sales of Windows 7 (and Windows 8.1), and because Windows 7 isn't supported on all the new hardware coming out.
Interestingly, Lenovo doesn't have anything with Windows 8.1 installed on it that I can see. If I had to buy a new Windows laptop I might consider 8.1 just because it runs better than Windows 7, will be supported an additional 3 years, and is without all the telemetry built into Windows 10.
There's a pretty big difference between privacy with respect to other inmates (what the parent was talking about), and privacy with respect to the officers/guards/etc. I would expect that the authorities can and would listen to conversations the prisoner has with outsiders, though I would expect some exceptions for things like legal counsel. I would expect some privacy from fellow prisoners, especially if you're worried about abuse and intimidation.
With 8.1 you can, with the same level of difficulty as Windows 7, avoid the telemetry. You can also forgo updates, while Windows 10 will shove them down your throat. Windows 8.1 is also faster than Windows 10 (and especially Windows 7). Windows 10 also removes Windows Media Center if you care about that kind of thing. Windows 8.1 is also the ONLY version of Windows to handle multiple keyboard layouts in a sensible manner.
That sounds more like a Chrome problem if you ask me. Possibly intentional, as I've noticed that Google has been pushing Chrome as the new corporate standard browser pretty hard. Probably for the same reason that Microsoft did the same for IE.
The countries which have a wealth tax levy it once your "wealth" crosses over a certain threshold, which in most cases is somewhere around $1-2 million or so. Only the amount of wealth above that threshold gets taxed, below that isn't touched. So the middle class will be almost completely unaffected*. So if you lose your job but have enough money to get hit by the wealth tax... well, you aren't in dire straights. Or if you are, then you're an idiot.
I'd much prefer it to the current hidden wealth tax we have right now, better known as inflation, which will lop a cool 2-4% off of whatever you save, no matter how much or little you save. Used to be you could more or less get inflation back by buying safe investments, but most of those investments currently pay almost nothing thanks to the Fed manipulating the shit out of interest rates. Which forces the savers to either take the hit, or gamble in the stock market. The latter of course, is the Fed's desperate attempt to prop up the economy.
*Someone who is middle class and saves diligently towards their retirement could reach the threshold and have the wealth tax start scraping a bit off the top. I wouldn't be against raising the threshold to something like $2.5 million.
So of course corporate taxes are paid for by its customers (as higher prices) or its employees (as lowered wages).
Funny how you left out the third group. The owners of the company, better known as the shareholders. Oh wait, that's Wall Street. The 1%. Nope, can't tax them. I mean, ask yourself, who owns the land and buildings in Cupertino where Apple's HQ is? Apple's employees? Does Joe Programmer own his cube? Really? No. Apple's customers? Hell no. How about the billions in the bank? Do the employees own that? NOPE. The customers? Well, that's their money... well... more like WAS their money. All of Apple's IP and trademarks? Those are owned by the employees right? No again. The customers? Ahhhh... nope.
Lower taxes on corporations results in higher profits which would go straight into the owners of Apple, at a tax rate lower than what I pay. The rich will get richer, and like usual the burden would be dumped on what's left of the middle class. I get taxed on the property I own, so why should the shareholders be any different? They can pay their fair share too.
Or the proper car analogy, where you go to the junkyard to get a part for your car, only to find that every car in the junkyard like yours either has the same busted part, or the part has already been removed.
Same reason I hear that guys who have parts cars around prefer ones that were wrecked (though not badly), because if the parts car is a high miles, end-of-its-useful-life vehicle, chances are the parts you would need from it are already worn out.
An XT could do 640k of ram. You might be able to get it to 1MB using expansion cards, but the 8088 could only address up to 1MB so you'd be sharing that address space from 640-1024k with whatever expansion cards and peripherals you might have. Still, later versions of DOS would be able to take advantage of some of it (the "high" memory).
MMX debuted with the Pentium MMX. The slowest desktop processor came clocked in at 166Mhz, though they made mobile chips down to 120Mhz (I think) with MMX. For the 6th generation, MMX came in with the Pentium 2. The Pentium Pro didn't have it.
The biggest benefit of the MMX processors was the doubling of the L1 cache from 8k to 16k. The MMX instructions didn't help much, because the software had to be compiled for them, and most people wouldn't compile for them until they could be reasonably sure that everyone had a processor that supported it.
On a lot of those old Pentium chipsets, the L2 cache would only cache the first 64MB of ram. To make things worse, Windows 95 would tend to load things top-down. Given the performance hit of not having L2 cache, you'd be better off with 64MB than 80MB in most cases.
Though my guess is you get 16MB soldered onboard, and 1-2 memory slots where you can add in another 64MB.
That's exactly the problem Dune has. People read the entire Dune series of books, and then tend to judge the whole body of work as one. I found the first book very enjoyable. Some of the later ones were quite the slog (though I could see how the hardcore fans would still enjoy them). Asimov's Foundation series is kind of the same way.
In the US, there's no reason cable can't still be analog, but the big cable companies used the government mandated shutdown of OTA analog TV broadcasts a few years back as an excuse to tell their customers that "Oh hey, you're gonna need a cable box to watch TV now. By the way, you have to get the cable box through us and we only rent them." There was enough confusion and people didn't know better that the cable companies basically got away with it. So I can't really blame the FCC for cracking down on them. Not that I have or ever have had a cable box or cable TV, but still.
Apparently a 486 derivative supporting the Pentium's instruction set, complete with a PCI Express bus and DDR3 memory, and supports the XD Bit but not much else.
Though technically it's not a 80x86 processor, in the sense it's named the Quark X1000.
I use it for things like "where in the hell does Windows actually stick that.dll file?" Incidentally, the Windows search is nearly useless for that, so I pretty much go to the command prompt and do a dir/s to do any local searches in Windows.
Automatic parallel parking would be at least in Level 2, because you have to control multiple systems in together to do it, including throttle, brakes, transmission (forward/reverse), and steering. More likely Level 3.
Cruise control seems more like a Level 1, but I get the impression that they want the feature to have some "smarts" to be in Level 1 such as adaptive cruise control, as opposed to standard cruise control that simply maintains a speed and all adjustments are performed by the driver. Though as worded, I could argue that GM's "Autronic Eye" from the 1950's (a system that automates dimming your highbeams when another vehicle approaches and then turns them back on after it passes) would qualify as a "Level 1" autonomous vehicle.
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Windows 10 requires the NX bit, which rules out most of the Pentium 4 processors, and virtually all of the 32-bit ones. None of the Socket 478 P4's will work. The later LGA775 ones should work if they have EM64T. There may be 1 or 2 models with the NX-bit and no EM64T - I always get confused with the way Intel arbitrarily turns features on and off on their models.
There's also the extra cancer deaths due to the radiation from the scanners. Yes, the chances are small, but with hundreds of millions of scans every year you're going to a get a few.
It's also a jobs program. No politician wants to cut a program and put hundreds of thousands out of a job. It doesn't matter that we'd all be better off if we just paid them to stay home.
I wouldn't exactly say that. China has been building a lot of nuclear power, but they've also been constructing coal power plants as fast as they can build them.
I'm curious as to why they are bothering taking LCDs apart? CRTs have a fair amount of copper in them which is valuable, and if you can separate the lead out of the glass that's valuable too. But a non-functional LCD is pretty much a slab of mostly worthless plastic with a couple of small circuit boards in them.
The media loved Trump, because he brought in lots of eyeballs that they could sell for advertising dollars. They (like a lot of people) didn't actually think Trump was going to actually get anywhere so they didn't consider him a threat at first. But he got people to tune in, so they were all over themselves trying to cash in on what was going to be Trump's 15 minutes of fame before he crashed and burned. Well, that didn't happen. If you look back a couple of months, you'll see the media's "Oh shit!" moment when they realized that Trump might actually win this thing, and it's like all of a sudden the media did their best to try to tear Trump down. Didn't seem to work, but they tried.
If you want to see the media ignore a candidate, look at Bernie Sanders, and to a greater extent, Ron Paul in previous elections.
Most people also don't leave their computer running 24/7. If you assume they only turn it on for a couple hours in the evening then the payback is a very long time and really isn't worth it.
Goodwill has a deal with Dell to recycle any computers that get donated. Just keep in mind that Dell gets *everything* not just the junk that gets donated, so don't donate anything that might be useful because it will be taken off the used market.
Lenovo still sells some Thinkpad models with Windows 7. Supposedly that's going away real soon because Microsoft is killing off OEM sales of Windows 7 (and Windows 8.1), and because Windows 7 isn't supported on all the new hardware coming out.
Interestingly, Lenovo doesn't have anything with Windows 8.1 installed on it that I can see. If I had to buy a new Windows laptop I might consider 8.1 just because it runs better than Windows 7, will be supported an additional 3 years, and is without all the telemetry built into Windows 10.
There's a pretty big difference between privacy with respect to other inmates (what the parent was talking about), and privacy with respect to the officers/guards/etc. I would expect that the authorities can and would listen to conversations the prisoner has with outsiders, though I would expect some exceptions for things like legal counsel. I would expect some privacy from fellow prisoners, especially if you're worried about abuse and intimidation.
Microsoft certainly doesn't seem in any hurry to fix Windows Update on Windows 7 either. It's been broken now for like a year.
With 8.1 you can, with the same level of difficulty as Windows 7, avoid the telemetry. You can also forgo updates, while Windows 10 will shove them down your throat. Windows 8.1 is also faster than Windows 10 (and especially Windows 7). Windows 10 also removes Windows Media Center if you care about that kind of thing. Windows 8.1 is also the ONLY version of Windows to handle multiple keyboard layouts in a sensible manner.
That sounds more like a Chrome problem if you ask me. Possibly intentional, as I've noticed that Google has been pushing Chrome as the new corporate standard browser pretty hard. Probably for the same reason that Microsoft did the same for IE.
The countries which have a wealth tax levy it once your "wealth" crosses over a certain threshold, which in most cases is somewhere around $1-2 million or so. Only the amount of wealth above that threshold gets taxed, below that isn't touched. So the middle class will be almost completely unaffected*. So if you lose your job but have enough money to get hit by the wealth tax... well, you aren't in dire straights. Or if you are, then you're an idiot.
I'd much prefer it to the current hidden wealth tax we have right now, better known as inflation, which will lop a cool 2-4% off of whatever you save, no matter how much or little you save. Used to be you could more or less get inflation back by buying safe investments, but most of those investments currently pay almost nothing thanks to the Fed manipulating the shit out of interest rates. Which forces the savers to either take the hit, or gamble in the stock market. The latter of course, is the Fed's desperate attempt to prop up the economy.
*Someone who is middle class and saves diligently towards their retirement could reach the threshold and have the wealth tax start scraping a bit off the top. I wouldn't be against raising the threshold to something like $2.5 million.
What a bunch of utter nonsense.
Funny how you left out the third group. The owners of the company, better known as the shareholders. Oh wait, that's Wall Street. The 1%. Nope, can't tax them. I mean, ask yourself, who owns the land and buildings in Cupertino where Apple's HQ is? Apple's employees? Does Joe Programmer own his cube? Really? No. Apple's customers? Hell no. How about the billions in the bank? Do the employees own that? NOPE. The customers? Well, that's their money... well... more like WAS their money. All of Apple's IP and trademarks? Those are owned by the employees right? No again. The customers? Ahhhh... nope.
Lower taxes on corporations results in higher profits which would go straight into the owners of Apple, at a tax rate lower than what I pay. The rich will get richer, and like usual the burden would be dumped on what's left of the middle class. I get taxed on the property I own, so why should the shareholders be any different? They can pay their fair share too.
Or the proper car analogy, where you go to the junkyard to get a part for your car, only to find that every car in the junkyard like yours either has the same busted part, or the part has already been removed.
Same reason I hear that guys who have parts cars around prefer ones that were wrecked (though not badly), because if the parts car is a high miles, end-of-its-useful-life vehicle, chances are the parts you would need from it are already worn out.
An XT could do 640k of ram. You might be able to get it to 1MB using expansion cards, but the 8088 could only address up to 1MB so you'd be sharing that address space from 640-1024k with whatever expansion cards and peripherals you might have. Still, later versions of DOS would be able to take advantage of some of it (the "high" memory).
MMX debuted with the Pentium MMX. The slowest desktop processor came clocked in at 166Mhz, though they made mobile chips down to 120Mhz (I think) with MMX. For the 6th generation, MMX came in with the Pentium 2. The Pentium Pro didn't have it.
The biggest benefit of the MMX processors was the doubling of the L1 cache from 8k to 16k. The MMX instructions didn't help much, because the software had to be compiled for them, and most people wouldn't compile for them until they could be reasonably sure that everyone had a processor that supported it.
On a lot of those old Pentium chipsets, the L2 cache would only cache the first 64MB of ram. To make things worse, Windows 95 would tend to load things top-down. Given the performance hit of not having L2 cache, you'd be better off with 64MB than 80MB in most cases.
Though my guess is you get 16MB soldered onboard, and 1-2 memory slots where you can add in another 64MB.
That's exactly the problem Dune has. People read the entire Dune series of books, and then tend to judge the whole body of work as one. I found the first book very enjoyable. Some of the later ones were quite the slog (though I could see how the hardcore fans would still enjoy them). Asimov's Foundation series is kind of the same way.
It's not the 80's anymore. 612-367-5309.
In the US, there's no reason cable can't still be analog, but the big cable companies used the government mandated shutdown of OTA analog TV broadcasts a few years back as an excuse to tell their customers that "Oh hey, you're gonna need a cable box to watch TV now. By the way, you have to get the cable box through us and we only rent them." There was enough confusion and people didn't know better that the cable companies basically got away with it. So I can't really blame the FCC for cracking down on them. Not that I have or ever have had a cable box or cable TV, but still.
Apparently a 486 derivative supporting the Pentium's instruction set, complete with a PCI Express bus and DDR3 memory, and supports the XD Bit but not much else.
Though technically it's not a 80x86 processor, in the sense it's named the Quark X1000.
I use it for things like "where in the hell does Windows actually stick that .dll file?" Incidentally, the Windows search is nearly useless for that, so I pretty much go to the command prompt and do a dir /s to do any local searches in Windows.
Automatic parallel parking would be at least in Level 2, because you have to control multiple systems in together to do it, including throttle, brakes, transmission (forward/reverse), and steering. More likely Level 3.
Cruise control seems more like a Level 1, but I get the impression that they want the feature to have some "smarts" to be in Level 1 such as adaptive cruise control, as opposed to standard cruise control that simply maintains a speed and all adjustments are performed by the driver. Though as worded, I could argue that GM's "Autronic Eye" from the 1950's (a system that automates dimming your highbeams when another vehicle approaches and then turns them back on after it passes) would qualify as a "Level 1" autonomous vehicle.