My experience with those Elitebooks is that they were garbage. The first problem is that they were total dogs performance wise. I'm not sure what the problem was exactly, but you'd get one totally specced out and the thing would just be slow and sluggish and feel like it was several years older than it really was. The second problem is that they just didn't hold up well either. Lots of failures and 3-4 years and they'd be dead. Usually just out of warranty and deemed not worth repairing. Granted, that's about when most people would be wanting an upgrade anyway, but a Thinkpad will keep working for as long as you're willing to put up with it.
Unfortunately, there is no "Europe" continental plate. There is the Eurasian plate. Which does go right through Iceland, though if you're on the west coast of Iceland by that definition you'd be in North America. Also, the Eastern most part of Europe is apparently now in Japan.
Your ancestors likely did that not because it tasted good, but because it was a way to preserve food from spoiling. Why it's still popular after the invention of refrigeration is another matter.
Well, the thing is, Revolv promised lifetime support for their products. Google bought them, so Google assumed that liability. So, that's the why. Of course, the big loophole is what the "lifetime" of the product is, but some of these products are only 2-3 years old, which seems awfully short. So yes, this is an evil move by Google in my book.
Assuming that the aliens are observing from another star, all you would need to do is fire your laser anytime Earth passes between the Sun and any stars close enough that you're worried about alien invasions. Probably a couple hundred light years max, likely less. At that rate, my guess you wouldn't have to fire the laser that often.
One of the big challenges would be to get everything right, especially the alignment as stars are all moving relative to each other. You want to fire the laser when the Earth will be between the Sun and where the target star will be when the light reaches it, not where the star is now. Get it wrong, and you could fire the laser when Earth isn't transiting, which could have the opposite effect of drawing attention to Earth.
They've managed to make it happen the other way. That is, extending copyright on already existing works that were created under previous rules, and even managed to retroactively restore copyright back onto works that had fallen into the public domain. So I don't see why it couldn't go the other way for a change.
How could that be taken off the table? If they think Obama will do it, he has all the way up to when the next president is sworn in in January. And unless that president is Clinton, whoever is sworn in could pardon her too.
What's your point? I mean, that Fusion is clearly overpriced, because some guy down the street is selling an old Pontiac for $500. Sure, maybe the mileage isn't quite as good, but $16,500 will buy a lot of gas. Best of all I wouldn't be driving a hideously ugly Fusion. Do you also consider all the other $35k cars also overpriced too? I assume Tesla is going after similar cars in the price range like the BMW 3 series, the Lexus ES, the Lincoln MKZ (aka the slightly less ugly Fusion), and whatever Infiniti is calling the G37 nowadays. That strategy seemed to work well enough for the Model S, which while expensive, compared very favorably with similar cars in its price range.
The funny thing is that the original Mini really doesn't have those problems. I guess it's not surprising, since the new Mini was designed by Chris Bangle, so it's all about form over function. With that said, the Mini Cooper was probably one of Chris Bangle's better efforts, much better than any of the BMWs he designed which were hideous.
So you can make your own pizza slightly cheaper by purchasing the ingredients in bulk? Doesn't that prove his point? And I won't even get into the fact your price is US dollars and his was in Canadian dollars, which by itself will wipe out most of the difference.
Slackware has the potential to be one of the most up to date distros. Since you are basically the package manager, you can install whatever version you want. It's up to you, really.
Back when I had a landline, the phone company did offer a blocking service. It was, of course, completely useless because they didn't allow you to block numbers any numbers you might want to block such as any large call center, because those numbers were used by their most favored customers. The best defense was an old computer with a faxmodem. If it was unknown number or a number used by a telemarketer, the computer would answer the call then immediately hang up. I still heard the first ring but otherwise it worked pretty well.
Well, Google's proposing cars with no pedals or a steering wheel. Which brings up an interesting question - if said car delivers you to the wrong place but insists it's at the right place, how can you tell the car "no, it's three blocks over"?
1080p h.264 is basically why I finally replaced my Socket A Sempron system in 2009, as it couldn't play it back smoothly, and there really wasn't a good upgrade path since it was stuck with AGP. Anything with a PCI-Express slot should be able to handle it just fine as long as you allow for GPU upgrades, even it's an LGA775 P4 system from 2005 or so.
Funny thing is I got that system when my old Super 7 K6-3 system could no longer play back DVD-quality XVID files. I'm waiting to see what video standard my Core i7 won't be able to handle. 4K, so far, is not a problem for it.
The problem is likely Windows Update if you're in Windows 7, which has been broken now for like a year on a lot of computers. Anytime Windows checks or does updates it'll peg a core at 100% and chew up 1.5-2.0GB of ram, which can take HOURS* on an older computer. I barely notice it on a quad core system with 8GB+ of ram, but it'll bring an older dual core with 2-3GB (or less) to its knees.
Funny thing is, load Windows 8 or 10 on the same hardware and you won't have the same problem. Update checks take a few seconds and don't use a noticeable amount of ram.
* Reinstalling Windows 7 from an original 2009 DVD on a typical 2009 PC can easily take more than a full day just to get the updates installed now. Ridiculous.
Your bargain bin plastic POS machines still come with 4GB of ram. The thing is, 4GB is probably going to be plenty fine for what most of them will be used for.
The thing that hobbles most of those machines are slow-ass 4200 or 5400 RPM hard drives, and Intel's crappy GPUs if it's pre-Nehelam, and shitty overall chipsets if it's AMD.
If it uses some variant of the Intel 945 chipset, which was pretty common back then, then 3GB is the maximum amount of ram it will be able to use.
My almost 10 year old laptop is still mostly fine with the modern web. Though I've maxed it out with 3GB, SSD, and it sports a Core 2 Duo as opposed to a Core/Pentium M and it's got a Mobile Radeon for graphics. It's still more powerful than most tablets (not tablet PCs). It's usually not Javascript but shitty Flash sites that cause the most problem. Part of it could be graphics - I have a Mobility Radeon, which while dated, is much better than Intel's integrated graphics with the 945 which was terrible.
If you have the slightly newer 965 chipset, then you can (probably) use all 4GB.
I think the opposite. If you need to connect to a random projector, chances are you're going to have to a VGA port. Your laptop doesn't have one? Well, you better have brought an adapter.
Probably something having to do with today's cars, where the excessive rake and high beltlines mean that kids aren't going to be able to see out of car, especially when in the backseat. Wouldn't be needed as much in older cars where the visibility is so much better.
If it was so easy to make a traction control system that would automatically disengage when needed, then why don't the cars we have today already have such system to do just that instead of relying on the driver to push a button? I'm thinking the problem is a bit harder than you make it out to be.
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My experience with those Elitebooks is that they were garbage. The first problem is that they were total dogs performance wise. I'm not sure what the problem was exactly, but you'd get one totally specced out and the thing would just be slow and sluggish and feel like it was several years older than it really was. The second problem is that they just didn't hold up well either. Lots of failures and 3-4 years and they'd be dead. Usually just out of warranty and deemed not worth repairing. Granted, that's about when most people would be wanting an upgrade anyway, but a Thinkpad will keep working for as long as you're willing to put up with it.
Unfortunately, there is no "Europe" continental plate. There is the Eurasian plate. Which does go right through Iceland, though if you're on the west coast of Iceland by that definition you'd be in North America. Also, the Eastern most part of Europe is apparently now in Japan.
Your ancestors likely did that not because it tasted good, but because it was a way to preserve food from spoiling. Why it's still popular after the invention of refrigeration is another matter.
Well, the thing is, Revolv promised lifetime support for their products. Google bought them, so Google assumed that liability. So, that's the why. Of course, the big loophole is what the "lifetime" of the product is, but some of these products are only 2-3 years old, which seems awfully short. So yes, this is an evil move by Google in my book.
There's always the slightly less smart, offline, programmable thermostats that can do basically the same thing once you've set them up.
Assuming that the aliens are observing from another star, all you would need to do is fire your laser anytime Earth passes between the Sun and any stars close enough that you're worried about alien invasions. Probably a couple hundred light years max, likely less. At that rate, my guess you wouldn't have to fire the laser that often.
One of the big challenges would be to get everything right, especially the alignment as stars are all moving relative to each other. You want to fire the laser when the Earth will be between the Sun and where the target star will be when the light reaches it, not where the star is now. Get it wrong, and you could fire the laser when Earth isn't transiting, which could have the opposite effect of drawing attention to Earth.
They've managed to make it happen the other way. That is, extending copyright on already existing works that were created under previous rules, and even managed to retroactively restore copyright back onto works that had fallen into the public domain. So I don't see why it couldn't go the other way for a change.
How could that be taken off the table? If they think Obama will do it, he has all the way up to when the next president is sworn in in January. And unless that president is Clinton, whoever is sworn in could pardon her too.
What's your point? I mean, that Fusion is clearly overpriced, because some guy down the street is selling an old Pontiac for $500. Sure, maybe the mileage isn't quite as good, but $16,500 will buy a lot of gas. Best of all I wouldn't be driving a hideously ugly Fusion. Do you also consider all the other $35k cars also overpriced too? I assume Tesla is going after similar cars in the price range like the BMW 3 series, the Lexus ES, the Lincoln MKZ (aka the slightly less ugly Fusion), and whatever Infiniti is calling the G37 nowadays. That strategy seemed to work well enough for the Model S, which while expensive, compared very favorably with similar cars in its price range.
A lot of new cars start out as fleet vehicles. Some GM models are more than 50% fleet sales.
The funny thing is that the original Mini really doesn't have those problems. I guess it's not surprising, since the new Mini was designed by Chris Bangle, so it's all about form over function. With that said, the Mini Cooper was probably one of Chris Bangle's better efforts, much better than any of the BMWs he designed which were hideous.
So you can make your own pizza slightly cheaper by purchasing the ingredients in bulk? Doesn't that prove his point? And I won't even get into the fact your price is US dollars and his was in Canadian dollars, which by itself will wipe out most of the difference.
Slackware has the potential to be one of the most up to date distros. Since you are basically the package manager, you can install whatever version you want. It's up to you, really.
Back when I had a landline, the phone company did offer a blocking service. It was, of course, completely useless because they didn't allow you to block numbers any numbers you might want to block such as any large call center, because those numbers were used by their most favored customers. The best defense was an old computer with a faxmodem. If it was unknown number or a number used by a telemarketer, the computer would answer the call then immediately hang up. I still heard the first ring but otherwise it worked pretty well.
Well, Google's proposing cars with no pedals or a steering wheel. Which brings up an interesting question - if said car delivers you to the wrong place but insists it's at the right place, how can you tell the car "no, it's three blocks over"?
1080p h.264 is basically why I finally replaced my Socket A Sempron system in 2009, as it couldn't play it back smoothly, and there really wasn't a good upgrade path since it was stuck with AGP. Anything with a PCI-Express slot should be able to handle it just fine as long as you allow for GPU upgrades, even it's an LGA775 P4 system from 2005 or so.
Funny thing is I got that system when my old Super 7 K6-3 system could no longer play back DVD-quality XVID files. I'm waiting to see what video standard my Core i7 won't be able to handle. 4K, so far, is not a problem for it.
Variants of the Apple II was still in production as late as 1993 so it may not have been that old.
The problem is likely Windows Update if you're in Windows 7, which has been broken now for like a year on a lot of computers. Anytime Windows checks or does updates it'll peg a core at 100% and chew up 1.5-2.0GB of ram, which can take HOURS* on an older computer. I barely notice it on a quad core system with 8GB+ of ram, but it'll bring an older dual core with 2-3GB (or less) to its knees.
Funny thing is, load Windows 8 or 10 on the same hardware and you won't have the same problem. Update checks take a few seconds and don't use a noticeable amount of ram.
* Reinstalling Windows 7 from an original 2009 DVD on a typical 2009 PC can easily take more than a full day just to get the updates installed now. Ridiculous.
Your bargain bin plastic POS machines still come with 4GB of ram. The thing is, 4GB is probably going to be plenty fine for what most of them will be used for.
The thing that hobbles most of those machines are slow-ass 4200 or 5400 RPM hard drives, and Intel's crappy GPUs if it's pre-Nehelam, and shitty overall chipsets if it's AMD.
If it uses some variant of the Intel 945 chipset, which was pretty common back then, then 3GB is the maximum amount of ram it will be able to use.
My almost 10 year old laptop is still mostly fine with the modern web. Though I've maxed it out with 3GB, SSD, and it sports a Core 2 Duo as opposed to a Core/Pentium M and it's got a Mobile Radeon for graphics. It's still more powerful than most tablets (not tablet PCs). It's usually not Javascript but shitty Flash sites that cause the most problem. Part of it could be graphics - I have a Mobility Radeon, which while dated, is much better than Intel's integrated graphics with the 945 which was terrible.
If you have the slightly newer 965 chipset, then you can (probably) use all 4GB.
Yeah, except that really wasn't terrorism either.
Which is why the top 2 reasons Windows crashes is:
1. nVidia's shitty drivers.
2. AMD's shitty drivers.
I think the opposite. If you need to connect to a random projector, chances are you're going to have to a VGA port. Your laptop doesn't have one? Well, you better have brought an adapter.
Probably something having to do with today's cars, where the excessive rake and high beltlines mean that kids aren't going to be able to see out of car, especially when in the backseat. Wouldn't be needed as much in older cars where the visibility is so much better.
If it was so easy to make a traction control system that would automatically disengage when needed, then why don't the cars we have today already have such system to do just that instead of relying on the driver to push a button? I'm thinking the problem is a bit harder than you make it out to be.