As for the sim market, I'd take good old Simcity 3000 any day. (Simcity if you're die hard oldschool, or Sim City 4 if you prefer.)
Actually my favorite SimCity was 2000 (though the SNES version of SimCity would be a close 2nd). 2000 added things to the game to make it better and more enjoyable to me. 3000 and later added stuff that just seemed to make the game more tedious and frustrating.
The shaver I used to have would not run off of the power cord, it only ran from the battery. Even if it was plugged in. That way, once the battery ran down, it didn't simply become a corded shaver - it became a useless paperweight. After it no longer would hold a charge worth anything, I took it apart (not easy, I pretty much destroyed it in the process but I didn't care) to find a single AA Nicad battery soldiered to the mainboard. Truely disposable.
After that, I have stuck to buying corded shavers only. The downside to that is the only corded shavers out there seem to be the low-low end. But they still do what I want them to do, so I don't really mind.
Not so. (1) Maintenance, (2) battery disposal, and (3) the fact that hybrids haven't been running for 60+ years means that they are more expensive than you might think (1 & 2) and possibly unreliable which can create more cost than its worth (3). Many school buses are diesel engines; they should be tested to see at what level blend of biodiesel they can run efficiently at; this will save some money in the near term.
School buses almost always run the same route everyday in a city setting, and do LOTS of stopping and going. School buses also never wander very far from their base. I would think that school buses are prime canidates for either electric or hybrid vehicles. Buses used for charters or long rural routes would be better of staying diesel though.
However, in the short term most school districts are better off just buying the fuel rather than trying to convert their fleet. The local school district here decided to cut back on buying new buses to save money. They operate over 300 buses, and usually replace about 10% of their fleet a year. This year they are only purchasing six new buses, and they really didn't have a choice on three of them due to regulations about the maximum age of special education buses.
You're talking about investing money, yet you're renting an apartment?
Pot, meet kettle.
In this crazy real estate market, I would say investing in real estate could be a pretty risky proposition. Sometimes, it really is just smarter to rent.
I find that if a movie is really good, I'll get pulled into it, and it really doesn't matter if I'm watching it in a theatre or my $300 27" Magnavox because I'm totally engrossed with the movie. It's only the really crappy movies where I get bored with the plot and start caring about things like the sound system. But that's just me.
Windows ME, once all the patches for it are installed isn't that bad, really. I would still prefer 98SE because it's a bit less bloated, but ME turned out to be okay in the end.
Yes, Windows 95b and later technically had USB support. Actually finding someone who managed to get it working is another thing entirely.
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I don't get why people knock the Aztec so much. Sure, it's damn ugly. But it's not really any uglier than half of the other cars on the road. But that's just me.
At school I did the same thing, especially with homework assignments. The school wanted all the professors to start sending out homework assignment electronically. However, it ends up costing the school more since all the students then go and print out the assignments on the school computers/printers. Cost per page of a photocopy is less than the cost per page of a lazer printer.
My school was a bit more clever. They did the same thing, but instead charges the students by the page to print stuff from the printers. A nice way to do a little cost shifting on the school's part.
Sad thing is, if he's more than 15ish it's not really his roots. Super nintendo is more likely to be a current teenagers roots. You never hear them wax nostalgic about how sweet marble madness looked when it came out, they are usually talking about "wow my first rpg was Chrono Trigger".
Not everyone got a Super Nintendo right away in 1991 either. A lot of kids, especially younger kids, likely got the NES as a hand-me-down back in the 1990's. Especially if they were dependent on Mom & Dad to buy them the latest and greatest. I know several young kids today that are getting their start on old systems like the PSX, SNES, and N64 as their parents don't want to be out too much money if their kid ends up busting it.
ICQ was alright until they were bought out by AOL. They things just kind of went downhill. Still a nice protocol - I still use ICQ, but it's been a long time since I've touched the actual ICQ client.
Yeah, more great "science" from Mythbusters. If the voltage is sufficiently high, the electricity can easily jump accross the air gaps. And knowing Mythbusters, they probably based their conclusions off of just how one person's urine comes out.
turns out , they were headlights of a 18 wheeler, who would have thunk ? Now there's an example of a catastrophically badly designed headlight system for a 18 wheeler.
Actually, it sounds more like Darwin at work to me.
I guess it didn't have BIOS protection, like he said. Whenever I've installed a HDD cable backwards the computer would either just beep at me and not POST (usually AT) or not turn on (some ATX computers). Flip the cable around and everything is fine.
Of course, I solved that problem by getting a mac mini, and simply sellotaping it to the back of the monitor...
Yeah, because reaching around the monitor is so much easier than reaching around a box!
One of the things about most flatpanels that I don't like is how all the plugs for video and power face down. Incredible pain in the ass to hook up if you ask me.
CPUs don't really care about higher voltages that much. They will run hotter, and it may shorten the life of the CPU (but I have yet to see a dead CPU from wrong voltage settings).
Anyway, I was once repairing a whitebox Cyrix 6x86L PR200+ system, and noticed that the CPU jumpers were set for a 6x86 PR200+ CPU. The 6x86L expects something like 3.3V I/O, and 2.8V core, while the 6x86 expects something like 3.6V for both. I corrected the jumpers, and the computer ran much cooler after that.
The HP49G does it the same way it was done on the earlier HP48's - by turning the pixel on and off rapidly. This is pretty obvious if you load up the grayscale pictures inbedded in the ROM of the developers (I believe you have to hold down a key combination while turning the calculator on to see these, it's been a long time since I played with the 49G). I believe the newer HP's can do grayscale in hardware without the flickering.
Check out this pic of a home theater system. I found it a few years ago when I was in school. On the left is a regular home theater; on the right is a FireWire home theater.
Don't forget the different versions of DVI too. Some cables/sockets have the analog pins, and some don't. This always annoys me, like DVI monitors without the holes for the pins on the socket, and I have a cable with the pins. (I understand that a DVI flatpanel doesn't use the analog signal, but they could atleast put holes for the pins even if they aren't hooked up to anything so I can use a cable that does include those pins.)
I don't think Apple will adopt this DRM extension, due their past decisions favoring user rights.
If Apple goes the route of letting people play non-DRM'd files on their Mac, you can bet that groups like MPAA won't let DRM'd files and DVDs play on the Mac. Given that choice, I'm sure Apple take the DRM route, just like they already have with the iTMS.
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As for the sim market, I'd take good old Simcity 3000 any day. (Simcity if you're die hard oldschool, or Sim City 4 if you prefer.)
Actually my favorite SimCity was 2000 (though the SNES version of SimCity would be a close 2nd). 2000 added things to the game to make it better and more enjoyable to me. 3000 and later added stuff that just seemed to make the game more tedious and frustrating.
Quit your bitching. You can get an ipod replacement battery WITH tools to open the ipod for like $40. Google it once.
Yeah, the fact that a whole industry has successfully sprung up based upon fixing flawed Apple products really does say a lot, doesn't it?
The shaver I used to have would not run off of the power cord, it only ran from the battery. Even if it was plugged in. That way, once the battery ran down, it didn't simply become a corded shaver - it became a useless paperweight. After it no longer would hold a charge worth anything, I took it apart (not easy, I pretty much destroyed it in the process but I didn't care) to find a single AA Nicad battery soldiered to the mainboard. Truely disposable.
After that, I have stuck to buying corded shavers only. The downside to that is the only corded shavers out there seem to be the low-low end. But they still do what I want them to do, so I don't really mind.
Not so. (1) Maintenance, (2) battery disposal, and (3) the fact that hybrids haven't been running for 60+ years means that they are more expensive than you might think (1 & 2) and possibly unreliable which can create more cost than its worth (3). Many school buses are diesel engines; they should be tested to see at what level blend of biodiesel they can run efficiently at; this will save some money in the near term.
School buses almost always run the same route everyday in a city setting, and do LOTS of stopping and going. School buses also never wander very far from their base. I would think that school buses are prime canidates for either electric or hybrid vehicles. Buses used for charters or long rural routes would be better of staying diesel though.
However, in the short term most school districts are better off just buying the fuel rather than trying to convert their fleet. The local school district here decided to cut back on buying new buses to save money. They operate over 300 buses, and usually replace about 10% of their fleet a year. This year they are only purchasing six new buses, and they really didn't have a choice on three of them due to regulations about the maximum age of special education buses.
You're idea about biodiesel is a good one though.
And I can't figure out why they made a laptop with a non-upgradeable hard drive.
The same reason they build a music player with a non-replacable battery. They would rather you just buy a new iBook.
You're talking about investing money, yet you're renting an apartment?
Pot, meet kettle.
In this crazy real estate market, I would say investing in real estate could be a pretty risky proposition. Sometimes, it really is just smarter to rent.
I find that if a movie is really good, I'll get pulled into it, and it really doesn't matter if I'm watching it in a theatre or my $300 27" Magnavox because I'm totally engrossed with the movie. It's only the really crappy movies where I get bored with the plot and start caring about things like the sound system. But that's just me.
Windows ME, once all the patches for it are installed isn't that bad, really. I would still prefer 98SE because it's a bit less bloated, but ME turned out to be okay in the end.
Yes, Windows 95b and later technically had USB support. Actually finding someone who managed to get it working is another thing entirely.
I don't get why people knock the Aztec so much. Sure, it's damn ugly. But it's not really any uglier than half of the other cars on the road. But that's just me.
The cost of moving 90,000 books and their shelving is not negligible.
It is when you have work-study students.
At school I did the same thing, especially with homework assignments. The school wanted all the professors to start sending out homework assignment electronically. However, it ends up costing the school more since all the students then go and print out the assignments on the school computers/printers. Cost per page of a photocopy is less than the cost per page of a lazer printer.
My school was a bit more clever. They did the same thing, but instead charges the students by the page to print stuff from the printers. A nice way to do a little cost shifting on the school's part.
Cheap??? Where an old used G4 tower will set you back more than a new Dell system?
Sad thing is, if he's more than 15ish it's not really his roots. Super nintendo is more likely to be a current teenagers roots. You never hear them wax nostalgic about how sweet marble madness looked when it came out, they are usually talking about "wow my first rpg was Chrono Trigger".
Not everyone got a Super Nintendo right away in 1991 either. A lot of kids, especially younger kids, likely got the NES as a hand-me-down back in the 1990's. Especially if they were dependent on Mom & Dad to buy them the latest and greatest. I know several young kids today that are getting their start on old systems like the PSX, SNES, and N64 as their parents don't want to be out too much money if their kid ends up busting it.
ICQ was alright until they were bought out by AOL. They things just kind of went downhill. Still a nice protocol - I still use ICQ, but it's been a long time since I've touched the actual ICQ client.
Yeah, more great "science" from Mythbusters. If the voltage is sufficiently high, the electricity can easily jump accross the air gaps. And knowing Mythbusters, they probably based their conclusions off of just how one person's urine comes out.
turns out , they were headlights of a 18 wheeler, who would have thunk ? Now there's an example of a catastrophically badly designed headlight system for a 18 wheeler.
Actually, it sounds more like Darwin at work to me.
I guess it didn't have BIOS protection, like he said. Whenever I've installed a HDD cable backwards the computer would either just beep at me and not POST (usually AT) or not turn on (some ATX computers). Flip the cable around and everything is fine.
Of course, I solved that problem by getting a mac mini, and simply sellotaping it to the back of the monitor...
Yeah, because reaching around the monitor is so much easier than reaching around a box!
One of the things about most flatpanels that I don't like is how all the plugs for video and power face down. Incredible pain in the ass to hook up if you ask me.
CPUs don't really care about higher voltages that much. They will run hotter, and it may shorten the life of the CPU (but I have yet to see a dead CPU from wrong voltage settings).
Anyway, I was once repairing a whitebox Cyrix 6x86L PR200+ system, and noticed that the CPU jumpers were set for a 6x86 PR200+ CPU. The 6x86L expects something like 3.3V I/O, and 2.8V core, while the 6x86 expects something like 3.6V for both. I corrected the jumpers, and the computer ran much cooler after that.
Aren't those just files ripped out of a Windows install anyway?
The HP49G does it the same way it was done on the earlier HP48's - by turning the pixel on and off rapidly. This is pretty obvious if you load up the grayscale pictures inbedded in the ROM of the developers (I believe you have to hold down a key combination while turning the calculator on to see these, it's been a long time since I played with the 49G). I believe the newer HP's can do grayscale in hardware without the flickering.
Check out this pic of a home theater system. I found it a few years ago when I was in school. On the left is a regular home theater; on the right is a FireWire home theater.
Uhh... where'd the power cables go?
Don't forget the different versions of DVI too. Some cables/sockets have the analog pins, and some don't. This always annoys me, like DVI monitors without the holes for the pins on the socket, and I have a cable with the pins. (I understand that a DVI flatpanel doesn't use the analog signal, but they could atleast put holes for the pins even if they aren't hooked up to anything so I can use a cable that does include those pins.)
I don't think Apple will adopt this DRM extension, due their past decisions favoring user rights.
If Apple goes the route of letting people play non-DRM'd files on their Mac, you can bet that groups like MPAA won't let DRM'd files and DVDs play on the Mac. Given that choice, I'm sure Apple take the DRM route, just like they already have with the iTMS.