Integrated video is terrible. It takes up system memory, and uses up a lot of bandwidth accessing the system memory all the time. Right now, it seems like the "regular" video card to get is something like a GeForce MX for $25-$30. You can get Radeon 7000's for about the same price, but I think the GeForce MX is a bit more powerful and modern.
When I went to high school in Minnesota, "expulsion" usually meant that you were kicked out of the school for one year. If you did something really bad, they might kick you out permanently though. A week would of just been called a "suspension".
I've found most OEM machines to be a bit slow, both high end and low end:
HP Vectra PIII 866Mhz runs at 863Mhz (this was a top of the line machine when it was purchased) HP Vectra P4 1500Mhz runs at 1495Mhz Toshiba laptop P4-M 2000Mhz runs at 1993Mhz
Meanwhile the systems I built always ran a little hot. My Athlon XP 2000 (1666Mhz) runs at 1670Mhz on a Gigabyte board, and my Sempron 3000 (2000Mhz) runs at 2005Mhz. Interestingly enough, both of those AMD systems - while stable in their default configurations, will not overclock any more than the "stock" overclock. For example, if I boost the Sempron system from 167Mhz FSB to 170Mhz FSB it won't even post and I have to reset the CMOS and pull the button battery.
I've always assumed that the motherboard manufacturers tend to overclock their systems for benchmark purposes, while the OEMs underclock for stability purposes. I don't know why it took everyone else so long to figure this out.
Car insurance also cover syou for theft and fire - so you still need it
Right now, basic insurance where I live covers only damage that I cause others in an accident where I'm at fault. Unless I purchase extra coverage, if my car gets stolen or burns up then I'm simply out a car with no compensation.
But that doesn't matter, you'll always "need" car insurance. The insurance companies aren't going to give up their racket no matter how safe travel becomes.
Interesting concept but as long as it's fueled by coal and oil it will basically be just as polluting as existing internal combustion engines. Electricity has to come from somewhere.
Do you really believe that millions of tiny fossil fuel burning engines running around everywhere in various states of repair are no dirtier than a handful of large, well maintained and regulated power plants?
Besides, once you have the infastructure in place, it doesn't care where the electricity comes from. Tomorrow it may come from coal, but the next day when the fusion power plant is built - all of the cars instantly become true zero emission vehicles.
4. The group of people who have lived in the same house for well over 30 years, and had it paid for back when Ford was the president. Their incomes aren't very high, but since property taxes are somewhat fixed in California, they can still afford to (barely) live in the same house. On paper, they may have half a million dollars in assets, but that doesn't mean they have much cash in their pocket.
If anything, the losses Microsoft has taken in the console market backs up the parent's position. Microsoft knows this, but they are always willing to take a loss in order to try and crush the competition.
I would still buy another Power Mac over anything put out by Dell. Just open the cases of each and tell me which one you'd rather have.
Hard to say. The Mac will win out on looking nice being tidy, and having a nice cooling system. But when it comes to important things like how many hard drive drive bays, expansion slots, CD drive bays it has, the Mac is going to lose.
Actually obselete used textbooks can be surprisingly cheap. I've picked up undergraduate science books for 1-10% of their original price.
Or even free. I've seen plenty of students, after finding out that the bookstore won't buy back their "obsolete" edition, pitch it into the nearest trashcan.
I believe you can still get all the critical patches and service packs through Automatic Updates. If you try to go to the Windows Update site to download them it'll block you though. However, I don't think you can get to the non-critical updates like Media Player or DirectX anymore without a genuine copy of Windows XP (well, that is without using any of the easy ways to circumvent the check).
Seriously, would these people be battling it out for 4 year old PC laptops at $50 a pop? I think we just threw a few cartons of them away. Too damn slow with windows running on them.
A 4 year old laptop would probably be a mid to high end PIII based system, with 128-512MB of ram, and 5-20GB of harddisk. I would certainly pay $50 each for one or more systems like that, in good working order (a battery that no longer holds a charge would be OK).
If you're just throwing computers like that away, I will take some off of your hands.
What about some of the huge Chinese manufacturing plants? They have housing, food, entertainment, etc. I think they even try to keep their employees poor enough that they can't afford to leave;)
Now that you bring it up, those probably are closer to what an arcology is. A building you should never have to leave, only in this case - you can't:)
Elementary & middle school kids DO NOT NEED iPods. Those kids should not be given a $300+ music player....get them a $50 1st Gen iPod from eBay.
Don't get it for them. Make them buy it! (well, if its on eBay make them give you the money and you bid for them). That's the only way they'll really appreciate it.
Besides, I don't see that many kids with iPods. It's mostly the $30 generic CD players from Walmart that they have.
I'm kind of the opposite. Where I sleep is my space, with my music, my stuff, my food etc. This made it a lot easier to work on assignments in my room because I'm a lot more comfortable. A public place full of strangers is too much of a distraction to me.
I never had a laptop in college, as I could never justify the expense (I would of been buying it myself). Even if I had one, I probably wouldn't of taken it that many places - pen and paper is a lot better medium for taking notes. It would of been nice to haul back to my parent's place to have a computer to use though.
A DX2 maybe. Back in the day I had a 486-33 laptop and it could play MP3s only in mono and downsampled to 22.5 kHz:) I'm sure the software has improved though.
A 486 is going to have problems with MP3, I doubt even a DX4 100Mhz would be able to handle high bit rates like 256kbps. Formats like OGG and FLAC would be out of the question.
Just get a Pentium. I have a P120 that I put an Athlon heatsink on (not the fan, just the huge chuck of aluminum and copper) that seems to stay perfectly cool.
It looks like you have a 80mm fan on the rear, and a 60mm fan in the power supply. I would think that would makes some noise (especially the 60mm one), but perhaps they are throttled?
Most silent PC I have is a HP Vectra (ATX tower) with one fan that cools both the power supply and P3 CPU through some fancy duct work. Damn near silent.
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I'm personally looking forward to needing to pipe heat INTO my data center to keep it from freezing over.
I don't think that will be nessecary, with the 64 core Intel Pentium 8's with SSE11 and 256bit extensions that we will undoubtably have in 2018.
So, I take it that people on sports message boards don't have a sense of humor either?
Integrated video is terrible. It takes up system memory, and uses up a lot of bandwidth accessing the system memory all the time. Right now, it seems like the "regular" video card to get is something like a GeForce MX for $25-$30. You can get Radeon 7000's for about the same price, but I think the GeForce MX is a bit more powerful and modern.
When I went to high school in Minnesota, "expulsion" usually meant that you were kicked out of the school for one year. If you did something really bad, they might kick you out permanently though. A week would of just been called a "suspension".
I've found most OEM machines to be a bit slow, both high end and low end:
HP Vectra PIII 866Mhz runs at 863Mhz (this was a top of the line machine when it was purchased)
HP Vectra P4 1500Mhz runs at 1495Mhz
Toshiba laptop P4-M 2000Mhz runs at 1993Mhz
Meanwhile the systems I built always ran a little hot. My Athlon XP 2000 (1666Mhz) runs at 1670Mhz on a Gigabyte board, and my Sempron 3000 (2000Mhz) runs at 2005Mhz. Interestingly enough, both of those AMD systems - while stable in their default configurations, will not overclock any more than the "stock" overclock. For example, if I boost the Sempron system from 167Mhz FSB to 170Mhz FSB it won't even post and I have to reset the CMOS and pull the button battery.
I've always assumed that the motherboard manufacturers tend to overclock their systems for benchmark purposes, while the OEMs underclock for stability purposes. I don't know why it took everyone else so long to figure this out.
Car insurance also cover syou for theft and fire - so you still need it
Right now, basic insurance where I live covers only damage that I cause others in an accident where I'm at fault. Unless I purchase extra coverage, if my car gets stolen or burns up then I'm simply out a car with no compensation.
But that doesn't matter, you'll always "need" car insurance. The insurance companies aren't going to give up their racket no matter how safe travel becomes.
Interesting concept but as long as it's fueled by coal and oil it will basically be just as polluting as existing internal combustion engines. Electricity has to come from somewhere.
Do you really believe that millions of tiny fossil fuel burning engines running around everywhere in various states of repair are no dirtier than a handful of large, well maintained and regulated power plants?
Besides, once you have the infastructure in place, it doesn't care where the electricity comes from. Tomorrow it may come from coal, but the next day when the fusion power plant is built - all of the cars instantly become true zero emission vehicles.
4. The group of people who have lived in the same house for well over 30 years, and had it paid for back when Ford was the president. Their incomes aren't very high, but since property taxes are somewhat fixed in California, they can still afford to (barely) live in the same house. On paper, they may have half a million dollars in assets, but that doesn't mean they have much cash in their pocket.
So, now they have Socket A Semprons, 32bit Sempron for AMD64 motherboards, and now 64bit Semprons for Socket 754? Way to avoid confusion there, AMD.
They are not intersted in supporting third-party PCs and never have been. Ever.
Ever? Seems like you forgot about the clones era.
And the XBOX would be ----ware?
If anything, the losses Microsoft has taken in the console market backs up the parent's position. Microsoft knows this, but they are always willing to take a loss in order to try and crush the competition.
I would still buy another Power Mac over anything put out by Dell. Just open the cases of each and tell me which one you'd rather have.
Hard to say. The Mac will win out on looking nice being tidy, and having a nice cooling system. But when it comes to important things like how many hard drive drive bays, expansion slots, CD drive bays it has, the Mac is going to lose.
Actually obselete used textbooks can be surprisingly cheap. I've picked up undergraduate science books for 1-10% of their original price.
Or even free. I've seen plenty of students, after finding out that the bookstore won't buy back their "obsolete" edition, pitch it into the nearest trashcan.
Amazon.com, StarvingSE... you can usually get at least twice as much money as what the book store would give you, even AFTER shipping.
If a new edition is out, the old edition will probably only fetch $5-$10. Hardly worth the trouble.
I believe you can still get all the critical patches and service packs through Automatic Updates. If you try to go to the Windows Update site to download them it'll block you though. However, I don't think you can get to the non-critical updates like Media Player or DirectX anymore without a genuine copy of Windows XP (well, that is without using any of the easy ways to circumvent the check).
So does the Windows XP user, and the Windows 2000 user who applied the patch.
Or the people sitting pretty behind their firewalls. My Windows and Linux computers are not at all worried about this worm.
Seriously, would these people be battling it out for 4 year old PC laptops at $50 a pop? I think we just threw a few cartons of them away. Too damn slow with windows running on them.
A 4 year old laptop would probably be a mid to high end PIII based system, with 128-512MB of ram, and 5-20GB of harddisk. I would certainly pay $50 each for one or more systems like that, in good working order (a battery that no longer holds a charge would be OK).
If you're just throwing computers like that away, I will take some off of your hands.
I envision a big red button that says "ANNOYED". This could also be used for Seinfeld reruns.
My TV remote already has a red button for that. It's labeled "POWER".
Your penis must be less than 2 inches. It's the only explanation.
Yeah, but look at the size of that ePenis!
Yeah but try surfing the web from you deck.
:)
That's when the neighbor's access point comes in handy
What about some of the huge Chinese manufacturing plants? They have housing, food, entertainment, etc. ;)
:)
I think they even try to keep their employees poor enough that they can't afford to leave
Now that you bring it up, those probably are closer to what an arcology is. A building you should never have to leave, only in this case - you can't
Elementary & middle school kids DO NOT NEED iPods. Those kids should not be given a $300+ music player. ...get them a $50 1st Gen iPod from eBay.
Don't get it for them. Make them buy it! (well, if its on eBay make them give you the money and you bid for them). That's the only way they'll really appreciate it.
Besides, I don't see that many kids with iPods. It's mostly the $30 generic CD players from Walmart that they have.
I'm kind of the opposite. Where I sleep is my space, with my music, my stuff, my food etc. This made it a lot easier to work on assignments in my room because I'm a lot more comfortable. A public place full of strangers is too much of a distraction to me.
I never had a laptop in college, as I could never justify the expense (I would of been buying it myself). Even if I had one, I probably wouldn't of taken it that many places - pen and paper is a lot better medium for taking notes. It would of been nice to haul back to my parent's place to have a computer to use though.
A 486 can to MP3 comfortably.
:) I'm sure the software has improved though.
A DX2 maybe. Back in the day I had a 486-33 laptop and it could play MP3s only in mono and downsampled to 22.5 kHz
A 486 is going to have problems with MP3, I doubt even a DX4 100Mhz would be able to handle high bit rates like 256kbps. Formats like OGG and FLAC would be out of the question.
Just get a Pentium. I have a P120 that I put an Athlon heatsink on (not the fan, just the huge chuck of aluminum and copper) that seems to stay perfectly cool.
It looks like you have a 80mm fan on the rear, and a 60mm fan in the power supply. I would think that would makes some noise (especially the 60mm one), but perhaps they are throttled?
Most silent PC I have is a HP Vectra (ATX tower) with one fan that cools both the power supply and P3 CPU through some fancy duct work. Damn near silent.