Honda likes to (or at least used to) make a point of how little maintenance their cars required for the first 100,000 miles. I always wondered if they intentionally pushed back some maintenance items to 100k to accomplish this when some of that stuff should have been addressed sooner if one was concerned about the car for the long term. If I had a Honda I'd probably start checking on things like the coolant and transmission fluid after about 60k and replace it if I thought it needed it even if Honda says it should still be good.
Then again, I've always considered Honda a bit overrated. Their engines are excellent, but the rest of the car always seemed a bit flimsy and doesn't hold up as well. And their automatic transmissions are the weak spot in any car so equipped.
Newer Apple laptops have glued in batteries, SSDs and memory soldered into place. They are truly disposable computers. And this is supposedly their "Pro" line. On the PC side things aren't too much better with some of the Ultrabooks, but at least you can still buy Thinkpads and the like that can be repaired more easily.
My guess is that somehow the EFI system partition got messed up. That's enough to stop some computers from booting (essentially the UEFI on some boards seem to scan all connected storage devices to see if they are bootable and on some if they find a corrupted EFI partition they don't handle it very well). If he pulls the hard disk and it boots again then that's the problem. This can be annoying problem to fix, if the computer won't boot up with the drive connected. You can take the drive to another computer and zero out the partition table, and then you can put the drive back into the original computer and start over. In theory SATA is hot pluggable so you could boot something like a Linux live CD then connect the hard drive if you don't have a second computer handy, but don't blame me if you fry something.
I have to agree. VGA should have been on its way out 10 years ago, replaced with (at the time) DVI-I ports. If you needed VGA you could use a cheap adapter. I guess there's a lot of inertia out there, as I've avoided using analog VGA for anything in the past 10 years or so unless I don't have any other choice.
Seems like if you remember or could find an article that you might have commented on, you could dig it up and read through the comments and look for something that you might have posted.
The front of the DMC-12 wasn't originally supposed to be that high. They basically had to jack it up like that to make it meet the bumper height regulations back then.
Not everyone is a fan of today's look. I find most new cars to be a ugly blobs with fussy, overdone styling. In comparison, the DMC-12's styling is much more clean and restrained with its simple lines. I'd rather that than some retro-styled new car that just makes a mockery of the original (such as the current crop of "retro" pony cars).
Actually, it's impossible for everyone to zero all their debts. If we tried, we'd literally run out of money to pay the banks before we'd be done paying off all the debts. They only way the system keeps going is that new debt is continually created to pay off the existing debts.
That's exactly the problem with HFTs. They won't buy unless they already have someone lined up to sell it to immediately. Because that's what they do. They are middlemen who aren't interested in holding stocks, just flipping them instantly for fractions of a cent profit. So the idea that they provide liquidity is a sham - if there's no one else that wants to buy the stock, the HFTs aren't going to buy it either. So HFTs really only provide liquidity... until they don't.
Seems to me that if you ship them a physical computer that they will have in their possession for an extended period of time it would be really hard to keep them from the source code off of it if they were determined enough. You'd have to keep them from disassembling the laptop to get the drive out, or working the epoxy out of the ports. Plus you'd to completely disable all networking, including the wireless, or they could just copy the files off that way. Failing that, there's always things like pointing a camera at the screen and OCR'ing the text as it scrolls by, or encoding it in audio and playing it through the speakers. Presumably the computers would have some kind of programming environment on them so they could automate it, and even if it's slow it won't matter if they have the machine unsupervised for weeks.
Also, you might want to take into account how much management would freak out if one of the computers ends up being "lost".
My theory is that management knows how the code is a bunch of quick hacks with band-aids on top of it, and worry that if it got out it would be embarrassing more than anything else. However, their competitors code is likely not much better, but in that case they may be more worried about their customers looking at it, and asking uncomfortable questions.
10Mb is pretty fast. My DSL is only a bit faster, and for the most part it's fine. I certainly wouldn't mind it being faster, but it's not like I'd be suffering at 10Mb - I'd probably not even notice. Now what would be really nice would be some more upload bandwidth. They offer DSL up to 40 Mb here, but upload speed is the same lame 900k at 40Mb as it is at 12Mb, so I just can't be bothered.
My guess is that driverless cars could have the effect that miles traveled end up going up. If people don't have to actually drive their car, they may tolerate longer commutes to work, especially if the rush hour traffic jams become a thing of the past. Also, people might be inclined also to take their car on longer road trips. If my car could drive me anywhere in the country while I slept, I'd never fly anywhere domestic again.
I don't know about burying all the roads, but with cars being able to travel at high speed literally bumper to bumper, most major roads could be cut down to two lanes, as we wouldn't need huge sprawling multi-lane freeways unless the road had to handle a lot of cars. Furthermore, the lanes could be made a lot narrower.
If it's sufficiently confused, how will the car find the side of the road? Most likely the car will just tell the driver "you're in charge now", so I hope you're paying attention because you may only have a second or two (if that) to react. I can't imagine how well that would go with most drivers nowadays. Now imagine a generation of drivers who have very little (or no) experience actually driving their cars manually?
Handing over control like that is pretty much what a lot of auto pilots do right now. However, a jet cruising at altitude can go quite a while before hitting something (that includes the ground). The pilot generally has minutes to react to any situation.
I figure the companies that advertise the most are the ones that have lots of cash to throw around. So it's really no surprise that there's so many ads for insurance companies, cell phones, and prescription medicine on TV because those companies are raking in the money. Remember back in the 90's it was all ads for long distance telephone service? Funny how you don't see those anymore...
These devices aren't new, they've been around now for a few years. My insurance company offered me one, and I turned it down. My guess is they'll get enough people to opt in to make it worth their while, and if they really wanted to get people to use them, they'd just raise the rates without using the device to punitive levels.
The other nice thing about the Cyrillic alphabet is that lower case letters look just like the upper case letters, except smaller. In the English alphabet, some lower case letters are just like the upper case versions (like V and v, C and c, X and x), and some are not (G and g, A and a, E and e). It's something native English speakers don't even notice because we've grown up with it, but can be confusing to people trying to learn the language unless they are coming from another language that uses a similar alphabet.
Actually, Gigabyte makes an ARM motherboard in an ATX form factor. It has the usual things you might expect on a ATX motherboard such as DDR3, SATA, USB, PCI Express, and no less than 4 NICs. Would make an interesting home firewall (or Linux box).
I don't remember that one, but I do remember another demonstration where the car was supposed to automatically brake for a stopped truck in front of it, and instead plowed right into it. As I recall there was a dummy in the car so no one was hurt, but still pretty embarrassing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg
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Honda likes to (or at least used to) make a point of how little maintenance their cars required for the first 100,000 miles. I always wondered if they intentionally pushed back some maintenance items to 100k to accomplish this when some of that stuff should have been addressed sooner if one was concerned about the car for the long term. If I had a Honda I'd probably start checking on things like the coolant and transmission fluid after about 60k and replace it if I thought it needed it even if Honda says it should still be good.
Then again, I've always considered Honda a bit overrated. Their engines are excellent, but the rest of the car always seemed a bit flimsy and doesn't hold up as well. And their automatic transmissions are the weak spot in any car so equipped.
Newer Apple laptops have glued in batteries, SSDs and memory soldered into place. They are truly disposable computers. And this is supposedly their "Pro" line. On the PC side things aren't too much better with some of the Ultrabooks, but at least you can still buy Thinkpads and the like that can be repaired more easily.
So end result is most cars that have this inevitable failure will be deemed not economical to repair, and off to the scrap yard?
My guess is that somehow the EFI system partition got messed up. That's enough to stop some computers from booting (essentially the UEFI on some boards seem to scan all connected storage devices to see if they are bootable and on some if they find a corrupted EFI partition they don't handle it very well). If he pulls the hard disk and it boots again then that's the problem. This can be annoying problem to fix, if the computer won't boot up with the drive connected. You can take the drive to another computer and zero out the partition table, and then you can put the drive back into the original computer and start over. In theory SATA is hot pluggable so you could boot something like a Linux live CD then connect the hard drive if you don't have a second computer handy, but don't blame me if you fry something.
I have to agree. VGA should have been on its way out 10 years ago, replaced with (at the time) DVI-I ports. If you needed VGA you could use a cheap adapter. I guess there's a lot of inertia out there, as I've avoided using analog VGA for anything in the past 10 years or so unless I don't have any other choice.
Since it's an analog standard, there technically isn't any limit. Though my guess is that the quality past 2048x1536 won't be too impressive.
Don't forget Paint! Though it took a dive in usability when it got a ribbon in Windows 7.
Oh, so you have to pony up the $99 a year to be an Apple Developer to view the log files? Wow, Awesome! Thanks Apple!
Seems like if you remember or could find an article that you might have commented on, you could dig it up and read through the comments and look for something that you might have posted.
The front of the DMC-12 wasn't originally supposed to be that high. They basically had to jack it up like that to make it meet the bumper height regulations back then.
Not everyone is a fan of today's look. I find most new cars to be a ugly blobs with fussy, overdone styling. In comparison, the DMC-12's styling is much more clean and restrained with its simple lines. I'd rather that than some retro-styled new car that just makes a mockery of the original (such as the current crop of "retro" pony cars).
Actually, it's impossible for everyone to zero all their debts. If we tried, we'd literally run out of money to pay the banks before we'd be done paying off all the debts. They only way the system keeps going is that new debt is continually created to pay off the existing debts.
That's exactly the problem with HFTs. They won't buy unless they already have someone lined up to sell it to immediately. Because that's what they do. They are middlemen who aren't interested in holding stocks, just flipping them instantly for fractions of a cent profit. So the idea that they provide liquidity is a sham - if there's no one else that wants to buy the stock, the HFTs aren't going to buy it either. So HFTs really only provide liquidity... until they don't.
Seems to me that if you ship them a physical computer that they will have in their possession for an extended period of time it would be really hard to keep them from the source code off of it if they were determined enough. You'd have to keep them from disassembling the laptop to get the drive out, or working the epoxy out of the ports. Plus you'd to completely disable all networking, including the wireless, or they could just copy the files off that way. Failing that, there's always things like pointing a camera at the screen and OCR'ing the text as it scrolls by, or encoding it in audio and playing it through the speakers. Presumably the computers would have some kind of programming environment on them so they could automate it, and even if it's slow it won't matter if they have the machine unsupervised for weeks.
Also, you might want to take into account how much management would freak out if one of the computers ends up being "lost".
My theory is that management knows how the code is a bunch of quick hacks with band-aids on top of it, and worry that if it got out it would be embarrassing more than anything else. However, their competitors code is likely not much better, but in that case they may be more worried about their customers looking at it, and asking uncomfortable questions.
Oh gawd, they put systemd in Windows 10?
10Mb is pretty fast. My DSL is only a bit faster, and for the most part it's fine. I certainly wouldn't mind it being faster, but it's not like I'd be suffering at 10Mb - I'd probably not even notice. Now what would be really nice would be some more upload bandwidth. They offer DSL up to 40 Mb here, but upload speed is the same lame 900k at 40Mb as it is at 12Mb, so I just can't be bothered.
My guess is that driverless cars could have the effect that miles traveled end up going up. If people don't have to actually drive their car, they may tolerate longer commutes to work, especially if the rush hour traffic jams become a thing of the past. Also, people might be inclined also to take their car on longer road trips. If my car could drive me anywhere in the country while I slept, I'd never fly anywhere domestic again.
I don't know about burying all the roads, but with cars being able to travel at high speed literally bumper to bumper, most major roads could be cut down to two lanes, as we wouldn't need huge sprawling multi-lane freeways unless the road had to handle a lot of cars. Furthermore, the lanes could be made a lot narrower.
If it's sufficiently confused, how will the car find the side of the road? Most likely the car will just tell the driver "you're in charge now", so I hope you're paying attention because you may only have a second or two (if that) to react. I can't imagine how well that would go with most drivers nowadays. Now imagine a generation of drivers who have very little (or no) experience actually driving their cars manually?
Handing over control like that is pretty much what a lot of auto pilots do right now. However, a jet cruising at altitude can go quite a while before hitting something (that includes the ground). The pilot generally has minutes to react to any situation.
I figure the companies that advertise the most are the ones that have lots of cash to throw around. So it's really no surprise that there's so many ads for insurance companies, cell phones, and prescription medicine on TV because those companies are raking in the money. Remember back in the 90's it was all ads for long distance telephone service? Funny how you don't see those anymore...
These devices aren't new, they've been around now for a few years. My insurance company offered me one, and I turned it down. My guess is they'll get enough people to opt in to make it worth their while, and if they really wanted to get people to use them, they'd just raise the rates without using the device to punitive levels.
The other nice thing about the Cyrillic alphabet is that lower case letters look just like the upper case letters, except smaller. In the English alphabet, some lower case letters are just like the upper case versions (like V and v, C and c, X and x), and some are not (G and g, A and a, E and e). It's something native English speakers don't even notice because we've grown up with it, but can be confusing to people trying to learn the language unless they are coming from another language that uses a similar alphabet.
Actually, Gigabyte makes an ARM motherboard in an ATX form factor. It has the usual things you might expect on a ATX motherboard such as DDR3, SATA, USB, PCI Express, and no less than 4 NICs. Would make an interesting home firewall (or Linux box).
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
I don't remember that one, but I do remember another demonstration where the car was supposed to automatically brake for a stopped truck in front of it, and instead plowed right into it. As I recall there was a dummy in the car so no one was hurt, but still pretty embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg