Besides things like major accidents, pretty much any car will keep going as long as someone takes care of it.
What seems to happen is that when a car gets to be about 7-10 years old, it seems that the typical car owner decides it just isn't worth taking care of any more. After couple of years of neglect, and the car is starting to be pretty ratty. Then something major goes wrong, and they deem it not worth fixing, so the car gets scrapped.
Yeah, that's something I miss in Linux, is a movie player with playlists like I have in Winamp 2.91 or the new Winamp 5. I have a bunch of music videos, which I like to load up and play in giant playlists, usually with shuffle on. Sorry to say it, but Xine's playlist editor is simply awful, and so is VideoLAN's. I know there is a video plug in for xmms, but no support for MPEG2.
They already went to all the trouble to implement software RAID 0 (which I would guess that most people who want to get the performance out of RAID 0 would do it at the hardware level too) - so why not add a few lines of code for RAID 1? It seems to me that Microsoft intentionally crippled Windows 2000/XP Pro, and at the same time the feature is superfluous in the Server editions because any decent server has it at the hardware level. It really doesn't make sense.
Keep in mind that in the Windows world, you need to have atleast Windows 2000/2003 Server to get software RAID 1. The 2000/XP Pro only support software RAID 0. Which I think is stupid, as RAID 1 is something I bet a lot of the "Pro" users would want to do.
"you know like the proposed RED plate for DUI ppl"
Oh, that's just a GREAT idea. Why not start handing out Gold Stars for the Jews again? Or better yet, make anyone who has ever been convicted of any crime have to where a pink jumpsuit and put up a billboard outside their house which states there crime. That will teach them.
I agree that's a stupid idea. If they get a DUI they shouldn't get red plates, they should get their license revoked. Simple as that.
Not to mention in order to press the brake he would have to take his foot off the gas, which would also slow down the car. You can press the pedal with the left foot, but that's not a very good idea.
I can't imagine that being the case, as pretty much every game I have played online would be comfortable with the bandwidth from a 56k modem (latency is another matter). I would imagine Kazaa and other file sharing programs is what really kills the upload and the download bandwidth.
In a car with only a radio - given a choice between driving in silence and trying to listen to the crap on the radio, I turn the thing off. But that's just me.
Unlike Internet Explorer, Mozilla really doesn't have the capabilities built-in to be hijacked like that. No Active-X or anything like that. You'd pretty much have to convince a user to download a file to the hard drive, and then execute it. Or take the source, roll your own version of Mozilla, and then try to convince the users to use it instead of vanilla Mozilla.
My guess is that they make it airtight, and without people opening and closing the door all the time moisture is not going to be a problem.
The concern I would have is that the equipment would produce enough heat to make the compressor run a lot, which would result in it failing, and once it crapped out the equipment inside would roast itself to death.
The idea is when you are in the market for a new car, and are comparing all the different models of cars, you the maker wants you to know about their car. If I'm in the market for a small car, you can bet that Toyota wants me to know about the Corolla, Dodge wants me to know about the Neon, and Nissan wants me to know about the Sentra. Thats where the ads come into play, because if I haven't heard of the Pontiac Sunfire I'm not too likely to consider it.
And there are some people who pretty much go by the ads. I know someone who bought a Ford Focus pretty much based upon how it looks - and ads are huge here because this person did not pay any attention to anything else like reviews and such that pretty much showed the Focus as the pile of crap that it is.
The extra memory allows the card to store more textures on it. The reason it doesn't seem to matter a whole lot is that older games simply don't need that much memory, and newer games really don't seem to take advantage of it very well (my guess is they don't want to break things for the 64MB and 32MB cards out there).
Then there is the extra overhead of managing twice the memory, which makes some chipsets slower (like the Radeon 8500) in many tests.
Finally, in many systems the system ram and AGP bus is so fast that there isn't a huge performance hit if the card has to pull things out of the main memory anyhow.
Have you tried the newest drivers? I have found a few of those things fixed in the later ATI driver releases, atleast for my older Radeon 8500. Especially with the TV out feature (now the TV can be used as a second monitor. Woohoo!)
Of which, most users don't know how to set. Or even know what a MAC address is. Besides, after they have changed it a few times, and have gotten banned, they may give up and go elsewhere.
Or just look at what you got. The other day I was cleaning an older 15" Sony monitor I have, and found out it has a s-video input on the back! Don't have anything to hook to it right now, but nice to know it's there.
Look at the recent Mars flop, where they can't get contact with the probe. Anything similar with a crew onboard would be fatal.
Who knows what happened with the probe. It could be something that could be fixed with 30 seconds and a screwdriver. The advantage to sending humans into space is that we can adapt and do things that machines simply can't do. While unmanned missions certainly have their uses, we need to still send men and women into space.
Prices are already pretty reasonable. Unless you play cutting edge games, a $75 video card will do everything you want.
Heck, even if you play cutting edge games, even that $75 card will serve you well unless you absolutely must have 1600x1200 resolution with 32bit color and 435FPS.
No sane company would ever make one. The first time that self-driving car gets into an accident, and someone either gets seriously injured or dies - the automaker is going to get blamed because they programmed the thing. And you can bet that lawsuits will be flying everywhere. No automaker is going to put themselves in a position where they could get sued for a lot of money everytime someone gets injured or killed because of their self-driving cars.
I think the opposite is the big problem, where the system misses a vehicle, and signals someone to go when it's not actually safe. "...but the light said I could go so I went!" Someone would get sued over that one. Besides, the system, even if it was really good at detecting cars, would still likely miss pedestrians.
I would be concerned about things like the hard drives not wanting to spin up. Resistance goes down with temperature, so it could affect your power supply's voltages too. I don't know if it would be such a great idea. Not to mention it would be a bitch to have to go outside to burn a CD.
I have always wanted to put an old Pentium outside in a Minnesota winter for a while just to see what would happen, but never got around to it. I suspect that if you left the computer on all the time, many components like the disk drives would be okay as they would stay warm enough, but I could be wrong.
Winamp2 does do video, and rather nicely I might add. It's been my default video player in windows for a while. It's fast, handles things pretty well, does everything I want. But it is totally dependent on having the proper codecs installed in windows.
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Besides things like major accidents, pretty much any car will keep going as long as someone takes care of it.
What seems to happen is that when a car gets to be about 7-10 years old, it seems that the typical car owner decides it just isn't worth taking care of any more. After couple of years of neglect, and the car is starting to be pretty ratty. Then something major goes wrong, and they deem it not worth fixing, so the car gets scrapped.
Yeah, that's something I miss in Linux, is a movie player with playlists like I have in Winamp 2.91 or the new Winamp 5. I have a bunch of music videos, which I like to load up and play in giant playlists, usually with shuffle on. Sorry to say it, but Xine's playlist editor is simply awful, and so is VideoLAN's. I know there is a video plug in for xmms, but no support for MPEG2.
They already went to all the trouble to implement software RAID 0 (which I would guess that most people who want to get the performance out of RAID 0 would do it at the hardware level too) - so why not add a few lines of code for RAID 1? It seems to me that Microsoft intentionally crippled Windows 2000/XP Pro, and at the same time the feature is superfluous in the Server editions because any decent server has it at the hardware level. It really doesn't make sense.
Keep in mind that in the Windows world, you need to have atleast Windows 2000/2003 Server to get software RAID 1. The 2000/XP Pro only support software RAID 0. Which I think is stupid, as RAID 1 is something I bet a lot of the "Pro" users would want to do.
"you know like the proposed RED plate for DUI ppl"
Oh, that's just a GREAT idea. Why not start handing out Gold Stars for the Jews again? Or better yet, make anyone who has ever been convicted of any crime have to where a pink jumpsuit and put up a billboard outside their house which states there crime. That will teach them.
I agree that's a stupid idea. If they get a DUI they shouldn't get red plates, they should get their license revoked. Simple as that.
Not to mention in order to press the brake he would have to take his foot off the gas, which would also slow down the car. You can press the pedal with the left foot, but that's not a very good idea.
Does he run MSN Messenger? If he doesn't, he should be pretty safe from this worm.
I can't imagine that being the case, as pretty much every game I have played online would be comfortable with the bandwidth from a 56k modem (latency is another matter). I would imagine Kazaa and other file sharing programs is what really kills the upload and the download bandwidth.
Tried driving 5 hours with no tunes?
In a car with only a radio - given a choice between driving in silence and trying to listen to the crap on the radio, I turn the thing off. But that's just me.
Unlike Internet Explorer, Mozilla really doesn't have the capabilities built-in to be hijacked like that. No Active-X or anything like that. You'd pretty much have to convince a user to download a file to the hard drive, and then execute it. Or take the source, roll your own version of Mozilla, and then try to convince the users to use it instead of vanilla Mozilla.
The XBox ships with a specialized, crippled version of the Windows 2000 kernel.
My guess is that they make it airtight, and without people opening and closing the door all the time moisture is not going to be a problem.
The concern I would have is that the equipment would produce enough heat to make the compressor run a lot, which would result in it failing, and once it crapped out the equipment inside would roast itself to death.
The idea is when you are in the market for a new car, and are comparing all the different models of cars, you the maker wants you to know about their car. If I'm in the market for a small car, you can bet that Toyota wants me to know about the Corolla, Dodge wants me to know about the Neon, and Nissan wants me to know about the Sentra. Thats where the ads come into play, because if I haven't heard of the Pontiac Sunfire I'm not too likely to consider it.
And there are some people who pretty much go by the ads. I know someone who bought a Ford Focus pretty much based upon how it looks - and ads are huge here because this person did not pay any attention to anything else like reviews and such that pretty much showed the Focus as the pile of crap that it is.
The extra memory allows the card to store more textures on it. The reason it doesn't seem to matter a whole lot is that older games simply don't need that much memory, and newer games really don't seem to take advantage of it very well (my guess is they don't want to break things for the 64MB and 32MB cards out there).
Then there is the extra overhead of managing twice the memory, which makes some chipsets slower (like the Radeon 8500) in many tests.
Finally, in many systems the system ram and AGP bus is so fast that there isn't a huge performance hit if the card has to pull things out of the main memory anyhow.
Have you tried the newest drivers? I have found a few of those things fixed in the later ATI driver releases, atleast for my older Radeon 8500. Especially with the TV out feature (now the TV can be used as a second monitor. Woohoo!)
Of which, most users don't know how to set. Or even know what a MAC address is. Besides, after they have changed it a few times, and have gotten banned, they may give up and go elsewhere.
Hmm, why not get a decent sized monitor and watch the DVD on the computer? The quality on a good computer monitor is going to be better than any TV.
Or just look at what you got. The other day I was cleaning an older 15" Sony monitor I have, and found out it has a s-video input on the back! Don't have anything to hook to it right now, but nice to know it's there.
Look at the recent Mars flop, where they can't get contact with the probe. Anything similar with a crew onboard would be fatal.
Who knows what happened with the probe. It could be something that could be fixed with 30 seconds and a screwdriver. The advantage to sending humans into space is that we can adapt and do things that machines simply can't do. While unmanned missions certainly have their uses, we need to still send men and women into space.
So, do you use Flash cards to store photographs? And have you had any fail?
Prices are already pretty reasonable. Unless you play cutting edge games, a $75 video card will do everything you want.
Heck, even if you play cutting edge games, even that $75 card will serve you well unless you absolutely must have 1600x1200 resolution with 32bit color and 435FPS.
No sane company would ever make one. The first time that self-driving car gets into an accident, and someone either gets seriously injured or dies - the automaker is going to get blamed because they programmed the thing. And you can bet that lawsuits will be flying everywhere. No automaker is going to put themselves in a position where they could get sued for a lot of money everytime someone gets injured or killed because of their self-driving cars.
I think the opposite is the big problem, where the system misses a vehicle, and signals someone to go when it's not actually safe. "...but the light said I could go so I went!" Someone would get sued over that one. Besides, the system, even if it was really good at detecting cars, would still likely miss pedestrians.
I would be concerned about things like the hard drives not wanting to spin up. Resistance goes down with temperature, so it could affect your power supply's voltages too. I don't know if it would be such a great idea. Not to mention it would be a bitch to have to go outside to burn a CD.
I have always wanted to put an old Pentium outside in a Minnesota winter for a while just to see what would happen, but never got around to it. I suspect that if you left the computer on all the time, many components like the disk drives would be okay as they would stay warm enough, but I could be wrong.
Winamp2 does do video, and rather nicely I might add. It's been my default video player in windows for a while. It's fast, handles things pretty well, does everything I want. But it is totally dependent on having the proper codecs installed in windows.