That's something a lot of people seem to miss. All those people in senior level jobs that require heavy creativity started off at the bottom of the ladder in some menial job, and as they gained experience they worked their way up. Get rid of those low-level menial jobs, and eventually the pool of experienced senior level people will dry up.
That's why I always find it kind of hypocritical when a company complains they can't find experienced people to fill high level roles, while at the same they've outsourced all the lower level jobs that provide the experience they're looking for.
Well, your portable i7 probably has features like VT-d and turboboost whereas the desktop i3 probably doesn't. But in any case, Intel's product line is a total mess.
That's why this needs to be opposed. Robocalling costs the debt collectors almost nothing, so if they can robocall at will they'll just add any number to the list that might have anything to do with the debt they are trying to collect on. So expect that number of calls from debt collectors for people you don't know (or only know in passing) to go way up.
Venus is actually a fairly interesting prospect for colonization. You obviously don't go down to the surface with its lead-melting temperatures. However, about 50km from the surface you have temperatures a bit above freezing, the atmospheric pressure of roughly one atmosphere, and gravity that's very near Earth's. It's about the most earth-like place in the solar system that's not on Earth itself. The atmosphere is mostly CO2, which is a dense gas, so a balloon filled with breathable air would float. You have plenty of solar radiation during the day, the air contains nitrogen and trace amounts of water, and the magnetic field and dense atmosphere gives you some protection from the sun's radiation. On the downside though, the wind speed is hundreds of miles per hour, the days are really long, and if your balloon sinks you're pretty much a goner.
In Windows 8 you had open the start screen, move the mouse to bottom right (I think) to get the charms bar to come up, at which point you can pick Settings, and in the settings screen there was a power icon which you could then use to shut the computer down. Windows 8.1 added the power icon on the start screen, as well as the shutdown option in the right-click menu on the start button.
At least in Windows 8, there was basically no chance of an accidental shutdown. Can't really say the same for Windows Vista and 7.
Haven't you noticed that automotive model years tend to lead calender years? 2016 Audi's have been on sale for now for several months. Actually, at this point you might have trouble finding a new 2015 Audi for sale.
With C99, there is something kind of like that with the 'restrict' keyword. But it's only for pointers, and really just tells the compiler that the pointer won't be aliased.
5% is what they want you to think is "normal", since the great recession. That would not have been called normal 20 years ago. Nevermind that 5% in 2015 would be a lot larger if it was counted the same as it was in 1995.
In the US, it was the Japanese who started this whole trend in the early 80's. They didn't want to deal with custom-ordered cars, which would have to be built in Japan then slowboated over, so they came up with the idea of limiting selections to a few option packages. Eventually, the US manufacturers followed suit, mostly because they got scared of the Japanese and eventually realized that having millions of ways (literally) to order the same model of car was not efficient, especially since some of the options were either very rarely ordered, or were very rarely ordered without. While I miss the ability to order a car exactly how I would want it, I understand why they did it that way. Nowadays if you want to custom order a car like that, you pretty much have to go to a European manufacturer like BMW.
Well, 4 Hiroshimas a second comes out to about 7.9x10^21 Joules a year. About 1.2x10^22 Joules hit the Earth in a day. So about an extra 2/3 of a day of sunlight per year.
Now, for the Earth to maintain a steady temperature, the amount of heat radiated off in space must be equal to the energy coming in. If the amount of heat radiated off doesn't increase yet the heat going in increases, then the planet will heat up. An extra 2/3 of day doesn't seem like too much, if it that much every year, it's going to add up eventually.
I still want to know why the batteries seem to only last a year or two in the dual-power models. The damn things are connected to mains power, so the battery should really only serve as a backup if the power goes out. My power almost never goes out, yet in a year or two the stupid things have managed to drain the battery anyway.
I've looked into if there's a better model/brand I can get, but as far as I can the different brands all seem to sell the same few models, the only difference being minor differences in the plastic case.
It doesn't matter to the people who buy those kind of cars new, because they'll get rid of them before things start going seriously wrong, or when the warranty ends. That is, if they don't lease the car (most cars like that are not bought, they are leased). It's the second and third owners who buy those kind of cars used, enticed by the chance to get into a high end luxury car for regular car money, then get soaked keeping them on the road.
And while we're on the topic of self-driving cars... A thought occurred to me in the parking lot of Best Buy. How the hell are self-driving cars going to navigate a parking lot and find a spot near the store I want to go to? What if I notice a different store and change the plan at the last minute? What search strategy will it use to seek that one open spot in a full lot? I'll keep the steering wheel, thanks.
Presumably the car would drop me at the door and go find a spot to park by itself, which wouldn't even have to be close to the store. When I'm done shopping I'd use an app or something to summon the car back to where I am.
The problem is that with the front loading washers, they are still damp inside after running a load of laundry and if you close the front door (which is water-tight) then they get mold. This isn't as much of a problem with the old school top loaders, since people tended to leave the lid open, and even if they closed it, it wasn't a watertight seal so they could still dry out.
I do agree that the quality of our appliances are shit now. They all seem engineered to last about 7 years, and that's it.
I'd say the LCD/LED screen is probably the most disruptive technology now. I've stayed in 400 year old hotels where all the furniture is more or less the same as it was 50 years ago. The only change has been a flatscreen TV mounted in a corner. But that has meant there's no need for a "TV room" where the hotel guests had to fight it out to watch a particular channel.
Really? LCD TVs really haven't changed how people watch or use televisions. Considering how less and less people even watch television their significance is diminished even further. I'd say streaming technologies are more disruptive than the actual, physical TV sets. I'd say the most disruptive technologies now are smartphones and social media.
Actually, I've found most clueless users know about Printscreen. I can't count how many bug reports I've seen that include nearly useless screenshots, usually pasted into a Word or Powerpoint document. You could just tell me what the error message is, instead of sending me a screenshot of the entire screen. Or perhaps the data file that's giving you trouble... Or the sequence of steps to create the error... Or the log files...
One of the problems with Vista is that its prefetch (superfetch) algorithm was way too aggressive. So give it 6GB of ram, and it's going to sit there thrashing the the crap out of the disk preloading all your programs/data into all that memory. Even while you're trying to use the machine. One of the things they did in Windows 7 was dial it back.
I ran Vista on a P4 with 1.25GB of ram for several years, and it was surprisingly usable. My theory is that it was enough ram for the OS and a few programs but didn't really leave enough for superfetch to play around with. I also tried installing Vista on a P3 laptop with 512MB of ram. That... didn't work as well.
Around here the tap water comes out of aquifers. This isn't sustainable (though the problem isn't the residential water usage, it's the agricultural usage), but for the meantime the tap water is very good.
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That's something a lot of people seem to miss. All those people in senior level jobs that require heavy creativity started off at the bottom of the ladder in some menial job, and as they gained experience they worked their way up. Get rid of those low-level menial jobs, and eventually the pool of experienced senior level people will dry up.
That's why I always find it kind of hypocritical when a company complains they can't find experienced people to fill high level roles, while at the same they've outsourced all the lower level jobs that provide the experience they're looking for.
I suppose you could buy GM where the profits....err losses... are picked up by the taxpayers?
Probably because if you need an x86 chip, you're not going to use an ARM?
Well, your portable i7 probably has features like VT-d and turboboost whereas the desktop i3 probably doesn't. But in any case, Intel's product line is a total mess.
It's a classic?
Well, compared to some things, Windows is incredibly cheap. But it still doesn't beat free.
That's why this needs to be opposed. Robocalling costs the debt collectors almost nothing, so if they can robocall at will they'll just add any number to the list that might have anything to do with the debt they are trying to collect on. So expect that number of calls from debt collectors for people you don't know (or only know in passing) to go way up.
Find a planet between them that has just the right amount of atmosphere and it neither too hot or cold?
Venus is actually a fairly interesting prospect for colonization. You obviously don't go down to the surface with its lead-melting temperatures. However, about 50km from the surface you have temperatures a bit above freezing, the atmospheric pressure of roughly one atmosphere, and gravity that's very near Earth's. It's about the most earth-like place in the solar system that's not on Earth itself. The atmosphere is mostly CO2, which is a dense gas, so a balloon filled with breathable air would float. You have plenty of solar radiation during the day, the air contains nitrogen and trace amounts of water, and the magnetic field and dense atmosphere gives you some protection from the sun's radiation. On the downside though, the wind speed is hundreds of miles per hour, the days are really long, and if your balloon sinks you're pretty much a goner.
In Windows 8 you had open the start screen, move the mouse to bottom right (I think) to get the charms bar to come up, at which point you can pick Settings, and in the settings screen there was a power icon which you could then use to shut the computer down. Windows 8.1 added the power icon on the start screen, as well as the shutdown option in the right-click menu on the start button.
At least in Windows 8, there was basically no chance of an accidental shutdown. Can't really say the same for Windows Vista and 7.
Haven't you noticed that automotive model years tend to lead calender years? 2016 Audi's have been on sale for now for several months. Actually, at this point you might have trouble finding a new 2015 Audi for sale.
With C99, there is something kind of like that with the 'restrict' keyword. But it's only for pointers, and really just tells the compiler that the pointer won't be aliased.
5% is what they want you to think is "normal", since the great recession. That would not have been called normal 20 years ago. Nevermind that 5% in 2015 would be a lot larger if it was counted the same as it was in 1995.
In the US, it was the Japanese who started this whole trend in the early 80's. They didn't want to deal with custom-ordered cars, which would have to be built in Japan then slowboated over, so they came up with the idea of limiting selections to a few option packages. Eventually, the US manufacturers followed suit, mostly because they got scared of the Japanese and eventually realized that having millions of ways (literally) to order the same model of car was not efficient, especially since some of the options were either very rarely ordered, or were very rarely ordered without. While I miss the ability to order a car exactly how I would want it, I understand why they did it that way. Nowadays if you want to custom order a car like that, you pretty much have to go to a European manufacturer like BMW.
Well, 4 Hiroshimas a second comes out to about 7.9x10^21 Joules a year. About 1.2x10^22 Joules hit the Earth in a day. So about an extra 2/3 of a day of sunlight per year.
Now, for the Earth to maintain a steady temperature, the amount of heat radiated off in space must be equal to the energy coming in. If the amount of heat radiated off doesn't increase yet the heat going in increases, then the planet will heat up. An extra 2/3 of day doesn't seem like too much, if it that much every year, it's going to add up eventually.
I still want to know why the batteries seem to only last a year or two in the dual-power models. The damn things are connected to mains power, so the battery should really only serve as a backup if the power goes out. My power almost never goes out, yet in a year or two the stupid things have managed to drain the battery anyway.
I've looked into if there's a better model/brand I can get, but as far as I can the different brands all seem to sell the same few models, the only difference being minor differences in the plastic case.
It doesn't matter to the people who buy those kind of cars new, because they'll get rid of them before things start going seriously wrong, or when the warranty ends. That is, if they don't lease the car (most cars like that are not bought, they are leased). It's the second and third owners who buy those kind of cars used, enticed by the chance to get into a high end luxury car for regular car money, then get soaked keeping them on the road.
Presumably the car would drop me at the door and go find a spot to park by itself, which wouldn't even have to be close to the store. When I'm done shopping I'd use an app or something to summon the car back to where I am.
The problem is that with the front loading washers, they are still damp inside after running a load of laundry and if you close the front door (which is water-tight) then they get mold. This isn't as much of a problem with the old school top loaders, since people tended to leave the lid open, and even if they closed it, it wasn't a watertight seal so they could still dry out.
I do agree that the quality of our appliances are shit now. They all seem engineered to last about 7 years, and that's it.
Really? LCD TVs really haven't changed how people watch or use televisions. Considering how less and less people even watch television their significance is diminished even further. I'd say streaming technologies are more disruptive than the actual, physical TV sets. I'd say the most disruptive technologies now are smartphones and social media.
Actually, I've found most clueless users know about Printscreen. I can't count how many bug reports I've seen that include nearly useless screenshots, usually pasted into a Word or Powerpoint document. You could just tell me what the error message is, instead of sending me a screenshot of the entire screen. Or perhaps the data file that's giving you trouble... Or the sequence of steps to create the error... Or the log files...
One of the problems with Vista is that its prefetch (superfetch) algorithm was way too aggressive. So give it 6GB of ram, and it's going to sit there thrashing the the crap out of the disk preloading all your programs/data into all that memory. Even while you're trying to use the machine. One of the things they did in Windows 7 was dial it back.
I ran Vista on a P4 with 1.25GB of ram for several years, and it was surprisingly usable. My theory is that it was enough ram for the OS and a few programs but didn't really leave enough for superfetch to play around with. I also tried installing Vista on a P3 laptop with 512MB of ram. That... didn't work as well.
Around here the tap water comes out of aquifers. This isn't sustainable (though the problem isn't the residential water usage, it's the agricultural usage), but for the meantime the tap water is very good.
I can easily pick up the plastic taste from the bottled water. The tap water around here tastes much better.
Not difficult, you just won't be able to do it in one flight as you'll have to stop for fuel.