Well, if I'm going to be getting home in the heat of the day, it might be nice to turn on the A/C during the night before so it runs when it's cool out, instead of it trying to cool off a hot house in the heat of the day. Granted, I really don't actually need a networked thermostat for this if I know when I'm going to be back, but I've never seen a regular programmable thermostat that can be programmed to turn the A/C on at 1AM a week from next Tuesday, or something like that.
My current solution though is to just let the house be hot and turn the A/C on before I go to bed. Generally I don't mind it being warm unless I'm trying to sleep.
I don't get it either. A big house is just going to be a money sink, so I wouldn't buy one unless I really had the need for a big house. If I had a bunch of money and was interested in spending it on where I was going to live, I'd probably buy a large chunk of land and drop a modest house in the middle of it. That would also have the advantage of not having nearby neighbors too.
I dunno, if I had a bunch of money I might buy a car like that because it would be cool and also fun to tinker around with and I would have the time to do so.
Unfortunately, one doesn't have a choice when it comes to laptops. Though the high DPI 4K screens that have FINALLY arrived on the market finally convinced me to give up the 1600x1200 20" monitors and go with a widescreen. Still not crazy about the 16:9 but the 2160 vertical pixels is pretty awesome.
Actually, almost all digital cameras are sensitive to IR and if you take a picture of a powered IR LED it will show up as lit. How much depends on how sensitive the camera is - most consumer-type stuff tries to filter it out, but the filters generally don't filter out all of it. But there are some cameras that allow you to completely remove the filter, the most famous probably being the Sony Nightshot which did exactly that to be able to "see" at night. Film generally isn't that IR sensitive, but there are special IR films you can buy.
I have. They may like the movie, but they're fidgeting around or looking about. They may like the video game, but after about 15-20 minutes they want to do something else. But they like the game, they'll come back to it, but can't play it more than a few minutes. They are also some of the worst channel surfers I've known. Kind of like
Them: *changes channel and it's not an ad break* Me: Hey why'd you change the channel? Them: I wanted to see what else is on. Me: But that was Star Trek! I thought you liked Star Trek? Them: I do! Me: Then why'd you change the channel? Them: I wanted to see what else is on. Me:...
Notepad++ has also been around for a long time. These solo projects are pretty impressive, but also remember that the author has been working on their program for 15-20 years or more. Likewise, it would probably take someone else years to build a similar program by themselves.
Have you seen some of the newer trucks? They're basically luxury cars now with a bed sticking out the back. Leather, navigation, heated seats, electronic everything - you can pretty much get it all in a truck nowadays. The truck as a pure utility vehicle with vinyl seats, manual transmission, crank windows, and a rubber floor died out sometime in the 90's.
I'm kind of in the same boat with the automatic climate control. I got it on my car, which is a '99 Infiniti. It's something that I didn't really want, but figured I could put up with. However, I've found that it's nice in the sense that I can just set the temperature and it figures out the best way to make it happen. I've probably gone months without touching the climate control system on my car. My only real complaint is that while it's supposed to turn on the defogger automatically if it thinks it's needed, it's not particularly good at it which means I often have to do it myself, which is a single button press. However, since it's an older car, the automatic climate control system has its own dedicated, single purpose buttons and VFD so overriding it is quick and easy. Using similar systems on newer cars where everything is touch or accessed through menus is a pain in the ass.
Car manufacturers sell cars to people who buy new cars. Most people who buy new cars only keep them 3-4 years before they trade them in for the latest shiny new features, so they don't care about how the "infotainment" system is going to work in the long term. The people who buy used cars may care, but since these people don't buy used cars and not new cars the manufacturers really don't give a shit about them. The people who buy a new car and hang onto it for 15 years do exist, but they are a minority of the new car buyers.
I wouldn't sweat it too much at this point anyway. You've got almost 5 years of support left on Windows 7, and if you're willing to put up with Windows 8.1 you'll be supported until 2023. Though I'm not sure for how much longer you'll be able to easily get a Windows 8.1 license.
You're not going to find 1920x1080 on a 19" monitor. They are usually either 1280x1024 (5:4) or 1440x900 (16:10), or 1366x768 (16:9). 19" was always kind of a crappy size as LCD panels go, because all the popular 19" resolutions are the same as the popular 17" resolutions, so there was really little reason to buy a 19" monitor over a 17", since it's just the same resolution but less pixel density.
Most likely you could get Windows 95 to talk to a modern hard drive. You wouldn't have SATA drivers, but Windows 95 could fall back on talking to the drive through the BIOS, MS-DOS style. It might be slow, but it would work. Now try to get Windows NT to talk to a SATA drive.
What's not sustainable about it? The people who are replaced by robots get new, more productive jobs. That's what's been going on for the last 500 years.
Eventually, we'll reach a point where society can be run by a handful of people, who are so ultra-productive that they can grow all our food, build our houses, dispose of our waste, etc. thanks to technology and automation. This wouldn't be bad necessarily, but what about all the people not working? The way society is set up now, no job means no income, and no means to buy food, shelter, health care, etc. The current system just isn't going to work in the long term. We either have to set up some kind of basic income, or create a massive "make work" system so that everyone has a job just so they can get a paycheck.
Has anyone ever gotten that to actually work? I really tried, but I never managed to get Windows 95 recognize USB anything. Even Windows 98's support for USB was kind of spotty. Window ME really was the first version of Windows that had USB support like we know it today right out of the box.
It will probably boot up just fine if you go into the bios and configure everything before attempting to boot Windows, which is what I have to do with a 486 that has a long since lost its oddball battery (I had it rigged up by soldering a battery holder with 2 AA's to the leads, but for some reason it would drain a couple of AA's in about a week, so I gave up). Without a battery, the settings won't persist when you turn it off.
The registry was definitely a weak point in Windows 95. My experience was that no matter how careful you were, eventually the registry would get corrupted bad enough where your only option was a reinstall. So yes, I've reinstalled Windows 95 a few times, most of which were unplanned reinstalls.
In terms of uptime, I remember I would usually get about 2 weeks out of it which wasn't too bad as Windows went. I even managed to see a Windows 95 machine get up to the 49.7 day limit once.
I think people tend to forget how little memory systems had back then, probably because the systems later got upgraded to more memory. I remember a 486 we had in 1994 originally came with 4MB. A couple of Pentium 75 systems from 1995 originally came with 8MB each. Upgrading one of them to 16MB shortly after cost about $200 if I remember right. Still have one of the P75's, I eventually got it up to 128MB and 120Mhz from salvaging larger SIMMs and a Pentium 120 chip out of other computers that were being scrapped. Would have been one hell of a computer that would have (theoretically) been possible to build in 1995, though it sits in a closet as I don't have any real use for it.
MS-DOS and the DOS-based versions of Windows (95, 98, ME) had no idea on how to handle a multi-CPU (or multi-core) machine. They'd still run, but they would only use one of the cores. I'm not surprised that DOS 6.22 will peg a core at 100% in a VM, but it shouldn't be touching the other cores.
Flash was originally created as an artist's animation tool. It was never intended to be the web's de facto executable scripting language. That's why it has so many security holes - because it was being used in ways it was never originally intended. Now that HTML5 adds many features which previously could only be accomplished via flash, and more importantly are designed from the get-go for web use, it is natural that flash is being phased out. Jobs had nothing to do with it, and certainly his decision a decade ago when HTML5 wasn't around still makes no sense (until you recognize the financial reason).
It's kind of funny that you bring up the animation tool aspect, because none of the Flash replacements I've seen so far actually do the things that Flash originally did, which was vector graphics.
They're talking about the 747-400 which is the most common variant, of which the oldest are getting near their end of life. Since they don't make 747-400's anymore, that means they will be slowly phased out until no more are left. But with the newest ones only about 10 years old, it will be a while before the 747-400 is no longer flying. 747-8's are still in production and will around for some time to come.
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Well, if I'm going to be getting home in the heat of the day, it might be nice to turn on the A/C during the night before so it runs when it's cool out, instead of it trying to cool off a hot house in the heat of the day. Granted, I really don't actually need a networked thermostat for this if I know when I'm going to be back, but I've never seen a regular programmable thermostat that can be programmed to turn the A/C on at 1AM a week from next Tuesday, or something like that.
My current solution though is to just let the house be hot and turn the A/C on before I go to bed. Generally I don't mind it being warm unless I'm trying to sleep.
I don't get it either. A big house is just going to be a money sink, so I wouldn't buy one unless I really had the need for a big house. If I had a bunch of money and was interested in spending it on where I was going to live, I'd probably buy a large chunk of land and drop a modest house in the middle of it. That would also have the advantage of not having nearby neighbors too.
I dunno, if I had a bunch of money I might buy a car like that because it would be cool and also fun to tinker around with and I would have the time to do so.
Unfortunately, one doesn't have a choice when it comes to laptops. Though the high DPI 4K screens that have FINALLY arrived on the market finally convinced me to give up the 1600x1200 20" monitors and go with a widescreen. Still not crazy about the 16:9 but the 2160 vertical pixels is pretty awesome.
Actually, almost all digital cameras are sensitive to IR and if you take a picture of a powered IR LED it will show up as lit. How much depends on how sensitive the camera is - most consumer-type stuff tries to filter it out, but the filters generally don't filter out all of it. But there are some cameras that allow you to completely remove the filter, the most famous probably being the Sony Nightshot which did exactly that to be able to "see" at night. Film generally isn't that IR sensitive, but there are special IR films you can buy.
I have. They may like the movie, but they're fidgeting around or looking about. They may like the video game, but after about 15-20 minutes they want to do something else. But they like the game, they'll come back to it, but can't play it more than a few minutes. They are also some of the worst channel surfers I've known. Kind of like
Them: *changes channel and it's not an ad break* ...
Me: Hey why'd you change the channel?
Them: I wanted to see what else is on.
Me: But that was Star Trek! I thought you liked Star Trek?
Them: I do!
Me: Then why'd you change the channel?
Them: I wanted to see what else is on.
Me:
While I think her condition is bullshit, please go inform yourself about the differences between:
Electric fields
Magnetic fields
Electromagnetic radiation
You may also want to study the different types of electromagnetic radiation, as some are pretty harmless and others are not.
Notepad++ has also been around for a long time. These solo projects are pretty impressive, but also remember that the author has been working on their program for 15-20 years or more. Likewise, it would probably take someone else years to build a similar program by themselves.
Have you seen some of the newer trucks? They're basically luxury cars now with a bed sticking out the back. Leather, navigation, heated seats, electronic everything - you can pretty much get it all in a truck nowadays. The truck as a pure utility vehicle with vinyl seats, manual transmission, crank windows, and a rubber floor died out sometime in the 90's.
Unless I'm mistaken, most new cars still use hydraulics for power steering and brakes. I'll take cruise control. Power locks are nice too.
I'm kind of in the same boat with the automatic climate control. I got it on my car, which is a '99 Infiniti. It's something that I didn't really want, but figured I could put up with. However, I've found that it's nice in the sense that I can just set the temperature and it figures out the best way to make it happen. I've probably gone months without touching the climate control system on my car. My only real complaint is that while it's supposed to turn on the defogger automatically if it thinks it's needed, it's not particularly good at it which means I often have to do it myself, which is a single button press. However, since it's an older car, the automatic climate control system has its own dedicated, single purpose buttons and VFD so overriding it is quick and easy. Using similar systems on newer cars where everything is touch or accessed through menus is a pain in the ass.
Car manufacturers sell cars to people who buy new cars. Most people who buy new cars only keep them 3-4 years before they trade them in for the latest shiny new features, so they don't care about how the "infotainment" system is going to work in the long term. The people who buy used cars may care, but since these people don't buy used cars and not new cars the manufacturers really don't give a shit about them. The people who buy a new car and hang onto it for 15 years do exist, but they are a minority of the new car buyers.
I wouldn't sweat it too much at this point anyway. You've got almost 5 years of support left on Windows 7, and if you're willing to put up with Windows 8.1 you'll be supported until 2023. Though I'm not sure for how much longer you'll be able to easily get a Windows 8.1 license.
I don't know if they've improved it, but the search in Windows 7 is so broken that I'll usually just use dir /s at the command prompt to find files.
You're not going to find 1920x1080 on a 19" monitor. They are usually either 1280x1024 (5:4) or 1440x900 (16:10), or 1366x768 (16:9). 19" was always kind of a crappy size as LCD panels go, because all the popular 19" resolutions are the same as the popular 17" resolutions, so there was really little reason to buy a 19" monitor over a 17", since it's just the same resolution but less pixel density.
Most likely you could get Windows 95 to talk to a modern hard drive. You wouldn't have SATA drivers, but Windows 95 could fall back on talking to the drive through the BIOS, MS-DOS style. It might be slow, but it would work. Now try to get Windows NT to talk to a SATA drive.
Eventually, we'll reach a point where society can be run by a handful of people, who are so ultra-productive that they can grow all our food, build our houses, dispose of our waste, etc. thanks to technology and automation. This wouldn't be bad necessarily, but what about all the people not working? The way society is set up now, no job means no income, and no means to buy food, shelter, health care, etc. The current system just isn't going to work in the long term. We either have to set up some kind of basic income, or create a massive "make work" system so that everyone has a job just so they can get a paycheck.
That's completely ridiculous, but if we were to accept that argument as true, then she's clearly too fucking stupid to be the President.
Has anyone ever gotten that to actually work? I really tried, but I never managed to get Windows 95 recognize USB anything. Even Windows 98's support for USB was kind of spotty. Window ME really was the first version of Windows that had USB support like we know it today right out of the box.
It will probably boot up just fine if you go into the bios and configure everything before attempting to boot Windows, which is what I have to do with a 486 that has a long since lost its oddball battery (I had it rigged up by soldering a battery holder with 2 AA's to the leads, but for some reason it would drain a couple of AA's in about a week, so I gave up). Without a battery, the settings won't persist when you turn it off.
The registry was definitely a weak point in Windows 95. My experience was that no matter how careful you were, eventually the registry would get corrupted bad enough where your only option was a reinstall. So yes, I've reinstalled Windows 95 a few times, most of which were unplanned reinstalls.
In terms of uptime, I remember I would usually get about 2 weeks out of it which wasn't too bad as Windows went. I even managed to see a Windows 95 machine get up to the 49.7 day limit once.
I think people tend to forget how little memory systems had back then, probably because the systems later got upgraded to more memory. I remember a 486 we had in 1994 originally came with 4MB. A couple of Pentium 75 systems from 1995 originally came with 8MB each. Upgrading one of them to 16MB shortly after cost about $200 if I remember right. Still have one of the P75's, I eventually got it up to 128MB and 120Mhz from salvaging larger SIMMs and a Pentium 120 chip out of other computers that were being scrapped. Would have been one hell of a computer that would have (theoretically) been possible to build in 1995, though it sits in a closet as I don't have any real use for it.
MS-DOS and the DOS-based versions of Windows (95, 98, ME) had no idea on how to handle a multi-CPU (or multi-core) machine. They'd still run, but they would only use one of the cores. I'm not surprised that DOS 6.22 will peg a core at 100% in a VM, but it shouldn't be touching the other cores.
It's kind of funny that you bring up the animation tool aspect, because none of the Flash replacements I've seen so far actually do the things that Flash originally did, which was vector graphics.
They're talking about the 747-400 which is the most common variant, of which the oldest are getting near their end of life. Since they don't make 747-400's anymore, that means they will be slowly phased out until no more are left. But with the newest ones only about 10 years old, it will be a while before the 747-400 is no longer flying. 747-8's are still in production and will around for some time to come.