For my work load, a first generation i5-680 (3.6Ghz, dual core, fastest clocked processor from the first generation) is about 10% slower than a fourth generation i5-4430 (3.0 Ghz, quad core, slowest clocked "normal" i5 from the current generation that's not a low power or mobile variant). Note that this workload is extremely single threaded, so if you're doing something that's multi-threaded the two extra cores in the Haswell i5 will make a huge difference. But this does suggest that cores in a Haswell are about 30% or so faster than the original "Clarkdale" processors on a per-clock basis.
What do you mean? They just started this a year or two ago.
The last two digits used to be the engine displacement in liters, and the letters meant something too (i.e. 535i was a 5-series, 3.5L engine, fuel injected) but that hasn't been true for a long time.
Those people who swore by XP for the most part switched over to "Classic" mode and never went back. I actually haven't seen Luna in a while - the sticks in the mud who still won't move off of XP are all using "Classic" mode.
For those who haven't used Windows 8 or later, Windows 7 is the last version that where you can revert back to the Windows 2000 look. As far as I can tell you can't actually customize much in the later versions of Windows except the titlebar color.
There's still some Windows 2000 machines kicking about around here. It's amazing how fast those computers seem, just because of how responsive the Windows UI is. This is despite them running on Windows 2000-era hardware.
In my opinion, that would actually be Vista. Vista
It's basically the same look as Windows 7 except the colors are more subdued and aren't as garish. I also like the "classic" theme in Windows XP. The default "Luna" theme in XP still has to be the ugliest thing out of Redmond.
That was brand engineering. Take the same car, swap some unimportant trim pieces and slap a new front/rear end on it, and you've got a whole different car! That's how you end up with GM with a half-dozen different brands all try to sell variations of the same car.
In terms of updating models, the trend now is that the refresh cycles are getting longer and longer. In the 50's and 60's, styling was huge and they'd basically redesign the entire car every year. In the 70's and 80's they may leave the car mostly the same but change something like the grill and taillight lenses every year. Nowadays they'll sell the same car for 4-5 years with no real changes between the model years.
I've seen this kind of thing happen. It seems that after a few days or a week or so, something breaks with Windows Explorer and it won't update automatically unless you manually refresh (push F5, whatever). This will persist until you reboot the computer. I've seen this behavior on every Windows 7 (and Vista) system I've used that stays up long enough. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but my guess is that it has something to do with Windows' broken-ass thumbnail generator which has all kinds of problems unless it's a small directory that only contains image files.
It's a bit of a shame since Comodo Dragon was my favorite Chrome-but-not-actually-Chrome browser. However this and them dragging their feet on updates means I'll be switching to something else.
I just figured that the train was actually nuclear powered, and the whole perpetual motion machine and eternal engine bit was just talk from the characters. Though really, the movie didn't really spend much time on how the train worked or why there was an ice age other than to say the train housed the last of humanity because everyone else froze to death. Instead, it just went straight into the gratuitous violence and social commentary bit.
Why replace it if works for what I need it for? My laptop is 8 years old, but really I only use a laptop for when I need something I can take with me, otherwise I use my desktop for everything else. Though the desktop itself is three years old, though being easily upgraded, not all the components date back that far (and a few are older than that too, but 3 years ago was the new CPU/mobo/RAM combo).
They certainly wouldn't be able to build one, but they would at least understand what it does, what it is used for, and the basic principles of how it worked. They would even understand what the turbopumps are doing and why they are needed even if the turbopumps themselves are so advanced to them to be almost magical.
If you want to have fun, try explaining Farmville to them.
From what I remember, the show mostly dodged the question. Distances were mostly referred to by travel time, rather than how far apart they were physically, and since they never really talked about how fast Serenity flew it wasn't clear how far they had actually traveled to get to various locations, though it was clear that this was all taking place outside of The Solar System. They did mention how the Reavers had traveled to the "edge of the galaxy" though they may not have been speaking literally.
That wouldn't likely turn into an invasion though. An invasion would be them coming and taking over Earth for whatever reason. If they only wanted us gone, they could easily bombard us from afar. They could accomplish that by putting some large asteroid from the Oort cloud on a collision course with Earth. Which brings up the "How would we know?" question, because all we would see is the rather large rock coming our way, to which we'd most likely assume was due to really back luck and not that aliens did it.
My experience with Bosch is that they're not any better than anyone else. So if you want an appliance that'll only last 5-10 years, you can go with something a lot cheaper than a Bosch.
Why on earth would they need a fan to cool to the controls? They're not doing anything terribly complicated, it's not like you need a Pentium 4 to control an oven.
Around here, typical new construction makes sure there is a decent sized gap between the roof and the ceiling under it. Dump a bunch of insulation on the ceiling, and then put plenty of vents in the attic. The idea is that keep heat from escaping into attic as much as possible, but make sure that any heat that makes it up there doesn't linger (same with humidity). I've never seen plywood on the bottom side of the rafters.
Ice dams are still possible and can happen. For example, snow melts in the sun, and the water runs down to a shaded part. One thing no one pays any attention to anymore when building is how the house is oriented with regards to the sun, prevailing winds, etc.
Well, they did have a role, though not a job that couldn't be accomplished other ways. The last few decades until they were retired they were basically giant floating artillery platforms that once an area was relatively safe, could pound targets on shore in relative impunity. Of course, nowadays they'd just accomplish the same thing using either missiles or bombs dropped from airplanes.
Well, there's the whole backwards compatible thing. Bluray players can read DVDs, and also VCDs and plain old audio CDs. If optical media is still a thing 50-100 years from now (that is the part that's a bit iffy) I bet they'll look a lot like DVDs and while there may not be "DVD" players, the optical media players available will still read DVDs.
Well, Apple is almost to the point where their current major version "X" has been around the same amount of time as major versions 1-9 combined. Unless they go to version 11 (XI?) they'll be there within 2 years.
Or you can run the 32-bit version of Windows, which still has the 16-bit layer present. It does seem silly to run 32-bit Windows to run Civ2, but there are other cases where it's the right solution. There will be a 32-bit version of Windows 10 for this reason, and it wouldn't surprise me if Windows 11 also has a 32-bit version.
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For my work load, a first generation i5-680 (3.6Ghz, dual core, fastest clocked processor from the first generation) is about 10% slower than a fourth generation i5-4430 (3.0 Ghz, quad core, slowest clocked "normal" i5 from the current generation that's not a low power or mobile variant). Note that this workload is extremely single threaded, so if you're doing something that's multi-threaded the two extra cores in the Haswell i5 will make a huge difference. But this does suggest that cores in a Haswell are about 30% or so faster than the original "Clarkdale" processors on a per-clock basis.
What do you mean? They just started this a year or two ago.
The last two digits used to be the engine displacement in liters, and the letters meant something too (i.e. 535i was a 5-series, 3.5L engine, fuel injected) but that hasn't been true for a long time.
Those people who swore by XP for the most part switched over to "Classic" mode and never went back. I actually haven't seen Luna in a while - the sticks in the mud who still won't move off of XP are all using "Classic" mode.
For those who haven't used Windows 8 or later, Windows 7 is the last version that where you can revert back to the Windows 2000 look. As far as I can tell you can't actually customize much in the later versions of Windows except the titlebar color.
There's still some Windows 2000 machines kicking about around here. It's amazing how fast those computers seem, just because of how responsive the Windows UI is. This is despite them running on Windows 2000-era hardware.
In my opinion, that would actually be Vista.
Vista
It's basically the same look as Windows 7 except the colors are more subdued and aren't as garish. I also like the "classic" theme in Windows XP. The default "Luna" theme in XP still has to be the ugliest thing out of Redmond.
That was brand engineering. Take the same car, swap some unimportant trim pieces and slap a new front/rear end on it, and you've got a whole different car! That's how you end up with GM with a half-dozen different brands all try to sell variations of the same car.
In terms of updating models, the trend now is that the refresh cycles are getting longer and longer. In the 50's and 60's, styling was huge and they'd basically redesign the entire car every year. In the 70's and 80's they may leave the car mostly the same but change something like the grill and taillight lenses every year. Nowadays they'll sell the same car for 4-5 years with no real changes between the model years.
Of course it is. That's why they had to skip over Windows 9.
I've seen this kind of thing happen. It seems that after a few days or a week or so, something breaks with Windows Explorer and it won't update automatically unless you manually refresh (push F5, whatever). This will persist until you reboot the computer. I've seen this behavior on every Windows 7 (and Vista) system I've used that stays up long enough. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but my guess is that it has something to do with Windows' broken-ass thumbnail generator which has all kinds of problems unless it's a small directory that only contains image files.
Yeah, you can just buy the cheap Chinese knock-off honey, that if you're lucky, is just flavored corn syrup.
It's a bit of a shame since Comodo Dragon was my favorite Chrome-but-not-actually-Chrome browser. However this and them dragging their feet on updates means I'll be switching to something else.
I just figured that the train was actually nuclear powered, and the whole perpetual motion machine and eternal engine bit was just talk from the characters. Though really, the movie didn't really spend much time on how the train worked or why there was an ice age other than to say the train housed the last of humanity because everyone else froze to death. Instead, it just went straight into the gratuitous violence and social commentary bit.
Well, in a few years, my car will be 20 years old. Patent-free motoring!
Why replace it if works for what I need it for? My laptop is 8 years old, but really I only use a laptop for when I need something I can take with me, otherwise I use my desktop for everything else. Though the desktop itself is three years old, though being easily upgraded, not all the components date back that far (and a few are older than that too, but 3 years ago was the new CPU/mobo/RAM combo).
They certainly wouldn't be able to build one, but they would at least understand what it does, what it is used for, and the basic principles of how it worked. They would even understand what the turbopumps are doing and why they are needed even if the turbopumps themselves are so advanced to them to be almost magical.
If you want to have fun, try explaining Farmville to them.
From what I remember, the show mostly dodged the question. Distances were mostly referred to by travel time, rather than how far apart they were physically, and since they never really talked about how fast Serenity flew it wasn't clear how far they had actually traveled to get to various locations, though it was clear that this was all taking place outside of The Solar System. They did mention how the Reavers had traveled to the "edge of the galaxy" though they may not have been speaking literally.
That wouldn't likely turn into an invasion though. An invasion would be them coming and taking over Earth for whatever reason. If they only wanted us gone, they could easily bombard us from afar. They could accomplish that by putting some large asteroid from the Oort cloud on a collision course with Earth. Which brings up the "How would we know?" question, because all we would see is the rather large rock coming our way, to which we'd most likely assume was due to really back luck and not that aliens did it.
My experience with Bosch is that they're not any better than anyone else. So if you want an appliance that'll only last 5-10 years, you can go with something a lot cheaper than a Bosch.
Why on earth would they need a fan to cool to the controls? They're not doing anything terribly complicated, it's not like you need a Pentium 4 to control an oven.
Around here, typical new construction makes sure there is a decent sized gap between the roof and the ceiling under it. Dump a bunch of insulation on the ceiling, and then put plenty of vents in the attic. The idea is that keep heat from escaping into attic as much as possible, but make sure that any heat that makes it up there doesn't linger (same with humidity). I've never seen plywood on the bottom side of the rafters.
Ice dams are still possible and can happen. For example, snow melts in the sun, and the water runs down to a shaded part. One thing no one pays any attention to anymore when building is how the house is oriented with regards to the sun, prevailing winds, etc.
Well, they did have a role, though not a job that couldn't be accomplished other ways. The last few decades until they were retired they were basically giant floating artillery platforms that once an area was relatively safe, could pound targets on shore in relative impunity. Of course, nowadays they'd just accomplish the same thing using either missiles or bombs dropped from airplanes.
Well, there's the whole backwards compatible thing. Bluray players can read DVDs, and also VCDs and plain old audio CDs. If optical media is still a thing 50-100 years from now (that is the part that's a bit iffy) I bet they'll look a lot like DVDs and while there may not be "DVD" players, the optical media players available will still read DVDs.
You're already paying the service station for the battery swap. They'll probably just tack a few on top of that.
Well, Apple is almost to the point where their current major version "X" has been around the same amount of time as major versions 1-9 combined. Unless they go to version 11 (XI?) they'll be there within 2 years.
Or you can run the 32-bit version of Windows, which still has the 16-bit layer present. It does seem silly to run 32-bit Windows to run Civ2, but there are other cases where it's the right solution. There will be a 32-bit version of Windows 10 for this reason, and it wouldn't surprise me if Windows 11 also has a 32-bit version.
I predicted The Sun's failure when they recently stopped printing pictures of topless women. However, after a sudden bout of common sense, they started printing topless girls again on Page 3.
Wait, what were we talking about again?