Windows is constantly paging ram contents out the disk. That way, if something suddenly has a need for a large amount of memory, Windows can let it have it instantly because the contents have already been paged out. Linux doesn't do this so if something needs a lot of ram you have to wait while the kernel swaps something out to disk first. This is usually a good thing if you are trying to run Windows on a system without a lot of ram, but the thing is Windows keeps on doing it even if there is gobs of ram available. And if you think Windows 7 is bad about it, Vista was a lot more aggressive when it came to this.
Well, later on you get the cut-down version, where the 3TB is (for example) a 2-platter 4TB drive where one side of one of the platters is not used for whatever reason.
With that said, I have four of the Seagate 1.5TB drives that seemingly have earned quite a reputation. but mine thus far have been flawless.
That's not my experience. I've always wondered why Asus has been held in such high regard when I've found their stuff be to be pretty much crap, dating back to at least the Socket A days. Not just motherboards too, as their video cards are just as flaky and die just as quickly, and don't buy their laptops either unless you need a paperweight. Heck, I'd buy ECS before buying Asus. The quality may not be any better but I'd at least save myself some money.
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Literally, by the time you get to the workplace the language does not matter.
We may know that, but try convincing the hiring manager of that. If the job is programming in language X, and you don't have Y years of experience in language X, your resume goes straight into the circular file.
Myth. There are no TVs for sale with a 1080p screen smaller than 22". The 1080p screens found in laptops are pretty much only used in laptops. Since those screens are pretty much being built for laptops only, there's no reason they couldn't be some other resolution.
Going up the line from the TI-81 to the TI-84+ every new model can do everything the previous one could, plus more. On the other hand, the TI-84+ can't do things the old TI-85 can, even though the TI-85 was the second graphing calculator the TI made (the TI-81 being the first).
A lot of those big LCDs use a surprising amount of power. The savings might be less than you think. And if he opted for a plasma the power usage would go up considerably.
Besides, another factor is how much the TV is used. I have a tube TV but I use it so little the payback would be decades, easily. Though with 1300+ movies on Laserdisc and VHS alone, I would guess the TV sees quite a bit of use.
A Core 2 Duo is is a ton faster than en shitty P4 3.8 GHz though. You'll have trouble playing HD video with a P4.
That'll depend a lot on what generation of P4 you're running. If you have a late LGA775 P4 in a motherboard with a PCI Express slot you can slap in a decent graphics card and you'll have no problems playing HD video. If it's an older socket 478 P4 you'll have an AGP slot and your options are a lot more limited.
I'm just hoping that there is a way to disable that obnoxious "Install Flash" bar that comes up every time you visit a site with Flash and you don't have Flash installed. It's like Google can't imagine that someone would not want to install Flash (ditto for builds of Chromium running on OSes that don't even have Flash).
If they now think that transparency is a bad idea, then why didn't they catch this in trials before launching Windows Vista?
I wouldn't say transparency is bad, it's just a fad that's has run its course. Though if you ask me, Microsoft is pushing Metro as the future and is purposely trying to make desktop mode look dated on purpose.
The next big push may be high resolution. Things get different when you have to start pushing beyond 2M pixels (which modern desktops can do without a sweat). Try playing a modern game on a 4K monitor, for example. Now, if we could only get the monitor manufacturers to start cranking out some really high resolution desktop displays. You would think they would, but they still seem to be stuck in a 100DPI world. The few 4K screens out there are a nice start, but the resolution/DPI king is still the IBM T221 which has been out of production for nearly a decade now...
I take that you don't have Java or Flash installed on any of your Windows computers? Because from what I've seen, you can be a smart and savvy user, but if those plugins are installed, especially Java, you will get owned at some point.
I've played around with surround myself, and eventually came to the conclusion that for any reasonable budget, you're better off with a stereo system. As in, if you're going to spend $400 on speakers, you're much better off with two $200 speakers than with eight $50 speakers needed to do 7.1. Having two speakers also makes the setup a lot easier too, and unless you're going to set up a surround set up correctly you might as well not bother. Most home surround set ups that I have are set up incorrectly, which is pretty understandable given that most people can't dedicate a room to a home theater.
Actually, I would say that the MHz lost it's usefulness in the x86 world long before the P4 came out. More like the (original) Pentium-era, when Cyrix and AMD starting selling chips with the "PR" rating. Of course, the PR thing was even more meaningless, as a 150MHz Cyrix chip may perform like a Pentium 200 when it came to integer performance (hench "PR200+"), but was more like a Pentium 90 when it came to FPU performance.
Except it's not an investment. It's a place to live. Having to pay capital gains on your home is insane, especially if you've lived there for 22 years.
Well, the other way of doing it other than increasing the size of the Dyson sphere would be to build it around a smaller star that emits less radiation. It may not be a bad idea if you're in it for the long haul, as the smallest stars will burn for a thousand times longer than a star like ours, meaning you get the best return on your investment of building the Dyson sphere in the first place. Of course, you then have the problem that less radiation is hitting the surface of the inside of the sphere. That can be solved by, of course, building it smaller which means it will take less material (another plus), but then you're back to emitting infrared again.
Well, don't be surprised when your employees get up and leave whenever they hit 40 hours that week, because hey, they've put in their time, right? However, if you expect them to work extra hours to complete some task, don't get your panties all in a bunch when they figure out how to make themselves more productive so they can sneak in some time on slashdot.
Actually, as of 2013 there were still 11 of the RBMK reactors operational, the same type that failed so spectacularly in Chernobyl. Heck, even the Chernobyl facility continued to produce electricity in the undamaged part of the plant until 2000, which a lot of people don't seem to know. I don't have a problem with nuclear power, but really, the remaining RBMK reactors need to be decommissioned pronto.
If they're smart, they'll automatically disengage the adaptive cruise control if the car has to slow down enough. Though I wouldn't count on it. Though if I was to do it, I'd probably rig up a trailer that I could hop into and easily detach.
As long as the computer is functional it would seem that the quickest and easiest way would be wipe the drive. Hook up the computer quick, throw in the DBAN cd, let it crunch for a while, then you can throw the whole box into the recycle pile. With physical destruction you've got to have someone take the computer apart and remove the drive, then actually punch the holes in it (or whatever). Granted, getting the drive out can be easy with some cases, but others it can be a huge pain in the ass. Then you also have the problem that once the drive is separated from the rest of the computer it's a lot easier for it wander off too...
Well, you could donate the drives to the various charities that refurbish computers. They're always short on drives because they get so many computers donated to them that have had the drive pulled. They'd be really appreciative if someone showed up with a box full of drives. Size doesn't even matter so much as they are at least 80 GB or so.
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Windows is constantly paging ram contents out the disk. That way, if something suddenly has a need for a large amount of memory, Windows can let it have it instantly because the contents have already been paged out. Linux doesn't do this so if something needs a lot of ram you have to wait while the kernel swaps something out to disk first. This is usually a good thing if you are trying to run Windows on a system without a lot of ram, but the thing is Windows keeps on doing it even if there is gobs of ram available. And if you think Windows 7 is bad about it, Vista was a lot more aggressive when it came to this.
Well, later on you get the cut-down version, where the 3TB is (for example) a 2-platter 4TB drive where one side of one of the platters is not used for whatever reason.
With that said, I have four of the Seagate 1.5TB drives that seemingly have earned quite a reputation. but mine thus far have been flawless.
That's not my experience. I've always wondered why Asus has been held in such high regard when I've found their stuff be to be pretty much crap, dating back to at least the Socket A days. Not just motherboards too, as their video cards are just as flaky and die just as quickly, and don't buy their laptops either unless you need a paperweight. Heck, I'd buy ECS before buying Asus. The quality may not be any better but I'd at least save myself some money.
We may know that, but try convincing the hiring manager of that. If the job is programming in language X, and you don't have Y years of experience in language X, your resume goes straight into the circular file.
VGA forever!
They exist as medical-grade monitors, and cost as much as a decent used car.
Myth. There are no TVs for sale with a 1080p screen smaller than 22". The 1080p screens found in laptops are pretty much only used in laptops. Since those screens are pretty much being built for laptops only, there's no reason they couldn't be some other resolution.
Going up the line from the TI-81 to the TI-84+ every new model can do everything the previous one could, plus more. On the other hand, the TI-84+ can't do things the old TI-85 can, even though the TI-85 was the second graphing calculator the TI made (the TI-81 being the first).
A lot of those big LCDs use a surprising amount of power. The savings might be less than you think. And if he opted for a plasma the power usage would go up considerably.
Besides, another factor is how much the TV is used. I have a tube TV but I use it so little the payback would be decades, easily. Though with 1300+ movies on Laserdisc and VHS alone, I would guess the TV sees quite a bit of use.
That'll depend a lot on what generation of P4 you're running. If you have a late LGA775 P4 in a motherboard with a PCI Express slot you can slap in a decent graphics card and you'll have no problems playing HD video. If it's an older socket 478 P4 you'll have an AGP slot and your options are a lot more limited.
I'm just hoping that there is a way to disable that obnoxious "Install Flash" bar that comes up every time you visit a site with Flash and you don't have Flash installed. It's like Google can't imagine that someone would not want to install Flash (ditto for builds of Chromium running on OSes that don't even have Flash).
Bullshit.
I wouldn't say transparency is bad, it's just a fad that's has run its course. Though if you ask me, Microsoft is pushing Metro as the future and is purposely trying to make desktop mode look dated on purpose.
The next big push may be high resolution. Things get different when you have to start pushing beyond 2M pixels (which modern desktops can do without a sweat). Try playing a modern game on a 4K monitor, for example. Now, if we could only get the monitor manufacturers to start cranking out some really high resolution desktop displays. You would think they would, but they still seem to be stuck in a 100DPI world. The few 4K screens out there are a nice start, but the resolution/DPI king is still the IBM T221 which has been out of production for nearly a decade now...
I take that you don't have Java or Flash installed on any of your Windows computers? Because from what I've seen, you can be a smart and savvy user, but if those plugins are installed, especially Java, you will get owned at some point.
I've played around with surround myself, and eventually came to the conclusion that for any reasonable budget, you're better off with a stereo system. As in, if you're going to spend $400 on speakers, you're much better off with two $200 speakers than with eight $50 speakers needed to do 7.1. Having two speakers also makes the setup a lot easier too, and unless you're going to set up a surround set up correctly you might as well not bother. Most home surround set ups that I have are set up incorrectly, which is pretty understandable given that most people can't dedicate a room to a home theater.
Actually, I would say that the MHz lost it's usefulness in the x86 world long before the P4 came out. More like the (original) Pentium-era, when Cyrix and AMD starting selling chips with the "PR" rating. Of course, the PR thing was even more meaningless, as a 150MHz Cyrix chip may perform like a Pentium 200 when it came to integer performance (hench "PR200+"), but was more like a Pentium 90 when it came to FPU performance.
Except it's not an investment. It's a place to live. Having to pay capital gains on your home is insane, especially if you've lived there for 22 years.
Well, the other way of doing it other than increasing the size of the Dyson sphere would be to build it around a smaller star that emits less radiation. It may not be a bad idea if you're in it for the long haul, as the smallest stars will burn for a thousand times longer than a star like ours, meaning you get the best return on your investment of building the Dyson sphere in the first place. Of course, you then have the problem that less radiation is hitting the surface of the inside of the sphere. That can be solved by, of course, building it smaller which means it will take less material (another plus), but then you're back to emitting infrared again.
It's not. That's why you have to be...uhh....prepared
Well, don't be surprised when your employees get up and leave whenever they hit 40 hours that week, because hey, they've put in their time, right? However, if you expect them to work extra hours to complete some task, don't get your panties all in a bunch when they figure out how to make themselves more productive so they can sneak in some time on slashdot.
Actually, as of 2013 there were still 11 of the RBMK reactors operational, the same type that failed so spectacularly in Chernobyl. Heck, even the Chernobyl facility continued to produce electricity in the undamaged part of the plant until 2000, which a lot of people don't seem to know. I don't have a problem with nuclear power, but really, the remaining RBMK reactors need to be decommissioned pronto.
If they're smart, they'll automatically disengage the adaptive cruise control if the car has to slow down enough. Though I wouldn't count on it. Though if I was to do it, I'd probably rig up a trailer that I could hop into and easily detach.
As long as the computer is functional it would seem that the quickest and easiest way would be wipe the drive. Hook up the computer quick, throw in the DBAN cd, let it crunch for a while, then you can throw the whole box into the recycle pile. With physical destruction you've got to have someone take the computer apart and remove the drive, then actually punch the holes in it (or whatever). Granted, getting the drive out can be easy with some cases, but others it can be a huge pain in the ass. Then you also have the problem that once the drive is separated from the rest of the computer it's a lot easier for it wander off too...
Well, you could donate the drives to the various charities that refurbish computers. They're always short on drives because they get so many computers donated to them that have had the drive pulled. They'd be really appreciative if someone showed up with a box full of drives. Size doesn't even matter so much as they are at least 80 GB or so.