Glossy can be better if you control the lighting in the room that they are used. But trying to do graphics work on a glossy screen in a bright room (or outdoors) has to be hell.
I've seen various incarnations of svchost.exe chewing up massive amounts of CPU time for years on Windows XP (and 2k). It seems like one of those problems that periodically pops its head up, Microsoft quietly issues a fix, and it goes away for a while until something else triggers it again. I've always figured it must be something fundamental to the way that Windows Update works. Though with only three months left of updates for XP this may be the last of it. So far I've not seen it crop up in Vista or later.
Are you sure about that? I've had several halogen floor lamps (and still have one of them) that come with a built-in dimmer. The bulbs in those have lasted a very long time, no matter how I've used the dimmer switch.
I'm not sure if running DC through the house is such a good idea. You can either run lower voltage which LEDs like, but now you're dealing with high amperage so thick wires, voltage drops at the bulb, and wires heating up and even the possibility of fires. Or you can run high voltage DC, but now the lights have to have converters in them to reduce the voltage and your back to the original problem.
What I think would be best would be to separate the electronics and the light itself. The electronics would come as part of the fixture, but hopefully would be some kind of standard format that could be easily replaced when it failed, and the light would just be an LED (or LEDs). Kind of like what we have now with standard fluorescent bulbs and ballasts - we already have fixtures that accept small spiral-type bulbs with separate ballasts.
Cooling an mini-ITX board should be easy. it's just a matter of the right case and cooling solution. You can even use a full ATX case if you really wanted to (the holes will line up). Not much you can do about a laptop.
Typically those cheap laptops suffer terribly from poor disk performance and crappy GPU's. The P4 may be slower, but with a 7200 RPM drive and a discrete GPU that doesn't steal system memory bandwidth, it may end up faster for many real world applications.
I'd probably spent a bit more and get a card with a DisplayPort connector. Yes, I know the Sieko's don't have DisplayPort, but pretty much all the non-television 4K screens do, and for many of them you need the DisplayPort connector to get 60Hz refresh.
You may run into problems with their network security if you do that, as the network may see that the computer's MAC address has changed, or may notice it's not part of the domain.
Don't worry. It'll take some time, but at some point they will be a wide enough network of license plate scanners that they'll be able to track your truck.
OnStar has been standard equipment on all GM passenger vehicles since the 2008 model year. My guess is that it's completely integrated into the electronics by now since there is no reason to keep it as a separate module if all cars get it. Though it will still need an antenna somewhere which would probably be the easiest way to disable it.
I recall an interview with an airline executive many (20?) years ago. He said they heard and listened to customer complaints about the quality of air travel, in particular leg room. He said they tried all sorts of quality of flight improvements, including putting less seats in the plane, but in the end people made their choices largely on the price of the ticket, so they ended up going back to cramming as many seats in the plane they could.
I think the problem is that flying is such a miserable experience, that everyone just assumes that it's going to be unpleasant and uncomfortable no matter what, and therefore might as well go with the cheapest price. It doesn't have to be that way, and it's not entirely the fault of the airlines, but I don't see it changing.
We've been changing the weather of our planet by dumping vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere for some time now. We've just... uhhh.... haven't worked out all the bugs yet.
Perhaps you should set something up that plays the sound in a room you're not in, which can be triggered remotely. When the thief is distracted while firing into the room, club him in the back of the head with an ATX power supply.
I have to agree. For most older science fiction, I usually just pretend that the book takes place in an alternate universe that splits off of ours at the time of the copyright date. Such alternate universes may have had us living on the moon in the 1990's, or had us still using analog magnetic tape centuries into the future. David Brin's Earth is one of the very few books older science fiction books that felt like it could take place in the current future even though it was published over 20 years ago.
Well, the idea they copied is that you aren't supposed to close the application. It just goes into the background, and if it's not used again and the OS needs the resources it will close it later at some point. Android has the same basic idea going on. It's not really something I care for, but that seems to be the idea.
On a related note, my favorite thing to do was to tell someone who didn't know Windows 8 to launch Notepad without resorting to the keyboard. That one got entertaining sometimes.
For the "home" editions of Windows, it went from 3.1 -> 95 -> 98 -> ME -> XP Home. For the "pro" versions of Windows, it went from NT 3.1 -> NT 3.5 -> NT 4 -> 2000 -> XP Pro.
Really, the whole "every other version" thing only works when you order things a certain way, and include or exclude "minor" versions like 3.11, 95OSR2, 98SE, NT 3.51 as needed to make it work out.
Only in the sense that all the keyboard shortcuts I still remember from the Windows 3.1 days come in handy in Windows 8 because they still work and are easier than doing things the Windows 8 way.
What's more amazing is that Vista's share went up between Nov 2013 and Dec 2013. Gotta love it!!!
Actually, not too surprising. I know a few people who originally downgraded to XP who now want to use some software that doesn't work in XP. Now, they could buy Windows 7 (or 8) but they already have a Vista license and pretty much anything that runs in Windows 7 will also work in Vista, so there you go. At work, we actually have more Vista machines now than we did the day Windows 7 was released.
Heck, Vista may be positioned for another bump this year. With support for XP ending, people who originally downgraded may decide to just install Vista as it still has some three years of support and patches from Microsoft.
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Glossy can be better if you control the lighting in the room that they are used. But trying to do graphics work on a glossy screen in a bright room (or outdoors) has to be hell.
Actually, this is one of my favorite little-known Lenovo innovations:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ultrabay_Plus_Numeric_Keypad
A solution that should keep everyone happy!
I've seen various incarnations of svchost.exe chewing up massive amounts of CPU time for years on Windows XP (and 2k). It seems like one of those problems that periodically pops its head up, Microsoft quietly issues a fix, and it goes away for a while until something else triggers it again. I've always figured it must be something fundamental to the way that Windows Update works. Though with only three months left of updates for XP this may be the last of it. So far I've not seen it crop up in Vista or later.
There are still WWII-era ships serving in other navies around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRP_Rajah_Humabon_(PF-11)
Are you sure about that? I've had several halogen floor lamps (and still have one of them) that come with a built-in dimmer. The bulbs in those have lasted a very long time, no matter how I've used the dimmer switch.
I'm not sure if running DC through the house is such a good idea. You can either run lower voltage which LEDs like, but now you're dealing with high amperage so thick wires, voltage drops at the bulb, and wires heating up and even the possibility of fires. Or you can run high voltage DC, but now the lights have to have converters in them to reduce the voltage and your back to the original problem.
What I think would be best would be to separate the electronics and the light itself. The electronics would come as part of the fixture, but hopefully would be some kind of standard format that could be easily replaced when it failed, and the light would just be an LED (or LEDs). Kind of like what we have now with standard fluorescent bulbs and ballasts - we already have fixtures that accept small spiral-type bulbs with separate ballasts.
Cooling an mini-ITX board should be easy. it's just a matter of the right case and cooling solution. You can even use a full ATX case if you really wanted to (the holes will line up). Not much you can do about a laptop.
Or it talks to hardware and there aren't 64-bit drivers available.
Wait, there were Next Generation movies?
Typically those cheap laptops suffer terribly from poor disk performance and crappy GPU's. The P4 may be slower, but with a 7200 RPM drive and a discrete GPU that doesn't steal system memory bandwidth, it may end up faster for many real world applications.
I'd probably spent a bit more and get a card with a DisplayPort connector. Yes, I know the Sieko's don't have DisplayPort, but pretty much all the non-television 4K screens do, and for many of them you need the DisplayPort connector to get 60Hz refresh.
You may run into problems with their network security if you do that, as the network may see that the computer's MAC address has changed, or may notice it's not part of the domain.
The more expensive 24" and 32" Dells have 60Hz, though you have to use the DisplayPort connector (HDMI is limited to 30Hz).
Don't worry. It'll take some time, but at some point they will be a wide enough network of license plate scanners that they'll be able to track your truck.
OnStar has been standard equipment on all GM passenger vehicles since the 2008 model year. My guess is that it's completely integrated into the electronics by now since there is no reason to keep it as a separate module if all cars get it. Though it will still need an antenna somewhere which would probably be the easiest way to disable it.
I think the problem is that flying is such a miserable experience, that everyone just assumes that it's going to be unpleasant and uncomfortable no matter what, and therefore might as well go with the cheapest price. It doesn't have to be that way, and it's not entirely the fault of the airlines, but I don't see it changing.
We've been changing the weather of our planet by dumping vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere for some time now. We've just ... uhhh.... haven't worked out all the bugs yet.
Galaxies are mostly empty space, so chances are no two stars will collide with each other. But it is possible.
Is that because "computer science" back in the 80's was actually Computer Science, and "computer science" now is more like "programmer training"?
Perhaps you should set something up that plays the sound in a room you're not in, which can be triggered remotely. When the thief is distracted while firing into the room, club him in the back of the head with an ATX power supply.
I have to agree. For most older science fiction, I usually just pretend that the book takes place in an alternate universe that splits off of ours at the time of the copyright date. Such alternate universes may have had us living on the moon in the 1990's, or had us still using analog magnetic tape centuries into the future. David Brin's Earth is one of the very few books older science fiction books that felt like it could take place in the current future even though it was published over 20 years ago.
Well, the idea they copied is that you aren't supposed to close the application. It just goes into the background, and if it's not used again and the OS needs the resources it will close it later at some point. Android has the same basic idea going on. It's not really something I care for, but that seems to be the idea.
On a related note, my favorite thing to do was to tell someone who didn't know Windows 8 to launch Notepad without resorting to the keyboard. That one got entertaining sometimes.
For the "home" editions of Windows, it went from 3.1 -> 95 -> 98 -> ME -> XP Home. For the "pro" versions of Windows, it went from NT 3.1 -> NT 3.5 -> NT 4 -> 2000 -> XP Pro.
Really, the whole "every other version" thing only works when you order things a certain way, and include or exclude "minor" versions like 3.11, 95OSR2, 98SE, NT 3.51 as needed to make it work out.
Only in the sense that all the keyboard shortcuts I still remember from the Windows 3.1 days come in handy in Windows 8 because they still work and are easier than doing things the Windows 8 way.
Actually, not too surprising. I know a few people who originally downgraded to XP who now want to use some software that doesn't work in XP. Now, they could buy Windows 7 (or 8) but they already have a Vista license and pretty much anything that runs in Windows 7 will also work in Vista, so there you go. At work, we actually have more Vista machines now than we did the day Windows 7 was released.
Heck, Vista may be positioned for another bump this year. With support for XP ending, people who originally downgraded may decide to just install Vista as it still has some three years of support and patches from Microsoft.