I've heard 30 years on average. In the US it's hard to say because the copper-nickel coins are extremely durable compared to the old silver and gold coins, and the oldest ones we have in circulation are from 1965 and seem to holding up just fine to average wear and tear (before 1965 quarters and dimes were 90% silver and it's extremely rare to find one of those in circulation).
Though there are other factors in play, such as coins just don't circulate as much nowadays as they did in the past. Except for maybe the quarter, a lot of spare change ends up being tossed in a jar where they can sit for years before reentering the money supply. In the old days those coins were worth too much to just have sitting around so they tended to circulate a lot more. For example, I've seen plenty of well worn Lincolns from before and during the Great Depression, but it would pretty unusual to see that kind of wear on a Lincoln minted after WWII.
The reason for that is they wanted the coin to have the same electro-magnetic signature as the old Susan B. Anthony dollars, which were a copper-nickel sandwich just like the quarter. So they ended up with some funky brass alloy that they'd never use otherwise except that it just so happens to look like a SBA to a vending machine so that it spends the same. Well, in theory at least, not all vending machines were so accepting of the new coins.
Of course, it wouldn't be so bad if the coin had any relief to it. However, like all our other modern coins (except perhaps the half dollar) the relief has been reduced to almost nothing to make the dies last longer. Since a lot of the old designs didn't look so well with the reduced relief, that's why poor George Washington has spaghetti hair on a more recent quarter (since about the mid-90's) which looks terrible compared to a quarter from the 60's/70's. Same with the cent.
Actually, DVI does provide +5V on one of the pins. I'm not sure why though, as you can't really pull enough current to do much of anything useful, except maybe light an LED.
1. Senators are now elected via popular vote rather than appointed by the state governments. 2. In the presidential election, citizens now for their candidate, and the electors in the electoral college are bound to vote according to this vote, as opposed to the old system where citizens would elect an elector in the electoral college, and the electoral college would select the president. 3. The vice president is selected by the presidential candidate as their running mate, rather than being the presidential candidate that came in second place.
On the other hand, how many hours would someone have to work at minimum wage to pay for a small apartment in the 80's versus today? Or to pay for going to college? Or to buy a tank of gas? Fresh fruit at the supermarket? Tech like TVs, computers, and CDs are an exception in the sense that they have been getting cheaper and better, even if you don't take into account inflation. However, that's not the case for a lot of things.
Which is kind of sad, really. I've always figured that if/when we get the warp drive, someone would think to fly a spaceship to the appropriate distance from Earth with a big set of rabbit ears and record all the lost Dr. Who episodes.
Oh well, maybe some alien civilization has already archived them for us.
Funny thing is that Readyboost won't work on a drive through the SATA controller. Yes, I tried. You can hook up your SSD through a USB to SATA adapter and it'll work with that.... but that's just stupid.
Imagine that your employer, seeing that you banked $X this year, decides to lower your wages by $X next year because 'you didn't need it'. In that situation, you might as well blow that money on a cruise rather than saving it.
Yes, the situation is stupid and wasteful, but that's how it works.
Well, part of the problem with the approach as they took it is that they just can't throw everything out. For example, everything that happened in Enterprise is part of the Abrams universe as well as the original universe. As well as anything that was established as happening before Nero brought his ship into the past, such as Khan's whole backstory. Of course, Khan's original backstory already has problems as the events in it such as the Eugenics war happened in the 1990's.
If they were going to do this, they probably should have just done a total reboot instead of an alternate timeline.
Seems to me that laptop has a problem with where my wrist is going to rest relative to the WASD keys and the touchpad. Also, I wouldn't want to play a game that requires heavy use of the function keys on that laptop either.
Not really, as you can't use the Windows key shortcuts that way, which are even more handy in Windows 8 as a lot of that stuff still works but but has been removed from the user interface or buried in the start screen.
Actually, the first Athlon 64's would be the oldest chips that could run Windows 8, due to them being the first to implement the NX bit which is a requirement. On the Intel side, you need at least an LGA775 system, and even with those you have to be careful because not all the LGA775 chips implement it.
It seems that a lot of smaller TV sets only have 1 or maybe 2 HDMI inputs. Not everyone wants or needs a gigantic television in every case, but sadly it seems that anything smaller than 32" your options become kind of limited, and many brands like Panasonic and Sony don't even offer anything that small.
Tasha Yar? I pretty much cringed every scene she was in. Especially later when they managed to bring her back as the half-Romulan Selia. Talk about a waste of screen time.
My favorite bit with Troi was the two-parter where the Enterprise-D was assigned a new captain who pretty much told Troi to put her goddamn uniform on.
It's too bad they didn't manage to get Ro Laren worked into more episodes.
My favorite AMD card story is my Radeon 6750. In an AMD Phenom II system with an AMD chipset motherboard the thing was nothing but trouble. The video drivers would blue screen the computer every few days. Tearing problems playing videos, and other random glitches. Well, time came to replace the motherboard and CPU, and I went with Intel. I wanted to replace the graphics card too, but lacking the money at the time I held my nose and put the AMD card in the new PC... and haven't had a problem with it since. Same drivers and everything. It always amuses me that my AMD card works better on an Intel system than they do with AMD's own chipsets and CPU.
You may laught, but at my work we have a bunch of somewhat older computers that were running XP but had Vista stickers on them. Instead of buying Windows 7 licenses they've gone the cheap route and have been installing Vista on them using the key we've already bought. So we've currently got a bunch of PCs now running Vista, whereas a couple of years ago we had approximately zero running Vista.
Yes, this seems pretty silly, but really Vista SP2 is not much different than Windows 7, and pretty much everything that supports Windows 7 also supports Vista, though not always XP. Well, except IE10 but no one cares about that.
That may be the case if you're compiling something on an old PC that has 128MB of ram or something. But nowadays when I have 10GB+ of ram sitting around that can act as a disk cache, it's a non-issue.
Hey, at work we had an IBM Deathstar last in a computer that was powered near 24/7 until sometime around 2010 or so. Every once and a while, they'll be a fluke or two.
Well, all I can say is that I jumped on board early with SSDs. After nothing but problems I went back to 'spinning rust' on my desktop PC. Why? Because it works. The marginal speed increases after the PC has booted aren't worth the wasted time and headaches of using a technology that, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to have matured yet.
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I've heard 30 years on average. In the US it's hard to say because the copper-nickel coins are extremely durable compared to the old silver and gold coins, and the oldest ones we have in circulation are from 1965 and seem to holding up just fine to average wear and tear (before 1965 quarters and dimes were 90% silver and it's extremely rare to find one of those in circulation).
Though there are other factors in play, such as coins just don't circulate as much nowadays as they did in the past. Except for maybe the quarter, a lot of spare change ends up being tossed in a jar where they can sit for years before reentering the money supply. In the old days those coins were worth too much to just have sitting around so they tended to circulate a lot more. For example, I've seen plenty of well worn Lincolns from before and during the Great Depression, but it would pretty unusual to see that kind of wear on a Lincoln minted after WWII.
The reason for that is they wanted the coin to have the same electro-magnetic signature as the old Susan B. Anthony dollars, which were a copper-nickel sandwich just like the quarter. So they ended up with some funky brass alloy that they'd never use otherwise except that it just so happens to look like a SBA to a vending machine so that it spends the same. Well, in theory at least, not all vending machines were so accepting of the new coins.
Of course, it wouldn't be so bad if the coin had any relief to it. However, like all our other modern coins (except perhaps the half dollar) the relief has been reduced to almost nothing to make the dies last longer. Since a lot of the old designs didn't look so well with the reduced relief, that's why poor George Washington has spaghetti hair on a more recent quarter (since about the mid-90's) which looks terrible compared to a quarter from the 60's/70's. Same with the cent.
Actually, DVI does provide +5V on one of the pins. I'm not sure why though, as you can't really pull enough current to do much of anything useful, except maybe light an LED.
Well, on the upside there's now a third player in the market for graphics that aren't great but don't totally suck. Unfortunately it's Intel.
There's a few updates I can think of:
1. Senators are now elected via popular vote rather than appointed by the state governments.
2. In the presidential election, citizens now for their candidate, and the electors in the electoral college are bound to vote according to this vote, as opposed to the old system where citizens would elect an elector in the electoral college, and the electoral college would select the president.
3. The vice president is selected by the presidential candidate as their running mate, rather than being the presidential candidate that came in second place.
On the other hand, how many hours would someone have to work at minimum wage to pay for a small apartment in the 80's versus today? Or to pay for going to college? Or to buy a tank of gas? Fresh fruit at the supermarket? Tech like TVs, computers, and CDs are an exception in the sense that they have been getting cheaper and better, even if you don't take into account inflation. However, that's not the case for a lot of things.
Which is kind of sad, really. I've always figured that if/when we get the warp drive, someone would think to fly a spaceship to the appropriate distance from Earth with a big set of rabbit ears and record all the lost Dr. Who episodes.
Oh well, maybe some alien civilization has already archived them for us.
Funny thing is that Readyboost won't work on a drive through the SATA controller. Yes, I tried. You can hook up your SSD through a USB to SATA adapter and it'll work with that.... but that's just stupid.
Imagine that your employer, seeing that you banked $X this year, decides to lower your wages by $X next year because 'you didn't need it'. In that situation, you might as well blow that money on a cruise rather than saving it.
Yes, the situation is stupid and wasteful, but that's how it works.
exactly. The problem with nat. gas is that it went down in price, but we KNOW that it WILL explode.
FTFY.
Well, part of the problem with the approach as they took it is that they just can't throw everything out. For example, everything that happened in Enterprise is part of the Abrams universe as well as the original universe. As well as anything that was established as happening before Nero brought his ship into the past, such as Khan's whole backstory. Of course, Khan's original backstory already has problems as the events in it such as the Eugenics war happened in the 1990's.
If they were going to do this, they probably should have just done a total reboot instead of an alternate timeline.
Seems to me that laptop has a problem with where my wrist is going to rest relative to the WASD keys and the touchpad. Also, I wouldn't want to play a game that requires heavy use of the function keys on that laptop either.
Not really, as you can't use the Windows key shortcuts that way, which are even more handy in Windows 8 as a lot of that stuff still works but but has been removed from the user interface or buried in the start screen.
Perhaps when people figure out that that 1366x788 is *not* HD resolution.
Actually, the first Athlon 64's would be the oldest chips that could run Windows 8, due to them being the first to implement the NX bit which is a requirement. On the Intel side, you need at least an LGA775 system, and even with those you have to be careful because not all the LGA775 chips implement it.
Sadly the Thinkpads have been declining in terms of the keyboard the past few years. However, they are still some of the best that's out there.
It seems that a lot of smaller TV sets only have 1 or maybe 2 HDMI inputs. Not everyone wants or needs a gigantic television in every case, but sadly it seems that anything smaller than 32" your options become kind of limited, and many brands like Panasonic and Sony don't even offer anything that small.
Well, it's easier than compiling Visual Studio from source using gcc...
Tasha Yar? I pretty much cringed every scene she was in. Especially later when they managed to bring her back as the half-Romulan Selia. Talk about a waste of screen time.
My favorite bit with Troi was the two-parter where the Enterprise-D was assigned a new captain who pretty much told Troi to put her goddamn uniform on.
It's too bad they didn't manage to get Ro Laren worked into more episodes.
My favorite AMD card story is my Radeon 6750. In an AMD Phenom II system with an AMD chipset motherboard the thing was nothing but trouble. The video drivers would blue screen the computer every few days. Tearing problems playing videos, and other random glitches. Well, time came to replace the motherboard and CPU, and I went with Intel. I wanted to replace the graphics card too, but lacking the money at the time I held my nose and put the AMD card in the new PC... and haven't had a problem with it since. Same drivers and everything. It always amuses me that my AMD card works better on an Intel system than they do with AMD's own chipsets and CPU.
You may laught, but at my work we have a bunch of somewhat older computers that were running XP but had Vista stickers on them. Instead of buying Windows 7 licenses they've gone the cheap route and have been installing Vista on them using the key we've already bought. So we've currently got a bunch of PCs now running Vista, whereas a couple of years ago we had approximately zero running Vista.
Yes, this seems pretty silly, but really Vista SP2 is not much different than Windows 7, and pretty much everything that supports Windows 7 also supports Vista, though not always XP. Well, except IE10 but no one cares about that.
That may be the case if you're compiling something on an old PC that has 128MB of ram or something. But nowadays when I have 10GB+ of ram sitting around that can act as a disk cache, it's a non-issue.
Hey, at work we had an IBM Deathstar last in a computer that was powered near 24/7 until sometime around 2010 or so. Every once and a while, they'll be a fluke or two.
Well, all I can say is that I jumped on board early with SSDs. After nothing but problems I went back to 'spinning rust' on my desktop PC. Why? Because it works. The marginal speed increases after the PC has booted aren't worth the wasted time and headaches of using a technology that, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to have matured yet.
What makes you think that you won't have to buy a "VPN package" before they'll allow your VPN traffic on the network?