So put it into sleep mode? Sleep mode has more or less just worked now since about 2006 or so. Yes, even on computers assembled from components. I mean, the computer I'm on now was last rebooted 45 days ago, but has only been running for slightly less than 13 days.
Generally speaking, many RAID controllers don't pass on the trim information to the drive so it can't run its wear leveling mechanisms as optimally as if it wasn't in a RAID. With that said, since this is Linux just use the software RAID, which IMHO is a much better solution than the cheap RAID controllers like the ones built into motherboards.
Approximately none of them. The drives don't usually check to see if the data wrote correctly, so it doesn't actually realize that the data didn't write when this happens. Except, thanks to wear-leveling mechanisms, the data you wrote was probably scattered all over the media, and some of it wrote, and some of it didn't. So now you have massive data corruption. To add to the hilarity, the drive often will be, behind the scenes, moving data around due to things like wear leveling and trim, so long as the drive is powered, even if you aren't doing anything with it, you can still watch as your data 'decays' away.
I don't think speed would be an issue, as I would use the drive as a secondary for mass storage of (mostly) media files, and have a faster primary drive as the boot drive that holds all my programs. Nowadays, with many people doing just that with a large 3.5" HDD and a smaller SSD, I would think the market for such a beast would be even greater.
Those are for over-the-air broadcasts. Which is actually a pretty good solution (dump cable, and use free over-the-air TV).
I don't understand why you one have to upgrade your sets because of the cable company. While they may go all digital on their side, I've yet to see a cable box that doesn't have an analog output. Though if your TV only has a coaxial input, you may have to buy one of those RCA to coax boxes (or use an old VCR).
Moral of the story is randomly choosing the order of the names on the ballot a single time then using that order on all the ballots doesn't actually accomplish anything.
It's like making a random number generator with a single fair dice roll.[1]
And that's what we have now. Everyone gets the same cap. Grandma has to pay the same amount for a huge amount of data she's not going to use, while a large family pays the same price for a cap that's too small. Granted, there's a business line, but they aren't marketed as an "upgrade" to the standard residential offering but rather to a different market.
The real problem is the cost of tuition, which is the reason why a student needs to take out these massive loans. A generation ago, you could work your way through school and graduate will little or no debt. So if you decided to major in a degree without high-paying job prospects because you really like art history, it's not like you had a crushing debt to pay off so no real harm done. The other problem with this, is that attitudes are changing about college. It used to be a place of learning, whereas nowadays it's becoming expensive specialized job training that the individual has to pay for.
So even using your numbers, that means it will take a bit more than twice as long to flood San Francisco as the article states. So that makes it all okay?
Of course they are supposed to (help) finance it. It's called paying taxes. And yes, I will criticize when they don't pay their fair share, as is the case with many of them.
Some "reputable" brands I have found to be overrated. But even the "best" will produce a dud now and then.
However, I will say my old Athlon XP box, three HDDs, two optical drives, two video cards, several other PCI cards (2nd network, firewire, SATA), kewl case lights, and too many fans was perfectly fine for years on a 380W power supply. And last time I checked, still happily boots up. 180W was probably overkill as about the most I ever measured at the wall with a Kill-a-watt was about 185W (it "idled" at around 150W by the way).
The solution the first time that happened in 2008 was "Cash for Clunkers" where the government took taxpayer dollars to buy perfectly good used cars at inflated prices and intentionally destroy them. I wonder what they'll come up with this time?
In the US things generally get grandfathered in, so that's why we have buildings that are still wired to standards from almost a century ago. In the EU they generally frown on that kind of stuff.
Funny thing about the Jetsons is that most of the episodes were actually done in the 80's and Rosie the Robot was a pretty minor character in the early episodes and only appeared a few times. Though that doesn't rule Asimov being inspired by the Rosie the Robot I suppose.
Maybe it's a Texas thing. In Minnesota everything has been double-paned for several decades in new construction. You'll run into single-pane in old construction, but even those are getting more scarce as most people have figured out that replacing those windows will pay for itself, and that's assuming the windows didn't rot out years ago from all the moisture (from condensation) in the winter.
Show me a 5-year old Mac where you can get parts without salvaging parts out of another old Mac. Show me a 7-year-old Mac where you can run new software without installing Linux or Windows.
ME had a some innovative new features. Such as System Restore, UPnP, Automatic Update, a rewritten TCP/IP stack, Windows Image Acquisition, the on-screen keyboard, and such. The problem was that these features were supposed to be introduced in a new consumer version of the NT line (what we now know as Windows XP Home), but since XP wasn't ready yet they attempted to backport these features into Windows 98 and the result was pretty much as you would expect.
My prediction is that everyone will love the Windows 9 interface, despite it basically being Windows 8 with a few tweaks here and there. Kind of like how everyone oohs and aahs over Windows 7, despite it being just like Vista.
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So put it into sleep mode? Sleep mode has more or less just worked now since about 2006 or so. Yes, even on computers assembled from components. I mean, the computer I'm on now was last rebooted 45 days ago, but has only been running for slightly less than 13 days.
Generally speaking, many RAID controllers don't pass on the trim information to the drive so it can't run its wear leveling mechanisms as optimally as if it wasn't in a RAID. With that said, since this is Linux just use the software RAID, which IMHO is a much better solution than the cheap RAID controllers like the ones built into motherboards.
Approximately none of them. The drives don't usually check to see if the data wrote correctly, so it doesn't actually realize that the data didn't write when this happens. Except, thanks to wear-leveling mechanisms, the data you wrote was probably scattered all over the media, and some of it wrote, and some of it didn't. So now you have massive data corruption. To add to the hilarity, the drive often will be, behind the scenes, moving data around due to things like wear leveling and trim, so long as the drive is powered, even if you aren't doing anything with it, you can still watch as your data 'decays' away.
I don't think speed would be an issue, as I would use the drive as a secondary for mass storage of (mostly) media files, and have a faster primary drive as the boot drive that holds all my programs. Nowadays, with many people doing just that with a large 3.5" HDD and a smaller SSD, I would think the market for such a beast would be even greater.
And a very large UPS....
Those are for over-the-air broadcasts. Which is actually a pretty good solution (dump cable, and use free over-the-air TV).
I don't understand why you one have to upgrade your sets because of the cable company. While they may go all digital on their side, I've yet to see a cable box that doesn't have an analog output. Though if your TV only has a coaxial input, you may have to buy one of those RCA to coax boxes (or use an old VCR).
Moral of the story is randomly choosing the order of the names on the ballot a single time then using that order on all the ballots doesn't actually accomplish anything.
It's like making a random number generator with a single fair dice roll.[1]
You forgot the reference.
[1] http://xkcd.com/221/
Which of course is just a lame rip off of [2].
[2]. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
And that's what we have now. Everyone gets the same cap. Grandma has to pay the same amount for a huge amount of data she's not going to use, while a large family pays the same price for a cap that's too small. Granted, there's a business line, but they aren't marketed as an "upgrade" to the standard residential offering but rather to a different market.
That's why you make it out of silver and then plate it with gold - at least the part that would touch the CPU.
The real problem is the cost of tuition, which is the reason why a student needs to take out these massive loans. A generation ago, you could work your way through school and graduate will little or no debt. So if you decided to major in a degree without high-paying job prospects because you really like art history, it's not like you had a crushing debt to pay off so no real harm done. The other problem with this, is that attitudes are changing about college. It used to be a place of learning, whereas nowadays it's becoming expensive specialized job training that the individual has to pay for.
Yes, because the reason you can't play C64 games is that it's a closed platform that you can't program or run your own software on.
So even using your numbers, that means it will take a bit more than twice as long to flood San Francisco as the article states. So that makes it all okay?
Cheaper than building a 2 mile long, 500 foot tall wall across San Francisco bay?
Of course they are supposed to (help) finance it. It's called paying taxes. And yes, I will criticize when they don't pay their fair share, as is the case with many of them.
Some "reputable" brands I have found to be overrated. But even the "best" will produce a dud now and then.
However, I will say my old Athlon XP box, three HDDs, two optical drives, two video cards, several other PCI cards (2nd network, firewire, SATA), kewl case lights, and too many fans was perfectly fine for years on a 380W power supply. And last time I checked, still happily boots up. 180W was probably overkill as about the most I ever measured at the wall with a Kill-a-watt was about 185W (it "idled" at around 150W by the way).
The solution the first time that happened in 2008 was "Cash for Clunkers" where the government took taxpayer dollars to buy perfectly good used cars at inflated prices and intentionally destroy them. I wonder what they'll come up with this time?
In the US things generally get grandfathered in, so that's why we have buildings that are still wired to standards from almost a century ago. In the EU they generally frown on that kind of stuff.
Funny thing about the Jetsons is that most of the episodes were actually done in the 80's and Rosie the Robot was a pretty minor character in the early episodes and only appeared a few times. Though that doesn't rule Asimov being inspired by the Rosie the Robot I suppose.
Maybe it's a Texas thing. In Minnesota everything has been double-paned for several decades in new construction. You'll run into single-pane in old construction, but even those are getting more scarce as most people have figured out that replacing those windows will pay for itself, and that's assuming the windows didn't rot out years ago from all the moisture (from condensation) in the winter.
Show me a 5-year old Mac where you can get parts without salvaging parts out of another old Mac. Show me a 7-year-old Mac where you can run new software without installing Linux or Windows.
ME had a some innovative new features. Such as System Restore, UPnP, Automatic Update, a rewritten TCP/IP stack, Windows Image Acquisition, the on-screen keyboard, and such. The problem was that these features were supposed to be introduced in a new consumer version of the NT line (what we now know as Windows XP Home), but since XP wasn't ready yet they attempted to backport these features into Windows 98 and the result was pretty much as you would expect.
How about the Bluetooth antenna that most laptops have nowadays?
My prediction is that everyone will love the Windows 9 interface, despite it basically being Windows 8 with a few tweaks here and there. Kind of like how everyone oohs and aahs over Windows 7, despite it being just like Vista.
If it wasn't for all the easy money being thrown around thanks to Sallie Mae, there's no way college administrators could be paid that much.
You do realize not every environmentalist* is Al Gore, you know?
*I use that term loosely.