It was only a few years between the 1 GHz PIII and the single core 3.8 GHz P4, which held the x86 clock speed crown for close to decade. Of course, that wasn't the plan. Intel knew the P4 wasn't very efficient, but they thought they could ramp it up to 10 GHz and beyond so it wouldn't matter than the initial sub-2.0 GHz P4's weren't that impressive next to the final generation PIII's. Obviously that didn't work out for Intel.
A while ago, Origin (I think they owned it at the time), released the original C&C for free. So if you're getting nostalgic, you can get your fix for free.
With that said, the game did run much better on my old 700MHz Celeron system than it did my more modern system, though part of that may have been because that computer has Windows 98SE on it. As it was, I originally played the game on a Pentium 75, and while that was a long time ago, I don't remember any performance issues.
The frames and structure is steel, and that's what makes them unsafe when they rust. Rust on the body panels, while ugly, is mostly cosmetic.
With that said, almost any new car nowadays will make it to 10 years with minimal to no rust, and will likely be scrapped for some other reason than structural rust issues (though cosmetic rust will ultimately send some to the scrap heap). The days of cars rusting to pieces in only a few years was mostly done by the late 80's (with some exceptions, like some Mazdas and Toyota trucks).
There isn't a lot of difference between a new computer an a 2-year old computer nowadays. Or even older than that. I built my i7 system in 2012, and the only real reason a new i7 system would beat it is that the newer i7's have more than 4 cores. Put it up against an i5 (or whatever the quad core option is today) and it might be 50% faster than my 6-year old computer.
I've only seen DVI on some of the early HDTV's. Nothing that's been in made the last 10 years, probably longer. HDMI replaced DVI, and if you need to hook up DVI a converter is cheap.
Most likely that's their introductory price. At least around here, $40 for both cable TV and internet would be a screaming bargain. They suck you in with a cheap price like that to bundle in cable TV, then later raise the price. I would check your bill carefully, because that price is likely to go up. Way up. Calling them up to cancel that cable TV service later can also be a pain. If you're only interested in internet, that's all I would sign up for, and ignore any offers for super-cheap TV service they try to sell you.
The fan, being a moving part, will eventually wear out. Even more so if the GPU was run flat out so the fans were running at full speed. Almost all GPU's use a custom cooling solution, so it's not like you can easily just replace a bad fan either.
I never got that vibe from the colleges/universities themselves. It was more the high school guidance counselors (and to lessor extent, some of the teachers there) which looked at you like you were nuts if you said your plans after high school was anything other than attending a 4-year university of some sort.
Once you were there, the colleges didn't seem so concerned with retaining the student.s They were more than happy to take your money and flunk you out.
That's one of the big reasons it has such high ground clearance. For what it is, it does reasonably well off-road and handles dirt wagon trails just fine. It's a crude vehicle but tough.
That's true. Back 10-12 years ago when gas prices shot way up, it was the people with the fuel efficient cars who were whining the most when they could no longer fill up, pay with a $20, and get change back. The people buying $50k giant SUVs kind of just shrugged.
With that said, truck and SUV sales absolutely cratered for a couple of years. Now that all the US manufacturers have basically put all their eggs in the truck/SUV/CUV basket, should be interesting should history repeat itself.
Did you even read your own link? The Honda Passport was a rebadged Isuzu. After they dropped that model, they came out with their own SUV, which was the Honda Pilot. Which was actually a pretty nice SUV at first, until it turned into an ugly bloated pig of a vehicle.
A lot of that also has to do with crash regulations. Turns out people tend to not get injured as much if they can't get thrown around the cabin. Hence "cockpit-style" seating and huge intrusive center consoles.
ISO 8601 is kind of weird if you go back too far. It specifies a 4 digit date, which is fine, but has no way to denote a "negative" year. So year 0, which per your own link is 1BC, is the earliest possible date you can express in ISO 8601. This is actually fine because technically you aren't supposed to use ISO 8601 for any date before 1583. The reason for that is 1582 is the year that many areas, per the Catholic church, adopted the Gregorian calender (from the Julian calender) and thus skipped 10 days to correct for a accumulating error in the Julian calender from not handling leap years quite right.
Which of course brings up the point that once you've really started digging into the peculiarities of the how we've recorded dates throughout history and many uncertainties about details. For example, we know that initially the Julian calender had leap years every 3 years. They realized the error after a decade or so, and to correct it they had period with no leap years until things were brought back in line. What we don't know for certain is exactly which years included the leap years and which ones did not.
So basically in the end, Jan 1, 2001 (or whatever you want to celebrate) is completely arbitrary.
Well, there's two components here - the number of cycles and age. Most ICE cars are scrapped at around 15-20 years of age. I kind of doubt the batteries are going to be much good for anything at that age (except for recycling) no matter how few miles the car was driven. Actually, I would guess that a decent number of electric cars will meet their end when the original battery gives up when the car is over 10-12 years old.
Arguably it was Clinton's fault for running one of the most incompetent campaigns I can remember. Not courting the Bernie supporters and addressing the issues they were concerned about and just demanding they fall in line was part of it. Though really she lost because she completely ignored the middle part of the country and basically let Trump have it.
What they really needed to was just stick with it. They kept on coming out with some new attempt at mobile, and when it didn't completely set the world on fire, they killed it off and replaced with some new, incompatible, hotness. Eventually, the Microsoft faithful, the early adopters, and the app developers had been burned enough times that they no longer took any of Microsoft's platforms seriously no matter how good they might have been. Microsoft never gave any of their platforms a chance to gain momentum - sure, maybe the user base initially was small and they were losing money, but eventually they may have managed to carve out a chunk of market.
Really, it's kind of sad as we really need another player to help break up the Apple/Google duopoly, even if it is Microsoft.
Which would earn you perhaps a few pennies over the course of a year. And if you screw up even once and end up owing enough to have to pay a penalty, that will wipe-out whatever meager amount of interest you managed to earn for many years to come.
My ideal scenario would be to come out competently even on my tax return - not owe anything, and not owed anything by the IRS. Not happened yet, and probably never will happen, though I've managed to get it below $100 once.
The OLPC really couldn't run off of a crank either. They did build a handful of the crank units but gave up on it pretty quickly because it just wasn't practical.
A lot of that was also Microsoft's fault. They had cheap (or free) versions of Windows for netbooks, so long as the computer didn't exceed certain specs. Which is why every netbook had nearly identical specs no matter who made it, and this went on for years where it seemed netbooks were stuck in a timewarp and never got any better.
Of course, there were the Linux netbooks, but since the Linux models were basically the Windows models but with Linux loaded on them, effectively Microsoft was dictating the specs for those models too.
Eventually they were just too weak, started getting squeezed on the low end by cheap tablets, and on the high-end by full-blown laptops which started hitting the sub-$300 price point themselves.
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It was only a few years between the 1 GHz PIII and the single core 3.8 GHz P4, which held the x86 clock speed crown for close to decade. Of course, that wasn't the plan. Intel knew the P4 wasn't very efficient, but they thought they could ramp it up to 10 GHz and beyond so it wouldn't matter than the initial sub-2.0 GHz P4's weren't that impressive next to the final generation PIII's. Obviously that didn't work out for Intel.
A while ago, Origin (I think they owned it at the time), released the original C&C for free. So if you're getting nostalgic, you can get your fix for free.
With that said, the game did run much better on my old 700MHz Celeron system than it did my more modern system, though part of that may have been because that computer has Windows 98SE on it. As it was, I originally played the game on a Pentium 75, and while that was a long time ago, I don't remember any performance issues.
The frames and structure is steel, and that's what makes them unsafe when they rust. Rust on the body panels, while ugly, is mostly cosmetic.
With that said, almost any new car nowadays will make it to 10 years with minimal to no rust, and will likely be scrapped for some other reason than structural rust issues (though cosmetic rust will ultimately send some to the scrap heap). The days of cars rusting to pieces in only a few years was mostly done by the late 80's (with some exceptions, like some Mazdas and Toyota trucks).
There isn't a lot of difference between a new computer an a 2-year old computer nowadays. Or even older than that. I built my i7 system in 2012, and the only real reason a new i7 system would beat it is that the newer i7's have more than 4 cores. Put it up against an i5 (or whatever the quad core option is today) and it might be 50% faster than my 6-year old computer.
It depends. I use the numpad a lot on my work PC, but I ditched it on my home computer and don't miss it most of the time.
Also, a $480 wireless keyboard? And it's a Logitech?
I've only seen DVI on some of the early HDTV's. Nothing that's been in made the last 10 years, probably longer. HDMI replaced DVI, and if you need to hook up DVI a converter is cheap.
A VGA input is still pretty common.
Most likely that's their introductory price. At least around here, $40 for both cable TV and internet would be a screaming bargain. They suck you in with a cheap price like that to bundle in cable TV, then later raise the price. I would check your bill carefully, because that price is likely to go up. Way up. Calling them up to cancel that cable TV service later can also be a pain. If you're only interested in internet, that's all I would sign up for, and ignore any offers for super-cheap TV service they try to sell you.
The fan, being a moving part, will eventually wear out. Even more so if the GPU was run flat out so the fans were running at full speed. Almost all GPU's use a custom cooling solution, so it's not like you can easily just replace a bad fan either.
I never got that vibe from the colleges/universities themselves. It was more the high school guidance counselors (and to lessor extent, some of the teachers there) which looked at you like you were nuts if you said your plans after high school was anything other than attending a 4-year university of some sort.
Once you were there, the colleges didn't seem so concerned with retaining the student.s They were more than happy to take your money and flunk you out.
And what do you think Uber going to pick you up with? A unicorn?
It's like asking a company that makes servers if they are worried about the "cloud".
They aren't exempt, but "light trucks" fall under different rules. That's why almost everything now is a light truck.
That's one of the big reasons it has such high ground clearance. For what it is, it does reasonably well off-road and handles dirt wagon trails just fine. It's a crude vehicle but tough.
That's true. Back 10-12 years ago when gas prices shot way up, it was the people with the fuel efficient cars who were whining the most when they could no longer fill up, pay with a $20, and get change back. The people buying $50k giant SUVs kind of just shrugged.
With that said, truck and SUV sales absolutely cratered for a couple of years. Now that all the US manufacturers have basically put all their eggs in the truck/SUV/CUV basket, should be interesting should history repeat itself.
Did you even read your own link? The Honda Passport was a rebadged Isuzu. After they dropped that model, they came out with their own SUV, which was the Honda Pilot. Which was actually a pretty nice SUV at first, until it turned into an ugly bloated pig of a vehicle.
A lot of that also has to do with crash regulations. Turns out people tend to not get injured as much if they can't get thrown around the cabin. Hence "cockpit-style" seating and huge intrusive center consoles.
Windows 3.0 also supported wallpapers too.
To be fair, they did leave out IE and regedit.
ISO 8601 is kind of weird if you go back too far. It specifies a 4 digit date, which is fine, but has no way to denote a "negative" year. So year 0, which per your own link is 1BC, is the earliest possible date you can express in ISO 8601. This is actually fine because technically you aren't supposed to use ISO 8601 for any date before 1583. The reason for that is 1582 is the year that many areas, per the Catholic church, adopted the Gregorian calender (from the Julian calender) and thus skipped 10 days to correct for a accumulating error in the Julian calender from not handling leap years quite right.
Which of course brings up the point that once you've really started digging into the peculiarities of the how we've recorded dates throughout history and many uncertainties about details. For example, we know that initially the Julian calender had leap years every 3 years. They realized the error after a decade or so, and to correct it they had period with no leap years until things were brought back in line. What we don't know for certain is exactly which years included the leap years and which ones did not.
So basically in the end, Jan 1, 2001 (or whatever you want to celebrate) is completely arbitrary.
You don't have to look at the source code, as nearly every browser has "Mozilla" in the user agent.
Though I'd be surprised if any current browser still shares any actual source code with the old Netscape.
Well, there's two components here - the number of cycles and age. Most ICE cars are scrapped at around 15-20 years of age. I kind of doubt the batteries are going to be much good for anything at that age (except for recycling) no matter how few miles the car was driven. Actually, I would guess that a decent number of electric cars will meet their end when the original battery gives up when the car is over 10-12 years old.
Arguably it was Clinton's fault for running one of the most incompetent campaigns I can remember. Not courting the Bernie supporters and addressing the issues they were concerned about and just demanding they fall in line was part of it. Though really she lost because she completely ignored the middle part of the country and basically let Trump have it.
What they really needed to was just stick with it. They kept on coming out with some new attempt at mobile, and when it didn't completely set the world on fire, they killed it off and replaced with some new, incompatible, hotness. Eventually, the Microsoft faithful, the early adopters, and the app developers had been burned enough times that they no longer took any of Microsoft's platforms seriously no matter how good they might have been. Microsoft never gave any of their platforms a chance to gain momentum - sure, maybe the user base initially was small and they were losing money, but eventually they may have managed to carve out a chunk of market.
Really, it's kind of sad as we really need another player to help break up the Apple/Google duopoly, even if it is Microsoft.
It is illegal. FCC doesn't do shit to enforce it, and the phone companies don't give a fuck. Hence the current situation.
Which would earn you perhaps a few pennies over the course of a year. And if you screw up even once and end up owing enough to have to pay a penalty, that will wipe-out whatever meager amount of interest you managed to earn for many years to come.
My ideal scenario would be to come out competently even on my tax return - not owe anything, and not owed anything by the IRS. Not happened yet, and probably never will happen, though I've managed to get it below $100 once.
The OLPC really couldn't run off of a crank either. They did build a handful of the crank units but gave up on it pretty quickly because it just wasn't practical.
A lot of that was also Microsoft's fault. They had cheap (or free) versions of Windows for netbooks, so long as the computer didn't exceed certain specs. Which is why every netbook had nearly identical specs no matter who made it, and this went on for years where it seemed netbooks were stuck in a timewarp and never got any better.
Of course, there were the Linux netbooks, but since the Linux models were basically the Windows models but with Linux loaded on them, effectively Microsoft was dictating the specs for those models too.
Eventually they were just too weak, started getting squeezed on the low end by cheap tablets, and on the high-end by full-blown laptops which started hitting the sub-$300 price point themselves.