So you don't "support" AGW because of people like Al Gore? Are you, like the vast majority of deniers, too fucking stupid to separate the science and the scams? Just because Al Gore may be a hypocritical idiot doesn't make the science false.
That's probably a 5-6 year old computer. Granted, it is a pretty high end system for the time and will likely play games at least as well if not better than a new mid-level system.
Look at the sticker affixed to the bottom of the PC and see what license you bought. Yes, you can buy new PCs with Windows 7 Pro, but that's only because the OEM downgraded it for you.
Well, for now you can still buy 10" Netbooks new. Thanks to Microsoft and their licensing requirements for Windows 7 Starter edition the hardware really hasn't changed much in the past few years.
There's a lot of charities and non-profits that refurb old computers who would love to get a pallet like that. Both because hard drives are one of the more likely components to fail in older computers, and because so many of the computers that get donated to them have had the drives removed.
The way it played out as I remember was: 1. Opera had a bug in it that caused msn.com to render badly. 2. Someone at Microsoft hacked up a custom style sheet to make msn.com render properly in Opera. 3. Sometime later, Opera fixed their bug. 4. Now, msn.com renders badly in Opera due to the custom style sheet that is no longer needed.
Really, it was one of those cases where both parties did something wrong. Opera shouldn't have had the bug, and Microsoft either shouldn't have created the custom style sheet, or made it so it only sent it out to specific versions of Opera so any new version of Opera would get the standard sheet (and if needed, that version could be later added to get the custom sheet).
A proper car analogy would be GM's EV1. They didn't sell them, only leased them out, and when GM decided to discontinue the project they took the cars back (despite protests from many of the "owners") and crushed them.
Well, at least those applications aren't cloud services, so even with no support from Microsoft you can still install and use those applications. Sadly, it appears that won't be the case with some of Microsoft's current products.
And how do you know that any shenanigans by Paypal wouldn't result in your bank allowing it through anyway and then whacking you with overdraft fees on top of it?
Are you sure he didn't have the non-A version, AKA the original Celeron with no L2 cache? Those things were dogs, and the older Pentium MMX would run circles around it. With no L2 cache it was a decent overclocker, but without the L2 cache the clock speed didn't matter.
I've actually never seen a Socket 4 Pentium system myself in either speed. Socket 5 (and the later Socket 7) systems were, however, extremely common - especially the slow 75Mhz version with the 50Mhz bus speed. Maybe someday I'll find a Socket 4 in a dumpster (that's actually where I saw my first Pentium Pro system..).
I figured out the same thing. Problem is that if you turn the thermostat down when you get back from work that means your AC has to work hard during the hottest part of the day, and that's when it's the least efficient. You could take it even further and turn the thermostat down at night when the AC is most efficient (and electricity is cheaper) so the AC would run less during the day as the house warmed back up. Though I'm not sure if that would be worth the bother for what money you would save.
How about doing something about the huge gigantic grills and comically oversized wheel wells and flares that seem to be common on modern cars? I figure that stuff has to be costing mileage, and for the most part ends making the vehicle look like a gigantic kids' toy.
Those P4's almost certainly have hyperthreading. While hyperthreading is no substitute for a second core for things like encoding video and playing games, it'll do just fine on a machine used for browsing the internet and office work. For that reason, I don't really consider a P4 "slow" unless it's one of the earlier chips without hyperthreading. If they are LGA775 there is always the possibility of throwing in a modern, cheap PCI-E graphics card which can help with things too.
Presumably that computer was on 24/7. Even so, at the rates I pay that's about a 500W server, which is a lot for a single CPU, since drive server. Assuming the computers are only on a few hours a day on average, the cost of the electricity isn't going to be a huge factor even over several years. Which will likely be longer than the useful life of a computer that's already seven years old.
Tell them to turn them off when they aren't using them. It's a charity so it's not like they are going to turn them into Minecraft servers (most likely). If it's not running 24/7 the payoff of a free P4 versus buying something that might use less power is going to be measured in years.
Yeah, but all those positions they can't fill are senior-level positions which are kind of irrelevant for a recent graduate. A lot of the junior level stuff has been sent overseas, and there's lots of competition for what's left.
SimCity easily spent more time in my SNES than any other game I owned. I looked forward and then played to death Simcity 2000 (on DOS). Later got SimCity 3000, get discouraged by how much micromanaging the game required and lost interest pretty quickly. I also have SimCity 4, and have to agree that it's buggy which takes away from the enjoyment, and I find it odd that EA more or less ignored the problems with the game despite it's popularity and relatively long life. I still play SimCity and SC2000 from time to time (never have legitimately built a megapolis either, but have done it with the money code) - I wonder if SimCity 5 will still be playable in 20 years?
That's why I'm skeptical. Sounds like you end up combining the worst of both the HDD world and the SSD world. If I'm not going to go with a SSD, then I'll get a tried-and-true standard hard drive. I'm not really interested in having both in one drive.
Just because the card has the physical ports doesn't mean it can drive all the ports at once. My ATI 67xx has the same configuration as yours, but it's pick any two, or enable Eyefinity and with the right monitor (or Displayport adapter) you can use the DisplayPort plus any other two for three total monitors which is the configuration I use.
They probably don't care about getting ranked highly by smaller players like duckduckgo, which is perfectly fine by me as I don't miss them in my results.
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Of course they are. Samsung makes copiers.
So you don't "support" AGW because of people like Al Gore? Are you, like the vast majority of deniers, too fucking stupid to separate the science and the scams? Just because Al Gore may be a hypocritical idiot doesn't make the science false.
That's probably a 5-6 year old computer. Granted, it is a pretty high end system for the time and will likely play games at least as well if not better than a new mid-level system.
Look at the sticker affixed to the bottom of the PC and see what license you bought. Yes, you can buy new PCs with Windows 7 Pro, but that's only because the OEM downgraded it for you.
Well, for now you can still buy 10" Netbooks new. Thanks to Microsoft and their licensing requirements for Windows 7 Starter edition the hardware really hasn't changed much in the past few years.
There's a lot of charities and non-profits that refurb old computers who would love to get a pallet like that. Both because hard drives are one of the more likely components to fail in older computers, and because so many of the computers that get donated to them have had the drives removed.
I totally forgot that the Sierra Club was running the country in 2005. Good thing we handed it over shortly thereafter to the NRA.
The way it played out as I remember was:
1. Opera had a bug in it that caused msn.com to render badly.
2. Someone at Microsoft hacked up a custom style sheet to make msn.com render properly in Opera.
3. Sometime later, Opera fixed their bug.
4. Now, msn.com renders badly in Opera due to the custom style sheet that is no longer needed.
Really, it was one of those cases where both parties did something wrong. Opera shouldn't have had the bug, and Microsoft either shouldn't have created the custom style sheet, or made it so it only sent it out to specific versions of Opera so any new version of Opera would get the standard sheet (and if needed, that version could be later added to get the custom sheet).
A proper car analogy would be GM's EV1. They didn't sell them, only leased them out, and when GM decided to discontinue the project they took the cars back (despite protests from many of the "owners") and crushed them.
Well, at least those applications aren't cloud services, so even with no support from Microsoft you can still install and use those applications. Sadly, it appears that won't be the case with some of Microsoft's current products.
And how do you know that any shenanigans by Paypal wouldn't result in your bank allowing it through anyway and then whacking you with overdraft fees on top of it?
Are you sure he didn't have the non-A version, AKA the original Celeron with no L2 cache? Those things were dogs, and the older Pentium MMX would run circles around it. With no L2 cache it was a decent overclocker, but without the L2 cache the clock speed didn't matter.
I've actually never seen a Socket 4 Pentium system myself in either speed. Socket 5 (and the later Socket 7) systems were, however, extremely common - especially the slow 75Mhz version with the 50Mhz bus speed. Maybe someday I'll find a Socket 4 in a dumpster (that's actually where I saw my first Pentium Pro system..).
Wait, they got the guy from the Java division at Oracle too???
I figured out the same thing. Problem is that if you turn the thermostat down when you get back from work that means your AC has to work hard during the hottest part of the day, and that's when it's the least efficient. You could take it even further and turn the thermostat down at night when the AC is most efficient (and electricity is cheaper) so the AC would run less during the day as the house warmed back up. Though I'm not sure if that would be worth the bother for what money you would save.
How about doing something about the huge gigantic grills and comically oversized wheel wells and flares that seem to be common on modern cars? I figure that stuff has to be costing mileage, and for the most part ends making the vehicle look like a gigantic kids' toy.
Those P4's almost certainly have hyperthreading. While hyperthreading is no substitute for a second core for things like encoding video and playing games, it'll do just fine on a machine used for browsing the internet and office work. For that reason, I don't really consider a P4 "slow" unless it's one of the earlier chips without hyperthreading. If they are LGA775 there is always the possibility of throwing in a modern, cheap PCI-E graphics card which can help with things too.
Presumably that computer was on 24/7. Even so, at the rates I pay that's about a 500W server, which is a lot for a single CPU, since drive server. Assuming the computers are only on a few hours a day on average, the cost of the electricity isn't going to be a huge factor even over several years. Which will likely be longer than the useful life of a computer that's already seven years old.
Tell them to turn them off when they aren't using them. It's a charity so it's not like they are going to turn them into Minecraft servers (most likely). If it's not running 24/7 the payoff of a free P4 versus buying something that might use less power is going to be measured in years.
There are Lexmark-branded Model M's. They are basically IBM Model M's with a different badge on them.
Yeah, but all those positions they can't fill are senior-level positions which are kind of irrelevant for a recent graduate. A lot of the junior level stuff has been sent overseas, and there's lots of competition for what's left.
SimCity easily spent more time in my SNES than any other game I owned. I looked forward and then played to death Simcity 2000 (on DOS). Later got SimCity 3000, get discouraged by how much micromanaging the game required and lost interest pretty quickly. I also have SimCity 4, and have to agree that it's buggy which takes away from the enjoyment, and I find it odd that EA more or less ignored the problems with the game despite it's popularity and relatively long life. I still play SimCity and SC2000 from time to time (never have legitimately built a megapolis either, but have done it with the money code) - I wonder if SimCity 5 will still be playable in 20 years?
That's why I'm skeptical. Sounds like you end up combining the worst of both the HDD world and the SSD world. If I'm not going to go with a SSD, then I'll get a tried-and-true standard hard drive. I'm not really interested in having both in one drive.
Just because the card has the physical ports doesn't mean it can drive all the ports at once. My ATI 67xx has the same configuration as yours, but it's pick any two, or enable Eyefinity and with the right monitor (or Displayport adapter) you can use the DisplayPort plus any other two for three total monitors which is the configuration I use.
They probably don't care about getting ranked highly by smaller players like duckduckgo, which is perfectly fine by me as I don't miss them in my results.