Actually, Michigan and Minnesota are a lot closer than most people would think, thanks to Royale Island. Of course, Isle Royale has no permanent inhabitants.
Even so, that's really only true for the high end monitors like the Trinitrons and the Diamondtrons, which are kind of like the S-IPS of the CRT world. One of those, working and in good condition can usually find someone willing to take it for free. But the crappy, low dot-pitch, non-flat CRTs which are like the TN of the CRT world? Those are useless and no one wants them.
Seriously? Do everyone a favor and recycle your old computers and electronics. The reason for recycling them is to keep hazardous and toxic materials out of the environment. It's not a money making scam - it costs more to recycle a computer than what they can resell the raw materials for.
Why not? Windows 95's minimum requirements were a 386 with 4MB of ram. The killer part of the minimum configuration is the 4MB of ram. If you can manage to 16MB or more in there it's not too bad.
That seems rather short-sighted. Just because you think something is not useful doesn't mean that someone else might not have a use for it. Just because you have something that just sits around and is never used doesn't mean that's what everyone is going to do with it.
That's probably because in five years, there is really no idea where that company may be. They could the retake the largest company crown and beyond with great new fashionable products, or they could be a total has-been stomped into the ground by their competition and shunned by past customers for their lousy business practices. Unlike, say, the oil companies where everyone has a pretty good idea where they'll be in five years.
That's pretty much how it worked. It was pretty common to stop sailing at night when there were icebergs around because you'd never see them in time. However, you're not going to cross the Atlantic in record time doing that.
Considering how fast cable TV companies are shedding subscribers I would say that there is a significant number of people who have more or less given up on television.
If that leaves a gap on your resume, they'll question you about that and if they don't like the answer then it's back in the ronudfile. You really can't win.
Considering all the other stuff they took, it wasn't just a smash and grab. My guess it's more of the "pull up a van while they are away for a while and clean the place out" type of robbery.
What usually happens is that the drive thinks it wrote the data to the flash, but since it doesn't usually verify it, it has no idea that the write failed. That is, until you try to read it back. Though with the wear leveling moving stuff around on its own, a few bad flash cells that can't be written to usually show up as massive data corruption pretty quickly.
That doesn't accomplish what he wants. A 1600x1200 region in a 27" 2560x1440 monitor is only slightly smaller than the size of a 1600x1200 20" screen. He wants that pixel density in a 15" diagonal area. While I want a 2560x1440 monitor, I'm not excited about the prospect of trying to fit what is basically a TV onto my computer desk.
I still don't understand why someone hasn't taken common laptop LCD panels and turned them into a desktop monitor. It should be fairly cheap and easy, since these panels are mass produced anyway. 1920x1080 would make an acceptable 17" display instead of 1366x768.
My car won't allow the key to be turned to the lock position unless the transmission is in park. Car is an Infiniti G20, though you may know it as the Nissan Primera in your part of the world. As someone mentioned you can override this by using the shift lock override, something that would not be easy to do by accident. Manual version of the same car has a small push button you have to depress while turning the key next to the ignition to allow the steering to lock.
I generally disconnect the battery when doing things like that. Keeps you from accidentally shorting something out by touching a live wire, or in the worse case somehow activating the starter.
As for theft of car stereos, I have never known any car to have been broken into for a factory stereo, no matter how nice. Aftermarket, certainly. But factory stereos only fit a few models, which makes them much harder to sell quickly so the thieves ignore them. The whole factory radio code seemed to me to be a solution for a problem that didn't exist.
I've kind of wondered that too. My ISP disallows servers, but they don't block ports, and I've been running a HTTP server on port 80 and SSH on port 22 for years now. It would be trivial for them to 'discover' the server, but they've said and done nothing about it.
Wow, some people pay crazy amounts of money for those things now. But in 2001, a 486 was pretty much just an old computer, something like what an old Socket 478 P4 is now. Maybe I should put my 486 back together again (I gutted it a long time ago to re-use the case to house a P2 system, but I packed everything away in a box with anti-static bags and chucked it into a closet so chances are good it all still works, and I still have the P2 system so I can re-re-use the case). If I remember right, 486DX2 66, 32MB in 30-pin SIMMs, some propriety CDROM drive tied to an ISA slot, 1GB hard drive, sound card, and even a ISA NIC. Don't remember what it had for video. Ran Windows 95. Don't think I have a serial mouse around anymore for it. Hmm...
I wonder what's so interesting about a 486 in terms of retro gaming anyway? It's too fast to run most of the old games that relied on the CPU for the timing, and I would imagine most anything that targeted a 486 would run just fine on a Pentium 2 system, and Pentium 2-era hardware is much easier to work with. By the time the Deschutes chips came out, you can pretty much count on having PCI slots, boot from CD, USB ports, ATX power, plug and play (that usually works), ability to accept a reasonable amount of RAM, BIOS support for non-ancient hard drives, and other things that goes a long way towards getting something up and running.
Yeah, but it's kind of in that awkward period where it's old enough to no longer be common, but not sufficiently old enough that someone would consider it worth preserving. Kind of like cars from the late 80's - early 90's. If it manages to stay out of the scrap heap for another 20 years or so, then maybe people will get all nostalgic over it.
Actually, the Commodore 64 didn't have "64 kilobytes" of RAM, it had "64K" of ram if you look at a lot of their literature from back in the day, which avoids the whole si-prefix thing by defining capital "K" as 1024 (a lot of other companies did this too, some more consistent than others). It seems that the real confusion started with megabytes as no one used "M" to denote 1024*1024 which would have followed the earlier convention.
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Video cards won't do squat to speed up compiling.
Actually, Michigan and Minnesota are a lot closer than most people would think, thanks to Royale Island. Of course, Isle Royale has no permanent inhabitants.
Even so, that's really only true for the high end monitors like the Trinitrons and the Diamondtrons, which are kind of like the S-IPS of the CRT world. One of those, working and in good condition can usually find someone willing to take it for free. But the crappy, low dot-pitch, non-flat CRTs which are like the TN of the CRT world? Those are useless and no one wants them.
Seriously? Do everyone a favor and recycle your old computers and electronics. The reason for recycling them is to keep hazardous and toxic materials out of the environment. It's not a money making scam - it costs more to recycle a computer than what they can resell the raw materials for.
Why not? Windows 95's minimum requirements were a 386 with 4MB of ram. The killer part of the minimum configuration is the 4MB of ram. If you can manage to 16MB or more in there it's not too bad.
That seems rather short-sighted. Just because you think something is not useful doesn't mean that someone else might not have a use for it. Just because you have something that just sits around and is never used doesn't mean that's what everyone is going to do with it.
That's probably because in five years, there is really no idea where that company may be. They could the retake the largest company crown and beyond with great new fashionable products, or they could be a total has-been stomped into the ground by their competition and shunned by past customers for their lousy business practices. Unlike, say, the oil companies where everyone has a pretty good idea where they'll be in five years.
That's pretty much how it worked. It was pretty common to stop sailing at night when there were icebergs around because you'd never see them in time. However, you're not going to cross the Atlantic in record time doing that.
He's clueless. It's the quality of the cable that you use to transfer the pictures off of the camera to the computer that matters for that.
Considering how fast cable TV companies are shedding subscribers I would say that there is a significant number of people who have more or less given up on television.
One option would be to continue to work remotely, and force them to fire you. Especially if it's in the employment contract.
I suppose you're one of the types that yells over the cube walls from their chairs and annoys everyone else in the room?
If that leaves a gap on your resume, they'll question you about that and if they don't like the answer then it's back in the ronudfile. You really can't win.
Considering all the other stuff they took, it wasn't just a smash and grab. My guess it's more of the "pull up a van while they are away for a while and clean the place out" type of robbery.
What usually happens is that the drive thinks it wrote the data to the flash, but since it doesn't usually verify it, it has no idea that the write failed. That is, until you try to read it back. Though with the wear leveling moving stuff around on its own, a few bad flash cells that can't be written to usually show up as massive data corruption pretty quickly.
Other than the large size, how is this any different than a common 22" 1980x1080 desktop monitor? And I'm assuming you didn't end up with a 720p TV.
That doesn't accomplish what he wants. A 1600x1200 region in a 27" 2560x1440 monitor is only slightly smaller than the size of a 1600x1200 20" screen. He wants that pixel density in a 15" diagonal area. While I want a 2560x1440 monitor, I'm not excited about the prospect of trying to fit what is basically a TV onto my computer desk.
I still don't understand why someone hasn't taken common laptop LCD panels and turned them into a desktop monitor. It should be fairly cheap and easy, since these panels are mass produced anyway. 1920x1080 would make an acceptable 17" display instead of 1366x768.
My car won't allow the key to be turned to the lock position unless the transmission is in park. Car is an Infiniti G20, though you may know it as the Nissan Primera in your part of the world. As someone mentioned you can override this by using the shift lock override, something that would not be easy to do by accident. Manual version of the same car has a small push button you have to depress while turning the key next to the ignition to allow the steering to lock.
I generally disconnect the battery when doing things like that. Keeps you from accidentally shorting something out by touching a live wire, or in the worse case somehow activating the starter.
As for theft of car stereos, I have never known any car to have been broken into for a factory stereo, no matter how nice. Aftermarket, certainly. But factory stereos only fit a few models, which makes them much harder to sell quickly so the thieves ignore them. The whole factory radio code seemed to me to be a solution for a problem that didn't exist.
You do realize that SimCity 2000 predates SimCopter, right?
I've kind of wondered that too. My ISP disallows servers, but they don't block ports, and I've been running a HTTP server on port 80 and SSH on port 22 for years now. It would be trivial for them to 'discover' the server, but they've said and done nothing about it.
Wow, some people pay crazy amounts of money for those things now. But in 2001, a 486 was pretty much just an old computer, something like what an old Socket 478 P4 is now. Maybe I should put my 486 back together again (I gutted it a long time ago to re-use the case to house a P2 system, but I packed everything away in a box with anti-static bags and chucked it into a closet so chances are good it all still works, and I still have the P2 system so I can re-re-use the case). If I remember right, 486DX2 66, 32MB in 30-pin SIMMs, some propriety CDROM drive tied to an ISA slot, 1GB hard drive, sound card, and even a ISA NIC. Don't remember what it had for video. Ran Windows 95. Don't think I have a serial mouse around anymore for it. Hmm...
I wonder what's so interesting about a 486 in terms of retro gaming anyway? It's too fast to run most of the old games that relied on the CPU for the timing, and I would imagine most anything that targeted a 486 would run just fine on a Pentium 2 system, and Pentium 2-era hardware is much easier to work with. By the time the Deschutes chips came out, you can pretty much count on having PCI slots, boot from CD, USB ports, ATX power, plug and play (that usually works), ability to accept a reasonable amount of RAM, BIOS support for non-ancient hard drives, and other things that goes a long way towards getting something up and running.
Yeah, but it's kind of in that awkward period where it's old enough to no longer be common, but not sufficiently old enough that someone would consider it worth preserving. Kind of like cars from the late 80's - early 90's. If it manages to stay out of the scrap heap for another 20 years or so, then maybe people will get all nostalgic over it.
The 1.44MB floppy disk is an abomination no matter what side you fall on. It actually holds 1.44*1000*1024 bytes, making it both base 2 and base 10.
Actually, the Commodore 64 didn't have "64 kilobytes" of RAM, it had "64K" of ram if you look at a lot of their literature from back in the day, which avoids the whole si-prefix thing by defining capital "K" as 1024 (a lot of other companies did this too, some more consistent than others). It seems that the real confusion started with megabytes as no one used "M" to denote 1024*1024 which would have followed the earlier convention.