I see it more like some future civilization looking at the way we handle dates several thousand years from now, and concluding that the world is going to end on December 31st, 9999 (on our calender) because we practically never give any consideration to the possibility of 5 digit years.
Yeah, but was there intent? Did he know that someone was growing weed on his farm? From the sounds of things, it's more like the feds trying to seize an entire apartment building because someone was dealing drugs out of one of the apartments.
Well, the problem is that the vast majority of computer power supplies can't put out anything near their rated wattage without stability issues - that is if they don't just fail catastrophically and possibly damage the rest of the computer. For that reason, most people now completely overspec the power supply in a build, because they know that most under-500W power supplies are not going to cut if for any reasonably higher-end computer, regardless of what the computer will actually draw.
For a "human experience" scale though, being able to divide it up into decades is pretty convenient though. I've never really "gotten" Celsius. I understand it, but for scientific work Kelvin is a much better scale since it starts at zero, and for things like describing the weather Fahrenheit just seems a better fit.
I have to wonder how much of it is also caused by motherboard/chipset issues too. I have a card in my current computer that was nothing but problems on two computers using AMD chipsets. Put it into an Intel system and it's been rock solid now for 10 months. Funny thing is that it's a Radeon.
Displayport is actually a different protocol than DVI (and HDMI). Most Displayport devices know how to "talk" DVI so cheap converters that just remap the pins work for most applications and the device realizes it's talking to something that's DVI and adjusts accordingly. But for AMD's Eyefinity to work the device must talk Displayport, so unless your displays are Displayport you need an active adapter that converts Displayport to DVI (or VGA, or whatever). Yeah, I didn't know that either so I have an extra cheap Displayport to DVI adapter sitting in a drawer too.
Interesting, since my guess is that the vast majority of images that go through that service are copyrighted by someone other than the person doing the search.
Actually, they should make them slightly wider. 24:9 would effectively be the same as two 4:3 monitors, but no bezel running through the middle. This one actually would be a a pretty decent replacement for two 5:4 1280x1024 monitors. You have the same horizontal resolution and slightly more vertical space.
4:3 LCDs were actually never very common on the desktop. You have 1024x768 which was usually 15", or 1600x1200 which was usually 20". You can still buy them in these sizes, but the pickings are pretty slim even compared to the much more common 17 & 19" 5:4 screens.
My oldest of my own computers is probably my firewall, which is a 600 MHz P3. Every once and a while it starts locking up, so I open it up and replace some more of the bulging capacitors. Hasn't done that in a while though, so maybe I got all the bad ones finally. I also have an 800 MHz Celeron running as a LAMP server which is probably only 1-2 years newer.
At work there is a piece of specialized equipment that runs off a 486-66 DX2 and manages to have dual monitors via the monochrome and VGA adapter trick. The monochrome monitor is the main monitor that controls the equipment and the data comes in on the VGA screen. Runs MS-DOS 6.22. Definitely the oldest regularly used PC that I come in contact with.
Most of the Intel Pentium chipsets would only cache the first 64MB of ram with the L2. Which meant that in many cases, adding more ram would slow you down, unless you really needed it for some ram-intensive processes. I still have a Pentium system with 6 DIMM slots and I even have 6 32MB sticks for 192MB (in theory) but for some reason it won't recognize more than 128MB.
I disagree. Dumpster diving has never been better. Nowadays, pretty much any typical dumpster find is going to a be a viable computer in the sense that it will do perfectly fine for what most people would want a computer for (assuming it works, of course - a good number of succumbed to the capacitor plague and it's not worth trying to repair an otherwise uninteresting P4 system). Perfectly capable of running the latest Linux distros (sorry no 386's) or Windows XP. Vista or Windows 7 isn't even out of the question for some of the better finds, so long as you can get them up to 1GB of ram (2GB is better). 10 years ago I was pulling out old AT-style Pentium MMX machines running Windows 95 out of the trash - what good were those in 2002? About the only problem is that now I have so much misc. hardware that I don't know what to do with it all.
The Coppermine P3's are great for things like that. They use fairly low power, but still pack enough horsepower to be useful as routers, light duty servers, and other specialized tasks. True, you can get something new that uses a bit less power, but it's hard to compete with free and its kind of neat to put those older machines to use instead of trashing them.
As far as I can tell, the built-in search in Windows 7 is about as useless as the one in Vista. If I want to search for a file by name it's faster, easier, and more reliable to go to the command prompt and use dir/s.
The other thing people forget is that the original iPod was also a Mac-exclusive. Until they made it so that the iPod's DRM would work with Windows, it would have been a niche accessory for a niche platform.
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Unless they do something about the reliability problem, harddrives will still have at least one advantage.
Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a space shuttle full of hard drives.
I see it more like some future civilization looking at the way we handle dates several thousand years from now, and concluding that the world is going to end on December 31st, 9999 (on our calender) because we practically never give any consideration to the possibility of 5 digit years.
Yeah, but was there intent? Did he know that someone was growing weed on his farm? From the sounds of things, it's more like the feds trying to seize an entire apartment building because someone was dealing drugs out of one of the apartments.
Well, the problem is that the vast majority of computer power supplies can't put out anything near their rated wattage without stability issues - that is if they don't just fail catastrophically and possibly damage the rest of the computer. For that reason, most people now completely overspec the power supply in a build, because they know that most under-500W power supplies are not going to cut if for any reasonably higher-end computer, regardless of what the computer will actually draw.
For a "human experience" scale though, being able to divide it up into decades is pretty convenient though. I've never really "gotten" Celsius. I understand it, but for scientific work Kelvin is a much better scale since it starts at zero, and for things like describing the weather Fahrenheit just seems a better fit.
You mean using a ratio of integers instead of a decimal representation?
I have to wonder how much of it is also caused by motherboard/chipset issues too. I have a card in my current computer that was nothing but problems on two computers using AMD chipsets. Put it into an Intel system and it's been rock solid now for 10 months. Funny thing is that it's a Radeon.
Displayport is actually a different protocol than DVI (and HDMI). Most Displayport devices know how to "talk" DVI so cheap converters that just remap the pins work for most applications and the device realizes it's talking to something that's DVI and adjusts accordingly. But for AMD's Eyefinity to work the device must talk Displayport, so unless your displays are Displayport you need an active adapter that converts Displayport to DVI (or VGA, or whatever). Yeah, I didn't know that either so I have an extra cheap Displayport to DVI adapter sitting in a drawer too.
Interesting, since my guess is that the vast majority of images that go through that service are copyrighted by someone other than the person doing the search.
Actually, they should make them slightly wider. 24:9 would effectively be the same as two 4:3 monitors, but no bezel running through the middle. This one actually would be a a pretty decent replacement for two 5:4 1280x1024 monitors. You have the same horizontal resolution and slightly more vertical space.
4:3 LCDs were actually never very common on the desktop. You have 1024x768 which was usually 15", or 1600x1200 which was usually 20". You can still buy them in these sizes, but the pickings are pretty slim even compared to the much more common 17 & 19" 5:4 screens.
My oldest of my own computers is probably my firewall, which is a 600 MHz P3. Every once and a while it starts locking up, so I open it up and replace some more of the bulging capacitors. Hasn't done that in a while though, so maybe I got all the bad ones finally. I also have an 800 MHz Celeron running as a LAMP server which is probably only 1-2 years newer.
At work there is a piece of specialized equipment that runs off a 486-66 DX2 and manages to have dual monitors via the monochrome and VGA adapter trick. The monochrome monitor is the main monitor that controls the equipment and the data comes in on the VGA screen. Runs MS-DOS 6.22. Definitely the oldest regularly used PC that I come in contact with.
Most of the Intel Pentium chipsets would only cache the first 64MB of ram with the L2. Which meant that in many cases, adding more ram would slow you down, unless you really needed it for some ram-intensive processes. I still have a Pentium system with 6 DIMM slots and I even have 6 32MB sticks for 192MB (in theory) but for some reason it won't recognize more than 128MB.
I disagree. Dumpster diving has never been better. Nowadays, pretty much any typical dumpster find is going to a be a viable computer in the sense that it will do perfectly fine for what most people would want a computer for (assuming it works, of course - a good number of succumbed to the capacitor plague and it's not worth trying to repair an otherwise uninteresting P4 system). Perfectly capable of running the latest Linux distros (sorry no 386's) or Windows XP. Vista or Windows 7 isn't even out of the question for some of the better finds, so long as you can get them up to 1GB of ram (2GB is better). 10 years ago I was pulling out old AT-style Pentium MMX machines running Windows 95 out of the trash - what good were those in 2002? About the only problem is that now I have so much misc. hardware that I don't know what to do with it all.
Yeah, but on the other hand the guy who built the killdozer didn't have to worry about anything larger than small arms fire either.
That's only true if by cleaning your keyboard, you're giving up an opportunity to work at $80/hour.
What good is your cable going to do you when the car is impounded as evidence and they don't give you access to it?
The Coppermine P3's are great for things like that. They use fairly low power, but still pack enough horsepower to be useful as routers, light duty servers, and other specialized tasks. True, you can get something new that uses a bit less power, but it's hard to compete with free and its kind of neat to put those older machines to use instead of trashing them.
You'd probably be better off with one of the competing devices that come with a built-in recording feature.
That's no way to talk about your girlfriend.
Windows 95 was a preemptive multi-tasking OS. Granted, it had its problems, but it took until OSX for Apple to get where Microsoft was in 1995.
As far as I can tell, the built-in search in Windows 7 is about as useless as the one in Vista. If I want to search for a file by name it's faster, easier, and more reliable to go to the command prompt and use dir /s.
The other thing people forget is that the original iPod was also a Mac-exclusive. Until they made it so that the iPod's DRM would work with Windows, it would have been a niche accessory for a niche platform.
Basically the same thing is happening now, where they are advertising "LED screens" that are really just LCDs with an LED backlight.