I've done it twice on my main desktop. First was going from an Athlon XP 2000+ to a Sempron 3000+. Goal was to get a bit more oomph out of that PC, and the Barton CPU was about 50% faster in the benchmarks and less than $50 so I went for it. I ended up using that PC for 4 more years like that (longer than I ever anticipated!) so that was a big win.
Second time I went from an Athlon X2 to a Phenom II X6. Didn't last that long before I ditched the whole set up because I finally got pissed off at AMD's crappy chipsets.
When it comes to older computers it gets more interesting as I end up piecing several together to make the best franken-computer possible. My main Linux Desktop was a 2.6 GHz P4 that I rescued from a dumpster, now upgraded to 3.0 GHz from a donor PC out of a dumpster. Previous was a 1.0 GHz P3 that was originally a 866Mhz, similar story. The NAS started out as a 3.2Ghz P4, but the CPU was bad (first and only time I've ever seen a bad CPU that wasn't abused) so got downgraded to 3.0 Ghz, then up to a 3.2 Ghz Pentium D when I managed to dumpster dive my first dual core. Granted, I'd never pay for an upgrade like that, but when the hardware is free...
Would such action have any legal basis? Though granted Intel could just stop selling chips and chipsets to anyone who tried it, which would have the same effect in the end.
My favorite from Newegg this year was the Core i7-2600K for $269 on the top of their black friday e-blast email. I paid $10 less for that processor 9 months ago.
I'll gladly pay my meager part of the tax "increase" if that means the rich will have pay their larger part of the "increase" should the tax cuts be allowed to expire. The Bush Tax cuts are one of the major reasons we are in this mess right now.
What really amazes me is how many lower and middle class Republicans you can get on board with massive tax cuts to the rich, so long as you throw them a bone. I mean, they literally don't care if it's going to bankrupt the government so long as their tax bill is decreased by some nominal amount. It's kind of like Romney's 47% comment, except instead of entitlements substitute tax cuts.
Notch always said he liked to try new ideas, but if he found them annoying he wouldn't release them into the game. Which is fine, but I don't understand then how Endermen and the hunger bar ever made the cut.
That sounds a lot like why I switched away from Google. The results just kept on getting worse and worse. Though what ultimately pushed me away from Google was their insistence of searching for the terms they thought I wanted to search for instead of what I actually searched for.
Generally speaking, the size of the antenna needed for effective AM reception was large enough to keep them out of smaller music players like the Walkman.
It's probably like the doctor who thinks that everyone is always getting sick because they see sick people all day. It wouldn't surprise me terribly if a good proportion of people getting a prescription filled are for some kind of pain killer, but that doesn't count the large number of people who aren't on any prescription drugs.
I was running ZSNES on a K6 system with Rage 128 Pro graphics over a decade ago. I'd be surprised if even the weakest modern computer would have any trouble with it.
Yeah, but are they getting paid what someone with 5 years of experience commands now that they have it? If you're paying them what they got as a "green" + 3% per year then don't be surprised when they jump ship.
The problem is that with the way the laws are, they'll never be able to sell a 4-wheeler like that as it will never meet the safety standards for cars, so they have to make a 3-wheeler so that it classifies as a motorcycle. The law of unintended consequences strikes again...
I was assuming that the Accord he's talking about is 10+ years old, as the older Hondas are much more simple and functional whereas the newer ones are full of gizmos and are trying to be a fashion statement instead of a car. Note that this isn't just a Honda thing either.
It's a problem of the distant objects being so red-shifted that their wavelengths become astronomical in scale, which makes them unobservable (without building telescopes the size of solar systems). Since the rate that the universe is expanding is accelerating it's projected that some time in the very far future that we'll no longer be able to even observe anything outside our galaxy.
There's a shortage, but the positions that companies are trying to fill are ones that they won't hire a new graduate for. Companies won't invest in employees anymore, and new graduates are stuck in the experience trap where they can't get a job without experience, and can't get experience without a job and thus aren't getting the chance to become tomorrow's senior-level professional. The system is broken, and creating a bunch more new STEM graduates won't solve a thing.
Maybe the solution would be to not draw it down at $185k/year? He could easily live on a third of that, especially considering that he wouldn't have to go into debt to buy a house, pay for an education, etc.
I always assumed that the number of write-in votes are counted, but unless the number is high enough to potentially beat the candidates on the ballot they aren't looked at otherwise. Is that not the case?
May not be such a good idea on some newer cars, as once all the settings are lost some cars need to be "trained" back in before they will operate correctly. It's crazy that they don't boot up into proper default settings, but that's apparently the case.
He's probably talking about all the GM stock that the US government still owns, that is unlikely to ever be sold at a price close to what the government paid for it. That's tens of billions down the hole right there.
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I've done it twice on my main desktop. First was going from an Athlon XP 2000+ to a Sempron 3000+. Goal was to get a bit more oomph out of that PC, and the Barton CPU was about 50% faster in the benchmarks and less than $50 so I went for it. I ended up using that PC for 4 more years like that (longer than I ever anticipated!) so that was a big win.
Second time I went from an Athlon X2 to a Phenom II X6. Didn't last that long before I ditched the whole set up because I finally got pissed off at AMD's crappy chipsets.
When it comes to older computers it gets more interesting as I end up piecing several together to make the best franken-computer possible. My main Linux Desktop was a 2.6 GHz P4 that I rescued from a dumpster, now upgraded to 3.0 GHz from a donor PC out of a dumpster. Previous was a 1.0 GHz P3 that was originally a 866Mhz, similar story. The NAS started out as a 3.2Ghz P4, but the CPU was bad (first and only time I've ever seen a bad CPU that wasn't abused) so got downgraded to 3.0 Ghz, then up to a 3.2 Ghz Pentium D when I managed to dumpster dive my first dual core. Granted, I'd never pay for an upgrade like that, but when the hardware is free...
Would such action have any legal basis? Though granted Intel could just stop selling chips and chipsets to anyone who tried it, which would have the same effect in the end.
My favorite from Newegg this year was the Core i7-2600K for $269 on the top of their black friday e-blast email. I paid $10 less for that processor 9 months ago.
I'll gladly pay my meager part of the tax "increase" if that means the rich will have pay their larger part of the "increase" should the tax cuts be allowed to expire. The Bush Tax cuts are one of the major reasons we are in this mess right now.
What really amazes me is how many lower and middle class Republicans you can get on board with massive tax cuts to the rich, so long as you throw them a bone. I mean, they literally don't care if it's going to bankrupt the government so long as their tax bill is decreased by some nominal amount. It's kind of like Romney's 47% comment, except instead of entitlements substitute tax cuts.
Notch always said he liked to try new ideas, but if he found them annoying he wouldn't release them into the game. Which is fine, but I don't understand then how Endermen and the hunger bar ever made the cut.
Toyota's giving it another shot and has put the RAV4 EV back into production.
That sounds a lot like why I switched away from Google. The results just kept on getting worse and worse. Though what ultimately pushed me away from Google was their insistence of searching for the terms they thought I wanted to search for instead of what I actually searched for.
Generally speaking, the size of the antenna needed for effective AM reception was large enough to keep them out of smaller music players like the Walkman.
Do you not consider the Xbox to be hardware?
It's probably like the doctor who thinks that everyone is always getting sick because they see sick people all day. It wouldn't surprise me terribly if a good proportion of people getting a prescription filled are for some kind of pain killer, but that doesn't count the large number of people who aren't on any prescription drugs.
I was running ZSNES on a K6 system with Rage 128 Pro graphics over a decade ago. I'd be surprised if even the weakest modern computer would have any trouble with it.
Yeah, but are they getting paid what someone with 5 years of experience commands now that they have it? If you're paying them what they got as a "green" + 3% per year then don't be surprised when they jump ship.
And I thought the point of most nerd projects is "because I can".
It's still sold (and apparently actively developed) but I can honestly say I don't know a single person who uses it:
http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4720105&cid=catalog20038&segid=6400043
How about the tracking cookies they plant on your computer?
The problem is that with the way the laws are, they'll never be able to sell a 4-wheeler like that as it will never meet the safety standards for cars, so they have to make a 3-wheeler so that it classifies as a motorcycle. The law of unintended consequences strikes again...
If it was America they would tow the cars, then hit the owners with a huge fine and towing/storage fees.
Early builds of Wheezy did use Gnome 3 as the default. Then they changed to XFCE a few months back. That's why it's called testing :)
I was assuming that the Accord he's talking about is 10+ years old, as the older Hondas are much more simple and functional whereas the newer ones are full of gizmos and are trying to be a fashion statement instead of a car. Note that this isn't just a Honda thing either.
It's a problem of the distant objects being so red-shifted that their wavelengths become astronomical in scale, which makes them unobservable (without building telescopes the size of solar systems). Since the rate that the universe is expanding is accelerating it's projected that some time in the very far future that we'll no longer be able to even observe anything outside our galaxy.
There's a shortage, but the positions that companies are trying to fill are ones that they won't hire a new graduate for. Companies won't invest in employees anymore, and new graduates are stuck in the experience trap where they can't get a job without experience, and can't get experience without a job and thus aren't getting the chance to become tomorrow's senior-level professional. The system is broken, and creating a bunch more new STEM graduates won't solve a thing.
Maybe the solution would be to not draw it down at $185k/year? He could easily live on a third of that, especially considering that he wouldn't have to go into debt to buy a house, pay for an education, etc.
I always assumed that the number of write-in votes are counted, but unless the number is high enough to potentially beat the candidates on the ballot they aren't looked at otherwise. Is that not the case?
May not be such a good idea on some newer cars, as once all the settings are lost some cars need to be "trained" back in before they will operate correctly. It's crazy that they don't boot up into proper default settings, but that's apparently the case.
He's probably talking about all the GM stock that the US government still owns, that is unlikely to ever be sold at a price close to what the government paid for it. That's tens of billions down the hole right there.