The only reason that stuff is there is because Apple won't supply a proper docking station for their laptops, so their solution is a $1000 monitor that will probably be useless in 5 years (and can't even be used now with a Mac Pro...lol). Meanwhile the Dell screen comes with actual ports you might want to use on a monitor, like DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort.
Not to mention the ozone also breaks down a lot of rubbers and softer plastics making them brittle. Granted, it's more of an annoyance when it comes to computers, but if you hold in your case fans with those rubber screw things you can expect that your fans will suddenly detach themselves from your case after a while.
GM's hybrid trucks are a joke. Unlike a true hybrid like the Prius where the electric motor is sized comparatively to the gasoline engine, the electric motor in GM's truck hybrids are tiny. It's basically a beefed up starter motor and battery that'll kick in under heavy load, and is basically the bare minimum so that GM can slap a "hybrid" label on them.
Why not just tell them to download DBAN and let it erase the drive? To a lot of the non-technically inclined, they'll have no idea how to pull the drive, but telling them to burn a CD and reboot is pretty simple. Plus, if the computer is new enough to be donated and reused, charities are always short on drives.
It claims to. I've never seen it actually successfully pull it off.
It seems to work on Windows XP if you are an administrator. I don't think that Adobe fully understands UAC yet, despite it being around since Vista launched.
Well, for starters if the machines are old enough to be used in the previous presidential election then they are older than the last couple of generations of devices of consumer goods.
Problem is that the IRS does a crappy job of estimating your taxes. Filing taxes as probably about the simplest case possible - a single guy, one salaried job for the entire year, not moving, no dependents, no significant investment income, taking the standard deduction you would think that the IRS would pretty much nail the amount I owed, but depending on how I adjusted the withholdings I would either get a rebate of several hundred or owe several hundred. While it's true I could try to micromanage it by having my employer adjust my withholdings mid-year it just wasn't worth the bother.
i don't know how it works in other PAYE countries, but in Australia income tax is deducted from your weekly/fortnightly/monthly pay by your employer and paid to the government.
Withheld tax is calculated based on your pay for that period, with a progressive tax scale [ato.gov.au] (the first $18,200 you earn is tax free).
Does this mean that your paychecks shrink over the course of the year as the tax taken from each check gets progressively higher? It seems to me that would be a problem for people who have problems budgeting, including many Americans.
Hmmmm. An interesting question. I know I have some old Linux ISO's from 2004-2005 on some old hard drives here, some of which are from some now long-defunct distros. I don't think anyone would argue that I'm doing something wrong if I distributed these old ISO's, but I don't have the source code and it's entirely possible that the source is no longer available, would that put me in violation of the GPL?
It also doesn't help that monitors are sold by the diagonal of the screen, and by making them wider they can make the monitor smaller (by surface area) while still selling it at the same "size" (by diagonal measurement) as the old models.
It's all because manufacturers can get away with it, so they cut costs. The display that goes into a 20" widescreen monitor is exactly the same as the one that goes into a 20" widescreen TV. The average non-geek consheepmer decided long ago that price was more important to them than features, so all the rest of us get shitty displays.
That's bullshit. The typical 20" wide screen monitor is 1600x900. I've NEVER seen a TV using a 1600x900 panel.
I'm pretty sure no one forced anyone to be on that ship. The crew was there because that's what they wanted to do. Yes, there were risks involved and I'm sure every crew member understood them.
They could just hold onto them until they start getting DDR3 machines en-mass. DDR3 appeared on the scene about 3-4 years ago anyway, which means some of the first generation machines are probably starting to show up anyway and most likely those machines are sporting 1-2GB sticks.
Well, part of the problem is that if market is small and you have a massive stockpile. If you try to sell all at once you'll flood the market and drive prices way down (a good example is the US government's selling off of the helium reserve at any price). So you have to trickle them out selling a few a time over a long period of time. So yes, they are potentially worth thousands but they are highly illiquid.
I kind of doubt it. For some people, it would work, but the vast majority of future buyers will take one look at the kitchen, see the stainless steel appliances, and go "Ugh, that's so 2000's". You'd be better off what whatever is fashionable at the time, even if they are cheap crap.
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The only reason that stuff is there is because Apple won't supply a proper docking station for their laptops, so their solution is a $1000 monitor that will probably be useless in 5 years (and can't even be used now with a Mac Pro...lol). Meanwhile the Dell screen comes with actual ports you might want to use on a monitor, like DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort.
Not to mention the ozone also breaks down a lot of rubbers and softer plastics making them brittle. Granted, it's more of an annoyance when it comes to computers, but if you hold in your case fans with those rubber screw things you can expect that your fans will suddenly detach themselves from your case after a while.
And Geo.
GM's hybrid trucks are a joke. Unlike a true hybrid like the Prius where the electric motor is sized comparatively to the gasoline engine, the electric motor in GM's truck hybrids are tiny. It's basically a beefed up starter motor and battery that'll kick in under heavy load, and is basically the bare minimum so that GM can slap a "hybrid" label on them.
Why not just tell them to download DBAN and let it erase the drive? To a lot of the non-technically inclined, they'll have no idea how to pull the drive, but telling them to burn a CD and reboot is pretty simple. Plus, if the computer is new enough to be donated and reused, charities are always short on drives.
It seems to work on Windows XP if you are an administrator. I don't think that Adobe fully understands UAC yet, despite it being around since Vista launched.
Well, for starters if the machines are old enough to be used in the previous presidential election then they are older than the last couple of generations of devices of consumer goods.
Bullshit.
Actually, wealth is taxed right now, indirectly through inflation.
Problem is that the IRS does a crappy job of estimating your taxes. Filing taxes as probably about the simplest case possible - a single guy, one salaried job for the entire year, not moving, no dependents, no significant investment income, taking the standard deduction you would think that the IRS would pretty much nail the amount I owed, but depending on how I adjusted the withholdings I would either get a rebate of several hundred or owe several hundred. While it's true I could try to micromanage it by having my employer adjust my withholdings mid-year it just wasn't worth the bother.
Does this mean that your paychecks shrink over the course of the year as the tax taken from each check gets progressively higher? It seems to me that would be a problem for people who have problems budgeting, including many Americans.
Death by marriage?
Hmmmm. An interesting question. I know I have some old Linux ISO's from 2004-2005 on some old hard drives here, some of which are from some now long-defunct distros. I don't think anyone would argue that I'm doing something wrong if I distributed these old ISO's, but I don't have the source code and it's entirely possible that the source is no longer available, would that put me in violation of the GPL?
Why not? It's a valid point.
The GPU will have to work harder to drive the display, which would probably account for most of whatever difference there might be.
This is my favorite solution, but only you have certain models of Thinkpads and you are willing to give up your optical drive.
It also doesn't help that monitors are sold by the diagonal of the screen, and by making them wider they can make the monitor smaller (by surface area) while still selling it at the same "size" (by diagonal measurement) as the old models.
That's bullshit. The typical 20" wide screen monitor is 1600x900. I've NEVER seen a TV using a 1600x900 panel.
So instead you risk spilling it down a stairwell?
I'm pretty sure no one forced anyone to be on that ship. The crew was there because that's what they wanted to do. Yes, there were risks involved and I'm sure every crew member understood them.
What do you mean overdue? If it's a 75-year cycle and the last one was in 1938 it's pretty much right on time.
They could just hold onto them until they start getting DDR3 machines en-mass. DDR3 appeared on the scene about 3-4 years ago anyway, which means some of the first generation machines are probably starting to show up anyway and most likely those machines are sporting 1-2GB sticks.
Well, part of the problem is that if market is small and you have a massive stockpile. If you try to sell all at once you'll flood the market and drive prices way down (a good example is the US government's selling off of the helium reserve at any price). So you have to trickle them out selling a few a time over a long period of time. So yes, they are potentially worth thousands but they are highly illiquid.
There are new motherboards available that have ISA slots and support the latest Ivy Bridge processors. I kid you not.
I kind of doubt it. For some people, it would work, but the vast majority of future buyers will take one look at the kitchen, see the stainless steel appliances, and go "Ugh, that's so 2000's". You'd be better off what whatever is fashionable at the time, even if they are cheap crap.