Besides, the P4 is not that bad. At least it'll probably work, which more than I can say about old AMD machines and the terrible chipsets that you'll find in them.
There are documented cases where indie labels (as in not the RIAA) asking Apple to sell their music without DRM and Apple refused, basically showing that Steve Jobs was full of shit.
The funny thing about cars like that is it's pretty rare to see ones 10+ years old as daily drivers. While the value of the car drops, the cost of the repairs and upkeep doesn't, and after about 10-12 years it seems most people decide it's no longer worth it and off to the scrap yard they go. Meanwhile you see 10+ year old Camrys all the time.
From what I have seen $15-20k has been the price of the absolute top-of-the-line money-is-no-object TVs for a couple of decades now. Obviously the technology in these sets has continually improved, and generally speaking most of the technology in these sets eventually go mainstream. Someone must be buying them.
That's odd. I always thought "rockstar" meant that they considered themselves hotshots, thought they were all that, know-it-alls, where the whole world (or at least the whole company) revolves around them. Usually they are a bit of a cowboy too, in the sense that they tend to only do what they want in the way that suits them. And they are talented enough to get away with these antics, which means everyone else has to put up with them (much like some real rockstars).
OSX *is* the window manager. That's what you're paying for when you hand your dollars over to Apple. Sure, you can run KDE (free) on top of Darwin (also free), but that's not OSX, now is it?
If you assume that the P4 uses 100W more, and electricity costs 0.25/kwh, you'll pay for that $300 netbook in about 12,000 hours which is about year and half if you're one of those dorks that leaves the computer on all the time for no reason. If you're one of the types that uses it for an hour or two a day then shuts it down (which is more likely for the refurb P4 market), then the payback will be decades. Sorry, but the energy usage argument just doesn't work.
Also, as someone who has a P4 running Gnome 2 on Debian, I find it works just fine as a desktop. Better than Vista, which still ran acceptably. Keep in mind that your Atom netbook really isn't that much more powerful than yesterday's P4 too.
Seriously? The GP claimed that Microsoft has never used skeumorphic interfaces when that is clearly false. We here at slashdot simply can't let something like that stand.
My guess is that in 30 years everything will be CVTs as far as passenger vehicles go. Transmissions with gears will probably only be found in trucks and other heavy duty vehicles because they can handle more abuse (that's assuming that they don't manage to improve the CVTs enough to handle the same abuse). And perhaps a few sports cars for the purists who still demand a manual.
For starters, you talk about making grille openings smaller? On many vehicles, the grille openings are functional. The radiator (or even the air intake piping) may be placed behind it, so it needs to have good airflow. I'm not sure your idea provides a net benefit in many situations, and that's why you aren't seeing it done.
Oversized grill openings are a styling cue nowadays. Supposedly it makes the car look more aggressive or something like that. I think it's ugly myself, but whatever. However, all you have to do is go back to the early-mid 90's when small grill openings was the in thing to see that you can shrink them down quite a bit with no adverse effects.
And because it has a set of gears better suited for higher mileage. It seems that all the manuals sold now are meant to be "sporty". Just giving the highest gear the same ratio as the overdrive in the auto would make a big difference.
The other problem with PATA is that no one makes a drive larger than 320GB anymore, and the only company that makes one larger than 80GB is WD. Back in the day, there used to be 1TB PATA drives but now you're better off with a SATA card + a SATA drive.
Many of the Panasonic Toughbooks still support a standard 9-pin serial port. Granted, a Toughbook may be overkill for what you want, but then again they may also work well depending on where this instrumentation is located.
Well, you also have the ones that go back to get their MBA because they couldn't hack it as an engineer. Typically the ones that do that aren't much better as an MBA either.
The sad thing about those printers is that a lot of them had a Vista driver. I can see Microsoft dropping support after XP as it would take work to make the drivers Vista-compatible. But on the other hand, they could have brought the Vista driver forward to Windows 7 with little or no change.
I hate them. Most of the time I would like to see more lines of code, and all the whitespace off to the side is useless. Okay, maybe a bit better for side-by-side comparisons, but in that situation they aren't quite wide enough. You can rotate them, but once again you end up with something that's not wide enough, and the cheap TN look terrible rotated anyway (and I can't control what I get issued at work - the screens are the cheapest crap they could find and they don't rotate anyway so the point is moot). Maybe if when they went widescreen they really went wide so you could get replace dual 4:3 screens with one screen and not lose resolution then I would have been okay with it. But instead we ended up with this awkward, useless screen ratio that's not quite wide enough on its own, completely ridiculous in a dual monitor configuration, and the vertical resolution still sucks.
Charts like that are bunk, in my opinion. They typically take the smallest thing the eye can resolve, and once a pixel is that small they call it good enough. However, with that logic turning on the subpixel rendering of fonts on most computer monitors would also be pointless, yet subpixeling rendering can make a huge difference. Obviously there is more to it than how small can the eye can supposedly resolve. Maybe they should take a few hints from the printing industry where even the PPI on the crappiest inkjets would be "retina" printers by PPI standards on LCDs.
I think it's more like Microsoft wants to make some major changes to their OS, but know that they'll need a lot of support from OEMs, software companies, vendors, etc. to make it happen. They also know that a lot of these companies aren't going to do anything unless they are forced to. So to give them a kick Microsoft releases a "sacrificial" version they know will be unpopular because it's going to break a ton of stuff, but will force companies to make their crap work with whatever Microsoft is trying to push. Once the ecosystem is out there to support these changes Microsoft will release the next version and it will be a lot more successful because the support will be there. That's what I saw with Vista and 7, where 7 isn't terribly different than Vista but by the time 7 was released everyone was on board with things like UAC, the new driver model, and 64-bit so the transition was much smoother. My prediction is that Windows 8 is Microsoft's way of forcing everyone to get their stuff working with touchscreens, resolution independence, the NX bit, and a few things like that. Once the support is out there Microsoft will dress up Windows 8 a bit, call it Windows 9, and everyone will love it.
Another way is to open a window, shut off the car, get out and lock the doors. Wait a minute or two, then reach in and open the door through the open window. I've set mine off (by accident) that way a few times.
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Well, not Rudy Guilani bad at least.
In the case of Debian, i386 actually means the 486 and later, if you believe their release notes:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id583669
I can vouch that you can boot the latest stable release on a Socket 5 Pentium.
What about the Pentium M and the Core Duo chips?
Besides, the P4 is not that bad. At least it'll probably work, which more than I can say about old AMD machines and the terrible chipsets that you'll find in them.
There are documented cases where indie labels (as in not the RIAA) asking Apple to sell their music without DRM and Apple refused, basically showing that Steve Jobs was full of shit.
My guess is that they buy Windows 7 and then use the downgrade rights to install Vista, just like you would do for XP.
Of course not. They use the Volkswagen logo for that.
It went nowhere until they addressed the biggest shortcoming of the original iPod: That you needed a Mac to use it.
The funny thing about cars like that is it's pretty rare to see ones 10+ years old as daily drivers. While the value of the car drops, the cost of the repairs and upkeep doesn't, and after about 10-12 years it seems most people decide it's no longer worth it and off to the scrap yard they go. Meanwhile you see 10+ year old Camrys all the time.
From what I have seen $15-20k has been the price of the absolute top-of-the-line money-is-no-object TVs for a couple of decades now. Obviously the technology in these sets has continually improved, and generally speaking most of the technology in these sets eventually go mainstream. Someone must be buying them.
That's odd. I always thought "rockstar" meant that they considered themselves hotshots, thought they were all that, know-it-alls, where the whole world (or at least the whole company) revolves around them. Usually they are a bit of a cowboy too, in the sense that they tend to only do what they want in the way that suits them. And they are talented enough to get away with these antics, which means everyone else has to put up with them (much like some real rockstars).
OSX *is* the window manager. That's what you're paying for when you hand your dollars over to Apple. Sure, you can run KDE (free) on top of Darwin (also free), but that's not OSX, now is it?
If you assume that the P4 uses 100W more, and electricity costs 0.25/kwh, you'll pay for that $300 netbook in about 12,000 hours which is about year and half if you're one of those dorks that leaves the computer on all the time for no reason. If you're one of the types that uses it for an hour or two a day then shuts it down (which is more likely for the refurb P4 market), then the payback will be decades. Sorry, but the energy usage argument just doesn't work.
Also, as someone who has a P4 running Gnome 2 on Debian, I find it works just fine as a desktop. Better than Vista, which still ran acceptably. Keep in mind that your Atom netbook really isn't that much more powerful than yesterday's P4 too.
Seriously? The GP claimed that Microsoft has never used skeumorphic interfaces when that is clearly false. We here at slashdot simply can't let something like that stand.
If she had some medical condition that she know about, she had no business behind the wheel of any vehicle.
My guess is that in 30 years everything will be CVTs as far as passenger vehicles go. Transmissions with gears will probably only be found in trucks and other heavy duty vehicles because they can handle more abuse (that's assuming that they don't manage to improve the CVTs enough to handle the same abuse). And perhaps a few sports cars for the purists who still demand a manual.
Oversized grill openings are a styling cue nowadays. Supposedly it makes the car look more aggressive or something like that. I think it's ugly myself, but whatever. However, all you have to do is go back to the early-mid 90's when small grill openings was the in thing to see that you can shrink them down quite a bit with no adverse effects.
And because it has a set of gears better suited for higher mileage. It seems that all the manuals sold now are meant to be "sporty". Just giving the highest gear the same ratio as the overdrive in the auto would make a big difference.
The other problem with PATA is that no one makes a drive larger than 320GB anymore, and the only company that makes one larger than 80GB is WD. Back in the day, there used to be 1TB PATA drives but now you're better off with a SATA card + a SATA drive.
Many of the Panasonic Toughbooks still support a standard 9-pin serial port. Granted, a Toughbook may be overkill for what you want, but then again they may also work well depending on where this instrumentation is located.
Well, you also have the ones that go back to get their MBA because they couldn't hack it as an engineer. Typically the ones that do that aren't much better as an MBA either.
The sad thing about those printers is that a lot of them had a Vista driver. I can see Microsoft dropping support after XP as it would take work to make the drivers Vista-compatible. But on the other hand, they could have brought the Vista driver forward to Windows 7 with little or no change.
I hate them. Most of the time I would like to see more lines of code, and all the whitespace off to the side is useless. Okay, maybe a bit better for side-by-side comparisons, but in that situation they aren't quite wide enough. You can rotate them, but once again you end up with something that's not wide enough, and the cheap TN look terrible rotated anyway (and I can't control what I get issued at work - the screens are the cheapest crap they could find and they don't rotate anyway so the point is moot). Maybe if when they went widescreen they really went wide so you could get replace dual 4:3 screens with one screen and not lose resolution then I would have been okay with it. But instead we ended up with this awkward, useless screen ratio that's not quite wide enough on its own, completely ridiculous in a dual monitor configuration, and the vertical resolution still sucks.
Charts like that are bunk, in my opinion. They typically take the smallest thing the eye can resolve, and once a pixel is that small they call it good enough. However, with that logic turning on the subpixel rendering of fonts on most computer monitors would also be pointless, yet subpixeling rendering can make a huge difference. Obviously there is more to it than how small can the eye can supposedly resolve. Maybe they should take a few hints from the printing industry where even the PPI on the crappiest inkjets would be "retina" printers by PPI standards on LCDs.
I think it's more like Microsoft wants to make some major changes to their OS, but know that they'll need a lot of support from OEMs, software companies, vendors, etc. to make it happen. They also know that a lot of these companies aren't going to do anything unless they are forced to. So to give them a kick Microsoft releases a "sacrificial" version they know will be unpopular because it's going to break a ton of stuff, but will force companies to make their crap work with whatever Microsoft is trying to push. Once the ecosystem is out there to support these changes Microsoft will release the next version and it will be a lot more successful because the support will be there. That's what I saw with Vista and 7, where 7 isn't terribly different than Vista but by the time 7 was released everyone was on board with things like UAC, the new driver model, and 64-bit so the transition was much smoother. My prediction is that Windows 8 is Microsoft's way of forcing everyone to get their stuff working with touchscreens, resolution independence, the NX bit, and a few things like that. Once the support is out there Microsoft will dress up Windows 8 a bit, call it Windows 9, and everyone will love it.
Another way is to open a window, shut off the car, get out and lock the doors. Wait a minute or two, then reach in and open the door through the open window. I've set mine off (by accident) that way a few times.