It's especially bad on the Apple laptops because they run so hot. Batteries don't like heat, so while other brands may use the same cells they don't have nearly the swelling problem because generally their laptops don't bake the batteries so badly.
We've got some Elitebooks at work, and I'd never buy one. They seem to be reasonably built, but performance-wise they are absolute dogs. They come with the latest Core i5 and Core i7 processors, but it seems that doing the simplest things just causes them to chug and chug. Even when running a clean install of Windows. I'm not sure why (old chipsets? crappy hard drives? slow memory?), but the older Core 2-based Thinkpads run circles around them.
Ok. In your imaginary world, corporations have to pay taxes, right? And, also in your imaginary world, they don't add this cost to the products / services they produce. So where do they get the money to pay those taxes? You think they have a printing press in the basement?
They pay it out of their profits, so to speak. If their widgets are selling well at $72k per, and you suddenly wiped out their tax $12 per widget burden, do you really think the price would suddenly drop to $60 as they passed 100% of the savings to the customer, or do you think they would try to divert some (or all) of that extra money to their pockets? It works the same way for tax increases - they can't just pass 100% of the tax increase to the consumer, as increased price will drop demand, and they end up pricing themselves out of the market. Thus it may make more sense to pay some of that tax out of the profits and forgo the second yacht.
If there is money to be made, they would have figured out a way. I've seen some pretty contrived sequels to movies that were pretty much all tied up at the end (take a look at Men In Black 2 for example). Either that or they would just reboot the franchise, which seems to be in vogue nowadays.
Yes, but hindsight is 20/20. Can you find me any investments today that you can guarantee a 5% return for the next 6 years? In today's climate you're doing pretty good if you can net 2% (and that's assuming you've got a decent sum to invest). To have a shot at anything more you're going to have to take some risks.
Actually, it was the Thinkpads who originally offered high resolution screens at 2048x1536 several years ago. Sadly they never caught on and IBM silently discontinued them.
The Model M draws a bit more power compared to more modern keyboards. Many of the adapters have a problem with this. I never did find one that worked consistently either, though the same adapters work just fine with a generic Dell PS/2 keyboard from about 10-12 years ago.
Obviously you haven't seen many budget systems sold by bottom feeding retailers like Walmart and Best Buy. I've seen plenty of P4-based Celeron systems boasting 2Ghz+ clock speeds with only 128MB of ram, integrated graphics, and Windows XP. Runs about as well as you might expect, but since they were cheap they still seemed to sell relatively well until about 2003 or so when they finally bumped the low-end stuff up to 256MB.
These are the same people that would sell you a 512MB system a few years later running Vista.
I don't agree. In order to win you have to over win the moderates. The base is going to be for you no matter what. That's why they are the base. So in order to win you should pick someone who will win over the moderates. Failing that, at least pick someone that won't scare the moderates away. That's why Palin was a terrible choice.
As for the tea party, they are easily motivated by fear. If you're concerned that they won't come out and vote for your overly bland ticket, just get Rush and company to start beating the "Obama is a secret Muslim who is going to kill grandma and take your guns away" drum and the base will come out and vote for you.
The depressing part is that once you manage to get some experience in something you end up type-cast, where you end up stuck doing the same thing with the same tools you started with, because that's all employers think you're good for. Throw that in the whole "overqualified" BS and it's nearly impossible to change careers nowadays.
In today's polarized world of politics, 54% means something different. If a president won an election with 54% of the popular vote nowadays, it would be considered a landslide.
Though we are talking about CDs here, where a "700MB" CD per the spec holds 737,280,000 bytes. That's 737 marketing megabytes. Funny how you don't get your panties in a twist over that.
The trick often works with card readers, USB hubs, and other accessories except printers. Sometimes you can get the cable you need, plus a "free" USB hub, for less than the cost of the cable by itself.
Test-driven development is where you code the unit tests first, then develop the code needed to pass those unit tests. Once all the unit tests pass you have your application (in theory, at least).
Agreed. Cars are more about form over function nowadays. I'd be surprised if a lot of the common elements in new cars like giant wheel flares, bulbous lights, weird bulges, and oversized front grills do anything but hurt the aerodynamics. Other styling elements like high beltlines and large pillars have also cut way down on visibility. In some ways I miss the cars of the 90's - perhaps boring, but also simple and functional design.
Romney's already got all those votes tied up. If he's smart he'll try and pick up some moderate votes, or at the very least not scare away the moderates that plan on voting for him. Picking a right wing nutjob to appeal to the teabaggers is a page out of McCain's playbook.
I'd be more worried about the potential problems it may cause you. If they suspect that you may have been doing something like stealing confidential information, discovering that you also wiped your computer for some reason isn't going to help your case much. They could drag in some lawyers make things rather unpleasant for you if they were inclined.
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Irrelevant as long as you have an ample supply of spares that can be swapped out.
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It's especially bad on the Apple laptops because they run so hot. Batteries don't like heat, so while other brands may use the same cells they don't have nearly the swelling problem because generally their laptops don't bake the batteries so badly.
We've got some Elitebooks at work, and I'd never buy one. They seem to be reasonably built, but performance-wise they are absolute dogs. They come with the latest Core i5 and Core i7 processors, but it seems that doing the simplest things just causes them to chug and chug. Even when running a clean install of Windows. I'm not sure why (old chipsets? crappy hard drives? slow memory?), but the older Core 2-based Thinkpads run circles around them.
They pay it out of their profits, so to speak. If their widgets are selling well at $72k per, and you suddenly wiped out their tax $12 per widget burden, do you really think the price would suddenly drop to $60 as they passed 100% of the savings to the customer, or do you think they would try to divert some (or all) of that extra money to their pockets? It works the same way for tax increases - they can't just pass 100% of the tax increase to the consumer, as increased price will drop demand, and they end up pricing themselves out of the market. Thus it may make more sense to pay some of that tax out of the profits and forgo the second yacht.
If there is money to be made, they would have figured out a way. I've seen some pretty contrived sequels to movies that were pretty much all tied up at the end (take a look at Men In Black 2 for example). Either that or they would just reboot the franchise, which seems to be in vogue nowadays.
Yes, but hindsight is 20/20. Can you find me any investments today that you can guarantee a 5% return for the next 6 years? In today's climate you're doing pretty good if you can net 2% (and that's assuming you've got a decent sum to invest). To have a shot at anything more you're going to have to take some risks.
Actually, it was the Thinkpads who originally offered high resolution screens at 2048x1536 several years ago. Sadly they never caught on and IBM silently discontinued them.
The Model M draws a bit more power compared to more modern keyboards. Many of the adapters have a problem with this. I never did find one that worked consistently either, though the same adapters work just fine with a generic Dell PS/2 keyboard from about 10-12 years ago.
Obviously you haven't seen many budget systems sold by bottom feeding retailers like Walmart and Best Buy. I've seen plenty of P4-based Celeron systems boasting 2Ghz+ clock speeds with only 128MB of ram, integrated graphics, and Windows XP. Runs about as well as you might expect, but since they were cheap they still seemed to sell relatively well until about 2003 or so when they finally bumped the low-end stuff up to 256MB.
These are the same people that would sell you a 512MB system a few years later running Vista.
I don't agree. In order to win you have to over win the moderates. The base is going to be for you no matter what. That's why they are the base. So in order to win you should pick someone who will win over the moderates. Failing that, at least pick someone that won't scare the moderates away. That's why Palin was a terrible choice.
As for the tea party, they are easily motivated by fear. If you're concerned that they won't come out and vote for your overly bland ticket, just get Rush and company to start beating the "Obama is a secret Muslim who is going to kill grandma and take your guns away" drum and the base will come out and vote for you.
The depressing part is that once you manage to get some experience in something you end up type-cast, where you end up stuck doing the same thing with the same tools you started with, because that's all employers think you're good for. Throw that in the whole "overqualified" BS and it's nearly impossible to change careers nowadays.
It's too bad that Apple won't give you a proper maximize button so that you can also make your scroll bars infinitely thick.
In today's polarized world of politics, 54% means something different. If a president won an election with 54% of the popular vote nowadays, it would be considered a landslide.
Though we are talking about CDs here, where a "700MB" CD per the spec holds 737,280,000 bytes. That's 737 marketing megabytes. Funny how you don't get your panties in a twist over that.
You do realize that you're talking about the guy that endorsed the Constitution party's candidate in the last election?
The trick often works with card readers, USB hubs, and other accessories except printers. Sometimes you can get the cable you need, plus a "free" USB hub, for less than the cost of the cable by itself.
Test-driven development is where you code the unit tests first, then develop the code needed to pass those unit tests. Once all the unit tests pass you have your application (in theory, at least).
They know exactly what they are doing. Just think of how excited everyone is going to be over Windows 9!
Agreed. Cars are more about form over function nowadays. I'd be surprised if a lot of the common elements in new cars like giant wheel flares, bulbous lights, weird bulges, and oversized front grills do anything but hurt the aerodynamics. Other styling elements like high beltlines and large pillars have also cut way down on visibility. In some ways I miss the cars of the 90's - perhaps boring, but also simple and functional design.
Romney's already got all those votes tied up. If he's smart he'll try and pick up some moderate votes, or at the very least not scare away the moderates that plan on voting for him. Picking a right wing nutjob to appeal to the teabaggers is a page out of McCain's playbook.
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You could always put the drive into a USB/firewire enclosure, then put the whole thing into the freezer.
An empty safe? I'd fill it with bricks. Slow down any thief and make them have to work to drag it out.
I'd be more worried about the potential problems it may cause you. If they suspect that you may have been doing something like stealing confidential information, discovering that you also wiped your computer for some reason isn't going to help your case much. They could drag in some lawyers make things rather unpleasant for you if they were inclined.