From what I've heard is that the one at Filton is in the best condition of any of the still existing planes, and there's interest in getting a Concorde back to flying condition for demonstrations and airshows.
You'd have to consider the unintended consequences though. While a free energy source could stop fossil fuel usage almost overnight, you still have to remember that nearly all of that energy will end up as waste heat at some point. And if people aren't concerned about inefficiency, there will be a lot of waste heat, and that waste heat has to be dumped somewhere. A magical, free energy source may solve the fossil fuel problem but the end result would probably still be ecological disaster.
I've seen 16:10 monitors in 27" running at 1920x1200, but there isn't really any point in them as you can easily get that resolution in 24" (and with some money, in 22" too).
The problem is the physical size of the thing. A 27" monitor is pretty big. More than one of them is pretty unwieldy, and you then start having to physically turn your head to fully use all of it. Now, if they would finally bump up the DPI so that we could get that resolution on something like a 19" then you could have several of them and easily enjoy all that screen space.
Yes, an relating back to the fine article, why should we be extending the life of these ancient 40 year old reactors to 60 or 80 years? We should be replacing these reactors with better designs as quickly as possible, not continuing to run them for decades into the future.
With Vista and later, Windows should just silently redirect the writes and reads to Program Files to the VirtualStore in the user's profile, and the poorly written software won't be any wiser.
I've seen that when hooking things up to a serial port. For some reason, sometimes Windows Plug 'n Pray thinks that the device I hooked up is a serial mouse and installs the driver for it, then generally goes bonkers until I can remove the serial mouse in Device Manager.
1) Ok so who made MacBook Air competitors before Apple came out? Oh yeah ZERO!
Ultra-portable laptops were nothing new. Granted, other manufacturers care about dimensions other than thinness, which is the Air's gimmick. I guess you can say the removal of almost every port is pure Apple.
2) So who made notebooks with great than 2K resolution on the screen before Apple came out? Oh yeah ZERO!
Try IBM.
3) So who made SSD's popular before Apple came out? Oh yeah ZERO!
SSDs are also nothing new. Apple was actually kind of late to that game, when they finally started offering SSDs as an option.
You can always "upgrade" your old machine from a P2 to one of the early Coppermine "E" series P3 chips if its supported. The early Coppermine's run at about 13-15W TDP which is about half of the P2, which makes them a favorite of mine as far as re-purposing old computers goes.
Windows 8 requires that the processor supports the NX bit. That locks out pretty much all the P4's except a few of the last generation chips, and anything AMD that's not 64 bit. Granted, that's some pretty dated hardware but still it's hardware that can run Vista/7 just fine.
The problem is that people don't expect that they have to pay that close attention to what they're buying to make sure they get all the features. You would think that buying an i7, which is Intel's top of the line desktop chip, would mean it would include all the features of the lower end desktop chips. But that's not always the case.
A vote for a third party is also a vote for Obama.
Besides, do you really think that Obama is really that different than Romney? As far as I can see they are very similar. Both will institute similar policies, and neither one is an acceptable choice. Even if you don't think they are similar, it's not like Obama is going to stand up to the Republicans and not cave in to whatever they demand.
But hey, go ahead and admit defeat, and vote for more of the same, so that you can make the same choice in 4 years. Go ahead and throw away your vote on a candidate that doesn't support your views and doesn't represent you. People like you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Depends on the SSD. I've seen lots of horrible stuttering on some SSDs when the free space gets below around 10%. I'd say cheap, but these include some very much not-cheap Intel drives (pre-trim, but my understanding is that these drives have some understanding of NTFS and does some free space management on its own). As always, YMMV.
BTW has anybody used an SSD for a Readyboost drive?
Windows by default won't let you use a SATA device for Readyboost. It's looking for USB devices and some card readers. It will accept a SSD installed in one of those SATA to USB enclosures, but that'll kill a lot of the performance that you might gain. As someone else suggested, just configure Windows to have the page file on the SSD.
With Windows you also have the pagefile, which is generally around the same size as the ram if you don't change it. And if you have hibernation then you also have the hibernation file that's also the same size as your ram. If your laptop has 8GB of ram (not unreasonable), then that's 25% of your drive gone right there.
I'm actually not sure when the whole kilobytes thing came in, and if it was the CS people or not. It seems in a lot of old literature, it wasn't "kB" or "kilobytes", but "K", where K is understood to be 2^10. If you don't believe me look up some of the old literature for things like the Commodore 64 or the Apple II. As in this, where the speed is denoted in "MHz" and the memory sizes in "K" or "K bytes". Was it the marketing people who started the whole K = kilo thing? Or just the unwashed masses when they got into computers back in the mid-late 80's?
Just because we have a winner-take-all system means we have to be stuck with the Republicans and Democrats forever. If one of the minor parties gets enough votes to become a contender, they could very well push out one of the existing major parties (as a three party system is not stable). It's already happened once in US history. Possibly this new party may be interested in reforming the voting system. But to vote for the Republicans and Democrats is just a vote for more of the same, and by doing that you can guarantee you'll never see ranked balloting or anything else like it.
Basically what happened is that Microsoft offers up cheap Windows Starter licenses for netbooks. Because of this, they have to define exactly what and what is not a "netbook" and they define a netbook as a bunch of maximum specifications (no more than this much ram, the screen must be this size or smaller, etc.) - exceed any of them and then its a laptop and therefore the Windows license becomes more expensive. Because of this the whole netbook market is stuck in a time warp where nothing seems to be changing.
In case it's not obvious, a netbook can't have more than 1GB of ram and no more than a 10" screen, amongst other things. Sure, you'll see some that don't follow that, but they either run Windows Home Premium and cost more or are Chromebooks.
Right, because who else would sell a 2.3Ghz dual core, with 2GB of ram, integrated graphics, and a 5400RPM hard drive for $599 in 2012? Oh right, Apple.
It's easy. Figure out what you want in a laptop. Go to some PC manufacturer's sites, and configure a laptop that has what you want in it, and leave out the stuff you don't care about. Then head over to Apple's website, find the cheapest model that has all the features you want, and then marvel at how expensive it is. Yeah, you can argue that the Mac includes a bunch of stuff the PC doesn't, but if you don't care about that stuff then its adding cost but providing no value.
You mean the one where they eliminated the (only) button which means you can't turn off the stupid tap-to-click feature? I'll keep my Thinkpad, with its nub to control the pointer, a trackpad configured to act as a big scrollwheel, and three (count 'em) physical mouse buttons.
Switching power supplies that work on both 50/60Hz don't have a problem with 55 Hz, which is a surprising amount of stuff nowadays. However, other than incandescent light bulbs, just about everything else wouldn't like it.
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Unless he is working for the NSA, a format and reinstall would be sufficient to stop them from getting anything off the machine.
From what I've heard is that the one at Filton is in the best condition of any of the still existing planes, and there's interest in getting a Concorde back to flying condition for demonstrations and airshows.
If it was me I'd design a tug to pull the plane around while it was on the ground.
You'd have to consider the unintended consequences though. While a free energy source could stop fossil fuel usage almost overnight, you still have to remember that nearly all of that energy will end up as waste heat at some point. And if people aren't concerned about inefficiency, there will be a lot of waste heat, and that waste heat has to be dumped somewhere. A magical, free energy source may solve the fossil fuel problem but the end result would probably still be ecological disaster.
I've seen 16:10 monitors in 27" running at 1920x1200, but there isn't really any point in them as you can easily get that resolution in 24" (and with some money, in 22" too).
The problem is the physical size of the thing. A 27" monitor is pretty big. More than one of them is pretty unwieldy, and you then start having to physically turn your head to fully use all of it. Now, if they would finally bump up the DPI so that we could get that resolution on something like a 19" then you could have several of them and easily enjoy all that screen space.
Yes, an relating back to the fine article, why should we be extending the life of these ancient 40 year old reactors to 60 or 80 years? We should be replacing these reactors with better designs as quickly as possible, not continuing to run them for decades into the future.
With Vista and later, Windows should just silently redirect the writes and reads to Program Files to the VirtualStore in the user's profile, and the poorly written software won't be any wiser.
I've seen that when hooking things up to a serial port. For some reason, sometimes Windows Plug 'n Pray thinks that the device I hooked up is a serial mouse and installs the driver for it, then generally goes bonkers until I can remove the serial mouse in Device Manager.
Ultra-portable laptops were nothing new. Granted, other manufacturers care about dimensions other than thinness, which is the Air's gimmick. I guess you can say the removal of almost every port is pure Apple.
Try IBM.
SSDs are also nothing new. Apple was actually kind of late to that game, when they finally started offering SSDs as an option.
You can always "upgrade" your old machine from a P2 to one of the early Coppermine "E" series P3 chips if its supported. The early Coppermine's run at about 13-15W TDP which is about half of the P2, which makes them a favorite of mine as far as re-purposing old computers goes.
Windows 8 requires that the processor supports the NX bit. That locks out pretty much all the P4's except a few of the last generation chips, and anything AMD that's not 64 bit. Granted, that's some pretty dated hardware but still it's hardware that can run Vista/7 just fine.
The problem is that people don't expect that they have to pay that close attention to what they're buying to make sure they get all the features. You would think that buying an i7, which is Intel's top of the line desktop chip, would mean it would include all the features of the lower end desktop chips. But that's not always the case.
A vote for a third party is also a vote for Obama.
Besides, do you really think that Obama is really that different than Romney? As far as I can see they are very similar. Both will institute similar policies, and neither one is an acceptable choice. Even if you don't think they are similar, it's not like Obama is going to stand up to the Republicans and not cave in to whatever they demand.
But hey, go ahead and admit defeat, and vote for more of the same, so that you can make the same choice in 4 years. Go ahead and throw away your vote on a candidate that doesn't support your views and doesn't represent you. People like you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Depends on the SSD. I've seen lots of horrible stuttering on some SSDs when the free space gets below around 10%. I'd say cheap, but these include some very much not-cheap Intel drives (pre-trim, but my understanding is that these drives have some understanding of NTFS and does some free space management on its own). As always, YMMV.
Windows by default won't let you use a SATA device for Readyboost. It's looking for USB devices and some card readers. It will accept a SSD installed in one of those SATA to USB enclosures, but that'll kill a lot of the performance that you might gain. As someone else suggested, just configure Windows to have the page file on the SSD.
With Windows you also have the pagefile, which is generally around the same size as the ram if you don't change it. And if you have hibernation then you also have the hibernation file that's also the same size as your ram. If your laptop has 8GB of ram (not unreasonable), then that's 25% of your drive gone right there.
I'm actually not sure when the whole kilobytes thing came in, and if it was the CS people or not. It seems in a lot of old literature, it wasn't "kB" or "kilobytes", but "K", where K is understood to be 2^10. If you don't believe me look up some of the old literature for things like the Commodore 64 or the Apple II. As in this, where the speed is denoted in "MHz" and the memory sizes in "K" or "K bytes". Was it the marketing people who started the whole K = kilo thing? Or just the unwashed masses when they got into computers back in the mid-late 80's?
Just because we have a winner-take-all system means we have to be stuck with the Republicans and Democrats forever. If one of the minor parties gets enough votes to become a contender, they could very well push out one of the existing major parties (as a three party system is not stable). It's already happened once in US history. Possibly this new party may be interested in reforming the voting system. But to vote for the Republicans and Democrats is just a vote for more of the same, and by doing that you can guarantee you'll never see ranked balloting or anything else like it.
Basically what happened is that Microsoft offers up cheap Windows Starter licenses for netbooks. Because of this, they have to define exactly what and what is not a "netbook" and they define a netbook as a bunch of maximum specifications (no more than this much ram, the screen must be this size or smaller, etc.) - exceed any of them and then its a laptop and therefore the Windows license becomes more expensive. Because of this the whole netbook market is stuck in a time warp where nothing seems to be changing.
In case it's not obvious, a netbook can't have more than 1GB of ram and no more than a 10" screen, amongst other things. Sure, you'll see some that don't follow that, but they either run Windows Home Premium and cost more or are Chromebooks.
Yeah, but what's going to be faster, the 300 sub-$50 computers, or whatever quad-CPU workstation that you would be able to put together for $15000?
Right, because who else would sell a 2.3Ghz dual core, with 2GB of ram, integrated graphics, and a 5400RPM hard drive for $599 in 2012? Oh right, Apple.
It's easy. Figure out what you want in a laptop. Go to some PC manufacturer's sites, and configure a laptop that has what you want in it, and leave out the stuff you don't care about. Then head over to Apple's website, find the cheapest model that has all the features you want, and then marvel at how expensive it is. Yeah, you can argue that the Mac includes a bunch of stuff the PC doesn't, but if you don't care about that stuff then its adding cost but providing no value.
You mean the one where they eliminated the (only) button which means you can't turn off the stupid tap-to-click feature? I'll keep my Thinkpad, with its nub to control the pointer, a trackpad configured to act as a big scrollwheel, and three (count 'em) physical mouse buttons.
Switching power supplies that work on both 50/60Hz don't have a problem with 55 Hz, which is a surprising amount of stuff nowadays. However, other than incandescent light bulbs, just about everything else wouldn't like it.