The result will be that you've spent $300 less, you've got machines that are reasonably current for 4 years, and the system you get out at the end is faster.
You're also sending twice as much to the garbage pile.
I know this isn't a consideration for most, and it's all but encouraged through the new "disposable electronics" thing that's crept up over the last decade, but at some point we need to consider that some considerations extend beyond the financial, even when talking about buying consumer goods.
For instance, I know people that buy a new printer every time their starter ink runs out because it's still cheaper than buying replacement ink cartridges. Three times a year they're throwing a perfectly good printer into the trash. Yeah, it saves them money, but does that really make it right to throw it in a landfill? I have a hard time saying yes.
Maybe if we required manufacturers to subsidize the disposal of their goods when such goods are non-biodegradable it would help do something to eliminate the whole "designed for the dump" phenomenon?
A machine that was bleeding-edge two years ago is still quite powerful today for the majority of people out there. Also, not every server in the rack has to be equal. There are plenty of less-demanding but still important roles that two year old machine can fill when it is kicked down a notch. I'm sure the "weakest link" hardware can be put to good use elsewhere when upgrade time rolls around. I know I consider the mobo-CPU combo as a unit now, rather than thinking "I can upgrade the CPU later". Maybe I can and maybe I can't, but it doesn't matter that much. So long as I have room to boost RAM and storage, I can extend the useful life of the hardware a great deal. It just may not be my fastest, l33t3st system any more. At worst, I can give the machine away -- my 3 year old secondhand hardware is generally as good as most people would buy off the shelf new, and I already have a good idea what it does best.
As for doctors, they can't fix stupid, but they can help quite a bit with ADHD and similar neurological disorders.
Sometimes they can. I have two examples, both from the same grandmother. 1. In her early 70's, she started to act strangely -- driving adequately but forgetting where she was going, for example. Then she was found to be diabetic, and when this was brought under control, SHE GOT A LOT SMARTER because the things that had been holding back her still-substantial latent abilities were no longer doing so. 2. She has been going deaf for a long time, but recently got a pair of new glasses. She almost immediately remarked at how her new glasses made her HEAR BETTER. She was well aware that it was because she could read lips better when she could see well, but she still treated it as a restoration of hearing because functionally, it was.
Doctors can't "fix stupid", if by "stupid" you mean a brain with inherently low processing and memory capabilities. However, if it is a case of existing capabilities going unused or underused due to other bottlenecks in the system, then sometimes they CAN "fix stupid".
(Bad form to reply to myself, but I just thought of this.)
Google+ is still in beta. It is still within the realm of possibility that Google could comply by nuking ALL their stored data and making everyone build a new profile. Facebook would probably suffer badly if they decided to go this route.
The US lets you choose the person who will take the lobbyists money for the next 4 years, and you get no further say in your national or state politics beyond that choice.
I was merely pointing out that this is not entirely accurate -- you CAN boot the fuckers out of office if they fuck up egregiously enough. It just doesn't happen anywhere near as often as it should.
That would also make it awkward for search engines such as Google. Given that information posted on social networks is generally searchable, that information, once cached, is very, very difficult to erase.
See: Wayback Machine. I've used this wonderful site myself, very recently, to grab snapshots of a website I helped set up in 1997 (kitbag.com, which sells sportswear), to show someone something (which was relevant to the conversation at the time, I can't remember now what that was all about even though it wasn't two weeks ago...). Said site now uses php, I believe; way back then it was coded in ASP.
This only means that Google would have to respond to a takedown request directly from the person who owned the profile (or their heirs) -- they wouldn't be responsible for a request made to Facebook to delete data, because they would not receive a copy of that request. As for the data already cached, Facebook et al are going to have to do some major purging AND send search engines a request to do the same. Until they do, Google should not have to purge anything since they didn't originally collect it. Now this data protection act WOULD apply to Google+, but not so much to the search engine.
There is a massive difference between a representative democracy and a democracy. Switzerland is FAR closer to being a democracy than the US is. They actually ask their population's opinion on major things, and then are bound by their citizen's choices. The US lets you choose the person who will take the lobbyists money for the next 4 years, and you get no further say in your national or state politics beyond that choice.
Not exactly, at least at the state level (in some states). There is a procedure known as a recall election which allows the populace to remove elected officials from office. Unfortunately there is no equivalent at the Federal level, nor does every state have such provisions.
Fork-scraping never bothered me. Maybe it depends on the fork and plate, but as I recall, it's usually lower frequency. Styrofoam is annoying, but not shiver-inducing like the fingernails on chalkboard thing. Again, I think the frequency is lower most of the time I've encountered the stuff rubbing against itself.
My parakeet rather likes squeaky noises made by rubbing styrofoam against various things. This sound can actually get her to start singing or playing with bells. She also likes when I watch basketball, because of the squeaky shoes.
Now, silverware scratching on a plate? Gives me the shudders.
Stravinsky was at a formal dinner of some sort, and asked the diner next to him "do you know how to make a violin section do this?" and scraped his fork across his plate with a horrible screech. When the fellow diner cringed, Stravinsky smiled, and said "I do."
That assumes you didn't just spend four years on a specialized degree for a field that is shrinking, no longer hiring, or changing beyond recognition. For example, what do you do after spending a college career learning to write decent code, if someone on the other side of the world will do it for a quarter the price? Are you expected to be Prometheus and know the future consequences of every decision you make, or at least the expensive but necessary ones?
They liked some things about the vehicle, and not others. It doesn't matter if they drove it differently, because at least a certain proportion of real-world drivers are going to do the same. Tesla needs to swallow their pride and take criticism as an opportunity to improve the product.
I would imagine it is only a requirement for BUNDLED Windows. MS has a significant interest in making sure the unbundled (and costlier) boxed Windows will still work on whatever you want.
It took about 20 minutes to upgrade my Acer Aspire 5253 from 2 GB to 8 (a move I would highly recommend, as it costs less than $50). This required pulling two screws and carefully dislocating a flexible plastic cover, allowing access to the RAM and the hard drive. If the override switch was in this region also, I wouldn't have a whole lot of problem with it.
My partner and I are currently working on a milling machine of high precision but low durability. The first job of this machine (aside from a few low-volume items for testing and cash flow purposes) will be to make more durable replacement parts for itself, then to make a complete second machine (though we would have to assemble it). It will be cheap, simple, and slow -- but slow is not a problem if you can use it to make more complex/durable but faster versions of itself.
I don't see why a bong would have to be torrented. Most who use them would be perfectly willing to share the design -- and that would include a significant number of people who have rolled their own. If I found a design I liked and was unable to distribute it, I'd make one, scan it back in (or hand-enter it), and distribute THAT. The analog hole is even bigger for physical objects than it is for audio files.
Maybe your daughter should make her works of materials that are not easily copied, or where each piece would come out unique even if the dimensions are identical -- multi-dyed plastics, Damascus steel, marble, and such heterogeneous materials.
With the current Sandy Bridge -K chips (unlocked multiplier), it's fairly easy to get a 40% boost in speed with just a $50 aftermarket HSF. With water cooling, a boost of about 70% is possible.
With AMD (Phenom II), 25%+ overclocks with a $30 aftermarket cooler are pretty much the norm. The 1055T overclocks better than the 1090T, which in turn overclocks better than the 1100T, because of the lower stock frequency. For top clock speed, the 1055T is going to come up a bit short and there is no real difference between a 1090T and an 1100T except that the 1090T ships at 16x and the 1100T at 16.5x.
Unfortunately, unless you want to use rather expensive RAM, loosened timings are going to eat up much of the benefit of memory overclocking -- and if you don't OC the memory, a 40% CPU overclock does not translate into a 40% system speedup.
As much as I like AMD, the stock cooler that came with my Phenom II X6 was garbage. It was incredibly loud and while CPU temps were acceptable they were borderline high/critical. Contrast with the Zyman I replaced it with, which ran silently and dropped temps by 12 degrees on average. Having gone through that, I'd definitely take a discount on a high-end CPU without a heatsink and provide my own aftermarket cooling solution--I don't think I'll plan on using stock coolers anymore...
I used the stock cooler that came with my 1090T Black Edition (3.2 GHz) for a while. As you pointed out, it was loud and only marginally acceptable, but it DID do the job at stock speed and voltage. Surprisingly, it almost did the job at 3.6 GHz (the "turbo core" speed, although only with three or fewer cores in use), and was sufficient to show 3.8 was stable. I have since replaced it with a Cooler Master Hyper212 and added the second fan.
Even with both fans going 100% at all times (which makes very little noise), the CPU will STILL heat up and throttle itself when running Prime95 on all six cores at once when running at 4 GHz (which also necessitates a voltage bump, it'll only go to 3.8 at stock voltage). Importantly though, it neither fries nor crashes when it starts to overload. Still, while I was able to lower noise and increase clock speed with the Hyper212, it's not IMMENSELY faster. This is probably why AMD considers its stock cooler adequate. It is, if you stick to the specs. (But why would you buy a Black Edition and NOT overclock it?)
Further, the only thing shut off was BART's own equipment. They were transparent enough to say "we shut off our gear rather than let you use it to organize against us", rather than blaming the outage on some sort of convenient hardware failure (or vandalism, which probably would have passed the sniff test under the circumstances). I can't imagine the cell sites outside the paid platform (which were left on) have zero spillover, so those who absolutely needed it could stand at the periphery while waiting for the next train.
I can hear when a CRT is powered on (TV or computer monitor). Something about the magnetic field, which is apparently stimulating something in my ears, allowing me to hear a very high pitched sound. I've met one other person who experiences the same.
Simpler than that -- you may just be hearing the whine of a flyback transformer, which at 15.5 kHz lies within the normal range of hearing.
One other technique to cut down stopping distance (although it won't work every time - but what does?) is to hover your foot over the brake pedal without making actual contact if you feel that the brake pedal is the one you are likely to use next.
Whether you drive stick or auto, you can hover the left foot over the brake in such situations, unless you're using that foot to clutch. This DOES take some practice though, or you're more likely than not to stomp on the brake as if it was the clutch, which is probably not what you had in mind.
The cost of not having a space program is measured in what we won't produce and is therefore something we will never known.
It's also measured in fewer research jobs, and fewer researchers drawn to the field. If they end up in related fields anyhow, and don't miss the prestige of being a "rocket scientist", this may be minor... but again, we can't tell.
I do not understand how it can be causally linked that this app somehow promotes drinking. Personally I would want to have (and contribute data to) this application even if I'm stone cold sober simply because CHECKPOINTS SUCK. You'd want to avoid an area that's stopped for an accident, why would you not want to avoid an area that is similarly stopped for a checkpoint?
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Not really, it's a sales gimmick. Less on the sides, but more on the larger lid. Appearance of more used, but actually about the same.
I suppose it has never occurred to ANYONE to unscrew the lid and dip their fries directly in it.
The result will be that you've spent $300 less, you've got machines that are reasonably current for 4 years, and the system you get out at the end is faster.
You're also sending twice as much to the garbage pile.
I know this isn't a consideration for most, and it's all but encouraged through the new "disposable electronics" thing that's crept up over the last decade, but at some point we need to consider that some considerations extend beyond the financial, even when talking about buying consumer goods.
For instance, I know people that buy a new printer every time their starter ink runs out because it's still cheaper than buying replacement ink cartridges. Three times a year they're throwing a perfectly good printer into the trash. Yeah, it saves them money, but does that really make it right to throw it in a landfill? I have a hard time saying yes.
Maybe if we required manufacturers to subsidize the disposal of their goods when such goods are non-biodegradable it would help do something to eliminate the whole "designed for the dump" phenomenon?
A machine that was bleeding-edge two years ago is still quite powerful today for the majority of people out there. Also, not every server in the rack has to be equal. There are plenty of less-demanding but still important roles that two year old machine can fill when it is kicked down a notch. I'm sure the "weakest link" hardware can be put to good use elsewhere when upgrade time rolls around. I know I consider the mobo-CPU combo as a unit now, rather than thinking "I can upgrade the CPU later". Maybe I can and maybe I can't, but it doesn't matter that much. So long as I have room to boost RAM and storage, I can extend the useful life of the hardware a great deal. It just may not be my fastest, l33t3st system any more. At worst, I can give the machine away -- my 3 year old secondhand hardware is generally as good as most people would buy off the shelf new, and I already have a good idea what it does best.
As for doctors, they can't fix stupid, but they can help quite a bit with ADHD and similar neurological disorders.
Sometimes they can. I have two examples, both from the same grandmother.
1. In her early 70's, she started to act strangely -- driving adequately but forgetting where she was going, for example. Then she was found to be diabetic, and when this was brought under control, SHE GOT A LOT SMARTER because the things that had been holding back her still-substantial latent abilities were no longer doing so.
2. She has been going deaf for a long time, but recently got a pair of new glasses. She almost immediately remarked at how her new glasses made her HEAR BETTER. She was well aware that it was because she could read lips better when she could see well, but she still treated it as a restoration of hearing because functionally, it was.
Doctors can't "fix stupid", if by "stupid" you mean a brain with inherently low processing and memory capabilities. However, if it is a case of existing capabilities going unused or underused due to other bottlenecks in the system, then sometimes they CAN "fix stupid".
(Bad form to reply to myself, but I just thought of this.)
Google+ is still in beta. It is still within the realm of possibility that Google could comply by nuking ALL their stored data and making everyone build a new profile. Facebook would probably suffer badly if they decided to go this route.
That's why I said "not exactly". The GP said:
The US lets you choose the person who will take the lobbyists money for the next 4 years, and you get no further say in your national or state politics beyond that choice.
I was merely pointing out that this is not entirely accurate -- you CAN boot the fuckers out of office if they fuck up egregiously enough. It just doesn't happen anywhere near as often as it should.
That would also make it awkward for search engines such as Google. Given that information posted on social networks is generally searchable, that information, once cached, is very, very difficult to erase.
See: Wayback Machine. I've used this wonderful site myself, very recently, to grab snapshots of a website I helped set up in 1997 (kitbag.com, which sells sportswear), to show someone something (which was relevant to the conversation at the time, I can't remember now what that was all about even though it wasn't two weeks ago...). Said site now uses php, I believe; way back then it was coded in ASP.
This only means that Google would have to respond to a takedown request directly from the person who owned the profile (or their heirs) -- they wouldn't be responsible for a request made to Facebook to delete data, because they would not receive a copy of that request. As for the data already cached, Facebook et al are going to have to do some major purging AND send search engines a request to do the same. Until they do, Google should not have to purge anything since they didn't originally collect it. Now this data protection act WOULD apply to Google+, but not so much to the search engine.
You're thinking of Texas.
Reminds me of an old joke. Someone from the east coast is bound for Texas and stops for directions. They are given as follows:
"Go west till you smell cow shit. That's Oklahoma. Then go south till you're standing in it. That's Texas."
There is a massive difference between a representative democracy and a democracy. Switzerland is FAR closer to being a democracy than the US is. They actually ask their population's opinion on major things, and then are bound by their citizen's choices. The US lets you choose the person who will take the lobbyists money for the next 4 years, and you get no further say in your national or state politics beyond that choice.
Not exactly, at least at the state level (in some states). There is a procedure known as a recall election which allows the populace to remove elected officials from office. Unfortunately there is no equivalent at the Federal level, nor does every state have such provisions.
Fork-scraping never bothered me. Maybe it depends on the fork and plate, but as I recall, it's usually lower frequency. Styrofoam is annoying, but not shiver-inducing like the fingernails on chalkboard thing. Again, I think the frequency is lower most of the time I've encountered the stuff rubbing against itself.
My parakeet rather likes squeaky noises made by rubbing styrofoam against various things. This sound can actually get her to start singing or playing with bells. She also likes when I watch basketball, because of the squeaky shoes.
I never found it to be that annoying.
Now, silverware scratching on a plate? Gives me the shudders.
Stravinsky was at a formal dinner of some sort, and asked the diner next to him "do you know how to make a violin section do this?" and scraped his fork across his plate with a horrible screech. When the fellow diner cringed, Stravinsky smiled, and said "I do."
Could do it one time, the get out of hock free card, payable to the Federal Reserve Bank.
Exactly once. Those holding the purse strings know this, and they seek to maximize the benefit to themselves when they do it.
Follow the money.
That assumes you didn't just spend four years on a specialized degree for a field that is shrinking, no longer hiring, or changing beyond recognition. For example, what do you do after spending a college career learning to write decent code, if someone on the other side of the world will do it for a quarter the price? Are you expected to be Prometheus and know the future consequences of every decision you make, or at least the expensive but necessary ones?
They liked some things about the vehicle, and not others. It doesn't matter if they drove it differently, because at least a certain proportion of real-world drivers are going to do the same. Tesla needs to swallow their pride and take criticism as an opportunity to improve the product.
I would imagine it is only a requirement for BUNDLED Windows. MS has a significant interest in making sure the unbundled (and costlier) boxed Windows will still work on whatever you want.
It took about 20 minutes to upgrade my Acer Aspire 5253 from 2 GB to 8 (a move I would highly recommend, as it costs less than $50). This required pulling two screws and carefully dislocating a flexible plastic cover, allowing access to the RAM and the hard drive. If the override switch was in this region also, I wouldn't have a whole lot of problem with it.
My partner and I are currently working on a milling machine of high precision but low durability. The first job of this machine (aside from a few low-volume items for testing and cash flow purposes) will be to make more durable replacement parts for itself, then to make a complete second machine (though we would have to assemble it). It will be cheap, simple, and slow -- but slow is not a problem if you can use it to make more complex/durable but faster versions of itself.
I don't see why a bong would have to be torrented. Most who use them would be perfectly willing to share the design -- and that would include a significant number of people who have rolled their own. If I found a design I liked and was unable to distribute it, I'd make one, scan it back in (or hand-enter it), and distribute THAT. The analog hole is even bigger for physical objects than it is for audio files.
Maybe your daughter should make her works of materials that are not easily copied, or where each piece would come out unique even if the dimensions are identical -- multi-dyed plastics, Damascus steel, marble, and such heterogeneous materials.
With the current Sandy Bridge -K chips (unlocked multiplier), it's fairly easy to get a 40% boost in speed with just a $50 aftermarket HSF. With water cooling, a boost of about 70% is possible.
With AMD (Phenom II), 25%+ overclocks with a $30 aftermarket cooler are pretty much the norm. The 1055T overclocks better than the 1090T, which in turn overclocks better than the 1100T, because of the lower stock frequency. For top clock speed, the 1055T is going to come up a bit short and there is no real difference between a 1090T and an 1100T except that the 1090T ships at 16x and the 1100T at 16.5x.
Unfortunately, unless you want to use rather expensive RAM, loosened timings are going to eat up much of the benefit of memory overclocking -- and if you don't OC the memory, a 40% CPU overclock does not translate into a 40% system speedup.
As much as I like AMD, the stock cooler that came with my Phenom II X6 was garbage. It was incredibly loud and while CPU temps were acceptable they were borderline high/critical. Contrast with the Zyman I replaced it with, which ran silently and dropped temps by 12 degrees on average. Having gone through that, I'd definitely take a discount on a high-end CPU without a heatsink and provide my own aftermarket cooling solution--I don't think I'll plan on using stock coolers anymore...
I used the stock cooler that came with my 1090T Black Edition (3.2 GHz) for a while. As you pointed out, it was loud and only marginally acceptable, but it DID do the job at stock speed and voltage. Surprisingly, it almost did the job at 3.6 GHz (the "turbo core" speed, although only with three or fewer cores in use), and was sufficient to show 3.8 was stable. I have since replaced it with a Cooler Master Hyper212 and added the second fan.
Even with both fans going 100% at all times (which makes very little noise), the CPU will STILL heat up and throttle itself when running Prime95 on all six cores at once when running at 4 GHz (which also necessitates a voltage bump, it'll only go to 3.8 at stock voltage). Importantly though, it neither fries nor crashes when it starts to overload. Still, while I was able to lower noise and increase clock speed with the Hyper212, it's not IMMENSELY faster. This is probably why AMD considers its stock cooler adequate. It is, if you stick to the specs. (But why would you buy a Black Edition and NOT overclock it?)
Further, the only thing shut off was BART's own equipment. They were transparent enough to say "we shut off our gear rather than let you use it to organize against us", rather than blaming the outage on some sort of convenient hardware failure (or vandalism, which probably would have passed the sniff test under the circumstances). I can't imagine the cell sites outside the paid platform (which were left on) have zero spillover, so those who absolutely needed it could stand at the periphery while waiting for the next train.
I can hear when a CRT is powered on (TV or computer monitor). Something about the magnetic field, which is apparently stimulating something in my ears, allowing me to hear a very high pitched sound. I've met one other person who experiences the same.
Simpler than that -- you may just be hearing the whine of a flyback transformer, which at 15.5 kHz lies within the normal range of hearing.
Whether you drive stick or auto, you can hover the left foot over the brake in such situations, unless you're using that foot to clutch. This DOES take some practice though, or you're more likely than not to stomp on the brake as if it was the clutch, which is probably not what you had in mind.
It's also measured in fewer research jobs, and fewer researchers drawn to the field. If they end up in related fields anyhow, and don't miss the prestige of being a "rocket scientist", this may be minor... but again, we can't tell.
Not to mention that about the only useful purposes for gold are a watch (and you only need one), and powered rails. What a tree puncher...
I do not understand how it can be causally linked that this app somehow promotes drinking. Personally I would want to have (and contribute data to) this application even if I'm stone cold sober simply because CHECKPOINTS SUCK. You'd want to avoid an area that's stopped for an accident, why would you not want to avoid an area that is similarly stopped for a checkpoint?