"What could honestly be bad about having a GPS installed in your taxi? The only thing it could possibly be used for is stopping taxi drivers from ripping off customers, really."
"Of course, I'm hoping somebody does make me look like an idiot for that, because I'd be very interested in the laptop brand they come up with."
I have significantly upgraded (replaced) the CPU, hard drive, CD/DVD, BIOS and added Linux as a 2nd operating system on a 7 year old Sony FXA-33 laptop.
That shouldn't make you feel like an idiot though because most laptops aren't as easy to mod or have the a cult following that mods them. It also cost about the same as buying a bottom of the line new laptop that would outperform it. It was more fun though.
The real show stopper is making a laptop as comfortable to use, with as big and good a display as a well set up desktop. I don't see that happening.
"My planned replacement components include a power supply with PFC [wikipedia.org],"
That's a nice thing to do, but home users are rarely billed based on power factor. Industrial and business users frequently are. If your PFC power supply is also more efficient, then that's a reason for home users to buy one.
I've washed three keyboards by taking them apart, all three had only plastic in the top half. The electronics and spring function were in the lower half (YMMV).
The real disgusting crud was all on the plastic only top half, which made it through the dish washer with no problems. They looked like new afterwards.
The lower half with the delicate stuff had stayed pretty clean, a little blast of air and some gentile wiping with a damp (water only) sponge took care of it.
If you are willing to risk the effects of dishwasher detergent on electronics, then the risk of taking a keyboard apart shouldn't bother you at all.
Disclaimer, all three keyboards, an MS and 2 brand X El-Cheapos were all held together with screws, a snap together keyboard would be a bit more difficult, but not a show stopper.
It's worth taking a modern keyboard apart just to marvel at it's simplicity. They may be cheap, but some creative mechanical design has gone into them.
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"1. My understanding was that GI stood for General Infantry."
It stands for Government Issue.
At least Vista cut down on the number of complaints about XP.
Windows Vista, making XP look good for 7 months now.
"What could honestly be bad about having a GPS installed in your taxi? The only thing it could possibly be used for is stopping taxi drivers from ripping off customers, really."
I see you have answered your own question.
OP was correct, first tear customers are the ones on the bleeding edge of technology.
Note: That's tear as in what drips out of eyes of an unhappy person, not tear, as in "tear him a new on"
Nope, it makes it better by a factor of 1000. It would 0.062 Texas landmasses instead of 62 TLM.
Then there is the way you estimated fuel requirements for the country, but it's good enough for ballpark type guestimates.
"42,087,306,792.96 sq. meters / 678,051,000 sq. meters = 62.071004678055190538764783180026 land masses the size of the US State of Texas"
Texas is now only 261 sq miles according to you. What happened to the rest of it?
Looks like you converted from km^2 to m^2 by multiplying by 1000 instead of 1000^2.
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I would like to help you out, but a poured beer has never sat for 30 minutes in my presence.
Cheers
I would like to help you out, but a poured beer has never sat for 30 minutes.
Cheers
Yes, the resulting element is vitamin P
It will take the manufacturers all of a blink of an eye to create Euro only models by changing the firmware to limit video capabilities.
Then buyers can change the firmware after they get the cameras.
"Of course, I'm hoping somebody does make me look like an idiot for that, because I'd be very interested in the laptop brand they come up with."
I have significantly upgraded (replaced) the CPU, hard drive, CD/DVD, BIOS and added Linux as a 2nd operating system on a 7 year old Sony FXA-33 laptop.
That shouldn't make you feel like an idiot though because most laptops aren't as easy to mod or have the a cult following that mods them. It also cost about the same as buying a bottom of the line new laptop that would outperform it. It was more fun though.
The real show stopper is making a laptop as comfortable to use, with as big and good a display as a well set up desktop. I don't see that happening.
That would be OK if you wanted calamari rings the size of tractor tires....with the chewability of tractor tire.
They aren't planning on just throwing a wrench across it's terminals to drain the power.
"My planned replacement components include a power supply with PFC [wikipedia.org],"
That's a nice thing to do, but home users are rarely billed based on power factor. Industrial and business users frequently are. If your PFC power supply is also more efficient, then that's a reason for home users to buy one.
Damn you, you're going to get more funny mod points than I am :)
No worry, there will always be a market for vinyl.
"it amazes me that something this dumb can be posting material."
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It amazes me that anyone is amazed about dumb posting material on
England and America, two countries divided by a common language. :)
In Soviet America satellites scat on you.
In the US the total Dicks drive big SUVs and 4wd pickup trucks that are never driven off pavement.
We need to get them to convert to Smarts.
I've washed three keyboards by taking them apart, all three had only plastic in the top half. The electronics and spring function were in the lower half (YMMV).
The real disgusting crud was all on the plastic only top half, which made it through the dish washer with no problems. They looked like new afterwards.
The lower half with the delicate stuff had stayed pretty clean, a little blast of air and some gentile wiping with a damp (water only) sponge took care of it.
If you are willing to risk the effects of dishwasher detergent on electronics, then the risk of taking a keyboard apart shouldn't bother you at all.
Disclaimer, all three keyboards, an MS and 2 brand X El-Cheapos were all held together with screws, a snap together keyboard would be a bit more difficult, but not a show stopper.
It's worth taking a modern keyboard apart just to marvel at it's simplicity. They may be cheap, but some creative mechanical design has gone into them.
Some also had an rf stage and a 2nd IF as well as push pull audio for a legitimate count of 7 transistors.
Having a program randomly fast forward and go back and repeat parts sounds like watching TV when my wife has the remote. Except for the porn part.
No, but I wish I had.
Using Bush's and Cheney's personal behavior as justification for anything is setting a dangerous president.