If you get the chance to move out, consider getting a Passive House, where it has super-thick insulation and is hermetically sealed. You wouldn't have to worry about frozen pipes in that kind of setup.
Um.. LEDs are roughly a point source. They're only directional because the silicon is embedded inside a spherical lens. Indicator LEDs are set up that way because they've actually been pretty weak and.. why make more light than you need to?
Ford has a great line-up right now. The problem is that they need to have been building cars people want to drive for two decades now. Ford has only been building good cars for the better part of a decade, so they haven't won back their mind share yet.
nitpick: It was mostly after *foreign* governments were briefly a major consumer of goods and raw materials. And had the kindness not to use any of said material to damage that production capacity.
Consumption does not produce wealth. In fact, the idea that it does is one of the principle economic theories sketched out by the novel, 1984.
Uh.. at least Xerox and Kleenex did, for a time, lose their trademarks. Somehow they got them back. I'm a little mystified as to how that works, exactly. It is something that even Google is afraid of, though, or they wouldn't make a huff about people verbing their name.
"If I passed you on the right you are in the wrong fucking lane"
I had just put my turn signal on, you dumbass, and I was waiting for the lane to clear when you zipped over to pass me. If you'd been the least bit patient, you wouldn't have had to slow down even.
A quick lesson: The turn signal indicates my intention to maneuver. It is not an instruction for you to maneuver into the space that I've indicated my intention to occupy. Especially when I'm just trying to get out of your way.
Copying files to where, though. If it's on the same disk, that sounds more like a filesystem problem than an OS problem (except insofar as the OS has a default filesystem)
Not really that useful. A cofferdam will just slice the cable just outside the wall when you drive the steel elements into the seabed. Also, it'll take weeks or months to set up and break down, and doesn't work in water deeper than a few hundred feet, anyway.
Now you could use a caisson or dive bell to do the repairs, but then you have the issue of damaging workers' health in long saturation dives, and you have to spend long time getting guys up and down to the work site.
The best option is the one they do: hook both ends of the cable and drag them up to the tender, lock it in to your mobile clean room and take your time. It's just like your clamshell plan, except there's no risk of crimping the cable, and no need for a heavy pressure hull.
Except that some people don't value support, prestige or intangibles.
What's annoying about Apple is that they've basically said a big F U to the value people, by selling hardware at such a tremendous markup. I know people who've looked at their prices and specs and said, screw that, for that price I could get a nice computer AND a laptop, with better specs on BOTH (if I overlook the monitor on the desktop)
People expect to pay more yes, and their hardware has a lot of added features that most people would say they only really want one of. But they don't even offer just a well-running current-spec'd plain-ol desktop machine.
Suppose I want a simple Core2Duo tower with 2 hard drives, a free PCI slot, a 9600GT or GTX260 video card to dual boot XP/*nix and OSX. That hardware will run well under $2k even after you drop a 21" monitor on it. Sure it might not have bluetooth, but that isn't a spec item you care about anyway.
I think you need to check your math there. That hardware should run well under ONE thousand.
Anyway, it is certainly quite annoying that they basically tell people like you, "F you, we don't even want your money." And even more annoyingly, it looks like they really don't need money from people like you.
Unfortunate for whom, you might want to consider. Illicit cards / recharges will be a silent subsidy for Mass's burgeoning organized crime industry, as well as the poorer denizens of the metropolitan area.
They just have to make sure that it doesn't get too much publicity. As long as they can keep it to a story or two per year, and put forth the appearance that they're "doing something about it," it'll be business as usual in the Bay State.
Speaking of which, are there any good tools for profiling your system in a little more detail?
At the consumer level, the knobs I can turn are:
CPU speed, Last-level cache, RAM size, RAM speed, FSB speed, HDD size, speed, RPMs, GPU speed, GPU RAM size, GPU bus type&speed, GPU shared memory (if applicable), and probably more, but those are the easy-ies.
But top and task manager are not nearly detailed enough to make guesses about which improvements would actually be useful, and if you've got an upgrade budget of one or two hundred dollars, you can only make one dramatic change or two or three small changes. Across the board = new system, but then I have to guess what combo of those is most efficient.
anyway, I'd really like to be able to buy a cheap, but upgradable system, load the software I'm going to use on it, and then determine what additional upgrades, if any, to bother with.
For instance, does an extra 4 MB of L2 cache really make a difference? (most importantly, would it make a difference to me?) Would it be better to just spend that money on RAM, or would the applications I'm running not actually need any more?
Surely that might work for a one-off, but if you're selling millions or even thousands of copies of your software, even a $100 increase in hardware requirements costs the economy millions. Just because it doesn't cost YOU millions doesn't mean you don't see the cost.
If your customers are spending millions on hardware, that money is going to the hardware vendors, not to you. And more importantly, that money represents wasted effort. Effort that could otherwise be used to increase real wealth, thus making the dollars you do earn more valuable.
So i guess the lesson is, If you're CERN, throw hardware at it. If you're Adobe, get a lot of good programmers/architects.
What do the people in your office do? Are they out there building and maintaining the wonders of Dubai's skyline? Working the dredgers that build up the artificial islands? Serving the meals, cleaning the sheets, polishing the brass, driving the trucks?
Yeah. Of course the office workers aren't getting the slave wages. They're the rich people the slaves are building Dubai for.
Jeez man, think a little. Just because you need a job doesn't mean you're poor.
Putting aside that the FDA grades are about tastiness, not food safety, a little cow shit probably won't hurt you. Cows are herbivores, and what comes out is not all that different from what goes in. They make it up in volume.
Besides, if you don't like manure in your food, you ought to spend more time not eating mushrooms. Which are basically made of the stuff.
Indeed. People who've voiced a desire for certain features (i.e. colorspaces, depth, and more) of Photoshop are loudly informed by the developers that GIMP isn't photoshop. So it certainly does seem odd that it would be used as a "It doesn't matter that we don't have photoshop" bullet point.
Not that easily found, no. You're going to have to go looking for anything really damaging. Plus safe-search settings are already pretty good.
You put restrictions on the machines, and you're solving the wrong problem. What you really ought to do is not allow unsupervised use of the laptops. Or as I like to call it, "Just get a lab full of desktop machines like a normal school."
For instance, if unsupervised, students can use google as a calculator to cheat on their math assignments. But all that does is slow down their learning of math. If you're going to go so far as to restrict google searches, you might as well not even bother with the laptops.
Just because computers can make a robot build a car faster does not mean that they can substantively improve learning of basic concepts. Stop trying to use them as some kind of magic productivity enhancing talisman.
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If you get the chance to move out, consider getting a Passive House, where it has super-thick insulation and is hermetically sealed. You wouldn't have to worry about frozen pipes in that kind of setup.
Not for long, anyway.
Um.. LEDs are roughly a point source. They're only directional because the silicon is embedded inside a spherical lens. Indicator LEDs are set up that way because they've actually been pretty weak and.. why make more light than you need to?
And.. How fast do you think it's going to spin after you fill the bag with water?
That claim would have a lot more traction if they folded the cost of the boxes into the regular price, rather than charging separately for them.
Isn't that actually better than owning the box, since they'd be taking all the liability for damage due to normal wear and tear?
The plastic ones are nicer on the shirts, though, even though you can't use them to make makeshift hotwire setups. Also the eyes...
Anyway, you can get all the metal hangers you'll ever want. Just get some clothes dry cleaned once in a while.
Ford has a great line-up right now. The problem is that they need to have been building cars people want to drive for two decades now. Ford has only been building good cars for the better part of a decade, so they haven't won back their mind share yet.
Shiny white? That's so last year. It's dull aluminum now. And, for some reason, keys with big ugly gaps in between them.
I'm still trying to figure out what "industrial design" is, and why they think it's
A) a selling point.
and
B) something that a mass-produced generic PC replicated hundreds of times across a vast field of cubicles doesn't have.
It's boom town over there right now. The real troopers are the ones who stay on over the winter.
nitpick: It was mostly after *foreign* governments were briefly a major consumer of goods and raw materials. And had the kindness not to use any of said material to damage that production capacity.
Consumption does not produce wealth. In fact, the idea that it does is one of the principle economic theories sketched out by the novel, 1984.
Uh.. at least Xerox and Kleenex did, for a time, lose their trademarks. Somehow they got them back. I'm a little mystified as to how that works, exactly. It is something that even Google is afraid of, though, or they wouldn't make a huff about people verbing their name.
I had just put my turn signal on, you dumbass, and I was waiting for the lane to clear when you zipped over to pass me. If you'd been the least bit patient, you wouldn't have had to slow down even.
A quick lesson: The turn signal indicates my intention to maneuver. It is not an instruction for you to maneuver into the space that I've indicated my intention to occupy. Especially when I'm just trying to get out of your way.
Copying files to where, though. If it's on the same disk, that sounds more like a filesystem problem than an OS problem (except insofar as the OS has a default filesystem)
Not really that useful. A cofferdam will just slice the cable just outside the wall when you drive the steel elements into the seabed. Also, it'll take weeks or months to set up and break down, and doesn't work in water deeper than a few hundred feet, anyway.
Now you could use a caisson or dive bell to do the repairs, but then you have the issue of damaging workers' health in long saturation dives, and you have to spend long time getting guys up and down to the work site.
The best option is the one they do: hook both ends of the cable and drag them up to the tender, lock it in to your mobile clean room and take your time. It's just like your clamshell plan, except there's no risk of crimping the cable, and no need for a heavy pressure hull.
What's annoying about Apple is that they've basically said a big F U to the value people, by selling hardware at such a tremendous markup. I know people who've looked at their prices and specs and said, screw that, for that price I could get a nice computer AND a laptop, with better specs on BOTH (if I overlook the monitor on the desktop)
People expect to pay more yes, and their hardware has a lot of added features that most people would say they only really want one of. But they don't even offer just a well-running current-spec'd plain-ol desktop machine.
I think you need to check your math there. That hardware should run well under ONE thousand.
Anyway, it is certainly quite annoying that they basically tell people like you, "F you, we don't even want your money." And even more annoyingly, it looks like they really don't need money from people like you.
Unfortunate for whom, you might want to consider. Illicit cards / recharges will be a silent subsidy for Mass's burgeoning organized crime industry, as well as the poorer denizens of the metropolitan area.
They just have to make sure that it doesn't get too much publicity. As long as they can keep it to a story or two per year, and put forth the appearance that they're "doing something about it," it'll be business as usual in the Bay State.
Aria? Like the song the fat lady sings? Interesting.
A roll of film is not reusable.
Speaking of which, are there any good tools for profiling your system in a little more detail?
At the consumer level, the knobs I can turn are:
CPU speed, Last-level cache, RAM size, RAM speed, FSB speed, HDD size, speed, RPMs, GPU speed, GPU RAM size, GPU bus type&speed, GPU shared memory (if applicable), and probably more, but those are the easy-ies.
But top and task manager are not nearly detailed enough to make guesses about which improvements would actually be useful, and if you've got an upgrade budget of one or two hundred dollars, you can only make one dramatic change or two or three small changes. Across the board = new system, but then I have to guess what combo of those is most efficient.
anyway, I'd really like to be able to buy a cheap, but upgradable system, load the software I'm going to use on it, and then determine what additional upgrades, if any, to bother with.
For instance, does an extra 4 MB of L2 cache really make a difference? (most importantly, would it make a difference to me?) Would it be better to just spend that money on RAM, or would the applications I'm running not actually need any more?
Surely that might work for a one-off, but if you're selling millions or even thousands of copies of your software, even a $100 increase in hardware requirements costs the economy millions. Just because it doesn't cost YOU millions doesn't mean you don't see the cost.
If your customers are spending millions on hardware, that money is going to the hardware vendors, not to you. And more importantly, that money represents wasted effort. Effort that could otherwise be used to increase real wealth, thus making the dollars you do earn more valuable.
So i guess the lesson is, If you're CERN, throw hardware at it. If you're Adobe, get a lot of good programmers/architects.
So? You just bump the power up on the new design. 3^2 = 9, so the new design is actually claimed to be 33% more efficient.
Still, that's not zero percent.
What do the people in your office do? Are they out there building and maintaining the wonders of Dubai's skyline? Working the dredgers that build up the artificial islands? Serving the meals, cleaning the sheets, polishing the brass, driving the trucks?
Yeah. Of course the office workers aren't getting the slave wages. They're the rich people the slaves are building Dubai for.
Jeez man, think a little. Just because you need a job doesn't mean you're poor.
Putting aside that the FDA grades are about tastiness, not food safety, a little cow shit probably won't hurt you. Cows are herbivores, and what comes out is not all that different from what goes in. They make it up in volume.
Besides, if you don't like manure in your food, you ought to spend more time not eating mushrooms. Which are basically made of the stuff.
Indeed. People who've voiced a desire for certain features (i.e. colorspaces, depth, and more) of Photoshop are loudly informed by the developers that GIMP isn't photoshop. So it certainly does seem odd that it would be used as a "It doesn't matter that we don't have photoshop" bullet point.
Not that easily found, no. You're going to have to go looking for anything really damaging. Plus safe-search settings are already pretty good.
You put restrictions on the machines, and you're solving the wrong problem. What you really ought to do is not allow unsupervised use of the laptops. Or as I like to call it, "Just get a lab full of desktop machines like a normal school."
For instance, if unsupervised, students can use google as a calculator to cheat on their math assignments. But all that does is slow down their learning of math. If you're going to go so far as to restrict google searches, you might as well not even bother with the laptops.
Just because computers can make a robot build a car faster does not mean that they can substantively improve learning of basic concepts. Stop trying to use them as some kind of magic productivity enhancing talisman.