A friend's neighbor owns a Model S. Winters get much colder than -20C in Montreal and the car has no problems (albeit with diminished range, but not by much)
Hydro-Quebec (wonder where that name comes from) generates most of its power using, guessed it, Hydro. We also had Gentilly which was a Candu nuclear plant (shut down in 2012). What's nice about that design is it can use waste fuel from other reactor types
"The Commodore, like the Apple ][, was a 6502 machine. Neither of these had anything to do with Microsoft, which was only working with the 8080 instruction set. "
Wrong on both counts. Commodore's BASIC interpreter was written by Microsoft. Apple's Applesoft was also written by Microsoft (albeit much slower than Integer BASIC).
"The core2 was introduced in 2006. - Almost a decade ago and core2 based computers are still quite damn fast today."
Agreed. My hands-me down i3-2100 is faster than the 3.2 C2D it replaced, yes, but I didn't fall off my chair. Anything more recent than a P4 will be usable for everyday tasks for most people.
As for AMD going down, I really don't want to go back to paying a thousand dollars for a CPU...
Seriously, as others mentioned, one home, one offsite in a bank security box. a portable external HDD will fit in the smallest ones for big backups, or a USB thumb drive/sd card..
If the device becomes online without you consent in the future, it means it's not in your hands anymore. Thus *any* device will be vulnerable to prying eyes.
Chevy's Volt can recharge its batteries too. In fact, most of the times the ICE acts as a generator, and under certain circumstances (High output needed while charging for example) it can be physically linked to the drivetrain,
I wouldn't be so sure, Apple has proven many times they can switch OS and Architectures in a pretty seamless way.
Apple ][->68K via expansion card or emulation, 68K->PPC via Classic or Fat Binaries, OS9->OSX via emulation and PPC->x86 via Rosetta or Universal Binaries.
In latest OSX versions, the scroll bars act the same as on iDevices, and since iOS is based on OSX, It wouldn't be too hard for them to switch OS and/or architectures again (or emulate iOS apps on OSX).
I wouldn't be so sure. It wouldn't be the first time MS failed with a product line. Zune, Windows CE PDAs, Windows Phone, Tablet PCs...
iOS and Android devices are here to stay. Most people using tablets don't need X86 compatibility on a portable device (that's what laptops are for). Tablets are used to consume content and view documents and the current crop is perfectly capable of doing so.
I swapped my old Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53) O/Ced to 3.8 with an OCZ Agility2 SSD for an i3 with a Kingston SSDnow 300 (*old* retired machine that was given to my dad). Altough the new machine boots way faster, and the new SSD is about twice as fast in benchmarks (even if low-end), I find it faster, but not *blew me out of my chair* faster.
Once you go from HDD to SSD, even the cheapest lowest performing SSD is gonna be much faster than anything with spinning platters.
And that's where it's flawed. One of my ex-boss runs an exotic car renting business, and yet on his tax sheets he earns 14,000/year, gets GST refunds and drives a 911...
My native language (born and raised) is French, I was born and live in Quebec, a (mostly) french speaking province (altough living in Montreal pretty much requires speaking english and soon arabic). My mom plugged me in front of Sesame Street as soon as I could speak, I was involved in a language exchange with an english-only speaking family at 15 in Woodstock, Ontario, Learned english at high school and went to work for an ISP in 1994 (mostly english speaking customers). Dated an english-only supervisor when Videotron went into a lockout, some of my girl friends only spoke english, Tried to learn Spanish while in CEGEP.
My younger sister was a little more fortunate as she went to an english-only immersion school where everything including geography, history and mathematics were done only in english. (and she speaks it way better than I do, she has *no accent whatsoever* )
One of my "she's a girl and my friend but not my girlfriend" is teaching me Ukrainian and Russian, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna get me nowhere unless I move to Russia or Ukraine or want to visit Tchernobyl as she's currently doing...
Even If I'm french speaking, all my OS's and devices are configured for English just because they're aren't any translation mistakes.
(If I made any syntax or any other errors, keep in mind my primary language is french)
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A friend's neighbor owns a Model S. Winters get much colder than -20C in Montreal and the car has no problems (albeit with diminished range, but not by much)
Something like Chevy's Volt but with *way* more range on electric alone.
Hydro-Quebec (wonder where that name comes from) generates most of its power using, guessed it, Hydro. We also had Gentilly which was a Candu nuclear plant (shut down in 2012). What's nice about that design is it can use waste fuel from other reactor types
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Some women have higher silicon contents than others
Tchernobyl? learned how to hot-flash a BIOS thanks to that one...
"The Commodore, like the Apple ][, was a 6502 machine. Neither of these had anything to do with Microsoft, which was only working with the 8080 instruction set. "
Wrong on both counts. Commodore's BASIC interpreter was written by Microsoft. Apple's Applesoft was also written by Microsoft (albeit much slower than Integer BASIC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Integer BASIC is the one Woz wrote (by himself)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
British Thermal Unit? just a guess...
AM would be better but can it be done on a chip?
Won't matter much if the links are cut. A radio station could at least install a temporary antenna if it doesn't have one on its roof.
"The core2 was introduced in 2006. - Almost a decade ago and core2 based computers are still quite damn fast today."
Agreed. My hands-me down i3-2100 is faster than the 3.2 C2D it replaced, yes, but I didn't fall off my chair. Anything more recent than a P4 will be usable for everyday tasks for most people.
As for AMD going down, I really don't want to go back to paying a thousand dollars for a CPU...
And YOU just made my day :)
"If the media companies had any say in the matter, buying a CD to rip the songs to MP3 to play on your portable device would be illegal."
The only reason it isn't is because it doesn't have any encryption to break like DVD/Bluray discs.
a:\update.exe
http://gizmodo.com/388465/char...
Seriously, as others mentioned, one home, one offsite in a bank security box. a portable external HDD will fit in the smallest ones for big backups, or a USB thumb drive/sd card..
https://xkcd.com/651/
Just RAID 75 of them (and get a really big pigeon)
Even if He was naturalized two years before the bombings, he should lose that privilege. How much will it cost to keep him on death row?
Better yet, leave him in a locked room with the victim's families for a couple of hours.
If the device becomes online without you consent in the future, it means it's not in your hands anymore. Thus *any* device will be vulnerable to prying eyes.
Chevy's Volt can recharge its batteries too. In fact, most of the times the ICE acts as a generator, and under certain circumstances (High output needed while charging for example) it can be physically linked to the drivetrain,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
I wouldn't be so sure, Apple has proven many times they can switch OS and Architectures in a pretty seamless way.
Apple ][->68K via expansion card or emulation, 68K->PPC via Classic or Fat Binaries, OS9->OSX via emulation and PPC->x86 via Rosetta or Universal Binaries.
In latest OSX versions, the scroll bars act the same as on iDevices, and since iOS is based on OSX, It wouldn't be too hard for them to switch OS and/or architectures again (or emulate iOS apps on OSX).
Time will tell I guess...
I wouldn't be so sure. It wouldn't be the first time MS failed with a product line. Zune, Windows CE PDAs, Windows Phone, Tablet PCs...
iOS and Android devices are here to stay. Most people using tablets don't need X86 compatibility on a portable device (that's what laptops are for). Tablets are used to consume content and view documents and the current crop is perfectly capable of doing so.
Even if that's a clever idea, I'm pretty sure code doesn't allow for dimmers to be used on electrical outlets.
Agree.
I swapped my old Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53) O/Ced to 3.8 with an OCZ Agility2 SSD for an i3 with a Kingston SSDnow 300 (*old* retired machine that was given to my dad). Altough the new machine boots way faster, and the new SSD is about twice as fast in benchmarks (even if low-end), I find it faster, but not *blew me out of my chair* faster.
Once you go from HDD to SSD, even the cheapest lowest performing SSD is gonna be much faster than anything with spinning platters.
And that's where it's flawed. One of my ex-boss runs an exotic car renting business, and yet on his tax sheets he earns 14,000/year, gets GST refunds and drives a 911...
My native language (born and raised) is French, I was born and live in Quebec, a (mostly) french speaking province (altough living in Montreal pretty much requires speaking english and soon arabic). My mom plugged me in front of Sesame Street as soon as I could speak, I was involved in a language exchange with an english-only speaking family at 15 in Woodstock, Ontario, Learned english at high school and went to work for an ISP in 1994 (mostly english speaking customers). Dated an english-only supervisor when Videotron went into a lockout, some of my girl friends only spoke english, Tried to learn Spanish while in CEGEP.
My younger sister was a little more fortunate as she went to an english-only immersion school where everything including geography, history and mathematics were done only in english. (and she speaks it way better than I do, she has *no accent whatsoever* )
One of my "she's a girl and my friend but not my girlfriend" is teaching me Ukrainian and Russian, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna get me nowhere unless I move to Russia or Ukraine or want to visit Tchernobyl as she's currently doing...
Even If I'm french speaking, all my OS's and devices are configured for English just because they're aren't any translation mistakes.
(If I made any syntax or any other errors, keep in mind my primary language is french)