The problem, as mentioned above, is the heat radiated from power supplies etc.; old fuel tanks and boosters tend so be "passive" and quickly cool down to the ambient temperature, so these would still stand out to an IR telescope.
What about the original Athlons and Durons? The only difference between them was often a cut link on the top surface of the CPU that disabled moste of the cache. Have a Google and you'll find lots of instructions on how to remake the link and turn a Duron into a fully functional Athlon.
It's all about economics and "perceived value", not technology.
Can't see it - digital picture frame: £130 ($260) (btw. that's cheap - the ones in stores are double that.. I saw one for over £500 just the other day).
Of course, all these backlit LCD devices are, at best, less than optimal. But when cheap colour e-Paper comes out, these'll be the forst "killer application". As long as the viruses haven't wiped out all technology first...:-/
When a proprietary project is hosted on a private site, there's always the risk that the company will pull the plug on it.
Rather like the situation at Zeal.com, when they got bought over. Suddenly reams of entries that volunteers had spent a lot of time working on were pulled for apparently spurious reasons - for example, a site that gave incredibly useful information on growing tomatoes hydroponically was pulled because of a jokey throwaway line at the end of one page to the effect of "Of course, all these techniques also apply to cannabis plants." The reason for pulling the site was that "It encouraged illegal activities", but they never actually made clear what legal jurisdiction they were basing the arbitrary rulings on. We (the established volunteers) speculated it was US law, as the servers were based in the US, but as they had gone out of their way to recruit volunteers from around the world (I'm in Scotland) suddenly we found our work being deleted because the pages we linked to described infringements of a legal system we had no experience of.
Sorry, that sounds a bit like sour grapes - I guess that years on I'm still a bit pissed off about it. After a month or so of the "new regime" I quit as a volunteer. But the point I'm trying to make is that any "proprietary" system can change the rules unilaterally and pull content without any reference to the existing userbase; in such a proprietary system there is absolutely no guarantee of content existing "forever".
"We love standards! We are responsible for releasing more new standards than anybody else! Hell, every release and patch we produce introduces several new standards..."
Of the couple of sites that I've done since starting here, all of the corporate big wigs that sign the payment checks use IE6
That reminds me of when I worked doing graphics for the local cable TV company. The "corporate big wig" that signed my paycheque wouldn't lower herself to coming through to the graphics suite to look at anything on a monitor - if she wanted a graphic she would only sign off on it after seeing it on the hideously maladjusted (colour at maximum, brightness too low, picture about 5% overscanned and shifted off to one side) office TV set, and would always send properly centred, proper brightness graphics back to be "fixed"...
I think it's something to do with them being promoted beyond their own level of competence.
The quicker Microsoft gets rid of non-standard software, the better the alternatives work.
While this is true, it's also not relevant. Microsoft make a deliberate choice to look at a standard then figure out how much "wiggle room" they have to interpret it "creatively", producing something that is different from everyone else in the market yet arguably (with the correct dictionary) "compliant". Then they blow the marketing budget of a mid-size company on changing the public perception of their product from "different" to "better" so that they can lock users into it.
Except for those people using (the still legitimately supported) Windows 2000 Professional who were deliberately prevented from upgrading as an "incentive" to convert to XP.
No, it's clearly a deliberate part of their policy to make any activity that negatively affects the "bottom line" a complete PITA. Their shareholders are counting on you to replace your copy of Windows every two years and always pay full price for it.
For the last couple of years I had been quite excited about the upcoming "Longhorn" with its journaling file system et. al.; when "Vista" was finally released with all the good bits stripped out at a bewildering range of prices that all boiled down to "Pay the highest price you see or when you install it you'll find some random features disabled" I was hugely disappointed. I'm now a confirmed Linux user.
I bought one last month; it's fabulous. Only one complaint, though... The modem is disabled on the European version, presumably because the Intel chipset they used only works with the US 'phone system.:'-)
I use mine to remote-control my "downloads" box through VNC.:-)
When I was still a working computer engineer I would have killed for an eBook reader with a 6" screen (or better) and enough room to hold my complete collection of manuals and schematics on PDF.
Will they maintain "legacy" URLs for early adopters who have amassed many pages and interlinked them with other websites/posted links where they can't edit them?
You're right; I apologise. I missed a vital post in the thread because it was "collapsed", and read it as saying that it was cheaper to buy extra RAM rather than use one of these drives, but saw no reference to swapfiles. That's the problem with configurable sites - you tend to assume everyone else has the same "view" as you do. @'.'@
I relayed on the fact several people call one of the teachers a pedophile
If it comes to court, remember to point out that a "pedophile" is a foot fetishist. I'm guessing you meant a "paedophile", but luckily for you you got it wrong.:-)
How about if they make them legal, but only if they're built into a land line that's rigged for 911 calls only? A big red land line that looks like Commissioner Gordon's Batphone? Something that nobody could miss? With a big "911 calls here" sign over it? How about that? Eh?
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The problem, as mentioned above, is the heat radiated from power supplies etc.; old fuel tanks and boosters tend so be "passive" and quickly cool down to the ambient temperature, so these would still stand out to an IR telescope.
What about the original Athlons and Durons? The only difference between them was often a cut link on the top surface of the CPU that disabled moste of the cache. Have a Google and you'll find lots of instructions on how to remake the link and turn a Duron into a fully functional Athlon.
It's all about economics and "perceived value", not technology.
£62 from Saverstore: http://www.saverstore.com/productinfo/Product.aspx?product_id=20016610&rstrat=1
Of course, all these backlit LCD devices are, at best, less than optimal. But when cheap colour e-Paper comes out, these'll be the forst "killer application". As long as the viruses haven't wiped out all technology first...
Rather like the situation at Zeal.com, when they got bought over. Suddenly reams of entries that volunteers had spent a lot of time working on were pulled for apparently spurious reasons - for example, a site that gave incredibly useful information on growing tomatoes hydroponically was pulled because of a jokey throwaway line at the end of one page to the effect of "Of course, all these techniques also apply to cannabis plants." The reason for pulling the site was that "It encouraged illegal activities", but they never actually made clear what legal jurisdiction they were basing the arbitrary rulings on. We (the established volunteers) speculated it was US law, as the servers were based in the US, but as they had gone out of their way to recruit volunteers from around the world (I'm in Scotland) suddenly we found our work being deleted because the pages we linked to described infringements of a legal system we had no experience of.
Sorry, that sounds a bit like sour grapes - I guess that years on I'm still a bit pissed off about it. After a month or so of the "new regime" I quit as a volunteer. But the point I'm trying to make is that any "proprietary" system can change the rules unilaterally and pull content without any reference to the existing userbase; in such a proprietary system there is absolutely no guarantee of content existing "forever".
...has led to blockages in http://www.google.com/tisp/ that seem immune to data-flushing.
"We love standards! We are responsible for releasing more new standards than anybody else! Hell, every release and patch we produce introduces several new standards..."
Or extreme non-techies who are unable to make legacy custom packages run under XP.
By that they mean that you have to pass the validation test in order to install it.
That reminds me of when I worked doing graphics for the local cable TV company. The "corporate big wig" that signed my paycheque wouldn't lower herself to coming through to the graphics suite to look at anything on a monitor - if she wanted a graphic she would only sign off on it after seeing it on the hideously maladjusted (colour at maximum, brightness too low, picture about 5% overscanned and shifted off to one side) office TV set, and would always send properly centred, proper brightness graphics back to be "fixed"...
I think it's something to do with them being promoted beyond their own level of competence.
Well, my guess would be that the update will "accidentally" override your browser preferences.
While this is true, it's also not relevant. Microsoft make a deliberate choice to look at a standard then figure out how much "wiggle room" they have to interpret it "creatively", producing something that is different from everyone else in the market yet arguably (with the correct dictionary) "compliant". Then they blow the marketing budget of a mid-size company on changing the public perception of their product from "different" to "better" so that they can lock users into it.
Java. It's easy to write third-party tools that don't tie you into one manufacturer's browser.
Except for those people using (the still legitimately supported) Windows 2000 Professional who were deliberately prevented from upgrading as an "incentive" to convert to XP.
No, it's clearly a deliberate part of their policy to make any activity that negatively affects the "bottom line" a complete PITA. Their shareholders are counting on you to replace your copy of Windows every two years and always pay full price for it.
For the last couple of years I had been quite excited about the upcoming "Longhorn" with its journaling file system et. al.; when "Vista" was finally released with all the good bits stripped out at a bewildering range of prices that all boiled down to "Pay the highest price you see or when you install it you'll find some random features disabled" I was hugely disappointed. I'm now a confirmed Linux user.
I bought one last month; it's fabulous. Only one complaint, though... The modem is disabled on the European version, presumably because the Intel chipset they used only works with the US 'phone system. :'-)
:-)
I use mine to remote-control my "downloads" box through VNC.
When I was still a working computer engineer I would have killed for an eBook reader with a 6" screen (or better) and enough room to hold my complete collection of manuals and schematics on PDF.
Will they maintain "legacy" URLs for early adopters who have amassed many pages and interlinked them with other websites/posted links where they can't edit them?
http://www.mcphee.com/items/M6229.html
...right up until the last line.
"...it's best if the computer runs Windows XP."
...is "Antennae".
You're right; I apologise. I missed a vital post in the thread because it was "collapsed", and read it as saying that it was cheaper to buy extra RAM rather than use one of these drives, but saw no reference to swapfiles. That's the problem with configurable sites - you tend to assume everyone else has the same "view" as you do. @'.'@
Of course, what you save by this method will be spent in the cost of keeping your motherboard powered up 24/7.
If it comes to court, remember to point out that a "pedophile" is a foot fetishist. I'm guessing you meant a "paedophile", but luckily for you you got it wrong.
How about if they make them legal, but only if they're built into a land line that's rigged for 911 calls only? A big red land line that looks like Commissioner Gordon's Batphone? Something that nobody could miss? With a big "911 calls here" sign over it? How about that? Eh?