They are spread out over the field so what? DO you actually think drones only have missiles? Also think of carpet bombing the NK army? Even using drones to do the carpet bombing.
The only reason NK exists today is because of China. IF China did not back NK in the 1950's thinks would have ended back then. If NK does attack the US first, things will get very ugly very fast. I wonder what China will do.
For laptop batteries I have been told that they (the batteries) will not get a memory. I have yet to find a rechargeable battery that doesn't get a memory. With a laptop it is easy to determine. You charge the laptop battery until fully charged. Then when running the laptop on the battery the low power warning pops up in 5-10 minutes (often less then 5 minutes). This is why I usually make a drain battery power setting plan. This power plan has no auto shut off. I can usually run the laptop with 0% battery life for 1-2 hours. Then the laptop shuts off. Turn the laptop on and repeat. When you might get the laptop to post and then it is off again you can charge the laptop battery for the number of hours it takes to get a full charge. This is a pain if you did not note that when you got the laptop. Mine is 12 hours. I have seen 8 hours, 24 hours, 6 hours you need to know what you laptop battery takes for a full charge. You can over charge it (I did on older batteries) it you leave them charging for too long. After fully charged hour-wise I use the laptop until the power runs out again. Then I charge it and change the power setting back to what I normally use. I get my full life out of the battery again. I usually drain the battery 1-2 times a year. I have a 8 year old laptop still on its original battery. I get 3 hours of no power saving use on it and 6 hours of power saver setting use. I do the same thing with my newer laptop. Until I see otherwise I'll keep doing what I am doing.
I know that is not what the laptop companies tell you. My own experience with about 100+ laptops and few thousand other rechargeable batteries is they all get a memory at some point. Draining them, the timed recharge, then use until out of power resets the memory.
I realize this may be a foreign concept to the younger crowd but early in the console days it was not uncommon to go to a friend's house with the game and the console. So borrowing the whole system could happen. Try before you buy is a good idea. Considering the GP said that COD was the reason he bought an xbox. Maybe he was lent the game and console to play for a while?
Why is it that the 250 GB single platter drives sold out so fast? The reviews was saying they were fast drives and reliable. More heads means more chance of one of them going out of alignment and killing the drive.
Really? The controller is what is dying on an SSD? I may have to look at an SSD again. The SSDs that I have seen in long term use are the ones that you plug in like RAM. Not the hard drive ones. Those last about 3 years and then the performance starts quickly dropping. Swap out the SSD and everything is good again. I have tried rebuilding on the old SSD but the size of the SSD shrinks. Which says to me the SSD is going bad. Due to this I have stayed away from SSD drives for important systems. Drives will fail at some point. I get that. I usually have 5-8 years on regular old hard drives. I usually replace then after 5 years. I have yet to have an SSD make it past 3. That is for personal systems. The work systems the warranty determines replacement. Getting close to that date and replace the part.
I was looking at using a SSD. I was hoping the SSD would last longer. The companies that are using 100+ SSDs have an advantage. Those are not single SSDs they are RAID 5, 6, 51, 61, etc. They can lose one (or more) and still be up. RAID 1 on my home machine might be worth it. I have seen the drives in a RAID set fail together before. We got a bad set of drives. Still I have seen that 9 times. It is really sad when you watch all the drives fail in a few hours of each other. For the cost of RAID 1 SSD I can have 4 or more regular drives. So load and boot times are faster. Using the slow hard drive my system is at the log on screen in 20-30 seconds now. I am usually waiting on the SSD people to load in games. That could be server lag and what not, but it is consistent. I am thinking of waiting for more long term use numbers to come out. SSDs are what 5-6 years old now. The life numbers should tell the tail in a year or two. The early SSDs did not have a good life expectancy from what I read and saw. How will the later ones be? I am hoping they will be better then spindle drives. The technology says they should. We will see.
Dig a hole and cover it. or dig under the road and watch the tank fall into it. A man made sinkhole. Crude, but effective. Last I checked shovels are still legal.
How many people are taking an extra screen with them for when they use their laptop? How many people break out that bluetooth keyboard when they need to type on their tablet?
Those things do exist but I would say that over 95% (I know percentages *sigh*) of people who use tablets do not have a separate keyboard. My own observation from where I work: 67 Ipads, 123 iphones, 35 android based phones, and 1 bluetooth keyboard. The bluetooth keyboard is used with an android phone.
Think about it. If you have a patent on say a new type of electric car. Other companies may not try to produce their electric car. They may/can infringe on your patent and they do not want to have to pay you (license or by getting sued) for making an electric car. If the patent holder has done nothing in 5+ years except to hold the patent, that patent should be null and void. If said company released a product then fine there is a product out. No product and no progress that patent should be terminated.
Swapping a sim card is not the same as unlocking your phone. Unlocking you phone is jail breaking the iphone. You need to change the software, add something extra to the none. Cut a wire here, change this non removable part. Changing a battery or sim card in not unlocking a cell phone.
I see we have a PC gamer using mods that the console gamers can't use. Then claiming how much better they are. When certain games became who cheats best wins, the only people playing are the cheaters.
I stopped playing FPS in the 90s. I see the only thing that has changed is the game graphics.
I do not have an xbox or ps what ever number sony is up to now. I know people who do. I have played with them. I do not like the controllers. Most of those controllers are too small for my hands. Due to breaking many fingers and other bones in my hands over the years, those controllers are very unconformable for me to use. It is very clear to see the PC people in those FPS game vs the other console people. The PC people seem to be able to shoot head shot after head shot with a hand gun from very large distances away. Yet the console people can never make those shots. Those people also move much faster then the console people. I watched one person run up, I should say blur up, and knife person after person. Why would that be? They are on a PC and using something to give them an advantage.
The touch screen is why I don't like tablets for any 'real' use. Looking up something quickly, fine. Typing a paper, coding, anything where you will be typing for more then 5 minutes no way. Give me a real keyboard. My laptop is a 17 inch model with an almost real keyboard. It has all the keys. Only the arrow and the insert, home, end, delete keys are in a different place. The number pad in there. I have tried to use a few ipads for long periods. I hate it. The tablets are not for me.
If razer was charging in the range of $200-$300 I could see it as a more of a gaming platform. According to razer's website, you can get (unless this thing comes with them I doubt it) different bases for it. It is a tablet. The handles are what razer calls portable console mode. There is a dock/stand that allows for controllers and an HDMI connection. It looks like the dock allows you to connect it to you TV. It looks like you can move the tablet from one form to another. I can see an edge, so the tablet look like it can be removed from the handle thing. Basically this is the bigger windows 8 tablet with a better video card in it.
They would have to build it waterproof. These are usually build underground. You do not have to dig to far down to hit water in most Florida.
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The cherry picking can also be attributed to the times. Remove Zuckerberg, the rest started in the 1970s. Dell was probable the 1980s. Do you think today that if Jobs or Gates were an 18 years old they would have made the same choices? Back then there were no big hardware of software companies. Computers were a new thing. For Jobs and Gates to succeed today, they would need another new thing.
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Without meeting HR's checklist, you will not get through the door. Unless you are starting your own company or know someone on the inside you will never get past HR. One more maybe if you made something the company wants. The days of getting the tech cert and finding a good job are gone. Someone with no experience has very little chance. Sorry but coding at home to learn something is not experience in the real world. If you can't get through the door, just how are you going to talk to the people to show them anything? I have seen people lie on their resume to get past HR. That doesn't end well.
I hate the chicken and egg problem. You need experience in order to get hired. You need to be hired in order to get experience.
All those TVs and Blue-ray players that have built in netflix are not running some form on linux? Those all seem to work just fine (TM).
To be honest. For the unwashed masses, or regular non computer people, having a device that they can just turn on and use is much easier. It is much easier for me to support anyway. The hardest part was getting the device on the wireless network.
Or a long series of unions taking a bigger and bigger piece of the pie till not enough was left to run the business on. This is not the first company and will not be the last to have to pay more to unions (payroll and pensions) then they take in. When will people realize that what unions stood for back in the 1920s, 1930, and 1940s is not what the unions due today. There are federal and state laws for what the unions wanted. Bravo unions you got safety laws, working hours, and others made into law. The claim that if unions went away today those laws would go away is totally wrong. That is what many people think. If unions would go away, companies would force their workers to work 20 hours a day 7 days a week for 30 hours of pay at a really low rate. Their pensions would go away. That is not going to happen. Unions keep on repeating this to get people to vote the union way.
If the sales guys needs to show the site then that sales guys sucks. Golf course meets have been going on for decades (if not longer). Back before in internet deals were made with *gasp* talking about your product/service and convincing the other party to go see or experience it.
If you are only dealing with computer tech people you might have a point. Many computer tech people have crappy real people skills. Other business people, that i not the case. I know a number of self made millionaires. No, they have not written me into their wills. I wish they would. They would agree to come see what you have to offer on the golf course. They will never sign any technology deal without trying it out first. They will never try a business deal item out on the golf course, boat ride, where ever. They network with the golf games and such. They do not make business decisions there. Too much money is at stake. Considering two of them are 26, and 27 years old. They are not old people. When they are making a $50-100 million deal, they always have their legal and financial team on board. They have done deals where one golf game they agreed to take a look. A later golf game they agreed to do the deal. Between those golf games a lot of people were looking into things and contracts were written up. I guess you could say that the deal was made on the gold course. Many people were involved in vetting things out off the golf course before that deal was done.
The Papa John's pizza places I see all use conveyor belts to cook the pizzas. More like cooking by space heater then oven. Ever notice how the better pizza places have a pizza oven or wood or coal oven? They have a real oven not a conveyor belt.
I have not read any of the John Carter books. I did not even know this movie was based on a series of books. I do not do research on a movie before going, sorry. The movie was OK. One of the things that movies do that I cannot stand is not finishing the story. It looks like John Carter was going to be a series of movies. Hollywood please stop with the squeals. Really, really stop making a movie that is part of a squeal when there are no other movies to go with it. Most people who do not know the back story, as in have not read the books, do not like a movie to end mid sentence. I know many people who did not do out to see the second and third Lord Of the Rings movies due to the first one ending mid sentence.
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They are spread out over the field so what? DO you actually think drones only have missiles? Also think of carpet bombing the NK army? Even using drones to do the carpet bombing.
The only reason NK exists today is because of China. IF China did not back NK in the 1950's thinks would have ended back then. If NK does attack the US first, things will get very ugly very fast. I wonder what China will do.
For laptop batteries I have been told that they (the batteries) will not get a memory. I have yet to find a rechargeable battery that doesn't get a memory. With a laptop it is easy to determine. You charge the laptop battery until fully charged. Then when running the laptop on the battery the low power warning pops up in 5-10 minutes (often less then 5 minutes). This is why I usually make a drain battery power setting plan. This power plan has no auto shut off. I can usually run the laptop with 0% battery life for 1-2 hours. Then the laptop shuts off. Turn the laptop on and repeat. When you might get the laptop to post and then it is off again you can charge the laptop battery for the number of hours it takes to get a full charge. This is a pain if you did not note that when you got the laptop. Mine is 12 hours. I have seen 8 hours, 24 hours, 6 hours you need to know what you laptop battery takes for a full charge. You can over charge it (I did on older batteries) it you leave them charging for too long. After fully charged hour-wise I use the laptop until the power runs out again. Then I charge it and change the power setting back to what I normally use. I get my full life out of the battery again. I usually drain the battery 1-2 times a year. I have a 8 year old laptop still on its original battery. I get 3 hours of no power saving use on it and 6 hours of power saver setting use. I do the same thing with my newer laptop. Until I see otherwise I'll keep doing what I am doing.
I know that is not what the laptop companies tell you. My own experience with about 100+ laptops and few thousand other rechargeable batteries is they all get a memory at some point. Draining them, the timed recharge, then use until out of power resets the memory.
I was thinking of using this glue on the chairs in Congress. That might keep those slippery critters there longer so maybe something will get done.
You mean like the vista progress bar did? Everyone heated that one.
It will take 10 minute no 5 minutes no 34567 days no 8 hours no 1000 years no 8 minutes to finish.
No, genius. This is when you watch Apple turn a pitiful product that's been around for years, and nobody cares about, into a must-have item.
Once again proving the old saying "there is a sucker born every minute".
I realize this may be a foreign concept to the younger crowd but early in the console days it was not uncommon to go to a friend's house with the game and the console. So borrowing the whole system could happen. Try before you buy is a good idea. Considering the GP said that COD was the reason he bought an xbox. Maybe he was lent the game and console to play for a while?
Why is it that the 250 GB single platter drives sold out so fast? The reviews was saying they were fast drives and reliable. More heads means more chance of one of them going out of alignment and killing the drive.
Really? The controller is what is dying on an SSD? I may have to look at an SSD again. The SSDs that I have seen in long term use are the ones that you plug in like RAM. Not the hard drive ones. Those last about 3 years and then the performance starts quickly dropping. Swap out the SSD and everything is good again. I have tried rebuilding on the old SSD but the size of the SSD shrinks. Which says to me the SSD is going bad. Due to this I have stayed away from SSD drives for important systems. Drives will fail at some point. I get that. I usually have 5-8 years on regular old hard drives. I usually replace then after 5 years. I have yet to have an SSD make it past 3. That is for personal systems. The work systems the warranty determines replacement. Getting close to that date and replace the part.
I was looking at using a SSD. I was hoping the SSD would last longer. The companies that are using 100+ SSDs have an advantage. Those are not single SSDs they are RAID 5, 6, 51, 61, etc. They can lose one (or more) and still be up. RAID 1 on my home machine might be worth it. I have seen the drives in a RAID set fail together before. We got a bad set of drives. Still I have seen that 9 times. It is really sad when you watch all the drives fail in a few hours of each other. For the cost of RAID 1 SSD I can have 4 or more regular drives. So load and boot times are faster. Using the slow hard drive my system is at the log on screen in 20-30 seconds now. I am usually waiting on the SSD people to load in games. That could be server lag and what not, but it is consistent. I am thinking of waiting for more long term use numbers to come out. SSDs are what 5-6 years old now. The life numbers should tell the tail in a year or two. The early SSDs did not have a good life expectancy from what I read and saw. How will the later ones be? I am hoping they will be better then spindle drives. The technology says they should. We will see.
Is there a system that can handle a 3000 ship EVE online batter with no lag?
Dig a hole and cover it. or dig under the road and watch the tank fall into it. A man made sinkhole. Crude, but effective. Last I checked shovels are still legal.
How many people are taking an extra screen with them for when they use their laptop? How many people break out that bluetooth keyboard when they need to type on their tablet?
Those things do exist but I would say that over 95% (I know percentages *sigh*) of people who use tablets do not have a separate keyboard. My own observation from where I work: 67 Ipads, 123 iphones, 35 android based phones, and 1 bluetooth keyboard. The bluetooth keyboard is used with an android phone.
Yes.
Think about it. If you have a patent on say a new type of electric car. Other companies may not try to produce their electric car. They may/can infringe on your patent and they do not want to have to pay you (license or by getting sued) for making an electric car. If the patent holder has done nothing in 5+ years except to hold the patent, that patent should be null and void. If said company released a product then fine there is a product out. No product and no progress that patent should be terminated.
Swapping a sim card is not the same as unlocking your phone. Unlocking you phone is jail breaking the iphone. You need to change the software, add something extra to the none. Cut a wire here, change this non removable part. Changing a battery or sim card in not unlocking a cell phone.
Do not look directly into the laser with remaining good eye.
I see we have a PC gamer using mods that the console gamers can't use. Then claiming how much better they are. When certain games became who cheats best wins, the only people playing are the cheaters.
I stopped playing FPS in the 90s. I see the only thing that has changed is the game graphics.
I do not have an xbox or ps what ever number sony is up to now. I know people who do. I have played with them. I do not like the controllers. Most of those controllers are too small for my hands. Due to breaking many fingers and other bones in my hands over the years, those controllers are very unconformable for me to use. It is very clear to see the PC people in those FPS game vs the other console people. The PC people seem to be able to shoot head shot after head shot with a hand gun from very large distances away. Yet the console people can never make those shots. Those people also move much faster then the console people. I watched one person run up, I should say blur up, and knife person after person. Why would that be? They are on a PC and using something to give them an advantage.
The touch screen is why I don't like tablets for any 'real' use. Looking up something quickly, fine. Typing a paper, coding, anything where you will be typing for more then 5 minutes no way. Give me a real keyboard. My laptop is a 17 inch model with an almost real keyboard. It has all the keys. Only the arrow and the insert, home, end, delete keys are in a different place. The number pad in there. I have tried to use a few ipads for long periods. I hate it. The tablets are not for me.
If razer was charging in the range of $200-$300 I could see it as a more of a gaming platform. According to razer's website, you can get (unless this thing comes with them I doubt it) different bases for it. It is a tablet. The handles are what razer calls portable console mode. There is a dock/stand that allows for controllers and an HDMI connection. It looks like the dock allows you to connect it to you TV. It looks like you can move the tablet from one form to another. I can see an edge, so the tablet look like it can be removed from the handle thing. Basically this is the bigger windows 8 tablet with a better video card in it.
I would really hope that someone a PhD in medicine was good at math as well.
How many milligrams should a person weighing 200 lbs take of drug abc123...
There are not charts for everything, yet.
They would have to build it waterproof. These are usually build underground. You do not have to dig to far down to hit water in most Florida.
The cherry picking can also be attributed to the times. Remove Zuckerberg, the rest started in the 1970s. Dell was probable the 1980s. Do you think today that if Jobs or Gates were an 18 years old they would have made the same choices? Back then there were no big hardware of software companies. Computers were a new thing. For Jobs and Gates to succeed today, they would need another new thing.
Without meeting HR's checklist, you will not get through the door. Unless you are starting your own company or know someone on the inside you will never get past HR. One more maybe if you made something the company wants. The days of getting the tech cert and finding a good job are gone. Someone with no experience has very little chance. Sorry but coding at home to learn something is not experience in the real world. If you can't get through the door, just how are you going to talk to the people to show them anything? I have seen people lie on their resume to get past HR. That doesn't end well.
I hate the chicken and egg problem. You need experience in order to get hired. You need to be hired in order to get experience.
All those TVs and Blue-ray players that have built in netflix are not running some form on linux? Those all seem to work just fine (TM).
To be honest. For the unwashed masses, or regular non computer people, having a device that they can just turn on and use is much easier. It is much easier for me to support anyway. The hardest part was getting the device on the wireless network.
Or a long series of unions taking a bigger and bigger piece of the pie till not enough was left to run the business on. This is not the first company and will not be the last to have to pay more to unions (payroll and pensions) then they take in. When will people realize that what unions stood for back in the 1920s, 1930, and 1940s is not what the unions due today. There are federal and state laws for what the unions wanted. Bravo unions you got safety laws, working hours, and others made into law. The claim that if unions went away today those laws would go away is totally wrong. That is what many people think. If unions would go away, companies would force their workers to work 20 hours a day 7 days a week for 30 hours of pay at a really low rate. Their pensions would go away. That is not going to happen. Unions keep on repeating this to get people to vote the union way.
If the sales guys needs to show the site then that sales guys sucks. Golf course meets have been going on for decades (if not longer). Back before in internet deals were made with *gasp* talking about your product/service and convincing the other party to go see or experience it.
If you are only dealing with computer tech people you might have a point. Many computer tech people have crappy real people skills. Other business people, that i not the case. I know a number of self made millionaires. No, they have not written me into their wills. I wish they would. They would agree to come see what you have to offer on the golf course. They will never sign any technology deal without trying it out first. They will never try a business deal item out on the golf course, boat ride, where ever. They network with the golf games and such. They do not make business decisions there. Too much money is at stake. Considering two of them are 26, and 27 years old. They are not old people. When they are making a $50-100 million deal, they always have their legal and financial team on board. They have done deals where one golf game they agreed to take a look. A later golf game they agreed to do the deal. Between those golf games a lot of people were looking into things and contracts were written up. I guess you could say that the deal was made on the gold course. Many people were involved in vetting things out off the golf course before that deal was done.
The Papa John's pizza places I see all use conveyor belts to cook the pizzas. More like cooking by space heater then oven. Ever notice how the better pizza places have a pizza oven or wood or coal oven? They have a real oven not a conveyor belt.
I have not read any of the John Carter books. I did not even know this movie was based on a series of books. I do not do research on a movie before going, sorry. The movie was OK. One of the things that movies do that I cannot stand is not finishing the story. It looks like John Carter was going to be a series of movies. Hollywood please stop with the squeals. Really, really stop making a movie that is part of a squeal when there are no other movies to go with it. Most people who do not know the back story, as in have not read the books, do not like a movie to end mid sentence. I know many people who did not do out to see the second and third Lord Of the Rings movies due to the first one ending mid sentence.