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Today, we are going to attempt to answer that not-so-simple question and determine when a computer is truly obsolete. Can you remember when you got it? It's time for a new one.
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My computer - all my devices in general - are obsolete when they break and/or cannot be repaired or tweaked anymore (or reparing is not an option because it's getting too expensive).
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That's far too green a solution, but well done
TTFN - Kent
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my wife is still using an acer 10 years old, with one core cpu and 1 gb ram. She is used to its speed, so she don't complain.
She is starting to think on buying a new one, but only because I told her it is better to have a controled change, than having to buy something on the fast when old one dies.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, with freedom comes responsibility. Sadly, most people just take the freedom and don't care about their responsibility.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's far too green a solution
yes - sure there are needs (wants?) - but I wonder how many people think of (environmentally) what it takes to produce a computer, then what's going to happen when they throw it away - obviously re-gifting it 'down the line' prolongs it ending up as scrap for a while, but eventually .....
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yeah - it was almost a rhetorical question
which is why I struggle away on a machine until its near dead - its not so much being 'tight', its choosing a machine that'll last as long as possible, not succumbing to the advertising 'you must have this to keep up', then succession planning just before the machine dies (my patience for slowness etc lasts a lot longer)
cheers Kent
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When they bring out a new generation of i7's...
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Buy? I build.
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Of course, if the question had been "When is your Apple product too old and when is it time to buy another?" then the answer would be simple. Every three months; more frequently for "power users".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Today, that story draws to a close with the final chapter in the SSD Endurance Experiment. More reasons why it's OK to move to SSD
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Deep down, you already knew this. But now you have a study to share with doubters: dealing with work emails outside of work ruins your personal life. From the category: News you already knew
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And requiring workers to check email while off the clock is illegal in some jurisdictions.
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It's a Google Now that anyone can use and modify. OK, Chris: hook it up to the site! "Bob, can I have codez plz?"
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Funny thing is that the framework seems to have a support for some informal words too... "codez", "plz". But.. being open-source it would be much more loved as compared to other products of same category.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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ow that its codebase is finally viewed as stable, OpenSSL is getting a good top-to-bottom once-over in the form of a sweeping audit sponsored by The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative.
Finally scraping off the band aids and going under the knife.
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They're going to delete their repo and fork LibreSSL to import all of the fine work that OpenBSD has already done in fixing bugs and deWTFing the codebase?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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VMware’s VMware Horizon desktop virtualization software suite will soon deliver virtual Linux desktops over a network, in addition to the Microsoft Windows desktops it has long provided for remote workers.
Virtualization. The final frontier...
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It's the first year of a major new coding curriculum in the UK, and now the BBC wants to play its part in training the next generation of star programmers. Does it run Visual Studio 2013?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does it run Visual Studio 2013? Yes and it comes with a pre-installed link to CodeProject Q&A.
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Heard an interview for Code For Progress[^] yesterday. I love what the interviewee said, something along the lines of "there's a whole population of people, elderly, LGBQT, minorities, that can contribute new ideas to software development." Lord in heaven. Software development is becoming a social rights issue.
Marc
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Ugh. I've known more than a few LGBQT folk already contributing a lot of ideas to software development. Plus, I think there's more than a few "elderly", and "minorities" here already. I'm all for getting more folk to get coding, but that was really a silly statement from that person.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think there's more than a few "elderly"... here already. I resemble that remark!
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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