• AndyC (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    I wonder how the submitter got his System control panel to even show the installed RAM. I have Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit here, and it just says installed memory is a paltry 2.94. I know that 4 GB is installed, but my system doesn't show that over 1 GB is wasted.

    You really ought to service pack it then, that particular behaviour was changed in SP1 (IIRC) so that it reports the full amount of ram installed (along with how much is usable) rather than the original behaviour of just reporting the amount of usable ram.

  • Your Mom (unregistered)

    AFAIK 110% means it is using the equivalent of one core plus 1/10 of a core.

    Captcha: buzzkill

  • Michael (unregistered)

    Reasons are economical, not in software. Looks like classical price discrimination. Give better price to American citizen but screw Europeans who are ready to pay more.

  • Wodin (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    ...
    d:
    You can use a unicode zero-width space as the decimal symbol. As a I test, I did this on my desktop and it now says I have 320GB available and my system rating experience is 79! I had no idea those stupid little dots were holding back my system performance so much! ;)

    4.00 GB of which 3.46 GB is usable is a pretty normal amount for a 32-bit OS. You lose 0.5-1.0 GB of the upper address space to PCI memory mapped registers, depending on the hardware in the system.

    The CPU speeds didn't change because what's shown is the fixed ident string read from the CPU itself. Windows doesn't even know there are decimal points in it.

    Science!

    Got it.

    Has anyone tried using "9" as the separator instead of a zero-width space? I can't test it.

  • salsdrgkjb` (unregistered)

    So the discount on the rope ended while you were converting metres to feet....big deal.

  • Oslo (unregistered) in reply to Michael
    Michael:
    Reasons are economical, not in software. Looks like classical price discrimination. Give better price to American citizen but screw Europeans who are ready to pay more.

    Yeah, cause all of Europe is measuring shit in feet....

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Oslo
    Oslo:
    Michael:
    Reasons are economical, not in software. Looks like classical price discrimination. Give better price to American citizen but screw Europeans who are ready to pay more.

    Yeah, cause all of Europe is measuring shit in feet....

    If you get shit on your feet, you're squatting wrong.

  • The other Frank (unregistered) in reply to Invader from Mars

    Did you actually READ that article? The ONLY mention of Amazon is in these two sentences:

    "In 2000, Amazon.com Inc. infuriated many customers when it sold DVDs to different people for different prices. Amazon called it merely a test and ultimately refunded the price difference to people who paid more."

  • Curt Rostenbach (unregistered)

    I have an HP-5100C photoscanner I inherited because the software kept giving the error message that the unit was open. It had a photograph scanner as well as the filmstrip and slide scanners. I figured there was a microswitch that had failed and proceeded to tear it down. I did not find a microswitch. Scratching my head over this, I played with cycling it through its three modes. It switched modes by moving mirrors around internally. These mirrors were all fogged over. A little Windex later, the scanner worked perfectly! The software assumed that the open door kept it from seeing the test illumination instead of the mirrors being fogged over.

  • Neil (unregistered)
    Brandon Kane:
    For my own sanity I had to check that 82 feet really is 25 metres.
    FTFY
  • baldheadedguy (unregistered) in reply to Invader from Mars

    Oooh, I'm doing all of my online shopping using hidemyass.com to say I'm in Arkansas from now on!

  • baldheadedguy (unregistered) in reply to Invader from Mars
    Amazon varies their prices based on who's looking at the item and how much they think you can pay:

    Oooh, I'm doing all of my online shopping using hidemyass.com to say I'm in Arkansas from now on!

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    Not a WTF on the first one; clearly the first slackline's price is listed in metric dollars

  • stainless stanley (unregistered) in reply to Patrick
    Patrick:
    Not a WTF on the first one; clearly the first slackline's price is listed in metric dollars

    The dollars aren't metric anymore? Oh crap, how many cents(...) is one worth now?

  • Bostwickenator (unregistered) in reply to Invader from Mars

    Nonsense those are just imperial dollars, 68cents to the dollar.

  • gngeal (unregistered)

    I bet the overheated system was a Sun system (spectral class G1 or something like that)

  • Peter Wolff (unregistered) in reply to gngeal
    gngeal:
    I bet the overheated system was a Sun system (spectral class G1 or something like that)
    [+1] I hoped someone would comment on our sun's surface temperature.

    Well, 200 GiB of graphic ram can get quite warm, I suppose.

    And can someone enlighten me, am I right that +0.58 V are less than +0.34 metric volts? (likewise with +0.97 V and +0.46 metric volts)

    Btw, I haven't seen single sunglasses being sold before, but why not. So they only forgot to tell the customer that they'd take $14.06 for frame and assembly.

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