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Or you could instead get a Quad Ultra M.2 PCIe card (x16 slot) that sports 128GB/s throughput for 62 bucks on Amazon.com

Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card Expansion NV Me M.2 Drives and Speed up to 128Gbps Components
by Asus
Link: http://a.co/d/8gaNx2g

You understand that cameras are surface mount components that go on the back, right? Where there's a sea of unused space? And the three things you gripe about need a lot of depth or volume in a device that every manufacturer (for reasons nobody quite understands) wants to be thinner?

Adding another camera might make the existing "bump" on the back of the phone for two cameras just span the width of the phone, finally making it not sit on a desk like that bad table at the diner down the street that needs a couple Sweet-n-Low packets under one of the legs...

Plus, the SD slot and battery is mostly solved nicely by something like this. $40 for a battery that will fully charge your phone twice, has a full SD card reader, a portable WiFi router with actual ethernet. And if you are really that hard up for storage space, it will accept a USB flash stick too, expanding to storage well beyond what you can get in an SD card.

Yes, you may have to carry a small extra thing, but that extra thing can be left in a backpack and used when needed with the minor inconvenience of pushing a button for a second or two to turn it on. And, the router can forward other wifi networks too, so you can use it on an airplane to share one in-flight wifi access purchase with several devices (or companions) - doing that even once pays for the cost of the device.

Cars 3 was right at $20.

It's on Amazon right now BluRay, DVD and the code for the same price. (oddly, at the time of this post the combo pack I just mentioned is $0.19 cheaper than just the DVD).

I looked at a couple of other Disney releases on their site, with similar outcomes.

Oh, the trend is there. It can be trace it back to the book Save the cat!. It seems every screenwriter in Hollywood read it and now all movies follow the same path.

I bought the powder! That stuff is super cheap in powder form and isn't that slow release namby-pamby crap, FEEL THE BURN! I'm not immune the to "Niacin Sunburn", but I rarely get it anymore. If I happen to be a little dehydrated or I drink the stuff too fast I still get one, but if my wife picks up the cup I've been drinking from and just sips it BURN!!!

I bought this over a year ago and I'm still using the same canister (I should take it more regularly, I've gotten lazy about getting a morning drink together).

See a more complete and accurate list (in thousands) in recent history from Death by Government.

A few of the numbers:
- USSR: 61,911,000
- China (PRC): 35,236,000
- Germany: 20,946,000
- China (KMT): 10,075,000

and it works great.

At work we have a very nice looking executive conference room that was mostly configured before I worked here. If you look at that picture the audio equipment is behind the wall with the pictures on it. The main screen is behind the photographer, and so is the PC that runs the main screen. The tech who did part of the original setup ran an 1/8" to RCA cable from the TV's output all the way to the audio amplifier behind that other wall, past florescent lights and everything else in the ceiling. To say the least there was a buzz in the system that I could sometimes get rid of by wiggling cables, putting a little shielding here or there and praying for the best. I didn't like that solution.

Now, I can work fiber optics, I learned that from my years at NASA. I had never really worked with TOS before beyond using some cheap plastic light-guide short distances on stereo equipment on occasion and with my Turtle Beach headset on my work Mac, main system sound went to the dongle via TOS and the USB portion did voice - an awesome setup on what would have been an awesome headset had they not used the most brittle plastic they could find to mold it. I started calling fiber suppliers looking for the connectors so I could make my own cable - they didn't call back. It took a little research to find out that TOS doesn't work on standard OC3 cable, or any other fiber I have run in the past, part of the reason my suppliers didn't carry it. I also found mixed information about the range of TOS saying it topped out around 15 feet or so, and some giving it a lot more.

I figured out it's a lot like Ethernet - some who learned Ethernet 25 years ago is going to keep in mind there's a limit to accumulative cable length throughout the whole network, the longer you make one cable the shorter the rest have to be, that it's a collision based system where only two systems can talk at a time, etc... Things that used to be true and are still true on really, really old equipment, some of which may still be in use, but using more up to day components there's a new reality. You can now buy TOS in high quality glass fiber, and it will go further. You still have limitations because the width of the fiber has to be "wide" to accommodate signal - at least I assume it does, I don't know if it's single-mode or multi, but I'm assuming it carries a wave form instead of a simple on/off since the requirements seem to stand. I eyeballed the room - I didn't really measure it, and I shopped. I found a 65 ft cable from a company I had never heard of and I have to tell you it works great. No more static, the sound quality is great. The only complaint is they can no longer use the TV remote to change volume, but the volume keys on the keyboard work. Since they only use the Direct TV in that room during really big soccer matches I don't see an issue.

I don't think I could have stretched HDMI that far. I could have converted it to SDI and changed it back to do it, but that would require an active box on both sides since nothing in play supports SDI natively. SDI is great for professional equipment, but the budgets I get to do thing usually don't allow for true professional grade equipment - not to mention pro grade equipment is usually a little behind consumer grade equipment when it comes to screen sizes and other little features that advertising people lock onto and "must have". I think I'm finally past having to explain to desktop users why they're better off with a wired keyboard and an Ethernet cable instead of wireless and WiFi, the power of news and buzz words is incredibly strong to marketing people and even though pure logic can win a lot of arguments, when the person who controls the money wants the biggest things with the right buzz words you sometimes have to get it, and SDI isn't a modern buzzword, even if modern SDI can support 4K.

First book in an epic medieval fantasy.
It's good. Full of fun adventures.

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http://a.co/b3EpJxt amazon link, no referral

Kangaroo PC

2 GB RAM
32 Gig storage
Slot for MicroSD card
Room for a 2.5" HD/SSD (9.5MM)
4 hour battery
RJ-45, WiFi, Bluetooth Networking
VGA, HDMI video out
Fingerprint reader
Windows 10 OS included

Same physical size as a typical 2.5" USB HD

Here's the instruction manual for this: http://a.co/iddu7Wx

You are supposed to go protect with your life the manufacturers so they can increase supply accordingly, otherwise this talk is just nonsense and an admission of defeat. Wal-Mart does not exist in this city, but a prize war would deprive amazon of its merchandise: loss from both sides. Dont they have economic advisors? http://a.co/3rd1ma6

The company is a simple mom and pop Tech Company. The owners were literally husband and wife. The Husband knew tech and understood its complexities. The Wife understood finances. Pretty sure neither of them knew how to manage.

My previous job before the tech company was at a College for about 11 years. I enjoyed it for 9 years until the president was given a vote of no confidence and was replaced by another president that wanted to basically turn us into the college he came from. He fired the CIO after he set him up to fail and literally replaced him with his brother in law. the New CIO got my boss to retire and started to screw over my performance by promoting someone who had no idea what was going on in my old boss's position. Since I was already doing the job of two techs, (since they fired one of them) dealing with my mom's terminal illness at the time and forced me to read This and write a book report on it, (which I did. Looking back it probably helped me in the second job. I pretty much was Dr Gregory House M.D. in the emergency room when it came to demeanor with students.) I switched to the tech company I've been talking about. For what it's worth the college's sysadmin quit the same day I did and I had no idea until he walked into HR the same time I did. All in all when the President started there was 11 people in IT at this college. When I left, only 1 of the original team of 11 was still there and over 1/3 of the entire college staff retired, quit or was fired over a 1 year period. Since then my replacement i trained quit. The Boss's Replacement Quit. They went through Two sysadmins with a third that I heard quit right on the spot on the first day, and the CIO brother in law followed the president to be VP of IT of the college the president eventually switched to. I'm sure their college's IT dept is having the same fun ride I went through.

The first few years of the tech company I enjoyed. it was easy work, There was no MicroManagement for me or the server admin, (although I heard the Web Devs were MMd to death during that time) the customers were better to deal with than some of the students and i got real close with the employees. It was when we started to expand that it got nerve wracking. it was about that time they they started squeezing the stone to try to get blood to come out of it, and they got happy when it started bleeding not realizing that the blood was coming from their hand and not the stone.

My current job is at a K-12 school. The only reason I got this job was probably from the references I put from the college years since the IT team have stayed close through the years. Even with all of the chaos, screaming kids, and working in between, it's not as bad because there isn't any MicroManagement or work to death conditions yet. If and when that happens I can assure you I'll be out of there.

Current systems can generally output S/PDIF digital audio through the line-out port; it's a standard feature, though somewhat hidden. You just need to connect an RCA adapter (use the right/red channel) and enable the S/PDIF output switch in the sound card settings. Audio quality is the same as Toslink (optical S/PDIF), though the signal may attenuate over very long coax links. There are devices like this one available which convert from coax to Toslink.

Ah, good point. I'm pretty sure I've encountered this once before, with a sound card that was specifically advertised to output S/PDIF, while having only 3.5 mm jacks. Alas, it's not quite general, as my Thinkpad is lacking the feature (the digital outputs are all labeled with "HDMI" in alsa).

Incidentally (and you probably know this already), the Toslink output in some earlier laptops was hidden within the line-out jack. A clever solution IMHO, as it doesn't mix up different kinds of signaling in the same electrical pin, and the light makes it clear there's something going on besides plain old analog. OTOH, it requires a small adapter for the Toslink fiber.

Incidentally, S/PDIF isn't doing too great these days, which is a shame. One of my old laptops from 2005 had optical audio output, and it was awesome especially given the poor quality of its analog output. Since then, this feature has been missing from most laptops, and even with desktop mobos you have to be careful.

Current systems can generally output S/PDIF digital audio through the line-out port; it's a standard feature, though somewhat hidden. You just need to connect an RCA adapter (use the right/red channel) and enable the S/PDIF output switch in the sound card settings. Audio quality is the same as Toslink (optical S/PDIF), though the signal may attenuate over very long coax links. There are devices like this one available which convert from coax to Toslink.

It seems since HDMI came out, you shouldn't need any other way of getting raw digital audio, which seems especially silly with something like 5.1 or better...

Unfortunately, S/PDIF doesn't support multichannel PCM; to get more than two channels the audio has to be compressed (e.g. AC3). If you want uncompressed multichannel digital audio (e.g. Dolby TrueHD) the only option is an HDMI connection, and the relevant standards say this is only allowed in combination with HDCP. It is at least possible to live-transcode multichannel PCM to AC3 to get surround sound without the DRM, albeit at some cost in quality, CPU time, and latency.