I found a nice one at Dayton 2 years ago for $350.00 that had a ton of eye relief and had a port on top for a C mount camera to screw onto so you can display on a TV what you are looking at.
3- 24" 1920X1200 monitors. It is getting HARD to find 4:3 monitors nowdays with the useless Widescreen trend. Works fantastic, I can have multiple Xterms open as well as multiple VM's Makes it all a breeze.
I already have a 16000mah secondary battery to recharge my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 two times in a day if I need to and a 15 watt fold out solar panel that can charge the phone, tablet or the battery as fast as the wall charger would. Both together cost much less than this device will cost and will run for ~5 years without additional costs. After 5 years I can only charge when the sun it up as the solar panels will last 50 years (doubt the wires will being folded up daily) at the claimed 55 Watt Hours, my 15 watt solar panel already exceeds it's capacity.15 Watts per hour * 5 hours of sunlight = 75 Watt Hours on the shortest day, most days it can charge far longer. If just draped on your backpack or bag in the sun it is closer to 10Watts and 5 hours is still close to this things capacity. And what I own is a cheap panel. Better ones with triple the capacity that are for real backpacking are available out there. I was a cheapskate and did not want to pay more than $80.00
So unless you are travelling underground or backpacking in the antarctic during the winter, I really dont see a use for this. I am certain the fuel cell cant charge my phone at it's full 1 AMP rate or my Nexus 7 tablet at it's full 2 AMP rate... (My solar panel can. It's 3 amps in full sun, and I have measured 2 amps on a bright but lightly overcast day)
I understand new tech, but at $19.99 a recharge it's awfully expensive to own and I cant see any benefits over existing solutions. This fuel cell is very light in details. what is it's max Draw capability for how long? If it cant sustain a 2 amp constant draw on it for 6 hours it's useless for most tablets.
Parts are easy to get. Digikey has 99% of the stuff out there. really esoteric stuff, write the manufacturer asking for a "engineering sample" and you get 2-3 of them from free in 3-4 weeks.
and unless you did something really stupid, 99% of failures on big chips are soldering failures. simple hot air rework on them fixes the problem most of the time.
Have you started foaming at the mouth towards apple users and linux users yet? If not, please return to the ministry of enlightenment for more treatments.
I personally have replaced the screen on an ipad2. And I refuse to do so for less than $1000.00 in cash. It is such a pain in the arse to do so, that I demand a price that is full of ridiculousness to make people go away.
It is a nightmare to get the old screen off, clean it all up and then to get a Decent replacement that does not have some defect in it is near impossible. and every video online showing dis-assembly is a complete lie. the screen CAN NOT come off without shattering it.
"Surface will require service every three or so years to replace the battery,"
Really? it's built that crappy with really low end china grey market batteries? Cripes my old iPad1 still works perfect and in 2 months will be 3 years old and used daily by a small child. I guarantee it will go another 2 years on it's battery. I personally got at least 3 years out of my iphone 3 that is still in use today, more than 4 years later on the same battery. I still have a working battery in my Nokia N900 that is the original.
I think your knowledge of battery technology is horribly outdated. We haven't had crap batteries in devices for nearly 5 years now. Let me guess, you also think you have to discharge them completely once every month or so.. (This is not only really, really outdated information, it is actually BAD for your LiIon and LiPo battery to do so.)
Actually most 3GS's are doing fine on the battery. and I know of a few still in use iphone 3's that are also still happily going all day on a single charge... The "cant replace the battrery ZOMG" statement is the stupidest one ever made by apple haters.
1 - ran by morons. 2 - about 60 years behind the rest of the world. 3 - really dont care about customers.
Being able to transfer funds like europeans have been able to do for over a decade is still impossible here. Mostly because our banks are deregulated and they refuse to do anything other than just raise fees.
Home server also operates as your NAS. Sorry, but a VPS will not serve my XBMC playback boxes HD video at 100Mbps. 1 HP microserver works fantastic as a 4TB NAS plus home server running everything else. it idles at 4Watts of power used.
Want to know why an AR or AK is used instead of a Mosland Legant, or a nice M1?
because they are DIRT CHEAP. My M1-Garand that can shoot as fast as any AR or AK in semi auto costs 3X the price as any AR gun sold.
You wont find a gang banger wandering the streets of Chicago with a beautiful 1911 pistol. you will find them with a piece of crap low end 9mm or a.40 that probably has not been cleaned in a month and the rifling is all screwed up. Their favorite is the HighPoint brand as you can get a 9mm semi-auto pistol for under $300 from a legit dealer even now with the highway robbery that is being charged. Pre Obama, they were selling for $130-150 NEW.
An off the nut crazy murder head does not care about a gun that is highly accurate and built perfectly, they want that $650.00 El-crapo special with a light barrel that will start to freaking bend after 10 rounds are through it rapidly. And that is all I see used in these. Garbage guns that happen to be the single universal platform gun. Most AK's were dirt cheap. I remember only a couple of years ago they were going for $390.00 in places. Most gun owners wont touch them as they are junk. You can buy nicely built ones, they cost a lot more, but again.... Nutjobs dont want a competition grade rifle that can do a 2" grouping at 400 yards.
Banning AR-15's because of that is the same as banning all Pickup trucks because a few rednecks get crazy in them and kill a few people. It's completely stupid and will change nothing.
It's because the schools want to HALF-ASS it. A proper AV tech built classroom is about $15,000 per classroom for a BASIC system. Advanced that works perfectly and easily is in the $30,000-$90,000 range depending on what is needed like Multiple Screens, Multiple Videoconference connections and auto tracking microphones and cameras in the room.
But the college is far more interested in spending that money on useless crap like the Football stadium, Basketball arena, etc... They instead want to half ass it as hard as possible. so instead of hiring a real AV company they have the morons in IT do it. IT knows absolutely nothing about classroom AV or AV in general but they will do it for less than $3500 per room using crap dell projectors, no control system, and all consumer grade junk that barely works or is complex to use.
Reloading takes less than a few square feet of space, and the neat part is you can pack it all up when you are not reloading. Unless you have a buttload of brass like I do laying loose. Note: if you live in a closet like that, only run the tumbler when you are at work.
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BMW has an adaptive steering system that can fail and disconnect the steering wheel from the front wheels. Yet they are legal in the USA.
And there have been several reports of the system failing into a no steering state. I'll stick with cars from 2005 and older.
I take it you know everything about cars from Movies.
Drift cars are NOTHING like a street car.
They are a GODSEND!
I found a nice one at Dayton 2 years ago for $350.00 that had a ton of eye relief and had a port on top for a C mount camera to screw onto so you can display on a TV what you are looking at.
No problem. It's called rob it off another board there ACE. Let me guess, ou never though of that.
Just because you dont have the right tools not the skills doesn't mean others cant do what you seem to not have the ability to do.
You need some pillows so your feeble body can remain in the chair it seems. How about some neck supports as well?
Really you will hurt your neck? Get real. 3 24" plus a second testing machine with a 24" monitor to my left.
3- 24" 1920X1200 monitors. It is getting HARD to find 4:3 monitors nowdays with the useless Widescreen trend. Works fantastic, I can have multiple Xterms open as well as multiple VM's Makes it all a breeze.
In the olden days it was the registry, but the holy gates has left us, so now it's the ministry as we must spread the embrace of the one true OS.
I already have a 16000mah secondary battery to recharge my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 two times in a day if I need to and a 15 watt fold out solar panel that can charge the phone, tablet or the battery as fast as the wall charger would. Both together cost much less than this device will cost and will run for ~5 years without additional costs. After 5 years I can only charge when the sun it up as the solar panels will last 50 years (doubt the wires will being folded up daily) at the claimed 55 Watt Hours, my 15 watt solar panel already exceeds it's capacity.15 Watts per hour * 5 hours of sunlight = 75 Watt Hours on the shortest day, most days it can charge far longer. If just draped on your backpack or bag in the sun it is closer to 10Watts and 5 hours is still close to this things capacity. And what I own is a cheap panel. Better ones with triple the capacity that are for real backpacking are available out there. I was a cheapskate and did not want to pay more than $80.00
So unless you are travelling underground or backpacking in the antarctic during the winter, I really dont see a use for this. I am certain the fuel cell cant charge my phone at it's full 1 AMP rate or my Nexus 7 tablet at it's full 2 AMP rate... (My solar panel can. It's 3 amps in full sun, and I have measured 2 amps on a bright but lightly overcast day)
I understand new tech, but at $19.99 a recharge it's awfully expensive to own and I cant see any benefits over existing solutions. This fuel cell is very light in details. what is it's max Draw capability for how long? If it cant sustain a 2 amp constant draw on it for 6 hours it's useless for most tablets.
Parts are easy to get. Digikey has 99% of the stuff out there. really esoteric stuff, write the manufacturer asking for a "engineering sample" and you get 2-3 of them from free in 3-4 weeks.
and unless you did something really stupid, 99% of failures on big chips are soldering failures. simple hot air rework on them fixes the problem most of the time.
Your indoctrination is almost complete brother!
Have you started foaming at the mouth towards apple users and linux users yet? If not, please return to the ministry of enlightenment for more treatments.
I heard that claim as well, but replaced a flyback anyways and the set looked fine and worked well. I think the TV repair guy was blowing smoke.
I personally have replaced the screen on an ipad2. And I refuse to do so for less than $1000.00 in cash. It is such a pain in the arse to do so, that I demand a price that is full of ridiculousness to make people go away.
It is a nightmare to get the old screen off, clean it all up and then to get a Decent replacement that does not have some defect in it is near impossible. and every video online showing dis-assembly is a complete lie. the screen CAN NOT come off without shattering it.
"Surface will require service every three or so years to replace the battery,"
Really? it's built that crappy with really low end china grey market batteries? Cripes my old iPad1 still works perfect and in 2 months will be 3 years old and used daily by a small child. I guarantee it will go another 2 years on it's battery. I personally got at least 3 years out of my iphone 3 that is still in use today, more than 4 years later on the same battery. I still have a working battery in my Nokia N900 that is the original.
I think your knowledge of battery technology is horribly outdated. We haven't had crap batteries in devices for nearly 5 years now. Let me guess, you also think you have to discharge them completely once every month or so.. (This is not only really, really outdated information, it is actually BAD for your LiIon and LiPo battery to do so.)
Actually most 3GS's are doing fine on the battery. and I know of a few still in use iphone 3's that are also still happily going all day on a single charge... The "cant replace the battrery ZOMG" statement is the stupidest one ever made by apple haters.
I can fix anything surface mount. It's actually easier than through hole. Just because you dont own the proper tools does not make it "impossible"
The Samsung Blackjack II . Damn near impossible to open without destroying it.
"What happens when that SSD starts failing from the heavy IO load of desktop software? Or one of the fans blows a bearing?"
you throw it away and buy a new one.
Do you think microsoft expects anything else?
Really Android 2.3? Epic fail.
The only thing newsworthy is the fact that he can use the name iPhone for what looks like is a completely mediocre china phone.
I want it to be a dumb display that my phone pushes what I want to it. Make it a 320X320 display and nothing more.
My point is that US banks are ...
1 - ran by morons.
2 - about 60 years behind the rest of the world.
3 - really dont care about customers.
Being able to transfer funds like europeans have been able to do for over a decade is still impossible here. Mostly because our banks are deregulated and they refuse to do anything other than just raise fees.
Home server also operates as your NAS. Sorry, but a VPS will not serve my XBMC playback boxes HD video at 100Mbps. 1 HP microserver works fantastic as a 4TB NAS plus home server running everything else. it idles at 4Watts of power used.
We are safer here in the USA. our banks REFUSE to do that. Unless you pay them $50.00 as a fee to do it.
Want to know why an AR or AK is used instead of a Mosland Legant, or a nice M1?
because they are DIRT CHEAP. My M1-Garand that can shoot as fast as any AR or AK in semi auto costs 3X the price as any AR gun sold.
You wont find a gang banger wandering the streets of Chicago with a beautiful 1911 pistol. you will find them with a piece of crap low end 9mm or a .40 that probably has not been cleaned in a month and the rifling is all screwed up. Their favorite is the HighPoint brand as you can get a 9mm semi-auto pistol for under $300 from a legit dealer even now with the highway robbery that is being charged. Pre Obama, they were selling for $130-150 NEW.
An off the nut crazy murder head does not care about a gun that is highly accurate and built perfectly, they want that $650.00 El-crapo special with a light barrel that will start to freaking bend after 10 rounds are through it rapidly. And that is all I see used in these. Garbage guns that happen to be the single universal platform gun. Most AK's were dirt cheap. I remember only a couple of years ago they were going for $390.00 in places. Most gun owners wont touch them as they are junk. You can buy nicely built ones, they cost a lot more, but again.... Nutjobs dont want a competition grade rifle that can do a 2" grouping at 400 yards.
Banning AR-15's because of that is the same as banning all Pickup trucks because a few rednecks get crazy in them and kill a few people. It's completely stupid and will change nothing.
It's because the schools want to HALF-ASS it. A proper AV tech built classroom is about $15,000 per classroom for a BASIC system. Advanced that works perfectly and easily is in the $30,000-$90,000 range depending on what is needed like Multiple Screens, Multiple Videoconference connections and auto tracking microphones and cameras in the room.
But the college is far more interested in spending that money on useless crap like the Football stadium, Basketball arena, etc... They instead want to half ass it as hard as possible. so instead of hiring a real AV company they have the morons in IT do it. IT knows absolutely nothing about classroom AV or AV in general but they will do it for less than $3500 per room using crap dell projectors, no control system, and all consumer grade junk that barely works or is complex to use.
Reloading takes less than a few square feet of space, and the neat part is you can pack it all up when you are not reloading. Unless you have a buttload of brass like I do laying loose. Note: if you live in a closet like that, only run the tumbler when you are at work.