The missing wires weren't the really bad part - the result of that would've "merely" been that it wouldn't work as a USB3 SuperSpeed cable and only connect in USB2 High Speed mode. What really set that one apart was that it had VCC and GND swapped on one end.
Nowadays? No. A few years ago? Yes. Before everyone jumped on the bandwagon, 5970s had similar price/performance to 5850s while being superior in pretty much every other way. 4 cards == 8 GPUs off a $45 board with x1 to x16 riser cables. Fans that could actually run 24/7 for years without dying. Lower power usage.
Yeah, nobody got rich off Bitcoin by not dismissing it out of hand when it first hit/., actually looking into it and writing a GPU miner. ... Oh, wait.
Yeah, that's what also kinda confuses me. I've had a anthracite/dark grey/light black/whatever you want to call it meter with a yellow rubber holster in the 80s. And it sure wasn't a Fluke.
Similar anecdotal experience here. 4 of the 5 Osram 23W CFLs I got back in 1993 are still "working" (in quotes as they take ages to start up and are likely well below 80% nominal light output by now). Seems "value engineering" killed longevity somewhere around the mid-late 90s.
Considering the Seiki doesn't have displayport and gets driven as 3840x2160@30 over HDMI... nope. You're thinking of the 60Hz capable Sharp/Asus/Dell/..., those do the 2x 1920x2160@60 in 60Hz mode to work around the per-stream bandwidth limit of DP1.2a
Is it even a P1? Intel calls it "Pentium class", but looking at the core architecture (Quark Core Hardware Reference Manual, chapter 3)... looks like a 486 with twice the L1 cache.
The most common term is prismatic cell. Prismatic Li-ion were used in some high capacity laptop batteries in the late 90s/early 00s but seems to have fallen out of favor. Not quite sure why, likely worse capacity/weight compared to cylindrical and lack of economy of scale were big factors.
Dell UP2414Q. $1299 for a 24" 3840x2160 60Hz IPS (also 10bpp and wide gamut, but... meh.). Finally a monitor for us high-DPI weirdos clinging to their preciousss IBM T221.
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Indeed. How the hell is this innovative?
The missing wires weren't the really bad part - the result of that would've "merely" been that it wouldn't work as a USB3 SuperSpeed cable and only connect in USB2 High Speed mode.
What really set that one apart was that it had VCC and GND swapped on one end.
Nowadays? No.
A few years ago? Yes.
Before everyone jumped on the bandwagon, 5970s had similar price/performance to 5850s while being superior in pretty much every other way.
4 cards == 8 GPUs off a $45 board with x1 to x16 riser cables.
Fans that could actually run 24/7 for years without dying.
Lower power usage.
Yeah, nobody got rich off Bitcoin by not dismissing it out of hand when it first hit /., actually looking into it and writing a GPU miner.
...
Oh, wait.
No.
Yeah, that's what also kinda confuses me.
I've had a anthracite/dark grey/light black/whatever you want to call it meter with a yellow rubber holster in the 80s.
And it sure wasn't a Fluke.
Errr, where in Europe?
Certainly not Germany, so far it was one of the warmest winters on record.
TFA doesn't say... my guess: "something that has roughly the same interface metaphors as win9x".
Isn't that basically what the TRESOR proof-of-concept did?
No it doesn't.
Your math is off by 2 orders of magnitude.
Incandescents are perfectly linear
Nope, they're quite nonlinear PTC thermistors.
since its a purely resistive load.
Wrong again, see above.
Electronics 101.
Yeah, right.
For added fun (and what the parent alluded to), look up temperature vs. radiated spectrum for a (approximately) black body radiator.
Similar anecdotal experience here. 4 of the 5 Osram 23W CFLs I got back in 1993 are still "working" (in quotes as they take ages to start up and are likely well below 80% nominal light output by now).
Seems "value engineering" killed longevity somewhere around the mid-late 90s.
Who is using dimmers in their attics and closets? And... why?
Viscous cronies? So... they're really thick?
Considering the Seiki doesn't have displayport and gets driven as 3840x2160@30 over HDMI... nope.
You're thinking of the 60Hz capable Sharp/Asus/Dell/..., those do the 2x 1920x2160@60 in 60Hz mode to work around the per-stream bandwidth limit of DP1.2a
Here, pretty block diagrams:
486DX2
Pentium
Quark
Spot the similarities and differences.
I have the suspicion we're basically agreeing on how "fast" Quark is. As in "a RPi runs circles around it".
Is it even a P1? ... looks like a 486 with twice the L1 cache.
Intel calls it "Pentium class", but looking at the core architecture (Quark Core Hardware Reference Manual, chapter 3)
The most common term is prismatic cell.
Prismatic Li-ion were used in some high capacity laptop batteries in the late 90s/early 00s but seems to have fallen out of favor.
Not quite sure why, likely worse capacity/weight compared to cylindrical and lack of economy of scale were big factors.
3-clause BSD is a proprietary license? Since when?
Dell UP2414Q. $1299 for a 24" 3840x2160 60Hz IPS (also 10bpp and wide gamut, but... meh.).
Finally a monitor for us high-DPI weirdos clinging to their preciousss IBM T221.
"This light switch caused my house to explode!"
"Huh?"
"Well, there also was that gas leak, but that wasn't a problem until I flipped that switch."
Copper clad aluminum cable
Less oxidation problems than straight alu, but still lots of "fun" thanks to thermal expansion and creep.