For reliability reasons, the power supply should be significantly derated anyway. The manufacturers have gotten really good at designing them so that they fail just out of warranty because the aluminum electrolytic capacitors wear out.
I don't know about the prospects for the Internet. Mechanical computers and later electro-mechanical computers are likely as far as anyone would have got. Its really the transistor that gives you computation that is fast enough to run complex packet switch protocols and gives you signaling properties that are conducive to long ranger "high speed" communications.
The speed is not so much a problem as the integration and reliability.
The Analytical Engine could have replaced literal calculators, people doing rote calculations usually for military applications up to World War 2. It would have been too large and unreliable to replace mechanical analog computers used in things like fire control.
CPU power dissipation is limited by semiconductor die size unless junction temperature is increased which lowers operating life and reliability. Since about the start of the Core2 series, CPU die sizes are dropped so power has had to drop as well. GPU makers use a different trade off sacrificing operating life and reliability for performance so while they do use larger semiconductor die sizes, they use even higher power levels. In this respect AMD and nVidia have been in a race to the bottom with nVidia leading.
One of the first things I look for in a GPU is low operating temperature because I got tired of GPUs failing at about 2 years.
I suspect what is going to happen is that the PC market will become more like the market existed before PCs. We had "development systems" running operating systems like CP/M which some people were using as PCs. The problem for AMD is that there is not enough demand in such a market to support both them and Intel. Intel talks about moving more into the server business but I do not think that can save AMD when the cost of Intel's CPU development covers their PC processors also.
And of course all it takes is for MIcrosoft to screw up their PC operating system which they are in the process of doing. With the exception of OSx, the alternatives run just as well on ARM.
if you want everyone to switch to renewable energy, it's not a complex process. all you have to do is slowly increase a tax on fossil fuel energy sources (and imported electricity) and use that money to subsidize investments in renewable energy.
Um, what is in it for the rent seekers and politicians if a Pigovian tax is used?
The method must be obfuscated for maximum kickbacks and graft. Think of Congress and the Space Shuttle.
Going off-grid is unlawful in any area where grid power is available. You must have an electricity hook up or your dwelling will be considered uninhabitable.
Have you read the California law and plans from California regulators? It relies on legislating cost effectiveness but the only thing they are producing is rent seeking. They might as well mandate energy storage using unicorn horns.
That battle was lost long ago. Not only can the Feds regulate individual products within any state, but now they may regulate behaviors as well. Sometimes an inkblot is just an inkblot.
If you mean gun in hand and ready then no but when I carry, I can shoot immediately after drawing and with practice, drawing in a concealed way using distraction like a magician might is pretty easy to do.
So what? Is there some unambiguous state maintained database which includes the tax rules down to each individual address so that the seller can look up any item?
Even ignoring mistakes, what happens when this database is wrong? What happens when it is unavailable? You can bet the state (or whoever) is not going to be liable.
If an ISP wants there to be no traffic past a limiting value per billing period, then it should block traffic exceeding this. Letting the traffic continue while collecting fines for excess traffic is just stupid.
I always got a kick out of the instructions on carburetor rebuild kits which warn not to clean parts in gasoline because it is flammable. Not only would we start with the fuel in the fuel bowl which would get thrown out anyway, but what else did they think we would use? Acetone, lacquer thinner, and most of the more effective solvents are just as flammable if not more.
If a nuclear attack wiped out the technology hot spots of the US, but left the Bible Belt, Hollywood and Florida intact, what would happen to civilization?
The Amish and Mennonites might do well enough except for the ravenous hordes of starving urban dwellers caused by the failure of intensive agriculture from the lack of petrochemical processing.
The real threat of global climate change is famine caused by loss of agricultural output. Ask the middle east how that has worked out for them.
California has about 200,000 plug-in EVs, roughly 1/2 the US total and they're not building power plants or suffering rolling blackouts because of demand.
California *is* suffering blackouts in summer and they are building their icky power plants in the neighboring states and Mexico.
Exactly. What really irks me about the NJ law is that the police are specifically *exempt* from the law, when the police are the ones with actual statistics for being killed by their own weapons outside of suicide!
Police are always exempted from these laws. They are also exempted from the firearm "roster" laws.
Since I have been pulled over for not wearing a seat belt even though I was and the officer just needed an excuse, the real rule is different than you describe.
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For reliability reasons, the power supply should be significantly derated anyway. The manufacturers have gotten really good at designing them so that they fail just out of warranty because the aluminum electrolytic capacitors wear out.
Core memory would be out without some way to build sense amplifiers. Latching relays could be used for RAM. Paper tape could be used for mass storage.
The speed is not so much a problem as the integration and reliability.
The Analytical Engine could have replaced literal calculators, people doing rote calculations usually for military applications up to World War 2. It would have been too large and unreliable to replace mechanical analog computers used in things like fire control.
CPU power dissipation is limited by semiconductor die size unless junction temperature is increased which lowers operating life and reliability. Since about the start of the Core2 series, CPU die sizes are dropped so power has had to drop as well. GPU makers use a different trade off sacrificing operating life and reliability for performance so while they do use larger semiconductor die sizes, they use even higher power levels. In this respect AMD and nVidia have been in a race to the bottom with nVidia leading.
One of the first things I look for in a GPU is low operating temperature because I got tired of GPUs failing at about 2 years.
I suspect what is going to happen is that the PC market will become more like the market existed before PCs. We had "development systems" running operating systems like CP/M which some people were using as PCs. The problem for AMD is that there is not enough demand in such a market to support both them and Intel. Intel talks about moving more into the server business but I do not think that can save AMD when the cost of Intel's CPU development covers their PC processors also.
And of course all it takes is for MIcrosoft to screw up their PC operating system which they are in the process of doing. With the exception of OSx, the alternatives run just as well on ARM.
Without their own fabs, production volume is something AMD can no longer take advantage of.
The process also creates greater demand for law enforcement and the courts. Why would they care if the number of criminals rises?
Um, what is in it for the rent seekers and politicians if a Pigovian tax is used?
The method must be obfuscated for maximum kickbacks and graft. Think of Congress and the Space Shuttle.
Going off-grid is unlawful in any area where grid power is available. You must have an electricity hook up or your dwelling will be considered uninhabitable.
Have you read the California law and plans from California regulators? It relies on legislating cost effectiveness but the only thing they are producing is rent seeking. They might as well mandate energy storage using unicorn horns.
The nexus is not even that great. The only requirement is that they *affect* interstate commerce whether that commerce exists or not.
That battle was lost long ago. Not only can the Feds regulate individual products within any state, but now they may regulate behaviors as well. Sometimes an inkblot is just an inkblot.
If you mean gun in hand and ready then no but when I carry, I can shoot immediately after drawing and with practice, drawing in a concealed way using distraction like a magician might is pretty easy to do.
So what? Is there some unambiguous state maintained database which includes the tax rules down to each individual address so that the seller can look up any item?
Even ignoring mistakes, what happens when this database is wrong? What happens when it is unavailable? You can bet the state (or whoever) is not going to be liable.
Apple will be the first to invent the iPhone shortly.
If an ISP wants there to be no traffic past a limiting value per billing period, then it should block traffic exceeding this. Letting the traffic continue while collecting fines for excess traffic is just stupid.
I always got a kick out of the instructions on carburetor rebuild kits which warn not to clean parts in gasoline because it is flammable. Not only would we start with the fuel in the fuel bowl which would get thrown out anyway, but what else did they think we would use? Acetone, lacquer thinner, and most of the more effective solvents are just as flammable if not more.
The Amish and Mennonites might do well enough except for the ravenous hordes of starving urban dwellers caused by the failure of intensive agriculture from the lack of petrochemical processing.
The real threat of global climate change is famine caused by loss of agricultural output. Ask the middle east how that has worked out for them.
Along with almost all of Congress but I suppose you could consider the Democratic representatives and senators cronies as well.
A reasonably low value would be the range at which a shotgun can bring down a drone.
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They are not scheduling them so there is no notice beforehand but they are still happening during peak usage.
California *is* suffering blackouts in summer and they are building their icky power plants in the neighboring states and Mexico.
So explain the Ruger American Pistol.
Police are always exempted from these laws. They are also exempted from the firearm "roster" laws.
Since I have been pulled over for not wearing a seat belt even though I was and the officer just needed an excuse, the real rule is different than you describe.