Only if the user has small fingers and a fair amount of practice. It's harder to be precise with touch than with a mouse or stylus. Fingers are squishy.
Banking. The high-speed traders will pay a ton of money to shave a few miliseconds off - if they have a neutrino link going between the major exchanges in, say, London and New York then they'll be able to exploit differences between them faster than their competitors still limited by the lag of a cable winding it's way around the curvature of the earth. Wouldn't need much bandwidth, just very low latency.
There's also a -12V rail in the ATX motherboard connector, but a lot of boards will operate fine without it. It's a leftover, used to be used to drive RS232 serial ports.
The simple power supply is great for charging lead-acids. I use one myself. Just float them at 13.5V, they'll be fine. If you want a battery that packs a higher energy density (ie, more than five minutes runtime without a UPS bigger than the computer) you can't use such a simple charger though - all except lead-acids need carefully controlled current, usually with an embedded computer monitoring charge state and temperature to ensure the battery charges, isn't damaged and doesn't explode.
That roughly describes any decent post-apololyptic society. The survivors from the time before will be able to read, but those born later will have better things to do with their childhood, like learning to farm, hunt and maintain the village. They'll pick up a little from their parents, but I'd expect the typical adult a century after the collapse to have a reading age of about five by modern standards.
I was thinking more Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Rhapsody, MSN Music Store, the Wal-Mart music store (didn't know they had one? Maybe that's why it failed)... probably a few more I'm overlooking.
You've still got the dependency issue, though: What is Ultraviolet ceases to exist some day? A lot can happen in a decade or two. Key companies could go out of business, a key member might break away to start their own service, or it might be shut down to push customers towards a successor service. When that happens, customers may well find their libraries vanishing, and what copies they have unplayable with the DRM servers disappeared. It wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened.
Only if that demand is perfectly inelastic. In a more accurate model, the change in the price in turn changes demand: If meth costs more, fewer people will start using it.
I think 'Metro' is the most likely. With the way it's been shoehorned into Windows 8, someone at Microsoft must be really desperate to build a unified UI style across their full product range. Which means it's only a matter of time until xbox gets it too.
And in a preindustrial society with less political unity than medieval europe, it might actually be halfway applicable. Just the book you need to inspire your tribe and promote community cohesion, plus you can use it to justify war against outsiders and taking of slaves.
Cars are an important element to any Mad Max dystopia. Cars mean engines, engines mean alternators. You'd just need to stop by the occasional abandoned petrol station to raid their storage tanks.
Firefox was originally called Phoenix... but another company called Phoenix threatened to sue them. As the Mozilla foundation couldn't afford to fight, they changed the name to Firebird. Then a completly different company called Firebird threatend to sue them, and so they changed a second time to Firefox.
He didn't even call them canals - he thought they were a naturally-occuring formation - but a translation error rendered them as 'canals' when his work was translated to english.
There is a very good reason the patient shouldn't have too much control over their medical care too: Very few of them know anything beyond high-school biology. Most of them don't even know that any more. Out of this bunch of medical morons, many of them will believe themselves to be an expert on a condition because they read the wikipedia page. You need to account for the implications of human stupidity.
The big advance in XP was to unify the business-targetted NT line with the home-targetted 95 line. Prior to XP they were completly different products with huge architectural differences. From XP onwards home and business ran a common OS, just with different features enabled or disabled.
Image dup finder? I use Visipics. Works nicely, though I found that it could have stability issues if you don't use task manager to confine it to a single processor core.
On behalf of 99 percent of the non-technical users: 'What's a meat-ah?'
Until you can get an AI capable of tagging all your images using facial recognition, timestamp correlation and landmark identification, all you're doing with tags is putting the sorting in the hands of users who still like to save everything using the default filename in a giant My Documents folder.
If the photos are of such high quality as to capture every detail, then what value does the original have that would not be seen in a perfect reproduction? Are you supposing that there is some mystic art-substance in famous paintings that cannot be replicated? The only value I see in an original not present in an indistinguishable reproduction is forensic research potential, and the Mona Lisa is already well-documented.
Humans, like all animals, do need some salt in their diet to survive. It's salt in vast excess that is the problem, leading to increased risk of heart disease. Salt is a common ingredient in great quantity in almost all processed foods, and as the typical western diet is composed largely of processed foods it's very common for people in such regions to far exceed the salt intake they really need.
A single sandwich from the shop I stop at on the way to work provides almost all of my required daily salt intake.... and as I eat a lot more than that, I imagine I'm rather over what I need myself.
I have experienced electrolyte depletion too, and it is rather unpleasant, but that was under extreme circumstances. Climbing Mount Snowdon.
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Only if the user has small fingers and a fair amount of practice. It's harder to be precise with touch than with a mouse or stylus. Fingers are squishy.
It's approximately equal to 1.5 arseloads, due to the relative volume of the American and British behinds.
Banking. The high-speed traders will pay a ton of money to shave a few miliseconds off - if they have a neutrino link going between the major exchanges in, say, London and New York then they'll be able to exploit differences between them faster than their competitors still limited by the lag of a cable winding it's way around the curvature of the earth. Wouldn't need much bandwidth, just very low latency.
There's also a -12V rail in the ATX motherboard connector, but a lot of boards will operate fine without it. It's a leftover, used to be used to drive RS232 serial ports.
The simple power supply is great for charging lead-acids. I use one myself. Just float them at 13.5V, they'll be fine. If you want a battery that packs a higher energy density (ie, more than five minutes runtime without a UPS bigger than the computer) you can't use such a simple charger though - all except lead-acids need carefully controlled current, usually with an embedded computer monitoring charge state and temperature to ensure the battery charges, isn't damaged and doesn't explode.
That roughly describes any decent post-apololyptic society. The survivors from the time before will be able to read, but those born later will have better things to do with their childhood, like learning to farm, hunt and maintain the village. They'll pick up a little from their parents, but I'd expect the typical adult a century after the collapse to have a reading age of about five by modern standards.
I was thinking more Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Rhapsody, MSN Music Store, the Wal-Mart music store (didn't know they had one? Maybe that's why it failed)... probably a few more I'm overlooking.
You've still got the dependency issue, though: What is Ultraviolet ceases to exist some day? A lot can happen in a decade or two. Key companies could go out of business, a key member might break away to start their own service, or it might be shut down to push customers towards a successor service. When that happens, customers may well find their libraries vanishing, and what copies they have unplayable with the DRM servers disappeared. It wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened.
And the set of people who could rip a DVD, but know that doing so is illegal and... what? I'm sure they must exist somewhere!
Only if that demand is perfectly inelastic. In a more accurate model, the change in the price in turn changes demand: If meth costs more, fewer people will start using it.
By 2010, it was a proto-star full of rectangles.
I think 'Metro' is the most likely. With the way it's been shoehorned into Windows 8, someone at Microsoft must be really desperate to build a unified UI style across their full product range. Which means it's only a matter of time until xbox gets it too.
And in a preindustrial society with less political unity than medieval europe, it might actually be halfway applicable. Just the book you need to inspire your tribe and promote community cohesion, plus you can use it to justify war against outsiders and taking of slaves.
Cars are an important element to any Mad Max dystopia. Cars mean engines, engines mean alternators. You'd just need to stop by the occasional abandoned petrol station to raid their storage tanks.
Firefox was originally called Phoenix... but another company called Phoenix threatened to sue them. As the Mozilla foundation couldn't afford to fight, they changed the name to Firebird. Then a completly different company called Firebird threatend to sue them, and so they changed a second time to Firefox.
Windows: So awkward to use, even the hackers will get mired in in the GUI.
He didn't even call them canals - he thought they were a naturally-occuring formation - but a translation error rendered them as 'canals' when his work was translated to english.
The only people who will impliment native support for h264 are those who hold the patents themselves - and they will refuse to support anything else.
There is a very good reason the patient shouldn't have too much control over their medical care too: Very few of them know anything beyond high-school biology. Most of them don't even know that any more. Out of this bunch of medical morons, many of them will believe themselves to be an expert on a condition because they read the wikipedia page. You need to account for the implications of human stupidity.
The big advance in XP was to unify the business-targetted NT line with the home-targetted 95 line. Prior to XP they were completly different products with huge architectural differences. From XP onwards home and business ran a common OS, just with different features enabled or disabled.
Image dup finder? I use Visipics. Works nicely, though I found that it could have stability issues if you don't use task manager to confine it to a single processor core.
On behalf of 99 percent of the non-technical users: 'What's a meat-ah?'
Until you can get an AI capable of tagging all your images using facial recognition, timestamp correlation and landmark identification, all you're doing with tags is putting the sorting in the hands of users who still like to save everything using the default filename in a giant My Documents folder.
If the photos are of such high quality as to capture every detail, then what value does the original have that would not be seen in a perfect reproduction? Are you supposing that there is some mystic art-substance in famous paintings that cannot be replicated? The only value I see in an original not present in an indistinguishable reproduction is forensic research potential, and the Mona Lisa is already well-documented.
The epsilons semed happy enough. They were literally made for their role: Greater intelligence in a laborer would have just frustrated them.
Humans, like all animals, do need some salt in their diet to survive. It's salt in vast excess that is the problem, leading to increased risk of heart disease. Salt is a common ingredient in great quantity in almost all processed foods, and as the typical western diet is composed largely of processed foods it's very common for people in such regions to far exceed the salt intake they really need.
A single sandwich from the shop I stop at on the way to work provides almost all of my required daily salt intake.... and as I eat a lot more than that, I imagine I'm rather over what I need myself.
I have experienced electrolyte depletion too, and it is rather unpleasant, but that was under extreme circumstances. Climbing Mount Snowdon.