I support several creators on Patreon. I have 2 categories of pledges: large ranging from $7 to $20 per month, and small of $1 per month, for a total of about $55 per month. Or better said I _had_ 2 categories of pledges. Since receiving the notification I had to drop all of the $1 pledges to keep the balance. It's regrettable but it is what it is.
And my Seiko Kinetic has been running continuously for almost 10 years not needing any www connection to keep good time, nor battery changes, winding etc. All it needs is that I wear it at least 10 days every month.
Not necessarily military-grade. Those are heavy and expensive. I put my laptop in the luggage in a Pelican hard case. It's not too heavy (about 3 pounds) and it's stiff enough that I can stand on top of it without it deforming. That's good enough for me. Has foam padding inside. Never had a problem with a laptop that was inside that case.
There are many settings where this could be very useful outside of the UN. Like any business dealing with a multi-ethnic customer base (and no, I don't mean multi-national corporations only - it could apply to many corner stores in NYC for example). Or that country that you've wanted to visit but you don't speak the language of, and they don't speak English.
I can barely see a difference between SD and 1080p. Seriously, people keep telling me how much better 1080p is, but for me the difference is insignificant. I have seen 4k sets in stores and I don't really care about them, it all looks the same to me. My main TV is a 720p plasma, I also have a 1080p LED (because that's all there was in stores when I got it), I see no difference between them in terms of sharpness (of course the plasma has better color rendition that the LED). I have no plans to upgrade either of them until they die, or they become incompatible with broadcast standards.
The most efficient way to store hydrogen in a way that would make refueling a car currently is not as liquid hydrogen, but as metal hydrides. One of the most efficient, and which has been used for quite some time (though we don't really think of it as a hydrogen-storing device) is an alloy of nickel and lanthanum - the devices using it are NiMH batteries. The way efficient refueling of a hydrogen car would work is: the fuel tank is removable, and contains NiMH. Once it is spent, it can be taken off at a fueling station, and a replenished tank from the station's stock is screwed back into place. Then the spent tank is sent to a replenishing facility, then shipped back to the fueling station to be used in another car. If done properly, changing a spent tank for a full one shouldn't take more than a few minutes. It would require modifying the existing infrastructure though.
Motherboards, yes. But no new CPUs. The point being that, when you talk about "CPU upgrade" you usually mean putting a faster CPU in the same motherboard, not keeping the same CPU and buying a newer motherboard. AMD made socket 939 a dead-end for upgrades much sooner than everyone was promised.
Hm. Socket 939 comes to mind. Announced as the socket that will end all, and that will be supported for the foreseeable future. Sidetracked in less than a year, and discontinued shortly after.
This is bullshit. I just traveled through several major airports in Europe and had in my backpack 2 tablets, 1 game console, several travel routers, power adapters and other electronic stuff. I never had to remove anything from the backpack.
486DX50 (yes not DX2) on Octek Hippo DCA2 motherboard with 16MB RAM and a total of 5 HDDs (3 IDE and 2 SCSI) salvaged from older computers in a RAID0 configuration for a total of 1.3GB, with Slackware 3.6
Bad examples. Nobody except maybe the Tsar would've predicted Tsarist Russia would last. It'd been weakening for a long time and there was a revolution in 1905.
Well, here we have Tsar Wozniak making predictions about the Apple empire.:) Quite the apt analogy I presume.
In 1911, it could have been predicted that 106 years later the Tsarist and Austro-Hungarian empires would be around and stronger than ever. There was no reason at that time not to predict that.
Well nobody said you need to drop it all at once. But dropping it as one-pound pellets launched from a solar powered mass driver is not out of the reach of a potential villain.
Or revolutionary (see The Moon is a Harsh Mistress).
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I support several creators on Patreon. I have 2 categories of pledges: large ranging from $7 to $20 per month, and small of $1 per month, for a total of about $55 per month. Or better said I _had_ 2 categories of pledges. Since receiving the notification I had to drop all of the $1 pledges to keep the balance. It's regrettable but it is what it is.
Sure why not. There's no way this can go wrong right?
And my Seiko Kinetic has been running continuously for almost 10 years not needing any www connection to keep good time, nor battery changes, winding etc. All it needs is that I wear it at least 10 days every month.
Not necessarily military-grade. Those are heavy and expensive. I put my laptop in the luggage in a Pelican hard case. It's not too heavy (about 3 pounds) and it's stiff enough that I can stand on top of it without it deforming. That's good enough for me. Has foam padding inside. Never had a problem with a laptop that was inside that case.
The HL-60 line isn't listed there. That's what I used in my research back in the day.
All that 19th century tech lacks processing power. I'll plead an unused router/firewall running Slackware 3.9 to provide that for the beacon.
There are many settings where this could be very useful outside of the UN. Like any business dealing with a multi-ethnic customer base (and no, I don't mean multi-national corporations only - it could apply to many corner stores in NYC for example). Or that country that you've wanted to visit but you don't speak the language of, and they don't speak English.
The numbers are reversed for me. To each his own.
If coal is illegal, then only outlaws will have coal!
I can barely see a difference between SD and 1080p. Seriously, people keep telling me how much better 1080p is, but for me the difference is insignificant. I have seen 4k sets in stores and I don't really care about them, it all looks the same to me. My main TV is a 720p plasma, I also have a 1080p LED (because that's all there was in stores when I got it), I see no difference between them in terms of sharpness (of course the plasma has better color rendition that the LED). I have no plans to upgrade either of them until they die, or they become incompatible with broadcast standards.
Getting high on covfefe is wrong.
The most efficient way to store hydrogen in a way that would make refueling a car currently is not as liquid hydrogen, but as metal hydrides. One of the most efficient, and which has been used for quite some time (though we don't really think of it as a hydrogen-storing device) is an alloy of nickel and lanthanum - the devices using it are NiMH batteries.
The way efficient refueling of a hydrogen car would work is: the fuel tank is removable, and contains NiMH. Once it is spent, it can be taken off at a fueling station, and a replenished tank from the station's stock is screwed back into place. Then the spent tank is sent to a replenishing facility, then shipped back to the fueling station to be used in another car. If done properly, changing a spent tank for a full one shouldn't take more than a few minutes. It would require modifying the existing infrastructure though.
Motherboards, yes. But no new CPUs. The point being that, when you talk about "CPU upgrade" you usually mean putting a faster CPU in the same motherboard, not keeping the same CPU and buying a newer motherboard. AMD made socket 939 a dead-end for upgrades much sooner than everyone was promised.
Hm. Socket 939 comes to mind. Announced as the socket that will end all, and that will be supported for the foreseeable future. Sidetracked in less than a year, and discontinued shortly after.
This is bullshit. I just traveled through several major airports in Europe and had in my backpack 2 tablets, 1 game console, several travel routers, power adapters and other electronic stuff. I never had to remove anything from the backpack.
Well, for the current state of technology, 2 major reasons. Water and air.
And joining the mile-high club.
486DX50 (yes not DX2) on Octek Hippo DCA2 motherboard with 16MB RAM and a total of 5 HDDs (3 IDE and 2 SCSI) salvaged from older computers in a RAID0 configuration for a total of 1.3GB, with Slackware 3.6
Bad examples. Nobody except maybe the Tsar would've predicted Tsarist Russia would last. It'd been weakening for a long time and there was a revolution in 1905.
Well, here we have Tsar Wozniak making predictions about the Apple empire. :)
Quite the apt analogy I presume.
In 1911, it could have been predicted that 106 years later the Tsarist and Austro-Hungarian empires would be around and stronger than ever. There was no reason at that time not to predict that.
Well I'd go for that phone he wants. So there's at least 2 of us. :)
Well nobody said you need to drop it all at once. But dropping it as one-pound pellets launched from a solar powered mass driver is not out of the reach of a potential villain.
Or revolutionary (see The Moon is a Harsh Mistress).
SystemD is available as an option on Gentoo. It is however not the default. If you really want it, you can have it.
Given that I run a philosophical cron job with focus on ancient Greek stoicism, you're probably right.
My gentoo boxes shrugged for a half milisecond, then continued chugging along.