The Galactic DMV also requires a flasher fluid flush, a new windshield wiper belt, and a tachyon emissions filter for the flux capacitor before it passes inspection.
The problem with that is that space is a bitch of an environment to maintain something as complex as the ISS over time. Unless you're only looking at another decade or two of life, you'll probably see it reach the point where it's cheaper and easier to build a new space station, moonbase or Mars base than it is to continue maintaining the ISS. There's also few practical options for preserving it as a piece of history, no matter how cool that would be.
Cuttlefish are fairly ancient, but their color-changing skin boasts a higher resolution than Apple's Retina displays. And while I couldn't find a good number for how many colors than they handle, it's assuredly far, far higher than 8 bit. However, there are rumors of cuttlefish comparable to Windows phones that only display blue with white symbols...
If you flood the oceans with enough rain that salinity rapidly changes, it will kill the entire ecosystem pretty quickly - just ask anyone who saw Finding Nemo and tried keeping a clownfish in a freshwater tank. Floods also tend to kick up sediments, throw chemicals in the water and lots of other fun stuff that will end up killing many creatures - including vital parts of the food chain.
As for killing some animals but not others, it's a long shot but possible depending on the adaptability of the creatures. If they can find a new food source and the changes in salinity/chemicals/sediments/etc don't kill them, then they'll probably thrive. Although the dried plankton flakes theory isn't too bad either.
Which seems to be what a good majority of today's sea creatures have that fill analogous environmental niches. Although it would be kind of funny to see Megalodon or Mosasaurus decked out in rainbow stripes like a gay pride flag.
Yes, but cooking at home is time in which you can do very little else simultaneously. At a restaurant, you have much more freedom to do other activities, either socially or through a smartphone/tablet. Most restaurants also have a lot of the prep work for your meal done before you even leave the house, and many foods with longer cook times are started before anyone orders - both of which means a restaurant usually takes less of your time than making yourself. You can point out exceptions, like a sandwich, in which the time to go someplace to buy one is longer than the prep time but that's bordering on pedantry. For the majority of proper meals for the majority of people, restaurants will take less of your time overall.
Profit: The difference between what's gained and what's spent. If you spend $50 and gain something equivalent to a $5000 camera, then you have essentially created a $4500 profit.
And it's 100% tax-free profit. That's the beauty of it. While you attempted a purposely bad analogy, it still works as long as you remember both things need to be equivalent for your purposes - as is the case for the cameras in question. If the bicycle and the Veyron perform the same task *that you intend to use them for* equally well, then the bicycle can be seen as a $1,700,000 profit, (minus the cost of the bicycle). In the end, if you achieve your goal with a better bottom line than if you had gone with the alternative, it's a profit.
I should add that you could also calculate it as a profit. Take the cost of a commercial alternative (said to be thousands of dollars in the summary), then subtract material and time costs. What's left is your profit.
As long as it doesn't take away from another activity, then the cost of time is nothing. If this were not the case, then it would never be cheaper to cook at home rather than go to a restaurant.
Just because something is the best tool for the job doesn't mean it's invulnerable. The best hammers can break even if all you're doing is pounding nails.
I consider a 25W TDP to be "low power" when talking dual core x64 processors (the entire box draws 35W under normal load). Sure, it might not compete with some of the more specialized processors out there, but against other dual-core 64 bit processors, I think that counts as "low power". I did consider Atom processors and similar, but settled on an Athlon X2 as the best combination of performance, price, upgradeability and power consumption.
So you're saying you're paid for every hour of every day? 100% of research and build time came out of my leisure time, and I damn well enjoyed it. So you might say it's worthless, but as a leisure time activity it came out significantly cheaper than going to the movies and I got something to show for it - and that's before deducting the cost of a router that I would have had to buy anyway.
To answer your questions: - It runs at about 35W under normal load. - The $200 included brand-new from NewEgg power supply, RAM, CPU and motherboard as well as a used 2U rackmount case w/ CD-ROM drive and fans. The SSD was new from a local PC shop. - It's 1 port on the mobo and a 4-port PCIe NIC
Sure, there may be bottlenecks, but pretty much every home router has bottlenecks too. I can't tell you how many 802.11n routers I've seen with only 10/100 wired ports. If just comparing on price, a DIY jobbie will almost always beat a store-bought router. In the end, all you're truly paying for is convenience. It's worth it to some people, but not to others.
Basement is a constant temperature and humidity, year-round. Attic swings from below freezing in the winter to three quarters of boiling in the summer. And the attic is three feet high at the tallest, with the only access through a hole I can barely fit through, nevermind a rack. Every house and apartment I've lived in has been much the same way.
Normal use is around 35 watts (as measured by a Kill-A-Watt), although it will spike as high as 50 when powering up. It's not as competitive on that front, but it makes up for it in expandability. You can easily slap a couple of HDDs into it and have it fill NAS duties without the cost of a separate NAS. Full blown OSes usually give more options for power management as well, so I could set it up to go to sleep during the night or while I'm at work if I wanted to.
For me, the deficiencies in power are well worth what it makes up for in expansion/upgrading/ease of fixing if it breaks. I could have probably shaved off another 10 or 15 watts if I used something like an Atom without driving the price up too much. It's all a matter of what you want to do with your device; I have a full server rack in the basement and electricity is pretty cheap where I live, so it makes sense for me but I'll be the first to admit it's not for everybody.
For anyone interested, I originally had ClearOS on it and later switched to Sophos. Both are about as user-friendly as something like this gets for installation, maintenance and flexibility to easily add more roles to the device.
Considering I built my current router is a low-power dual core 2.0GHz x64 CPU with 4GB DDR3 RAM, 16GB SATA-III SSD and 5 gigabit Ethernet ports for ~$200, it shouldn't be too hard to add a wireless card for around $100 and call it a day.
The thing that pushed me to finally ditch my old slider for a new touch-only is the improved voice-to-text. It does a surprisingly good job and is more than sufficient for texting and short emails, my two main tasks. The only thing I find sorely lacking is when I RDP from my phone. The physical keyboard's arrow keys were a huge plus when navigating a larger resolution RDP connection from the much smaller phone resolution.
It took me a long time to finally upgrade from a slider phone with a physical keyboard to one without. The physical keyboard gives tactile feedback and is much less sensitive to fat-fingered typing than any on-screen keyboard I've used... both of which make typing considerably faster. I would have gotten another slider phone, but they don't seem to make them anymore except for a few very low-end models.
We also know that, historically, Antarctica was north of Australia. So just saying that Greenland was once clear of ice is picking and choosing facts just as much as only looking at any other limited dataset. The truth is that it's a very complex system with a shit-ton of variables involved on a daily basis. Once you start looking at historical trends, you need to consider everything from solar cycles to plate tectonics.
But is it really fair to compare one place in the depths of winter to another that's in the middle of summer? The South Pole isn't all that inhospitable during the summer months.
"Also, while those -30, -40 etc numbers sound terrible, if you dress properly its not that bad and further, they usually happen betwen 4am and 7am and quickly moderate."
The last winter like that I was still in high school (less than 10 years ago) and, unfortunately, the combination of waiting for the bus at 6:20am and teenage stupidity meant I was outside in -35F (-75F wind chill gusts) without a coat. Looking back, I'm starting to think I may have been a little bit retarded.
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The Galactic DMV also requires a flasher fluid flush, a new windshield wiper belt, and a tachyon emissions filter for the flux capacitor before it passes inspection.
The problem with that is that space is a bitch of an environment to maintain something as complex as the ISS over time. Unless you're only looking at another decade or two of life, you'll probably see it reach the point where it's cheaper and easier to build a new space station, moonbase or Mars base than it is to continue maintaining the ISS. There's also few practical options for preserving it as a piece of history, no matter how cool that would be.
Cuttlefish are fairly ancient, but their color-changing skin boasts a higher resolution than Apple's Retina displays. And while I couldn't find a good number for how many colors than they handle, it's assuredly far, far higher than 8 bit. However, there are rumors of cuttlefish comparable to Windows phones that only display blue with white symbols...
If you flood the oceans with enough rain that salinity rapidly changes, it will kill the entire ecosystem pretty quickly - just ask anyone who saw Finding Nemo and tried keeping a clownfish in a freshwater tank. Floods also tend to kick up sediments, throw chemicals in the water and lots of other fun stuff that will end up killing many creatures - including vital parts of the food chain.
As for killing some animals but not others, it's a long shot but possible depending on the adaptability of the creatures. If they can find a new food source and the changes in salinity/chemicals/sediments/etc don't kill them, then they'll probably thrive. Although the dried plankton flakes theory isn't too bad either.
Which seems to be what a good majority of today's sea creatures have that fill analogous environmental niches. Although it would be kind of funny to see Megalodon or Mosasaurus decked out in rainbow stripes like a gay pride flag.
Yes, but cooking at home is time in which you can do very little else simultaneously. At a restaurant, you have much more freedom to do other activities, either socially or through a smartphone/tablet. Most restaurants also have a lot of the prep work for your meal done before you even leave the house, and many foods with longer cook times are started before anyone orders - both of which means a restaurant usually takes less of your time than making yourself. You can point out exceptions, like a sandwich, in which the time to go someplace to buy one is longer than the prep time but that's bordering on pedantry. For the majority of proper meals for the majority of people, restaurants will take less of your time overall.
Um, I never said anything about "recent". In fact, that was my entire point. FYI
Profit: The difference between what's gained and what's spent. If you spend $50 and gain something equivalent to a $5000 camera, then you have essentially created a $4500 profit.
And it's 100% tax-free profit. That's the beauty of it. While you attempted a purposely bad analogy, it still works as long as you remember both things need to be equivalent for your purposes - as is the case for the cameras in question. If the bicycle and the Veyron perform the same task *that you intend to use them for* equally well, then the bicycle can be seen as a $1,700,000 profit, (minus the cost of the bicycle). In the end, if you achieve your goal with a better bottom line than if you had gone with the alternative, it's a profit.
I should add that you could also calculate it as a profit. Take the cost of a commercial alternative (said to be thousands of dollars in the summary), then subtract material and time costs. What's left is your profit.
As long as it doesn't take away from another activity, then the cost of time is nothing. If this were not the case, then it would never be cheaper to cook at home rather than go to a restaurant.
Just because something is the best tool for the job doesn't mean it's invulnerable. The best hammers can break even if all you're doing is pounding nails.
I consider a 25W TDP to be "low power" when talking dual core x64 processors (the entire box draws 35W under normal load). Sure, it might not compete with some of the more specialized processors out there, but against other dual-core 64 bit processors, I think that counts as "low power". I did consider Atom processors and similar, but settled on an Athlon X2 as the best combination of performance, price, upgradeability and power consumption.
So you're saying you're paid for every hour of every day? 100% of research and build time came out of my leisure time, and I damn well enjoyed it. So you might say it's worthless, but as a leisure time activity it came out significantly cheaper than going to the movies and I got something to show for it - and that's before deducting the cost of a router that I would have had to buy anyway.
To answer your questions:
- It runs at about 35W under normal load.
- The $200 included brand-new from NewEgg power supply, RAM, CPU and motherboard as well as a used 2U rackmount case w/ CD-ROM drive and fans. The SSD was new from a local PC shop.
- It's 1 port on the mobo and a 4-port PCIe NIC
Sure, there may be bottlenecks, but pretty much every home router has bottlenecks too. I can't tell you how many 802.11n routers I've seen with only 10/100 wired ports. If just comparing on price, a DIY jobbie will almost always beat a store-bought router. In the end, all you're truly paying for is convenience. It's worth it to some people, but not to others.
Basement is a constant temperature and humidity, year-round. Attic swings from below freezing in the winter to three quarters of boiling in the summer. And the attic is three feet high at the tallest, with the only access through a hole I can barely fit through, nevermind a rack. Every house and apartment I've lived in has been much the same way.
" then I found that every time I moved the laptop, it would reboot, if I lifted up the front and dropped it one inch, it would reboot every time"
If you find yourself picking up and dropping a router (which it would be used for) on a regular basis, then I think you're doing something very wrong.
Normal use is around 35 watts (as measured by a Kill-A-Watt), although it will spike as high as 50 when powering up. It's not as competitive on that front, but it makes up for it in expandability. You can easily slap a couple of HDDs into it and have it fill NAS duties without the cost of a separate NAS. Full blown OSes usually give more options for power management as well, so I could set it up to go to sleep during the night or while I'm at work if I wanted to.
For me, the deficiencies in power are well worth what it makes up for in expansion/upgrading/ease of fixing if it breaks. I could have probably shaved off another 10 or 15 watts if I used something like an Atom without driving the price up too much. It's all a matter of what you want to do with your device; I have a full server rack in the basement and electricity is pretty cheap where I live, so it makes sense for me but I'll be the first to admit it's not for everybody.
For anyone interested, I originally had ClearOS on it and later switched to Sophos. Both are about as user-friendly as something like this gets for installation, maintenance and flexibility to easily add more roles to the device.
Considering I built my current router is a low-power dual core 2.0GHz x64 CPU with 4GB DDR3 RAM, 16GB SATA-III SSD and 5 gigabit Ethernet ports for ~$200, it shouldn't be too hard to add a wireless card for around $100 and call it a day.
The thing that pushed me to finally ditch my old slider for a new touch-only is the improved voice-to-text. It does a surprisingly good job and is more than sufficient for texting and short emails, my two main tasks. The only thing I find sorely lacking is when I RDP from my phone. The physical keyboard's arrow keys were a huge plus when navigating a larger resolution RDP connection from the much smaller phone resolution.
It took me a long time to finally upgrade from a slider phone with a physical keyboard to one without. The physical keyboard gives tactile feedback and is much less sensitive to fat-fingered typing than any on-screen keyboard I've used... both of which make typing considerably faster. I would have gotten another slider phone, but they don't seem to make them anymore except for a few very low-end models.
Actually, C and F converge right at -40. That convergence is the cause of the whooshing sound you heard when replying to the previous poster.
We also know that, historically, Antarctica was north of Australia. So just saying that Greenland was once clear of ice is picking and choosing facts just as much as only looking at any other limited dataset. The truth is that it's a very complex system with a shit-ton of variables involved on a daily basis. Once you start looking at historical trends, you need to consider everything from solar cycles to plate tectonics.
But is it really fair to compare one place in the depths of winter to another that's in the middle of summer? The South Pole isn't all that inhospitable during the summer months.
"Also, while those -30, -40 etc numbers sound terrible, if you dress properly its not that bad and further, they usually happen betwen 4am and 7am and quickly moderate."
The last winter like that I was still in high school (less than 10 years ago) and, unfortunately, the combination of waiting for the bus at 6:20am and teenage stupidity meant I was outside in -35F (-75F wind chill gusts) without a coat. Looking back, I'm starting to think I may have been a little bit retarded.
George Carlin beat you to that rant. "If it's zero degrees outside today, and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?"