That very similar to what happened to me. I needed eight plastic end caps for square metal tubes. I could've gone online to order injection-molded ones at $2 a pop, pay $20 for shipping and wait almost a week to receive them or just 3D-print them myself at $2.50 a pop and have them the day I needed them. Bonus points: I could have them in any colour I wanted as long as I had filament in that colour!
...but I didn't have the colour I wanted on hand, so I went online and paid $40 for a spool of filament, paid $20 for shipping, waited a week to receive it and then spent the day printing them.
The morale of the story is, if you have a 3D printer, make sure you have your favorite colours of filament in stock. Not everything has to be black or white.
Especially when someone else's computers are in "the cloud". Clouds are made up of DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide), and we all know how dangerous that chemical can be.
I use canvas for a custom grayscale image conversion tool I made. It has to be real-time when the user moves the sliders, constant communication and server-side rendering and uploading just wouldn't be good enough.
While mining is still technically possible for anyone, those with underpowered setups will find more money is spent on electricity than is generated through mining.
There's crypto-currencies made to be mined by CPUs and GPUs, ASICs can't mine it by design.
There's also speculation involved, mining LTC a year ago might not have been beneficial or just barely enough to pay for the electricity, but today the value of LTC has gone up and could pay ten times what was paid in electricity a year ago.
If you mine something that's been designed to be resistant to ASICs, you need to use CPUs and GPUs to mine. Last time I checked, they don't double in computing power every year anymore.
I know Futurama is over and all, but I'd watch The Scary Door if it was made into a series of its own. Hopefully they can make the episodes longer than 15 seconds or so. Under five minutes would be perfect, I think.
As yayoubetcha said above, Black Mirror consists of stories that hold a mirror to our modern society posing questions about where we're going with our technology.
The Twilight Zone is stories about almost anything, it could be magic, aliens, other dimensions, gods and demons, etc.
I see them as being similar but in two distinct categories, like fantasy vs science-fiction even though most services likes to lump them together in the same idiotic category.
A drug addict who keeps on taking pills and is being chased by the ghosts of his friends who died of an overdose by drugs he sold to them? What about it?
1024x768, not 1080x768. It seems even your memories of the past got infected by 1080p.;-)
And don't forget a lot of us here started at much lower resolutions than 800x600. For the PC,there was VGA 640x480, EGA 640x350, EGA 640x200, EGA 320x200, CGA 320x200 which looked like crap because of the horrible palettes or monochrome "720×350" (actual resolution 720×348) if you had Hercules graphics.
No built-in tuner that will become outdated in a few years. No smart TV computer that will become outdated in a few months. No smart TV computer to get hacked by script kiddies, hackers, botnets, crypto-mining or three-letter agencies.
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"A windows executable" would be of zero use to me.
That's true, north of the border we have Canadian Tire that also carries Dremel brand stuff.
That very similar to what happened to me. I needed eight plastic end caps for square metal tubes. I could've gone online to order injection-molded ones at $2 a pop, pay $20 for shipping and wait almost a week to receive them or just 3D-print them myself at $2.50 a pop and have them the day I needed them. Bonus points: I could have them in any colour I wanted as long as I had filament in that colour!
...but I didn't have the colour I wanted on hand, so I went online and paid $40 for a spool of filament, paid $20 for shipping, waited a week to receive it and then spent the day printing them.
The morale of the story is, if you have a 3D printer, make sure you have your favorite colours of filament in stock. Not everything has to be black or white.
This is what I keep on my Google drive account in a file called "top-secret-encrypted-data.zip"
Pbatenghyngvbaf thlf, lbh penpxrq zl rapelcgvba!
Uvtu svirf nyy nebhaq! Lbh'er gur orfg!
Especially when someone else's computers are in "the cloud". Clouds are made up of DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide), and we all know how dangerous that chemical can be.
I use canvas for a custom grayscale image conversion tool I made. It has to be real-time when the user moves the sliders, constant communication and server-side rendering and uploading just wouldn't be good enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
Damn, and to think of all the time I've wasted learning CSS3...
Let's ask Apple, they seem to be in love with adapters.
You need to mine something else, Monero being a good example of ASIC-resistant crypto-currency.
I don't know where you live, but around here 3D printer filament isn't cheap.
Wow, you can convert coins to BTC? Holy cow I'm going to be rich, I have 500K flappycoins!
There's crypto-currencies made to be mined by CPUs and GPUs, ASICs can't mine it by design.
There's also speculation involved, mining LTC a year ago might not have been beneficial or just barely enough to pay for the electricity, but today the value of LTC has gone up and could pay ten times what was paid in electricity a year ago.
I prefer to heat my house with 2750 ATmega328P.
If you mine something that's been designed to be resistant to ASICs, you need to use CPUs and GPUs to mine. Last time I checked, they don't double in computing power every year anymore.
You say 200mm thick like we're supposed to be impressed but really, it's only 0.0002km thick.
LTC seems to already have all the necessary patches in place to avoid the problems currently affecting BTC and their multiple forks.
I say, hold you LTC. I'm still kicking myself for not buying a few hundred at $2.
Oh yeah? Let's see what those Secret Service guys will do with The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:
Shitcock!
I know Futurama is over and all, but I'd watch The Scary Door if it was made into a series of its own. Hopefully they can make the episodes longer than 15 seconds or so. Under five minutes would be perfect, I think.
As yayoubetcha said above, Black Mirror consists of stories that hold a mirror to our modern society posing questions about where we're going with our technology.
The Twilight Zone is stories about almost anything, it could be magic, aliens, other dimensions, gods and demons, etc.
I see them as being similar but in two distinct categories, like fantasy vs science-fiction even though most services likes to lump them together in the same idiotic category.
A drug addict who keeps on taking pills and is being chased by the ghosts of his friends who died of an overdose by drugs he sold to them? What about it?
Using an Xbox 360 to stream Netflix is a waste of electricity. Get yourself a dedicated streaming box from Apple, Roku or Amazon.
Even if it's cancelled it still works, which would make a Windows 10 mobile-powered Pixel 2 XL better than one without any OS.
1024x768, not 1080x768. It seems even your memories of the past got infected by 1080p. ;-)
And don't forget a lot of us here started at much lower resolutions than 800x600. For the PC,there was VGA 640x480, EGA 640x350, EGA 640x200, EGA 320x200, CGA 320x200 which looked like crap because of the horrible palettes or monochrome "720×350" (actual resolution 720×348) if you had Hercules graphics.
1080p, 23" widescreen computer monitor.
No built-in tuner that will become outdated in a few years.
No smart TV computer that will become outdated in a few months.
No smart TV computer to get hacked by script kiddies, hackers, botnets, crypto-mining or three-letter agencies.