Seriously though, I've owned laptops for about ten years now and I've never dropped one.Stop coating your hands with butter before you pick the laptop up!
I'm very familiar with this particular car, having done a drivetrain transplant into one, and having a boss who worked in engineering for GM while the Fiero was being produced.
The Fiero used different paint on the parts of the body that would be most likely to be subjected to impact, ie. the bumpers. The rest of the body was painted with normal automotive paint. The difference in the bumper paint is that it has an additive to make it less likely to crack when the panel is flexed. This is the same type of paint system used on other GM cars of the time, including cars which had mostly metal bodies and plastic covered bumpers like the Camaro/Firebird, the A-body cars (Cutlass Ciera/Pontiac 6000/etc), and so on. Other than some small trim pieces, there are no plastic exterior panels on the Fiero.
The flex additive is what makes the bumper paint fade more rapidly.
It is interesting to note that a lot of these cars, even back in the early 1980's had plastic honeycomb parts serving as impact absorbing structures right under the flexible plastic bumper covers, for instance the '82-'92 Camaro had a plastic rear bumper beam.
For example, over Christmas, how many people were selling those ZipZap knock-off cars? And how many of them were so overwhelmed with sales that they couldnt keep up, and hence, people left them negative feedback? I would see that and skip right past them because it would show that they could not handle the intense load, but otherwise were good sellers.
When you are acting as a seller on eBay, just how do you overwhelm yourself? eBay sellers set the quantity of items they are selling. I don't see how a responsible seller can become overwhelmed, unless they are in fact irresponsible sellers and are listing items with higher available quantities than they actually have. I sell on eBay, yet I've never been overwhelmed with too many sales because I only list what I can ship. What am I missing here?
If you already have DirecTV at home, after buying the phased array antenna and mobile receiver, couldn't you just add the receiver onto your current home DirecTV account as an additional receiver.
My 2nd box only costs me $4.99 a month, how is this different?
There are some rare tubes out there that are designed to work with plate voltages as low as 30V. They were used in portable radios.
There is a 24V potential available on the motherboard between the +12V and -12V supplies (if PC's still have the -12V) but I don't think 24V is enough to do anything. A small inverter or charge pump along the lines of how the MAX232 works on the board would do the job too.
There are also dual triode tubes that would take care of the stereo issue.
That being said, I think this whole thing is a joke. If this were really an audiophile motherboard there would be a lot of metal shielding around the audio section, and the picture wouldn't look like a Fark photoshop.
While I really think this motherboard is some kind of delayed Taiwanese April Fools' joke...
1) Cooling - You don't cool tubes, they like heat. That's why they're called thermionic devices. It would be nice to see a metal sleeve on the tube to act as a sheild against all the EMI from the motherboard though.
2)Availability of replacements - Check the little ads in the back of any audiophile type magazine and you'll find plenty of tube suppliers. Or you could just go to the local electronics store and order a new tube. I've restored plenty of tube-based devices and never waited longer than a week for a tube.
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Too bad the processor isn't the biggest powerhog. The thing has an LCD and a hard drive
That's true.
When the Libretto's working hard for a while it will issue a puff of hot plastic-smelling air from the little vent on the left side, kind of like it's breathing.
I'm hoping the smell goes away with time. Unfortunately the manual's in Japanese so I don't know if that's normal or not.
Engine blocks are usually made of grey iron, which is great at damping vibrations, but not good at absorbing impacts. One hit with a lift truck fork would be enough to punch a hole or break a corner off.
I once reduced a small block Chrysler V8 into little chunks for re-melting with a four pound hammer. It took about ten minutes.
It's been a long time since I had to think about this, but here I go...
Let's say I have one logic gate (since CPUs are made up of logic gates) and I alternate it between 0 and 1 at 1.8GHz (to make the math easier). Is a "massively parallel" three logic gates running at 600MHz any more power/heat efficient than the single high speed gate?
The page we're looking for isn't in their cache, but a lot of other ones are; surely Google didn't get permission for the entire contents of their cache.
Engine manufacturers don't rate their engines based on BTU input (like a water heater or furnace), but on mechanical output (regardless of waste heat output).
Doesn't a 100HP (75kW) internal combustion engine actually consume 300HP of chemical energy to make its 100HP of mechanical energy if it's 33% efficient? So the waste heat would be 200HP or 150kW.
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Seriously though, I've owned laptops for about ten years now and I've never dropped one.Stop coating your hands with butter before you pick the laptop up!
The Fiero used different paint on the parts of the body that would be most likely to be subjected to impact, ie. the bumpers. The rest of the body was painted with normal automotive paint. The difference in the bumper paint is that it has an additive to make it less likely to crack when the panel is flexed. This is the same type of paint system used on other GM cars of the time, including cars which had mostly metal bodies and plastic covered bumpers like the Camaro/Firebird, the A-body cars (Cutlass Ciera/Pontiac 6000/etc), and so on. Other than some small trim pieces, there are no plastic exterior panels on the Fiero.
The flex additive is what makes the bumper paint fade more rapidly.
It is interesting to note that a lot of these cars, even back in the early 1980's had plastic honeycomb parts serving as impact absorbing structures right under the flexible plastic bumper covers, for instance the '82-'92 Camaro had a plastic rear bumper beam.
When you are acting as a seller on eBay, just how do you overwhelm yourself? eBay sellers set the quantity of items they are selling. I don't see how a responsible seller can become overwhelmed, unless they are in fact irresponsible sellers and are listing items with higher available quantities than they actually have. I sell on eBay, yet I've never been overwhelmed with too many sales because I only list what I can ship. What am I missing here?
My 2nd box only costs me $4.99 a month, how is this different?
You're thinking of the Model M keyboard.
I have one of the last IBM model M keyboards on my desk at work. I also have two at home, I picked them up from thrift stores for about $5 each.
Why did they stop making these things? There's no better keyboard.
I thought 802.11b was covered under Part 15 of the FCC rules. Doesn't this violate them by purposely generating interference?
vehiculate To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle.
But look what happened to that. Maybe now the time is right (Wi-Fi cards are cheap now, etc).
ISO is a standardization body, it does nobody any good for them to get in the middle of a stupid dispute like this.
In the UK I understand this is commonplace, but I don't think that's the case in the USA.
I seem to remember also that software DVD players were supposed to only allow the region code to be changed five times before locking it down.
There is a 24V potential available on the motherboard between the +12V and -12V supplies (if PC's still have the -12V) but I don't think 24V is enough to do anything. A small inverter or charge pump along the lines of how the MAX232 works on the board would do the job too.
There are also dual triode tubes that would take care of the stereo issue.
That being said, I think this whole thing is a joke. If this were really an audiophile motherboard there would be a lot of metal shielding around the audio section, and the picture wouldn't look like a Fark photoshop.
1) Cooling - You don't cool tubes, they like heat. That's why they're called thermionic devices. It would be nice to see a metal sleeve on the tube to act as a sheild against all the EMI from the motherboard though.
2)Availability of replacements - Check the little ads in the back of any audiophile type magazine and you'll find plenty of tube suppliers. Or you could just go to the local electronics store and order a new tube. I've restored plenty of tube-based devices and never waited longer than a week for a tube.
That's true.
When the Libretto's working hard for a while it will issue a puff of hot plastic-smelling air from the little vent on the left side, kind of like it's breathing.
I'm hoping the smell goes away with time. Unfortunately the manual's in Japanese so I don't know if that's normal or not.
I have a Toshiba Libretto L3 with the Transmeta Crusoe 600MHz CPU. Performance is not blinding fast, but it is more than adequate for most tasks.
I guess my point is that this is intended to be a portable device, not a supercomputer.
I once reduced a small block Chrysler V8 into little chunks for re-melting with a four pound hammer. It took about ten minutes.
Let's say I have one logic gate (since CPUs are made up of logic gates) and I alternate it between 0 and 1 at 1.8GHz (to make the math easier). Is a "massively parallel" three logic gates running at 600MHz any more power/heat efficient than the single high speed gate?
Watch out for shrapnel from the motor! I'd be more worried about chunks of steel flying than the CD.
The page we're looking for isn't in their cache, but a lot of other ones are; surely Google didn't get permission for the entire contents of their cache.
Didn't I see this thing falling off of a ramp on Comedy Central last night?
Doesn't a 100HP (75kW) internal combustion engine actually consume 300HP of chemical energy to make its 100HP of mechanical energy if it's 33% efficient? So the waste heat would be 200HP or 150kW.