A friend of mine interned at an IBM facility for the summer or at least some place they were processing IBM RAM. He's a big apple freak and after a couple of days of handling these RAM sticks he notices that the pin configuration is very close to what he had in his apple except it had an extra pin. Since it was "free" he just took a screw driver, broke off the extra pin, plugged it in and off she went. He had it in there for a long time until he upgraded and everything worked perfect, allowing him to run programs that necessitated the "extra" RAM he installed.
There is a japanese company who made vests explicitly for motorcyclists that inflated when a tether attached to the bike was pulled years ago. It came in several dsigns and protection layers. As I recall it protected the areas that Neil Stephenson described in S.C.
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A friend of mine interned at an IBM facility for the summer or at least some place they were processing IBM RAM. He's a big apple freak and after a couple of days of handling these RAM sticks he notices that the pin configuration is very close to what he had in his apple except it had an extra pin. Since it was "free" he just took a screw driver, broke off the extra pin, plugged it in and off she went. He had it in there for a long time until he upgraded and everything worked perfect, allowing him to run programs that necessitated the "extra" RAM he installed.
There is a japanese company who made vests explicitly for motorcyclists that inflated when a tether attached to the bike was pulled years ago. It came in several dsigns and protection layers. As I recall it protected the areas that Neil Stephenson described in S.C.
He said hand HELD, not hand gun