That should be good enough for a headlight. If you assume an average lifetime speed of 30 MPH and the lights are always on when driven, the lights will last for 600,000 to 1,500,000 miles which is well beyond the lifetime of a typical car.
The worst part is that a lot of those LED tail lamps aren't lit continuously, rather they flicker at some observable frequency (somewhere in the tens of Hertz) not unlike cheap LED christmas lights which makes them even more unpleasant to look at. For some reason Cadillacs are particularly bad about this.
I know several smart people who can code in text based languages but, for some weird reason, decide they have to use LabVIEW for data acquisition.
Part of that may be because they are using National Instruments' data acquisition hardware, and naturally LabView plays nicely with it. NI offers other options, such as LabWindows/CVI (which is C-based) and Measurement Studio which are essentially a bunch of libraries for Visual Studio that support NI's hardware and add some UI widgets (like plotting). Certainly worth looking into if you want to use NI's hardware but would prefer to not use LabView.
The thing is the ram is probably very cheap. Yet, you can get some people to pay a lot more for more ram. So if you put all the memory in the "base" model, they can't soak the people willing to pay more for the extra memory because they'll just buy the cheap model like everyone else. From the engineering side, the extra memory is cheap and it's just cheaper easier to build one part with everything and disable bits in software, rather than design different parts for the different models. So you end up with this kind of nonsense.
Of course, it only really works well with high-margin, low volume products like oscilloscopes or high-end servers. For high volume, low margin products where an extra buck or two in ram chips in each unit can make or break you, you're not going to see this kind of stuff.
Actually, if you're plan involves not working for a living, you have a bit more options as you don't have to live close to your job. I would probably find a cheap, modest place out in the country, and pay cash.for it. Now your housing costs basically come down to property taxes which should be low, and upkeep. Upkeep should be relatively cheap (money wise) since I'd have an abundance of time so I wouldn't have to pay someone else to do repairs for me. Heck, growing your own food would be an option to further reduce the costs of living (whether or not fruits, nuts, and vegetables would be uninspiring as food goes would be a matter of opinion, I suppose).
That still doesn't break it down enough. Are those numbers all the Opera users, or just the ones that are still using the last Presto (12.xx) Opera releases?
I recently found a similar vintage Conner that had been decommissioned back in the 90's and hadn't been touched since. Still worked fine, once I tried hooking it up to an old P3. The drive had Windows 95 (the original, not OSR2) and AOL 3.0 on it:)
Sadly it really doesn't matter now that Samsung and Hitachi have had their drive business bought by Seagate and WD so if you need real storage space? Gotta pick one of the other.
What about Toshiba? I see they are making 3.5" drives now, after only making 2.5" drives for years. Probably a wise move because a lot of people have been burned by WD and Seagate and would be willing to give anyone else a chance.
Hey, at least the Aztek was trying to do something different, even if it didn't "click" with car buyers. I consider it a much more interesting vehicle than the boring, ugly, and utterly generic CUVs that now roam the streets.
What I think the parent is saying is that they WILL run out, in sense that they can't fill the tanks as fast as the fuel is burned. Otherwise they could, at least in theory, run indefinitely so long as you had enough tanker trucks.
Well, they did change their name from Apple Computers, Inc. to just Apple Inc. not too long ago, which pretty much aligns with their move to a phone/tablet company that happens to make some computers on the side.
I don't think that'll work out well. People will pick our the desk they like, and then get upset when they come in and someone else is sitting in "their" desk. Or you'll have people fighting over the more desirable locations, and so on. Even if those things don't come up, you'll probably end up with most people sitting in the same place most of the time, which may not be a bad thing actually.
Actually, the habitable zone just moves outward, potentially making formerly uninhabitable outer planets (and moons) habitable. I don't see why life couldn't develop on those planets given enough time, which would be possible with smaller stars that die a slow death.
She could probably get by with no computer if she wanted, as every college I have seen has multiple computer labs with every program that she would ever need to use installed, paid for by the fees tacked onto her tuition. Of course, having your own computer is a big convenience, no doubt. However,I would consider a Chromebook relatively low risk, if she didn't mind the possibility of spending some time in the school's library or other computer labs to do something that the Chromebook wasn't suitable for.
Doesn't surprise me. It's probably changed in the past few years, but last when I was looking at appliances the cheap models are use relatively simple electro-mechanical parts to control the appliance, and the fancy ones used computerized controls. Those computerized controls seem to be a major weak point, and seem to be what fails first in a lot of appliances. Which is kind of surprising since I would expect the electronics to be a lot more robust than the moving parts. And since the cost of parts and repair when the logic board goes bad usually the appliance just gets replaced.
Then what's the layout that has the \ key between the Z key and left shift and also to the left of an extra-tall Enter key as the original poster described as a Danish keyboard? I'd honestly like to know because there's a keyboard like that at work, and having two \ keys, both in odd places, is just.... bizarre.
That may be because by default Windows assigns something like pressing left shift + left alt key to change the active keyboard layout if you have more than one available. Which is something I'll accidentally press all the time (especially when I'm in an editor) so I pretty much have to turn it off immediately. Luckily they'll let you turn that off. That, and the fact that the keyboard layout is an application-specific setting (WHY??) and the inability to change the layout on the log-in screen really makes me wonder if anyone at Microsoft has ever tried to use Windows with more than one keyboard layout.
In which case the criteria should be a reasonably placed headphone jack. I still don't understand all the laptops that put the headphone jack on the front instead of on the left side like god intended.
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And even if you were worried about it, I would think that disconnecting the battery after parking it would reduce that risk to just about zero.
That should be good enough for a headlight. If you assume an average lifetime speed of 30 MPH and the lights are always on when driven, the lights will last for 600,000 to 1,500,000 miles which is well beyond the lifetime of a typical car.
Hopefully it will be just like the turn signals which never light up once they've failed (which is usually immediately after purchase).
The worst part is that a lot of those LED tail lamps aren't lit continuously, rather they flicker at some observable frequency (somewhere in the tens of Hertz) not unlike cheap LED christmas lights which makes them even more unpleasant to look at. For some reason Cadillacs are particularly bad about this.
Part of that may be because they are using National Instruments' data acquisition hardware, and naturally LabView plays nicely with it. NI offers other options, such as LabWindows/CVI (which is C-based) and Measurement Studio which are essentially a bunch of libraries for Visual Studio that support NI's hardware and add some UI widgets (like plotting). Certainly worth looking into if you want to use NI's hardware but would prefer to not use LabView.
THANK YOU. It seems that if beta doesn't drive people away, the incessant whining about it the comments of every article will.
The thing is the ram is probably very cheap. Yet, you can get some people to pay a lot more for more ram. So if you put all the memory in the "base" model, they can't soak the people willing to pay more for the extra memory because they'll just buy the cheap model like everyone else. From the engineering side, the extra memory is cheap and it's just cheaper easier to build one part with everything and disable bits in software, rather than design different parts for the different models. So you end up with this kind of nonsense.
Of course, it only really works well with high-margin, low volume products like oscilloscopes or high-end servers. For high volume, low margin products where an extra buck or two in ram chips in each unit can make or break you, you're not going to see this kind of stuff.
A Citation burns gasoline, so what's your point?
Actually, if you're plan involves not working for a living, you have a bit more options as you don't have to live close to your job. I would probably find a cheap, modest place out in the country, and pay cash.for it. Now your housing costs basically come down to property taxes which should be low, and upkeep. Upkeep should be relatively cheap (money wise) since I'd have an abundance of time so I wouldn't have to pay someone else to do repairs for me. Heck, growing your own food would be an option to further reduce the costs of living (whether or not fruits, nuts, and vegetables would be uninspiring as food goes would be a matter of opinion, I suppose).
That still doesn't break it down enough. Are those numbers all the Opera users, or just the ones that are still using the last Presto (12.xx) Opera releases?
I recently found a similar vintage Conner that had been decommissioned back in the 90's and hadn't been touched since. Still worked fine, once I tried hooking it up to an old P3. The drive had Windows 95 (the original, not OSR2) and AOL 3.0 on it :)
What about Toshiba? I see they are making 3.5" drives now, after only making 2.5" drives for years. Probably a wise move because a lot of people have been burned by WD and Seagate and would be willing to give anyone else a chance.
Hey, at least the Aztek was trying to do something different, even if it didn't "click" with car buyers. I consider it a much more interesting vehicle than the boring, ugly, and utterly generic CUVs that now roam the streets.
What I think the parent is saying is that they WILL run out, in sense that they can't fill the tanks as fast as the fuel is burned. Otherwise they could, at least in theory, run indefinitely so long as you had enough tanker trucks.
Well, they did change their name from Apple Computers, Inc. to just Apple Inc. not too long ago, which pretty much aligns with their move to a phone/tablet company that happens to make some computers on the side.
Yeah, but what good would it be? The air is too thin to generate enough lift, and besides there wouldn't be anyone there to fly it.
I don't think that'll work out well. People will pick our the desk they like, and then get upset when they come in and someone else is sitting in "their" desk. Or you'll have people fighting over the more desirable locations, and so on. Even if those things don't come up, you'll probably end up with most people sitting in the same place most of the time, which may not be a bad thing actually.
For me it would be the same problem, I don't like people being able to sneak up on me, and most every cube puts your back to the hallway.
Actually, the habitable zone just moves outward, potentially making formerly uninhabitable outer planets (and moons) habitable. I don't see why life couldn't develop on those planets given enough time, which would be possible with smaller stars that die a slow death.
She could probably get by with no computer if she wanted, as every college I have seen has multiple computer labs with every program that she would ever need to use installed, paid for by the fees tacked onto her tuition. Of course, having your own computer is a big convenience, no doubt. However,I would consider a Chromebook relatively low risk, if she didn't mind the possibility of spending some time in the school's library or other computer labs to do something that the Chromebook wasn't suitable for.
Generations was a good movie? Are you from the mirror universe or something?
Doesn't surprise me. It's probably changed in the past few years, but last when I was looking at appliances the cheap models are use relatively simple electro-mechanical parts to control the appliance, and the fancy ones used computerized controls. Those computerized controls seem to be a major weak point, and seem to be what fails first in a lot of appliances. Which is kind of surprising since I would expect the electronics to be a lot more robust than the moving parts. And since the cost of parts and repair when the logic board goes bad usually the appliance just gets replaced.
Then what's the layout that has the \ key between the Z key and left shift and also to the left of an extra-tall Enter key as the original poster described as a Danish keyboard? I'd honestly like to know because there's a keyboard like that at work, and having two \ keys, both in odd places, is just .... bizarre.
That may be because by default Windows assigns something like pressing left shift + left alt key to change the active keyboard layout if you have more than one available. Which is something I'll accidentally press all the time (especially when I'm in an editor) so I pretty much have to turn it off immediately. Luckily they'll let you turn that off. That, and the fact that the keyboard layout is an application-specific setting (WHY??) and the inability to change the layout on the log-in screen really makes me wonder if anyone at Microsoft has ever tried to use Windows with more than one keyboard layout.
In which case the criteria should be a reasonably placed headphone jack. I still don't understand all the laptops that put the headphone jack on the front instead of on the left side like god intended.