80% capacity is considered end of life, by the way, but in practical terms you could re use that battery in another vehicle or as a UPS for many more years.
Re-use? Why? Just continue using it normally. 80% capacity isn't EOL in the original application. Not even close. So your car takes 5 seconds instead of 4 to reach 100 km/h. So it only travels 240 km instead of 300 km. So what. That isn't anywhere near useless.
Hydrogen can be produced via electrolysis of water
Yeah. For ENORMOUS energy input. As a laboratory curiosity. Nobody produces significant amounts this way. They use mostly reformation of natural gas and coal.
The stupid summary leaps to the absurd conclusion that mobiles represent 100% of the power consumption made by ALL IT equipment. I'm pretty sure it's actually more like 1%; perhaps less.
An Altair 8800 kit with 256 bytes of static RAM which I mail ordered from Southwest Technical Products very soon after the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. I soldered every component of every PC board, plus all the 100 pin sockets on the backplane the multiple 100 wire connections between the backplane sections. I replaced almost every IC socket with Augat gold-plated machined-contact teflon-based sockets for reliability.
It had a 2 MHz 8080 CPU.
To boot it, every time after turning it on, you had to manually toggle in several dozen bytes of machine code by flipping 16 front panel toggle switches repeatedly to enter the binary codes. Then you cued up cassette BASIC and at the right moment started the cassette recorder.
I gradually added pieces over the next several years, including a couple of colossal 4K dynamic RAM boards, picked up a Model 15 5-level baudot coded newsroom teletype from Atlantic Surplus Sales in Brooklyn, and home-brewed a 60 mA current loop interface. I eventually wrangled a 300 cps optical paper tape reader through a consulting contract in return for developing a driver for it.
You have the right not to buy Apple device if you disagree with their license agreements
Oh, thank you. NOT. You cannot defy governmental consumer-protection regulations by writing onerous license agreements. Not successfully. The laws which society settles on rule.
Do you suppose some low-life corporation could get away with selling you something cheap as long as it sticks you with an "agreement" that you forfeit your life for organ harvesting as of one year post-sale?
Mate has gone downhill significantly over the years. For reliability, the current 1.18 is worse than 1.16, which was worse than 1.14. I think it's mostly teething problems due to changing from GTK2 to GTK3. The languishing of the weather applet can't be blamed on that, though. It's just laziness. They just haven't adapted to the new online weather API.
What a doofus nameless coward troll. I want something that will work for ME in my daily life with a minimum of fucking up, jackass. I don't want to waste my time designing desktop environments, or fixing busted DEs. I don't design my own cars either. I try to select cars that work reliably, and shun crappy brands.
And by the way, Mate is at 1.18. It doesn't matter to me what the quality of some ancient version is. What matters is how the CURRENTLY maintained version works. Actually, the problems I mentioned all cropped up since 1.12.
Mate is unacceptably buggy. The volume control constantly crashing -poof-. The weather applet whose weather maps have been completely busted for a YEAR with no fix in sight. I consider it by far the best-designed DE, but I don't think it has the development resources to compete.
The latest KDE is what I am trying out now, after several years of frustration on Mate, utter disgust with GNOME 3 and Unity, and disappointment in Xfce.
I must hasten to add, I don't claim to have done any work for any more than a very few of those. They are just names from the past. I did really dig my jobs, though, and I met a lot of memorable people, like the Chief Engineer at Diamond Antenna, Hyman S. Tyger, a pleasant older fellow and a real card. He turned me on to E. E. Doc Smith and other science fiction writers from the Golden Age.
Big and small. Microwave Associates, Alford Manufacturing, Omni Spectra, Atlantic Microwave, Narda Microwave, Hyletronics (nice people; I consulted for them), DeMornay-Bonardi, Systron-Donner, Varian, FXR, General Microwave, Harris, Watkins Johnson, Hazeltine, Litton, Radian Technologies, Sanders Associates, Crown Microwave, TRW Microwave, Unitrode, Wavecom, Weinschel, Wiltron, on and on. A lot of them in my Route 128 / Route 495 area, and on up into New Hampshire. I remember 250-mile day trips to New Hampshire consulting. My co-op job while at Northeastern was a small family-owned outfit called Diamond Antenna and Microwave right in my small hometown of Winchester, Massachusetts. They did a lot of waveguide/rotary-joint stuff.
I remember my first post-university job in 1972 at Alpha Industries, a microwave house. They took me on to work with an HP 8542A automatic microwave network analyzer on which they invested a quarter of a million. It was 3-4 full height relay racks of equipment including the excellent HP 2100A mini, which had as I recall a full staggering 16K of magnetic core RAM, and an impressive set of peripherals including a 300 cps high speed optical paper tape reader, high speed paper tape punch, a huge heavy-duty ASR-35 TTY...... and... a gigantic CDC 300 lpm rotary drum line printer built like a Sherman tank, the make and model I can't recall. It was cowled with sound absorbent structures, but when you raised the top of that baby to revel in watching it print, the deafening staccato noise was enough to put a boiler factory to shame. When it printed out a long line of dashes, there was a crash like the crack of doom as all the hammers came down at the same instant.
Everything was on preventive maintenance with an HP specialist. As I remember it, the mini was phenomenally reliable, mostly just burned out indicator lights, but all the peripherals broke down all the time. We called the tape reader the "tape render", the tape punch the "tape pinch". Except for the ASR-35. It was night and day to the shitty light duty model 33 which the hoi polloi didn't know any better than to stick themselves with. That model 35 just soldiered on. Somebody broke the glass window once or twice leaning on it, and the type box shed a key once every few years (and the type box was swapped out in about 30 seconds), but other than that it was NEVER down.
The microwave test equipment and the HPIB connecting it all was actually quite reliable.
I had pretty much free reign in my own spacious air-conditioned room. I shared with an assistant production and development testing duties for the product line on the network analyzer, but the fun part was, I got to write customized test programs in FORTRAN and HP BASIC.
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The word is tenet, not tenant, idiot.
I failed to ever see any reason to upgrade beyond Office 97. In fact TeX is the way to go.
The mentally deficient boobs will always be with us.
Duh. Naturally it should. The notion that robots.txt should operate RETROACTIVELY is asinine.
A ducted fan is NOT a jet, retard.
Re-use? Why? Just continue using it normally. 80% capacity isn't EOL in the original application. Not even close. So your car takes 5 seconds instead of 4 to reach 100 km/h. So it only travels 240 km instead of 300 km. So what. That isn't anywhere near useless.
Yeah. For ENORMOUS energy input. As a laboratory curiosity. Nobody produces significant amounts this way. They use mostly reformation of natural gas and coal.
You can take that bullshit and STUFF IT.
Says you. If the phone is set to be unlocked by a simple swipe, there is absolutely no reason not to answer it if it rings.
That's because it IS OBVIOUSLY STUPID and corrupt. Legislators who pass laws like this can eat shit.
The stupid summary leaps to the absurd conclusion that mobiles represent 100% of the power consumption made by ALL IT equipment. I'm pretty sure it's actually more like 1%; perhaps less.
An Altair 8800 kit with 256 bytes of static RAM which I mail ordered from Southwest Technical Products very soon after the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. I soldered every component of every PC board, plus all the 100 pin sockets on the backplane the multiple 100 wire connections between the backplane sections. I replaced almost every IC socket with Augat gold-plated machined-contact teflon-based sockets for reliability.
It had a 2 MHz 8080 CPU.
To boot it, every time after turning it on, you had to manually toggle in several dozen bytes of machine code by flipping 16 front panel toggle switches repeatedly to enter the binary codes. Then you cued up cassette BASIC and at the right moment started the cassette recorder.
I gradually added pieces over the next several years, including a couple of colossal 4K dynamic RAM boards, picked up a Model 15 5-level baudot coded newsroom teletype from Atlantic Surplus Sales in Brooklyn, and home-brewed a 60 mA current loop interface. I eventually wrangled a 300 cps optical paper tape reader through a consulting contract in return for developing a driver for it.
You mean annoying all the people with actual functioning brains? Go stuff your label.
Mother of god, let's have some elementary proofreading of headlines.
No it isn't (viable). Ubuntu has given up on it.
What? Err, FYI, Red Hat was very much behind GNOME 3 and systemd (and PulseAudio and Avahi). Lennart Poettering works for Red Hat.
Ubuntu and all the others are just falling in line behind the Red Hat mafia.
What weird planet do you live on, that you couldn't always just install any desktop environment you want by installing packages?
Oh, thank you. NOT. You cannot defy governmental consumer-protection regulations by writing onerous license agreements. Not successfully. The laws which society settles on rule.
Do you suppose some low-life corporation could get away with selling you something cheap as long as it sticks you with an "agreement" that you forfeit your life for organ harvesting as of one year post-sale?
Mate has gone downhill significantly over the years. For reliability, the current 1.18 is worse than 1.16, which was worse than 1.14. I think it's mostly teething problems due to changing from GTK2 to GTK3. The languishing of the weather applet can't be blamed on that, though. It's just laziness. They just haven't adapted to the new online weather API.
What a doofus nameless coward troll. I want something that will work for ME in my daily life with a minimum of fucking up, jackass. I don't want to waste my time designing desktop environments, or fixing busted DEs. I don't design my own cars either. I try to select cars that work reliably, and shun crappy brands.
And by the way, Mate is at 1.18. It doesn't matter to me what the quality of some ancient version is. What matters is how the CURRENTLY maintained version works. Actually, the problems I mentioned all cropped up since 1.12.
Mate is unacceptably buggy. The volume control constantly crashing -poof-. The weather applet whose weather maps have been completely busted for a YEAR with no fix in sight. I consider it by far the best-designed DE, but I don't think it has the development resources to compete.
The latest KDE is what I am trying out now, after several years of frustration on Mate, utter disgust with GNOME 3 and Unity, and disappointment in Xfce.
I must hasten to add, I don't claim to have done any work for any more than a very few of those. They are just names from the past. I did really dig my jobs, though, and I met a lot of memorable people, like the Chief Engineer at Diamond Antenna, Hyman S. Tyger, a pleasant older fellow and a real card. He turned me on to E. E. Doc Smith and other science fiction writers from the Golden Age.
Big and small. Microwave Associates, Alford Manufacturing, Omni Spectra, Atlantic Microwave, Narda Microwave, Hyletronics (nice people; I consulted for them), DeMornay-Bonardi, Systron-Donner, Varian, FXR, General Microwave, Harris, Watkins Johnson, Hazeltine, Litton, Radian Technologies, Sanders Associates, Crown Microwave, TRW Microwave, Unitrode, Wavecom, Weinschel, Wiltron, on and on. A lot of them in my Route 128 / Route 495 area, and on up into New Hampshire. I remember 250-mile day trips to New Hampshire consulting. My co-op job while at Northeastern was a small family-owned outfit called Diamond Antenna and Microwave right in my small hometown of Winchester, Massachusetts. They did a lot of waveguide/rotary-joint stuff.
It's possible. They got sucked into Skyworks. All you get on Google any more for Alpha Industries is some military clothing supplier.
I remember my first post-university job in 1972 at Alpha Industries, a microwave house. They took me on to work with an HP 8542A automatic microwave network analyzer on which they invested a quarter of a million. It was 3-4 full height relay racks of equipment including the excellent HP 2100A mini, which had as I recall a full staggering 16K of magnetic core RAM, and an impressive set of peripherals including a 300 cps high speed optical paper tape reader, high speed paper tape punch, a huge heavy-duty ASR-35 TTY ... ... and ... a gigantic CDC 300 lpm rotary drum line printer built like a Sherman tank, the make and model I can't recall. It was cowled with sound absorbent structures, but when you raised the top of that baby to revel in watching it print, the deafening staccato noise was enough to put a boiler factory to shame. When it printed out a long line of dashes, there was a crash like the crack of doom as all the hammers came down at the same instant.
Everything was on preventive maintenance with an HP specialist. As I remember it, the mini was phenomenally reliable, mostly just burned out indicator lights, but all the peripherals broke down all the time. We called the tape reader the "tape render", the tape punch the "tape pinch". Except for the ASR-35. It was night and day to the shitty light duty model 33 which the hoi polloi didn't know any better than to stick themselves with. That model 35 just soldiered on. Somebody broke the glass window once or twice leaning on it, and the type box shed a key once every few years (and the type box was swapped out in about 30 seconds), but other than that it was NEVER down.
The microwave test equipment and the HPIB connecting it all was actually quite reliable.
I had pretty much free reign in my own spacious air-conditioned room. I shared with an assistant production and development testing duties for the product line on the network analyzer, but the fun part was, I got to write customized test programs in FORTRAN and HP BASIC.