Yup. A bunch of cheap single boards with ethernet would work. Like raspberry pi. Strip down the OS and script it to push the update from a given directory on boot up. Then you can just clone the SD card for 4/8/16 devices and update them with the new firmware as needed.
Pi, case, battery with power switch, small SD card. $50-$75 a piece depending on how fancy your want to get with the case and battery.
Basic math. Top of the line AMD FX-9590 processor, $260. Top of the line Intel i7-5960X processor, $1050. (blatantly lazy, I just sorted newegg's processor list by price) Intel's performance lead over AMD, nowhere near 4x. I can't think of a normal situation that justifies that big of a price difference for the performance. I can build a whole second AMD computer for the price difference.
Intel spent billions over the last 15 years kneecapping the competition. Any advancements they have right now is less than what we could be using today if the fight had been fair. Intel could very easily have been the top dog in a fair market, but we will never know. So you know what, go ahead. Call me a zealot all you want. I'll just stay happy over here knowing I don't supporting a company that is actively hampering progress.
Neither amd nor nvidia makes the actual card, just the chips and design spec. Busted fans would be the fault of the card manufacture. And it's a good bet the same manufacture makes crappy nvidia cards too.
Drivers are a valid point. Though not one I've experienced myself. Worst i can say about drivers is nvidia won't let you easily uninstall the support software if you replace a burnt out card with an amd. The uninstaller wouldn't run without a valid nvidia card installed.
I'm not exactly a routine patron of review sites, but from my last bit of research the top sites all dock points because amd made the cards. Same with cpus. The first site google returned claimed no performance difference between my 6 year old 4 core 2.3ghz amd, my new 8 core 4.2ghz amd, and the single core intel my father's 8 year old netbook runs.
There is a lot of blatant intel/nvidia bias out there and it's really annoying to wade through to get an idea of real performance.
I buy AMD because it's cheaper. I have yet to notice a real performance difference. The fact my money doesn't go towards bribing benchmark/review sites and prebuilt manufactures to lock competition out of the market is just a bonus.
Slapping him in maximum security prison for life with no chance of parole might as well be death, but is something like 1/10th as expensive as execution.
Plus, in death he gets to be a martyr and his story paraded around on recruitment drives. But in life he can be forgotten and quietly keel over (after a couple years of a porkrind and bacon diet).
Unfortunately their luggage was placed on air freight and half of it is currently believed to be somewhere in Seattle. The other half was recently spotted in a TSA frequented pawnshop in Miami.
AC is just using his default rage scapegoat. If this were fox news the post would be "Thanks Obama!" NBC: "Bush era leftover for us to deal with." Country music station: "Muslim terrorists!" 3am radio talk show: "Alien Illuminati plot to steal our toe nails!"
You read a couple thousand hours playing a single game. She reads "easily entertained and focuses on a single repetitive activity. Just have to stock up on learning games and mommy can have lots of Me time."
I don't see ads because I run adblock. But I'm not deluded enough to believe ads don't have a legitimate use.
Slapping a sponsored link to adobe at the top of my search for "pdf editor" is vastly different than overwriting the links and sending me to a hack job website trying to sell me genuine counterfit handbags, black magic love slavery spells, and adobe pro licenses for 1/10th what they normally cost.
Google is providing a service, or is serving ads on behalf of the webpage owner you are viewing. Superfish is getting ad revenue without providing you a service.
If you can't tell the difference between a legitimate and limited advertiser and leech malware then you need your eyes checked.
It should have gone away when the soviets did. It hasn't made any sense since the 80's. Well, other than for a way for TV shows/movies to show off how rich someone is by offering the main character a cuban cigar.
This stuff is perfectly legal to own in the blocked areas. The content owners just want to make sure someone viewing their content in Germany must pay the German price for it, instead of say the French price. Even if the customer is French, already bought the content in France, and is visiting Germany temporarily.
The Nazi stuff, on the other hand, is not legal in Germany.
I'd laugh if it turned out to be Dell's test boot proxy and a glitch in the windows activation has it send the request despite having a cached activation.
Dunno, but possibly huge like dark matter interaction. It's like with radioactive elements a hundred years ago. They didn't know what the stuff could actually do, so they painted it on clock faces to make them visible in the dark. Here they could have the key to warping space/time, and the first use is to putter along in orbit cheaply.
Nah, just E. It will be introduced to the public via incredibly annoying commercials featuring stereotypical frat guys telling each other "Duuuude! She so wants the E!" "Ya man, I showed her my E last night and she was all over it!" and so on. Ending with them in uncomfortable silence after one of them (probably the token uncool guy) makes a homoerotic comment about another guy's E.
Bah, unsustainable! Only Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas can supply the clean, affordable power Real Americans need to see. Next they'll be wasting our tax dollars on wind, tidal, and hydro powered implants.
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Yup. A bunch of cheap single boards with ethernet would work. Like raspberry pi.
Strip down the OS and script it to push the update from a given directory on boot up. Then you can just clone the SD card for 4/8/16 devices and update them with the new firmware as needed.
Pi, case, battery with power switch, small SD card. $50-$75 a piece depending on how fancy your want to get with the case and battery.
Basic math.
Top of the line AMD FX-9590 processor, $260. Top of the line Intel i7-5960X processor, $1050. (blatantly lazy, I just sorted newegg's processor list by price)
Intel's performance lead over AMD, nowhere near 4x.
I can't think of a normal situation that justifies that big of a price difference for the performance. I can build a whole second AMD computer for the price difference.
Intel spent billions over the last 15 years kneecapping the competition. Any advancements they have right now is less than what we could be using today if the fight had been fair. Intel could very easily have been the top dog in a fair market, but we will never know.
So you know what, go ahead. Call me a zealot all you want. I'll just stay happy over here knowing I don't supporting a company that is actively hampering progress.
Neither amd nor nvidia makes the actual card, just the chips and design spec. Busted fans would be the fault of the card manufacture. And it's a good bet the same manufacture makes crappy nvidia cards too.
Drivers are a valid point. Though not one I've experienced myself.
Worst i can say about drivers is nvidia won't let you easily uninstall the support software if you replace a burnt out card with an amd. The uninstaller wouldn't run without a valid nvidia card installed.
I'm not exactly a routine patron of review sites, but from my last bit of research the top sites all dock points because amd made the cards.
Same with cpus. The first site google returned claimed no performance difference between my 6 year old 4 core 2.3ghz amd, my new 8 core 4.2ghz amd, and the single core intel my father's 8 year old netbook runs.
There is a lot of blatant intel/nvidia bias out there and it's really annoying to wade through to get an idea of real performance.
I buy AMD because it's cheaper. I have yet to notice a real performance difference.
The fact my money doesn't go towards bribing benchmark/review sites and prebuilt manufactures to lock competition out of the market is just a bonus.
640k res. That should be enough for anyone.
"The great white devils executed him out of fear. Even with him helpless they feared him so much they killed him in his sleep."
VS
"They feared him so much they, uhm, tossed him in basement and forgot about him... like, uhm, birthday socks from your aunt..."
The latter has less of a holy war recruitment kick to it.
Slapping him in maximum security prison for life with no chance of parole might as well be death, but is something like 1/10th as expensive as execution.
Plus, in death he gets to be a martyr and his story paraded around on recruitment drives. But in life he can be forgotten and quietly keel over (after a couple years of a porkrind and bacon diet).
Unfortunately their luggage was placed on air freight and half of it is currently believed to be somewhere in Seattle. The other half was recently spotted in a TSA frequented pawnshop in Miami.
As I recall, the original iteration of subway cars were windowless.
It didn't end well...
Even if there is nothing to see outside, people still need that visual connection to the outside world.
Cryofreeze everyone in the world for the duration of a trip. Then all transportation will be instantaneous for all.
AC is just using his default rage scapegoat.
If this were fox news the post would be "Thanks Obama!"
NBC: "Bush era leftover for us to deal with."
Country music station: "Muslim terrorists!"
3am radio talk show: "Alien Illuminati plot to steal our toe nails!"
You read a couple thousand hours playing a single game.
She reads "easily entertained and focuses on a single repetitive activity. Just have to stock up on learning games and mommy can have lots of Me time."
I don't see ads because I run adblock.
But I'm not deluded enough to believe ads don't have a legitimate use.
Slapping a sponsored link to adobe at the top of my search for "pdf editor" is vastly different than overwriting the links and sending me to a hack job website trying to sell me genuine counterfit handbags, black magic love slavery spells, and adobe pro licenses for 1/10th what they normally cost.
Google is providing a service, or is serving ads on behalf of the webpage owner you are viewing.
Superfish is getting ad revenue without providing you a service.
If you can't tell the difference between a legitimate and limited advertiser and leech malware then you need your eyes checked.
It should have gone away when the soviets did. It hasn't made any sense since the 80's.
Well, other than for a way for TV shows/movies to show off how rich someone is by offering the main character a cuban cigar.
This stuff is perfectly legal to own in the blocked areas. The content owners just want to make sure someone viewing their content in Germany must pay the German price for it, instead of say the French price. Even if the customer is French, already bought the content in France, and is visiting Germany temporarily.
The Nazi stuff, on the other hand, is not legal in Germany.
$0.003/gallon surcharge for value added chemicals to ensure no stray shale clogs their piping.
I'd laugh if it turned out to be Dell's test boot proxy and a glitch in the windows activation has it send the request despite having a cached activation.
Dunno, but possibly huge like dark matter interaction.
It's like with radioactive elements a hundred years ago. They didn't know what the stuff could actually do, so they painted it on clock faces to make them visible in the dark.
Here they could have the key to warping space/time, and the first use is to putter along in orbit cheaply.
"With pouty lips and an amazing rack, Blow White is the naughtiest in the sack."
Nah, just E.
It will be introduced to the public via incredibly annoying commercials featuring stereotypical frat guys telling each other "Duuuude! She so wants the E!" "Ya man, I showed her my E last night and she was all over it!" and so on. Ending with them in uncomfortable silence after one of them (probably the token uncool guy) makes a homoerotic comment about another guy's E.
On a Computer, Online, In the Cloud!
Synergy!
Ok, I'm all buzzworded out...
Bah, unsustainable! Only Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas can supply the clean, affordable power Real Americans need to see.
Next they'll be wasting our tax dollars on wind, tidal, and hydro powered implants.
Niblog.