For a Hexium 6 with 100 GHz bus, photonic RAM and Superconductor GPU - which may well be available before this Vaporware condenses!
... or more seriously...
I think that I will wait for some real benchmarks to be available before investing heavily in an upgrade for this one - the release date is still a little way off and I am sure it will be worth waiting to see what is available then.
I was pretty sure that it wasn't encyclopediae either ! (it was though.) For the truth about hawking's wagers see here (6th paragraph down):
In 1975, he bet Kip Thorne a subscription to Penthouse (the loser would get it mailed to his home) that a celestial mystery named Cygnus X-1 would turn out to be a black hole.
It is the coil that surrounds the tube as this is often driven with a signal of frequency 15.734 kHz (US) and 15.634 kHz (UK). This is the "Horizontal Scan Frequency". ( got this information information from here )
This is right on the edge of human limits, some can hear it, some cannot. When I was a kid, I used to be able to sense that a TV was on, and couldn't understand how I could do it. Don't seem to be able to do it these days though.
Increasing this scan frequency by upping your refresh rate on the monitor should get rid of this annoyance if the monitor can do it - putting the scan freq well beyond your hearing ( here in the UK you can get 100Hz TVs that you will not hear. Presume you can get 120Hz NTSC ones ?)
Perhaps instead of using DRM to protect their stuff against unauthorised commercial exploitation and still put it in the public domain, they should consider learing some lessons from the Gnu Public License.
They can still sell their DVDs and CDs of old shows which must be big buisness for them and still charge for the "media."
This made an appearance at our local drag strip. The "fuel grain" he refers to in his rocket car's combustion chambers - if seen up close - looked very much like lengths of plastic (polyethylene) drain pipe you can buy from a builders merchant. They are burnt in a nitrous (oxide) atmosphere in a tubular combustion chamber. Note that it does the quarter-mile as fast as a Ferrari!
Clearly this guy has done an excellent job of it, but since plumbing materials were never intended for this purpose my guess is that this qualifies as a hack.
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I think that I will wait for some real benchmarks to be available before investing heavily in an upgrade for this one - the release date is still a little way off and I am sure it will be worth waiting to see what is available then.
In 1975, he bet Kip Thorne a subscription to Penthouse (the loser would get it mailed to his home) that a celestial mystery named Cygnus X-1 would turn out to be a black hole.
It is the coil that surrounds the tube as this is often driven with a signal of frequency 15.734 kHz (US) and 15.634 kHz (UK). This is the "Horizontal Scan Frequency". ( got this information information from here )
This is right on the edge of human limits, some can hear it, some cannot. When I was a kid, I used to be able to sense that a TV was on, and couldn't understand how I could do it. Don't seem to be able to do it these days though.
Increasing this scan frequency by upping your refresh rate on the monitor should get rid of this annoyance if the monitor can do it - putting the scan freq well beyond your hearing ( here in the UK you can get 100Hz TVs that you will not hear. Presume you can get 120Hz NTSC ones ?)
They can still sell their DVDs and CDs of old shows which must be big buisness for them and still charge for the "media."
Clearly this guy has done an excellent job of it, but since plumbing materials were never intended for this purpose my guess is that this qualifies as a hack.