If you are trying to solder stuff yourself at home. It would make life a whole lot easier for me if certain IC's were available as SOIC or PDIP even. Hard enough to get the damn things working at times without having to check under a microscope to make sure you soldered the damn thing right.
Greedy suit-wearing McMansion-dwelling fat-bellied US bosses couldn't resist the temptation of outsourcing to China for cheap and now the rest of us have to pay for it.
If you told someone back in the 90's that in order to get on a flight now you'd have to give a 3D scan of your naked body they'd accuse you of being some conspiracy tinfoil hat nutter who smokes too much weed.
Just when there's some bit of competition on the horizon for the almighty Goog they start investing and possibly taking over soon. Definitely not good
Something "fishy" is going on with Sailfish OS as well. Seems impossible to get devices for some reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Google is somehow behind the Jolla Tablet and Youyota tablet failing.
No need to build a train from China to wherever. We need to stop being so dependent on the supply of cheap disposable Chinese trinkets and short-lived electronics. The sooner the upgrade treadmill stops running the better. Hopefully we'll see a return to long-lasting mobile phones some day soon
Preferably kids who are just out of college and set away 100+ unsuccessful applications. Ones happy to spend from morning till night doing drudge work for little pay.
Without a doubt. The only problem is how to pin it to them. The political will also isn't there to pin it to them - too much money changes hands in the West on the back of Chinese goods being traded and we've become far too dependent on the Chinese for trinkets and future ewaste.
That Intel invented all these different xx-nanometer manufacturing processes back in the 70's and 80's and has been steadily drip-feeding them to us in order to make the most profit. When the pace of their "progress" is so steady, they simply have to be drip-feeding. They could have released this processor back in the 386 days if they wanted. Imagine all the e-waste that would have been saved if they didn't bother with this tactic
I always thought of Aussie land as a vast remoteness where you can do whatever the fcuk you want. Jovial Mick Dundee characters everywhere throwing back pints of beer in the pub.
10 year olds flying planes
9 year olds driving around in 'utes'
Anything less than 10,000 acres is a hobby farm
Everyone carrying a rifle or two
Everyone too relaxed and chilled out to bother worrying about anything
Then I had someone visit from Aussie land and it turns out you need a fcuking license to drive a jetski. In the open ocean where it's an absolute torture to even find someone to crash into. Everything is gone health and safety like in the UK and the cops are hiding behind every corner to hand out fines. What the hell happened to this once-carefree country?
I use about 75KWh a month in electricity, without even caring to switch lights off and having a PC, router on 24/7. Could easily go off the grid if I wanted.
The rest of the energy I use is from burning bits of timber and the odd 11kg drum of Butane (about 1 every month). I imagine this reactor would produce a good bit of waste heat that can be recovered in addition to the electricity
They feel quite alright turning their own country into a wasteland for money, they know they'll have the rest of the world to play with when they finish this game:)
China can develop technologically all it wants but unfortunately they now have the means and the power to take over the rest of the world because of how dependent we have become on them. It's great for China but they'll end up milking the other countries dry as a result. They have already pilfered away lots of natural resources in Africa and Australia and I presume they'll be moving into other places soon.
All because of the greed of the Western smiley businessman and the addiction to cheap disposable trinkets and electronic gadgets of the average consumer
The Chinese are realising they don't need the Western middleman with the suit and tie, the slick haircut, the cheesy grin, the belly, the chauffeur, the glass of wine, the McMansion with his smooth talk about "going forward", "push the envelope", "move the goalposts" and "quid pro quo basis" in order to sell stuff to people living in the west.
Time was when the said parasitic Western middleman thought he was clever by closing the factory doors back home and moving production to China, but in the long term he was only the architect of his own demise, playing into the hands of the Chinese all along.
Unfortunately such is the scale of the problem of all these like-minded smooth-talking Western businessmen who have done absolutely f*ck all but attend meetings for since the late 1970s that the populations of the US of A, Ireland, UK and pretty much the rest of Europe and North America as well have become utterly inept at making basic provisions for everyday life and are completely dependent on the Chinese for simple things like 10k through-hole resistors, matches, cotton wool buds and have therefore set the stage to allow the Chinese to come into all these countries to buy their remaining successful businesses, natural resources and real estate just so the white middle-aged smooth talking businessmen with their talk about key performance indicators can sit and their arse and do nothing for another decade or so.
The run of the mill for the past few years is that graphics cards are for mining the cryptocurrency flavour of the month and creating magical AI bots. This is the first time in years I have seen an article that refers to the use of graphics cards for actual graphics.
I have a Nokia 6650 still kicking about some place.
Not the clamshell 6650. The very first 6650 that not many were made of. Nokia's first attempt at making a phone for the brand new UMTS network at the time. It has a lense cover, when you slide down the lense cover the camera app automatically opens. Brilliant feature and much better than the smartphone of today where you have to first get rid of the lock screen then navigate to the camera app.. your opportunity to take a photo could be gone at that stage.
There probably won't be another phone like that though, because unlike the 8110 it wasn't in any popular film and nobody remembers it to the extent that they saw it fit to reuse the model number for two completely different phones.
Donated clothes destroyed the domestic textiles industry in some countries and made people dependent on a constant supply of clothes from the West which were actually made in Southeast Asia
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If you are trying to solder stuff yourself at home. It would make life a whole lot easier for me if certain IC's were available as SOIC or PDIP even. Hard enough to get the damn things working at times without having to check under a microscope to make sure you soldered the damn thing right.
I was never mad keen on the current name that I always pronounced as "nuh-ghinks"
Greedy suit-wearing McMansion-dwelling fat-bellied US bosses couldn't resist the temptation of outsourcing to China for cheap and now the rest of us have to pay for it.
If you told someone back in the 90's that in order to get on a flight now you'd have to give a 3D scan of your naked body they'd accuse you of being some conspiracy tinfoil hat nutter who smokes too much weed.
What kind of gas was this? Butane? Propane? Methane?
Just when there's some bit of competition on the horizon for the almighty Goog they start investing and possibly taking over soon. Definitely not good Something "fishy" is going on with Sailfish OS as well. Seems impossible to get devices for some reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Google is somehow behind the Jolla Tablet and Youyota tablet failing.
No need to build a train from China to wherever. We need to stop being so dependent on the supply of cheap disposable Chinese trinkets and short-lived electronics. The sooner the upgrade treadmill stops running the better. Hopefully we'll see a return to long-lasting mobile phones some day soon
Preferably kids who are just out of college and set away 100+ unsuccessful applications. Ones happy to spend from morning till night doing drudge work for little pay.
Without a doubt. The only problem is how to pin it to them. The political will also isn't there to pin it to them - too much money changes hands in the West on the back of Chinese goods being traded and we've become far too dependent on the Chinese for trinkets and future ewaste.
.. hehe
The FBI/NSA has had these since the 80s
That Intel invented all these different xx-nanometer manufacturing processes back in the 70's and 80's and has been steadily drip-feeding them to us in order to make the most profit. When the pace of their "progress" is so steady, they simply have to be drip-feeding. They could have released this processor back in the 386 days if they wanted. Imagine all the e-waste that would have been saved if they didn't bother with this tactic
I always thought of Aussie land as a vast remoteness where you can do whatever the fcuk you want. Jovial Mick Dundee characters everywhere throwing back pints of beer in the pub.
10 year olds flying planes
9 year olds driving around in 'utes'
Anything less than 10,000 acres is a hobby farm
Everyone carrying a rifle or two
Everyone too relaxed and chilled out to bother worrying about anything
Then I had someone visit from Aussie land and it turns out you need a fcuking license to drive a jetski. In the open ocean where it's an absolute torture to even find someone to crash into. Everything is gone health and safety like in the UK and the cops are hiding behind every corner to hand out fines. What the hell happened to this once-carefree country?
I use about 75KWh a month in electricity, without even caring to switch lights off and having a PC, router on 24/7. Could easily go off the grid if I wanted.
The rest of the energy I use is from burning bits of timber and the odd 11kg drum of Butane (about 1 every month). I imagine this reactor would produce a good bit of waste heat that can be recovered in addition to the electricity
They feel quite alright turning their own country into a wasteland for money, they know they'll have the rest of the world to play with when they finish this game :)
China can develop technologically all it wants but unfortunately they now have the means and the power to take over the rest of the world because of how dependent we have become on them. It's great for China but they'll end up milking the other countries dry as a result. They have already pilfered away lots of natural resources in Africa and Australia and I presume they'll be moving into other places soon.
All because of the greed of the Western smiley businessman and the addiction to cheap disposable trinkets and electronic gadgets of the average consumer
The Chinese are realising they don't need the Western middleman with the suit and tie, the slick haircut, the cheesy grin, the belly, the chauffeur, the glass of wine, the McMansion with his smooth talk about "going forward", "push the envelope", "move the goalposts" and "quid pro quo basis" in order to sell stuff to people living in the west.
Time was when the said parasitic Western middleman thought he was clever by closing the factory doors back home and moving production to China, but in the long term he was only the architect of his own demise, playing into the hands of the Chinese all along.
Unfortunately such is the scale of the problem of all these like-minded smooth-talking Western businessmen who have done absolutely f*ck all but attend meetings for since the late 1970s that the populations of the US of A, Ireland, UK and pretty much the rest of Europe and North America as well have become utterly inept at making basic provisions for everyday life and are completely dependent on the Chinese for simple things like 10k through-hole resistors, matches, cotton wool buds and have therefore set the stage to allow the Chinese to come into all these countries to buy their remaining successful businesses, natural resources and real estate just so the white middle-aged smooth talking businessmen with their talk about key performance indicators can sit and their arse and do nothing for another decade or so.
We get more than enough water for all world falling from the sky here. Finally the shite weather proves to be good for something ;)
The run of the mill for the past few years is that graphics cards are for mining the cryptocurrency flavour of the month and creating magical AI bots. This is the first time in years I have seen an article that refers to the use of graphics cards for actual graphics.
I have a Nokia 6650 still kicking about some place.
.. your opportunity to take a photo could be gone at that stage.
Not the clamshell 6650. The very first 6650 that not many were made of. Nokia's first attempt at making a phone for the brand new UMTS network at the time. It has a lense cover, when you slide down the lense cover the camera app automatically opens. Brilliant feature and much better than the smartphone of today where you have to first get rid of the lock screen then navigate to the camera app
There probably won't be another phone like that though, because unlike the 8110 it wasn't in any popular film and nobody remembers it to the extent that they saw it fit to reuse the model number for two completely different phones.
Google can basically redefine what they deem as an acceptable ad (ones made by themselves) on the fly. This is bad news.
Can we say for definite that this worm isn't a conscious being based on this research?
Donated clothes destroyed the domestic textiles industry in some countries and made people dependent on a constant supply of clothes from the West which were actually made in Southeast Asia
What is the current state of the art for removing that greyed out screen when you visit TFA with an ad blocker?
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