My hardest working, longest lasting tech gear, in no particular order:
1 IBM Model M (circa 1987)
1 HP LaserJet 4M+ (circa 1996)
1 Tektronics 465M (circa 1978)
1 Weller WTCPT Soldering Station (circa 1975) ..
1 Coby DVD player (circa 10 minutes ago)
Diesel engines are already able to convert the potential energy stored in a drivers fat ass/belly and convert it into kinetic energy.
We've been running them on french fry oil for years, so all you need to do is cook the average American car-driver down in a large stock pot and skim off the oil as it separates from the carcass.
Far better to start with a piece of stock material and remove excess, bit by bit, until you get the fit you require. All the tools and materials are readily available now.
As an added bonus you can also fabricate parts out of strong and durable materials vs crappy extruded plastic.
...and yes, for the pedants in the audience, you CAN buy an industrial sintered metal deposition printer, but even then you'll end up with something significantly weaker than a milled part...assuming A) you could afford one and B) you have the 3 phase power service it takes to make one work
#1. For CPU heavy loads you probably have more than one CPU per board.
#2. Most people don't use their 1U Rack-Mount Servers to play Crysis and TitanFall, they just need to handle a crap-ton of threads/ram/drives. Therefore having the latest built-in GPU features does nothing useful.
I mean, everybody is so excited about DDR4... But do people understand that instead of 8 dimm slots we'll get only 4
No...not everyone. Going from DDR2 to DDR3 netted fractional gains in real world applications and indications are that the same will be true going from DDR3 to DDR4.
Also plenty of consumer level boards only have 4 DIMM slots now. Which has always been plenty for most people, ever since we moved up from DDR1 boards and their crappy 2GB limit per stick.
And by PETA, of course I mean People Eat Tasty Animals.
Dodo, Moa, SSDD.
"Like many animals that evolved in isolation from significant predators, the Dodo was entirely fearless of humans. This fearlessness and its inability to fly made the Dodo easy prey for sailors"
Sadly, the reason more people don't go (or have problems with) SSD has nothing to do with SSDs themselves, it has to do with Microsoft's crappy software.
When you have an OS that can consume 30+GB all by itself and then create suites of applications that can only be installed on the boot (C) drive, the idea of having a small SSD + a large spinny disk completely falls apart.
I could make the same argument regarding 4K displays. Nothing wrong with the technology itself, but now try using a small screen 4K display (ex: laptop) under any flavor of Windows. Are you enjoying your 2 point system font?
As much as I'm not in favor of an always on camera controlled by a shady mega-corporation, anyone who lived through the late 80's-early 90's knows how little third party support you get when you have optional components.
I'm sure there were plenty more, but here are a few off the top of my head. (for the Genesis) Sega CD, Sega 32x. (for the NES) Powerglove, (for the Saturn) Twin-Stick, (for the PS2) Trance Vibrator, (for the DC) omg...so many. Maracas, Fishing Reels, Mice, Keyboards, Microphones, Cameras, etc.
None of the above got much love from developers, because of market fragmentation. The good news (for DC owners) was that those controllers allowed flawless ports of their arcade titles since you had the same controller setup...and also the Trance Vibrator is both super creepy and clearly brought to you by the same minds that created tentacle rape pr0n.
Operating temperature and noise output would only be valid measurements for the reference card. Once it starts getting manufactured by PNY or Diamond or eVGA or whomever they'll be using their own coolers and their own variations of the NVIDIA board.
Seriously, while the 'scout' concept is flawed, a real life cam-bot that can keep up with traffic could be quite useful.
There's no need for a human operator in this case because it's just keeping a static position relative to your vehicle.
What do you think sirs? I'm quite anti-drone, but given that our Orwellian police state seems dead set on having them we may as well get a few perks too.
Yes, because most people totally have 4 or 5 great options for high speed internet service.
Oh wait, actually I meant 1 or 2, but sure. If there's true competitive pressure then things change.
Just like how Comcast offers faster internet speeds in some metropolitan areas. Not coincidentally those are the exact same areas that happen to have Verizon FiOS. Where their only competition is DSL? Not so much.
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Speaking as someone who has repaired a whole raft of older electronics, you're wrong. Bad solder joints and bad caps have doomed metric tons of otherwise well made electronics to the scrap heap...and this was before lead free solder.
Lead free solder is harder to work (higher temperatures, doesn't flow as well), harder to inspect (spotting a 'cold' joint was trivial with leaded solder, you just had to look at the color of the joint, now bad joints look pretty much like good joints) and harder to repair (for a good repair you can't just re-flow the joint, you need to de-solder and re-solder the joint)
As for "elevated lead levels in the environment". These are circuit boards. The actual amount of lead you're talking about is miniscule...unless you happen to be into burning circuit boards in your yard or something.
Not sure I'd count having less lead in the environment as a minimal return, but still. Quality lead free solder isn't expensive, it just isn't what those involved in the race to the bottom want. Saving a few pennies isn't worth the damage leaded solder (and other hazardous substances, it wasn't just solder) causes.
It's not a question of whether lead free solder is expensive (it's not), it's about whether products using it will last as long (they won't) or whether they can be repaired easily (they can't) or whether it was causing a health problem to begin with (it wasn't).
When these new eco-friendly products don't last as long and can't be repaired, we need to buy new ones, and that....releases more hazardous substances into the atmosphere, catch-22.
It's great news for manufacturers (they get to sell more stuff), but I really don't see how it's particularly good for either environmentalists or consumers.
The Great Recession really sucks, and the investment banks have never been held to account for their strong role in creating it [...], but don't lay all the world's ills at its doorstep. We're still far better off economically than the 70s!
In spite of a far more educated workforce I have serious doubts that that's true.
Adjusted for inflation, the median household income in 1975? $45,788
The median household income in 2012? $51,017
But wait you (might) say. That means we're better off now....except for one small detail. We're measuring household income.
In the 1970's that was (generally) one persons income, in 2012 that's two people's income. In terms of physical goods I think we compare quite favorably, but factoring in things like housing, energy and food? Not so much.
This is the same state that the 'binary liquid explosive' came from. You know, the one that wouldn't have worked, and the people discussing it didn't have, and also didn't have any way to smuggle on the airplane since they had no passports.
But they still got convicted and 4oz bottles of shampoo are still verboten.
Sea conditions that kill fish and other marine life would be just as deadly to someone using this technology.
Fortunately most divers take up the sport because we like to look at fish, not because we enjoy bathing in agricultural runoff and/or sewage. Ergo, not a lot of recreational diving in oceanic "dead zones".
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A slightly more serious problem with Verizon data mining...
My hardest working, longest lasting tech gear, in no particular order:
..
1 IBM Model M (circa 1987)
1 HP LaserJet 4M+ (circa 1996)
1 Tektronics 465M (circa 1978)
1 Weller WTCPT Soldering Station (circa 1975)
1 Coby DVD player (circa 10 minutes ago)
Diesel engines are already able to convert the potential energy stored in a drivers fat ass/belly and convert it into kinetic energy.
We've been running them on french fry oil for years, so all you need to do is cook the average American car-driver down in a large stock pot and skim off the oil as it separates from the carcass.
...and I for one welcome the forthcoming VR editions of "FarmVille" and "Panda Jam".
Excellent choice Mark, you're clearly appealing to a core demographic. Your stockholders will be pleased.
As an added bonus you can also fabricate parts out of strong and durable materials vs crappy extruded plastic.
...and yes, for the pedants in the audience, you CAN buy an industrial sintered metal deposition printer, but even then you'll end up with something significantly weaker than a milled part...assuming A) you could afford one and B) you have the 3 phase power service it takes to make one work
Because
#1. For CPU heavy loads you probably have more than one CPU per board.
#2. Most people don't use their 1U Rack-Mount Servers to play Crysis and TitanFall, they just need to handle a crap-ton of threads/ram/drives. Therefore having the latest built-in GPU features does nothing useful.
#3. Stability > Core Speed
No...not everyone. Going from DDR2 to DDR3 netted fractional gains in real world applications and indications are that the same will be true going from DDR3 to DDR4.
Also plenty of consumer level boards only have 4 DIMM slots now. Which has always been plenty for most people, ever since we moved up from DDR1 boards and their crappy 2GB limit per stick.
Either that mpg rating is grossly optimistic or I predict 0-60 in ...around...6 minutes or so.
I can't think of a single large bike that get over 35mpg, and while I'm sure the aerodynamics help, the extra weight most certainly doesn't.
The DEA happened? And yes, the limited studies that have been done looked quite positive...but again, DEA
Really? I thought your parents stock portfolio and political connections did that.
A trojan in his ACPI firmware?
And by PETA, of course I mean People Eat Tasty Animals.
Dodo, Moa, SSDD.
"Like many animals that evolved in isolation from significant predators, the Dodo was entirely fearless of humans. This fearlessness and its inability to fly made the Dodo easy prey for sailors"
Sadly, the reason more people don't go (or have problems with) SSD has nothing to do with SSDs themselves, it has to do with Microsoft's crappy software.
When you have an OS that can consume 30+GB all by itself and then create suites of applications that can only be installed on the boot (C) drive, the idea of having a small SSD + a large spinny disk completely falls apart.
I could make the same argument regarding 4K displays. Nothing wrong with the technology itself, but now try using a small screen 4K display (ex: laptop) under any flavor of Windows. Are you enjoying your 2 point system font?
As much as I'm not in favor of an always on camera controlled by a shady mega-corporation, anyone who lived through the late 80's-early 90's knows how little third party support you get when you have optional components.
I'm sure there were plenty more, but here are a few off the top of my head. (for the Genesis) Sega CD, Sega 32x. (for the NES) Powerglove, (for the Saturn) Twin-Stick, (for the PS2) Trance Vibrator, (for the DC) omg...so many. Maracas, Fishing Reels, Mice, Keyboards, Microphones, Cameras, etc.
None of the above got much love from developers, because of market fragmentation. The good news (for DC owners) was that those controllers allowed flawless ports of their arcade titles since you had the same controller setup...and also the Trance Vibrator is both super creepy and clearly brought to you by the same minds that created tentacle rape pr0n.
Yes
Operating temperature and noise output would only be valid measurements for the reference card. Once it starts getting manufactured by PNY or Diamond or eVGA or whomever they'll be using their own coolers and their own variations of the NVIDIA board.
Seriously, while the 'scout' concept is flawed, a real life cam-bot that can keep up with traffic could be quite useful.
There's no need for a human operator in this case because it's just keeping a static position relative to your vehicle.
What do you think sirs? I'm quite anti-drone, but given that our Orwellian police state seems dead set on having them we may as well get a few perks too.
Yes, because most people totally have 4 or 5 great options for high speed internet service.
Oh wait, actually I meant 1 or 2, but sure. If there's true competitive pressure then things change.
Just like how Comcast offers faster internet speeds in some metropolitan areas. Not coincidentally those are the exact same areas that happen to have Verizon FiOS. Where their only competition is DSL? Not so much.
Bernadette: No, here's how love works. You're gonna return the machine, or you can print out a working set of lady parts and sleep with those.
Oh, my God! Are you actually thinking about it?
Hmm...apparently that's a fake attribution. (sadly). This quote actually. originated in 1922, not that it makes the statement itself any less factual.
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln
Speaking as someone who has repaired a whole raft of older electronics, you're wrong. Bad solder joints and bad caps have doomed metric tons of otherwise well made electronics to the scrap heap...and this was before lead free solder.
Lead free solder is harder to work (higher temperatures, doesn't flow as well), harder to inspect (spotting a 'cold' joint was trivial with leaded solder, you just had to look at the color of the joint, now bad joints look pretty much like good joints) and harder to repair (for a good repair you can't just re-flow the joint, you need to de-solder and re-solder the joint)
As for "elevated lead levels in the environment". These are circuit boards. The actual amount of lead you're talking about is miniscule...unless you happen to be into burning circuit boards in your yard or something.
It's not a question of whether lead free solder is expensive (it's not), it's about whether products using it will last as long (they won't) or whether they can be repaired easily (they can't) or whether it was causing a health problem to begin with (it wasn't).
When these new eco-friendly products don't last as long and can't be repaired, we need to buy new ones, and that....releases more hazardous substances into the atmosphere, catch-22.
It's great news for manufacturers (they get to sell more stuff), but I really don't see how it's particularly good for either environmentalists or consumers.
In spite of a far more educated workforce I have serious doubts that that's true.
Adjusted for inflation, the median household income in 1975? $45,788
The median household income in 2012? $51,017
But wait you (might) say. That means we're better off now....except for one small detail. We're measuring household income.
In the 1970's that was (generally) one persons income, in 2012 that's two people's income. In terms of physical goods I think we compare quite favorably, but factoring in things like housing, energy and food? Not so much.
REFERENCE http://www.davemanuel.com/median-household-income.php
This is the same state that the 'binary liquid explosive' came from. You know, the one that wouldn't have worked, and the people discussing it didn't have, and also didn't have any way to smuggle on the airplane since they had no passports.
But they still got convicted and 4oz bottles of shampoo are still verboten.
Fortunately most divers take up the sport because we like to look at fish, not because we enjoy bathing in agricultural runoff and/or sewage. Ergo, not a lot of recreational diving in oceanic "dead zones".