These disks should be written like tapes and can be read like disks, so theyâ(TM)re ideal for cold storage and backups, but theyâ(TM)re worthless for ânormalâ(TM) hdd workloads. The manufacturers should just market them as a new form of storage that just happens to look a lot like a hard disk, but they donâ(TM)t, and thatâ(TM)s where the problems start.
The other theory is that it was all because of bureaucracy inside IBM.
Quoting (MIPS architect) John Mashey:
"In dealing with external supplier, there would generally be one IBM
division that would be the lead in dealing with that supplier, and
if you were in another division, you had to work through that first division.
Needless to say, a fast-track effort like the IBM PC wouldn't care for that
much
So thereâ(TM)s a moving magnetic field that charges a battery that drives a motor to move the car at that same speed?
You know what else is linear and has a moving magnetic field and is designed to move things? A linear motor! Why donâ(TM)t they just slap a magnet under the car so that it becomes the ârotorâ(TM)?
That technically doesnâ(TM)t charge the battery, but it extends the carâ(TM)s range and thatâ(TM)s what counts.
Thinking about it, how will they ever make this cost-effective? So many coils.
You can charge your car in the 90+% of the time you don't use it.
An EV is only useful if:
1. You can charge it at home (or work) so it's on 100% when you start your day
2. The range is enough for 95% of your daily needs
In a couple of weeks I get a Nissan Leaf and I've been monitoring my current driving habits over the last months.
I don't expect I'll need a fast charger more often than once every few months.
Emoji forces single language software to support Unicode and DST forces single time zone software to support different time zones. And screw up badly.
That's the only positive thing about DST that I can think of.
We, as users, pay every month four our Internet, so that the Internet is ours. Every website is our guest. Please let it be this way.
Unfortunately, most people only want to pay as little as possible. Either that, or there is a de-facto monopoly. In the first case, mantenance suffers to cut costs, in the second case thereâ(TM)s no reason to innovate.
We should keep the Internet ours and prevent the likes of Facebook and Amazon from starting to subsidize/buy Internet providers to enable/incentivize them to upgrade their network. Because from that moment on itâ(TM)s more and more *their* Internet and before too long we will be the guests.
s/NTSC/USA
s/framerates/units
(s/tests/rest)
"I fully understand the problem"
When did they start to prepare for fiber/broadband by installing empty conduits in Norway?
The first time I saw them here in the Netherlands was in the mid to late '90s, in a 'rural' area (farmland, the nearest town with school & supermarket was 5km away, but that's about as rural as it gets round here).
That's twenty years ago and as a result our broadband penetration is top notch. Fiber roll out is going fast too.
If the USA wants to keep up, they'd better buy a time machine.
300 meters is 984 feet.
A lot of secondary railroads all over Europe are not electrified, and that's where these diesel-powered Lint-trains show up. So that's the target market for these trains, not the main railroads.
And as said by others, there's a big problem with the fluctuations in energy output from wind and solar, especially in Germany. Instead of just throwing the energy away (like they do now), they could just as well use it to create hydrogen, even if it only has 50% efficiency.
That's why they're targeting the German market with this train.
They're still hunting the dude on the European History Channel. I don't really understand why they keep going to Argentina and do the exact same thing there three times a week.
The Dutch language is well fitted for quirky creativeness. Last week they managed to announce the death of a pioneer in the field of bone marrow transplants in just 34 letters and one space
http://www.spatiegebruik.nl/popup.php?id=3418 (4th headline)
It's still alive and kicking here in the Netherlands, known as Teletekst. Every journalist wants to be on page 101.
There's even a web-interface and an iPhone app for it, which is a no-nonsense, clutter-free, low-bandwidth source of news, weather, stocks and sport results. I can't live without it
I must say that I rarely use it on my tv anymore. Which is kind of funny, because nowadays it's still trapped inside the low-tech interface of the 70s although it's mostly used on devices so advanced that even the big visionaries of that age couldn't even dream about it.
Is it nostalgia? Or more like the Stockholm Syndrome? Or does it just hit a sweet spot of usability and simplicity?
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