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Can you 3D print it? Buy it with Bitcoins?
Can you 3D print it? Buy it with Bitcoins?
Google is making money from him flying his drone...
From TFA:
Hanes told me that his videos are technically "monetized" on YouTube but that he has never received a payment from Google and the revenue he's technically earned from Google’s ads is less than a dollar.
He may not have received money, but he enabled ads on his videos with the hopes of earning money from his videos.
His videos are posted for commercial purposes (earning HIM money), so his flying is commercial purposes. On Youtube they are somewhat lenient if you post videos with copywritten material if they are ad free. If you post copy-written music / TV shows etc with ads enabled they can and will shut you down. In that case you are hoping to earn money from someone else's copy written material, instead of a potentially fair use situation. This really isn't any different.
Once McAfee detected critical Windows XP system files as a virus and quaranteed them. http://arstechnica.com/busines...
It affected Intel, and many other companies, basically cancelling work for the day.
Intel was so impressed with it they bought McAfee later that year.
If you want value from gold, then buy pure gold. Don't tie it up in a time piece.
yes, but that need to be plugged into amp with "inverse RIAA curve", ie base boost and treble cut to match vinyl's properties, and boosted from the hundredth of a volt to the 1 volt or more a PC or your TV might need to function
. . . or not.
Here's a $51 sale price (regular $80) Turntable at Bestbuy with built in speakers, a headphone jack, RCA out (line level not phono) and USB connection:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/je...
You can buy if from Amazon too:
http://www.amazon.com/Jensen-J...
I assume it's a mediocre player, with even crappier speakers, but you can buy it, put an LP on it, and play it through the built in speakers, without any scanning software, and without a specially inverse RIAA curve Preamp, or any other hardware.
Records have a bit of a resurgence as being hipster, as well as people still having lots of old records they want to listen to (or convert to PC)
Exactly. I'm getting almost as tired of these bugus 3d printing articles as I am of the kickstarter ones.
How about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency articles?
Out here in the real world we still have VGA projectors from 2008 or earlier. Even replacement projectors still rely on VGA cables already run. My new work Thinkpad T440 has excellent battery life, is fairly thin, only has two USB ports, but they did manage to shove a VGA port on there that I'm thankful for. I have to connect my other external monitor to a Micro-Displayport adapter when "docked".
Not just the cost of service, but the initial cost too.
Buy a $50 Timex, in 5 years time spend $5 on a battery, in another 5 years spend another $5 on a battery... somewhere in there spend $5 on a new strap... still orders of magnitude better than $10k on a watch even if you have to throw it away after 12 years.
My point is the future. In 2000 when USB 2.0 was invented, the concept of USB connected flash drives and Hard Drives was very foreign, yet the higher capacity bus provided much better performance in ~2005-2006 or so when these devices started becoming popular.
Something something 640kB will be enough RAM for anyone, for all eternity.
It's interesting the headphone jack is still there since bluetooth chips are so cheap, easy to use, and are smaller than the headphone jack itself. I guess the problem for wireless headphones is powering them requires too many batteries.
Flying: Many airlines / countries won't allow the use of wireless headphones.
Aside from that I love my wireless headphones. I have a set of over the ear 900Mhz Analog headphones that I plug into my computer or TV's headphone jack, but mobile I love my bluetooth headphones, especially at the gym. I really don't know how people manage to use corded headphones at the gym, especially with cardio. I can dock my iPod Touch on the elliptical or treadmill, view recorded TV shows on the built in 15" LCD, yet not worry about yanking the cord out.
As far as batteries, my Bluetooth LG Tone are rated at 10 hours, essentially 1 day, and charge by USB. My 900Mhz Nexxtech Wave are rated at 8 hours, and the AAA batteries charge overnight when the headphones are in their dock.
A big thing USB 3.1 is touting is the ability to tie two SSDs together in a RAID 0 configuration and not max out its bandwidth.
Nobody is touting that. SSDs in RAID is going to be a niche use at best. Most people are going to be connecting simple flash drives, and very few of those come close to even maxing out USB 3.
USB 2.0 is 15 years old, yet widely popular, and mostly adequate. Compared to 20 year old USB 1.1 which is painful for anything other than keyboards and mice. Having lots of extra bandwidth for future use isn't a bad thing. See also how new SSDs can saturate SATA 3, yet 10 years ago a hard drive struggled to keep up with the ATA-133 bus.
Something else, RS-232 is a very simple. Plug a scope into it and you can figure it out pretty quick. The digital equivalent of "hold the film up to the light and look in a magnifying glass"
I know this was in jest, but it might not be quite as crazy as it sounds. If there is any electronic interface format that we are using today that will outlast the rest, and maintain backwards compatibility, it's going to be Ethernet. So while there likely won't be any equipment directly compatible, there would probably still be some around and operational. Consider the systems that run B52s, for instance.
So if there is space to spare besides the obvious choice of film, some sort of NAS device could be an option, and itself an interesting thing to find in a time capsule.
Going forward Ethernet does have a good chance (RJ45 10-Base-T dates to 1990, yet is very much still current), and more and more embedded devices include an Ethernet connection, and unlike USB (aside from certain classes) doesn't require special drivers.
To it's credit, RS-232 is 53 years old and still accessible. My new Haswell based desktop has a pin header on the motherboard, and USB-converters are a dime a dozen. Connecting to legacy equipment at work, RS-232 has the best support. A lot of equipment interfaces with 16 bit software that we have to run in "XP-mode" on our 64-bit Windows 7 machines, but I can plug in a $3 CH340 based USB-RS232 adapter, pass through the port to the VM, and it runs perfect. Unlike anything requiring Parallel port, proprietary ISA cards, etc.
You can also still buy brand new turntables for about $100.
While I wholeheartedly agree that the contents of the flight data recorder are of immense value to the safety of future air travel, the cockpit voice recorders are likely of no value. The CVR uses a two-hour loop, so the audio recorded during the time period from the aircraft's last contact with ATC until well after loss of radar contact was likely overwritten multiple times.
The last two hours would contain information in my post. Were they conscious when the plane crashed? Were they trying to do a safe ditch or did they aim for destruction? Maybe they tried transmitting in the blind (in which case you'd hear their side of the conversation)? Maybe you'd have some indication if the plane was hijacked.
Happiness is twin floppies.
