Did anyone run the small penis jokes on the explorers that climbed mountains? That's something else that had little practical value, but I don't think climbers were heaped with ridicule for doing useless things. I'm not saying that overclocking is comparable, but it's less ridiculous as the risk of dying is lower.

I thought it was a joke.

If it were the same type, I might agree, but pusher type aircraft tend to be considerably quieter than puller type, at least that I recall. The prop turbulence doesn't hit the aircraft, because it's behind the aircraft.

It sounds interesting. I think it's at least an interesting idea, we'll see if it pans out. There is very little to compare it against.

$500,000 is a lot of money, but it might be in the ball park with competing aircraft, because aircraft can get very expensive very quickly. I would be interested to see how this shakes out, because fuel is easily more than half of the cost of flying an airplane, at least as far as I recall.

When you've mistaken overclocking for normal operation, I think you've either missed the boat or you're not being honest with your agenda.

IB is hotter in overclocking, but at recommended settings, it is cooler and a little faster than SB. If you only care about overclocking, that's fine, but to not say that much is not being honest to us.

Or did you not even bother to understand the article you're referencing?

This decade or previous decade? The 2000's were pretty sad, but the 2010s GM has shown a pretty robust recovery.

The example doesn't really fly though, GM still makes a lot of its own parts, they haven't farmed out the core product.

I think this is separate from the core argument, I don't think anyone would make such a device. However, but a building with metal siding and few windows might be sufficient. Except for the fact that I installed a repeater, some parts of my shop would completely drop detectable signal, other parts too weak to let useful signal through. Some stores are like that too, I can get in the middle of the building and get no signal. This counts a Target, Walmart and a local grocery store. Anyone working in a warehouse might be in trouble.

I don't think any medical device will require a constant signal to keep the patient alive, there's too much risk in that, I don't know exactly what circumstances would require that. I can see maybe a medical device for a seriously ill person that relays location and vital data to dispatch an ambulance, one might be in trouble if you lose signal and you have a life threatening episode.

I see you're conveniently ignoring the unmanned space program, which really started getting on a roll. Even today, there are nearly a dozen active probes around the solar system.

Skylab and the ISS are advancements as well. There wasn't much of a sustained US manned space presence until the ISS.

The SLS may be pretty good too. Farming out low earth orbit services is something that probably should have been done sooner, but maybe it took until now before entrepreneurs had the means to really lower the cost of space access.

You can't do gaming on a TV? Which universe is this again?

I don't know about this screen cleaning thing, I've not needed to clean my screen in a while. Maybe the ones I own have an anti-static coating on them.

Why blame the engineers for that? The engineers that I know are trying to make things the best they can be, but they're prevented by short-sighted penny pinchers that make constricting demands.