When someone says "they lost an engine on takeoff", ths is not what they usually mean...

You do know what direct line of sight is, yes?

Go look at some airplane designs from profile view and note the engines hang well below the fuselage, thus meaning one can blow and throw shrapnel straight at the opposite engine.

In fact, the FAA has reports of exactly this happening.

It's amazing to see that we're only just now discovering we can use the power of wind to move boats around!

No, because whatever side is cool, the other side is hot.

This means one chip layer gets cooled while the other on the opposing side of the cooler is getting cooked.

I think people should show him how insecure his locks truly are by using his felon head to open one.

it's called WHITE PAINT

it's an incredible new innovation, you should try it!

If you're too stupid to "select all" and drag-and-drop to a new folder on your desktop, then you deserve to "lose" all your photos and videos.

As for the apps, there's one license of the app on the account, that's no longer wanting to be shared, so it's a "Marital Asset" that a judge can oversee the division of, along with the rest of the martial assets. It gets a little more complicated if one side wants some apps and the other side wants other apps, but they're rarely very expensive, on the order of $3 to $9, making them easily compensated for in the monetary settlement of the divorce. (app installations are just as fungible as cash)

That really only leaves "who gets the email address", and that's not a new problem created by Apple, that's been around for decades. Work it out, with the judge's assistance if necessary.

I think this whole thing is just coming down to bitter Ex'es in a messy divorce, looking for another public place to drag each other through the mud. Go handle your drama somewhere private, the world is not interested in being your stage.

Depends on the x-ray energy band and required power to achieve what is needed, but I suspect a copper or lead mask would suffice. If I knew their target energy level I could give a better idea of what would work for a mask.

The heat pump's working fluid doesn't have to be water, it'd be whatever fluid can phase change at a "convenient pressure". The released heat on the high pressure side would be used to boil water into steam, which could then be moved to a turbine to generate power.

That "working fluid" woud be what is circulating on the low pressure side, through the cooling blocks.

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone trying to use the waste heat that all this computer power is generating? I realize that would impact cooling a little, but surely SOME of this can be recovered efficiently? Steam turbines are the usual way to turn heat into electrical power. Is there no way to do it for data centers?

For example, use a heat pump to concentrate the heat to above boiling temperature then use that to boil water to run a steam turbine. The heat pump would require some power to run, but I think you could run that at a net-positive for power?

that pardon cost? Trump doesn't strike me as the type to do anything like that for free.

Uh, some of us in Windows land use PS/2 for NKRO gaming.

I actually bought it quite recently, so I could take three bricks out of my laptop bag and replace them with just the one. Less space, less weight, and I love that built-in display. (it won't charge my watch unfortunately)

I've got a few spare older bricks from previous laptop purchases, so I can't say I'd need to buy a brick if my next laptop didn't come with one, but that shows my experience that bricks usually outlive their product. I also believe that most people have started accumulating unused bricks. (maybe it'll slightly lower the price of the next laptop I buy?)

USB-C negotiates voltage and current, and current (and thus watts) are supplied on demand. So an oversize charger will always work fine on an undersize accessory. (there's NO risk of "blowing it up" if you try to charge a 60w macbook with a 140w charger)

There are also cases where a larger charger works better. We have some high end windows laptops here running CAD and they are entirely capable of DRAINING the battery WHILE PLUGGED IN because they shipped with lightweight chargers that supply fewer watts than the laptop can use when run hard. We ordered in some larger chargers (and yes, they're beastly bricks) that can keep up with and even charge the battery while CAD is running hard. So, bigger IS better.

I picked up a 140w Anker awhile ago, it's got three USB-C ports with quickcharge, and two USB-3 fast charge ports, with a nice built-in display. (it even came with a 140w USB-C cord) That's all I need to take with me, no matter which accessories I pack. It's so much better than ANY of the generic USB-C bricks they're including with laptops nowadays. I honestly don't WANT to pay more for an additional bundled brick I'm not going to take out of the box.

We don't like the conclusion, so change the metrics by which we came to the conclusion.

A bit like "Our students can't pass the standardized test, so instead of fixing our education system we're going to dumb down the tests."

Same principle. Don't like the results? Change the test!