Just be sure to get one that doesn't have a cmos battery or one that has electrolytic capacitors (almost all do). That said, I've got a Toshiba laptop that has operated since its inception in the mid 80s. It still worlds.

You can read those disks? Wow. I need a drive to do that.

typical retention on E data is around 40 years.

Yes but that won't work either. Doe to geothermal use in the US, NG prices have dropped significantly. So much so, that mobile systems development HAS become interested in it. Soo.... What will happen when millions make the switch? Up goes the price.

You forgot to mention management electronics. It is agaist federal law to impose new prodeedures in the engine management systems. You can't take them out, you can't change them, can't reprogram them, etc...

Speaking of the cylinder shutdown technique; This techonology is in use, now in the US. My experience with it doesn't offer much in advantage. The computer management system is pretty complex. All cylinders have to be capable of this, as the computer must rotate 'service' cylinders in and out to keep all the pistons wearing at the same rate. They also must be managed to maintain cylinder temperature. It must be high for several reasons some including block warping and alignment stresses. All those problems for what appears to be a negligable gain. I have an 85 fiero with 120k on it. The 2.8 v6 it has gets about 32 miles to the gallon (at 55mph after it drops exponentially). This particular car that I speak of is a newer Impala. It gets 25. Whoopee. Yes the tech has been around a while, and they thought that computer management was the issue. Cadillac tried to address teh problem in the early 80's and it worked Ok. Dealerships were knows for disconnecting the solenoids responsible for operating the lifters because there was so much trouble with the computers. But now, they are still dealing with new issues. We all have to face it, ICE is an old technology and the only reason we haven't dropped it is because no one wants to stick their neck out on a new tech. It's called greed.

Yikes, it will take a considerable amount of energy just to keep the batteries warm enough to break their temp cycle.

Many of the problems associated with a heat engine operating a vehicle are not prolbems with electric. You don't require elastic busings at every corner to deal with expansion, and vibration. It's such a different platfrom that an electric vehicle really doesn't have much use as a ICE or vice versa. That is the problem with Detroit's approach to alternative energy methods. They just want an easy excuse to slap something straight into a former ICE platform. That way they can continue to use their existing technology. New alterntaive energy vehicles don't resemble ICE vehicles underneath the hood.

Do NOT attempt to bolster Limbaugh's' already narcissistic ego by telling him how awesome he is. His head is already at a critical stage now. Any heavier and it may overload his already frail body. The good news is, as big as he is the fat should absorb some of the shock mitigating the worst of the damage. Which will probably include tsunami, earthquake, tornados etc.

They took the common sense model of creating a business and threw it down the tubes for greed. Reap what you sew.

Actually, if you understand what makes hackers, hackers... Then the threat of 'senior' staff is as follows. Most hackers, narcissist or not, put all of their effort in to one facet. They may be at the top for a few years but as soon as technology moves on so does their interest. They are stuck in the field they started in. It's that kind of commitment that drives a hacker in the first place, it's the same commitment that keeps them from moving to different fields.

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I can see it now, the war finally winde up in the basement of a 'nuked' building and two groupls of stinky dirty people wark away frantically trying to hack the opponents computer connected by a single ethernet cable. They hurl insults at one another and chide and talk sepremecy of morals and ethics until all the sudden one of them trips on the cable and pulls it from the jack on the back of the computer. It's there they all freeze. Completely confused and not knowing what to do. And they stay there inanimate soiling themselves and pissing down their legs until they starve to death. Long story short? It's funny how addicted people have come to abstraction when it's so easy to wield a pair of wirecutters.

No, principles can be overridden with ego. Real hackers are about the science. Hackers that are out to damaage things are about their egos. That's actually what mades hiring them fruitless. Once they get bored with the 'I work ops for the FBI' or whatever, they'll move on to, 'I'm a double agent' so and so forth etc...That's why instead of building things they find it much easier and gets them more attention to break things. No, they aren't good bets.

Not helping an inverted tortoise. I mean, inverted turtle?