Right. Which is why you multiply smidge's numbers by 1 month to get watt-hours for one month. Which is another point in favour of his numbers not already being in watt-hours.

Actually you have calculated average watts (which is what is really relevant). Your numbers are "watt hours per hour", cancelling to watts, not watt hours.

I would imagine that you'll likely still be able to upgrade by adding a discrete graphics card for quite some time.

I have a working (graphical) snake game I wrote in QBASIC (self-taught) saved from the month I turned 13 (the code is of course horrific). School didn't teach me any programming either (I self-taught a variety of languages though), until taking a university course in computer game programming. Fast forward to the present day, and I have one shipped PC/360/PS3 game on my resumé and am a year away from adding a PS3-exclusive to that.

I live in the same economy as you, had the same opportunities. The difference is that I didn't drop out. I followed my dream.

You could JIT generate Javascript which is then JIT compiled itself...

Perhaps the problem isn't with the BBC, but the fact that your internet traffic is proxy'd via the US? You'd also get much better latency if you could get directly onto the internet locally.

I have a self-dumped pokémon red rom, and it does indeed run pretty well.

Colour me impressed!

You could just run Windows 3.1. It does still work on a modern pc.

What grade of GPU? It's an order of magnitude short of the shader power alone of a top-of-the-range GPU, let alone the fixed function power it entirely lacks (e.g. texture samplers). Sony famously rated the PS3 as a 2 TFLOPS machine, of which only 200 GFLOPS were the Cell cpu, and the rest was the GPU (of which ~200 GFLOPS were programmable and the rest was fixed functions).

And GPUs have moved on by an order of magnitude since then.

The Japanese maglev system has a lot in common with "Inductrack", it uses passive figure-8 coils in the track to levitate and guide the train. The magnets on the train are superconductors, and powered alternating magnets in the track are used for propulsion. The trains have wheels because they don't levitate at low speeds or while stopped.

The only difference between the systems is in the kind of magnet used in the train itself.

Out of interest, which printer is it specifically?

The toner cartridge that comes with the printer is smaller than normal, typically 1/4 or 1/2 the size. Chucking the printer for a new one is not actually cheaper than just buying the cartridge!

It only takes one last straw to break the camel's back...

I want an update and re-release of Final Fantasy VII. Preferably for 3DS. Then they can have my money.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Have you disassembled that keygen/crack to see if it is safe? Convincing someone to run an arbitrary executable file that may or may not do what it claims is exactly the goal of malware authors, after all.