Comment Re:GMA 600? Last years Atom? $200?!? (Score 1) 214
Hey, engineers to spin up this board got to eat you know.
Yes, but not that much.
Donut + coffee OR Mountain Dew + Doritos
That covers breakfast and lunch, what about dinner?
Hey, engineers to spin up this board got to eat you know.
Yes, but not that much.
Donut + coffee OR Mountain Dew + Doritos
That covers breakfast and lunch, what about dinner?
If we go by Arthur C Clarke (and really, why shouldn't we?) it would be Europan which has a nice ring to it.
If we go by Arthur C. Clarke, we should attempt no landings there.
Why spend 3x the amount of production energy (building it first time, recycling it, building it again) when you can jsut repair it, and only spend the production energy once? your concept of the future is fundamentally inefficient. there will always be a need for repair, and in fact becoming a fixit society again will be fundamental in getting a handle on everything, from the envirnment, to using resources efficiently, even to the economy.
Energy is cheap, and skilled labor (repair) is expensive.
In design, minimizing materials and manufacturing cost or keeping the product compact tends to far outweigh repairability concerns.
Keep in mind that the new product may be more featureful, performant, or energy-efficient than the repaired one.
What IBM underestimated in their dominance was the power of an open standard," Metcalfe said. "In that old IBM, in its dark little heart it was not committed to open standards and its products were not interoperable."
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