Comment Re:Volt is not a measurement of power (Score 1) 188
Yep. But there will be no more 100w bulbs in a couple year. They've been outlawed.
Cooking With Your USB Ports 188
tekgoblin writes "Wow, I would never have thought to try and cook food with the power that a standard USB port provides, but someone did. A standard port provides 5V of power, give or take a little. I am not even sure what it takes to heat a small hotplate, but I am sure it is more than 5V. It looks like the guy tied together around 30 USB cables powered by his PC to power this small hotplate. But believe it or not, it seems to have cooked the meat perfectly."
Comment Try Arachne (Score 1) 533
If you want to use it on the net I might suggest Arachne a browser which runs on early DOS versions.
Comment Re:Why is Cobol still alive? (Score 1) 288
You apparently don't understand bean-counter mentality. "By God we paid for that code and we're going to get every penny of our investment back from it before we even consider replacing it with another expensive "new" program."
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