I put out one of those big plastic storage units with like 30 little drawers recently, figuring although 2 were missing, someone could still use it. I stood it next to the dustbin, on trash day where it would be optimally visible for anyone who wanted to scrounge it.
The bloody HOA took a picture and sent a nastygram.
A month or so ago; I had a 32G card, and bought a 128G card.
I think it’s more about “does it fulfill the tropes paper money has established.” It’s like how many of the new electric cars look slightly off because they’ve removed design features (i. e. grilles with obvious air intakes) that are established in cars already.
Interestingly, Soviet banknotes up to the 1961 series would print the denomination in over ten different languages.
The Euro notes look like what you’d get if you asked for prop banknotes for a minor scwne in a nwar-future sci-fi movie. The basic design elements are there to give the general look of currency, but something always seemed missing.
I think it’s the lack of text-- most banknotes have a big, prominent issuing authority name rather than the tiny copyright line of abbreviations, and often some flowery “I promise to pay on demand” legal language leftover from when the note was a stand-in for a stack of silver coins.
Why not just subsidize the shit out of the USPS?
I buy a lot of AliExpress stuff, craft and hobby electronics stuff, and have run into situations where a domestic vendor will have what I want, sometimes even at a competitive price, but their shipping will be $5-10- maybe discounted if I spend $50, 100, or more, while the Chinese option is $2 postage, or even “free postage if I spend $10.”
If you could mail a 100 gram padded envelope for under $1, it would cloae the gap substantially.
Isn’t it still a cable TV product? Does that not justify some brand presence?
It’s funny that the second-tier random broadcast Channel 83.5s that run old episodes of Law & Order 24/7 have a website and advertise “stream the channel online!” and a higher profile product can’t.
The examples I gave are probably achievable for 7 to low 8 figures. Perhaps a bit spendy in absolute numbers, but compared to a $100 billion estate, are they really bigger splashes than a mere mortal spending six months’ salary on a fully kitted home workshop, project car, or deluxe home theatre?
I’d like to think we’re all morons in our own little way. If there isn’t something you fall head-over-heels for and spend your money on in a stupid way, when given the chance, are you really human?
If you open the laptops, you’ll find some small cables that snap onto the wi-gi card and connect to antenbae mounted in thr chassis.
Desktop mainboards don’t fo that because arbitrary cases might not have a built-in antenna.
ISTR an early name-brand desktop with wi-fi did have an inyernal antenna because you knew that mainboard was paired with that specific case with a point to snap the antenna into.
That was my post; I appreciate your efforts.
I can recognize pholcidae and salticidae by shape, and the big female widows, and the one Olios Giganteus who comes thundering around the house every year, but beyond that I’m more of a “I just want to cram the Nikon in the corner and fill up the storage card” type of arachnology enthusiast. ::::)
I’m not there. You might try a forum like Audiokarma.
Don’t toss the Technics reciever either.
If I’ve learned anything from GTA… just drive the news van around and hit pedestrians until you make budget.
I was under the impression thar’s what the mid-grade petrol was for; it had a high-enough octane factor to be non-knocking in engines designed for leaded.
What specific inks are you using?
I’ve gotten surprisingly decent results with dry-erase marker ink on a cheapo 1.5w laser, but the black is by 10x the best colour at adhesion. Would love to expand the palette.
Why would you want to turn back?
ARM was designed because the 6502 was approaching end of viability, and Acorn (the maker of the BBC Microcomputer) needed a next-gen product. At the time, RISC was the trendy thing, and I suspect the 286 and 68000 were too expensive to adapt for their products; they weren’t pushing £5000+ workstations like IBM or Unix vendors.
It was light and small because they had a small team; low power was a happy accident.
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
So next they’ll use AI-generated infantry?
I was always disappointed that celebrity and character voice packs weren’t a thing for the voice-assistant platforms. I’d pay literal ones of dollars for a voice assistant with a Sebastian Michaelis intonation and theming.
Cortana for Windows Phone came closest, I think they did use the same voice actress as the game character.