IIRC, on the Z-80 peripherals where I/O space mapped using IN and OUT instructions, not memory-mapped (aside form the screen).

OMG I remember that well. Lots of poke statements followed by a call to kick it off. I had a reasonable oscilloscope-like program running in 'chine language there for a while.

> or do YOU know how make one from scratch?

Yes, I do, both old-school 'cloud chambers' and modern GM tube style ones.

Don't you?

> solid fuel fast reactors.

We picked solid fuel _thermal_ neutron reactors, not fast neutron reactors. We also picked ceramic fuel, which complicates heat transfer and is subject to cracking.

Perhaps they photograph every person that comes into the DMV. That would be even more egregious a violation of privacy.

Except that they are intended to just be thrown away.

The alpha from Am241 will not be detectable at any distance from the detector even if the metallic/ceramic enclosure is breached. The mean free path of an alpha particle in air is very small - about 5 cm.

Class A amps run at 50% power at zero input. The amp is biased at 50% on the DC load line.

You would likely be incorrect. read the old USDA Yearbook of Agriculture reports that show how many cows and dairymen were infected and how rampant tuberculosis was in your supposedly pristine raw milk.

It wasn't the people that killed it, it was the studios. They were afraid Divx would cut into their DVD sales. From the article:

Today the studios are scrambling for cash and are much more likely to embrace streaming/encrypted media. They trust Netflix, and need a new way of selling us the same media. Remember that DVDs and blurays were 'secure' - ,a href="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAdvanced_Access_Content_System">supposedly blurays can revoke media keys. It's not a big stretch to go from having the encrypted media on a bluray to downloading the encrypted data. As long as the key escrow is secure (this is what Netflix brings to the party), having you pay for distributing their content makes sense.

Which is hilarious, because this is exactly the same business model as the Circuit City Divx service! The disks were encrypted and you paid a small fee to unlock the files for 48 hours after your initial viewing.

My 1st gen RPi does a good job as a media center. Lots of I/O for that.

Sacajawea looked horribly cross-eyed, however.

"I met this man in Meghalaya, who has a solar set-up for his homestay. He mentioned that only the initial setting up costs you much," Deepika Gumaste, a travel writer told Slashdot. "But once you have set it up, the operating costs are not much and more importantly, the environmental costs also go down. Good on your pockets too in the long run."

Did this guy just extrapolate grid-sized solar capacity from one guy's home solar setup???

Differential engines, analytical engines, the Jacquard loom, Michelson's harmonic analyzer, etc.

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Don't quote Nyquist, quote Shannon. Nyquist only applies to the minimum sampling rate for an unaliased time domain signal, not directly how much information can be transmitted in that bandwidth. There are plenty of encoding schemes that get multiple bits/baud.