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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
My "new" computer from this summer has already crashed, hard...Paraphrased from a longer article: Voyager space missions which, since they were launched in August and September 1977 to explore outer space, have been travelling at 38,000 miles an hour away from us powered by computers made 40 years ago. The smartphone in your pocket has 240,000 times more memory. The computer on board Voyager 1 uses just 12 watts (or the same kind of power used by a light bulb in a fridge) to transmit its data back to base, taking 38 hours, from way beyond the reaches of Saturn, Uranus and even Neptune — and it’s been working continuously all those years. Why, then, do our own household computers and phones have a shelf-life of only about five years? _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | ||
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Fighting the good fight |
So that you have to buy a new one every 5 years, naturally. They're not in the business of building things that last forever. If they did, they'd soon run out of customers. Whereas if you have to buy a new one every few years, they have a constant stream of revenue. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Because retail computers are a business, | |||
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And no one is browsing the web with the voyager computer. No browser hijacks, malware, etc. | |||
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Cause it's hard to do Warranty work on the Voyager. Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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DeadHead |
V'Ger! Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B0NBQBnCO0 "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right!" - GhostBusters II "You have all the tools you need. Don't blame them. Use them." - Dan Worrall | |||
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| Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
I know the reasons. I also know what could be done differently to help. It's simply a rant. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Capacitors are usually the components that fail or degrade over time. Better quality capacitors would make the equipment last longer. The cheap capacitors in my game cameras are causing a longer delay before the camera starts recording.  41 | |||
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E tan e epi tas |
But honestly how much porn could you really access with the Voyager probe.  "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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How much do you need to access when you have a NASA grade probe? | |||
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| Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
Porn and probe in the same post, what could possibly go wrong with this?  _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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because they don't cost $2 million dollars!!!!!!!!!!! | |||
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| Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
^  _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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| The Unmanned Writer |
Because Voyager used Fortran, not DOS (ie: Windows or Apple). Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
Yeah, no Windows on Voyager. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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I can put together an equally talented team and build you a computer with the same level of quality, extensive testing, and otherwise, but our day rate would be about $10,000 and it would take a couple of years or more. For roughly $500-2500 total we're spoiled it works this well. Still sucks though.  | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
 הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
Not exactly a valid comparison but kinda get the jest. | |||
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Ammoholic |
How much for the environmental impact study and certification of fair labor? Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Because you wouldn't pay millions of dollars for a CPU. The computers on Voyager 1 were all build to be hardened against things like solar radiation, and they cost a lot of money. -- When you rest your steak and your whiskey upon the table you have made, you feel pretty goddamn tall for keeping those treats off the ground. | |||
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