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I just read the fine print on the Verizon website. I was looking to upgrade, and I thought I might like a 5G phone to replace my 4G phone.
I discovered that Verizon offers two different tiers of 5G service. The good one delivers the new 5G experience. And the other tier offers an experience that they say is comparable to 4G.
Guess which one you must pay extra for? Any time a new technology comes out, it's time to charge more!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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But the 5G comes with lubrication.
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Gee (= 5G - 4G) 
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Just get your COVID booster and you'll have glorious 5G at no extra charge. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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There are two forms of 5G - the "directed beam" which offers very high speed but requires numerous short range transmitters and hence is usually only available in densely populated areas where the antennas can be placed, well, everywhere. The "unidirectional" version of 5G is essentially equivalent to 4G in performance, I don't remember the particular nuances. Depending on where you live or commute to, the higher cost tier may be pointless.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Depending on where you live or commute to, the higher cost tier may be pointless.
Nothing is pointless to the golden parachutes of the executives offering such wonderful services! 
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What made you think a better system should be the same price?
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#Worldle #323 1/6 (100%)
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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My motherboard arrived today, and it ways as much as an entire laptop. Maybe an older laptop at that.
Between that, my monstrous CPU cooler, and my all glass chassis I'm not sure if I'll be able to lift the thing.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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You need one of these: Amazon[^]
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Tell me about it. My Threadripper machine has a glass case and it must weigh over 40 pounds!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Threadrippers? Jeez. I just saw one on newegg for $6500 - just the CPU. 64-cores but at over $100 a core no thank you.
I just have an i5-13600K. It's a nasty chip - ranks among the i9s performancewise - a bit of a sleeper by the model line, but not the multicore perf the threadripper has. I was focusing on single core performance anyway. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Agreed, the third generation threadrippers are unbelievably priced. Mine is a second generation. 2990WX.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I do not want any moving parts in my next desktop.
No fans, not anything that moves. And it needs a 3d card with the same restrictions. And cheap, please.
I do not even accept a bloody cooler as they make sound. Suggestions?
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Nothing convection is cheap. You can probably find an all in one ITX for like $700 but it won't be a performer.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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more heat = more mass
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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modern fans are really quiet.
My new computer has 2x input, 1x output and 2x (fractal design pop air case) on the cooler (bequiet cooler)
Games will push them up, but they stay quiet.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I do not want any moving parts in my next desktop.
No fans, not anything that moves. And it needs a 3d card with the same restrictions. And cheap, please.
Will this do?
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Eddy said that he doesn't want any moving parts! Those beads definitely move!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Also, an abacus when operated is far from noise free.
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Well if it makes any noise it's your own fault for slapping the beads around.
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No good. The buttons move when you press them. 
Also, while RPN has the advantage of not requiring parentheses, I never really got to like it.
English version: HP-41C - Wikipedia
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I had also my problems with RPN at the beginning. But after a while I began to love it 
Thanks for the english version of the link 
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I suspect that HP41C was created to alleviate a problem discussed in an article in 'Journal of Irreproducible Results' (JIR) around 1978-79:
The recent popularity of electronic calculators may lead to a shortage of numbers. As everyone knows, when your calculator displays a number, and you turn off the calculator, that number is gone forever, and can never be recovered. That number is lost.
The problem is not as significant for real numbers, as the set of reals are of infinite size, even for a short value range. For integers, the problem is much greater: The number of integers lost this way could mean that we in not too long will be out of numbers e.g. for paginating book, identifying building floors and several other essential applications of integers. We should immediately establish an international program for saving the integers, and establish a register of not yet lost numbers, where those with real, justified needs can apply for still available numbers or number ranges. Until this Save the Integers program is established, owners of electronic calculators are urged to keep them permanently turned on, so that no number is accidentally lost.
The good thing with the HP41C was that no number was lost when you turned it off
The article was published in the pre-web age; JIR was a printed journal only. Our University Library subscribed to it, but I doubt that they'd be able to dig up 40+ year old issues from their archives. I sure would like to read that article again, but have not yet succeeded in finding JIR archived on the internet. If anyone has seen it, please give me a hint! (A.k.a URL)
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