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The Knome

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    The Knome got a reaction from jiyeon in How do you stop yourself from buying unnecessary things?   
    How do you stop yourself from buying unnecessary things?
    Declare bankruptcy.
    Cant spend anything then. 
  2. Agree
    The Knome reacted to Gikero in I hate being a teenager.   
    You can't make someone love you. Be yourself and be patient. Desperation drives away a lot of people and no matter how hard it is now, it will be worth it when you find someone who loves you for who you are.
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    The Knome reacted to maybethisnamewillwork in Is Bulk Thermal Compound Worth It?   
    It looks like copper anti-seize compound.
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    The Knome reacted to fuzz0r in AMD RYZEN... A GAME CHANGER!   
    Might be time to upgrade the server
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    The Knome reacted to Natsoup in Should you GPS TRACK your Children?   
    Taken too far. Kids won't be allowed to be kids anymore. I may only be 22, but if I had a gps strapped on me for all of my years before I left home, I would be a much less interesting person than I am now, that's for sure.
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    The Knome reacted to Razor512 in Should you GPS TRACK your Children?   
    For that device to be useful, it really needs more functions. The problem with alert devices, is that they do not ensuire that you will receive help immediately when you are in danger. Thus you need to be able to protect yourself until help arrives.
     
    It needs to be redesigned to have 2 hot-swap batteries, and a built in tazer, with easy to replace cartridges. Thus if the kid is confronted by a violent criminal, he or she can taze them until the police arrive. A dual battery hot-swap system will ensure that fresh batteries can be installed without interrupting the tazing. Thus it will initially have 2 batteries in, and while tazing the criminal, the kid can ready an extra battery, then as son as one cell is drained, it can be easily ejected, and a new one inserted, as the device smoothly alternated between the batteries.
     
    The a sense line can also be present so that once the police arrive, if they want to continue tazing the criminal, they can deploy their tazer, and the detection of the new current source, will cause the cartridge to instantly disconnect.
     
    If that can't be done, then at least have them keep a small can of pepper spray.
     
    Remember, when you are in immediate danger, the last thing you want to deal with is the fact that help may be 10-20 minutes away.
  7. Funny
    The Knome reacted to Hunter259 in January 20th, 2017 - The WAN Show Document   
    #TheBallsShow
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    The Knome reacted to miagisan in AMD Driver Update Holding Back Ram (December 2016)   
    It's a bug with multi monitor setups when you try to overclock.  Hopefully they fix it soon. 
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    The Knome reacted to Monkey Dust in Beards?   
    The type of beard that is good for you will be dependant on your face shape. Except the soul patch and goatee, which makes everyone look a complete and utter douche.
  10. Agree
    The Knome reacted to spwath in Calyos Fanless Workstation   
    fanless is always cool.
    or hopefully it is...
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    The Knome reacted to AHaskin14 in Calyos Fanless Workstation   
    If they can actually sell the cooling setup for $500 that would probably sell quite well. I'd be interested.
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    The Knome got a reaction from rhyseyness in Radwagon Review   
    Have you seen the cost of a regular road bike?
    I have one that cost £2000 ($3300), another that cost £1000 ($1668).

    They aint cheap and to be honest are made of stronger or more technically advanced stuff than most cars (I have ceramic bearings in one of them, the wheel just spins forever!),,, add in much much smaller production lines  (probably looking at 1 for every 1000 cars) you can start to understand it.

    Now, to the bike in question.
    A battery assisted cargo bike.
    IS A GREAT IDEA!

    Seriously, I dont take my bike to the shops, its totally impractical to even attempt to carry anything, but the car is impractical and costly to no lesser degree doing the mentioned short trips.

    In Italy, you see those 3 wheel scooter/moped boxes that serve the sole purpose of small trips and baggage carrying, with the cars there purely for long trips. You almost never see someone going locally by car and for things like traffic management (grid lock), convenience (small, easy to manoeuvre, no searching for a parking space), affordability (less to go wrong on a bike, no taxes, no petrol), you would see a lot more free time and a lot less on the living expenses side of things pretty quick on one of these.

    Now the main issue, nobody in the UK provides something like this,,, zero, zilch. 
    We have electric bikes but they are huge, heavy, not practical at all and really intended to be more like a mobility scooter than something that anyone can use.
    Not that fast either (combo of weight and power I assume. Dont know about speed limit laws here).

    I reckon pairing one of those bikes with a small trailer you could haul quite a lot.

    And that said, been building bikes since I was 5. And I can weld, and actually have gear I could apply to this. Hummmmmm. Off to the local skip to find a frame,,, start a personal project. 
  13. Agree
    The Knome got a reaction from minibois in Radwagon Review   
    Have you seen the cost of a regular road bike?
    I have one that cost £2000 ($3300), another that cost £1000 ($1668).

    They aint cheap and to be honest are made of stronger or more technically advanced stuff than most cars (I have ceramic bearings in one of them, the wheel just spins forever!),,, add in much much smaller production lines  (probably looking at 1 for every 1000 cars) you can start to understand it.

    Now, to the bike in question.
    A battery assisted cargo bike.
    IS A GREAT IDEA!

    Seriously, I dont take my bike to the shops, its totally impractical to even attempt to carry anything, but the car is impractical and costly to no lesser degree doing the mentioned short trips.

    In Italy, you see those 3 wheel scooter/moped boxes that serve the sole purpose of small trips and baggage carrying, with the cars there purely for long trips. You almost never see someone going locally by car and for things like traffic management (grid lock), convenience (small, easy to manoeuvre, no searching for a parking space), affordability (less to go wrong on a bike, no taxes, no petrol), you would see a lot more free time and a lot less on the living expenses side of things pretty quick on one of these.

    Now the main issue, nobody in the UK provides something like this,,, zero, zilch. 
    We have electric bikes but they are huge, heavy, not practical at all and really intended to be more like a mobility scooter than something that anyone can use.
    Not that fast either (combo of weight and power I assume. Dont know about speed limit laws here).

    I reckon pairing one of those bikes with a small trailer you could haul quite a lot.

    And that said, been building bikes since I was 5. And I can weld, and actually have gear I could apply to this. Hummmmmm. Off to the local skip to find a frame,,, start a personal project. 
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    The Knome reacted to paddy-stone in Reasons For Router Randomly Rebooting?   
    I had a similar problem one time... in my case I got the ISP to send an engineer as I knew there was no problem my end. It turned out to be the faceplate where the outside line connects, the connections inside had been melted a bit by a power surge when there was a lightning strike nearby that took out some other ISP equipment. I only knew this as the engineer that was sent was the same one that had to deal with the other ISP equipment a few days earlier.
    It may not be the case with your problem, but if you've checked everything else reasonably required at your end then I think an engineer visit is the next logical step. Good luck.
  15. Funny
    The Knome reacted to OsuMasterz in World's Most Comfortable Gaming Setup Part 1   
    YESSSS
    Dennis, Only Asian houses are designed well... #RektCanadaAndUS
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    The Knome reacted to desertcomputer in Aftermarket GPU releases after base editions?   
    It depends what country you in... it varies from a few weeks to months. This also depends on the card/chip supply.
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    The Knome reacted to vong in Aftermarket GPU releases after base editions?   
    About a month after release of the blower style coolers. Higher end cards like the EVGA Classified, MSI Lightning and Asus Matrix take a good while to come out though.
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    The Knome reacted to Fulgrim in My opinion on RX 480   
    They did run DOOM @1440p, and had a constant 60+fps, which is similar to the GTX 980, which is what the card is aimed to compete with.

    Also, speculating how good it'll do, is fucking pointless. Wait for independent reviewers to post their findings, after they get their hands on the card. I'm interested in seeing how it fairs in Fallout 4 + Witcher 3.
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    The Knome got a reaction from TAHIRMIA in Tripod under 50   
    About a fiver over budget but should be setup right for video without being super flimsy.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Benro-T800EX-Photo-Tripod-Aluminium/dp/B004TRPV5Y/ref=sr_1_39?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1457563314&sr=1-39&keywords=Benro
     
    And have a fair lot of Benro gear, damn good value for money.
    But any less than that, visually, looks of poor quality. 
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    The Knome reacted to ShadowCaptain in Tripod under 50   
    If you want to shoot video you need a fluid head, seriously 

     
  21. Informative
    The Knome reacted to ALwin in Nikon 35mm f/1.8 vs Nikon 50mm f/1.8   
    The other difference:
     
    Nikon 50mm primes are almost always lenses designed for FF bodies, which are still usable with cropped sensor bodies.
     
    The 35mm f/1.8G lens in your link is a cropped sensor lens, on a FF body it will cause serious vignetting.
     
    Nikon also makes a 50mm f/1.8G lens that will AF with any Nikon DSLR body, as it has the in-lens AF motor:

     
     
    f/1.x D lenses are older and retain the manual aperture rings.  The newer G lenses no longer have this ring.  But the 50mm f/1.8D lens is still a sharp lens.

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    The Knome reacted to ALwin in Nikon 35mm f/1.8 vs Nikon 50mm f/1.8   
    Yes, but read my previous comments about AF motors in the lens and in the camera body.  All lenses indicated with the letter G behind the aperture (see image below) have an autofocus motor in the lens, and are compatible with all Nikon DSLR bodies.  However, non G lenses usually do not come with the motor in the lens, so for autofocusing it requires that the camera body has the motor inside.  Nikon doesn't include the AF motor in D3x00 and D5x00 bodies.
     
     

     
     
    As you can see here in this image of a D3200, it lacks the small turn screw that is driven by the in-body AF motor to turn the lens' focus mechanism.  Compared to the D800 (bottom image).

     

  23. Agree
    The Knome reacted to ShadowCaptain in Cool "newbie" projects   
    Project number 1) Learn how to use the camera
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    The Knome reacted to ALwin in Cool "newbie" projects   
    And No.2) practice and experiment, and after that analyze.
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    The Knome reacted to ShadowCaptain in Cool "newbie" projects   
    Honestly if its your first time using a camera, getting lost in a project is the last thing to be concerned with
     
    just go out and shoot shoot shoot, shoot night, shoot day, shoot manual, dive into menus, try out video, learn the settings you cant even read, how the camera responds and behaves and you will be come a better photographer

    While the true aesthetic of the photo is down the photographers eye and creativity, photography is not possible without gear, so the better you can learn it, the better you will be, and the easier time you will have

    You will be inspired to create a project yourself,

    honestly, photography is so varied, some kinds of photos i dont like some I do, its all about finding your "thing" your groove
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