I think it’s a good thing they have an endowment to give the site more financial security, but… how big does it need to be before they stop the begging advertisements? They’ve already far outpaced the goal they set in 2016.
A French company (SilMach) backed by Timex Group is claiming to have opened a new chapter in watchmaking with the creation of a silicon motor that matches the accuracy of quartz-based movements with the elegance of a mechanical watch’s sweeping hands.
Higher beat quartz watches do exist, like Bulova’s Precisionist watches (which I believe do beat 16 times per second like you mention).
My understanding is that they are not more common because moving the hands more frequently like this uses battery a lot faster, so the watches either need to be bigger for more battery or require more frequent battery changes.
Yes but if you need 1500 points at minimum before you can cash out, that means you aren’t seeing any cash back until you’ve spent $300 at Microsoft. The payout might be bigger, but you have to wait a lot longer to get it.
If that’s worth it for you, that’s great! But if I’m spend $60 at Microsoft a few times a year, I might rather just have $1.20 next month that I can spend on many things than $3.00 in two years that I can only spend at Microsoft.
Do you think it’s not newsworthy if a manufacturer sells drives with a history of failures, releases a firmware update they claim will fix the issue, sends a replacement drive that also fails, and continues to sell the drives at a deep discount?
Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)
French innovator aims to consign ticking quartz watches to history (usa.watchpro.com)
A French company (SilMach) backed by Timex Group is claiming to have opened a new chapter in watchmaking with the creation of a silicon motor that matches the accuracy of quartz-based movements with the elegance of a mechanical watch’s sweeping hands.
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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?