Lev_Astov

They’re so brave.

How is it hard to root for the anonymity of people? This is pretty cut-and-dry.

Yeah, I fell for this once a year ago and was dumbfounded to only get 480p when I paid for “UHD”. Never paying again. Great job, bean counters.

Do investors really love it? Is there anyone as stupid as the group-think whole that believes that will stop even one act of piracy?

All these idiotic measures have clearly driven more people to piracy…

No, they pay money for Younger Brother, the capitalist version of Big Brother to watch them. Big Bro is always watching regardless.

Yikes! That’ can’t have been easy to replace.

Yep, that’s the stuff! They tried to fish the new PEX line through by pulling it with the old stuff, but it broke apart in several places when trying to pull it out.

I recently had to have my 1980s house’s water main connection replaced because they used some experimental flexible hose material from the late 80s and it’s all starting to embrittle and fail now. Wouldn’t have happened with PEX…

I’ve been reading about PEX now and it sounds like it only became commercially viable to produce in large volumes in the 1990s, even thought it’s existed as a form of polyethylene since the 1930s. It’s just now becoming cheap enough to be used everywhere because it’s obviously better and we have lots of material performance data on it.

I thought PEX was just an industry term for HDPE pipes, but no, you’re right. The X stands for crosslinked and irradiation is one of (the more expensive) ways of achieving it. It sounds like most common PEX is made by adding peroxides to the HDPE or LDPE before extrusion and the chemical causes the thermoplastic to become a thermoset after the heat and pressure of the extruder. Neat stuff.

Yeah, it works fine for me, so…?

That’s called PDLC film (polymer-dispersed liquid crystal) and it’s a thin layer you can apply to anything. It’s literally liquid crystal droplets suspended in a plastic sheet layered between transparent ITO conductors (indium-tin-oxide).

A distinctive feature of panels layered with this is that there must be a bezel along at least one edge through which to run the power. I don’t see any in the right places on the doors for these, so nope, these are just clear glass without any PDLC film.

They really started trying to catch up to chrome several years ago and have succeeded recently.

I switched to Onedrive recently and it went pretty smoothly for me. Feels like trading ones evil for another, though.

A move like this sounds like a great way to end that monopoly.