especially on the back-end
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a lot of old style smartphones from nokia had such unheard today feature as builtin stereo speakers. but I've even seen low-range handsets used as boomboxes in the developing world.
Seagate's press release makes it sound like there're no other HDD manufacturers in the world besides them.
unless you're running 3d rendering farm or massive biologic/physics simulations, why would you?
most stuff most people do can be done with any <10year old machine.
it doesn't seem to me you can easily exchange one component of CPI with another?
umm, by building something new, not reselling existing stuff?
I think there's a whole cult that promotes learning all kinds of things by remembering by association, can't remember what it was called. My father was introduced to it when he tried to learn a new language, but it failed miserably at that (not all tools are suitable for everything).
Anyway, another good technique to recall something is to think about something else for a moment and not concentrate on a particular thing you can't recall at that moment too much.
nice definition of "under the desk"
Work on jet engine began long before WW2 (and it failed to accelerate during WW2).
So did the work on nuclear fission (if it wasn't for top scientists incl. Einstein convincing US President to fund it, there wouldn't be Manhattan Project at all. German scientists fortunately failed to persuade Nazis even though they were much closer to nuclear device.)
one have domesticated deer, offered good conditions for it to breed (protected it from other predators including hunters like himself) and then he and his children prospered off their cattle...
the other one just hunted his food to extinction...
guess who's children have survived to tell the story?