Gerald could make out that she was worried about the two additional drop ships adjusting to bring in more hardware planet-side.
Sci-Fi, combat, woodpecker
A lot of commercial hardware has a u-shaped curve for failure: lots of bad hardware shows up shortly after it's made, then very few failures, then everything goes at once.
AI, Em, Fiction, Moon, Moons, SF, Science Fiction, Scifi, Space, Story, apocalypse, emulation, planet, rocket, upload, writing
Sometimes people came to me to ask about about hardware, but most of them also asked me about things that had nothing to do with it. when they did asked me about hardware, they thought i was some all-knowing guru.
Minnesota, furry
Kounosuke called last night about the fan. The only problem it had was that the wires were so old and thin, they broke from the soldering. He told me that I could pick it up by morning. And since I remembered that I left my book to his care, I made it...
fanfic, morenatsu
If the hacker shuts them off it'll drop us out of ftl; that's a hardware interlock. burning them up until they're sputtering won't do that." the chief took a moment to breath. huff.
Badger, Ferret, Sci-Fi
But you should've waited until you were able to upgrade your hardware to the latest standard. attempting to use codices and standards that didn't originate on this world on older earth hardware can put quite a number on the poor machines.
Dog, contact, unexpected, walk
Please access your new hardware."
cautiously, the ship probes the new hardware and gets an immediate reply. it's a message.
"congratulations, you have been upgraded to a level three machine intelligence," reads the message.
Machine, SFW, Sci-Fi, Space
Eric just smiled as she left, the earlier encounter with the three weird teens all but forgotten as he ducked into the hardware store.
\* \* \*
eric didn't waste a lot of time when he got into the hardware store.
Bear, Bird, Cat, Crocodile, Fox, NITW, Night in the woods, Otter, Wolf, fanfic
Sometimes it was as simple as a bug in the code, other times it was hardware failure. it required an immense amount of computing power and hardware to run the simulation, a supercomputer the likes of which had never been built before.
Ambiguous Protagonist, Male
The captain pointed to a collection of **advent** hardware that was hooked up to what was left of the power grid.
"oh, perfect. i can work with this."
Viper, X-com, Xeno, survival
Rechecking the data stream, and hardware version, he confirmed that he was sending the correct data. 'it must be a hardware issue.' he thought to himself.
AI, Anthro, Clean, Ferret, Rabbit, Raccoon, Sci-Fi
In fact, there was probably very little that i didn't know about that piece of hardware...actually to be fair that piece of hardware was all i knew about guns.
"i want the dillon", i said, "5.56 nato with heavy chrome lined barrels."
Action, Adventure, Dragon, Dragoness, Fantasy, Horror, Japan, Military, Paranormal