The next major advance came in 1982, when Sims put metal edges on his snowboard so it could be used in a wider variety of snow conditions. He went on to improve and expand the sport over the years, introducing new snowboarding styles, bindings and designs.
Commodity money is a form of money with an intrinsic value. Some of the best examples of commodity money are silver and gold coins. Currency(cash) or banknotes do not have intrinsic value and are virtually worthless in itself. It only has value because society views it as a unit of exchange. This type of currency is called fiat money.
You may have heard the term âcommodity hardwareâ thrown around when describing solutions like Redis, Elasticsearch, or kCuraâs new Data Grid. Commodity hardware refers to cheap, standardized servers that are easy to buy off the shelf from any vendor. Hereâs a typical example of a 2u, 2CPU commodity hardware server: 1  Supermicro SYS-1028R-TDW 1U rack server. 2  Two Xeon E5-2600 v3 CPU sockets. 3  16 RAM slots, holding up to 1TB RAM.  8 2.5â³ hot-swap SATA 3 drive 1  bays. 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16 full height half length slots.  $900 at NewEgg.