Good luck with that crusade. Those movies are absurdly popular and profitable.
Popular and profitable do not equate to being any good. They're 'Star Trek-flavored' movies at best, and it's an entirely artificial flavoring that has only a superficial resemblance to that which it is being substituted for. Axanar would have used 100% Natural Ingredients, comparatively speaking. It's like we're in a Bizzarro Universe, where everything is upside down and inside out: CBS/Paramount is making the shitty 'fanfic' movies, and the real movies are being doused with gasoline and set on fire before they're ever made.
They won't make a penny off me. I won't even see any of it for free.
That's nice, I guess, but if I'm going to believe in mythical figures, then I'd much rather 'believe' in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, because they all bring you nice stuff, and your so-called 'god' only ever seems to bring hate, destruction, and death to everyone. Then to make matters worse, he/she/they/it (whatever the fuck your so-called 'god' is supposed to be) runs around using aliases, like any criminal would do, and commits even more crimes against humanity, like for instance convincing those assholes in the Middle East that they've got license to run around and cut off people's heads and turn little girls in to sex slaves! I mean seriously, if your so-called 'god' was just some guy, he'd be serving out multiple life sentences in a super-max prison right now, if not hauled into The Hague and tried/convicted for mass crimes against humanity and summarily executed. LOL, if this so-called 'god' of yours is what you willingly believe in and 'worship', then all I have to say is, you need to go see your psychologist and have your meds adjusted, or perhaps you should just check yourselves into an institution since you might be a danger to yourself or others. Meanwhile I think I'll just continue being rational and relatively sane, and not waste my time on imaginary nightmare figures like your so-called 'god', and have a much more enjoyable life.
I wasn't too thrilled with any of their 'star trek-flavored' movies anyway, and now they've guaranteed that I will never go see one for any reason or recommend them to anyone else for any reason, either. What a bunch of assholes.
And some of you want us all to get into a so-called 'self driving car' with no manual controls that would at least give you a chance to save yourself. I'll just keep driving myself the old-fashioned way, thanks anyway, because I want to live. Ask me again in 50 years. I'll still say 'Hell, NO!', but at least then you'll have decades of data instead of a measly few years' worth.
Among the other outright stupidities that humans in general, especially here in the U.S., where I was born, raised, and have spent my entire life: Thinking that putting more barriers up to discourage and outright prevent the acquisition of firearms by law-abiding citizens is going to in any way shape or form reduce the occurance of mass-shootings like we've been seeing; it won't. What it'll do is roughly equivalent to a car alarm, or a deadbolt lock on the front door of your house: It'll deter the most casual criminals, but the professionals and those truly dedicated to their course of action will find a way to get the tools they want to perform whatever mayhem they have in mind. If it's not guns, they'll obtain or make IEDs of some kind and blow people up (Boston Marathon bombers) or just get knives or even swords or other hand-to-hand weapons to attack people with, or for all we know something more exotic.
Now, to all you SJWs and hysterical types who are now so triggered that you need to go take a Xanax so you can be calm enough to write your insults and death-threats against me: Don't even bother. I don't give a fuck what you think, because I think you and your gun-control rhetoric are utterly and completely wrong, and a snowball's chance in hell is still greater than you've got to try to even begin to change my mind. Oh, and by the way: I don't even own a single gun myself; but I support the Constitutional right every U.S. citizen has with regard to firearms, and if you don't then I think you're a bad citizen and should consider renouncing your citizenship and finding somewhere else to live.
Oh, and also: I'm not voting for either Trump or Clinton, because I don't trust either one of them or think either one of them is in any way shape or form suited to being POTUS, so don't bother hanging that 'Republican' bullshit on me, either; save your bandwidth for someone who gives a fuck what you think.
..I'm sorry, but while you're probably a perfectly wonderful person overall, it really doesn't sound like you understand much about electronics, if you don't understand what I'm talking about above. Sadly I'm not too surprised, at least 8 out of 10 of all 'electronics techs' I've ever worked with or talked to really don't either. I think there's nothing else for us to to discuss here, if you don't mind.
Why? An external pass transistor is going to dissipate power as heat, and so is a fixed resistor. Meanwhile you just need to get some of the required current through something else so an active component can regulate the rest. If you know what your current requirements are in the first place, then there's no reason not to do it. I've seen that technique used in more places than just arcade games, too. Sure, if it was a bench power supply you wouldn't do it that way, especially if it was a variable voltage supply that needs to go all the way down to ground, and you certainly wouldn't do it that way if it was a current-regulated supply as well, but we're talking about a fixed +5VDC supply for a system that will have a known current requirement. Shunt resistor or pass transistor, both end up wasting power as heat; linear supplies were never very efficient to start with. That's why for linear supplies, later on LDO regulators were invented (less power wasted due to a smaller voltage drop across the pass transistor) and one of the reasons why switching power supplies were invented (aside from not having to have a gigantic transformer and gigantic filter capacitors).
they needed SOOOO much 5V that they actually "cheated" the LM309K by " bypassing" it with a 10W resistor(!!!!)
Pac Man PCBs used something similar. It's actually a valid technique, if rather brute-force. On Pac Man, since the regulator they used was impossible to find, I'd retrofit it with a 78H05 TO3 package, which was a 5-amp regulator, replace the rectifier diodes and filter cap, and repair the edge connector with some copper sheet stock (or solder on an extension to the edge connector if it was that badly damaged). Then replace the edge connector on the harness side so it was a nice tight connection again. At the end of my 'career' in arcade game repair, I was even having a transformer house build us brand-new replacements for the power transformer they used; we could put together and sell completely refurbished Pac Man kits for people who wanted them, new harness, marquee, graphics, and all. Things were much simpler then.
I will NEVER be found in a 'self-driving car', unless it has a full set of manual controls and is driver-centric, with any so-called 'autonomous driving' mode as merely a sophisticated Cruise Control that I can completely turn OFF. One way or another. You jackasses who think we'll have boxes on wheels with no controls for a human operator are off your meds and need to be restrained, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. EVER. Get over it. At the very least I'll return to the days of my 20's when all I had was a motorcycle; I'd rather ride in the driving rain than EVER get into some deathtrap on wheels that I can't control with my own two hand and own two feet.
Never mind all the 'AI' bullshit, mister, how about you concentrate on not annexing every damned computer on the planet into your fucking Windows 10 spyware bot-net instead?
I've spent nearly equal parts of my life in china and the west
Ah, I see now: You're an agent of the Chinese government, aren't you? Oh and by the way in the above comment I'm talking about the Chinese government, not her people, the vast majority of which want the same thing that people all over the world really want: to be left the fuck alone to live their lives in peace, and to find some sort of happiness. Of course when you have an oppressive authoritarian pseudo-communist criminal organization like that of the Chinese government, nobody can really do that now can they? Go right ahead and shill for the gods-be-damned Chinese government all you want, nobody believes you.
Been there, done that. In a previous life I repaired arcade games, including CRT monitors, and I even resurrected some of the shitty cheap-ass switching power supplies they used in them, I know all about how cheap-ass some 'manufacturers' can get. That was all back in the day but it was all a great supplement to my education.
Yeah sure thing buddy. Meanwhile Chinese prisoners get their internal organs sold off, because the gorram Chinese value human life so much. Do you people not read the news?
You're misunderstanding; it won't be a separate sensor, it'll be the camera itself, picking up a pattern transmitted by IR emitters in the area, and interpreted from the cameras' data stream. You'd have to cover the camera itself.
Naturally this would be leveraged and abused by law enforcement all over the world. This is an example of technology that needs to be outlawed. Apple is crossing a line if they actually incorporate this technology into their products, especially if they do not provide an immutable way for the owner of the phone to disable the function.
If concert promoters want to prevent filming or photographing of concerts then they just need to tell people to leave their phones in their cars or at home and confiscate them if they're smuggled in, returning them after the concert.
"We need to know immediately if anyone is criticizing the government so we can arrest them, and you will comply with this or we will arrest you and your family"
Yeah, I know, they usually cut the maximum voltage and temperature down to the bare minimum to save money. When I replace them I use better parts, especially if they're high voltage.
Yeah, I do this too, also because I spent so many years repairing electronics that I know what the life expectancy of your typical electrolytic capacitor is and want to check on them for any swelling. I've saved my TiVo Series 3 HD from a premature death this way, replacing all the electrolytics in it when it needed it.
In the case of the elderly, considering how they're on average treated here in the U.S. (or at least my perception of it), having the television on might be something done to try to mitigate feelings of being isolated from other people, especially if they have a hard time getting around physically, thus leaving the house is a problem.
If I'm lucky, I have enough downtime to actually sit and watch a whole hour a day, and that's while I'm eating dinner. If I didn't have a DVR, it wouldn't even be that much. Where is it that anyone these days hase 4.5 hours of free time to sit in front of a television?
Yeah, rampant consumerism is a thing, and the fast food industry naturally doesn't do anything to encourage people to actually go to a grocery store, buy actual food, and go home and cook it for themselves. Sadly, many who even try don't necessarily understand that shopping somewhere like Winco for many things is dramatically cheaper than going to more expensive, high-end grocery stores, who price-gouge you for damned near everything. Aside from my health turning to absolute shit if I ate fast food (or even restauarant food) all the time, I'd also be utterly bankrupt because it's so goddamned expensive for what you get. So far as people getting hostile over the very concept that it's less expensive to make your own food, they're not thinking clearly: They look at, for instance, what buying a pound or more of high-quality (read as: lower fat content than fast food burgers) ground beef, decent cheese, buns, condiments, etc, in the package quantities you're required to buy them in, and they're not thinking about how many decent burgers they'll get out of all that, compared to what a crappy, high fat content fast-food burger would cost them, which overall has inferior ingredients. *Shrug* I dunno, call it 'Evolution in Action'? They'll all be fat and broke and not do as well in life at anything as a result, and those of us in the know will be healthier and fitter and do better overall at everything? Only time will tell I guess.
Maybe that's who makes YOUR pizza, or maybe YOU hate your job, whatever it is, and are projecting madly onto what I'm saying, but I'd like to point out to you that some people actually ENJOY their job, and that includes people who work in the food service industry, whether you want to believe that or not.
I think this a hoax, just a publicity stunt; they're programming it to 'escape' and giving it the means and opportunity to do so, to generate free publicity.
I cook for myself 95% of the time, and the other 5% of the time I want high quality tasty food for my money not some crap that came out of an automated assembly line. Thanks so much for making a broad assumption about me that I can't cook.
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Good luck with that crusade. Those movies are absurdly popular and profitable.
Popular and profitable do not equate to being any good. They're 'Star Trek-flavored' movies at best, and it's an entirely artificial flavoring that has only a superficial resemblance to that which it is being substituted for. Axanar would have used 100% Natural Ingredients, comparatively speaking. It's like we're in a Bizzarro Universe, where everything is upside down and inside out: CBS/Paramount is making the shitty 'fanfic' movies, and the real movies are being doused with gasoline and set on fire before they're ever made.
They won't make a penny off me. I won't even see any of it for free.
That's nice, I guess, but if I'm going to believe in mythical figures, then I'd much rather 'believe' in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, because they all bring you nice stuff, and your so-called 'god' only ever seems to bring hate, destruction, and death to everyone. Then to make matters worse, he/she/they/it (whatever the fuck your so-called 'god' is supposed to be) runs around using aliases, like any criminal would do, and commits even more crimes against humanity, like for instance convincing those assholes in the Middle East that they've got license to run around and cut off people's heads and turn little girls in to sex slaves! I mean seriously, if your so-called 'god' was just some guy, he'd be serving out multiple life sentences in a super-max prison right now, if not hauled into The Hague and tried/convicted for mass crimes against humanity and summarily executed. LOL, if this so-called 'god' of yours is what you willingly believe in and 'worship', then all I have to say is, you need to go see your psychologist and have your meds adjusted, or perhaps you should just check yourselves into an institution since you might be a danger to yourself or others. Meanwhile I think I'll just continue being rational and relatively sane, and not waste my time on imaginary nightmare figures like your so-called 'god', and have a much more enjoyable life.
I wasn't too thrilled with any of their 'star trek-flavored' movies anyway, and now they've guaranteed that I will never go see one for any reason or recommend them to anyone else for any reason, either. What a bunch of assholes.
And some of you want us all to get into a so-called 'self driving car' with no manual controls that would at least give you a chance to save yourself. I'll just keep driving myself the old-fashioned way, thanks anyway, because I want to live. Ask me again in 50 years. I'll still say 'Hell, NO!', but at least then you'll have decades of data instead of a measly few years' worth.
Among the other outright stupidities that humans in general, especially here in the U.S., where I was born, raised, and have spent my entire life: Thinking that putting more barriers up to discourage and outright prevent the acquisition of firearms by law-abiding citizens is going to in any way shape or form reduce the occurance of mass-shootings like we've been seeing; it won't. What it'll do is roughly equivalent to a car alarm, or a deadbolt lock on the front door of your house: It'll deter the most casual criminals, but the professionals and those truly dedicated to their course of action will find a way to get the tools they want to perform whatever mayhem they have in mind. If it's not guns, they'll obtain or make IEDs of some kind and blow people up (Boston Marathon bombers) or just get knives or even swords or other hand-to-hand weapons to attack people with, or for all we know something more exotic.
Now, to all you SJWs and hysterical types who are now so triggered that you need to go take a Xanax so you can be calm enough to write your insults and death-threats against me: Don't even bother. I don't give a fuck what you think, because I think you and your gun-control rhetoric are utterly and completely wrong, and a snowball's chance in hell is still greater than you've got to try to even begin to change my mind. Oh, and by the way: I don't even own a single gun myself; but I support the Constitutional right every U.S. citizen has with regard to firearms, and if you don't then I think you're a bad citizen and should consider renouncing your citizenship and finding somewhere else to live.
Oh, and also: I'm not voting for either Trump or Clinton, because I don't trust either one of them or think either one of them is in any way shape or form suited to being POTUS, so don't bother hanging that 'Republican' bullshit on me, either; save your bandwidth for someone who gives a fuck what you think.
..I'm sorry, but while you're probably a perfectly wonderful person overall, it really doesn't sound like you understand much about electronics, if you don't understand what I'm talking about above. Sadly I'm not too surprised, at least 8 out of 10 of all 'electronics techs' I've ever worked with or talked to really don't either. I think there's nothing else for us to to discuss here, if you don't mind.
Why? An external pass transistor is going to dissipate power as heat, and so is a fixed resistor. Meanwhile you just need to get some of the required current through something else so an active component can regulate the rest. If you know what your current requirements are in the first place, then there's no reason not to do it. I've seen that technique used in more places than just arcade games, too. Sure, if it was a bench power supply you wouldn't do it that way, especially if it was a variable voltage supply that needs to go all the way down to ground, and you certainly wouldn't do it that way if it was a current-regulated supply as well, but we're talking about a fixed +5VDC supply for a system that will have a known current requirement. Shunt resistor or pass transistor, both end up wasting power as heat; linear supplies were never very efficient to start with. That's why for linear supplies, later on LDO regulators were invented (less power wasted due to a smaller voltage drop across the pass transistor) and one of the reasons why switching power supplies were invented (aside from not having to have a gigantic transformer and gigantic filter capacitors).
they needed SOOOO much 5V that they actually "cheated" the LM309K by " bypassing" it with a 10W resistor(!!!!)
Pac Man PCBs used something similar. It's actually a valid technique, if rather brute-force. On Pac Man, since the regulator they used was impossible to find, I'd retrofit it with a 78H05 TO3 package, which was a 5-amp regulator, replace the rectifier diodes and filter cap, and repair the edge connector with some copper sheet stock (or solder on an extension to the edge connector if it was that badly damaged). Then replace the edge connector on the harness side so it was a nice tight connection again. At the end of my 'career' in arcade game repair, I was even having a transformer house build us brand-new replacements for the power transformer they used; we could put together and sell completely refurbished Pac Man kits for people who wanted them, new harness, marquee, graphics, and all. Things were much simpler then.
I will NEVER be found in a 'self-driving car', unless it has a full set of manual controls and is driver-centric, with any so-called 'autonomous driving' mode as merely a sophisticated Cruise Control that I can completely turn OFF. One way or another. You jackasses who think we'll have boxes on wheels with no controls for a human operator are off your meds and need to be restrained, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. EVER. Get over it. At the very least I'll return to the days of my 20's when all I had was a motorcycle; I'd rather ride in the driving rain than EVER get into some deathtrap on wheels that I can't control with my own two hand and own two feet.
Never mind all the 'AI' bullshit, mister, how about you concentrate on not annexing every damned computer on the planet into your fucking Windows 10 spyware bot-net instead?
I've spent nearly equal parts of my life in china and the west
Ah, I see now: You're an agent of the Chinese government, aren't you? Oh and by the way in the above comment I'm talking about the Chinese government, not her people, the vast majority of which want the same thing that people all over the world really want: to be left the fuck alone to live their lives in peace, and to find some sort of happiness. Of course when you have an oppressive authoritarian pseudo-communist criminal organization like that of the Chinese government, nobody can really do that now can they? Go right ahead and shill for the gods-be-damned Chinese government all you want, nobody believes you.
Been there, done that. In a previous life I repaired arcade games, including CRT monitors, and I even resurrected some of the shitty cheap-ass switching power supplies they used in them, I know all about how cheap-ass some 'manufacturers' can get. That was all back in the day but it was all a great supplement to my education.
Yeah sure thing buddy. Meanwhile Chinese prisoners get their internal organs sold off, because the gorram Chinese value human life so much. Do you people not read the news?
You're misunderstanding; it won't be a separate sensor, it'll be the camera itself, picking up a pattern transmitted by IR emitters in the area, and interpreted from the cameras' data stream. You'd have to cover the camera itself.
Naturally this would be leveraged and abused by law enforcement all over the world. This is an example of technology that needs to be outlawed. Apple is crossing a line if they actually incorporate this technology into their products, especially if they do not provide an immutable way for the owner of the phone to disable the function.
If concert promoters want to prevent filming or photographing of concerts then they just need to tell people to leave their phones in their cars or at home and confiscate them if they're smuggled in, returning them after the concert.
"We need to know immediately if anyone is criticizing the government so we can arrest them, and you will comply with this or we will arrest you and your family"
Yeah, I know, they usually cut the maximum voltage and temperature down to the bare minimum to save money. When I replace them I use better parts, especially if they're high voltage.
Microsoft Gives End-Users A Real Way Out Of Windows 10 Upgrade Because They Don't Want To Get Sued More
Now that there's legal precedent, the floodgates of legal action against Microsoft can now open, and they damned well know it.
Yeah, I do this too, also because I spent so many years repairing electronics that I know what the life expectancy of your typical electrolytic capacitor is and want to check on them for any swelling. I've saved my TiVo Series 3 HD from a premature death this way, replacing all the electrolytics in it when it needed it.
Raise your hands (er, leave a comment) if you routinely void warranties! :-)
In the case of the elderly, considering how they're on average treated here in the U.S. (or at least my perception of it), having the television on might be something done to try to mitigate feelings of being isolated from other people, especially if they have a hard time getting around physically, thus leaving the house is a problem.
If I'm lucky, I have enough downtime to actually sit and watch a whole hour a day, and that's while I'm eating dinner. If I didn't have a DVR, it wouldn't even be that much. Where is it that anyone these days hase 4.5 hours of free time to sit in front of a television?
Yeah, rampant consumerism is a thing, and the fast food industry naturally doesn't do anything to encourage people to actually go to a grocery store, buy actual food, and go home and cook it for themselves. Sadly, many who even try don't necessarily understand that shopping somewhere like Winco for many things is dramatically cheaper than going to more expensive, high-end grocery stores, who price-gouge you for damned near everything. Aside from my health turning to absolute shit if I ate fast food (or even restauarant food) all the time, I'd also be utterly bankrupt because it's so goddamned expensive for what you get. So far as people getting hostile over the very concept that it's less expensive to make your own food, they're not thinking clearly: They look at, for instance, what buying a pound or more of high-quality (read as: lower fat content than fast food burgers) ground beef, decent cheese, buns, condiments, etc, in the package quantities you're required to buy them in, and they're not thinking about how many decent burgers they'll get out of all that, compared to what a crappy, high fat content fast-food burger would cost them, which overall has inferior ingredients. *Shrug* I dunno, call it 'Evolution in Action'? They'll all be fat and broke and not do as well in life at anything as a result, and those of us in the know will be healthier and fitter and do better overall at everything? Only time will tell I guess.
Maybe that's who makes YOUR pizza, or maybe YOU hate your job, whatever it is, and are projecting madly onto what I'm saying, but I'd like to point out to you that some people actually ENJOY their job, and that includes people who work in the food service industry, whether you want to believe that or not.
I think this a hoax, just a publicity stunt; they're programming it to 'escape' and giving it the means and opportunity to do so, to generate free publicity.
I cook for myself 95% of the time, and the other 5% of the time I want high quality tasty food for my money not some crap that came out of an automated assembly line. Thanks so much for making a broad assumption about me that I can't cook.