Must have been reasonably hot if it charred the organic matter it was mixed with, and burst the 55 gal drum...
Though I suppose the 'sludge' could have been something along the lines of sulfuric acid (with requisite trace amounts of radioactive bits in it).. that would cook anything organic in there. Of course you'd think they'd be smart enough to neutralize things like that before binning them... Maybe not.
Agilent still makes cool, quality stuff as far as I know. Expensive as always, though. The modern stuff running linux or windows doesn't feel quite the same as old, hefty CRT stuff... which is all I can afford anyway, but still looks to be built well.
I think of them as HP, and "HP" as the shitty consumer products division that it fled from.
MOSFETs have no fixed voltage drop, just a resistance. Paralleling them indeed reduces the resistance, and hence losses and drop.
The d-bag GP is thinking of BJTs ("normal" transistors), which do have a more or less fixed voltage drop (it varies somewhat with current and temperature).
You'll have to install custom firmware to prevent things from having to go to the dump on their third birthday?
Seems pretty ridiculous, not to mention that it can still have a hole exploited on the day they launch the device, and not be updated for years (in it's allotted lifespan).
I'm more for the option of make things easier to update, and, the important part... actually release bloody updates! I'm looking at you, almost every embedded device manufacturer out there.
The Yugoslav wars were greatly extended by US/NATO actions, I'd say. The only difference would be Bosnia would be split (and likely annexed) as opposed to being de-facto split and broke anyway.
Without western meddling there would probably never have been a war in the first place, at least not to the extent that there was.
Milla Jovovich was born in 1975 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, former Soviet Union, the daughter of Bogi Jovovi, a Serbian pediatrician,[11][12] and Galina Jovovich (née Loginova), a Russian stage actress
Symbian was one of the original "smart" phones, really. As it had installable native apps and such. It's not as fancy, but it was pretty much the definition back then.
The nokia feature phones ran S40 or similar, which could only run java apps, and were much more simplified in general. (all the integral apps had much less features, etc).
Yep, this has to be one of the dumber plans the CIA has come up with. We were getting pretty close to entirely wiping out a second disease (after smallpox), and they had to go and screw it up to 'find terrists' or some such.
Surely polio has killed and maimed more people than terrorists could dream of.
Back in the cave era push button start was common (with separate key), though often it was on the floor. Progress eventually integrated the two into the key.
Only thing new is having the button push on a computer.
pre belkin linksys was kinda shit for this too. If you wanted wifi to work on a WRT54, you had to run 2.4 past it's due date, as there was no 2.6 driver, and the 2.4 one was a blob. Someone must have eventually reverse engineered the broadcom junk, as there was 2.6 support, much later. Well... that bit falls under the broadcom is evil category, I guess.
Though I suppose it wasn't marketed as an 'OpenWRT router', was it...
A lot of the router outfits (or just embedded things in general) seem pretty poor in complying with GPL, and even if they do attempt to comply, what they give you often won't build anyway. shame, really...
I have a lot of older Tek, HP, and Fluke stuff. It's built quite well... old Tek scopes are a work of art inside.
However, 50s is a bit early. Most of the pre 65 or so equipment is still primarily tube, and needs regular maintenance for obvious reasons. Also a lot of stuff from before then used paper dielectric capacitors, which all inevitably fail with age. Not that 50's electrolytics are much better, either. Still well built, but has quirks.
Test equipment newer than say, 1985, made by those marques certainly has a brick-shithouse feel to it. I guess it's from before they figured out 'value engineering'. Even new HP^WAgilent^Wwhatever they call it now is still built really well, but they charge for it too...
To be fair, there are a lot of W123 mercs rolling around the most backwater parts of earth, with little maintenance, going on 40 years straight now. Often under taxi duty and other hard service, routinely overloaded.
The diesel variants are known to break a million or two miles, and are the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "most reliable car".
On the other hand, I don't think newer MB is built quite as well... Maybe just more complicated and much more to fail, but I think less over-engineered as well.
Reminds me somewhat of this project, which trains crows to trade objects (coins, in this implementation) for food. I've been meaning to build something similar at some point.:-)
I haven't decided what to get them to do for the food. Cash isn't used much here, so they'll have a hard time finding quarters. I was thinking pop or beer bottle lids, or something similar to that, would be good. That way they trade an abundant trash source for food, and clean up at the same time.
Though I suppose it could lead to the unintended effect of them getting into dumpsters to cheat the system, if they're smart enough...
I think ravens are supposed to be even more intelligent?
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The fact that Stalin brought Russia from a mostly agrarian backwater to a massive industrial superpower during his 30 year rule doesn't hurt neither.
It was a S-125 SAM. Cave tech, nearly.
Must have been reasonably hot if it charred the organic matter it was mixed with, and burst the 55 gal drum...
Though I suppose the 'sludge' could have been something along the lines of sulfuric acid (with requisite trace amounts of radioactive bits in it).. that would cook anything organic in there. Of course you'd think they'd be smart enough to neutralize things like that before binning them... Maybe not.
Counter rotating props are pretty neat. Shame about the racket they make, though. Never seen one flying, but they're supposed to be loud as hell.
Agilent still makes cool, quality stuff as far as I know. Expensive as always, though. The modern stuff running linux or windows doesn't feel quite the same as old, hefty CRT stuff... which is all I can afford anyway, but still looks to be built well.
I think of them as HP, and "HP" as the shitty consumer products division that it fled from.
It's even better when they're completely wrong.
MOSFETs have no fixed voltage drop, just a resistance. Paralleling them indeed reduces the resistance, and hence losses and drop.
The d-bag GP is thinking of BJTs ("normal" transistors), which do have a more or less fixed voltage drop (it varies somewhat with current and temperature).
There's almost no cig tax in Russia, they're on the order of $2 a pack.
It can't be worth the hassle to save the... what, 25 cents of tax?
I guess if they were counterfeit or stolen it could be worthwhile, though.
Bringing them into Canada makes sense, with some of the highest sin taxes in the world, though. They're $14 a pack in this province.
You'll have to install custom firmware to prevent things from having to go to the dump on their third birthday?
Seems pretty ridiculous, not to mention that it can still have a hole exploited on the day they launch the device, and not be updated for years (in it's allotted lifespan).
I'm more for the option of make things easier to update, and, the important part... actually release bloody updates! I'm looking at you, almost every embedded device manufacturer out there.
They probably forgot their wallet because they were too busy texting while driving to the store.
Yeah, the American military industrial complex oughtta be able to duplicate it at a mere ten times the price.
The Yugoslav wars were greatly extended by US/NATO actions, I'd say. The only difference would be Bosnia would be split (and likely annexed) as opposed to being de-facto split and broke anyway.
Without western meddling there would probably never have been a war in the first place, at least not to the extent that there was.
I'm partial to the STM32 discovery & nucleo boards. They are cheap. Ranging from $7-15 or so depending on the model. Variants with Cortex M0, M3, M4.
Development on STM32 can be done on entirely open source tools too, which is nice. With GCC,
libopencm3, and
linux st-link support.
Terminator didn't have too much robot slavery going on, but it was pretty good robot series in general. Though it looks pretty dated now, I guess.
Though the 'reprogrammed' ones were slaves, I guess.. kinda...
Milla Jovovich was born in 1975 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, former Soviet Union, the daughter of Bogi Jovovi, a Serbian pediatrician,[11][12] and Galina Jovovich (née Loginova), a Russian stage actress
Guess that would make her Russian and Serbian.
Symbian was one of the original "smart" phones, really. As it had installable native apps and such. It's not as fancy, but it was pretty much the definition back then.
The nokia feature phones ran S40 or similar, which could only run java apps, and were much more simplified in general. (all the integral apps had much less features, etc).
Yep, this has to be one of the dumber plans the CIA has come up with. We were getting pretty close to entirely wiping out a second disease (after smallpox), and they had to go and screw it up to 'find terrists' or some such.
Surely polio has killed and maimed more people than terrorists could dream of.
I don't think any of the German cars I've owned has ever had an accessory position. It's an Americanism, as far as I can tell.
Back in the cave era push button start was common (with separate key), though often it was on the floor. Progress eventually integrated the two into the key.
Only thing new is having the button push on a computer.
pre belkin linksys was kinda shit for this too. If you wanted wifi to work on a WRT54, you had to run 2.4 past it's due date, as there was no 2.6 driver, and the 2.4 one was a blob. Someone must have eventually reverse engineered the broadcom junk, as there was 2.6 support, much later. Well... that bit falls under the broadcom is evil category, I guess.
Though I suppose it wasn't marketed as an 'OpenWRT router', was it...
A lot of the router outfits (or just embedded things in general) seem pretty poor in complying with GPL, and even if they do attempt to comply, what they give you often won't build anyway. shame, really...
If you live close enough to glaciers you get no cattle or human urine. Still some bird and bear shit, though.
I have a lot of older Tek, HP, and Fluke stuff. It's built quite well... old Tek scopes are a work of art inside.
However, 50s is a bit early. Most of the pre 65 or so equipment is still primarily tube, and needs regular maintenance for obvious reasons. Also a lot of stuff from before then used paper dielectric capacitors, which all inevitably fail with age. Not that 50's electrolytics are much better, either. Still well built, but has quirks.
Test equipment newer than say, 1985, made by those marques certainly has a brick-shithouse feel to it. I guess it's from before they figured out 'value engineering'. Even new HP^WAgilent^Wwhatever they call it now is still built really well, but they charge for it too...
To be fair, there are a lot of W123 mercs rolling around the most backwater parts of earth, with little maintenance, going on 40 years straight now. Often under taxi duty and other hard service, routinely overloaded.
The diesel variants are known to break a million or two miles, and are the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "most reliable car".
On the other hand, I don't think newer MB is built quite as well... Maybe just more complicated and much more to fail, but I think less over-engineered as well.
I imagine I would want to kill myself if spent my time liking cereal on facebook, EULA or not.
Reminds me somewhat of this project, which trains crows to trade objects (coins, in this implementation) for food. I've been meaning to build something similar at some point. :-)
I haven't decided what to get them to do for the food. Cash isn't used much here, so they'll have a hard time finding quarters. I was thinking pop or beer bottle lids, or something similar to that, would be good. That way they trade an abundant trash source for food, and clean up at the same time.
Though I suppose it could lead to the unintended effect of them getting into dumpsters to cheat the system, if they're smart enough...
I think ravens are supposed to be even more intelligent?
Kosovo was only made autonomous during communist yugoslavia, so sometime after 1943. I don't remember when exactly.
before that it was always part of serbia, since middle ages. (though all of serbia was under ottoman rule for many years).