Agreed. Back then people had small channels with relatively low production value. Few videos / channels were banned, and related/ recommended videos were actually something I wanted, not just clickbait.
Now everything is trying to be overproduced with an intro, and the mandatory "Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, hit the notification bell, send money on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram", with content-less clickbait as the "recommended" videos.
Everyone is trying to make a god-damn job out of being a celebrity, instead of just showing rough-around-the-edges videos of what they're working on in the garage.
They did the same thing to the curly Q bulbs. I still have two Phillips bulbs that still work after 20 years of daily use screwed into a vibrating nearly dead Genie Screw Drive garage door opener.
Philips Earth Light Table lamp with three horseshoe tubes instead of a swirl? I have one of these that keep going and going.
I've also had good luck with Philip's LED. The early pancake ones are interesting. I have a couple still in service, though they don't have 100% light pattern.
I've been using a lot of Philips "Item # 462226" bulbs (marked 9290012006 --5L9) That I bought and installed in 2015 or 2016. They have been working great. I think they are almost indistinguishable from incandescent. I even have them in surface mount, enclosed ceiling fixtures without issue.
Tesla mobile service is awesome. They come to you and fix the car. Since Teslas don't need any routine maintenance (no oil change, tuneups, etc.), you only need service when something breaks. Again, since the cars are so simple (electric motor, big battery) there's not much to go wrong. In 75,000 miles, I've only needed service twice. Once for water in a tail light and once for a door handle repair. Mobile service came and fixed the door handle. Fast and easy. (Tail light was repaired under warranty before mobile service was available.) Auto dealers are pissed at Tesla because EVs don't need any of their overpriced service. So happy I don't have to go to the dealer for oil change, etc.
In my experience modern ICE cars don't suffer a lot of severe powertrain related breakdowns. More than 50% of repairs is stuff that would impact an electric car the same: Tie-rod ends, struts, etc.
Meanwhile Tesla owners seems to have a lot of warranty claims for door handles (WTF? How can these break?) and "Drive Units" (AKA complete powertrain). Teslas actually have a poor reliability rating.
Don't get me wrong, as a nerd I like electric cars. Tesla has made very interesting models, and really pushed range. I'm also perfectly fine with Tesla trying to "disrupt" the dealership model, however there seems to be a reality-distortion-field around them.
Also, I'm a fan of right to repair. Tesla doesn't seem like they are. Third-party repairs? LOL.
flight controls from the A320 (the famous plane where the automation led to crashes.
Which famous crashes? I only quickly browsed through the List on Wikipedia and the only one that stood out was Lufthansa Flight 1829, that due to TWO faults AoA sensors (unlike 737-MAX's 1 faulty AoA sensor), commanded a nose down stall recovery. Pilots disconnected the system and recovered.
There is Air France 447, on an Airbus A330. There was a sensor malfunction which led to a sensor discrepancy. The plane detected this, deactivated Auto pilot, and switched to Alternate law. Allowing the pilot to operate outside the protected operating envelope that people blame fly by wire on. They pulled the nose up, the plane responded to the command, told them they were going to enter a stall, then let them enter a stall, and the plane continued to respond to their command for nose up elevator, with 100% thrust, in a stall, all the way from 38,000 ft to the ground. You also had poor crew management where they were both trying to fly the plane with opposing commands on the controls. How should the plane know how to react to such poor crew resource management?
You do also have the A320 that successfully ditched on the Hudson. One of the only cases of a commercial jet successfully ditching.
Other countries: Ban the U.S. manufactured plane based on nothing but a feeling.
U.S.: Bans plane based on actual compelling link between two crashes.
I wonder who behaved more rationally and correctly here...
If the plane had been an Airbus, you would have seen equal caution from other countries in an outright ban on the model.
Of course given the FAA is pushing towards more industry self-regulation, I'm sure Boeing would be jumping at the opportunity to ground their airplanes and bring into question the safety of their products, and the inevitable drop in stock value...
Two seconds of looking at data from Flightradar 24 shows very similar profiles from both flights.
Ribbon takes up the exact same vertical space as the default menu+toolbars in Office 2003.
Plus it collapses to a single line much easier (ctrl+F1).
And the toolbars don't have a tendency of randomly moving around. I've never two installs of Office 2003 where all the toolbars were in the same spot. And it's not because the users are customizing them. Usually they are accidentally clicking and dragging them around.
Thanks for the heads-up on The Source. Ever since they changed the name from Radio Shack, I've felt dirty if I stepped in one of their stores. Now I know why.
Circuit City bought InterTAN's Radio Shack Canada stores, Radio Shack (US) sued because they still called them "Radio Shack", and it was against InterTAN's licencing agreement. They changed the name to "The Source (by CC)" in 2005.
At the time I believe The Source only carried Rogers phones.
Circuit City went Tits up, The Source was bought by Bell (in 2009). Bell immediately switched whose phones they carried.
"how can the robot leave the package if you're not home?"
I hate having purchases left unprotected on the doorstep. There's a lot of theft of parcels from doorsteps. Since like most people I work during the day, I prefer to have my purchases sent directly to a local post office for pickup. Then I don't need to worry about security, and just stop by on my way home from work.
I also prefer the post office over FedEx or UPS because if they do try to deliver to your house and you aren't there, they will leave a card directing you to the post office (that will be only a couple blocks away, and open till 9PM). Courier companies may pretend to try ringing, forget to leave a card, then you have to just know that you need to drive to the depot in the industrial park 45 minutes away to pick it up before 5PM when they close. You also have Amazon couriers, which like Uber drivers are underpaid, under-insured "contractors"
My life is a wreck. There is nothing left for me on earth so i'd gladly volunteer for a one way trip to mars if you'll take me. To be one of the first humans to set foot on another planet would be an honour i'd gladly give my life for.
Found the non-'Merican. Fake news. How can we MAGA by sending limeys or Canucks?
No need to ask IT for a cable. The monitor either comes with one, or they just find one. People usually keep the power and VGA cable off their old monitor "Just in case". Even if they already have 6 cables in their drawer.
Oh yeah, and RS-232. The only real change there is the introduction of ports that are 5v tolerant. A 10 volt swing between high and low doesn't meet the RS-232C spec formerly used by everyone.
I'm surprised at how much old serial stuff, that expects and produces +/- 12V, still happily talks to +/- 5V devices.
Also, the DB15 VGA connector - introduced in 1987. Dropped out of standard usage but still not uncommon yet.
People use it in spite of itself! In 2010 a whole host of manufacturers said they will drop it by 2015. While it might be a "lowest-common denominator" connector, I'm surprised how many people still use it. Existing concealed wiring to a 10 year old 1024x768 projector? Sure, VGA is fine. Trying to use a crappy old monitor, or crappy old computer, sure VGA is fine. Same with an old KVM switch.
But I'm boggled by how many people use a Displayport-VGA adapter, or HDMI-VGA adapter, so they can connect to a 1080p+ monitor... THAT HAS DIGITAL PORTS! They will go out of their way to find a VGA adapter to hook it up when we have loads of Displayport/DVI/HDMI cables and adapters.
I was impressed with how long Lenovo held on to VGA ports on their Thinkpad line. All the new Thinkpads have an HDMI port, with an HDMI-VGA adapter for projectors, THAT PEOPLE KEEP FUCKING USING FOR THEIR BRAND NEW MONITORS! I guess people like a really soft, fuzzy monitor image. Must be that analog "warmth" they like in their vinyl records.
Getting most people to trust cryptocurrency isn't going to happen, unless you assume most people are stupid. Fortunately for him, it seems most people are indeed stupid. Just watch the mindless herds of millions of drones the first Tuesday of November.
Or just watch the people that keep using their shitty ad, and malware ridden Torrent clients, when there are much better free options.
Quantity is not quality. FB is the home of memes. G+ was the home of quite a few interesting discussions.. To be honest, I much preferred G+, the problem being not enough of my friends used it, as they already had Facebook, which I can entirely understand.
the wall will slow down the massive amount of of these people flooding in daily.
Massive? I'm not sure that's the word I would pick myself.
Total number of illegal border crossings in the us is about 500,000 per year. With roughly 365 days in a year that's about 1400 people per day. Only about half of the illegal border crossings are at the southern border though so we're looking at 700 entries per day.
In my car, I use a little device that plugs into the cigarette lighter jack that provides bluetooth connectivity and routes the audio output through FM.
I have a bluetooth-3.5mm adapter. Works as transmitter or receiver.
I recently had an intern with a cassette to bluetooth adapter for their shitty old car. I know back in the day the sound quality of 3.5mm-cassette adapters was usually better than the results of 3.5mm-FM, plus you didn't have to fuck around with the broadcast channel while on a road trip. As well if you have an always live 12V outlet, the cassette option is better. The bluetooth one will switch on when the cassette spools turn.
I was confused when he came in and plugged his cassette into his computer to charge.
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Agreed. Back then people had small channels with relatively low production value. Few videos / channels were banned, and related/ recommended videos were actually something I wanted, not just clickbait.
Now everything is trying to be overproduced with an intro, and the mandatory "Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, hit the notification bell, send money on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram", with content-less clickbait as the "recommended" videos.
Everyone is trying to make a god-damn job out of being a celebrity, instead of just showing rough-around-the-edges videos of what they're working on in the garage.
They did the same thing to the curly Q bulbs. I still have two Phillips bulbs that still work after 20 years of daily use screwed into a vibrating nearly dead Genie Screw Drive garage door opener.
Philips Earth Light Table lamp with three horseshoe tubes instead of a swirl? I have one of these that keep going and going.
I've also had good luck with Philip's LED. The early pancake ones are interesting. I have a couple still in service, though they don't have 100% light pattern.
I've been using a lot of Philips "Item # 462226" bulbs (marked 9290012006 --5L9) That I bought and installed in 2015 or 2016. They have been working great. I think they are almost indistinguishable from incandescent. I even have them in surface mount, enclosed ceiling fixtures without issue.
Why does no one choose us!?!?
Probably because their customers don't want to risk having the product they're basing their company infrastructure on yanked at the whim of Google.
Tesla mobile service is awesome. They come to you and fix the car. Since Teslas don't need any routine maintenance (no oil change, tuneups, etc.), you only need service when something breaks. Again, since the cars are so simple (electric motor, big battery) there's not much to go wrong.
In 75,000 miles, I've only needed service twice. Once for water in a tail light and once for a door handle repair. Mobile service came and fixed the door handle. Fast and easy. (Tail light was repaired under warranty before mobile service was available.)
Auto dealers are pissed at Tesla because EVs don't need any of their overpriced service. So happy I don't have to go to the dealer for oil change, etc.
In my experience modern ICE cars don't suffer a lot of severe powertrain related breakdowns. More than 50% of repairs is stuff that would impact an electric car the same: Tie-rod ends, struts, etc.
Meanwhile Tesla owners seems to have a lot of warranty claims for door handles (WTF? How can these break?) and "Drive Units" (AKA complete powertrain). Teslas actually have a poor reliability rating.
Don't get me wrong, as a nerd I like electric cars. Tesla has made very interesting models, and really pushed range. I'm also perfectly fine with Tesla trying to "disrupt" the dealership model, however there seems to be a reality-distortion-field around them.
Also, I'm a fan of right to repair. Tesla doesn't seem like they are. Third-party repairs? LOL.
You mean when they were foolishly doing stunts in an A320 at low altitude?
Also worked out well for the Gimli Glider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Don't forget:
Air Transat 236
TACA 110
flight controls from the A320 (the famous plane where the automation led to crashes.
Which famous crashes? I only quickly browsed through the List on Wikipedia and the only one that stood out was Lufthansa Flight 1829, that due to TWO faults AoA sensors (unlike 737-MAX's 1 faulty AoA sensor), commanded a nose down stall recovery. Pilots disconnected the system and recovered.
There is Air France 447, on an Airbus A330. There was a sensor malfunction which led to a sensor discrepancy. The plane detected this, deactivated Auto pilot, and switched to Alternate law. Allowing the pilot to operate outside the protected operating envelope that people blame fly by wire on. They pulled the nose up, the plane responded to the command, told them they were going to enter a stall, then let them enter a stall, and the plane continued to respond to their command for nose up elevator, with 100% thrust, in a stall, all the way from 38,000 ft to the ground. You also had poor crew management where they were both trying to fly the plane with opposing commands on the controls. How should the plane know how to react to such poor crew resource management?
You do also have the A320 that successfully ditched on the Hudson. One of the only cases of a commercial jet successfully ditching.
Other countries: Ban the U.S. manufactured plane based on nothing but a feeling.
U.S.: Bans plane based on actual compelling link between two crashes.
I wonder who behaved more rationally and correctly here...
If the plane had been an Airbus, you would have seen equal caution from other countries in an outright ban on the model.
Of course given the FAA is pushing towards more industry self-regulation, I'm sure Boeing would be jumping at the opportunity to ground their airplanes and bring into question the safety of their products, and the inevitable drop in stock value...
Two seconds of looking at data from Flightradar 24 shows very similar profiles from both flights.
On XP I liked Luna Element
Textbooks to me seem like a perfect opportunity for "Creative Commons".
The concepts have hardly changed in decades, why pay the publisher exorbitant rates for a rehash of last year's material?
With a CC textbook, it could be printed and bound, it could be printed a chapter or excerpt at a time, or it can looked at entirely digitally.
Ribbon takes up the exact same vertical space as the default menu+toolbars in Office 2003.
Plus it collapses to a single line much easier (ctrl+F1).
And the toolbars don't have a tendency of randomly moving around. I've never two installs of Office 2003 where all the toolbars were in the same spot. And it's not because the users are customizing them. Usually they are accidentally clicking and dragging them around.
Well the Microcontrollers on the Arduino board are typically an Atmel AVR. If there was a fake Atmel AVR, it would be a fake Arduino!
Yes, we call them "Bellus" ;)
And given how the three form an oligopoly as far as pricing practices and Industry Canada / CRTC practices a lot of us call the three of them Robulus.
Thanks for the heads-up on The Source. Ever since they changed the name from Radio Shack, I've felt dirty if I stepped in one of their stores. Now I know why.
Circuit City bought InterTAN's Radio Shack Canada stores, Radio Shack (US) sued because they still called them "Radio Shack", and it was against InterTAN's licencing agreement. They changed the name to "The Source (by CC)" in 2005.
At the time I believe The Source only carried Rogers phones.
Circuit City went Tits up, The Source was bought by Bell (in 2009). Bell immediately switched whose phones they carried.
"how can the robot leave the package if you're not home?"
I hate having purchases left unprotected on the doorstep. There's a lot of theft of parcels from doorsteps. Since like most people I work during the day, I prefer to have my purchases sent directly to a local post office for pickup. Then I don't need to worry about security, and just stop by on my way home from work.
I also prefer the post office over FedEx or UPS because if they do try to deliver to your house and you aren't there, they will leave a card directing you to the post office (that will be only a couple blocks away, and open till 9PM). Courier companies may pretend to try ringing, forget to leave a card, then you have to just know that you need to drive to the depot in the industrial park 45 minutes away to pick it up before 5PM when they close. You also have Amazon couriers, which like Uber drivers are underpaid, under-insured "contractors"
My life is a wreck. There is nothing left for me on earth so i'd gladly volunteer for a one way trip to mars if you'll take me.
To be one of the first humans to set foot on another planet would be an honour i'd gladly give my life for.
Found the non-'Merican. Fake news. How can we MAGA by sending limeys or Canucks?
No need to ask IT for a cable. The monitor either comes with one, or they just find one. People usually keep the power and VGA cable off their old monitor "Just in case". Even if they already have 6 cables in their drawer.
Oh yeah, and RS-232. The only real change there is the introduction of ports that are 5v tolerant. A 10 volt swing between high and low doesn't meet the RS-232C spec formerly used by everyone.
I'm surprised at how much old serial stuff, that expects and produces +/- 12V, still happily talks to +/- 5V devices.
Also, the DB15 VGA connector - introduced in 1987. Dropped out of standard usage but still not uncommon yet.
People use it in spite of itself! In 2010 a whole host of manufacturers said they will drop it by 2015. While it might be a "lowest-common denominator" connector, I'm surprised how many people still use it. Existing concealed wiring to a 10 year old 1024x768 projector? Sure, VGA is fine. Trying to use a crappy old monitor, or crappy old computer, sure VGA is fine. Same with an old KVM switch.
But I'm boggled by how many people use a Displayport-VGA adapter, or HDMI-VGA adapter, so they can connect to a 1080p+ monitor... THAT HAS DIGITAL PORTS! They will go out of their way to find a VGA adapter to hook it up when we have loads of Displayport/DVI/HDMI cables and adapters.
I was impressed with how long Lenovo held on to VGA ports on their Thinkpad line. All the new Thinkpads have an HDMI port, with an HDMI-VGA adapter for projectors, THAT PEOPLE KEEP FUCKING USING FOR THEIR BRAND NEW MONITORS! I guess people like a really soft, fuzzy monitor image. Must be that analog "warmth" they like in their vinyl records.
Getting most people to trust cryptocurrency isn't going to happen, unless you assume most people are stupid. Fortunately for him, it seems most people are indeed stupid. Just watch the mindless herds of millions of drones the first Tuesday of November.
Or just watch the people that keep using their shitty ad, and malware ridden Torrent clients, when there are much better free options.
Quantity is not quality.
FB is the home of memes. G+ was the home of quite a few interesting discussions.. To be honest, I much preferred G+, the problem being not enough of my friends used it, as they already had Facebook, which I can entirely understand.
In other-words, it was a ghost town.
Google Finance was also a reasonable tool to monitor investments. No more! They ruined it a year ago, then kind of abandoned it.
Massive? I'm not sure that's the word I would pick myself.
Total number of illegal border crossings in the us is about 500,000 per year. With roughly 365 days in a year that's about 1400 people per day. Only about half of the illegal border crossings are at the southern border though so we're looking at 700 entries per day.
On the northern border, people are leaving the US
In my car, I use a little device that plugs into the cigarette lighter jack that provides bluetooth connectivity and routes the audio output through FM.
I have a bluetooth-3.5mm adapter. Works as transmitter or receiver.
I recently had an intern with a cassette to bluetooth adapter for their shitty old car. I know back in the day the sound quality of 3.5mm-cassette adapters was usually better than the results of 3.5mm-FM, plus you didn't have to fuck around with the broadcast channel while on a road trip. As well if you have an always live 12V outlet, the cassette option is better. The bluetooth one will switch on when the cassette spools turn.
I was confused when he came in and plugged his cassette into his computer to charge.
I would also look at storing the batteries in a low temperature environment, such as a fridge, to slow down any aging.