The tubes all made it. I don't think i even put protective wrap on them... I forget, though. It was an old beater, just had sentimental value for the family, so I figured I'd give it a tune-up.
I never did get FM working on it, though... Maybe I should take another look at it, I was fairly noob back then, this was 10 or 15 years ago. (and I have actual test equipment now, don't need to guess anymore).
Heh, I got hauled into the back room in Vienna or Graz once.
They showed me a scan of my bag. Large round opaque item in the centre of the bag (the explosive charge, I suppose) with wires headed off to a 'control box' full of electronics, coils, etc.. Looked... fairly intelligent bomb like I suppose, if it was 1940.
The 'control unit' was an old tube radio I was bringing home, the 'charge' was a lead crystal ashtray (hence the opaque-ness), and the wires were headphone wires which just happened to run between them, on a different layer of clothes... I got a pretty good kick out of it.
I suppose if the TSA was smart enough to read the xrays, they'd probably have locked down the airport, were it in the US!
Ricky: Breaker breaker, come in Earth, this is Rocket Ship 27, aliens fucked over the carbonator on engine four, I'm gonna try to refuckulate it on Juniper. Uhh, and hopefully they've got some, space weed there, over. How... how was that buddy? I don't fuckin' know.
Bubbles: Ricky... that's not very good. Use space words, real ones, not talking about space weed.
Ricky: NAYSA, power rockets are firin' all over the place... they got lasers that are shootin' and uh... Bubbles I can't fuckin' do this.
(This was just after they stole a model rocket kit from Zellers, and Bubbles is wearing the child's 'spacesuit' that comes with it).
Well, apple *is* the most valuable company in the world. Their product is made by foxconn, which helps realise their enormous profit margin. I don't think any other company's products made by foxconn are anywhere near as profitable.
So it stands to reason that they benefit the most, financially, vs other foxconn partners. Whether they have the highest production volume or not isn't really relevant. Others may benefit more in terms of raw quantity of widgets, but that isn't really what we are talking about. Also, since the others have a smaller margin, they're in less of a position to spend more...
Union or not, they would have outsourced. $20/hr for union work, vs $10 for non, vs $0.50 in the orient.
There was a way to control this - tariffs. Of course that ship sailed, so they'd have to gradually increase tariffs on things until manufacturing starts to move back. (If you suddenly put a 100% tariff on any finished good from the third world, the US would be in a rough spot while tooling up...)
Well, the technical difference between a raspberry pi and... an all-in-one motherboard (say atom) is what?
Both need power supplies. Both have no case. Both have a CPU and video and various IO. The motherboard arguably needs more assembly (needs ram, at least). Same end use (part of a computer system). However, only one of these has the CE mark. (The motherboard).
I think beagle skirts by via being more techy. It's not marketed for school children, as-is, so if it is manufactured into something, the EMI levels and whatnot can vary (the point of this whole exemption, AFAIK), and it should be tested in complete form.
Whereas the Pi is meant to be used as-is in school rooms. Sounds like a finished product to me. I don't know. Kind of a blurry line. (I would say beagle should have it as well).
As opposed to the conservative method of saying that didn't happen, or outright blaming the opposition. (in-n-out, robocalls, gazebos and helicopter rides).
Even though they've always been third or fourth place federally, they've still managed to get some things adopted that they implemented in provincial government - healthcare, for example.
They took 1930's poor dirt-farmer Saskatchewan and made it.. well, paved and electrified, at least, in short order.
Funny thing is, cons always run their mouths about NDP being a fiscal disaster if they ever got power, but historically, in provincial governments they've always been the most fiscally sound, rarely running deficits (our 'prudent' cons actually have the worst record). I guess it's that old line about repeating something often enough, sheep will believe it.
I'm so jealous of proportional representation. Here 7% of the vote would get you 0% of the seats, barring some sort of miracle - like all of your votes being concentrated, instead of low level throughout the popular vote.
This makes it pretty difficult for new ideas to get out there... If large party A, B (or sometimes even C!) won't buy your idea, it's not getting represented.
Well, to be fair IBM killed their own typewriter market too. The Selectric line was pretty successful. Not to mention that their micros and the clones slowed their big iron sales; their mainframes and minis obsoleted their tabulators, etc, etc.
(interesting note: IBM also made small arms, during WWII).
I do agree though. Evolve or die, piss off with the legal wrangling to save your archaic ass.
Ah yeah, that seems pretty reasonable to me. Of course you should still steer to avoid a imminent collision, if you won't be able to stop in straight line..!
Huh? The main point of ABS is to maintain the ability to steer. If you just want to stop in a straight line and pray, it's only a marginal improvement (and can be worse on loose snow, gravel, etc).
Much better to ride that "retirement fund" as a golden parachute for yourself, and externalise the actual costs onto the backs of taxpayers (and become the next superfund site).
Of course this is at it's end though! We can't go any smaller without changing the contacts, which will destroy backwards compatibility (barring an adaptor - something like microSD in a SD adaptor).
On this side of the ocean, most things ran on stuff designed by Bell Labs and built by Western Electric (which were all part of AT&T at the time).
Anyway, #5 crossbar was a common switch system in exchanges here - it was, like it sounds, a matrix setup, allowing X lines on the input to connect to any of Y lines on the output. It was entirely electromechanical.
I remember hearing they were specified to one hour of maintenance per forty years, or some similarly retarded level of high availability. Not sure if that's true or not, but if so, exceeding five nines for an electromechanical system is pretty wild, especially over decades...
Anyway, ESS took over here, but i'd think there are still some pieces of crossbar clicking away in the far reaches of the earth... outliving people that designed and built them.
Interesting. - I still use a rotary dial phone. - I still use various vaccum tube electronics (radios, amps, been meaning to restore a TV). - I still play LPs (not with the drop-style player, though.
All this, and I still don't have a floppy drive or a (POTS) modem. Maybe we should just get off each other's lawns and not cause a big scene.
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The tubes all made it. I don't think i even put protective wrap on them... I forget, though.
It was an old beater, just had sentimental value for the family, so I figured I'd give it a tune-up.
I never did get FM working on it, though... Maybe I should take another look at it, I was fairly noob back then, this was 10 or 15 years ago. (and I have actual test equipment now, don't need to guess anymore).
Heh, I got hauled into the back room in Vienna or Graz once.
They showed me a scan of my bag. Large round opaque item in the centre of the bag (the explosive charge, I suppose) with wires headed off to a 'control box' full of electronics, coils, etc.. Looked... fairly intelligent bomb like I suppose, if it was 1940.
The 'control unit' was an old tube radio I was bringing home, the 'charge' was a lead crystal ashtray (hence the opaque-ness), and the wires were headphone wires which just happened to run between them, on a different layer of clothes... I got a pretty good kick out of it.
I suppose if the TSA was smart enough to read the xrays, they'd probably have locked down the airport, were it in the US!
There was plenty of awful music then, too. (maybe not .9999 like now, but close).
"Rosy retrospection": forgetting the mildly suck and remembering the good, thinking it was all good.
Heh, found the scene - here.
Ricky: Breaker breaker, come in Earth, this is Rocket Ship 27, aliens fucked over the carbonator on engine four, I'm gonna try to refuckulate it on Juniper. Uhh, and hopefully they've got some, space weed there, over. How... how was that buddy? I don't fuckin' know.
Bubbles: Ricky... that's not very good. Use space words, real ones, not talking about space weed.
Ricky: NAYSA, power rockets are firin' all over the place... they got lasers that are shootin' and uh... Bubbles I can't fuckin' do this.
(This was just after they stole a model rocket kit from Zellers, and Bubbles is wearing the child's 'spacesuit' that comes with it).
Hilarious show. Good luck Mike.
If that is the standard you measure to, then certainly many American companies are 'state controlled companies' too?
ex-politicians being in high positions is... pretty bloody common.
The only one from the page with a link is $19.50 (dealextreme).
Where is the $11 one the summary refers to?
It turns out someone at party headquarters plugged in the wrong patch cable, after all.
Well, apple *is* the most valuable company in the world. Their product is made by foxconn, which helps realise their enormous profit margin. I don't think any other company's products made by foxconn are anywhere near as profitable.
So it stands to reason that they benefit the most, financially, vs other foxconn partners. Whether they have the highest production volume or not isn't really relevant. Others may benefit more in terms of raw quantity of widgets, but that isn't really what we are talking about. Also, since the others have a smaller margin, they're in less of a position to spend more...
Union or not, they would have outsourced. $20/hr for union work, vs $10 for non, vs $0.50 in the orient.
There was a way to control this - tariffs. Of course that ship sailed, so they'd have to gradually increase tariffs on things until manufacturing starts to move back. (If you suddenly put a 100% tariff on any finished good from the third world, the US would be in a rough spot while tooling up...)
Well, the technical difference between a raspberry pi and... an all-in-one motherboard (say atom) is what?
Both need power supplies. Both have no case. Both have a CPU and video and various IO. The motherboard arguably needs more assembly (needs ram, at least). Same end use (part of a computer system). However, only one of these has the CE mark. (The motherboard).
I think beagle skirts by via being more techy. It's not marketed for school children, as-is, so if it is manufactured into something, the EMI levels and whatnot can vary (the point of this whole exemption, AFAIK), and it should be tested in complete form.
Whereas the Pi is meant to be used as-is in school rooms. Sounds like a finished product to me. I don't know. Kind of a blurry line. (I would say beagle should have it as well).
You forgot the part about how they can counterfeit with relative impunity, as well.
Whoosh. (well, at least I hope the GP is joking).
As opposed to the conservative method of saying that didn't happen, or outright blaming the opposition. (in-n-out, robocalls, gazebos and helicopter rides).
Even though they've always been third or fourth place federally, they've still managed to get some things adopted that they implemented in provincial government - healthcare, for example.
They took 1930's poor dirt-farmer Saskatchewan and made it.. well, paved and electrified, at least, in short order.
Funny thing is, cons always run their mouths about NDP being a fiscal disaster if they ever got power, but historically, in provincial governments they've always been the most fiscally sound, rarely running deficits (our 'prudent' cons actually have the worst record). I guess it's that old line about repeating something often enough, sheep will believe it.
I'm so jealous of proportional representation. Here 7% of the vote would get you 0% of the seats, barring some sort of miracle - like all of your votes being concentrated, instead of low level throughout the popular vote.
This makes it pretty difficult for new ideas to get out there... If large party A, B (or sometimes even C!) won't buy your idea, it's not getting represented.
Looks like a silicon die to me. The photo is probably showing how much silicon is in an actual SIM, nothing more.
Well, to be fair IBM killed their own typewriter market too. The Selectric line was pretty successful. Not to mention that their micros and the clones slowed their big iron sales; their mainframes and minis obsoleted their tabulators, etc, etc.
(interesting note: IBM also made small arms, during WWII).
I do agree though. Evolve or die, piss off with the legal wrangling to save your archaic ass.
Ah yeah, that seems pretty reasonable to me. Of course you should still steer to avoid a imminent collision, if you won't be able to stop in straight line..!
Huh? The main point of ABS is to maintain the ability to steer. If you just want to stop in a straight line and pray, it's only a marginal improvement (and can be worse on loose snow, gravel, etc).
You're looking at it from the wrong angle. Interest is close to inflation, correct.
However, since wages haven been stagnant for years - and will continue to be - labour will be effectively much cheaper in 50 years!
Of course, why pay for clean-up?
Much better to ride that "retirement fund" as a golden parachute for yourself, and externalise the actual costs onto the backs of taxpayers (and become the next superfund site).
Of course this is at it's end though! We can't go any smaller without changing the contacts, which will destroy backwards compatibility (barring an adaptor - something like microSD in a SD adaptor).
On this side of the ocean, most things ran on stuff designed by Bell Labs and built by Western Electric (which were all part of AT&T at the time).
Anyway, #5 crossbar was a common switch system in exchanges here - it was, like it sounds, a matrix setup, allowing X lines on the input to connect to any of Y lines on the output. It was entirely electromechanical.
I remember hearing they were specified to one hour of maintenance per forty years, or some similarly retarded level of high availability. Not sure if that's true or not, but if so, exceeding five nines for an electromechanical system is pretty wild, especially over decades...
Anyway, ESS took over here, but i'd think there are still some pieces of crossbar clicking away in the far reaches of the earth... outliving people that designed and built them.
Interesting.
- I still use a rotary dial phone.
- I still use various vaccum tube electronics (radios, amps, been meaning to restore a TV).
- I still play LPs (not with the drop-style player, though.
All this, and I still don't have a floppy drive or a (POTS) modem. Maybe we should just get off each other's lawns and not cause a big scene.