although the head office of Yaesu Radio (ham, commercial/public safety radios) is in Tokyo, main manufacturing and some critical suppliers of displays and stuff were all downwind of Fukushima's Reactor Roulette game.
after nearly a year of burning through the warehouses, they're using Chinese manufacturers now.
Ballmer's a cornered animal, with all the analysts gunning for him. he'll do anything at this point. that's what we're seeing in Surface and WinPhone8. just because big corporations got shook down for 10 years with "oh, it won't upgrade your existing machines well, but we won't support that old OS, you have to buy it all new" doesn't mean anybody is eating that crap any more. certainly corporations aren't. consumers want all the blingy new shiny without spending anything, just ask the MAFIAA.
this falls under the "why buy the cow when the milk is on sale?" tab. Nokia is sliding down the chute, and they're still spending a billion bucks to buy an outfit they're partnering with for camera technology they can't use in their WinPhone.
you get better value by burning the billions of dollars on cable TV in a pay-per-view.
there are 30 phone makers in china nobody has heard about that are making unlicensed clones for pennies on the dollar. give any of them a chance to bid on a million WinPhones with Microsoft writing the check, and they can have 'em for ten bucks each.
if you steal it, the artist will not make any more for you. they need to eat, curiously enough.
as for the middlemen, I am still surprised that the artists have not headed for the cloud with their masters and are not getting their geld directly. so many artists have been ripped off over the years by the upstanding Protector Of The Genre, the record companies in collusion as the RIAA.
(A) have employees take their desk stuff... the laptops/desktops. four wraps of bubble wrap, and go. screw the rest. there are usually a bunch of apps and work files on individual PCs that are irreplaceable. some are even business-critical. but it's THEIR machine, they're up now because it's set up and ready to go. add DSL/cable/whatever and they can work from home.
(B) send somebody west with backup set A. send somebody east with backup set B. then take out the servers and go. if you have very freaky setups in firewall appliances and routers, bring them, too. I like the idea of cheap-ass mattresses. fill the floor, and set the racks flat on their backs on the mattresses. yeah, it's overkill, but you have your inter-rack wiring, etc there.
(C) insure you have critical business papers... server and software licenses, articles of incorporation, insurance policies... with you.
screw the rest. employees can go anyplace for a monitor and keyboard/mouse kit. you can get a X-pack of twice-recycled cell phones at any of the corporate stores within 12-24 hours to operate on temporarily. if you can't get into building space at once and need to operate the business, haul the server room stuff to an ISP with colocation facilities and have your MX record transferred to their pipe.
why is it that every failing company that gets in the news, a bunch of wacks jump up with hands in the air, saying, "Ooh! Ooh! I know who should buy this outfit!"
answer: NOBODY buys them. they're FAILING. they are CRAP. you are BURNING YOUR MONEY.
because all the trained ones go down thud. God/Allah/yo'momma forbid they ever try and fire any of that backyard armament. gas pipe ain't good gun barrels. and I'm not going to say why;)
even a 50-gallon water heater, if it blows, can disassemble your average house.
now imagine what a stock-standard boring 200 HP heating boiler can do. your typical hospital or college campus, assuming they have anything this small, will usually have at least three of 'em in a row, and in places where below-zero is common, will have more.
there will be something on the order of 300 of these things in a city of 50,000 anywhere north of Des Moines.
idiots on eBay have had heathkits bid up over the kit price in the 60s for months and months now. somebody listed an unbuilt 80s kilowatt amp a little bit ago, and the bids went up over $1800. the commercial equivalent of that is the 80B Ameritron, which new and built with a warranty doesn't cost that (and which was basically the prototype for the heathkit.)
first, they had a lot of dust on the boxes in the warehouse. second, a major reason was that we as a society lost the ability to wait a little while for the new shiny, and lost the ability to work for it. you had to build a heathkit. it didn't come off the shelf in a shiny 4-color package and crackle with excitement as soon as you plugged it in. there was a lot of "install diode D134, insuring polarity band matches with the band on the circuit board. bend leads over and solder." check the box. "install transistor Q112, insuring tab matches the mark on the circuit board. bend leads over and solder." check the box. check the box at the bottom of the page. turn the page.
I think it was the "turn the page" part that people couldn't get around to any more.
they sold duplication of their manuals a couple years ago, and the new owner has been assertive in getting the copy sites to take down their files. they did retain all rights to the manuals, however, so that is an asset in liquidation, assuming Heathkit doesn't get up again.
the wax-ender filter caps used on countless scopes out of Heath were not reliable and shorted a lot. replace with epoxy-fill from some source like CDE, and as long as you didn't kill the transformer, you should have it fixed for good.
if you did kill the transformer, flip some filament transformer insulated to 1500 or 2500 volts backwards, feed from the AC line, and that will suffice.
present a much more attractive target than the power pole or that big tree on the bedroom side of the house, and your worries are way down. professionally installed lightning rods with big-ass ground leads to a nice multipoint ground is much more attractive, and proven to work well.
those hydrides, man, they're reactive as all hell. why, this stuff will corrode even steel! it dissolves poisons and carrier them throughout the human body! oh, woe is us!!!
you can bombard some people with facts, and logic, and 2x4s all day long, and they will stubbornly refuse to accept a stone-cold fact if it falls on their foot.
they are beyond cure, or explaination, or apology.
they are morons. their little pea-brains are furiously working all the time to reject information and cling to what The Voices tell them. they are not capable of understanding that...
FACT: enough of anything is a poison.
FACT: some stuff is more poisonous than others.
FACT: some stuff is so frikkin deadly that if some nut whispers its name a continent away, birds fall in flight.
FACT: grouping all these types of chemicals as one by either side of a stupid argument should require using those idiots as guinea pigs in testing all known classes of chemicals in LD100 tests.
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Apple fanbois like me can't get the batteries out to make them sail across the backyard from the bonfire pit.
although the head office of Yaesu Radio (ham, commercial/public safety radios) is in Tokyo, main manufacturing and some critical suppliers of displays and stuff were all downwind of Fukushima's Reactor Roulette game.
after nearly a year of burning through the warehouses, they're using Chinese manufacturers now.
Ballmer's a cornered animal, with all the analysts gunning for him. he'll do anything at this point. that's what we're seeing in Surface and WinPhone8. just because big corporations got shook down for 10 years with "oh, it won't upgrade your existing machines well, but we won't support that old OS, you have to buy it all new" doesn't mean anybody is eating that crap any more. certainly corporations aren't. consumers want all the blingy new shiny without spending anything, just ask the MAFIAA.
this falls under the "why buy the cow when the milk is on sale?" tab. Nokia is sliding down the chute, and they're still spending a billion bucks to buy an outfit they're partnering with for camera technology they can't use in their WinPhone.
you get better value by burning the billions of dollars on cable TV in a pay-per-view.
there are 30 phone makers in china nobody has heard about that are making unlicensed clones for pennies on the dollar. give any of them a chance to bid on a million WinPhones with Microsoft writing the check, and they can have 'em for ten bucks each.
if you don't, you really don't have to have it.
if you steal it, the artist will not make any more for you. they need to eat, curiously enough.
as for the middlemen, I am still surprised that the artists have not headed for the cloud with their masters and are not getting their geld directly. so many artists have been ripped off over the years by the upstanding Protector Of The Genre, the record companies in collusion as the RIAA.
so this doesn't mean much.
(A) have employees take their desk stuff... the laptops/desktops. four wraps of bubble wrap, and go. screw the rest. there are usually a bunch of apps and work files on individual PCs that are irreplaceable. some are even business-critical. but it's THEIR machine, they're up now because it's set up and ready to go. add DSL/cable/whatever and they can work from home.
(B) send somebody west with backup set A. send somebody east with backup set B. then take out the servers and go. if you have very freaky setups in firewall appliances and routers, bring them, too. I like the idea of cheap-ass mattresses. fill the floor, and set the racks flat on their backs on the mattresses. yeah, it's overkill, but you have your inter-rack wiring, etc there.
(C) insure you have critical business papers... server and software licenses, articles of incorporation, insurance policies... with you.
screw the rest. employees can go anyplace for a monitor and keyboard/mouse kit. you can get a X-pack of twice-recycled cell phones at any of the corporate stores within 12-24 hours to operate on temporarily. if you can't get into building space at once and need to operate the business, haul the server room stuff to an ISP with colocation facilities and have your MX record transferred to their pipe.
why is it that every failing company that gets in the news, a bunch of wacks jump up with hands in the air, saying, "Ooh! Ooh! I know who should buy this outfit!"
answer: NOBODY buys them. they're FAILING. they are CRAP. you are BURNING YOUR MONEY.
patents are cheaper in chapter-7.
if they get up to a half mS, you probably get pop-up ads for the closest pharmacy with iodine pills.
because all the trained ones go down thud. God/Allah/yo'momma forbid they ever try and fire any of that backyard armament. gas pipe ain't good gun barrels. and I'm not going to say why ;)
he gives them to me for almost everything I've got.
and all WinPhone manufacturers will have to support CGA only.
slice your retail business so thin the in-laws will Never Come Back (tm)!
even a 50-gallon water heater, if it blows, can disassemble your average house.
now imagine what a stock-standard boring 200 HP heating boiler can do. your typical hospital or college campus, assuming they have anything this small, will usually have at least three of 'em in a row, and in places where below-zero is common, will have more.
there will be something on the order of 300 of these things in a city of 50,000 anywhere north of Des Moines.
because they didn't let certified idiots connect industrial controls to the Wacky Wacky Webbiepoo.
this is real simple. turn off the interconnects, and toss those boxes in the trash.
we knew enough when modems ran at 100 baud to not connect critical systems to an outside influence.
idiots on eBay have had heathkits bid up over the kit price in the 60s for months and months now. somebody listed an unbuilt 80s kilowatt amp a little bit ago, and the bids went up over $1800. the commercial equivalent of that is the 80B Ameritron, which new and built with a warranty doesn't cost that (and which was basically the prototype for the heathkit.)
first, they had a lot of dust on the boxes in the warehouse. second, a major reason was that we as a society lost the ability to wait a little while for the new shiny, and lost the ability to work for it. you had to build a heathkit. it didn't come off the shelf in a shiny 4-color package and crackle with excitement as soon as you plugged it in. there was a lot of "install diode D134, insuring polarity band matches with the band on the circuit board. bend leads over and solder." check the box. "install transistor Q112, insuring tab matches the mark on the circuit board. bend leads over and solder." check the box. check the box at the bottom of the page. turn the page.
I think it was the "turn the page" part that people couldn't get around to any more.
they sold duplication of their manuals a couple years ago, and the new owner has been assertive in getting the copy sites to take down their files. they did retain all rights to the manuals, however, so that is an asset in liquidation, assuming Heathkit doesn't get up again.
I have had no trouble at all restoring any.
at our club, kids under 16 get free membership. half the membership is greyhairs, the rest are under 40.
the wax-ender filter caps used on countless scopes out of Heath were not reliable and shorted a lot. replace with epoxy-fill from some source like CDE, and as long as you didn't kill the transformer, you should have it fixed for good.
if you did kill the transformer, flip some filament transformer insulated to 1500 or 2500 volts backwards, feed from the AC line, and that will suffice.
sorry to hear it, a lot of hams were eagerly awaiting product.
present a much more attractive target than the power pole or that big tree on the bedroom side of the house, and your worries are way down. professionally installed lightning rods with big-ass ground leads to a nice multipoint ground is much more attractive, and proven to work well.
those hydrides, man, they're reactive as all hell. why, this stuff will corrode even steel! it dissolves poisons and carrier them throughout the human body! oh, woe is us!!!
you can bombard some people with facts, and logic, and 2x4s all day long, and they will stubbornly refuse to accept a stone-cold fact if it falls on their foot.
they are beyond cure, or explaination, or apology.
they are morons. their little pea-brains are furiously working all the time to reject information and cling to what The Voices tell them. they are not capable of understanding that...
FACT: enough of anything is a poison.
FACT: some stuff is more poisonous than others.
FACT: some stuff is so frikkin deadly that if some nut whispers its name a continent away, birds fall in flight.
FACT: grouping all these types of chemicals as one by either side of a stupid argument should require using those idiots as guinea pigs in testing all known classes of chemicals in LD100 tests.
you're welcome. next global issue, please... .