Years ago I was fortunate enough to find a paperback of "Man of High Fidelity:Edwin Howard Armstrong", by Lawrence Lessing at a newstand, and highly recommend it.
He wasn't the first to stick a control grid into a vacuum tube diode, but he figured out how to make it work, and pretty much came up with the superheterodyne and later FM as we know it.
I find it interesting that here and on other websites, fans express interest in bringing back actors from the original trilogy, but nobody has expressed any interest in seeing actors from the prequels reprise their roles.
Nonsense, plenty of us want to see Jar-Jar come back just long enough to swallow a live grenade.
They could do it as a 15 minute short and still charge full admission and make a bundle.
...they get other companies to make it and slap the Belkin name on it.
Therefore anything you buy from them has the potential to be anywhere from crap to first-rate, with a price tag of from anywhere to kind of expensive to really expensive.
So I only buy their stuff used or off of closeout tables.
I am actually a bit surprised people are not willing to pay more for cases, since it is one of the few parts in a computer that can be reused after many upgrades.
Remember the original Slot 1 ATX boards?
No sooner did a lot of tower cases with lots of 5.25" external bays get sold then they went back to sockets and added a couple more inches of depth to the boards and you couldn't flush mount cd decks and mobile hard drive racks anymore.
Spending big on a case is just begging them to change something and obsolete them again.
This. And don't kid yourselves, the ubiquity of high fructose corn syrup as Big Food's sweetener of choice is another negative fallout from these insane corn subsidies.
Don't forget to credit the sugar lobby for making sugar so expensive that everyone switched over to HFCS.
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Have all the masochism jokes already been made?
Years ago I was fortunate enough to find a paperback of "Man of High Fidelity:Edwin Howard Armstrong", by Lawrence Lessing at a newstand, and highly recommend it.
Apparently it's common domain now.
http://www.archive.org/stream/manofhighfidelit002474mbp/manofhighfidelit002474mbp_djvu.txt
He wasn't the first to stick a control grid into a vacuum tube diode, but he figured out how to make it work, and pretty much came up with the superheterodyne and later FM as we know it.
Thought that was Armstrong versus DeForest.
The guy they brought in from Pepsi was a businessman.
Jobs was a promoter.
"...and were sourcing their components in the same place as the other electronics hobbiests."
Sneaking them out the back door at HP?
I'm pretty sure Dr. Benjamin Spock was actually a doctor, a pediatrician, to be precise.
Mr. Spock, on the other hand, although well versed in science, may not have actually gotten a medical degree.
Nevertheless, they got along quite well together, especially during the time they spent with Francis Scott Key.
After they talked him into using an old drinking song with impossible high notes for the melody, they couldn't stop laughing for 3 days.
I find it interesting that here and on other websites, fans express interest in bringing back actors from the original trilogy, but nobody has expressed any interest in seeing actors from the prequels reprise their roles.
Nonsense, plenty of us want to see Jar-Jar come back just long enough to swallow a live grenade.
They could do it as a 15 minute short and still charge full admission and make a bundle.
Thank heavens I saved those old 9 pin adapters.
Wrecking Star Trek and Star Wars in one fail swoop.
Ordinarily, for the past several hundred years, the phrase is "one fell* swoop", but in this case you may have the right of it.
Indeed, we may well see epic turned into epic fail.
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*(see definition 2 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fell )
Yeah. The pressure is on. If he fucks this up, he's Jar Jar Abrams...
Thank you for posting AC so that I can steal that without worrying with atribution.
if it was even longer ago, wouldnt the galaxy be closer?
About 12 parsecs closer, I think.
Dear God!
Be prepared for time travel, alternative world storylines, and tons of ridiculous lens flare in every shot.
But this time it'll be lens flare off of lightsabers!!!
Take all that and throw in some Disneyfied Jar-Jar, and lots and lots of merchandise licensing opportunities.
What's not to make you hurl?
...can be much improved by adding a little cooling fan internally
http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/CF-392/12VDC-40MM-COOLING-FAN/1.html
...they get other companies to make it and slap the Belkin name on it.
Therefore anything you buy from them has the potential to be anywhere from crap to first-rate, with a price tag of from anywhere to kind of expensive to really expensive.
So I only buy their stuff used or off of closeout tables.
I have Tim Warner cable ...
Must be one of the lesser known Warner brothers, sort of a Gummo Marx equivalent.
Appliances need a system for automatic updates...
No they don't, they're appliances.
They're supposed to be built properly at the beginning.
And remembered fondly.
Considering that English wasn't his first language, he certainly mastered it well enough to make it do great tricks.
I am actually a bit surprised people are not willing to pay more for cases, since it is one of the few parts in a computer that can be reused after many upgrades.
Remember the original Slot 1 ATX boards?
No sooner did a lot of tower cases with lots of 5.25" external bays get sold then they went back to sockets and added a couple more inches of depth to the boards and you couldn't flush mount cd decks and mobile hard drive racks anymore.
Spending big on a case is just begging them to change something and obsolete them again.
A real /.'er eschews the links, the article, and the title.
It's amazing how many programmers for whom English is not a second language still cannot code it correctly.
... I can deduce that your parents were never formally introduced."
...which is surprising, seeing as how they were not only brother and sister, but each other's uncle and aunt, respectively.
The same stuff with which it fouls the spark plugs?
This. And don't kid yourselves, the ubiquity of high fructose corn syrup as Big Food's sweetener of choice is another negative fallout from these insane corn subsidies.
Don't forget to credit the sugar lobby for making sugar so expensive that everyone switched over to HFCS.
i have found that it generaly fouls sparkplugs, especially in stationary motors (generators -fixed speed)
around 1/4 plug life.
No need to worry about that. It'll gum up the carburetor and stop it running long before then.