This is off-topic (although I'd be glad to throw in a rant about "capacitor disease"), but do you guys have access to Daewoo VCR parts? I need a source for a particular gear that got chewed up due to a design flaw and they won't sell to individuals. No Daewoo authorized shops around here either. You can email me your shop phone number at myslashdotusername@coastalnet.com if you can help.
"The one possibility you missed- they publicised it to change people's behavior- to now use other search engines."
Mmm-interesting theory. Perhaps it has something to do with manipulating the stock price to make moeny selling it short, or somebody from one of those big financial houses (that didn't get to make a bundle on Google's IPO because of the dutch auction way they did it) got one of their buddies in government to screw over Google for them as revenge.
If you're in China and you try to use the regular Google site for a search whose results will include things which the Chinese government doesn't want you to see, you probably won't get any results at all.
If you do a Google search on the China version of their site and some of the results are censored by the Chinese government, Google doesn't show them to you, but it does let you know that censorship has happened. So if you're a Chinese citizen using the Chinese Google site at least you know when the government has interfered, whereas with other search engines and sites you wouldn't. And you may get some results rather than none, perhaps not learning about Athenian democracy but at least learning the origins of the marathon, and maybe it was for that which you were looking in the first place.
And at least Google isn't helping them put anybody in jail.
If the Internet helps bring about the fall of the current government of China, having Google there will make it happen sooner rather than later.
But don't anybody tell the Chinese government that.:-)
"Consumers will exert as much control over their TVs..." et cetera blah, blah, blah.
The only way consumers will have any control is if Cisco-SA-Linksys stay the hell out of the content business and have enough money and clout to tell the content business to get stuffed.
Otherwise it's Sony all over again. The consumer isn't seen as the real customer.
"Name one non-Muslim US citizen who decided to hijack airplanes, fly them into buildings kill people and destroy property. Name me one non-Muslim US citizen who blows themselves up in order to kill a diplomat and others. Bottom line, as long as MUSLIM NAZIS insist on doing these kinds of things, its America's RIGHT to lock them up in Gitmo."
Absolutely. Anyone who sucessfully carried out a suicide attack should be locked up for the rest of their life.
They've already made up their minds, decided that they don't need to hear anything more than the first incomplete (and about as accurate as the New Orleans Katrina Superdome stories) reports, and gotten their Nancy Grace on, so don't bother trying to confuse them with the facts.
"Say what you want, and don't admit it, but we are all secretly trying to figure out how to do this with our picture phones so we get topless images of drunk coeds (by mistake) at 3 am."
So which part is by mistake, drunk or topless?
(of course if a drunk is trying to operate a cell phone camera at 3AM you may well get an image that is itself topless, not to mention out of focus and upside down)
Now Sony is a "content" company with a division that makes hardware.
A division that can't think first about how to make the hardware great but has to think about (and re-think, and think about it some more) "How can we make sure that this new piece of gear can never, ever, under any circumstances, be used to violate copyright in any conceivable way and any that aren't?".
While they were doing that instead of designing cool new hardware Apple came out with the MP3 version of the Walkman.
Because of that the Mini-Disc never became what it could have been.
Because of the content side worrying about copyright instead of cool hardware they screwed up a bunch of people's computers and convinced many of them and many others to avoid any future purchases of Sony hardware.
I suspect a hadware only company that worried about copyright about as much as the creators of Betamax did could have already had a DRM-free Blu-Ray product on the market by now.
"I have never been a big fan of Radio Shack, (especially of their individually packaged resisitors)."
How well I remember buying the packages of two resistors of the same value, even though I only needed one, knowing full well that only one would be within tolerance and the other would be open or a few orders of magnitude off.
"Does anyone know what he is walking away with after driving his company into the ground? The article doesn't say and google isn't being much help either."
He isn't walking away, they gave him the bun's rush, both because he ran it into the ground and because he lied about having a couple of college degrees that he didn't have, one of which aparently is a degree not even offered by the institution he says he got it from.
Radio Shack is the Wal-Mart of electronics. They carry enough parts to keep anyone else who would carry a greater selection out of the local market.
That, combined with the trend in consumer electronics to go from expensive but repairable to cheap but unfixable (can't get parts, can't get service manuals), means that where I live we've gone from two competing "parts houses" (where service technicians used to get tubes and transistors and such) to none.
It just shows to go ya that actual bias in any direction in the various media is unneccessary (and probably not nearly as existant as some would have us believe). All it takes is sloppiness.
Re:Low Voltage DUPE distribution? (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18, @04:20PM (#14751374) He left out resistive dividers because they're so so innefficient they're not considered useful.
The way old car radios made higher voltage DC was with a vibrator (not what you're thinking!) and step-up transformer. The vibrator, housed in a cylinder about 1.5" x 3" and rubber mounted, was kind of a relay with the contacts wired so that as the armature pulled in, it would open the circuit, and the armature spring would pull the armature back, re-connecting the circuit, and repeat the process. Just like an old electro-mechanical buzzer (door buzzer, doorbell, etc.)
This oscillation produced an interrupted DC stream (useful for step-up transforation) by a second set of contacts which was connected to the primary coil of the step-up transformer, and the secondary of the transformer fed into a rectifier (vacuum tube or selenium)to make DC, then filter capacitors, etc.
I'm disappointed that one so knowledgeable (and probably one of the few here who knows about the other kind of vibrator) posted anonymously.
I've reproduced your posting so that it shows up in archives. A lot of old Slashdot pages make no sense because the lower rated comments are omitted, leaving one to wonder to what some of the posts are referring.
"There are 2 ways to change a DC voltage. Use a mechanical machine like a dynamotor or a motor generator. Or you can use a solid state switching power supply."
Which do you suppose was used in vacuum tube automobile radios? Unless you're defining your terms very broadly the answer is neither.
If you read the article carefully you'll see that the only suggestion of placing cameras *in* private homes comes from the sloppy phrasing of the AP reporter.
"And if a homeowner requires repeated police response, it is reasonable to require camera surveillance of the property, he said."
Sounds to me as though he's talking about cameras which wouldn't be able to see anything that a police officer on the scene, in a public area, wouldn't be able to see.
I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there in all levels of government who consider Orwell's 1984 a how-to manual instead of a warning, but this article isn't enough to convince me that Harold Hurtt is one of them. Instead, he seems to be trying to figure out how to provide more police protection while "...facing a severe police shortage because of too many retirements and too few recruits..." in a city that "...has absorbed 150,000 hurricane evacuees who are filling apartment complexes in crime-ridden neighborhoods."
Please note that the crime was there before the evacuees arrived and that they are as likely, if not more so, to be the victims as to be the criminals.
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This is off-topic (although I'd be glad to throw in a rant about "capacitor disease"), but do you guys have access to Daewoo VCR parts? I need a source for a particular gear that got chewed up due to a design flaw and they won't sell to individuals. No Daewoo authorized shops around here either. You can email me your shop phone number at myslashdotusername@coastalnet.com if you can help.
Notice how Article 51 sounds like it was written at Area 51?
Mmm-interesting theory. Perhaps it has something to do with manipulating the stock price to make moeny selling it short, or somebody from one of those big financial houses (that didn't get to make a bundle on Google's IPO because of the dutch auction way they did it) got one of their buddies in government to screw over Google for them as revenge.
If you do a Google search on the China version of their site and some of the results are censored by the Chinese government, Google doesn't show them to you, but it does let you know that censorship has happened. So if you're a Chinese citizen using the Chinese Google site at least you know when the government has interfered, whereas with other search engines and sites you wouldn't. And you may get some results rather than none, perhaps not learning about Athenian democracy but at least learning the origins of the marathon, and maybe it was for that which you were looking in the first place.
And at least Google isn't helping them put anybody in jail.
If the Internet helps bring about the fall of the current government of China, having Google there will make it happen sooner rather than later.
But don't anybody tell the Chinese government that. :-)
The only way consumers will have any control is if Cisco-SA-Linksys stay the hell out of the content business and have enough money and clout to tell the content business to get stuffed.
Otherwise it's Sony all over again. The consumer isn't seen as the real customer.
The ACC final was very disappointing because there was no way that both Dook and BC could lose.
Are you sure the problem isn't in the processing chain between the mixer and the transmitter (over which the on-air talent have no control)?
Besides, I suspect that in the New York market union rules require a separate "engineer" operating the board anyway.
Where do you think the plot came from originally? Don't you remember that AT&T had their own Death Star?
Absolutely. Anyone who sucessfully carried out a suicide attack should be locked up for the rest of their life.
Given the level of incompetance demonstrated by the current administration it's pretty obvious it isn't.
They've already made up their minds, decided that they don't need to hear anything more than the first incomplete (and about as accurate as the New Orleans Katrina Superdome stories) reports, and gotten their Nancy Grace on, so don't bother trying to confuse them with the facts.
So which part is by mistake, drunk or topless?
(of course if a drunk is trying to operate a cell phone camera at 3AM you may well get an image that is itself topless, not to mention out of focus and upside down)
Now Sony is a "content" company with a division that makes hardware.
A division that can't think first about how to make the hardware great but has to think about (and re-think, and think about it some more) "How can we make sure that this new piece of gear can never, ever, under any circumstances, be used to violate copyright in any conceivable way and any that aren't?".
While they were doing that instead of designing cool new hardware Apple came out with the MP3 version of the Walkman.
Because of that the Mini-Disc never became what it could have been.
Because of the content side worrying about copyright instead of cool hardware they screwed up a bunch of people's computers and convinced many of them and many others to avoid any future purchases of Sony hardware.
I suspect a hadware only company that worried about copyright about as much as the creators of Betamax did could have already had a DRM-free Blu-Ray product on the market by now.
So it's not guaranteed to be non-running?
So does this decline mean that sharks have jumped the shark?
How well I remember buying the packages of two resistors of the same value, even though I only needed one, knowing full well that only one would be within tolerance and the other would be open or a few orders of magnitude off.
Let me guess, the job was made obsolete by the internet?
He isn't walking away, they gave him the bun's rush, both because he ran it into the ground and because he lied about having a couple of college degrees that he didn't have, one of which aparently is a degree not even offered by the institution he says he got it from.
That, combined with the trend in consumer electronics to go from expensive but repairable to cheap but unfixable (can't get parts, can't get service manuals), means that where I live we've gone from two competing "parts houses" (where service technicians used to get tubes and transistors and such) to none.
It just shows to go ya that actual bias in any direction in the various media is unneccessary (and probably not nearly as existant as some would have us believe). All it takes is sloppiness.
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by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18, @04:20PM (#14751374)
He left out resistive dividers because they're so so innefficient they're not considered useful.
The way old car radios made higher voltage DC was with a vibrator (not what you're thinking!) and step-up transformer. The vibrator, housed in a cylinder about 1.5" x 3" and rubber mounted, was kind of a relay with the contacts wired so that as the armature pulled in, it would open the circuit, and the armature spring would pull the armature back, re-connecting the circuit, and repeat the process. Just like an old electro-mechanical buzzer (door buzzer, doorbell, etc.)
This oscillation produced an interrupted DC stream (useful for step-up transforation) by a second set of contacts which was connected to the primary coil of the step-up transformer, and the secondary of the transformer fed into a rectifier (vacuum tube or selenium)to make DC, then filter capacitors, etc.
I'm disappointed that one so knowledgeable (and probably one of the few here who knows about the other kind of vibrator) posted anonymously.
I've reproduced your posting so that it shows up in archives. A lot of old Slashdot pages make no sense because the lower rated comments are omitted, leaving one to wonder to what some of the posts are referring.
Which do you suppose was used in vacuum tube automobile radios? Unless you're defining your terms very broadly the answer is neither.
You've also left out resistive voltage dividers.
It could *appear* to be timezone related,
but it could be due to geography (via subnets)."
Silly me. I thought time zones *were* due to geography.
Or were you trying to say that vsprintf was posting from the mysterious future (or past, depending on your point of view)?
"And if a homeowner requires repeated police response, it is reasonable to require camera surveillance of the property, he said."
Sounds to me as though he's talking about cameras which wouldn't be able to see anything that a police officer on the scene, in a public area, wouldn't be able to see.
I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there in all levels of government who consider Orwell's 1984 a how-to manual instead of a warning, but this article isn't enough to convince me that Harold Hurtt is one of them. Instead, he seems to be trying to figure out how to provide more police protection while "...facing a severe police shortage because of too many retirements and too few recruits..." in a city that "...has absorbed 150,000 hurricane evacuees who are filling apartment complexes in crime-ridden neighborhoods."
Please note that the crime was there before the evacuees arrived and that they are as likely, if not more so, to be the victims as to be the criminals.
I can never resist a straight line. :-)