Years ago I was very close to buying a whole lathe setup with spare cutters and everything, it was an auction and the price was 1$... but you had to pay for getting the thing out of the warehouse that very day or they'd penalize you big time.
Sometimes I regret not being more proactive about the whole thing. I enjoy electromechanical contraptions like that and would have liked to make masters and one-offs for people.
But the thing was enormous and it would not have worked well in a 3rd floor apartment in any case. It would be happier in the basement of a warehouse.
Fun novel by James P Hogan about a sophisticated alien robotic space mining craft that gets damaged and crashes on Titan. It starts making defective replicating mining robots that eventually evolve into a medieval robot society.
Can't believe I'm the first to mention it, but I'm probably just old.
I am amazed at the kind of scut work "engineers" do these days. Electrical engineers in the days of yore were scientists, physicists.
I used to work for a company that used label printers. I mean high-speed printers for production lines. These machines are all ready and set to go from the box. Why do you need someone to go to university for 4 years and go through three interviews to check a few wires, enter a few digits and look at the end result of the printed label?
You need engineers to design the machines, some engineers to mass-produce them, and technicians, not engineers, to install them.
I'd gladly trade my modern computer and phone for the lifestyle of the 1960s-1990s. Something happened quite recently to make work much more hostile and corrosive.
Can you explain why society didn't collapse when we went from the 19th century's 100 hour work week to the the 40 hour work week?
Can you explain what all this technology is for and what we are producing if we are all working so hard?
And why have we gone back to 19th century levels of "work" when both heads of the family work, it adds up to a hundred hour workweek.
Why? What for? Who benefits?
What is "work"? What do you do that convinces a farmer to feed you every day?
It's just a social convention.
Why can't we go to a 20 hour workweek? Why do you assume that every person is the same and will automatically revert to savagery just because they have to work less?
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Yes, "great care". Not dropping them, keeping them in their sleeve, and using a carbon brush before playing. The burden! The pain!
What if I just like the look? I also have two reel to reel tape decks. It's FUN to watch reels.
Years ago I was very close to buying a whole lathe setup with spare cutters and everything, it was an auction and the price was 1$... but you had to pay for getting the thing out of the warehouse that very day or they'd penalize you big time.
Sometimes I regret not being more proactive about the whole thing. I enjoy electromechanical contraptions like that and would have liked to make masters and one-offs for people.
But the thing was enormous and it would not have worked well in a 3rd floor apartment in any case. It would be happier in the basement of a warehouse.
http://gallery.audioasylum.com...
plus two 19 inch racks full of all kinds of junk...
I believe that's what I said. HfH is closed until the 3rd.
Actually, what I want is less stuff. I'm making boxes of stuff that will go to Habitat for Humanity. That's what I want.
They only need to renovate once. And it's "hare" brained.
The "open office" is just cost-reduction masquerading as some sort of innovation.
It's the march towards ever less expenses to allow more profit to funnel to the few.
And the many embrace it. The few have managed to get the many to embrace their own destruction.
Well, there's this:
http://www.computerhistory.org...
and this
https://design.osu.edu/carlson...
"vector"
I'm drunk.
The original Battlestar Galactica TV series was filled with Tektronix raster displays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
How about a song that makes pictures?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah but the upside is you'll find them curbside on garbage day. Free stuff!
I don't know why, in the era of instant information access, people still choose to be contrarians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There was more than that to WWII. How about electronic proximity fuzes? Digital voice encryption? Radar?
Not sure where *you're* coming from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Geez I'm even older and I never did that. Encyclopaedia Britannica + Yellow Pages + BBS.
or maybe they should check who got fired in the last few months... or overlooked for a promotion.
Fun novel by James P Hogan about a sophisticated alien robotic space mining craft that gets damaged and crashes on Titan. It starts making defective replicating mining robots that eventually evolve into a medieval robot society.
Can't believe I'm the first to mention it, but I'm probably just old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The unit you want is probably dB.
Oooh, and he has to wear a '70s track suit.
Get a better life.
I am amazed at the kind of scut work "engineers" do these days. Electrical engineers in the days of yore were scientists, physicists.
I used to work for a company that used label printers. I mean high-speed printers for production lines. These machines are all ready and set to go from the box. Why do you need someone to go to university for 4 years and go through three interviews to check a few wires, enter a few digits and look at the end result of the printed label?
You need engineers to design the machines, some engineers to mass-produce them, and technicians, not engineers, to install them.
I think of it as trying to apply a social model based on scarcity while we are awash in surplus.
I'd gladly trade my modern computer and phone for the lifestyle of the 1960s-1990s. Something happened quite recently to make work much more hostile and corrosive.
Who said there would be no punishment?
Can you explain why society didn't collapse when we went from the 19th century's 100 hour work week to the the 40 hour work week?
Can you explain what all this technology is for and what we are producing if we are all working so hard?
And why have we gone back to 19th century levels of "work" when both heads of the family work, it adds up to a hundred hour workweek.
Why? What for? Who benefits?
What is "work"? What do you do that convinces a farmer to feed you every day?
It's just a social convention.
Why can't we go to a 20 hour workweek? Why do you assume that every person is the same and will automatically revert to savagery just because they have to work less?
I'm the innocent one?