my bike. It was a higher end carbon fiber frame Look and I put on Spinergy wheels with the PBO spokes. It's 12 years old now, might as well call it an antique from a performance bike POV. Yet everyone who's biked with me has commented on how good it still looks and it rides great. I know people who bought newer bikes that simply failed after a few weeks. Either the hydraulic brakes failed or the chain jumped and took a chunk off the frame, etc. The only thing I've done is keep it very clean. That really makes a bike last.
It's not fair to compare commercial lab equipment to consumer-level stuff, but I will anyways. I have a lot of test gear from the 1960s and 70s.
Tektronix 547 oscilloscope mainframe, early '60s
Plugins for the above giving me 4 traces, or 1GHz sampling, 10GHz spectrum, sensitive differential input
P6042 DC-50MHz clip-on current probe
HP 6284A DC power supply
HP 5316A 1GHz counter
HP 3468A 6 digit DMM
It's important and easy to get the documentation. As it is, most of these things just need maintenance, and the occasional burnt parts are still available. Except for the esoteric stuff like tunnel diodes and the current transformer assembly for the P6042.
The 547 is going on half a century. This stuff was built like a car, lots of metal, a thick chassis, very large components.
"Think about this: thanks to incomes growing faster"
Stopped there. I make less than I did 15 years ago, and when you include the fact I no longer have a health care plan and matched retirement contributions, I make even less than that. And who the hell drinks milk anyways?
but only to outsource technical and engineering jobs. Heaven forbid if we automate away accountants and bureaucracy. THEN technology is taking jobs away!
And pray tell, how will you make money selling these devices? Surely the investors will want a return? The moment you sell them, you'll have the full force of the audiologist's association in your area against you, and they'll have the weight of the government to enforce it. Or they'll force you to sell them at the same price as all the others.... And now you're back to square 0.
Well, look (ha!) no further than the egregious monopoly exerted by Luxottica and the equally corrupt professional associations in your jurisdiction making sure that the prices stay high.
In Montreal we had the VIP parking sticker fiasco. The roads here are too cracked and broken for anyone to speed on them, so instead, we had special stickers so people could park for free.
Yes, but they're also quite deaf. They seem oblivious to the vacuum cleaner. I've seen some fat, stupid fruit flies resting on my kitchen counter that *stay put* as their wings start to bend from the suction... Then, womp! down the hose and that's that.
I assume it's far easier to drop the samples into a horizontal tube with an open hatch. You just let gravity magically suck the sample into the hatch. I guess a rocket erector is less failure-prone than some sort of telescopic arm to put samples into an upright rocket. Also, the hatch door will close by itself when the return rocket is horizontal. One less mechanism to worry about, or at least simplify.
As for the return, I'd assume again we're talking about a capsule the size of a basketball that either crashes back to Earth or gets caught in mid-air by a plane. That's how film was recovered from early spy satellites.
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my bike. It was a higher end carbon fiber frame Look and I put on Spinergy wheels with the PBO spokes. It's 12 years old now, might as well call it an antique from a performance bike POV. Yet everyone who's biked with me has commented on how good it still looks and it rides great. I know people who bought newer bikes that simply failed after a few weeks. Either the hydraulic brakes failed or the chain jumped and took a chunk off the frame, etc. The only thing I've done is keep it very clean. That really makes a bike last.
Seeding clouds to make it rain is 1950s technology and recently Moscow's mayor made it snow IIRC.
Excuse me, the 547 is a 50MHz mainframe, but perhaps you have a lackluster plugin in there?
Tektronix 547 oscilloscope mainframe, early '60s
Plugins for the above giving me 4 traces, or 1GHz sampling, 10GHz spectrum, sensitive differential input
P6042 DC-50MHz clip-on current probe
HP 6284A DC power supply
HP 5316A 1GHz counter
HP 3468A 6 digit DMM
It's important and easy to get the documentation. As it is, most of these things just need maintenance, and the occasional burnt parts are still available. Except for the esoteric stuff like tunnel diodes and the current transformer assembly for the P6042.
The 547 is going on half a century. This stuff was built like a car, lots of metal, a thick chassis, very large components.
I think it would be a good idea for every pothole to have its own IP address so we can track how big it's getting, for example.
get the damn thing to work properly. I seem to have the magic touch to get every obscure and unexpected behavior to happen.
Alex 7000 from the Bionic Woman. Hilarious. And what about Cylons?
You expect slashdotters to generate heat... on a mattress?
You think I'm the only one in this situation? And you're talking to me about statistics? Wow. Why are all low UID accounts owned by assholes?
don't be a Commodore.
Stopped there. I make less than I did 15 years ago, and when you include the fact I no longer have a health care plan and matched retirement contributions, I make even less than that. And who the hell drinks milk anyways?
Not just the USA. Pretty sure boring old Canada is as well. And Quebec, and Montreal, and my condo. Just the way it really is. Pane et Circem.
but only to outsource technical and engineering jobs. Heaven forbid if we automate away accountants and bureaucracy. THEN technology is taking jobs away!
LOL OK. Got it. Makes his sig doubly delicious.
And pray tell, how will you make money selling these devices? Surely the investors will want a return? The moment you sell them, you'll have the full force of the audiologist's association in your area against you, and they'll have the weight of the government to enforce it. Or they'll force you to sell them at the same price as all the others.... And now you're back to square 0.
Um, the local "professional association" whose mandate is to "protect the public" from low prices?
Well, look (ha!) no further than the egregious monopoly exerted by Luxottica and the equally corrupt professional associations in your jurisdiction making sure that the prices stay high.
Beats me, but I always use a scrap of wood to push or guide my workpiece.
Anything to bring down the scandalously high prices of some of these medical gizmos. Next, glasses. Hearing aids.
Sochi were the most expensive games in history. I was just amazed at the pitiful quality of the materials.
Really? That's fascinating. Does cardboard usually look like sawdust too like the doors in my place? And where did all the money go?
Yeah no kidding, did you see that athlete that was locked in a bathroom and punched his way out the door? The door was basically cardboard.
In Montreal we had the VIP parking sticker fiasco. The roads here are too cracked and broken for anyone to speed on them, so instead, we had special stickers so people could park for free.
Yes, but they're also quite deaf. They seem oblivious to the vacuum cleaner. I've seen some fat, stupid fruit flies resting on my kitchen counter that *stay put* as their wings start to bend from the suction... Then, womp! down the hose and that's that.
As for the return, I'd assume again we're talking about a capsule the size of a basketball that either crashes back to Earth or gets caught in mid-air by a plane. That's how film was recovered from early spy satellites.