to strip off all the scripts and redirects and google metrics and all the crap that chokes away the real bandwidth of the hardware. Then you can access the actual *information* you wanted.
I used to be proud to be Canadian. Now I see Canada as an over-taxed, rigid, boring place with nothing except natural resources. We have too much government, taking too much money, to do too little. Fuck you, Canada. Take THAT, CRA. Come and get me, you fascistic bureaucratic automatons.
Maybe we can send you some Quebec consultants to get into the 21st century? We will show you how to use pressed cardboard, glued plastic and compressed sawdust everywhere, and as long as the condo brochure has smiling models sipping espresso people will buy condos...
We can also show you how to have the highest taxes in North American and still manage to have to pay for every goddamn government service, AND have corrupt municipalities that can't even do road repairs properly, even though they cost 50% more than Ontario's! *AND* still have pavement that buckles and cracks within years!
When attempting a joke about people not being able to spell, it helps to be able to spell yourself, of course. Unless you meant the arms are off course and headed the wrong way? Then you'll get sued.
It's no longer something surprising, or requiring "buzz" from a tradeshow. No one attends tradeshows for farm equipment except other farmers and a few mech engs here and there. We just open the fridge and expect a complex world-wide net of dependencies to put an apple in the bin.
Same with technology. It's a faceless world-wide empire of giant companies, no one cares except the people directly involved in creating the things. We just shop online, say "ohh shiny" and buy whatever.
Stuff is also a lot cheaper so there's less risk in buying things on sight alone. Back when an empty motherboard cost thousands of dollars, it made sense to spend time and money to check things out in person. Not anymore.
The only thing that can change that equation is booth babes.
Real estate is the slimiest, vilest industry there is, based on lies, deceit and willful holding back of information. Who cares if you have to lug three boxes of junk instead of one? You're moving! Who cares?
What you NEED to be spending your time on is finding out exactly how much this will cost! How much in welcome tax, municipal tax, school tax, water tax, insurance, inspectors and whatever other creative ways we invent to suck money out of people's wallets.
If you are renting, what's wring with your place? Don't you realize that home "ownership" makes little sense these days? What if you lose your job? What if you want to move on a moment's notice? What if repairs need to be done?
You are on your own when you "own", and you probably have no real idea of the real costs of that.
Real estate hasn't made sense for the individual for a long time. The whole idea of "owning" was based on the idea of life-long commitment to one career at one employer in one place. That was true for my Dad's generation in the 1960s.
Are you buying a new house? You realize how utterly cheaply they are made these days? Particle board and glue instead of real wood, etc.
Some things are better these days, but structurally? No way.
So forget your "household media" and concentrate on the HOUSEHOLD itself.
Let me know after you buy if what I said makes sense or not.
One would assume since ion thrusters only work in a vacuum, that whatever test chamber they used to fire the engine also recuperates the xenon. One hopes. One further hopes that in reality only a small amount of xenon was continuously cycled between the test chamber and the engine.
That's not too expensive. The vintage scope people , like me, are quite happy that they can make replacement knobs, so I wasn't too sure what else could be done. I wonder how detailed and solid you can make these steel parts. "Solid", of course, being a highly technical term meaning it won't snap in half when I turn one of those massive control shafts on a Tektronix 547.
A 1967 Tektronix 567 sampling oscilloscope with digital plugin. This great beast uses discrete transistors, tunnel diodes and vacuum tubes to give me a 14GHz analog sampling system. It takes samples and stores the voltage on a capacitor, converts it to digital information and displays the results on a giant counter module, while displaying the waveform on a CRT. I don't use this every day, but I did manage to interface its baroque (pre standard logic levels) digital outputs to a PIC which sends out the readings via RS-232. If I had more time I'd go USB.
The 567 is used as a stand for my Rigol LCD scope, which isn't 14GHz but is a lot quieter...
I have a Commodore 64 setup with 1581 (3.5 floppy), a 1764 (512K RAM), a 1351 (mouse) and a bunch of 1541 and 1571 drives.
Then I have a bottom of the line Lenovo laptop which works great.
My desk is split in two, the computer side and the electronics side. The electronics side is full of 1960s vintage test and lab gear. I have a nice DC-50MHz current probe which is useful for probing around old wired electronics.
How old is old? I have a ten year old GPS frequency standard, which I rarely use since I have a bad view of the sky inside, I need to go outside. Apparently new ones have more sensitive antennas.
I work in industrial applications. I don't know if it's the industry or mechanical engineers, but there's a lot of databooks (Omega, Allen Bradley), backup CDs (!) piled high in the same building, etc.. I remember this was the same in 1995. Maybe instead of CDs we had tapes in 95.
Having recently switched fields from high-end telecom gear to industrial machinery, I can confirm this. The industry works with what hardware they know. I last worked in the field two decades ago, and now I see the same Cutler-Hammer contacts, the same Schadow switches, the same Schroff and Rittal metal works, the same Panduit wire ducts, the same Oriental motor drives, the same Allen Bradley PLCs... Oops, that PLC now has an ethernet port? The PLC looks the same as before, a grey box covered in screw terminals, but apparently it must have changed from a 6809 running GRAFCET to some sort of modern porous monstrosity needlessly running a 64 bit OS with so much unverifiable code.
For me high school had two computer classes, one called ISI which stood for Initiation au Sciences Informatiques, (Comp Sci intro), which as far as I can remember consisted of learning DOS on XTs and LOGO. The other computer class was the informal group of kids with the same computers that traded pirated software and magazines. Mags and pirate intro scrolls where the internet and social media of the day, except that the social makeup was hackers and pirates and geeks. It was fun. I was the hardware guy of the school, people came to me for repairs and drive alignments. (I was a Commodore groupie). The C64 had unreliable power supplies back then and I built a number of custom C64 power supplies. I shudder to think all the risks people took with mains electricity but I was very careful and paranoid about safety even as a teen. My supplies were these big, clunky tank-like contraptions built out of overly large metal enclosures and a selection of whatever transformers and TO-3 5V regulators I could find that day at the surplus store! The transformers were so big (but cheap) and old you could hear the laminations buzz from the inrush current. BBZZZzzzzuuummmmmmm. Eh, they ran cooler than the original brick and never failed.
I was paid in 0-day warez and greets. Money didn't really enter the picture for me at that point. I could have made money charging for printing out papers, but back then many teachers wouldn't accept computer printouts as homework. I handed in a physics paper that I slaved over all weekend on geoWrite and geoPaint and it looked awesome but the teacher docked me one point because I didn't start the paper in class.
It amazes how little has changed really since then. Our toys are better, but overall, we still behave the same, live in the same houses, drive on the same roads, need to work 40 hours a week and eat three times a day.
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to strip off all the scripts and redirects and google metrics and all the crap that chokes away the real bandwidth of the hardware. Then you can access the actual *information* you wanted.
It's like a butcher not wanting to eat sausages, knowing what goes into them...
Is that a Harold Lloyd movie?
I used to be proud to be Canadian. Now I see Canada as an over-taxed, rigid, boring place with nothing except natural resources. We have too much government, taking too much money, to do too little. Fuck you, Canada. Take THAT, CRA. Come and get me, you fascistic bureaucratic automatons.
We can also show you how to have the highest taxes in North American and still manage to have to pay for every goddamn government service, AND have corrupt municipalities that can't even do road repairs properly, even though they cost 50% more than Ontario's! *AND* still have pavement that buckles and cracks within years!
Bike to work, take stretching brakes.
Stretching brakes sound very dangerous. What if you need to stop suddenly? I'd rather have normal brakes on my bike.
When attempting a joke about people not being able to spell, it helps to be able to spell yourself, of course. Unless you meant the arms are off course and headed the wrong way? Then you'll get sued.
Hmm, subtle pun or can't spell??
Same with technology. It's a faceless world-wide empire of giant companies, no one cares except the people directly involved in creating the things. We just shop online, say "ohh shiny" and buy whatever.
Stuff is also a lot cheaper so there's less risk in buying things on sight alone. Back when an empty motherboard cost thousands of dollars, it made sense to spend time and money to check things out in person. Not anymore.
The only thing that can change that equation is booth babes.
Where is Ceren Ercen these days anyhow?
Einstein?
What you NEED to be spending your time on is finding out exactly how much this will cost! How much in welcome tax, municipal tax, school tax, water tax, insurance, inspectors and whatever other creative ways we invent to suck money out of people's wallets.
If you are renting, what's wring with your place? Don't you realize that home "ownership" makes little sense these days? What if you lose your job? What if you want to move on a moment's notice? What if repairs need to be done?
You are on your own when you "own", and you probably have no real idea of the real costs of that.
Real estate hasn't made sense for the individual for a long time. The whole idea of "owning" was based on the idea of life-long commitment to one career at one employer in one place. That was true for my Dad's generation in the 1960s.
Are you buying a new house? You realize how utterly cheaply they are made these days? Particle board and glue instead of real wood, etc.
Some things are better these days, but structurally? No way.
So forget your "household media" and concentrate on the HOUSEHOLD itself.
Let me know after you buy if what I said makes sense or not.
Just WAIT til you find out how IKEA operates! Go on, look it up yourself, you wouldn't believe me if I told you!
One would assume since ion thrusters only work in a vacuum, that whatever test chamber they used to fire the engine also recuperates the xenon. One hopes. One further hopes that in reality only a small amount of xenon was continuously cycled between the test chamber and the engine.
1960s actually. What I find interesting is that 3.6V was also a standard in the 1960s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT
That's not too expensive. The vintage scope people , like me, are quite happy that they can make replacement knobs, so I wasn't too sure what else could be done. I wonder how detailed and solid you can make these steel parts. "Solid", of course, being a highly technical term meaning it won't snap in half when I turn one of those massive control shafts on a Tektronix 547.
The 567 is used as a stand for my Rigol LCD scope, which isn't 14GHz but is a lot quieter...
I have a Commodore 64 setup with 1581 (3.5 floppy), a 1764 (512K RAM), a 1351 (mouse) and a bunch of 1541 and 1571 drives.
Then I have a bottom of the line Lenovo laptop which works great.
My desk is split in two, the computer side and the electronics side. The electronics side is full of 1960s vintage test and lab gear. I have a nice DC-50MHz current probe which is useful for probing around old wired electronics.
How old is old? I have a ten year old GPS frequency standard, which I rarely use since I have a bad view of the sky inside, I need to go outside. Apparently new ones have more sensitive antennas.
I work in industrial applications. I don't know if it's the industry or mechanical engineers, but there's a lot of databooks (Omega, Allen Bradley), backup CDs (!) piled high in the same building, etc.. I remember this was the same in 1995. Maybe instead of CDs we had tapes in 95.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEz7MHGMTqY
GEOS on the Commodore 64? Duh?
Nah, but three lefts do.
http://www.generalfusion.com/
It's not necessary.
Cubical planets typically have "HPLD" written on them.
I was paid in 0-day warez and greets. Money didn't really enter the picture for me at that point. I could have made money charging for printing out papers, but back then many teachers wouldn't accept computer printouts as homework. I handed in a physics paper that I slaved over all weekend on geoWrite and geoPaint and it looked awesome but the teacher docked me one point because I didn't start the paper in class.
It amazes how little has changed really since then. Our toys are better, but overall, we still behave the same, live in the same houses, drive on the same roads, need to work 40 hours a week and eat three times a day.