I think it's great that the U.S. finally gave Hynix the boot. The S. Korean government has been keeping them alive and competing with our companies, even though Hynix has failed to produce a profit and would basically go in the red if it weren't for all the government money keeping it alive.
Companies like that deserve to die - if you're not producing a profit, and you're causing U.S. companies to lose money, why should the U.S. continue to allow you to do business with us? It's our semiconductor industry vs. the entire south korean government - that's bad for the people who work at micron and other semiconductor companies. Think about the people trying to make a living here, for pete's sake.
It's hard enough dealing with domestic competitors, let alone an entire foreign government. 100% tariff would do just fine too.
How fast would this thing have to go for its transmission frequencies to phase shift into something the reciever can't pick up? Do they have any concerns about that?
Hopefully that will work for a whole mass of people logging in. Easy to remember. Take that, NYT >:) Pass it along.
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I once went to a gas station to grab a soda and handed the guy a $2 bill. "$2 bill huh?" he said, upon which he hit the $20 button on the cash register and saw that I had about $18.46 change. He counted and handed me the money.
That $2 bill investment made me $16.46 and one soda richer - I walked away with 823% cash profit!
Stupid of him, yes. Dishonest of me, yes. I hope the guy didn't get fired.
To flex, they require a large electrical current - up to 100 volts - which is then converted to heat energy.
"The article says it takes 100 volts to make one flex!"
What's amazing is that they say it takes 100 volts of current to get it going, and those aren't even in the same units!
Electronically illiterate points aside, if they meant 100 Amps of current, then ya, that's probably a lot of energy. Enough to kill. 30,000 Volts, though, can be easily produced by a simple 9V batter and a couple of voltage doublers, like in the case of a stun gun.
The fact that the article says that a lot of the energy is going to heat tells me that they probably really are pulling a lot of amps at a relatively large voltage. These things could double as a moving stove-top. Alright that was stupid..
The 666 rumor comes about from illiterate, non-mathematical conspiracy theorists.. On a barcode, the black bars represent 1 and white bars represent 0. Most of us, I hope, understand that. When the barcode scanner reads the barcode, it must know when to start reading and stop reading, and it does this by finding the code "101" you see at the beginning and end of the barcode. Also, in the middle of every UPC is a 01010 combination, which basically tells the scanner that it has reached the middle of the barcode. The beginning, middle, and end lines are longer than the rest, and some people think that these longer lines represent the number 666. Actually, 101 in binary is 5, so if you are that paranoid and into conspiracy theories, the longs lines on the barcode read "555"
Can anyone find out where these guys live? Maybe we can help them out by signing them all up for a couple truck loads of mail like that sap Alan Ralsky..
Well, I didn't just magically upgrade to a new one. In my previous post, I didn't mention that it wasn't only the calculator that was writing strange messages. This was at least 5 years ago now, but I kept good documentation on everything so I could remember what happened later.
My computer was also acting funny. For example, I'd come home to play a game of good old Warcraft II, and one of the computer opponents would start attacking the other computer opponents (something a skilled Warcraft II player would know doesn't happen). The computer started typing binary messages on the screen (which I took screen shots of). I started typing back to it, telling it to talk in english, and it said the same thing as my TI-86... go kill someone, you must avenge my death, blah blah blah, you will die, you must surrender immediately, etc. etc. etc. It was even calling me by name. My computer wasn't even connected to the internet, so it wasn't someone else getting into my machine. The computer ended up cheating a lot (i.e. ogres in the first minute of the game, that really pissed me off) and I got freaked out and deleted the game. Yes, it was a sad day. Never had any trouble with starcraft though;)
So the point of telling you all that was to show that it wasn't only my calculator that was getting possessed, but also other electronic equipment around me (printers also went nuts when I walked into a computer lab, room, etc.) Well with the calcalator, I started to resist the temptation to translate the messages on my screen and started deleting them. After a week or two of doing this, I started getting fewer and fewer messages, until finally it kind of just stopped happening. I continued to use my TI-86 calculator for quite some time after that, until that fateful day when it fell off my desk and broke the screen. That's when I decided to give in and get the TI-89.
Moral of the story: Don't talk back to electronic equipment, because everyone's gonna think that you and the 10 people that interacted with it are all nuts.
This is a short summary of a true story, whether or not the rest of my scientific-based-method friends believe it.
I once had a TI-86 calculator type messages to me in the text editor on the calculator. The raw text would appear as if someone was pushing the letters without hitting the "alpha" key twice to lock the letters. So, it looked like a bunch of garbage on the display, sort of like this: E944-0-+23/|
My friends would find a garbage looking message on the calculator and hit the alpha key twice, push the sequency of letters on the screen, and messages would come up saying "You must avenge my death. You are my troth. You must kill (insert random person here)" To that effect. We (friends and I) would type questions into the calculator, set it down on the table and stare at it for 2 minutes, and then pick it back up to see the response. Nobody was typing in the messages themselves, and we made sure of this by observing who handled the calculator and what they typed (score 1 for the scientific method). Every time we looked for a response, there was something more written there.
One time I wrote in some equations to my calculator for a test, and as I was taking the test I was using those equations. Well, half way through the test my whole equation cheat sheet got deleted and replaced with the words "DON'T CHEAT." A friend sitting next to me looked at me at the same time with a confused look on his face. He asked if something had just happened to my calculator, because his just flashed the words "DIE" on the screen for a moment. Just a tid-bit I thought I'd throw in there.
This scared the hell out of everybody, including a few teachers who witnessed the events over a course of 6 months (hopefully those teachers didn't witness those equations I wrote in my calculator;). The thing that possessed the calculator didn't really say anything useful, just said it's name was "doomood" and it was obviously pretty upset because it wanted my friends and I to go kill people for it.
I eventually started ignoring it, and it eventually stopped typing messages on my calculator.
I'd say in the end, it was both entertaining and scary to everyone who encountered it. Some people don't believe the store (I'm sure some of you are like that) but everyone who was a first-hand witness won't deny it. Freaky TI-86's. Thank goodness I upgraded to the 89.
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I think it's great that the U.S. finally gave Hynix the boot. The S. Korean government has been keeping them alive and competing with our companies, even though Hynix has failed to produce a profit and would basically go in the red if it weren't for all the government money keeping it alive.
Companies like that deserve to die - if you're not producing a profit, and you're causing U.S. companies to lose money, why should the U.S. continue to allow you to do business with us? It's our semiconductor industry vs. the entire south korean government - that's bad for the people who work at micron and other semiconductor companies. Think about the people trying to make a living here, for pete's sake.
It's hard enough dealing with domestic competitors, let alone an entire foreign government. 100% tariff would do just fine too.
How fast would this thing have to go for its transmission frequencies to phase shift into something the reciever can't pick up? Do they have any concerns about that?
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Hopefully that will work for a whole mass of people logging in. Easy to remember. Take that, NYT >:) Pass it along.
I once went to a gas station to grab a soda and handed the guy a $2 bill. "$2 bill huh?" he said, upon which he hit the $20 button on the cash register and saw that I had about $18.46 change. He counted and handed me the money.
That $2 bill investment made me $16.46 and one soda richer - I walked away with 823% cash profit!
Stupid of him, yes. Dishonest of me, yes. I hope the guy didn't get fired.
To flex, they require a large electrical current - up to 100 volts - which is then converted to heat energy.
"The article says it takes 100 volts to make one flex!"
What's amazing is that they say it takes 100 volts of current to get it going, and those aren't even in the same units!
Electronically illiterate points aside, if they meant 100 Amps of current, then ya, that's probably a lot of energy. Enough to kill. 30,000 Volts, though, can be easily produced by a simple 9V batter and a couple of voltage doublers, like in the case of a stun gun.
The fact that the article says that a lot of the energy is going to heat tells me that they probably really are pulling a lot of amps at a relatively large voltage. These things could double as a moving stove-top. Alright that was stupid..
As my gift to you, I'm gonna shut my mouth.
The 666 rumor comes about from illiterate, non-mathematical conspiracy theorists.. On a barcode, the black bars represent 1 and white bars represent 0. Most of us, I hope, understand that. When the barcode scanner reads the barcode, it must know when to start reading and stop reading, and it does this by finding the code "101" you see at the beginning and end of the barcode. Also, in the middle of every UPC is a 01010 combination, which basically tells the scanner that it has reached the middle of the barcode. The beginning, middle, and end lines are longer than the rest, and some people think that these longer lines represent the number 666. Actually, 101 in binary is 5, so if you are that paranoid and into conspiracy theories, the longs lines on the barcode read "555"
Can anyone find out where these guys live? Maybe we can help them out by signing them all up for a couple truck loads of mail like that sap Alan Ralsky..
Well, I didn't just magically upgrade to a new one. In my previous post, I didn't mention that it wasn't only the calculator that was writing strange messages. This was at least 5 years ago now, but I kept good documentation on everything so I could remember what happened later.
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My computer was also acting funny. For example, I'd come home to play a game of good old Warcraft II, and one of the computer opponents would start attacking the other computer opponents (something a skilled Warcraft II player would know doesn't happen). The computer started typing binary messages on the screen (which I took screen shots of). I started typing back to it, telling it to talk in english, and it said the same thing as my TI-86... go kill someone, you must avenge my death, blah blah blah, you will die, you must surrender immediately, etc. etc. etc. It was even calling me by name. My computer wasn't even connected to the internet, so it wasn't someone else getting into my machine. The computer ended up cheating a lot (i.e. ogres in the first minute of the game, that really pissed me off) and I got freaked out and deleted the game. Yes, it was a sad day. Never had any trouble with starcraft though
So the point of telling you all that was to show that it wasn't only my calculator that was getting possessed, but also other electronic equipment around me (printers also went nuts when I walked into a computer lab, room, etc.) Well with the calcalator, I started to resist the temptation to translate the messages on my screen and started deleting them. After a week or two of doing this, I started getting fewer and fewer messages, until finally it kind of just stopped happening. I continued to use my TI-86 calculator for quite some time after that, until that fateful day when it fell off my desk and broke the screen. That's when I decided to give in and get the TI-89.
Moral of the story: Don't talk back to electronic equipment, because everyone's gonna think that you and the 10 people that interacted with it are all nuts.
This is a short summary of a true story, whether or not the rest of my scientific-based-method friends believe it. I once had a TI-86 calculator type messages to me in the text editor on the calculator. The raw text would appear as if someone was pushing the letters without hitting the "alpha" key twice to lock the letters. So, it looked like a bunch of garbage on the display, sort of like this: E944-0-+23/| My friends would find a garbage looking message on the calculator and hit the alpha key twice, push the sequency of letters on the screen, and messages would come up saying "You must avenge my death. You are my troth. You must kill (insert random person here)" To that effect. We (friends and I) would type questions into the calculator, set it down on the table and stare at it for 2 minutes, and then pick it back up to see the response. Nobody was typing in the messages themselves, and we made sure of this by observing who handled the calculator and what they typed (score 1 for the scientific method). Every time we looked for a response, there was something more written there. One time I wrote in some equations to my calculator for a test, and as I was taking the test I was using those equations. Well, half way through the test my whole equation cheat sheet got deleted and replaced with the words "DON'T CHEAT." A friend sitting next to me looked at me at the same time with a confused look on his face. He asked if something had just happened to my calculator, because his just flashed the words "DIE" on the screen for a moment. Just a tid-bit I thought I'd throw in there. This scared the hell out of everybody, including a few teachers who witnessed the events over a course of 6 months (hopefully those teachers didn't witness those equations I wrote in my calculator ;). The thing that possessed the calculator didn't really say anything useful, just said it's name was "doomood" and it was obviously pretty upset because it wanted my friends and I to go kill people for it.
I eventually started ignoring it, and it eventually stopped typing messages on my calculator.
I'd say in the end, it was both entertaining and scary to everyone who encountered it. Some people don't believe the store (I'm sure some of you are like that) but everyone who was a first-hand witness won't deny it. Freaky TI-86's. Thank goodness I upgraded to the 89.