Why did you put in the sarcasm block? I don't see anything sarcastic about it. In a capitalist society/world there are two groups of people, capital and labor. The labor group are the ones usually getting the short end of the stick so why not do what you can to move to the capital group. Let your money and chinese peasants work for you while you sip on fruit and alcohol concoctions on the beach. I guess I'm sort of a pragmatic that way in that if you can't beat em', join em'. Same way if you live in a communist society, do what you have to do to get your party card. Government and politicians are corrupt on the left and the right, just add that to the equation for success and work around/with it.
I agree with your comments. The one thing that skilled-trades does have going for it in a non-functioning economy is that a lot of the services they perform (plumbing, carpentry, mechanic, etc.) are still needed by most regular folks and can easily be traded for goods produced by others (I'll build you a chicken coop for 3 dozen eggs and 4lbs of chicken meat for example). If Great Depression like times do come back, I don't see a huge desire for people to have fancy webpages or install a virus scanner.
And like you said, learn to be self-sufficient. Learn to hunt and fish and garden. Have some place to go that's not totally dependent on public utilities to live in (a cabin with a wood burning stove, candles or oil lamps, pit toilet, well and hand pump). Hopefully I'll never have to use my cabin in Northern MI because of desperate times, but I have a great place to vacation and relax and it's there should I need a place to 'weather the storm'.
It's Lotto monetary logistics. You know, that 'If I had a bunch of money I would buy xxx' financial plan. Lots of people here in the US are already masters of this strategy. I guess we are outsourcing that as well.
Tell your kids to go into skilled-trades (plumber, electrician, etc.) These jobs are a lot harder to outsource and you don't usually have to go through 4 years of debt increasing schooling just to be eligible to start getting experience.
When China leapfrogs the rest of the developed world and becomes the leader in inovation and R&D, the rest of the world can steal their ideas and just use all the technology they invented. Who's going to be the next Marco Polo?
Make groovy cases for all the modders out there with purple cross-hatch designs all over them. Just think of the untapped market for blade servers with neon lights, plexi-glass windows and purple crosshatch all over them.
Or we can just find the crushed remains of a T-800 Model 101. Just beware when your computer starts talking to you in broken English with an Austrian accent.
You just don't pay enought attention. I have all my fruits and vegetables beg for mercy on the cutting board while I fill the kitchen with a menacing laugh. You should see the look on the carrot's face when I cut the tomato in half and slurp out his innards.
That saying needs to be discontinued. The new benchmark is the Segway. From now on everyone should be saying something is the greatest invention since the Segway.
For those who don't RTFA, I have the reason to do it. Check out the Time article. On the first page is a picture of Carrie Fischer and her stunt double dressed in the Jabba whore outfit suntanning. May the Schwartz(tm) be with you.
And just to add to that my opinion of how kick ass these microcontrollers are. They are easy and cheap to purchase in low quantities, there are lots compilers, assemblers, debuggers and what not that are freely or cheaply available and the programmers are not too expensive (or free if you chose to build one yourself). Mix that with a wide range of products that have lots of cool and useful functions built in (A/D converters, USB, serial, SPI, watchdog timers, counter/timers, etc). These are bread & butter to the electronics hobbyist.
Not to nitpick but the X and Y axis pins on the gameport don't take in signals coming from the controller. The controller has a potentiometer for each axis. These pots are hooked directly to the X and Y axis and respective return pins on the port. The gameport has a fixed capacitance for both axes as well. The gameport controller then uses a timing circuit to measure the RC time constant for each axis. Since the capacitance is fixed, the resistance can then be figured out and translated to a position. Gamepads that are digital in nature just have a 0, mid-range and full-range resistance value for each axis.
As far as the diodes in the conversion circuits, I can't comment specifically on what those do without looking at a schematic but for most parallel port ciruits I have seen the diodes are simply used to leach power from a couple of ouput pins instead of having to use an external power supply or something that has a specific power pin like the keyboard connector.
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Why did you put in the sarcasm block? I don't see anything sarcastic about it. In a capitalist society/world there are two groups of people, capital and labor. The labor group are the ones usually getting the short end of the stick so why not do what you can to move to the capital group. Let your money and chinese peasants work for you while you sip on fruit and alcohol concoctions on the beach. I guess I'm sort of a pragmatic that way in that if you can't beat em', join em'. Same way if you live in a communist society, do what you have to do to get your party card. Government and politicians are corrupt on the left and the right, just add that to the equation for success and work around/with it.
How about having a computer case made out of bakelite.
I agree with your comments. The one thing that skilled-trades does have going for it in a non-functioning economy is that a lot of the services they perform (plumbing, carpentry, mechanic, etc.) are still needed by most regular folks and can easily be traded for goods produced by others (I'll build you a chicken coop for 3 dozen eggs and 4lbs of chicken meat for example). If Great Depression like times do come back, I don't see a huge desire for people to have fancy webpages or install a virus scanner.
And like you said, learn to be self-sufficient. Learn to hunt and fish and garden. Have some place to go that's not totally dependent on public utilities to live in (a cabin with a wood burning stove, candles or oil lamps, pit toilet, well and hand pump). Hopefully I'll never have to use my cabin in Northern MI because of desperate times, but I have a great place to vacation and relax and it's there should I need a place to 'weather the storm'.
I'm sure tubgirl will be getting in touch with you any day now.
Maybe we can put Opium in the Hello Kitties?
It's Lotto monetary logistics. You know, that 'If I had a bunch of money I would buy xxx' financial plan. Lots of people here in the US are already masters of this strategy. I guess we are outsourcing that as well.
Maybe Toby Keith's boot in their ass? Oh sorry, that's the where the sun don't shine policy. Sure has that Dubya twang to it though.
Tell your kids to go into skilled-trades (plumber, electrician, etc.) These jobs are a lot harder to outsource and you don't usually have to go through 4 years of debt increasing schooling just to be eligible to start getting experience.
When China leapfrogs the rest of the developed world and becomes the leader in inovation and R&D, the rest of the world can steal their ideas and just use all the technology they invented. Who's going to be the next Marco Polo?
First reference to being bi-geekxual?
What does that leave Sun with?
Make groovy cases for all the modders out there with purple cross-hatch designs all over them. Just think of the untapped market for blade servers with neon lights, plexi-glass windows and purple crosshatch all over them.
Or we can just find the crushed remains of a T-800 Model 101. Just beware when your computer starts talking to you in broken English with an Austrian accent.
All your speech are belong to us!
Does this mean the 'next big thing' in computers is to interface with them using speech in some Zork adventure like fashion?
What the hell are you saving it for? Atkin's approved protein shakes?
Team up with Inspector Gagdget and go after the evil Dr. Claw?
Maybe they could have avoided bankruptcy with all the power they would have generated.
don't show signs of pain when you cut them up
You just don't pay enought attention. I have all my fruits and vegetables beg for mercy on the cutting board while I fill the kitchen with a menacing laugh. You should see the look on the carrot's face when I cut the tomato in half and slurp out his innards.
That saying needs to be discontinued. The new benchmark is the Segway. From now on everyone should be saying something is the greatest invention since the Segway.
For those who don't RTFA, I have the reason to do it. Check out the Time article. On the first page is a picture of Carrie Fischer and her stunt double dressed in the Jabba whore outfit suntanning. May the Schwartz(tm) be with you.
And just to add to that my opinion of how kick ass these microcontrollers are. They are easy and cheap to purchase in low quantities, there are lots compilers, assemblers, debuggers and what not that are freely or cheaply available and the programmers are not too expensive (or free if you chose to build one yourself). Mix that with a wide range of products that have lots of cool and useful functions built in (A/D converters, USB, serial, SPI, watchdog timers, counter/timers, etc). These are bread & butter to the electronics hobbyist.
Not to nitpick but the X and Y axis pins on the gameport don't take in signals coming from the controller. The controller has a potentiometer for each axis. These pots are hooked directly to the X and Y axis and respective return pins on the port. The gameport has a fixed capacitance for both axes as well. The gameport controller then uses a timing circuit to measure the RC time constant for each axis. Since the capacitance is fixed, the resistance can then be figured out and translated to a position. Gamepads that are digital in nature just have a 0, mid-range and full-range resistance value for each axis.
As far as the diodes in the conversion circuits, I can't comment specifically on what those do without looking at a schematic but for most parallel port ciruits I have seen the diodes are simply used to leach power from a couple of ouput pins instead of having to use an external power supply or something that has a specific power pin like the keyboard connector.
I love that code. Here's the other one that has found some kind of permanent ROM type memory in my brain:
007 373 5963
Here's some keywords to feed into the Google oracle:
Bertram Gross
Consolidated
"Friendly Fascism"
If you need anymore help it means the teevee has already confiscated your powers of free thought.
Friendly fascism, having so much fun, what else do you need?