Be that as it may, the points put forth are accurate. The music industry is a racket. There isn't very much good music being produced anymore because of the music industry.
In the southeast, we have more urgent need for backup power. Hurricanes, ice storms and blizzards have brought widespread power outages lasting for more than a week per episode. During the 90s, North Carolina has seen several hurricanes cause massive power outages. There have been 2 blizzards and numerous ice storms which have also caused widespread power outages. It is not easy to determine the effects of deregulation on the restoration efforts after these storms but when you are one of the ones without power, you think about this stuff. Generator and inverter sales are brisk these days.
This sort of thing just goes to show why the whole concept of a public utility is severely outdated and needs to be replaced. Government interventionalism worked back in the days of building an infrastructure, but it invariably fails when it comes to maintaining and expanding a service.
Why? What is inherently different about building an infrastructure versus exapnding it? Many of the same issues are involved. Either way you've got NIMBY and emminent domain issues. It's like a road. Who the hell is going to build a road, then let everyone drive on it? Infrastructure is one of the few legitimate functions of government. The others are defense and justice.
What America needs is to have more privitised utilities - look at the success we've had with our health service, it is the envy of the world with the best equipped hospitals to be found anywhere. Surely it is obvious that this success could be used elsewhere, such as in an ailing electrical market.
The market isn't ailing. The transmission lines, generating plants and distribution lines are getting old. And now we're allowing these "energy broker" companies to buy, sell and trade power over these same facilities, stressing them even more. It's a wonder we haven't seen more problems. The health care industry is not comparable to the electric power industry and it isn't that our health care system is all that great, it's that the rest of the world sucks more.
Of course, the only real danger here is that the Government will attempt to privatise the industry whilst remaining in control of it through legislation and "industry watchdogs", stifling the benefits that privitisation should bring. As I'm sure all libertarians out there would agree, that would not be a good thing at all for anyone.
You're right but for the wrong reasons. Infrastructure is a legitimate function of government, one of the few. Not all libertarians are anarchists.
The electric power grid problems are not comparable to the Y2K thing. The grid is old. It can't be expanded easily, publicly or privately. And now, the "energy broker" companies are overloading the hell out of it and lining their pockets. Sooner or later, something will give. My advice to everyone reading this is buy a little generator.
and even on my NT machine I have given my normal user ID full admin priviledge because it takes about 3 minutes to log out and log back in again, and there is no equivalent to "su".
Yes there is - you are obviously a clueless admin and should not be let near an NT box. Runnign you normal account ith admin privs is wrong. It's your fault and not the O/S's when it back fires on you.
You must be admin to install stuff and then be able to run it as yourself. If you know of a "su" equivalent, please enlighten me. I've never heard tell of one.
The message is loud and clear: We want to keep using mIcKeY$oFt crap. If you rain on our parade, we're going to nail you good.
So they're going to send someone up for 7 years in PA. In NC, that's the penealty for bank robbery. Does passing a virus rate that much time? It's more than B&E, assault, assault & battery or assault with a deadly weapon. Either the penalties for these ought to be increased or they ought to back this don't For crying out loud. Every thing on the books is getting ratcheted up to 7 years. This breeds contempt for the law.
The next we know, Mexico will start trying to woo them. Maybe they'll try to get them to move to somewhere like, say, Juarez. Yeah, that's the ticket. Then Ross Perot will hear that giant sucking sound.
I'm surprised that people continue to make this mistake. Buffer overflows are one of the classic attacks. Then, this company boasts it's trustworthiness. It takes a long time to build up confidence in a product but it doesn't take long to shake that confidence.
When Harris Teeter gives you their VIC card which enables you to obtain discounts, they are selling your profile to lord knows who. Eventually people are going to be denied insurance claims or perhaps jobs because of their buying habits. They become an easily opened book. So when the cashier asks if I have a VIC card, I show her cash and say, "Here's my VIC crad."
These companies who offer such access will do exactly the same thing. They will spy on you. Heck, if they equip these computers with cameras, they basically have the same setup as described in Orwell's 1984.
At some point, data such as this will be used to spectacularly ruin someone's life. Perhaps a class of people will be screwed over en masse. I can imagine so many scenarios that there ain't no telling exactly what form this will take. It isn't a question of if; it's a question of when. Some person, group, company or government is bound to do it. The temptation is too great. Such a disaster is what will be required to get everyone's attention. We can warn people of the evils of all this glitzy Windows crap until we're blue in the face. They will not listen until it hits them where it hurts, in the wallet.
As many posters have already pointed out, companies can do whatever monitoring they like of your work habits. If they don't like what they see, they can fire you. Is this right? maybe. If they do it, are they assholes? You bet! Unemployment is at a 30 year low. Companies will even hire older workers these days. If some outfit is doing this, quit. I wouldn't hesitate to. Life is too short to squander.
Go ahead Metallica. Sic your lawyers on these kids. Trump up the charges some. Yeah. Get about 100,000 tossed in the can where they can languish for awhile. Tecnically, they have ripped you off. So they deserve to become the sex slaves of some tough con all because they took something that didn't belong to them, right? Most are guilty of larceny, right? Well, when people commit larceny by physically stealing as opposed to electronic larcency, they get sent to prison, don't they? Well then let's just stop all this huffing and puffing and get a little action going. Go ahead and do it! There has been much discussion about this topic. It's been hashed and rehashed. OK, Metallica, go ahead and test to see who is right. It'll be more interesting than the recent bout between ABC and Time Warner.
studio recording time is very expensive. production and mixing add more expense, as does promotion of the album. and perhaps the artist even spent a lot of time writing the songs (could time possibly be worth something?)
Not really. Many big records were made on a shoestring budget in the past 20 years, for example REM's first several records. Recording gear is lots more affordable. You're expounding on the labor theory of value. Because I have put alot into something, it is intrinsically more valuable. Not really. It is worth what people are willing to pay for it. That's the market theory of value. As for the cost of a CD. I've been in a few bands that have made CDs. 1000 CD's for ~ $5 a CD was the going rate. In one band, the drummer had a nice studio. In another we went to a local studio. SO the studio time varied from 0 to $800. If we had made more CDs, the cost per CD went down. If you're talking about a serious record, they'll be boxing CDs for $3 each, including studio time. So they mark them up to $17 and wonder why things like Napster evolve.
I'm not in favor of malicious hacking, or destructive behavior in general, but I am favor of some sense of justice in a justice system. What Kevin did was unethical and wrong, but should he really have spent more time in jail than many people convicted of armed robbery, rape, or murder?
Yep, if I get really angry with someone and ALMOST beat them to death, I would probably serve less time than Mitnick has. So, whatever you do, don't mess with korporate amerika!
Justice in amerika depends less on what is done and more on who is doing what to whom.
It is also perfectly legal for me to tape a CD and give a copy to my friend. As an owner of the CD, it is my right. It ONLY becomes a crime if I charge and make a profit.
I'm not a lawyer but I believe you are wrong about this. However, I will assert that this SHOULD be legal. If I copy Metallica's record and sell this copy for $x, Metallica can say I owe them $x. If I copy their record and give it to my friend, Metallica is saying this undermines their ability to sell records at retail price. In the first case, I have pocketed money Metallica should have pocketed. In the 2nd case, it is not so clear that the act of my giving a copy to my friend is picking their pocket.
It is abundantly clear that the recording industry has been gouging consumers for decades.
Jim told me something I hadn't quite grasped: the anonymous reporting culture is a growing business, now deeply entrenched in the United States, a result of the victimization movement and lawsuit epidemic rampant for nearly a generation. Encouraged by federal and local governments, and many corporate and educational institutions, hotlines operate all over the country to report date rape, sexual harassment, abuse, and other forms of brutality and insensitivity. Since so many institutions in the United States are now presumed to be unresponsive to the needs of one group or another, privately-administered anonymous reporting hotlines are spreading. Pinkerton itself runs more than 800 such lines. It was inevitable, said Jim, that they would move into schools, and that Pinkerton would extend its security expertise and set them up. I found this amazing, which made Jim shake his head and shrug. I was transfixed by the idea of a democratic country whose response to social problems was to create an entire new tradition of informing. It had been happening for some time, he told me.
SO that makes it right, hunh? Wow. That's incredible. Accountability has been thrown out the window. They have no problem with this whatsoever. It's astounding. I am not a dogmatically religious person but I spent enough time in Sunday school to learn the 10 commandments. One of those is, "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Rules are made because of past problems. Well, the business of bearing false witness is a very old problem and apparently, in the opinion of those who wrote the bible, a very big problem. It made the top ten. So, why tempt people with these anonymous snitching programs?
hotlines operate all over the country to report date rape, sexual harassment, abuse, and other forms of brutality
So, if you don't like the results you get from the system, set up another "system" to do an end run on it. Yeah, then you don't have to prove things; you only need to make the accusation. This is by definition a kangaroo court.
Who does now? Record companies? Artisits may see 50 cents to $1 per CD. In volume, it can't cost more than a $1.50 to make a CD and put it on a store shelf. The store takes a couple bucks and the record company gets the remaining $8 to $10.
Or perhaps you think that people shouldn't be able to write songs for a living
Very few people ever actually make a living off of playing music or writing it. Some live off teaching music or selling instruments, etc. but there just aren't all that many who can make a decent living. Even some of the famous acts out there are just middle class in their lifestyle. If anyone can do it, I say more power to 'em. I don't have any problem with paying artists for their art. I DO NOT WANT TO LINE THE POCKETS OF SOME FASCIST MEDIA CONGLOMERATE! It's not just the consumer who has been fleeced by the Record Industry, the artists have gotten the raw deal too. And newcomers who may never have been heard under the old system now can be heard by anyone who visits their website and downloads their MP3. Ask most musicians what they want most of all and most will tell you recognition. I never picked up an instrument to get rich. I do it because I love it. If I can make money that way, great. If not, that's OK. I haven't made squat so far. Heck, I've spent >$20,000 easily over the last 30 years buying guitars, amplifiers, PA equipment, lights, recording equipment, etc. I suspect what little most musicians get is of little consequence. They want recognition and oh yeah, I almost forgot girls. I don't know many better way to get a good girlfriend than to pick them up at a gig. It never paid the bills but it sure made me happy.:-)
After reading that interview, I feel better already.:-) At least Lewin is saying what a useless role his dubious company plays in protecting privacy with their feel-good-seal. It makes my blood boil to listen to some of the smug businessmen who want to screw people to make a profit. I've given up on the idea that the government is going to protect privacy. They have become big privacy offenders too, selling data to companies. The success of shaming people into doing right is limited. What's left? violence?
C'mon people. What has happened to what used to be a free society of individual thinkers.
Them what's paying half their income to the government ain't free.
Why do we look at a company to protect OUR data. Protect your data yourself. If a company isn't doing well by you and your personel information then tell everybody about it and NEVER go back to that site agian. It's simple, it's free, your giving back to your community and best of all, it works.
You would probably do as well to stay off the web as to do what you're talking about. Yes, shaming people into doing right has been somewhat successful in several sensationalized cases but it doesn't seem sufficient to stem the tide.
It's going to need a wombat heatsink and a 3&1/2 inch fan. I wonder if the power supplies out on the market can adequately power a system with one of these, a DVD, a ZIP, a bleeding edge video card, etc.
What about ICQ? Legal: Is it discoverable? Or is it like a telephone mentioned in the article.
Chat room transcripts have been used recently to prosecute people for setting up interstate rondevous with others posing as minors. The detective only has to cut and paste or stream everything to a logfile.
With bipolar transistor, a small amount of base current controls a larger amount or collector current. If you operate it in the linear region, you've made an amplifier. If you saturate it, you've made a switch. It's a current controlled current source.
An FET is a voltage controlled current source. A small change in gate to source voltage brings about a relatively large change in drain current. FETs can also be operated in a linear or "constant current" region. So you can make amplifiers or switches from them too.
Vacuum Tubes work similarly to FETs except that a "1" is damned big, say 100-400 Vdc! Instead of the gate and source you have a grid and cathode; instead of the drain, tubes have a plate.
... which brings me to magnetic amplifiers. The germans used these in the electrical controls of their U boats. They were totally sealed because they had no parts which would fail. They were extremely rugged, never going into microphonics like tubes would when some destroyers started pounding the sub with depth charges. Magnetic Amplifiers are made with toroidal square loop cores. A small current through a control winding established the volt-seconds of reset to the core. By varying this, much larger electrical signals can be regulated. If different core materials are substituted, it is possible to store the state of the core flux. Then you have core memory.
What these englishmen have figured out is how to microminiturize core memory without having to wind cores, etc.. Schweet!
Much as I disagree with the viewpoint of said library-filterers, there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to bring an initiative to the ballot in the same way that you or I can.
It depends on the nature of the initiative. If the intent is to gut the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, they are out of line. You don't simply vote away the Constitution. You don't pick and choose the parts cafeteria style. To the extent that goes on, liberty erodes. What we have, or perhaps had is rare. That's why some of us go ballistic when our neighbors start trying on jackboots.
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Be that as it may, the points put forth are accurate. The music industry is a racket. There isn't very much good music being produced anymore because of the music industry.
In the southeast, we have more urgent need for backup power. Hurricanes, ice storms and blizzards have brought widespread power outages lasting for more than a week per episode. During the 90s, North Carolina has seen several hurricanes cause massive power outages. There have been 2 blizzards and numerous ice storms which have also caused widespread power outages. It is not easy to determine the effects of deregulation on the restoration efforts after these storms but when you are one of the ones without power, you think about this stuff. Generator and inverter sales are brisk these days.
This sort of thing just goes to show why the whole concept of a public utility is severely outdated and needs to be replaced. Government interventionalism worked back in the days of building an infrastructure, but it invariably fails when it comes to maintaining and expanding a service.
Why? What is inherently different about building an infrastructure versus exapnding it? Many of the same issues are involved. Either way you've got NIMBY and emminent domain issues. It's like a road. Who the hell is going to build a road, then let everyone drive on it? Infrastructure is one of the few legitimate functions of government. The others are defense and justice.
What America needs is to have more privitised utilities - look at the success we've had with our health service, it is the envy of the world with the best equipped hospitals to be found anywhere. Surely it is obvious that this success could be used elsewhere, such as in an ailing electrical market.
The market isn't ailing. The transmission lines, generating plants and distribution lines are getting old. And now we're allowing these "energy broker" companies to buy, sell and trade power over these same facilities, stressing them even more. It's a wonder we haven't seen more problems. The health care industry is not comparable to the electric power industry and it isn't that our health care system is all that great, it's that the rest of the world sucks more.
Of course, the only real danger here is that the Government will attempt to privatise the industry whilst remaining in control of it through legislation and "industry watchdogs", stifling the benefits that privitisation should bring. As I'm sure all libertarians out there would agree, that would not be a good thing at all for anyone.
You're right but for the wrong reasons. Infrastructure is a legitimate function of government, one of the few. Not all libertarians are anarchists.
The electric power grid problems are not comparable to the Y2K thing. The grid is old. It can't be expanded easily, publicly or privately. And now, the "energy broker" companies are overloading the hell out of it and lining their pockets. Sooner or later, something will give. My advice to everyone reading this is buy a little generator.
and even on my NT machine I have given my normal user ID full admin priviledge because it takes about 3 minutes to log out and log back in again, and there is no equivalent to "su".
Yes there is - you are obviously a clueless admin and should not be let near an NT box. Runnign you normal account ith admin privs is wrong. It's your fault and not the O/S's when it back fires on you.
You must be admin to install stuff and then be able to run it as yourself. If you know of a "su" equivalent, please enlighten me. I've never heard tell of one.
The message is loud and clear: We want to keep using mIcKeY$oFt crap. If you rain on our parade, we're going to nail you good.
So they're going to send someone up for 7 years in PA. In NC, that's the penealty for bank robbery. Does passing a virus rate that much time? It's more than B&E, assault, assault & battery or assault with a deadly weapon. Either the penalties for these ought to be increased or they ought to back this don't For crying out loud. Every thing on the books is getting ratcheted up to 7 years. This breeds contempt for the law.
The next we know, Mexico will start trying to woo them. Maybe they'll try to get them to move to somewhere like, say, Juarez. Yeah, that's the ticket. Then Ross Perot will hear that giant sucking sound.
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I'm surprised that people continue to make this mistake. Buffer overflows are one of the classic attacks. Then, this company boasts it's trustworthiness. It takes a long time to build up confidence in a product but it doesn't take long to shake that confidence.
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When Harris Teeter gives you their VIC card which enables you to obtain discounts, they are selling your profile to lord knows who. Eventually people are going to be denied insurance claims or perhaps jobs because of their buying habits. They become an easily opened book. So when the cashier asks if I have a VIC card, I show her cash and say, "Here's my VIC crad."
These companies who offer such access will do exactly the same thing. They will spy on you. Heck, if they equip these computers with cameras, they basically have the same setup as described in Orwell's 1984.
At some point, data such as this will be used to spectacularly ruin someone's life. Perhaps a class of people will be screwed over en masse. I can imagine so many scenarios that there ain't no telling exactly what form this will take. It isn't a question of if; it's a question of when. Some person, group, company or government is bound to do it. The temptation is too great. Such a disaster is what will be required to get everyone's attention. We can warn people of the evils of all this glitzy Windows crap until we're blue in the face. They will not listen until it hits them where it hurts, in the wallet.
As many posters have already pointed out, companies can do whatever monitoring they like of your work habits. If they don't like what they see, they can fire you. Is this right? maybe. If they do it, are they assholes? You bet! Unemployment is at a 30 year low. Companies will even hire older workers these days. If some outfit is doing this, quit. I wouldn't hesitate to. Life is too short to squander.
Go ahead Metallica. Sic your lawyers on these kids. Trump up the charges some. Yeah. Get about 100,000 tossed in the can where they can languish for awhile. Tecnically, they have ripped you off. So they deserve to become the sex slaves of some tough con all because they took something that didn't belong to them, right? Most are guilty of larceny, right? Well, when people commit larceny by physically stealing as opposed to electronic larcency, they get sent to prison, don't they? Well then let's just stop all this huffing and puffing and get a little action going. Go ahead and do it! There has been much discussion about this topic. It's been hashed and rehashed. OK, Metallica, go ahead and test to see who is right. It'll be more interesting than the recent bout between ABC and Time Warner.
studio recording time is very expensive. production and mixing add more expense, as does promotion of the album. and perhaps the artist even spent a lot of time writing the songs (could time possibly be worth something?)
Not really. Many big records were made on a shoestring budget in the past 20 years, for example REM's first several records. Recording gear is lots more affordable. You're expounding on the labor theory of value. Because I have put alot into something, it is intrinsically more valuable. Not really. It is worth what people are willing to pay for it. That's the market theory of value. As for the cost of a CD. I've been in a few bands that have made CDs. 1000 CD's for ~ $5 a CD was the going rate. In one band, the drummer had a nice studio. In another we went to a local studio. SO the studio time varied from 0 to $800. If we had made more CDs, the cost per CD went down. If you're talking about a serious record, they'll be boxing CDs for $3 each, including studio time. So they mark them up to $17 and wonder why things like Napster evolve.
I'm not in favor of malicious hacking, or destructive behavior in general, but I am favor of some sense of justice in a justice system. What Kevin did was unethical and wrong, but should he really have spent more time in jail than many people convicted of armed robbery, rape, or murder?
Yep, if I get really angry with someone and ALMOST beat them to death, I would probably serve less time than Mitnick has. So, whatever you do, don't mess with korporate amerika!
Justice in amerika depends less on what is done and more on who is doing what to whom.
It is also perfectly legal for me to tape a CD and give a copy to my friend. As an owner of the CD, it is my right. It ONLY becomes a crime if I charge and make a profit.
I'm not a lawyer but I believe you are wrong about this. However, I will assert that this SHOULD be legal. If I copy Metallica's record and sell this copy for $x, Metallica can say I owe them $x. If I copy their record and give it to my friend, Metallica is saying this undermines their ability to sell records at retail price. In the first case, I have pocketed money Metallica should have pocketed. In the 2nd case, it is not so clear that the act of my giving a copy to my friend is picking their pocket.
It is abundantly clear that the recording industry has been gouging consumers for decades.
Jim told me something I hadn't quite grasped: the anonymous reporting culture is a growing business, now deeply entrenched in the United States, a result of the victimization movement and lawsuit epidemic rampant for nearly a generation. Encouraged by federal and local governments, and many corporate and educational institutions, hotlines operate all over the country to report date rape, sexual harassment, abuse, and other forms of brutality and insensitivity. Since so many institutions in the United States are now presumed to be unresponsive to the needs of one group or another, privately-administered anonymous reporting hotlines are spreading. Pinkerton itself runs more than 800 such lines. It was inevitable, said Jim, that they would move into schools, and that Pinkerton would extend its security expertise and set them up. I found this amazing, which made Jim shake his head and shrug. I was transfixed by the idea of a democratic country whose response to social problems was to create an entire new tradition of informing. It had been happening for some time, he told me.
SO that makes it right, hunh? Wow. That's incredible. Accountability has been thrown out the window. They have no problem with this whatsoever. It's astounding. I am not a dogmatically religious person but I spent enough time in Sunday school to learn the 10 commandments. One of those is, "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Rules are made because of past problems. Well, the business of bearing false witness is a very old problem and apparently, in the opinion of those who wrote the bible, a very big problem. It made the top ten. So, why tempt people with these anonymous snitching programs?
hotlines operate all over the country to report date rape, sexual harassment, abuse, and other forms of brutality
So, if you don't like the results you get from the system, set up another "system" to do an end run on it. Yeah, then you don't have to prove things; you only need to make the accusation. This is by definition a kangaroo court.
So who's going to pay the songwriter's bills?
:-)
Who does now? Record companies? Artisits may see 50 cents to $1 per CD. In volume, it can't cost more than a $1.50 to make a CD and put it on a store shelf. The store takes a couple bucks and the record company gets the remaining $8 to $10.
Or perhaps you think that people shouldn't be able to write songs for a living
Very few people ever actually make a living off of playing music or writing it. Some live off teaching music or selling instruments, etc. but there just aren't all that many who can make a decent living. Even some of the famous acts out there are just middle class in their lifestyle. If anyone can do it, I say more power to 'em. I don't have any problem with paying artists for their art. I DO NOT WANT TO LINE THE POCKETS OF SOME FASCIST MEDIA CONGLOMERATE! It's not just the consumer who has been fleeced by the Record Industry, the artists have gotten the raw deal too. And newcomers who may never have been heard under the old system now can be heard by anyone who visits their website and downloads their MP3. Ask most musicians what they want most of all and most will tell you recognition. I never picked up an instrument to get rich. I do it because I love it. If I can make money that way, great. If not, that's OK. I haven't made squat so far. Heck, I've spent >$20,000 easily over the last 30 years buying guitars, amplifiers, PA equipment, lights, recording equipment, etc. I suspect what little most musicians get is of little consequence. They want recognition and oh yeah, I almost forgot girls. I don't know many better way to get a good girlfriend than to pick them up at a gig. It never paid the bills but it sure made me happy.
After reading that interview, I feel better already. :-) At least Lewin is saying what a useless role his dubious company plays in protecting privacy with their feel-good-seal. It makes my blood boil to listen to some of the smug businessmen who want to screw people to make a profit. I've given up on the idea that the government is going to protect privacy. They have become big privacy offenders too, selling data to companies. The success of shaming people into doing right is limited. What's left? violence?
C'mon people. What has happened to what used to be a free society of individual thinkers.
Them what's paying half their income to the government ain't free.
Why do we look at a company to protect OUR data. Protect your data yourself. If a company isn't doing well by you and your personel information then tell everybody about it and NEVER go back to that site agian. It's simple, it's free, your giving back to your community and best of all, it works.
You would probably do as well to stay off the web as to do what you're talking about. Yes, shaming people into doing right has been somewhat successful in several sensationalized cases but it doesn't seem sufficient to stem the tide.
It's going to need a wombat heatsink and a 3&1/2 inch fan. I wonder if the power supplies out on the market can adequately power a system with one of these, a DVD, a ZIP, a bleeding edge video card, etc.
What about ICQ? Legal: Is it discoverable? Or is it like a telephone mentioned in the article.
Chat room transcripts have been used recently to prosecute people for setting up interstate rondevous with others posing as minors. The detective only has to cut and paste or stream everything to a logfile.
Theft of trade secrets qualifies. Once secret information is distributed, the victim no longer has secret information. He stole their secrets.
Sure, why not.
With bipolar transistor, a small amount of base current controls a larger amount or collector current. If you operate it in the linear region, you've made an amplifier. If you saturate it, you've made a switch. It's a current controlled current source.
An FET is a voltage controlled current source. A small change in gate to source voltage brings about a relatively large change in drain current. FETs can also be operated in a linear or "constant current" region. So you can make amplifiers or switches from them too.
Vacuum Tubes work similarly to FETs except that a "1" is damned big, say 100-400 Vdc! Instead of the gate and source you have a grid and cathode; instead of the drain, tubes have a plate.
... which brings me to magnetic amplifiers. The germans used these in the electrical controls of their U boats. They were totally sealed because they had no parts which would fail. They were extremely rugged, never going into microphonics like tubes would when some destroyers started pounding the sub with depth charges. Magnetic Amplifiers are made with toroidal square loop cores. A small current through a control winding established the volt-seconds of reset to the core. By varying this, much larger electrical signals can be regulated. If different core materials are substituted, it is possible to store the state of the core flux. Then you have core memory.
What these englishmen have figured out is how to microminiturize core memory without having to wind cores, etc.. Schweet!
As my grandpa would say, "It ain't fit to wrap fish in."
I guess local content is about all they have going for them but the management is a bunch of old fogeys and fuddie-duddies.
Yep, looks like Yoohoo yanked it.
Much as I disagree with the viewpoint of said library-filterers, there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to bring an initiative to the ballot in the same way that you or I can.
It depends on the nature of the initiative. If the intent is to gut the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, they are out of line. You don't simply vote away the Constitution. You don't pick and choose the parts cafeteria style. To the extent that goes on, liberty erodes. What we have, or perhaps had is rare. That's why some of us go ballistic when our neighbors start trying on jackboots.