The cops are working people. All around the country, police forces are being cut. The cops roughing up protesters could find themselves being laid off when city revenues fall.
It is all too common to see people working against their own interests.
Personally I'd like the test equipment spinoff to buy the trademarked name back. Id like to see a new line of "HP" spectrum analyzers or "HP" scopes. HP had a beyond spectacular reputation for test equipment years ago...
Amen. HP test equipment was top notch. It was so well made, much of it is still in service. I have a model 400D Vacuum tube voltmeter and the legendary 200CD sine wave oscillator that can source 80Vp-p. Both still work.
HP also made the best calculators at one time. My 25 year old HP-15C calculator still works after decades of heavy use and abuse.
Can the HP brand name be salvaged? I don't know. Much damage has been done, maybe too much.
Companies have cost-cut themselves into oblivion. They've outsourced themselves out of business. That demonstrates the folly of their business model. Look at the results. If your course of action results in your undoing, it is clearly wrong. And yet, they march like lemmings to the sea.
The worst part is by the time enough people realize what we've lost and why, it may be to late.
CFLs have displaced incandescent light bulbs in many applications but incandescents still have their place.
CFLs have a warning on their base that putting them in enclosed fixtures such as ceiling fixtures and recessed fixtures can shorten their life.
I haven't seen any low intensity CFLs. There are still 15 Watt incandescents which can fit a standard light socket.
The CFL floodlights don't perform as well as incandescents. For home use, I seldom leave my outdoor floods on for extended periods. But when I want to investigate a sound, I want full intensity right then. The CFLs I've tried had a warm up characteristic.
I still like the look of incandescent christmas lights, especially the C7 and C9 flasher types.
LED stage lighting is a mixed bag. It uses less power and doesn't get nearly as hot but incandescent looks better. Some of the colored CFLs such as blue look really good. There's one club in the area using those with reflector fixtures.
I doubt we'll see incandescent lights completely disappear from specialty use or from use in harsh environments.
Okay, the vinyl records, CRTs, incandescent light bulbs, and even the typewriter I can understand. But what could you possibly still be using that has vacuum tubes in it?
I have several Fender Guitar amplifiers which use tubes. I also have the mighty Ampeg SVT, the gold standard of bass amplifiers.
I have various test equipment which uses tubes: HP 200CD Oscillator (can put out 80 Vpp) (!) HP 400D Vacuum Tube Voltmeter Eico model 1030 power supply
At Carolina, the Engineering program had a professor who, one semester, failed -everyone-...except for the guy who was from the exact same part of India that he was.
... is the power supplies in the old gear. They had big stiff transformers and soup can sized capacitors which supplied a big reservoir of energy for bass transients. When they rated something at 50W per channel, they weren't fudging the specs.
The mid 70s was the high water mark of home audio, in so far as sound quality is concerned. Those beautiful Pioneer, Marantz, Kenwood, Fisher and Lafeyettes were the receivers to have. Many are still in the hands of collectors. I'm particularly partial to Pioneers made in '74-'75.
We used black masking tape of various widths on a clear mylar sheet, typically at 2:1.
The advantage of hand layout is you can create virtually any shape you need. This is important for power electronics where wide traces are needed to carry large currents or to conduct heat away from components.
But, it looks like the first party crasher is here, and now we wait to see how many friends he brought with him.
One such "party" site is drudgereport. On 2 occasions recently, drudgereport pushed that crap to my Mac. I promptly trashed it but that's sleazy of Drudge to do such a thing and I ain't goin' back no time soon.
"Some of the people(just Indians, forget about Europeans who contributed so much) who would have been not been able to do what they did:"
Are you saying all these individuals came in the US on temporary work visas?
Could they not start companies outside the US?
What is the benefit to US citizens of bringing in foreign nationals on temporary work visas to ultimately become the CEOs of established companies like Pepsico, Citigroup, HP, Motorola, Mastercard, etc.?
Besides the higher cost, the mercury content and being made in China (which is probably true of most incandescent bulbs today too), there are other drawbacks.
At least one poster has cited reliability. There's fine print on most CFLs warning of reduced life if placed in an enclosed fixture. There are no such limitations on incandescent bulbs.
I've had a half dozen go bad during the past few years. None were in an enclosed fixture. I don't recall ever going through that many incandescent bulbs. One made a snap-crackle-pop noise when it went out and it's base was too hot to touch, raising concerns of the fire safety of these products.
The power factor of CFLs is about 0.44 leading. The power company must supply the vars for this free. They can only charge us for watts and can't charge for reactive power. Incandescent bulbs have a power factor of nearly unity.
The movie industry doesn't seem to get it at all - and the big issue isn't Blu-Ray copying anyway - the future will be streaming video on the net instead.
Yep. This is just another nail in Blu-Ray's coffin.
Newsflash, 'Foxhaters': Fox is not the only network to pick and choose what they say and how, and/or to use the words of others in the same way in order to boost their ratings. There have been many egregious examples of this by the other AlphabetSoup mass media outlets - ABC/CNN/PBS/CBS/NBC/BBC etc etc..
You're right. All the big networks sensationalize stuff like this to get ratings. But, as another poster pointed out, this is story is about Fox's presentation. I seriously doubt coverage of this game would have fared any better on CNN had they covered it.
It is worth noting that many Fox anchors, reporters and correspondents are former CNN employees.It is also worth noting that all these big networks are owed by a few companies. So all of them are going to behave similarly.
The left-right dichotomy between the networks comes off to me like professional wrestling. The body slams are real enough but the whole thing proceeds according to a script.
"You can pretty much do any level of study work (not involving actual actions or other people), as long as you don't pretend to be what you are not, use false credentials, and don't charge someone for the work."
Therein lies the rub, the part about not involving other people. That muddies the water somewhat because this was a group of concerned citizens.
Apart from that, I agree with you. He didn't misrepresent himself.
MADD's goal is prohibition. Along the way they make alliances with politicians and companies eager to manufacture devices like this. If they succeed in getting this crap mandated on all cars, clever drunks will circumvent it and less technologically savvy teetotalers will find themselves unable to drive once these sensors fail. Just look at all the O2 sensor failures. This one will fail too and likely be expensive to replace. Maybe this is what it will take to turn the public against MADD. Go for it MADD. Hike up the cost and failure rate of cars.
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Those protesters on Wall Street have a point, everyone gets hurt when the bank CEOs screw up, but those most responsible.
Herman Cain says it's the protester's faults if they don't have job. After all, this is 2011 and what the bankers did was in 2008.
The cops are working people. All around the country, police forces are being cut. The cops roughing up protesters could find themselves being laid off when city revenues fall.
It is all too common to see people working against their own interests.
... so that the real estate agents could continue to do things the way they've done them for 30 years ...
lawyers too
Personally I'd like the test equipment spinoff to buy the trademarked name back. Id like to see a new line of "HP" spectrum analyzers or "HP" scopes. HP had a beyond spectacular reputation for test equipment years ago ...
Amen. HP test equipment was top notch. It was so well made, much of it is still in service. I have a model 400D Vacuum tube voltmeter and the legendary 200CD sine wave oscillator that can source 80Vp-p. Both still work.
HP also made the best calculators at one time. My 25 year old HP-15C calculator still works after decades of heavy use and abuse.
Can the HP brand name be salvaged? I don't know. Much damage has been done, maybe too much.
Companies have cost-cut themselves into oblivion. They've outsourced themselves out of business. That demonstrates the folly of their business model. Look at the results. If your course of action results in your undoing, it is clearly wrong. And yet, they march like lemmings to the sea.
The worst part is by the time enough people realize what we've lost and why, it may be to late.
CFLs have displaced incandescent light bulbs in many applications but incandescents still have their place.
CFLs have a warning on their base that putting them in enclosed fixtures such as ceiling fixtures and recessed fixtures can shorten their life.
I haven't seen any low intensity CFLs. There are still 15 Watt incandescents which can fit a standard light socket.
The CFL floodlights don't perform as well as incandescents. For home use, I seldom leave my outdoor floods on for extended periods. But when I want to investigate a sound, I want full intensity right then. The CFLs I've tried had a warm up characteristic.
I still like the look of incandescent christmas lights, especially the C7 and C9 flasher types.
LED stage lighting is a mixed bag. It uses less power and doesn't get nearly as hot but incandescent looks better. Some of the colored CFLs such as blue look really good. There's one club in the area using those with reflector fixtures.
I doubt we'll see incandescent lights completely disappear from specialty use or from use in harsh environments.
Okay, the vinyl records, CRTs, incandescent light bulbs, and even the typewriter I can understand. But what could you possibly still be using that has vacuum tubes in it?
I have several Fender Guitar amplifiers which use tubes. I also have the mighty Ampeg SVT, the gold standard of bass amplifiers.
I have various test equipment which uses tubes:
HP 200CD Oscillator (can put out 80 Vpp) (!)
HP 400D Vacuum Tube Voltmeter
Eico model 1030 power supply
The problem is Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Voter can't tell the difference between "accused" and "convicted".
Many of them don't care about the difference between accused and convicted.
At Carolina, the Engineering program had a professor who, one semester, failed -everyone- ...except for the guy who was from the exact same part of India that he was.
Do you mean South Carolina?
... is the power supplies in the old gear. They had big stiff transformers and soup can sized capacitors which supplied a big reservoir of energy for bass transients. When they rated something at 50W per channel, they weren't fudging the specs.
The mid 70s was the high water mark of home audio, in so far as sound quality is concerned. Those beautiful Pioneer, Marantz, Kenwood, Fisher and Lafeyettes were the receivers to have. Many are still in the hands of collectors. I'm particularly partial to Pioneers made in '74-'75.
See http://www.silverpioneer.netfirms.com/
As it turns out, leaving the damn thing plugged in all the time and never draining the charge severely shortens the life of the cells.
Yep, they have "memory". They have to be cycled or they won't hold a charge. But that's a separate issue from the firmware.
I do believe that the majority of americans, myself included, support space travel and exploration.
Hell yeah and I'd rather see tax money spent on space exploration than thrown down a rat hole on these wars.
We used black masking tape of various widths on a clear mylar sheet, typically at 2:1.
The advantage of hand layout is you can create virtually any shape you need. This is important for power electronics where wide traces are needed to carry large currents or to conduct heat away from components.
hmmm. I didn't see any pictures on that NY Times page.
Do you realize that the US is the largest manufacturer in the world not China.
the largest manufacturer of what? certainly not electronics such TVs, phones, computers and games
Practically all that stuff is made in China.
It depends on what items you're talking about. No doubt the US still has a lead in some areas.
If laws like this are getting passed, the end is near. The boneheads who put this through are generally running things.
But, it looks like the first party crasher is here, and now we wait to see how many friends he brought with him.
One such "party" site is drudgereport. On 2 occasions recently, drudgereport pushed that crap to my Mac. I promptly trashed it but that's sleazy of Drudge to do such a thing and I ain't goin' back no time soon.
Hell no, bucky, prison is a for profit industry these days.
Yeah. Just watch Locked Up on MSNBC. We have the largest prison population in the world. This law will only add to it.
All kinds of offenses have been trumped up into felonies. They might as well do away with misdemeanor.
"Some of the people(just Indians, forget about Europeans who contributed so much) who would have been not been able to do what they did:"
Are you saying all these individuals came in the US on temporary work visas?
Could they not start companies outside the US?
What is the benefit to US citizens of bringing in foreign nationals on temporary work visas to ultimately become the CEOs of established companies like Pepsico, Citigroup, HP, Motorola, Mastercard, etc.?
Besides the higher cost, the mercury content and being made in China (which is probably true of most incandescent bulbs today too), there are other drawbacks.
At least one poster has cited reliability. There's fine print on most CFLs warning of reduced life if placed in an enclosed fixture. There are no such limitations on incandescent bulbs.
I've had a half dozen go bad during the past few years. None were in an enclosed fixture. I don't recall ever going through that many incandescent bulbs. One made a snap-crackle-pop noise when it went out and it's base was too hot to touch, raising concerns of the fire safety of these products.
The power factor of CFLs is about 0.44 leading. The power company must supply the vars for this free. They can only charge us for watts and can't charge for reactive power. Incandescent bulbs have a power factor of nearly unity.
The movie industry doesn't seem to get it at all - and the big issue isn't Blu-Ray copying anyway - the future will be streaming video on the net instead.
Yep. This is just another nail in Blu-Ray's coffin.
Newsflash, 'Foxhaters': Fox is not the only network to pick and choose what they say and how, and/or to use the words of others in the same way in order to boost their ratings. There have been many egregious examples of this by the other AlphabetSoup mass media outlets - ABC/CNN/PBS/CBS/NBC/BBC etc etc..
You're right. All the big networks sensationalize stuff like this to get ratings. But, as another poster pointed out, this is story is about Fox's presentation. I seriously doubt coverage of this game would have fared any better on CNN had they covered it.
It is worth noting that many Fox anchors, reporters and correspondents are former CNN employees.It is also worth noting that all these big networks are owed by a few companies. So all of them are going to behave similarly.
The left-right dichotomy between the networks comes off to me like professional wrestling. The body slams are real enough but the whole thing proceeds according to a script.
"You can pretty much do any level of study work (not involving actual actions or other people), as long as you don't pretend to be what you are not, use false credentials, and don't charge someone for the work."
Therein lies the rub, the part about not involving other people. That muddies the water somewhat because this was a group of concerned citizens.
Apart from that, I agree with you. He didn't misrepresent himself.
This is all about sending a message.
MADD's goal is prohibition. Along the way they make alliances with politicians and companies eager to manufacture devices like this. If they succeed in getting this crap mandated on all cars, clever drunks will circumvent it and less technologically savvy teetotalers will find themselves unable to drive once these sensors fail. Just look at all the O2 sensor failures. This one will fail too and likely be expensive to replace. Maybe this is what it will take to turn the public against MADD. Go for it MADD. Hike up the cost and failure rate of cars.
You cannot hurt anyone with data.
Go tell it to the Egyptians.