Maybe try to establish an after-school club with Raspberry Pis? That takes it out of the domain of IT, which is probably the important thing to accomplish.
Correct. So the kind of little Nestor who fears being different can buy this year's Apple laptop and not worry about making the grave mistake of buying the "wrong" computer and facing the scorn of his social peers. There is even a feeling of membership in owning the Apple e-meter. To do otherwise would risk having the label "unmutual" cast upon one.
The bread bullshit in the summary is what got me. Before WWII, most bread was baked at home. This guy seems enamored with brands. In an earlier life was he a marketing fuck?
I don't feel sorry for the people who spend $100,000 for a car and then can't sell it for $16,000 five years later because repair costs are astronomical. But it's something that should be considered before buying.
You forgot the scare quotes. Because if you have no interest in using the 'nice' aquatic center all it is going to do is raise the property tax on the house you don't ever plan to move out of ( because you're not a corporate drone who moves wherever "the company" transfers you to) and also draw in lots of new traffic to the neighborhood.
Big data operations like Google are part of the reason Obama was even elected. He had the engines of Big Data churning for his benefit throughout both elections. Especially for the first election.
There are a lot of talented people working at Google, but the founders got there by being first, and finding the right advertising syndicates to sponsor them.
It was probably cheap phenolic. Shitty consumer electronics doesn't come on fibreglass. The 'smarts' of the clock are probably under an epoxy bubble and the circuit board single sided, without plated holes.
So there wasn't even much of a learning opportunity for the kid in taking it apart.
I think you meant to type "fortunately, my area doesn't grab as much of my income in the form of taxes to fund lousy public transportation."
I know for certain that my taxes are lower because there isn't a huge mass transit infrastructure to support. The county has a well managed group of vans to get people who are older or handicapped and unable to get around. The rest of us manage on our own. My vehicle is a 2006 model and has been paid for for about 5 years now.
We always make fun of the Windows people for just reinstalling the whole thing when something happens that is wrong.
After the warranty period is over, do we want replacing the whole drive train to be what the service people are experienced with doing to fix problems?
I meant more than just a machine-to-machine comparison. A 1978 computer of relatively high capability was a big expensive thing. The owner probably paid $1000 for the 32K memory card. So it probably has a high quality OEM linear power supply made by one of the companies that specializes in making high quality power supplies. Power One, or Kepco, or Thoradson. One of those big 12 ga. aluminum block linear supplies that were popular in that era.
The Amiga has a power supply on a single-sided phenolic board, and it's a switcher. Designed for a consumer electronics product.
The OEM power supply comes from a company with design teams dedicated to reliable design with purchasing and QA departments that pay a lot of attention to component quality. The rest of the computer is also more likely to have tantalum capacitors, rather than aluminum, because that just makes sense. You can afford to put a dipped tantalum cap next to a 1x256 bit DRAM chip when each DRAM chip costs $16.00.
It isn't even far to compare something like that to an Amiga power supply, or a TRS-80 or anything that hit the market after the boom of consumer-grade computing hit.
The Amiga was a great machine because it attained the balance of a 'good enough' design that people could afford it in mass quantities. But it makes sense that 20 years later a machine 5-10 years older than it with a very different build quality would be in better shape than it.
My Tektronix mainframes have great capacitors in them, and run well 40-50 years after they were made. I wouldn't expect as much from a cheap student 'scope from B&K Precision built 20 years ago.
If you want proof that their methods don't work, go look at their reports on...
I thought you said you don't listen to anything they say. Or do you cut and paste your comments from some Consumer Reports hate site that you frequent?
I have a first edition of Steinmetz's book on AC Phenomenon. It's really sad how little I had to pay for it, given it's probably pretty rare at this point. The showmen and boosters seem to always come off as the big heroes of society.
Big Medical Devices is very comfortable with regulation. Their Regulatory Affairs staffers are on a first name basis with the FDA staffers. And the high regulatory threshold keeps out upstarts. BMD can use 510k equivalency to get their next-Gen product approved at low cost. While owning the patents that keep upstart competitors from using the same approval process. The startups have to go through the whole clinical trials process.
I have a Mac SE/30 that runs NetBSD. However, it's sort of a toaster at running it. And X11 on a one bit monochrome 512x342 display is kind of limiting.
You want to rely on cross-compiling any packages you'd like to install, too. That 68030 will work it's heart out for you but not get a lot done.
The capacitors in a linear supply aren't really as critical. A switching supply, esp. one from the Amiga era, is going to just not want to spin up with badly leaking capacitors. A linear supply will power up with ripple and the caps will often form up gradually. Plus the quality of components in a 1978 machine is likely to be higher. The real problems with aluminum electrolytics started with the race-to-the-bottom PC clone market that came later.
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The cool thing about Raspberry Pis is that they can be student owned and kept totally separate from the IT department.
"It's electronics, go change the toner in the laserjet" is an appropriate answer if the IT Tech tries to interfere.
Maybe try to establish an after-school club with Raspberry Pis? That takes it out of the domain of IT, which is probably the important thing to accomplish.
Equal opportunity, more than equal rights, was what we had as a goal before.
I'll just stick around in case anybody needs ten base five. I think I still have a box of BNC coax in a box here somewhere.
I like shopping at Walmart.
It's not a form of entertainment, and my wife hates it, but I enjoy checking it out.
It definitely has a more 'diverse' customer base than more upscale stores, but I am not an elitist.
Correct. So the kind of little Nestor who fears being different can buy this year's Apple laptop and not worry about making the grave mistake of buying the "wrong" computer and facing the scorn of his social peers. There is even a feeling of membership in owning the Apple e-meter. To do otherwise would risk having the label "unmutual" cast upon one.
The bread bullshit in the summary is what got me. Before WWII, most bread was baked at home. This guy seems enamored with brands. In an earlier life was he a marketing fuck?
I don't feel sorry for the people who spend $100,000 for a car and then can't sell it for $16,000 five years later because repair costs are astronomical. But it's something that should be considered before buying.
You forgot the scare quotes. Because if you have no interest in using the 'nice' aquatic center all it is going to do is raise the property tax on the house you don't ever plan to move out of ( because you're not a corporate drone who moves wherever "the company" transfers you to) and also draw in lots of new traffic to the neighborhood.
Right. So five years from now there likely won't be any economical means at all to service these Teslas.
Emphasis on word 'few.'
He probably doesn't look enough like he would if he was Obama's son.
Big data operations like Google are part of the reason Obama was even elected. He had the engines of Big Data churning for his benefit throughout both elections. Especially for the first election.
There are a lot of talented people working at Google, but the founders got there by being first, and finding the right advertising syndicates to sponsor them.
not pretend that exposed FR4 is somehow a WMD.
It was probably cheap phenolic. Shitty consumer electronics doesn't come on fibreglass. The 'smarts' of the clock are probably under an epoxy bubble and the circuit board single sided, without plated holes.
So there wasn't even much of a learning opportunity for the kid in taking it apart.
Hey, octal is far cooler.
12 bit CPUs are just like that.
I think you meant to type "fortunately, my area doesn't grab as much of my income in the form of taxes to fund lousy public transportation."
I know for certain that my taxes are lower because there isn't a huge mass transit infrastructure to support. The county has a well managed group of vans to get people who are older or handicapped and unable to get around. The rest of us manage on our own. My vehicle is a 2006 model and has been paid for for about 5 years now.
We always make fun of the Windows people for just reinstalling the whole thing when something happens that is wrong.
After the warranty period is over, do we want replacing the whole drive train to be what the service people are experienced with doing to fix problems?
Throw more software at the problem. Oh! Now we need a faster CPU!
I meant more than just a machine-to-machine comparison. A 1978 computer of relatively high capability was a big expensive thing. The owner probably paid $1000 for the 32K memory card. So it probably has a high quality OEM linear power supply made by one of the companies that specializes in making high quality power supplies. Power One, or Kepco, or Thoradson. One of those big 12 ga. aluminum block linear supplies that were popular in that era.
The Amiga has a power supply on a single-sided phenolic board, and it's a switcher. Designed for a consumer electronics product.
The OEM power supply comes from a company with design teams dedicated to reliable design with purchasing and QA departments that pay a lot of attention to component quality. The rest of the computer is also more likely to have tantalum capacitors, rather than aluminum, because that just makes sense. You can afford to put a dipped tantalum cap next to a 1x256 bit DRAM chip when each DRAM chip costs $16.00.
It isn't even far to compare something like that to an Amiga power supply, or a TRS-80 or anything that hit the market after the boom of consumer-grade computing hit.
The Amiga was a great machine because it attained the balance of a 'good enough' design that people could afford it in mass quantities. But it makes sense that 20 years later a machine 5-10 years older than it with a very different build quality would be in better shape than it.
My Tektronix mainframes have great capacitors in them, and run well 40-50 years after they were made. I wouldn't expect as much from a cheap student 'scope from B&K Precision built 20 years ago.
I don't listen to anything they have to say.
If you want proof that their methods don't work, go look at their reports on ...
I thought you said you don't listen to anything they say. Or do you cut and paste your comments from some Consumer Reports hate site that you frequent?
Now, watch everyone else on the planet. Do they?
Umm, yes, for the remote control example given, everyone else probably does. Except you, it seems.
I have a first edition of Steinmetz's book on AC Phenomenon. It's really sad how little I had to pay for it, given it's probably pretty rare at this point. The showmen and boosters seem to always come off as the big heroes of society.
Big Medical Devices is very comfortable with regulation. Their Regulatory Affairs staffers are on a first name basis with the FDA staffers. And the high regulatory threshold keeps out upstarts. BMD can use 510k equivalency to get their next-Gen product approved at low cost. While owning the patents that keep upstart competitors from using the same approval process. The startups have to go through the whole clinical trials process.
I have a Mac SE/30 that runs NetBSD. However, it's sort of a toaster at running it. And X11 on a one bit monochrome 512x342 display is kind of limiting.
You want to rely on cross-compiling any packages you'd like to install, too. That 68030 will work it's heart out for you but not get a lot done.
The capacitors in a linear supply aren't really as critical. A switching supply, esp. one from the Amiga era, is going to just not want to spin up with badly leaking capacitors. A linear supply will power up with ripple and the caps will often form up gradually. Plus the quality of components in a 1978 machine is likely to be higher. The real problems with aluminum electrolytics started with the race-to-the-bottom PC clone market that came later.