Working a lot with Intel and others with design centers located in Asia, I find orientals marvelous do-bees at copying, but absolute duds at innovation.
[snip] ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Our descendents will have to get ahold of a pair of intelligent beings to r epair the machines we left behind. Like the Star Trek episode "The Menageri e" which was based on "The Cage" where the Talosians reached out to get a m ate for their female human, which they deemed was of a species adequate for the task.
However, after too many decades in consumer electronics repair and a few ot her things, I have determined that the project will not succeed because thi ngs are simply not repairable.
Engineers do not think of that these days. The stuff youse guys build is on e thing, but people will not have cars or TV sets or a whole bunch of other shit because the goal of the manufacturer is to make the consumer totally dependent. I have fought and won this battle for many years, but they have gotten so good at it that now they are about ready to just pour the whole t hing into potting compound, but there is simply no need. Enough proprietary parts and you got it licked.
And consumer electronics is one of the biggest pollution problems out there . We only got so many landfills. As far as I am concerned, this is worse th an global warming. Between this shit and the fracking we will not have any fresh water anymore, and will have to put up desalination plants like the o nes we paid for in the middle east which allowed its expansion to become a (well goaded though) threat.
Basically we need to get tough on these MFs. Require a seven year warranty on anything that costs over $100. That would do it. They won't even sell pa rts. Buddy of mine buys a new DLP and it needs a ballast, the part is no lo nger available even though the thing is under warranty ? I think some of th e good countries have laws about this shit, and California used to at least require you to make parts available, but they got around that. Even tho0ug h I am pretty sure that after a few back office meetings with some industry lobbyists it was repealed, but by pricing the parts ridiculous they got th at covered anyway. The thing is $100, a new fuse is $200. No law against th at.
The measurand is digital, but the measuring circuit has all the qualities o f analogue - noise, frequency response, gain, load dependance etc. Like all digital circuitry, it's designed such that one can ignore its analogue com plications if one stays within certain parameters.
One of the smartest guys I ever knew, was a so-called "tech" - no degree, because he was bored by school, which couldn't teach him anything. He was more valuable than the large majority of degreed engineers I've known.
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