Plimer and Silicon Chip

At home, probably not. The big question is how well can city bred people take to guerilla warfare?

I'm not complaining about the use of micros, just that without the source code, you only have a fraction of the design. The circuit diagram shows very little of how the thing works and if you want to modify the functionality, you are pretty well stuffed.

If it was within the last 5 years, I must have missed it, prior to that I was out of the country for a bit over 5 years so I wouldn't have seen it.

The thing about tinkering with the microcode is that in the ordinary way of things you can't break anything and if you stuff it up you can always flash the original code back in.

Speak for yourself Phil :)

Why would that be?

Aha, that why I didn't see it, I was living in the US at that time.

That or something very similar was shown on a TV science program (probably that one on the ABC on Thursday nights) in the last year or so as a "Chinese" safe nuclear technology breakthrough.

The only problem was the cost involved in building/maintaining it when compared to traditional nuclear power stations.

Someone has twigged my memory. I think it was a PIC controller project for opening a chook shed door on sunrise and closing it at sunset. Probably other stuff since as I stopped buying it soon after.

The problem with microprocessor stuff is that there are too many flavours of the small stuff and build your own gets very complicated, messy and expensive very fast. At some point, it shifts into "programming" rather than electronics. Then it becomes a question of how deep your pockets are unless you are a skilled machinist to make actuators, etc.

Largely developed by dissident german scientists.

So was it used by the Germans or the Americans?

So could China beat Australia or not?

So I take it that's a no.

In industry PLC or computer control is pretty much the norm these days.

So was that a yes or a no?

Too many variables. Define "beat".

Ah, don't worry about it.

I hope all Australians aren't that paranoid & misinformed.

So, you are a greedy, ungrateful bastard. It was supplied, at cost to Allied nations. Our entire manufacturing infrastructure was converted to the war effort, and millions of American citizens did with what they needed, to make sure the military of Allied nations got the supplies they needed. No new tires, very little gasoline. Food rationing, very few new clothes, shoes or other items available, because the raw materials were diverted to the war. Then most of the 'Allies' conveniently forgot to pay for their share of the cost for freedom.

In article , snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net said... : :terryc wrote: :> :> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:33:30 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote: :> :> > The Russians, using American built planes and supplies. Read up on :> > the 'Lend - Lease' program where America supplied ammunition, weapons, :> > fuel, food and medicine to the Allies during WWII. :> :> supplied = sold, not donated. : : : So, you are a greedy, ungrateful bastard. It was supplied, at cost to :Allied nations. Our entire manufacturing infrastructure was converted :to the war effort, and millions of American citizens did with what they :needed, to make sure the military of Allied nations got the supplies :they needed. No new tires, very little gasoline. Food rationing, very :few new clothes, shoes or other items available, because the raw :materials were diverted to the war. Then most of the 'Allies' :conveniently forgot to pay for their share of the cost for freedom.

I'm glad you're so bitter and misinformed. Eat s*it

Gee, is your education that poor, or are you just stupid? The two bombs dropped in Japan, in Hiroshima & Nagasaki ended Japan's war machine. In doing so, it saved millions of lives. The japanese were convinced that their emperor was god, and that they couldn't be defeated. they were prepared to let every man, woman and child die to prove it. After the two warheads were detonated, they suddenly realized that they had nothing that could stop a weapon like that, and surrendered.

Find and read the book Hiroshima by John Hersey. It tells of six survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima, and the efforts of a Japanese doctor to treat people with radiation sickness. See for yourself what the Japanese military thought of the civilians, and how their emperor treated them. The doctor's name was Masakazu Fujii. It was written in