[fun] Weird electronic circuits collection

We invented this thing called the "fast-forward" button.

Doesn't work that way.

Not surprising for socialists. My SIL is a Brit and wouldn't think about returning.

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cost is now, if it still exists.

But quality programming? Er, no. The BBC's justification for the tax has la rgely ceased to exist.

PS put 2 coins in not 1, you get twice the time.

NT

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tabbypurr

Those are fairly typical villages, some are worse. They only count murders officially once they're solved & thus proven. When you're over here it's not wise to dig up someone's plants.

NT

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tabbypurr

Yeah, I've never seen a BBC mystery where the Chief Inspector failed to find the murderer.

Sherlock had one get away, and Poirot let a train full of killers get away with it.

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John Larkin

My remote button of choice is OFF.

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John Larkin

Exploding parts is fun.

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Relays can make hundred-volt pulses with sub-ns rise times.

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John Larkin

OK. :-)

The Noritake graphics VFDs are far from free.

Best regards, Piotr

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Piotr Wyderski

There again, the Yanks beat the Brits.

Miss Marple (etc) couldn't have kept up with Jessica Fletcher's workload: Cabot Cove has the highest murder rate, followed by Ystad. (No doubt our very own false-flag Putin puppet, Cursitor Doom, will use the latter as evidence that Sweden is a dangerous place!)

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derived from the *wonderful* radio programme "More or Less", where bona-fide statisticians examine popular claims to see the degree of truth in them
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Tom Gardner

That's nice :-)

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Klaus Kragelund

Yes, but Poirot was Belgian, not British. And Sherlock Holmes was inspired by a French detective (who also pioneered using fingerprints, IIRC).

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David Brown

We have the same sort of thing in Norway. And some of our TV "tax" is used to buy in programs from the BBC.

The strange thing about having national television channels like the BBC and NRK is that they are more independent than private ones. They are not dependent on commercial financing, they don't have to appease government bodies to keep renewing their licences, and they are not run by shady gazillioneres with political motives (like Murdoch, or that guy in the James Bond movie).

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David Brown

Yes, once you told me about the ADC, it's obvious that this is a generic technique that can play back any waveform "recorded" on the shielding "screen".

I don't know, but not necessarily. If you apply enough DC bias to reach the dielectric saturation knee, it's dual to an ordinary magamp. I'm curious what dielectric was used.

Thanks, Piotr

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Piotr Wyderski

I would have guess Midsomer to be top of the list - but I suppose not all the murders take place in the village itself.

Still, is the competition about quantity - or quality?

The Americans do the special effects better, and no one beats them for TV explosions and gun battles - but I think British crime series beat them in subtlety, plot, and humour.

For some reason, Norway has "Easter Crimes" ingrained in the culture - for a couple of weeks around Easter, TV is full of murder mysteries. There are so many that it involves a lot of complex planning to have your DVR taping two series while you are simultaneously watching another

- you can't miss any of them. British series dominate, followed by Scandinavian ones - American ones just don't count as /real/ murder mysteries. (Things like CSI are popular in the rest of the year, but that's just for a bit of shoot-them-up fun with cool looking lab work. It's not a mystery.)

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David Brown

No, it is not silly enough. In Poland you have exactly the same, you pay a tax for *owning* a TV set (or a radio), not for watching it. I repeat, it is for *owning a TV set*, not for the ability to receive the broadcast. If you receive it on a laptop using an USB dongle, for example, you don't pay the tax, because there is no TV set, you know... The purpose is to sponsor the regime TV and radio stations.

Best regards, Piotr

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Piotr Wyderski

And TV programs unsubtle enough that you don't miss anything by fast-forwarding through them

The advertisers see it exactly that way. Krw hasn't realised this yet ...

Britain isn't all that socialist. You have to sell the socialist principles as "fair play". And anybody who could put up with krw for any length of time has complex needs - which is to say, has to be as nuts as krw.

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bill.sloman

Precisely.

They are also free to take more risks.

They can also "do" a "Faulty Towers" or "Young Ones" without the risk of it degenerating as M*A*S*H did over the years.

In the US "we" are the product being sold, and it shows. Here we are the customer, and it feels like it.

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Tom Gardner

More VCFs:

I saw a 4069 used as a four channel matched voltage controlled variable resistor in a VCF. One of the remaining inverters was in the feedback path of an opamp to linearise the control voltage - resistance characteristic.

This was in a guitar effects pedal. It was a phaser, and the phase shift network had four single pole phase shifters in series. Each stage had a series C and an R to ground which was the N-ch fet in the inverter output. The inverter

-ve rail was at analog ground ( = mid rail for the opamps). The inverter inputs and positive rail were connected to the control voltage, which was driven from the linearising circuit.

The first time I looked at it, I thought WTF? How can that work? But it sunk in after a few seconds.

There were four of these in series.

___ .--|___|--. | | | | ___ | |\ | Vin --o---|___|---o---|-\ | | | \ | | | >-o------ Vout | || | / '----||-----o---|+/ || | |/ | Vcontrol | + ---. | | | | | |' | '---| >O--' |/ CD4069 (1 of 6) | | GND

(created by AACircuit v1.28.4 beta 13/12/04

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The control voltage linearity was improved by a separate lineariser circuit, using one of the spare inverters and an opamp, like this:

|\| V in------|-\ ___ | >----|___|--+ I ref >-----+-----|+/ | | |/| | | | | | Vcontrol | | + ---+-------------------------+ | | | | |' | '---| >O--' |/ CD4069 (1 of 6) | | GND

(created by AACircuit v1.28.6 beta 04/19/05

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Here, the 'R' synthesised is Vin / Iref

Allan

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Allan Herriman

You mean for the 10 minute "get another beer and make more popcorn" intervals between every 5 minutes of actual program - 3 minutes of which is a recap of the last part of the show?

When we watch American shows, we invariably do so by "taping" it on the DVR. The commercial stations here don't have anything like as many commercial slots, or as high a percentage of advertising time. But even without the adverts, you still get the "we'll be back after the break" message followed by a re-cap to suit audiences with the short-term memory of a goldfish with dementia.

(We still watch some American shows - some of your programs are good.)

Yes, it /does/ work that way with national channels like the BBC or the NRK. For their own programs, not only do you not have adverts but they don't have product placement or other commercial endorsements.

Everyone has their own preferences.

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David Brown

Countries vary on the details of how national TV licences are handled. The common one is that a household needs to have a TV licence if they have a working TV. If you buy a TV in a shop, they will check that you have a licence or register you for one if you don't. In theory, you can avoid it - you could even get the TV antenna clipped off so that you could not receive the signals. The license covers as many TV's as you want.

Most countries have had, or are having, debates about how to deal with getting licence fees from households that don't have any normal TV's, but watch via pads, telephones, Chromecast, etc.

There used to be "TV detector vans" that patrolled the streets, with antennas and racks of equipment to spot people who had their TV's on. If someone had a TV but was not registered as a licence payer, they'd get a knock on the door and charged a fine. (In reality, the vans equipment didn't actually do /anything/ - they could simply assume that if people were at home in the evening, the chances are they were watching TV.)

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David Brown

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