Re: Germany looking to end reliance on US tech giant

None of the links on the home page work for me, with Firefox.

The one chip image that I saw was obviously bogus clip art.

Even tiny stresses wreck opamp offset voltages. Imagine bending ICs.

And why? Kapton flex is the way to bend things.

Firefox on MacOS works for me. As does Safari.

What also works is MS Bing, which is available to you, given that you are using Forte Agent.

The other tell is that all the people shown in the sizzle are too beautiful. I'd bet that if they tried to use a soldering iron, the encounter would be entertaining but might prove fatal.

And we won't talk of the dangers of hex calculators, which are probably proscribed in California.

True, but I didn't worry about that, because even if it's real, it's still far too small to support such a large investment.

Yes.

Yes.

Joe

ARM does not sell hardware - they just sell IP.

Yes, I know. But many do not.

Joe

And is Japanese now.

At least one counterexample is known to us.

Joe

It's pretty effective in stopping them from getting white collar jobs. Cambridge Instruments had a lot of very clever and productive people who didn't have impressive job titles, but contributed a lot.

But - as in the UK - non-party members are allowed to contribute. They don't get a lot of credit for their contributions, but their colleagues appreciate them.

It didn't slow me down. Your aversion to Ph.D.s probably has more to do with their training in reading the literature, a lot of which is devoted to bull-s*it detection. You post a lot of that, and expect to get praised for it, and wouldn't react well to well-informed in-house criticism.

Some sort of mutant, probably, a scientist who can design circuits.

Can one clone such a thing, or is manufacturing the better approach to replication of alien technologies?

Joe

An interesting question is, how does one kick-start a kid into becoming a circuit designer? By the time they start college, it's almost too late, and then they mostly learn to code.

I have one intern who is good. He does the automation for the floats in the Rose Bowl parade.

Several. Foxit, FFx, for instance.

Adobe doesn't run on this computer.

Doesn't move. A clock goes round, but does not end.

I knew it would work with adobe. I don't doubt you, but the feature that adobe provides to make this work is not universally supported. It is no surprise to me, I knew.

GSM.

And many USA innovations are done by immigrants. I'm not complaining, the USA has the proper environment to make those immigrants to prosper and innovate. That's an achievement.

GSM.

PBS? But Trump killed the funding.

Our two PBS radio stations mostly play bad music. Because it's cheap, I guess.

If anyone is talking, odds are that you will hear "Trump" literally twice a minute.

PBS used to be educational, or at least entertaining.

That's a small tweak. Nothing like the transistor or the laser.

At least in our generation, it was obvious quite early in life if we understood how physical things worked, and I think that this is a pure talent, and cannot be learned. My Father was very good at aeronautical and mechanical theory, but useless at car repair.

Baby story: My Mother used to tell a story about me when I was maybe two and she was vacuuming something, and the nozzle plugged, and she is trying to fish the lump out with a bent coat hangar, and I suggested that she instead plug the hose into the exhaust port, and blow it clear. Which worked. Now I don't recall any of this, but the story is plausible.

And I would take anything I got my hands on apart. All the neighbors knew that I wanted broken small appliances and the like. I also fixed things for them.

Wonder what he played with in his early teens. This may also be an interview question.

Joe

I think he's still a teenager.

I have two basic interview questions. On is a simple two-resistor voltage divider, 10 volts, 9K, 1K. The other is the apple test: can you close your eyes and visualize an apple, rotate it around?

Lots of verbal people, like programmers, can't see the apple.