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On a sunny day (Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:53:06 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

I was wondering if somebody who still has a working vacumm tube diode could repeat that forward voltage pulse versue switch on time with a tube. If I am right it is a majority carrier speed issue...

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Makes me wonder even more why on earth people want to live in big cities. No ten horses would get me to do that. About five years as a kid was enough for me.

I like San Francisco. It's a small big city, but has all sorts of natural attractions. We live two blocks from a real canyon with a small stream, and I pick blackberries in the dirt lanes around my house. We essentially live in a village on the edge of a canyon and near a mountain.

I couldn't live in New York or Chicago or LA, which are nearly 100% paved-over machines.

You don't know the first thing about NYC, all you know are pictures of the = business district in Mahattan. Places like Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Bro= nx boroughs have spectacular residential neighborhoods, compared to which S= F looks like a Victorian shanty town- on a largely unbuildable site- doesn'= t even come close to being in the same league.

Which reminds me of this movie which was filmed in City Island New York:

Sometimes I Google-map places I see in movies :-) The neighbourhood looks like a small town somewhere in a rural area by the sea.

I moved next to a big city, just far enough that I'm not under a lefty's thumb (other than a smog test every year or two, it's pretty cheap) but close enough to enjoy the critical mass.

business district in Mahattan.

I've spent about four months of my life in NYC, mostly upper west side.

residential neighborhoods, compared to which SF looks like a Victorian shanty town- on a largely unbuildable site- doesn't even come close to being in the same league.

Brooklyn and the Bronx and Staten Island are not NYC. But they have the same horrible climate. What I've seen of the Bronx was grim, but I guess I didn't see the nice parts.

We get fresh air off the ocean; no mosquitoes or roaches or bedbugs or Lyme carriers, and a fraction of the pollen load of the east coast. Nobody has residential air conditioning because we don't need it.

I don't care about leagues. When I decide to leave New Orleans, I researched America for eight months, and traveled all over, including New York. I picked the West coast for a number of features.

business district in Mahattan.

residential neighborhoods, compared to which SF looks like a Victorian shanty town- on a largely unbuildable site- doesn't even come close to being in the same league.

NYC is not just Manhattan. Brooklyn, Bronx, SI, and Queens are certainly part of NYC.

No argument there. They have the same horrible politicians, too. ...though SF doesn't win any prizes there, either.

No, you didn't. Well, there is the zoo.

Just heat 12 months a year. ...and damp!

Taxes and governance must have been right up there!

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business district in Mahattan.

You could spend 10 years traveling around and studying NYC before you could acquire a decent knowledge of the place. The history there is enormous.

residential neighborhoods, compared to which SF looks like a Victorian shanty town- on a largely unbuildable site- doesn't even come close to being in the same league.

Like I said, you don't know the first thing about the place:

The south Bronx was infamous for its decline for awhile there, but it's hardly representative of the borough. Check out the facts

Not quite, you're downwind of the most toxic air in the US blowing in from China. It might seem nice but it's actually some of the worst in the US.

Well, it's good that everything worked out for you.

That was filmed in City Island, the Bronx (part of NYC) - and yes, a very beautiful area:

business district in Mahattan.

acquire a decent knowledge of the place. The history there is enormous.

residential neighborhoods, compared to which SF looks like a Victorian shanty town- on a largely unbuildable site- doesn't even come close to being in the same league.

representative of the borough. Check out the facts

China. It might seem nice but it's actually some of the worst in the US.

We're 6000 flight miles from China, and NYC is only about another thousand. That will hardly matter. But NY is downstream from all the coal-fired plants, factories, farms, and industries of the US, and gets all the pollution of everything from New Jersey to San Francisco.

SF had zero official EPA high-ozone days last year, and was rated "A" by the ALA. NY, NY rated "D".

Almost 3000, actually.

Same here, about 35 miles. Nice conservative neighborhood but the leftists have thoroughly screwed up the whole state :-(

business district in Mahattan.

residential neighborhoods, compared to which SF looks like a Victorian shanty town- on a largely unbuildable site- doesn't even come close to being in the same league.

All five boroughs are NYC. Manhattan gets all the buzz, but most folks can't afford to live there.

Mobility is a wonderful thing, because folks can live where they like. I like visiting the Bay Area, but I would never willingly go live there again--and I'm from the west coast originally. I like the relaxed pace of life in New York. [Not NYC so much, but even Manhattan is less mindlessly frantic than the Valley was when I was there in the 1980s.]

And course I was on the peninsula, whose roads make Long Island's look like the Nurburgring.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Whenever I was in or close to NYC I had the impression people there walked almost twice as fast as in other places of the country, as if always in some sort of hurry. I don't mind because I like fast walking myself, it was just so strange. Less so in other areas such as LI but still noticeable.

Even the Bay Area seems more relaxed. Last time (Redwood City) I walked to the pubs in town so I could have a few brewskys. 1-2 miles each way. People seemed more relaxed. I passed all of them while in NY many passed me.

I've seen folks going 85mph+ on the LIE and still being pestered from behind, to get out of the way. But that happens in the Bay Area as well.

Distances don't add linearly on the surface of a sphere.

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business district in Mahattan.

residential neighborhoods, compared to which SF looks like a Victorian shanty town- on a largely unbuildable site- doesn't even come close to being in the same league.

I don't much like the Silicon Valley culture. It's full of moneybags preditors, VC weasels and their lawyers, and people generally looking for the big kill. The HP Way is dead and buried and mostly forgotten.

San Francisco and the valley are at (what I think is) the peak of another .com boom. There are hundreds of software/games/social apps companies, each with some millions of seed money, bidding up work spaces and apartments, just like the good'ole days of Webvan and DrKoop. Old brick roofing company buildings are selling for $700 per square foot, and condos are hitting $1e6 per bedroom in places. This won't last. There are, what, half a million iPad apps. Do we need a million?

We had some component reps in yesterday, from Wurth. Good stuff. They were surprised that we manufacture electronics here, and asked us who else they might call on around here. I had no idea.

I have long legs, so my natural pace passes people in NYC easily. And Redwood City isn't really part of the Peninsula culturally--it seems more like San Mateo and Burlingame. IME the franticness starts at Palo Alto and gets worse till you get to San Jose, then declines a bit. (Quite a lot, once you get to Gilroy. Must be the garlic.)

Not at rush hour!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs