> On 18/09/17 16:26, Phil Hobbs wrote:
>> On 09/15/2017 11:22 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
>>> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>> On 09/10/2017 09:53 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
>>>>> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>>>> On 09/08/2017 07:24 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> void free(void * ptr) { die_horribly(); }
>>>>>> My big brother used to say that the tape drives on the IBM
>>>>>> System/360 at his school had an undocumented instruction: SST,
>>>>>> for Stop and Stretch Tape. Other systems were rumoured to have
>>>>>> HCF, for Halt and Catch Fire. ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now a major cable network series on a station near you:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
>>>>
>>>> Well, I suppose that was inevitable.
>>>
>>> It's not bad.
>>>
>>>> I haven't watched TV in thirty
>>>> years except on rare occasions when I'm stuck in some hotel room
>>>> that's even bleaker than the Vast Wasteland, so I'm not au courant
>>>> with the latest offerings.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had little choice - reading or TV - because of little kids underfoot.
>>>
>>> The revolution begin with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks." Which you night
>>> oughta see. Or maybe not.
>>>
>>> And one John Kricfalusi came up with "Ren and Stimpy" and thereby all
>>> the DNA for the next generation was stored.
>>>
>>> Click on the link. But only if your dare.
>>> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hlree
>>>
>>> It's gone beyond torrent into raging flood. We're in a golden age of the
>>> medium.
>>
>> I get bored watching movies or TV after about 5 minutes at most.
>> Technical stuff that has actual content, I can take for maybe 15 minutes.
>>
>> Video demands your complete attention and IME doesn't repay in interest.
>
> There are very few /technical/ videos that actually use
> the medium. Almost all of technical videos could be
> replaced by text plus pictures - which I could speedread[1]
> 10* faster and which would also be searchable.
I'm talking about stuff like atomic bomb videos, not YouTube tutorials
and stuff.
>
> As for TV/movies: mpvies at the cinema require that you
> watch them, which can be a useful change-is-as-good-as-a-rest.
> Those TV documentaries that aren't merely radio-with-visuals
> can be worth watching.
>
> [1] the modern necessary skill is to spend 30s deciding
> which 99% of stuff you /don't/ want to read in detail.
> That's more or less impossible with video. (The ancient
> necessary skill was to be able to glean as much
> information as possible from the meagre available
> information sources)
TL;DR ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
Reply by Tom Gardner●September 18, 20172017-09-18
On 18/09/17 16:26, Phil Hobbs wrote:
> On 09/15/2017 11:22 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
>> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>> On 09/10/2017 09:53 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
>>>> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>>> On 09/08/2017 07:24 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> void free(void * ptr) { die_horribly(); }
>>>>> My big brother used to say that the tape drives on the IBM
>>>>> System/360 at his school had an undocumented instruction: SST,
>>>>> for Stop and Stretch Tape. Other systems were rumoured to have
>>>>> HCF, for Halt and Catch Fire. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now a major cable network series on a station near you:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
>>>
>>> Well, I suppose that was inevitable.
>>
>> It's not bad.
>>
>>> I haven't watched TV in thirty
>>> years except on rare occasions when I'm stuck in some hotel room
>>> that's even bleaker than the Vast Wasteland, so I'm not au courant
>>> with the latest offerings.
>>>
>>
>> I had little choice - reading or TV - because of little kids underfoot.
>>
>> The revolution begin with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks." Which you night
>> oughta see. Or maybe not.
>>
>> And one John Kricfalusi came up with "Ren and Stimpy" and thereby all
>> the DNA for the next generation was stored.
>>
>> Click on the link. But only if your dare.
>> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hlree
>>
>> It's gone beyond torrent into raging flood. We're in a golden age of the
>> medium.
>
> I get bored watching movies or TV after about 5 minutes at most.
> Technical stuff that has actual content, I can take for maybe 15 minutes.
>
> Video demands your complete attention and IME doesn't repay in interest.
There are very few /technical/ videos that actually use
the medium. Almost all of technical videos could be
replaced by text plus pictures - which I could speedread[1]
10* faster and which would also be searchable.
As for TV/movies: mpvies at the cinema require that you
watch them, which can be a useful change-is-as-good-as-a-rest.
Those TV documentaries that aren't merely radio-with-visuals
can be worth watching.
[1] the modern necessary skill is to spend 30s deciding
which 99% of stuff you /don't/ want to read in detail.
That's more or less impossible with video. (The ancient
necessary skill was to be able to glean as much
information as possible from the meagre available
information sources)
Reply by Tom Gardner●September 18, 20172017-09-18
On 16/09/17 04:22, Les Cargill wrote:
> The revolution begin with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks." Which you night oughta
> see. Or maybe not.
Or, 20 years earlier, The Prisoner :)
> Here's what's bizarre about it - the entire edifice is built in the
> ability of people to comment on fora about what they think of the
> shows.
Here we have something worse: gogglebox. It is a
program in which a TV camera records people discussing
TV programs that they are watching. I don't think
they've done a recursive program yet, but I really
wouldn't know!
And, of course the warning in 1968's "The Year of
the Sex Olympics" has been completely ignored, and
it has come to pass in the form of "Big Brother".
Reality TV was interesting when it was novel, back
in 1974.
Reply by Phil Hobbs●September 18, 20172017-09-18
On 09/15/2017 11:22 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>> On 09/10/2017 09:53 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
>>> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>> On 09/08/2017 07:24 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> void free(void * ptr) { die_horribly(); }
>>>> My big brother used to say that the tape drives on the IBM
>>>> System/360 at his school had an undocumented instruction: SST,
>>>> for Stop and Stretch Tape. Other systems were rumoured to have
>>>> HCF, for Halt and Catch Fire. ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Now a major cable network series on a station near you:
>>>
>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
>>
>> Well, I suppose that was inevitable.
>
> It's not bad.
>
>> I haven't watched TV in thirty
>> years except on rare occasions when I'm stuck in some hotel room
>> that's even bleaker than the Vast Wasteland, so I'm not au courant
>> with the latest offerings.
>>
>
> I had little choice - reading or TV - because of little kids underfoot.
>
> The revolution begin with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks." Which you night
> oughta see. Or maybe not.
>
> And one John Kricfalusi came up with "Ren and Stimpy" and thereby all
> the DNA for the next generation was stored.
>
> Click on the link. But only if your dare.
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hlree
>
> It's gone beyond torrent into raging flood. We're in a golden age of the
> medium.
I get bored watching movies or TV after about 5 minutes at most.
Technical stuff that has actual content, I can take for maybe 15 minutes.
Video demands your complete attention and IME doesn't repay in interest.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
Reply by Les Cargill●September 16, 20172017-09-16
Phil Hobbs wrote:
> On 09/10/2017 09:53 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
>> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>> On 09/08/2017 07:24 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> void free(void * ptr) { die_horribly(); }
>>> My big brother used to say that the tape drives on the IBM
>>> System/360 at his school had an undocumented instruction: SST,
>>> for Stop and Stretch Tape. Other systems were rumoured to have
>>> HCF, for Halt and Catch Fire. ;)
>>>
>>
>> Now a major cable network series on a station near you:
>>
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
>
> Well, I suppose that was inevitable.
It's not bad.
> I haven't watched TV in thirty
> years except on rare occasions when I'm stuck in some hotel room
> that's even bleaker than the Vast Wasteland, so I'm not au courant
> with the latest offerings.
>
I had little choice - reading or TV - because of little kids underfoot.
The revolution begin with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks." Which you night
oughta see. Or maybe not.
And one John Kricfalusi came up with "Ren and Stimpy" and thereby all
the DNA for the next generation was stored.
Click on the link. But only if your dare.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hlree
It's gone beyond torrent into raging flood. We're in a golden age of the
medium.
Here's what's bizarre about it - the entire edifice is built in the
ability of people to comment on fora about what they think of the
shows.
This has caused TV to overflow the banks of the restrictions of the
Neilsen box.
As with all things, it is a measurement problem. A modest and noisy
improvement in the measurements produces, as always, an astounding result.
> Cheers
>
> Phil Hobbs
>
--
Les Cargill ( a card-carrying member of a measurement-constrained species )
Reply by Phil Hobbs●September 11, 20172017-09-11
On 09/10/2017 09:53 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>> On 09/08/2017 07:24 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>
>>> void free(void * ptr) { die_horribly(); }
>> My big brother used to say that the tape drives on the IBM System/360
>> at his school had an undocumented instruction: SST, for Stop and
>> Stretch Tape. Other systems were rumoured to have HCF, for Halt and
>> Catch Fire. ;)
>>
>
> Now a major cable network series on a station near you:
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
Well, I suppose that was inevitable. I haven't watched TV in thirty
years except on rare occasions when I'm stuck in some hotel room that's
even bleaker than the Vast Wasteland, so I'm not au courant with the
latest offerings.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
Reply by Dimiter_Popoff●September 10, 20172017-09-10
On 10.9.2017 г. 16:53, Les Cargill wrote:
> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>> On 09/08/2017 07:24 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>
>>> void free(void * ptr) { die_horribly(); }
>> My big brother used to say that the tape drives on the IBM System/360
>> at his school had an undocumented instruction: SST, for Stop and
>> Stretch Tape. Other systems were rumoured to have HCF, for Halt and
>> Catch Fire. ;)
>>
>
> Now a major cable network series on a station near you:
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
>
The show is not bad, I like it. Last season is too much web oriented
though.
Dimiter
======================================================
Dimiter Popoff, TGI http://www.tgi-sci.com
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/didi_tgi/
Reply by Luke A. Guest●September 10, 20172017-09-10
kristoff <kristoff@skypro.be> wrote:
> My advice usually is, start with one of these arduino-starter kits to
> get your feet wet, and -once you have done that- you can then descide on
> what your next step will be: native AVR + gcc, mbed, STM32 + libopencm3,
> LPCxpresso (indeed, also very nice), PIC, MSP430, ...
There's also languages other than C if you want. AVR-Ada is available for a
higher level language. Although I would advise looking at this after you've
checked out the basics of Arduino.
Reply by Les Cargill●September 10, 20172017-09-10
tarjei99@gmail.com wrote:
> A Raspberry PI 3 should work fine. It is VERY cheap. There is a
> thriving Maker community associated with it. Some use it with
> Arduino.
>
> It is the size of a pack of playing cards.
>
> It is powered by Micro USB and has the following :
>
> + Broadcom BCM2837 Arm7 Quad Core Processor powered SBC running at
> 900MHz In 64 bit mode it becomes a Arm8 Can be overclocked pretty
> easily + 1GB RAM + 40pin extended GPIO + 4 normal USB 2 + 1 Ethernet
> + built-in wifi
... and you can bridge the WiFi and Ethernet...
> + CSI camera port for connecting the RPI camera +
> DSI display port for connecting the RPI touch screen display + HDMI
> + Micro SD card as disk.
>
> Operating systems : Primarily Raspbian, other Linuxes, FreeBSD,
> HardenedBSD, RiscOS and Windows 10 IOT core.
>
> It is both a normal computer and have an I/O expansion port for
> whatever you try to make.
>
The 4 USB ports mean you can add Ardiunos for hard realtime
capability, or for protocol conversion. There is a small
eternity of other USB peripherals.
The Arduino is generally seen as a serial port, so you might be
constrained to 115,200 bits/sec per.
> It is difficult to see a more ideal start system for somebody who
> want to start with embedded systems.
>
> Adafruit seems to like it a lot. www.adafruit.com/raspberrypi‎
>
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/
>
--
Les Cargill
Reply by Les Cargill●September 10, 20172017-09-10
Phil Hobbs wrote:
> On 09/08/2017 07:24 AM, David Brown wrote:
>
>> void free(void * ptr) { die_horribly(); }
> My big brother used to say that the tape drives on the IBM System/360
> at his school had an undocumented instruction: SST, for Stop and
> Stretch Tape. Other systems were rumoured to have HCF, for Halt and
> Catch Fire. ;)
>