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
Embedded platforms for beginners?
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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 ●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 ●September 19, 20172017-09-19
On 09/18/2017 01:26 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:> 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
