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| Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com>: Jul 02 09:44AM +0100 On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 12:28:58 -0700 (PDT), "jfeng@my-deja.com" >I think the UK is metricated. The older Imperial units appear when they are being deliberately nostalgic, like in historical dramas. The last I heard, Ireland (not a part of a UK) had an amusing mixture where speed limits were in mph and road distances were in km. The UK started going over to metric measures about 50 years ago but it's still not complete. Many oldish people, like me, still think in Imperial units. I think of distances in miles and heights in feet. The advantage of being an Imperial age is multiple arithmetic bases is not a problem. Younger metric people are base 10 only! Steve -- Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com |
| Foxs Mercantile <jdangus@att.net>: Jul 02 04:31AM -0500 On 7/2/2017 3:44 AM, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: > The advantage of being an Imperial age is multiple arithmetic > bases is not a problem. Younger metric people are base 10 only! Not hardly, people don't think of 10 inches as 0.833 feet nor do they think of 10 feet as 3.333 yards. -- Jeff-1.0 wa6fwi http://www.foxsmercantile.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
| Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com>: Jul 02 11:08AM +0100 On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 04:31:24 -0500, Foxs Mercantile <jdangus@att.net> wrote: >> bases is not a problem. Younger metric people are base 10 only! >Not hardly, people don't think of 10 inches as 0.833 feet nor do >they think of 10 feet as 3.333 yards. I can work in any arithmetic base without converting from one to another. I'm 68 years old and I was bought up and taught using Imperial measures. Steve -- Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com |
| rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>: Jul 02 11:34AM -0400 Foxs Mercantile wrote on 7/2/2017 5:31 AM: >> bases is not a problem. Younger metric people are base 10 only! > Not hardly, people don't think of 10 inches as 0.833 feet nor do > they think of 10 feet as 3.333 yards. What do they think of feet and yards? To me a yard is *about* a meter and a foot is 0.3 meters. -- Rick C |
| Mike Coon <gravity@mjcoon.plus.com>: Jul 02 12:13PM +0100 In article <iulglc1c3325tjag53g9f7b1do5o5p6f1f@4ax.com>, jeffl@cruzio.com says... > to see a difference between what's going in and what's going out on > your electron counter (coulomb meter). > Note: This is 100% pure BS, but it sounds logical. Are you training to be a politician? ;-) Mike. |
| Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com>: Jul 01 08:50PM -0700 > > ** Yet again you have posted something completely mysterious about purchasing components. Doing that does not make you sound one bit clever, rather it does the exact opposite. > > Makes YOU look a real idiot. > Boy you love to spout on matters you truly know jack about. ** YOU need to explain your self referencing posts cos they make no sense. > Jim is right about you, ** You should explain that remark too. > I won't waste time explaining what I said. ** That is a blatant lie. You are being mysterious and deceitful. > > Luckily for you, Google does not seem to have the previous SED > > thread available. > Lol. My best guess is you made some bonkers accusations ** Your " best guess" is completely wrong. The gist of your posts on SED was not to fuss over counterfeit Motorola power transistors - lots of products are cloned and faked by others and sold as genuine. Get used to it was the message. I complained that that was a totally crazy messageonly someone INVOLVERD in the criminal trade would put forward in defence of what they were doing. You then posted similar paranoid crapology to that appearing below: -------------------------------------------------------------- and I didn't waste any time discussing them with you. You are, some of the time, truly a loony. This notion of yours that I'm some master criminal is one more piece of your lunacy. And I have zero interest in what your reply is. Good bye, rejoin the nutjob filter. I really should leave you there. --------------------------------------------------------------- Crazy stuff, completely nuts. .... Phil |
| Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com>: Jul 01 09:21PM -0700 Ian Field wrote: ----------------------------------- > thousands of state of the art CPUs that turned out to be all package and no > silicon. >---------------------------------------------- ** My colleague Rod Elliot ( of ESP ) and I spent considerable time investigating numerous fake transistors that were being sold over the counter here in Australia. Initially it was Motorola MJ15003s & MJ15004s used in amplifier kits and sold folk doing repairs. I first saw examples back in 1980 from "Dick Smith Electronics" - who sold thousands of counterfeits that way - some to me. And again in 2000, purchased from a different source. The internet was put to good use by me and a friend to embarrass the company out of continuing. DSE is no longer in business and so too are a couple of others that imported and sold fakes - however they are still on open sale here and all over eBay. This article was prepared from information gleaned by myself and Rod. http://sound.whsites.net/fake/counterfeit-p1.htm http://sound.whsites.net/counterfeit.htm For a long time now, it has not been safe to buy power BJTs from ANY small supplier or on line dealer - cos their stock consists MOSTLY of fakes. ..... Phil |
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