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"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Sep 07 04:55PM +1200 Once upon a time on usenet rickman wrote: > quarter hour. The old half hour would now be about a fifth of a new > hour, so we could call it a "fifth" which might become confused with > a non-metric liquor measure, a fifth of a gallon   So that's where that term comes from! I've heard it in American movies / TV and read it in books but couldn't work out how a bottle that wasn't much more than a pint (~600ml) got the name 'a fifth'. I forgot about the Merkin gallon being less than a real gallon. In fact it's almost exactly 'a fifth' short!   > which has since become 750 ml in metric.   Nah that is what the rest of the world called a 26oz bottle before metric. Of course in the US that would be closer to 25 fluid ounces. <shakes head> US water must be heavier. -- Shaun.   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>: Sep 07 01:16AM -0400 ~misfit~ wrote on 9/7/2017 12:55 AM:   > Nah that is what the rest of the world called a 26oz bottle before metric. > Of course in the US that would be closer to 25 fluid ounces. <shakes head> > US water must be heavier.   A pint's a pound the world around!   --   Rick C   Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998

"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Sep 07 11:23PM +1200 Once upon a time on usenet rickman wrote: > change something (I think it was highway signs) we told Canada to go > on without us and we'd catch up later... *much* later.   > I can't believe that even today we still use English units in many   "English Units"?   Like an American gallon? -- Shaun.   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Sep 07 11:26PM +1200 Once upon a time on usenet Tom Biasi wrote: > and public education. The public education component led to public > awareness of the metric system, but the public response included > resistance, apathy, and sometimes ridicule."   "Voluntary conversion" is doomed to failure due to inertia so it's a failure of the legislators not the public. It should have been made compulsory as it was in most other countries which changed over. -- Shaun.   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Sep 07 11:33PM +1200 Once upon a time on usenet Jeff Liebermann wrote: > conversion that never happened. It seems that most of the other > customers followed the same pattern. They tried metric, failed, and > went back to English.   Ok second guy in this thread to use the term "English units". Am I to assume it's an Americanism then? In England, Australia and New Zealand (the countries I've lived in) non-metric units are reffered to as "imperial". -- Shaun.   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Sep 07 11:37PM +1200 Once upon a time on usenet rickman wrote:   > So what does that have to do with hours, minutes and seconds??? You > do know there are 24 hours in a day, right? Changing the length of > the hour won't change the length of the day.   The top-posting should have given you the clue you needed there.... -- Shaun.   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Sep 07 11:47PM +1200 Once upon a time on usenet Jeff Liebermann wrote: > Being able to handle such an ugly calenadar might explain why Jews are > quite good at finance. Can you imagine what a loan amortization > schedule looks like under such a calendar?   No, jews are good at finance because the catholic church banned christians from usury - lending money and charging interest. As money became more and more important it became necessary for there to be financiers but christians weren't going to risk lending their money free of charge. So jews were invited into most catholic / christian countries to be the financiers as they had no such rule in *their* holy book. Without jews stepping in to finance large projects we'd still be in the dark ages.   Yet how do we thank them? By making thinly-veiled anti-semetic jokes in electronics repair groups (and probably other places as well). -- Shaun.   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Sep 07 04:50AM -0700 On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 10:35:42 AM UTC-4, rickman wrote:   > > The animal bodies are regulated by the 24h system.   > Not sure what you are talking about. Animal rhythms are related to a daily > cycle, it has nothing to do with "hours".   Further to this, Circadian Rhythm is very approximate, that is, it adjusts with the seasons, day/night length, temperature, in some cases the phases of the moon, and more. Try setting train schedules from a process that may alter by tens of minutes on any given day.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

Mike Coon <gravity@mjcoon.plus.com>: Sep 07 01:39PM +0100 In article <ebcb2871-13da-4e5e-a3fb-a3e249980fe1@googlegroups.com>, pfjw@aol.com says...   > Further to this, Circadian Rhythm is very approximate, that is, it adjusts with the seasons, day/night length, temperature, in some cases the phases of the moon, and more. Try setting train schedules from a process that may alter by tens of minutes on any given day.   You could have pointed out that is what the "circa" means!   Mike.

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Sep 06 11:25AM -0700 Much as I hate to ask the obvious, but have you tried Hitachi directly? I have found that OEM, if approached gently, will often go to considerable lengths in response to such requests.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au>: Sep 07 07:14AM +1000 On 7/09/2017 2:20 AM, Arfa Daily wrote: > storage scope ? Tried all the usual places, but surprisingly, came up > blank ...   > Arfa   **I can't help, but, I guess, the real question is: Why bother?   Then I think on some of the stuff I've worked on recently and I begin to realise why.   -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au

Mike Coon <gravity@mjcoon.plus.com>: Sep 06 11:09PM +0100 In article <baa79028-672e-47f5-a2d4-8a191211a1e2@googlegroups.com>, pfjw@aol.com says...   > Much as I hate to ask the obvious, but have you tried Hitachi directly? I have found that OEM, if approached gently, will often go to considerable lengths in response to such requests.   > Peter Wieck > Melrose Park, PA   That was very much my experience when, years ago, I bought a "board (=PCB) camera" from them. They supplied some s/w to drive it and the interface specifications so I could build my own.   Mike.

Arfa Daily <arfa.daily@ntlworld.com>: Sep 07 12:43PM +0100 On 06/09/2017 22:14, Trevor Wilson wrote:   > **I can't help, but, I guess, the real question is: Why bother?   > Then I think on some of the stuff I've worked on recently and I begin to > realise why.   Hi Trevor. Trust you are well ?   Well, yes. Why bother indeed ? It's old, and its only 10 MHz. But it belongs to a guy that supplies me quite a bit of work, and he said it was a shame to see it go in the bin if one or other of us could fix it. So I took it back to my workshop, and it has sat there for a couple of weeks. This week, the 'paying' work is dire. I might as well not be wasting the money on the electricity ... So I figured I'd have a quick look at this scope. I kind of think that it might be a power supply problem. Basically, there's no display, although the tube heater is up, and the tube face lights up with a store flood or erase operation. The calibration square wave is present, and if you stick that into one of the Y channels, you can follow the signal some distance down the amplifier strip. But here's the thing. There is no scale illumination when you turn the pot up. It appears to be four somethings - probably LEDs but maybe bulbs, you can't really see - wired in parallel around the graticule. I can't see much in the way of volts at them, but it's all a bit hard to get to without a lot of dismantling.   So I figured a quick squint at a schematic would soon tell all. Rail missing or red herring ? So I went looking, and was amazed to find nothing for it online.   I might try Hitachi direct as Peter suggested above, but these days, I don't think I would hold my breath that anyone there would be prepared to spend the time digging through archives to try to find what I need. still, you never know ...   Arfa

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Sep 07 04:08AM -0700 On Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 4:55:54 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   > After your first hemorrhoid, I think you'll understand.   Never gonna happen to a perfect asshole.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

Bramble <bramble@elbmarb.org>: Sep 06 09:32PM https://www.udemy.com/electronics-for-complete-beginners

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