I remember visiting my Nationwide Building Society (like a Savings and Loans) about the beginning of the 90s' back in the UK and seeing a girl behind the counter using a calculator to subtract £5 from a total 😵. Social media makes most people into spectators not participators and that is dangerous. Wilhelm Reich wrote a book called The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Dr Goebbels was an essential ingredient in the Hitler/Fascist project. Indeed he was the godfather of marketing. It began in the 60s' maybe even the 50s' in the USA, was complete in the UK by the end of the 70s' and by the beginning of the 90s' in mainland Europe. Just look at the I/phone, a perfect example of mass psychology/brainwashing. It does'nt really matter how much it costs, same with Nike. Slobs who would probably have a heart attack if they actually tried to run in those sports shoes. It's both sad and hilarious but 99% of those who wear sports clothing are the most degenerate in society. Has it really changed from the time that the Duke of Wellington called his soldiers 'the scum of the earth' - 'all I expect them to do is fire their muskets and die and they did. It's important to question everything and never accept anything that remotely smells of b/s - received wisdom often turns out to be complete b/s.
No need to think.
I strongly support DDT. (1) Indeed, for every double shot iteration the value of your rig goes up by $10KUSD. (2)...
Indeed, I've found an relationship between the type of testing elixir and the music being played. Bourbon is great for Americana.. Scotch whiskey is awesome for Handel and stuff like that. Chopin... well you know it... XO is best there. Now, Mexican Norteños, Mucho Tequila.... Russian, sometimes cognac for Romantics but definitely vodka for Shostakovich and the modernists. Rodrigo? A nice Palo Cortado.
Rock? Ay Rock... anything over 120 proof with ONE ice cube.
(1) Double Drunk Test. Good for five iterations as on the sixth the soundstage collapses as I find myself laying horizontal on the couch with one ear buried on the sofa.
(2) Originally when I came up with this viewpoint, it was $5K. Harry Pearson concurred and posted my long letter on TAS... in the late 80s, I think. Blame inflation.
I was going to say I also prefer 'regular' to RPN (the TI-25 is 'regular') but then realised I don't qualify as intelligent!
HP 41C vs TI SR52...
My buddy got his HP... he was boasting about how efficient RPN was.... then I showed him my new TI which... well... it was inefficient in comparison but had like more than twice the step memory.. so that effectively it could hold a longer equation.... ;-)
Like that scene in Indiana Jones were the Ninja is showing off his skills before attacking Indy.... but before Mr. Show Off could move forward, Indy gets his revolver out and.. shoots him dead.
Yeah, Mr SR52 was Indiana Jones' revolver vs my buddy's HP Ninja.
You see, many folks confuse Intelligent with Idiot Savant.
My buddy got his HP... he was boasting about how efficient RPN was.... then I showed him my new TI which... well... it was inefficient in comparison but had like more than twice the step memory.. so that effectively it could hold a longer equation.... ;-)
Like that scene in Indiana Jones were the Ninja is showing off his skills before attacking Indy.... but before Mr. Show Off could move forward, Indy gets his revolver out and.. shoots him dead.
Yeah, Mr SR52 was Indiana Jones' revolver vs my buddy's HP Ninja.
You see, many folks confuse Intelligent with Idiot Savant.
Casio fx-17, 1976, fluorescent display, still working.
Casio fx-3600P (programmable), 1983, still good.
Casio fx-82P, & fx-100, flea markets finds, 30 cents each, working conditiion, 2018.
TI are rare here, expensive, and don't feel well built.
Sharp sometimes, but there are locally made ones as well.
Casio used Oki and Hitachi chips, sometimes NEC.
Casio fx-3600P (programmable), 1983, still good.
Casio fx-82P, & fx-100, flea markets finds, 30 cents each, working conditiion, 2018.
TI are rare here, expensive, and don't feel well built.
Sharp sometimes, but there are locally made ones as well.
Casio used Oki and Hitachi chips, sometimes NEC.
^ Naresh, I'm talking about 1978, or so.....
Calculators nowadays are crappy... Get a good app for your smart phone.
Calculators nowadays are crappy... Get a good app for your smart phone.
I’m still using an ancient 30 year old TI. Always sits on my desk, unless needed outside. I don't have to enter a passcode first. And actual buttons so fat and/or wet fingers can operate it properly.
You know, when you claim that something 30 years old is ancient, that makes me feel like Methuselah
And by applying a little reverse psychology ...
Also, it happens in real life:
Robert “Bobby Yaga” McNee
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Somehow I’ve lucked out and have an 8yo who thinks secretly reading under the covers past her bedtime is an act of rebellion, and it hasn’t yet occurred to her that her flashlights never seem to run out of batteries.
12:28 PM · Aug 13, 2020
The TI-25 had a Toshiba IC and was made in Japan, at least when it was introduced in 1978.
What I can't get is why they can't make TV remotes whose main keys work for longer than 5 years, like these old calculators.
One, the TV gets replaced very often now, and they are cheap in inflation adjusted terms, I actually paid slightly less a month or so back for a 32" smart LCD, than what I paid for a 20" CRT in 1983.
That lasted till 2017, when I got a Samsung LED with 720p resolution, and already the market sweet spot are 43 and 55: smart UHD TV, when they feel the right price, mine will get replaced.
Got a smart 32" cheap, so I am OK for the next two years or more. It was like $125...
Second, remotes are like a dolar here, so no big deal, they fail mostly because of oily hands, people drop them or eat chips, and work them with the same hands...I keep my remotes inside a plastic bag.
You can make a remote with mechanical keys, IF ypu get the chips....most are direct bonded to PCB, and covered with black goo.
But for a dollar? Too much effort...
That lasted till 2017, when I got a Samsung LED with 720p resolution, and already the market sweet spot are 43 and 55: smart UHD TV, when they feel the right price, mine will get replaced.
Got a smart 32" cheap, so I am OK for the next two years or more. It was like $125...
Second, remotes are like a dolar here, so no big deal, they fail mostly because of oily hands, people drop them or eat chips, and work them with the same hands...I keep my remotes inside a plastic bag.
You can make a remote with mechanical keys, IF ypu get the chips....most are direct bonded to PCB, and covered with black goo.
But for a dollar? Too much effort...
I'm more than sure that different cables can produce different listening results in different systems.
If the infamous ABX tests indicate otherwise, who cares?
I'm amazed by the fact that so much intelligence often "accepts" the related ABX tests without questioning in the slightest way their barbaric rudimentality satisfied by a brutal logic which should not be applicable to the physiology of hearing.
ABX test only prove (if any) that a human being is not a machine.
All the above it's just my opinion, with due respect for different opinions.
I just read the thread and all I can say is that I'm anything but a technician and therefore anything but an engineer and I greatly admire the intelligence and culture of others when both of them do not appear sectarian and therefore I admired and enjoyed your speeches about your intelligence and your education.
My intelligence level is unknown.
My education is limited to a medical/pharmaceutical scientific field, and that's it.
So science matters to me, by design.
But I know from experience that what science can prove, measure and repeat is not THE EVERYTHING of an observed phenomenon, and the History of Medicine is there to testify.
I've never taken a test to find out my IQ and frankly I don't care that too much even if my ego disagrees.
Anyway I believe that intelligence alone is not enough (opened a thread on this topic illo tempore, but it seems that his fate was sealed by his own title, and the egos of others, and he was quickly closed) and that intelligence has to be accompanied by awareness of the whole and of the real (non-egoic) condition in which a person finds himself: even if he were the world's leading expert in all-things-of-the-world he still wouldn't know enough about being in the world if that made him intellectually arrogant.
However, at the age of 10, I "imagined" the telephone with a numeric keypad because I noticed that the number was often wrong with the rotating dial.
At the age of 12, I "imagined" the easy-opening for the can of food because I noticed that an additional tool was needed to open it and I considered it an unbearable weakness.
A few decades later, I invented a way to boot Windows without Hard Disk not only from specially designed flash drives, but also from any other type of USB stick.
Does that count for anything?
If the infamous ABX tests indicate otherwise, who cares?
I'm amazed by the fact that so much intelligence often "accepts" the related ABX tests without questioning in the slightest way their barbaric rudimentality satisfied by a brutal logic which should not be applicable to the physiology of hearing.
ABX test only prove (if any) that a human being is not a machine.
All the above it's just my opinion, with due respect for different opinions.
I just read the thread and all I can say is that I'm anything but a technician and therefore anything but an engineer and I greatly admire the intelligence and culture of others when both of them do not appear sectarian and therefore I admired and enjoyed your speeches about your intelligence and your education.
My intelligence level is unknown.
My education is limited to a medical/pharmaceutical scientific field, and that's it.
So science matters to me, by design.
But I know from experience that what science can prove, measure and repeat is not THE EVERYTHING of an observed phenomenon, and the History of Medicine is there to testify.
I've never taken a test to find out my IQ and frankly I don't care that too much even if my ego disagrees.
Anyway I believe that intelligence alone is not enough (opened a thread on this topic illo tempore, but it seems that his fate was sealed by his own title, and the egos of others, and he was quickly closed) and that intelligence has to be accompanied by awareness of the whole and of the real (non-egoic) condition in which a person finds himself: even if he were the world's leading expert in all-things-of-the-world he still wouldn't know enough about being in the world if that made him intellectually arrogant.
However, at the age of 10, I "imagined" the telephone with a numeric keypad because I noticed that the number was often wrong with the rotating dial.
At the age of 12, I "imagined" the easy-opening for the can of food because I noticed that an additional tool was needed to open it and I considered it an unbearable weakness.
A few decades later, I invented a way to boot Windows without Hard Disk not only from specially designed flash drives, but also from any other type of USB stick.
Does that count for anything?
Please provide us all your qualifications along the lines of Psychological training, courses, degrees that would qualify you to make such a "diagnoses" that "fits to a tee"
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My contention is merely one of ego-driven "superhuman" hearing abilities, 0.5 Db detection, 42K hertz abilities & the giant, of course, audible benefits of premium cables, inter-connects etc., all the way down to speaker wire "lifts" to avoid such audible errors.
The DBT when performed & the noted devices fail, all the procedures, all the processes are thrown into doubt....It's the "miracle" devices that are at fault. Occams Razor.
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The DBT when performed & the noted devices fail, all the procedures, all the processes are thrown into doubt....It's the "miracle" devices that are at fault. Occams Razor.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick...
Maybe - but the certainly had calculators by the time shuttles flew, and laptops on board - crude by today's standard but then they only had to run dos...
It seems to me more harm to science acceptance is caused by this form of personalised hyperbole represented as the science standpoint than from every Tice clock or magic stone ever sold.
I got a HP-15c when I started university. Still have it too, a few buttons feel a bit loose but are working fine.
Probably not. Because, often, the trick isn't in having the idea, but having the supporting technology that would make the thing practical, economical and reliably reproducible. Many great ideas have run aground on the rocky shores of technology. Just ask Charles Babbage.
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