Then I respectfully suggest you don't understand the UK and its attitude to technological innovation.
Cracked, the single absolute best book to have on the shelf for technical information is the Bosch Automotive Handbook. It's very expensive, but very technical and absolutely brilliant. It's about the size of a paperback novel with a plastic cover so it can be cleaned, and has those very thin pages in order to pack in reams of information.
It explains pretty much how all automotive (and heavy vehicle) systems work including formulae etc. I've read it cover to cover.
Recommended!
https://www.bosch-classic.com/de/en/services/technical-literature/
Regards
Another car manual ignoramus
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I'm not talking of the UK or any specific country. It's just a matter of pure logic. You make something more expensive, and people (companies, enterprises) look for less costly alternatives. Say a labouror costs 3000 quid a month including everything and works 8 hrs a day? Or you can deploy a manufacturing robot that costs 500 quid a month for maintenance and works 22 hrs a day, with an initial purchase cost of 100.000 quid. Make the sums and decide.
Even if its a toss-up now, it may start to look attractive after the next 10% pay hike demand.
The upshot is that strong, well-organised labour tends to stimulate innovation.
Jan
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Coming back to the thread subject. I often read something like 'this part is sampling' or 'your order is shipping'.
Looks very wrong to me - anybody feels the same?
Jan
Looks very wrong to me - anybody feels the same?
Jan
Scots irish
Having actually been embedded in their culture for decades I can certainly say it's Scotch Irish. Apparently it's a derogatory term on the other side of the pond and if you dig into the term "Scotch Irish" it seems to be an "Americanism" and was self imposed.
Scotch-Irish, according to James Leyburn, "is an Americanism, generally unknown in Scotland and Ireland, and rarely used by British historians".<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a> It became common in the United States after 1850.
Sorry there Stuart, but I believe it is you who needs to brush up on the history.
Having actually been embedded in their culture for decades I can certainly say it's Scotch Irish. Apparently it's a derogatory term on the other side of the pond and if you dig into the term "Scotch Irish" it seems to be an "Americanism" and was self imposed.
Scotch-Irish, according to James Leyburn, "is an Americanism, generally unknown in Scotland and Ireland, and rarely used by British historians".<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a> It became common in the United States after 1850.
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Scottish and Irish share the same origin partly, the ancient Celtic Scotts lived in northern Ireland and western Scottland, the eastern part was home of the Picts. The Scotts were one of the Gaelic tribes of Ireland that moved to Scottland in the first centuries AD, The Picts were als Celtic, but more related to the Brittonic that lived south of them. Modern Scott people are decendants of that mixup largely.
So there is an actual cutlural link between the two cultures, they are very close related actually.
@rfbrw, switching from facts to personal insults doesn't change those facts.
I'm not making this up, it's economics 101.
There's lots of literature out there that supports it with numbers and facts.
Of course, next you will ask me to look for that that literature, sort it and post the relevant links because you don't really want to look for it yourself, but I won't.
If you are really interested, you'll look for it yourself. Taking a horse to water and all that.
Of course as a politician, one can (and does) say anything one wants, even totally illogical statements, lies and contradictions, and people will eat it if you have a good haircut, so maybe that is where your view (whatever it is) comes from?
I think there's nothing more I can contribute to this particular conversation.
Jan
I'm not making this up, it's economics 101.
There's lots of literature out there that supports it with numbers and facts.
Of course, next you will ask me to look for that that literature, sort it and post the relevant links because you don't really want to look for it yourself, but I won't.
If you are really interested, you'll look for it yourself. Taking a horse to water and all that.
Of course as a politician, one can (and does) say anything one wants, even totally illogical statements, lies and contradictions, and people will eat it if you have a good haircut, so maybe that is where your view (whatever it is) comes from?
I think there's nothing more I can contribute to this particular conversation.
Jan
They are not facts just simplistic assumptions. You seem unable to take into account motivation especially where small business is concerned and unions are way more nuanced than you seem to understand. The world is simply not as homogenised as you seem to think. Pleasant generalisations.
If you go to Boston Harbour, you can tour the USS Constitution - a magnificent battle ship from the early 1800s with one of the tasks of seeing the Barbary pirates off.
Yeah they were a harsh bunch. Today hardly mentioned because it does not fit in the woke narrative. Some old heroes like Michiel de Ruyter that (fact!) freed 2500 European slaves from the barbarians are today being cancelled as they are now called slave traders. Strange world.
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Removal of historical facts, removal of statues, renaming street names, removing art from display in musea, changing paintings descriptions/names, simplifying slave trade to be a whites only affair (which it definitely was not) etc. Revisionism is not a good thing. Revisionism or deleting factual nasty stuff of the past makes history repeating itself. Besides that in the future no one will know what really happened and why as all has been erased.
We see it also happening here about the nazi era and the holocaust. I don't think it is a good idea to change or mix historical facts to todays reality and todays sensitivities/conflicts.
Sometimes sadly funny. A new street was called "nutmeg street" and it was found to be colonial as nutmeg was one of the things driving 17th century trade.
We see it also happening here about the nazi era and the holocaust. I don't think it is a good idea to change or mix historical facts to todays reality and todays sensitivities/conflicts.
Sometimes sadly funny. A new street was called "nutmeg street" and it was found to be colonial as nutmeg was one of the things driving 17th century trade.
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Read Jan’s post again. If wages go up, for any reason, the response is it drives innovation in order to reduce costs, and especially labour. If that wasn’t the case, assembly line robots wouldn’t be a thing, neither would SMD pick and place machines in amongst other things.
I listen to the grumpies on one side and the triggered snowflakes on the other and I am inclined to the view that, to borrow a phrase from a UK character, they are the two cheeks of the same backside. Seeking to airbrush out the Holocaust is a real problem but when you get upset because NXP no longer use Master and Slave in their I2C literature or you are accused of fat shaming for saying you didn't like being fat and that there was nothing positive about it I have no time for either side.
True. I just don't understand changing/erasing history for political reasons. It absolutely helps no one, also not the supposed victims of such injustice as when all has been deleted/erased/changed in 20 years no one will know who the actual victims or perpetrators were (a new political movement may even declare the victims of then perpetrators based on a new narrative).
The small stuff is pathetic but no real issue. But give them 1 finger and you'll loose both hands.
Agreed, fatso?! 🙂
The small stuff is pathetic but no real issue. But give them 1 finger and you'll loose both hands.
Agreed, fatso?! 🙂
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Sure, but does it cover the FCEV? Best car we've ever had, even better than the Civic Si's, CRX, GSR, Type SH, RSX-S, TL-S, TLX-S AWD, etc, etc...
Does that book cover torque steering AWD? How about its two variations under Honda? Planetary gears vs. clutches?
Cars are way too complicated for a single book? The technology moves forward! Does it include the CAN bus? ( Designed by Bosch, BTW ).
(When my wife retired, she made a list of all the cars she had.... it was more than 41 cars... Not one had a redline under 6100 rpm )...
Petrol Heads? We got autographed posters on the walls of our den... Zanardi is there too... At one point we had one of only 10 Acura Vigor MT5 in North America... We missed the ITR by two hours as the lady in charge had gone on vacation... two hours, if she'd only called us at 9AM instead of 11AM
( Good news I found your yellow Type R... what? You just bought a TL off the used lot? Oh I had a meeting... ), my wife told me this in between sobs...
Petrol heads? You ought to see my wife drive a stick shift with four inch heels...
Yet the hydrogen fuel cell was the best... and of course our iMMC serial hybrids over the years ( we have on in the garage right now ). Low down instant throttle and maximum torque!
It does have a "Bose" system though.... oh well... maybe if they make a TLX iMMC AWD with ELS we might splurge for that...
Ya Wanna Ingles? Konichiwa beetches... Cowabunga... Dig? The beauty of Le Anglais Americaine is its flexibility.
Does that book cover torque steering AWD? How about its two variations under Honda? Planetary gears vs. clutches?
Cars are way too complicated for a single book? The technology moves forward! Does it include the CAN bus? ( Designed by Bosch, BTW ).
(When my wife retired, she made a list of all the cars she had.... it was more than 41 cars... Not one had a redline under 6100 rpm )...
Petrol Heads? We got autographed posters on the walls of our den... Zanardi is there too... At one point we had one of only 10 Acura Vigor MT5 in North America... We missed the ITR by two hours as the lady in charge had gone on vacation... two hours, if she'd only called us at 9AM instead of 11AM
( Good news I found your yellow Type R... what? You just bought a TL off the used lot? Oh I had a meeting... ), my wife told me this in between sobs...
Petrol heads? You ought to see my wife drive a stick shift with four inch heels...
Yet the hydrogen fuel cell was the best... and of course our iMMC serial hybrids over the years ( we have on in the garage right now ). Low down instant throttle and maximum torque!
It does have a "Bose" system though.... oh well... maybe if they make a TLX iMMC AWD with ELS we might splurge for that...
Ya Wanna Ingles? Konichiwa beetches... Cowabunga... Dig? The beauty of Le Anglais Americaine is its flexibility.
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