My next car will have an ash-tray, cigarette lighter and windows which crank by hand...mbe a 4 barrel carburetor too.
Love the really oldies! Needed a 32 specifically for Grandpa's battery-powered radio set.
That takes me back though none of my cars had a 4barrel carb. Just twin choke Webers or Dellortos on my Ducati. (that didn't have an ashtray or cig lighter - not even an option 😉)
My last audio purchases were a Teac VRDS10SE that needed new belts and a Quad 909 that I haven't touched (psu caps could do with renewing).
Bought a TPLink Tapo doorbell camera and it is DOA - the motion sensing doesn't work. The PIR sensor (which is only used to wake the camera) is non-responsive. I can literally wave my hand in front of it and it stays dead.
So frustrating, as it seems to be a common issue that may be firmware related. But it's going back as there is almost no chance of getting a solution from the manufacturer, after being on their help forum for a couple of hours.
So frustrating, as it seems to be a common issue that may be firmware related. But it's going back as there is almost no chance of getting a solution from the manufacturer, after being on their help forum for a couple of hours.
Yah, I bought a SanDisk "mobilMate" USB 3.0 microSD card reader and no function at all. Then read on line others experiencing same. SanDisk...
Good thing I bought the Kingston SSD for my laptop upgrade. I know, every corporation put out a clanger, as in clangs the garbage can, sometimes.
When WDC bought SanDisk... those pendejos forgot who was buying who... they played politics and shut down our own SSD program, which was eons ahead of their crap. I mean, we had a true State Of The Art enterprise SSD plaltform that would have lasted years as it was extensible and in the early prototype phase. Those morons went, put their VP in place, shut us down and effectively threw two years of R&D out of the window and replaced it with a much less capable, and non extensible, design.
I only buy WDC red drives for my NAS nowadays.... I don't much touch anything branded "SanDisk" except for getting an uSDcard here and there.
For consumer products, Samsung SSDs are pretty good.
I only buy WDC red drives for my NAS nowadays.... I don't much touch anything branded "SanDisk" except for getting an uSDcard here and there.
For consumer products, Samsung SSDs are pretty good.
I remember sitting in a room listening to some excitable hard drive expert saying they were going to have 20K hard drives out soon for database and other low access time loads. Never happened. Got killed by better drive cache plans and SSDs.
An old boss recollected a similar story, worked at <drum roll> Data General. Said they had a new disk drive, all ready for production. A future destined replacement for Ken Olsen of DEC came on the scene up high, killed the project because he had a friend in the silicon industry with a new HDD controller chip, that he wanted to try out in a product instead. Several years of engineering out the window in one executive decision. Must happen every era.
I am guessing a lot of us around here can share similar stories. I literally came near a nervous breakdown when I had to stand by and witness the carnage (not just people, but IP, designs, years of amazing work) as my employer was taken over by a corporate giant who knew nothing about our business/industry. 5 years later, I had mixed emotions when that corporate giant finally threw in the towel and sold to an even larger giant. The new giant threw away even more, but at least they had a clue what the business was about.
Former CEO of the place I worked at, openly describing being at his kids school play, noting other parents in attendance who also worked for the place, feeling bad about what he was about to do and how these people's lives attending the play would be affected. Did it anyway, decimated the place so as to give a certain financial "appearance" at the upcoming shareholder meeting. After a restructure which ended my career there, the guy gets deposed over the most trivial matter, yet of course the damage he enacted stands going forward.
Makes you wonder if the guy just stood up for the employees he himself noted would suffer instead, how much worse it would have been for the place. He lost his CEO job anyway. Many, many people were angry anyway. The place will never see their "PC revolution" heyday in the market again, anyway. Why not just admit the truth (earnings not even close), close that hard game on top and walk away?
Oh, dont want to hurt the investors. The truth more like the investors would not feel anything; loss is a common cost of such gambles and if you're shook by that, you cant be successful at investing in the first place. Plus they all probably knew it was all "fake" earnings, they didnt earn anything, just sold out a bunch of assets to make it look as-if; pretend earnings - see, says so right on this speadsheet.
Meanwhile, everyone I knew in the industry, people that would have liked me to work for them in those next 5 years - poof - gone!
Actually, the quarterly Wall Street reports have finished American industry...also dividend stripping.
The Germans would keep cash in reserve, some companies have worker representatives on the governing boards, and in general their margins are high, and they do not pay dividends to keep investors happy.
But then again, the Germans have not been very successful in a volatile industry like electronics...their PLCs are average to poor, and less reliable than Japanese.
The Germans would keep cash in reserve, some companies have worker representatives on the governing boards, and in general their margins are high, and they do not pay dividends to keep investors happy.
But then again, the Germans have not been very successful in a volatile industry like electronics...their PLCs are average to poor, and less reliable than Japanese.
Tired of battling the RF induced hum/instability of the Topping DX3 Pro +, replaced it with an SMSL DL100. Topping goes to the bedroom system.
