Posts by Thrudd the Barbarian 51 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2011
Sadly the purchase price is what limits the lower oncomrs to end up spending more over all on any durable goods.
Those 300$ boots will last a lifetime with care while the 25$ pair will barely make two years before needing to be replaced.
Same goes for appliances or vehicles in general.
Mind there are exceptions... I'm looking at you GE.
When my engineering kit's sensors do the electric boogaloo I pull out my pocket dpectrum analyzer and do a sniff test. Yeah not work approved but I'm licensed and it kept me out of other people's trouble.
More times than not it's sparky creativity but every once in a while it's kit broadcasting all over the spectrum at power levels that would make CB abusers drool.
Canadian English is the Queens English infected with a case of American.
Mind we have almost purged the place of Farenheit... damn HVAC.... as well as that imperial weights and measures for the most part.
Who would have thought working in base 10 would be so difficult for some people.
Except when it's not.
Had an engineering study set up to run overnight. Cabinet locked. Sign posted on cabinet. Three bands of tape above on and below latch. Cart of wired up equipment parked in front.
Next morning cart is to the side.
Tape broken.
Someones project inside cabinet.
Three temperature spikes logged.
Two were on the downswing so still in spec. Third was at the peak and out of spec.
Some of the sensors had been moved.
Study fail and has to be repeated.
Sr researcher and board member walks in and wants his samples. Turns out he was using some of the just delivered bench instruments as well.
He was not happy that his budget had to pay for the repeat of the study and also to explain to the ministry auditor the reason for the delay.
This is where phd becomes Fudd as in Elmer.
That's like moving from one volcanic island to another. Same problems, different real estate.
The thing to do is go out to sea well away from all the issues of nebulae, novas, colliosions, etc
Now what is lurking in intergalactic space is still to be determined mind you.
New city hall from Day one ran it's propriety HVAC control board on an Apple IIe computer system .
Only things that ever went on it were the FDD cards which wear an easy chip swap fix. Oh and the one time the power supply blew up when 600vac was on the ground line. Gotta love public service unions. At least nobody died, just a few tingles in inappropriate places.
A good chunk of that R&D cost born by industry is marketing and production scaling subsidized by tax dollars.
The real research is done on tax dollars at education institutions that generate small startups that lure investors and once they become viable get gobbled up pennies on the dollar.
Do not forget that that laws enforcement division insists everything is translated including proper names.
I still wonder why the world has not sanctioned the province for overt racism at all levels.
A while back I was billeted for work in Montreal and noted not a single ethnic face on any local station including the cbc, yet it is the opposite in any other province and mandated as such.
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