* Posts by cswilly2

5 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jun 2019

Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter

cswilly2

Re: Wish there was a video

Video of the catch

https://youtu.be/6nODVPGHQcc?t=2798

There's a new Chipzilla in town: Samsung topples Intel to become largest chip maker

cswilly2

Re: TSMC?

TSMC was 3rd in this 20-Dec-2021 forecast behind Samsung and Intel according to:

https://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/17-Semiconductor-Companies-Forecast-To-Have-100-Billion-In-Sales-This-Year/

Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

cswilly2

Nonsense. See

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linky#Courants_porteurs_en_ligne

All the meters use power line communication to connect to the concentrator in the transformer station. From there they use wireless GPRS Edge (kind of a 3G and 3G+ technology).

cswilly2

Six manufacturers of Linky not One

>>>Same manufacturer for the smart meters?

Not true. See

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linky#Fabrication

Ahhhhh! What year is it?! Users left without direction or clue after Google Calendar 404s

cswilly2

Google Calendar is working in France now.