Taniwha

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by Taniwha 4y ago
Yes - in the US HDTV was a revelation for many people because of the much larger colour gamut, it was just so much better, in Europe is was mostly just bigger
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by Taniwha 4y ago
It's more obvious in US NTSC that the PAL being discussed here .... essentially the colour subcarrier was put way out in the high freq part of the luma signal - display - anything with too high a bandwidth and it stomps on the colour -
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by Taniwha 4y ago
In the New Zealand of the early 1980s one couldn't just go and import something you needed a govt import licence, in many cases these had been handed down over generations and the number in any one market were strictly limited. The co
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I should add that all this meeting-hacking was not my brilliant idea, can't claim any credit I someone else thought this up. I only realised that we were invoking a form of recursion years later when I was working with a patent attorne
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by Taniwha 4y ago
This was in NZ, probably more '82 or '83 - I can't remember the company name, they were based in Christchurch (or at least the AGM was there) - I had my lawyer buy them for me, had to buy a 100 unit packet for ~$100 which was
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by Taniwha 4y ago
you'd have to do your research - the law that allowed 100 shareholders order up a special general meeting every days was I'm sure only a NZ thing (and I think I remembering the conservative govt of time changing the law to protect
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I went and worked in Silicon Valley a few years later - moved back after 20 years, NZ is a far safer place for kids to be independent teenagers - and was pretty amazed that my son was taught about the '81 tour in high school history -
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by Taniwha 4y ago
The company we attacked pushed back pretty hard, we didn't "down" them, we did mess with them a lot, the other companies caved and announced they weren't importing any more SA wine rather than have us show up at their me
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I just had a look, can't find anything about the wine protest - it was 40 years ago, all pre-web, part of a larger anti-apartheid movement in New Zealand - organised by a local group HART who, among other things were targeting NZ impor
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Yup it all happened, I don't think we ever took them to court, we did call one of the 6 weekly followups (it was 6 weeks because the company had to hold a meeting 6 weeks after being notified that 100 shareholders wanted a meeting). I
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Back in the day I was involved with an anti-apartheid group, one thing we were doing was targeting local companies importing wine from SA, we'd buy shares and attend their AGMs with the intent of gumming up the works so that they could
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by Taniwha 4y ago
it's not really an android phone or an apple phone though - good satellite reception (as opposed to initial middling reception) is going to mean phones with radios meant for satellites and antenna that are designed to look up (and trac
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by Taniwha 4y ago
not in NZ either, we sang hymns in school assembly when I was a kid but these days more that half of us don't believe in religion - you have to choose to pay to go to a special school if you want to be taught god stuff, which is as it
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by Taniwha 4y ago
It's not even 'old', the dems have been around a quarter century longer - as a name "GoP" is just propaganda
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by Taniwha 4y ago
These days an H1B is the first step towards getting a green card, which in turn is the step towards citizenship
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by Taniwha 4y ago
or you could just put them in containers and do a battery swap as part of the loading/unloading
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by Taniwha 4y ago
That last paragraph does rather bring it all back to him .....
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by Taniwha 4y ago
10Mb/s - it's 10BASE-T
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by Taniwha 4y ago
And the UK too: https://www.buildingmaterials.co.uk/nuts-and-bolts/guides/4x...
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by Taniwha 4y ago
certainly here in NZ, Australia too I think
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Sadly does not explain why it's a "2x4" in the US, and a "4x2" elsewhere (before elsewhere gave up inches)
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Cool - thanks! - just started work on an FPU .... would prefer it of the bits were numbered from 0 though
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I did most of my Uni Comp Sci degree in 2 years (only took 2 courses the last year and worked on the side, learned a lot working) - not on purpose - it was mostly by reading ahead because that stuff was more interesting (Note: in the NZ sys
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Of course you can - Amazon will do it for you https://www.amazon.com/inflatable-globe/s?k=inflatable+globe
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I'm going to wait for actual careful human testing .... could be that 5% of the human (but not mouse) population have a variant of some critical metabolic path that this anti-body attacks ..... But yes, once we know it's safe sign
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by Taniwha 4y ago
mmmm O2+2CO great to breathe ..... to be useful they're going to n eed something that separates out ALL the carbon monoxide
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by Taniwha 4y ago
No one in San Francisco calls it "San Fran" - it's "the City"
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I think that what confuses people is that they run historic street cars down the surface Market St for the tourists, and more modern street cars underground (under Market St, above ground in the suburbs) for the locals
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Sort depends on who's box you're trying to own - my box? (sure ring 0) Intel/bigmedia's key store's box? (then maybe something closer to the metal)
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by Taniwha 4y ago
it depends - they kind of implied that it takes a largish change in electric field before the dipoles change state - it may be that they only work for large voltage swings (rather than for smoothing out power supply ripple), and also it may

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