Very fast rise time generator...

[John Larkin]

On 23 Mar 2023 03:20:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:15:30 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

They were primitive, barbaric, dangerous, leaky, unreliable, and great
fun.

I had a \'82 AH Sprite, essentially the same as a Midget. The gas gauge
didn\'t work and one evening I ran out about three blocks from home. It was
level ground so I could easily walk beside it. The plan was going good
until I came to an intersection with a cop directing traffic. \"Do you
always take your car for a walk?\"

I always carried a tool kit and a gallon of gasoline in the trunk.

I had an 1100cc Sprite that got totalled, crushed between two giant
American cars, to about half its original length. I took the insurance
money and got a 1275 Midget.

I sold it to an artist. It\'s the Rolling Surf car near the end of this
page:

https://adrianruyle.com/category/art-car/

https://adrianruyle.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/mg2.gif?w=300

I think it had a top speed of 80 mph on a good day. The \'62 had a slightly
larger engine than the Bugeye but the same inadequate brakes which made
life interesting. To put the top up, you got a frame, the side curtains,
and the canvas out of the trunk, erected the frame, put the canvas over
it, snapped it down around the perimeter, put the side curtains in place,
and tightened the thumbscrews.

That was the theory. In sudden rain storms you motored on and got soaked
because you were going to anyway.

Drive fast enough and only your hair gets wet.

I bought a tonneau cover where you had to install the snaps to fit. I did
the job on a hot summer day and you could bounce a quarter off it. Come
fall and colder weather I could just about push the car down the driveway
trying to get it zipped and snapped.

My brother in law asked how the thing handled in a sarcastic tone. I did a
bootlegger turn. \'Oh\' he said, very quietly.

Radical oversteer.

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:17:19 +0000, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:

On 22/03/2023 17:15, John Larkin wrote:

They were primitive, barbaric, dangerous, leaky, unreliable, and great
fun.

Fun until you get older and just want the comfort

And AWD and a ski rack.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:05:34 +0000, Colin Bignell
<cpb@bignellREMOVETHIS.me.uk> wrote:

On 22/03/2023 02:13, rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:24:21 +0000, SteveW wrote:

Containers go on trains here, but not usually entire trailers. Due to
being the first to develop railways, they were mainly built with bridges
and tunnels too small to allow that.

Lack of foresight...

Partly a result of having to dig tunnels through rock by hand, with only
gunpowder available for blasting.

A great book:

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Like-World-Transcontinental-1863-1869/dp/0743203178

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qmit7g5ass5smpn/AADXp8NT1SHD1vzCv8uTySpTa?dl=0

Used to be that you could drive into Tunnel 6, but no more. But it\'s
still a great hike.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 23/03/2023 04:02, John Larkin wrote:

On 23 Mar 2023 03:20:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:15:30 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

They were primitive, barbaric, dangerous, leaky, unreliable, and great
fun.

I had a \'82 AH Sprite, essentially the same as a Midget. The gas gauge
didn\'t work and one evening I ran out about three blocks from home. It was
level ground so I could easily walk beside it. The plan was going good
until I came to an intersection with a cop directing traffic. \"Do you
always take your car for a walk?\"

I always carried a tool kit and a gallon of gasoline in the trunk.

I had an 1100cc Sprite that got totalled, crushed between two giant
American cars, to about half its original length. I took the insurance
money and got a 1275 Midget.

I sold it to an artist. It\'s the Rolling Surf car near the end of this
page:

https://adrianruyle.com/category/art-car/

https://adrianruyle.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/mg2.gif?w=300


I think it had a top speed of 80 mph on a good day. The \'62 had a slightly
larger engine than the Bugeye but the same inadequate brakes which made
life interesting. To put the top up, you got a frame, the side curtains,
and the canvas out of the trunk, erected the frame, put the canvas over
it, snapped it down around the perimeter, put the side curtains in place,
and tightened the thumbscrews.

That was the theory. In sudden rain storms you motored on and got soaked
because you were going to anyway.

Drive fast enough and only your hair gets wet.


I bought a tonneau cover where you had to install the snaps to fit. I did
the job on a hot summer day and you could bounce a quarter off it. Come
fall and colder weather I could just about push the car down the driveway
trying to get it zipped and snapped.

My brother in law asked how the thing handled in a sarcastic tone. I did a
bootlegger turn. \'Oh\' he said, very quietly.

Radical oversteer.

Not really. Midgets were pretty neutral on handling. Until you pushed
them too far, then you got the back stepping out, like as not. But that
was controllable. Worst car ever was a Ford Escort Mk I 1100. there the
front would slide on loose or slippy surfaces and then the back would as
well.
Curiously, I pretty much wrote that one off..it was me mums, and we were
driving some years after the mole valley floods over a temporary bridge
that had been there at least 6 years, over the Mole at Cobham . The
bridge featured a steep ramp, and then a metal plate, before the wooden
surface. In the wet, using throttle to get up the ramp at less than
15mph caused the wheels to spin massively on the metal plate. The rear
of the car smacked the bridge. Me mum decided that she didn\'t like that
car and went back to a mini.




--
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

 

[rbowman]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:02:19 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

> Radical oversteer.

I grew up with American iron and power oversteer. My first FWD car was an
Audi LS100. That experience almost ended badly before I got it sorted out.
I\'d bought it prior to the national 55 mph speed limit and it was a car
that could have inspired the \'I can\'t drive 55\' song. It was geared with
Autobahns in mind, not snail trails.

 

[Peeler]

On 23 Mar 2023 13:43:58 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

I grew up with American iron and power oversteer. My first FWD car was an
Audi LS100.

Oh, NO! The resident gossiping washerwoman is at again! LMAO

--
More typical idiotic senile gossip by lowbrowwoman:
\"It\'s been years since I\'ve been in a fast food burger joint but I used
to like Wendy\'s because they had a salad bar and baked potatoes.\"
MID: <ivdi4gF8btlU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 16:59:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
<tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/04/2023 16:14, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 13:45:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/04/2023 11:43, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 02/04/2023 20:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Frankly, crap in one ear was mad enough. Stereo crap was unusable

And channel space in MW bands is very limited

Google Shannon.

Shannon is a river in Ireland. And a city. And an airport.
And an engineer.


Try \"Shannon\'s Law\" (no quotes needed). Google can be dumb!

Andy

Audio can be compressed more than the Sampling Theorem originally
suggested.

No, it cannot.

Cell phones send voice at bit rates as low as 5 Kbps; silence is
transmitted even slower. At 8 bits equivalent, the Shannon rate would
be around 60K.

 

[tony sayer]

In article <g86m2ipdbs6b432na3ehi29iqpmfn5r4dp@4ax.com>, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> scribeth thus

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 16:59:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/04/2023 16:14, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 13:45:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/04/2023 11:43, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 02/04/2023 20:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Frankly, crap in one ear was mad enough. Stereo crap was unusable

And channel space in MW bands is very limited

Google Shannon.

Shannon is a river in Ireland. And a city. And an airport.
And an engineer.


Try \"Shannon\'s Law\" (no quotes needed). Google can be dumb!

Andy

Audio can be compressed more than the Sampling Theorem originally
suggested.

No, it cannot.

Cell phones send voice at bit rates as low as 5 Kbps; silence is
transmitted even slower. At 8 bits equivalent, the Shannon rate would
be around 60K.

Lookup \"Vocoder\" in GSM telephony...
--
Tony Sayer


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 03/04/2023 19:24, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 16:59:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/04/2023 16:14, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 13:45:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/04/2023 11:43, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 02/04/2023 20:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Frankly, crap in one ear was mad enough. Stereo crap was unusable

And channel space in MW bands is very limited

Google Shannon.

Shannon is a river in Ireland. And a city. And an airport.
And an engineer.


Try \"Shannon\'s Law\" (no quotes needed). Google can be dumb!

Andy

Audio can be compressed more than the Sampling Theorem originally
suggested.

No, it cannot.

Cell phones send voice at bit rates as low as 5 Kbps; silence is
transmitted even slower. At 8 bits equivalent, the Shannon rate would
be around 60K.

No, it would not.
It would be around 5kbps

Shannon is about digital communication of *information* , not Nyquist\'s
sampling theorem.

The *information* rate on speech is far far less than the bandwidth
needed to accurately reproduce it. Which is why it can be compressed at all.

With a speech synthesiser and a speech to text analyser you could
probably get speech down to about 50 bps. It would lack nuance, but
would be comprensible

Stripped of constants and caveats Shannon says that you can get no more
bits per second down a channel than the channel bandwidth times the
signal to noise ratio.

All the fancy modulation schemata are simply ways to approach that given
a particular channel degradation .

Nyquists theorem is about how many bits it takes at what frequency to
*fully characterise* an analogue waveform of *arbitrary* nature.

Ex of digital signal processing - as on say a CD - that\'s a lot for full
audio.
But speech and music are *not* arbitrary. Quite the reverse. The actual
signal does not - except in the case of white noise - carry anything
like the information rate implied by the data rate. And the lack of high
energy high frequencies means that very simple algorithmns like delta
encoding can drastically reduce the rate needed at the expnse of
truncating very high frequenciy transients. A cymbal clash for example.

And the human ear does not do phase very well. Yu can dor fouurier
transforms and resynthesise to audio and lose all pahse coherence and
you wont notce it.

Hnce the MP3.




--
Gun Control: The law that ensures that only criminals have guns.

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:12:49 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
<CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:53:59 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:34:04 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:19:48 -0000, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:23:13 +0000, NY wrote:


OK, so some British-English spellings have mutated over the years:
few people uses \"gaol\" instead of \"jail\", and \"disk\" is becoming
common as an alternative to \"disc\" - and not just in computing. Of
course CD is \"compact disc\" with a C, so British spelling rules there
;-)

Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose
it\'s in line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and
tend to alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\'
but I tend to favor that spelling.


The one difference that works the opposite way round is the
pronunciation of \"herb\". British pronounces the H whereas American
often omits the H sound \"erb\" as if it were French.

I\'ll go with herb. \'Erb\' sounds affected to me.

Herb sounds affected to me.

Not sure what you mean. Is that like \"affection\"?

Putting on airs, like some Liverpool yob trying to use RP.

I can\'t stand the Liverpooooooooool accent. Where the ooooo is 4 octaves higher than any man should be able to achieve.

Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.

 

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-04-16, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.

It comes from a time when people very rarely traveled more than a few
miles from home.

To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the
influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans
are more apt to speak \"General American\".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English

--
Cindy Hamilton

 

[Peeler]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:53:16 -0700, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:

Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.

Not so strange that some typical senile retarded Yank with nobody in real
life to talk to would eagerly feed the trolling Scottish wanker and assist
him in trashing these ngs with endless off topic sick shit!

 

[rbowman]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:18:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the
influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans
are more apt to speak \"General American\".

In theory I should have a Western New England accent that\'s perceived
around here as \'back east someplace\' rather than General American.

 

[Peeler]

On 16 Apr 2023 17:33:08 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

In theory I should have a Western New England accent that\'s perceived
around here as \'back east someplace\' rather than General American.

I practice you should have a big muzzle fitted over your big mouth,
bigmouth!

--
Yet another thrilling story from the resident senile gossip\'s thrilling
life:
\"Around here you have to be careful to lock your car toward the end of
summer or somebody will leave a grocery sack full of zucchini in it.\"

 

[Ed P]

On 4/16/2023 12:18 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2023-04-16, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.

It comes from a time when people very rarely traveled more than a few
miles from home.

To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the
influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans
are more apt to speak \"General American\".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English

I grew up in Philadelphia. I often could tell what part of the city you
lived in the same way. When we moved to CT, people knew we were
outsiders.

Amazing how many people in recent years never traveled more than a few
miles from home.

Been about 20 years, but a neighbor wanted to get an appliance his wife
asked about. Local store did not have it but I found a store 30 miles
north of us in Worcester MA had it. I suggested he buy it there. His
reply? \"OK, I\'ll go but you\'ll have to drive\"

 

[John Larkin]

On 16 Apr 2023 17:42:37 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:51:38 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

I wouldn\'t name any kid Herbert.

How about Hubert, Norbert, Cuthbert, Gilbert, Filbert and so forth. It\'s
odd the only *bert that survived is Robert, to the point of being a
cliche. Albert is a distant second.

Maybe named for a rich grandfather.

Gilbert isn\'t too bad. Nickname Gil.

I did go to high school with a Hubert, who was black.

I can beat that. Lionel Dimel.

And the semi-famous Amory Lovins. I pal\'d around with him at a
national science fair in Baltimore.

 

[Rod Speed]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:53:16 +1000, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:12:49 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:53:59 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:34:04 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:19:48 -0000, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:23:13 +0000, NY wrote:


OK, so some British-English spellings have mutated over the years:
few people uses \"gaol\" instead of \"jail\", and \"disk\" is becoming
common as an alternative to \"disc\" - and not just in computing. Of
course CD is \"compact disc\" with a C, so British spelling rules
there
;-)

Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose
it\'s in line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and
tend to alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\'
but I tend to favor that spelling.


The one difference that works the opposite way round is the
pronunciation of \"herb\". British pronounces the H whereas American
often omits the H sound \"erb\" as if it were French.

I\'ll go with herb. \'Erb\' sounds affected to me.

Herb sounds affected to me.

Not sure what you mean. Is that like \"affection\"?

Putting on airs, like some Liverpool yob trying to use RP.

I can\'t stand the Liverpooooooooool accent. Where the ooooo is 4
octaves higher than any man should be able to achieve.

Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.

Much worse in Italy, it isnt just accents there, its entire dialects
which are completely unintelligible to other Italians.

 

[Peeler]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:23:33 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>

--
MrTurnip@down.the.farm about senile Rodent Speed:
\"This is like having a conversation with someone with brain damage.\"
MID: <ps10v9$uo2$1@gioia.aioe.org>

 

[rbowman]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:23:33 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:

Much worse in Italy, it isnt just accents there, its entire dialects
which are completely unintelligible to other Italians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German

\"Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch.\"

Baden-Württemberg is a high-tech area and came up with the ad campaign.
\"We can do anything. Except speak standard German\".

 

[rbowman]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:31:34 -0400, Ed P wrote:

Amazing how many people in recent years never traveled more than a few
miles from home.

When I was in the Boston area I met quite a few well educated
professionals who thought the world ended at 128.

NYS helped to show people new horizons. Upstate was going downhill so fast
anyone with git up and go got up and went. I left when I was 22 and never
looked back.