my bike. It was a higher end carbon fiber frame Look and I put on Spinergy wheels with the PBO spokes. It's 12 years old now, might as well call it an antique from a performance bike POV. Yet everyone who's biked with me has commented on how good it still looks and it rides great. I know people who bought newer bikes that simply failed after a few weeks. Either the hydraulic brakes failed or the chain jumped and took a chunk off the frame, etc. The only thing I've done is keep it very clean. That really makes a bike last.

Seeding clouds to make it rain is 1950s technology and recently Moscow's mayor made it snow IIRC.

Excuse me, the 547 is a 50MHz mainframe, but perhaps you have a lackluster plugin in there?

It's not fair to compare commercial lab equipment to consumer-level stuff, but I will anyways. I have a lot of test gear from the 1960s and 70s.

Tektronix 547 oscilloscope mainframe, early '60s

Plugins for the above giving me 4 traces, or 1GHz sampling, 10GHz spectrum, sensitive differential input

P6042 DC-50MHz clip-on current probe

HP 6284A DC power supply

HP 5316A 1GHz counter

HP 3468A 6 digit DMM

It's important and easy to get the documentation. As it is, most of these things just need maintenance, and the occasional burnt parts are still available. Except for the esoteric stuff like tunnel diodes and the current transformer assembly for the P6042.

The 547 is going on half a century. This stuff was built like a car, lots of metal, a thick chassis, very large components.

I think it would be a good idea for every pothole to have its own IP address so we can track how big it's getting, for example.

get the damn thing to work properly. I seem to have the magic touch to get every obscure and unexpected behavior to happen.

Alex 7000 from the Bionic Woman. Hilarious. And what about Cylons?

You expect slashdotters to generate heat... on a mattress?

You think I'm the only one in this situation? And you're talking to me about statistics? Wow. Why are all low UID accounts owned by assholes?

don't be a Commodore.

"Think about this: thanks to incomes growing faster"

Stopped there. I make less than I did 15 years ago, and when you include the fact I no longer have a health care plan and matched retirement contributions, I make even less than that. And who the hell drinks milk anyways?

Not just the USA. Pretty sure boring old Canada is as well. And Quebec, and Montreal, and my condo. Just the way it really is. Pane et Circem.

but only to outsource technical and engineering jobs. Heaven forbid if we automate away accountants and bureaucracy. THEN technology is taking jobs away!

LOL OK. Got it. Makes his sig doubly delicious.