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Non-complaint: Wheee... I'm having a champagne and bleu cheese on crackers solo orgy, while drooling at Amazon & NewEgg computer hardware that I can't afford. A fine fall Sunday afternoon during a pandemic.
Why does this guy look like Aaron Rodgers?
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Is it just me or do iPads sometimes refuse to charge with random chargers? I tried charging the iPad with one particular charger but it won't charge with it. Bummer.
PC Building Simulator is currently free in the Epic Games store. If you don't know how to build your own PC it might be a good and fun way to learn. Or it might not; I both haven't played the game and have been building PCs for a couple decades now, but it purports to be very realistic.
....does it observe compatibility of components and give the base prices for them?
The one downside of PC Part Picker is often there are no prices listed for components to generate what the final cost would be. Other than that, most configurators are for having a PC built for you at a custom house where costs are higher.
i'm still around. I'm just really busy studying for school. I've been so busy studying that I forgot to buy a hard drive for my new computer.
its snowing......
(looking out window) No it isn't.
...yesterday on the weather site I use, they mentioned that snow would extend into the intermountain region of the States as well. Up to 2 feet is expected in some of the higher elevations as thre is a large area of cold air pushing south.
Here in Portland (OR) tomorrow night the forecast is for lows in the mid to upper 30s.
Adjust your fine tuning.
Oops, there are some people out there under the age of 21 who might not know what that means. So I 'splain. Fine Tuning was an anlog TV thing. Probably from some early radio sets too. In analog TV you used a mechanical switch to insert alternative sets of coils and capacitors into the reception tuning circuits to affect the base frequency that they would resonate at, thus picking the channel you wanted to watch. However, analog circuits drift with temperature, age, and quality so there was an additional "geared down" knob that would let you adjust the base frequency very slowly, to bring it back to the correct frequency for a clear signal.
It's a cheap analog technique in use before more sophisticated phase locked loops became common. And although it's cheap and analog, it was rarely marketed for windows, (the flat glass type). However, if you have one of those windows and see lots of snow, then adjust the fine tuning first before putting on a jacket.
Getting a "expired_auth_token" error whenever I try and download Manual Installation files for anything in my Product Library :/
There have been reports of DAZ server issues all day and at least part of yesterday. Not everyone is experiencing it, but many are. The DIM is affected, too. They're workign on it. But since it's not everyone, it's one of those issues that are difficult to figure out. A lot of complaints about it, multiple threads started, and closed.
Dana
...another "quick and dirty" method in the old days of televsion was either adjusting the "rabbit ear" antenna that was on top of the television (some had an additional "loop" antenna that had a dial to adjust it as well), or if you had a roof top one with a motor drive and indoor control, rotating it to get the best signal recepition as possible
I remember those days -- and we only got 5 (6 and 12, English Canadian, 2 CBC French, and 3, Burlington Vermont and 5 , Plattsburgh, I think) channels, and that was with a properly aimed rooftop antenna...
...there's an entire thread here about the download issue. Just tried to DL a few purchases without success...
yup me too since yesterday .....
or put tin foil on the rabit ears ...... so it could hear the signal better .
Ouch, problems like that are the worst :(
Please bookmark https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/524986/dim-won-t-download-new-purchases#latest and you will get a notification when there is news.
Just read in the other thread that it has been resolved.
Dana
Frequency drift as tubes heated up was definitely a thing. My old Heathkit 6 meter ham rig had vernier tuning adjust on both the RX and TX sides (it was a split rig, spearate RX and TX tuning..)
....I remember when I was in radio back i college I had to get to the station about 30 minutes before going on the air as my show was the first one of the day (06:00) and it took that long for the FM transmitter tube to warm up so the levels could be properly balanced to avoid overmodulation before I could go on the air.
i never knew that vacuum tubes need to be warmed up. I learned something new.
Old TVs, the screen was essentially a huge vacuum tube...they needed to warm up. They weren't instant on like TVs and monitors of today. The smaller tubes got really hot, too.
Dana
.....yeah I remember turning on the old Zenth colour television several minutes to let it warm up before Saturday mornign cartoons. Also needed time to fine tune the colour.
Ah, an old 21 inch, "Roundie", color TV of the '60s in a finished wood cabinet. What wonderful technology they were at the time**.
And at 500 watts they made tolerable room heaters also.
You could even keep your TV Dinner meal warm by setting it on the top. But watch out for decorative candles.
Some of my friends had one, but my family never did. My parents didn't get color TV until the mid-'70s, years after I had gone off to college in Florida in '66 and I came home to find they'd finally gotten one of those new fangled 19" color TVs with rectangular screens in a plastic cabinet.
** Note: And they had lots of things to "Fine Tune". Such as: the reception, the color, the convergence. Lots and lots of knobs to twiddle with. It was geek heaven.
LeatherGryphon - you may be interested in this 17 minute TED talk from March 2003:
https://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_the_birth_of_the_computer ; 17 03.2003 (not TV)
I remember tube B&W & Color TV, repaired such from 1966 to 1970, then I went to air traffic control radars, the microwave link from one (Raytheon) radar to the airport had 390 tubes, radar transmitter and receiver had many more, finger tips got quite thick skin from pulling out hot tubes. Worked there for 4 years, than went to a satellite earth station (Intelsat) but no tubes anymore except for the transmitters but still analogue (telephone & TV) first, when I retired no copper anymore but fiber, digital, computers ... I still have a "tube-ized" Collins 51S-1 Short Wave receiver.
Non-Complaint: I've been guessing at about how old my laptop computer is. I've been saying "at least 10 years". So, today I had reason to check the BIOS of the laptop and discovered that the "Warrantee Start Date" was May 15, 2010. So I wasn't far off, but I was short, it's at least 11 years old. Old, tired, underpowered, & undermemoried but it still runs, and looks nice. it was $650 new, but a modern same class 17" HP laptop would be about $1500 now. My, what a difference 11 years makes.
Complaint: After decades of not giving a rat's ass about the show or about what happened to Bo and Luke Duke and the iconic orange "General Lee" car, I finally found out.
Somebody please tell me they tricked Rosco one last time and survived the last scene of the series.
...before we got the colour television in 1964, we had an old Zenith B&W one that was taller and had doors which closed over the front when not in use.
Is the whole thing the tv or did they hide the tv in the furniture or furnace!