Stock Electronic Image FAILS

[Fungus]

[Ranayna]

I can almost see the marketing guy thinking:

Well, i have space left in the promotional material. What can i add as filler?

[floobydust]

The power switch "professional". Hint: pointy hair. from an era long ago.

[NE666]

Well, i have space left in the promotional material. What can i add as filler?

Eye and hand safe corners. Make ok to run in corridor with device.

[NiHaoMike]

The power switch "professional". Hint: pointy hair. from an era long ago.

Is that where Apple got the idea for the M4 Mac Mini?

[squadchannel]

Pin1

[adx]

Ah, the old mixam betargetni. Easy mistake for the print department.

Factoids* for you: Latest versions of that device come in an ultra-wide bus LGA4094 package. But being a write only memory, they've never had to change the part number.

* Alternative factoids.

[TimFox]

For a while, I was photographing architecturally important churches in Chicago carefully with a large-format (4x5 inch) camera, and giving framed prints to each church.  One print came back from the lab, but didn’t look right.  Inspection showed the city “no parking” sign (with a large “P”) in front of the entrance was reversed.  I joked with one of my Russian friends that the city was using Cyrillic signs, but he pointed out that only “R” in the Roman alphabet corresponded to a reversed character in the Cyrillic alphabet.

[Analog Kid]

For a while, I was photographing architecturally important churches in Chicago carefully with a large-format (4x5 inch) camera, and giving framed prints to each church.  One print came back from the lab, but didn’t look right.  Inspection showed the city “no parking” sign (with a large “P”) in front of the entrance was reversed.  I joked with one of my Russian friends that the city was using Cyrillic signs, but he pointed out that only “R” in the Roman alphabet corresponded to a reversed character in the Cyrillic alphabet.

I ended up photographing street signs in one town I lived in because the street names were rampantly misspelled. Many of them. (Used a 35mm "miniature" camera, not a 4X5. I miss my darkroom!)

[TimFox]

For a while, I was photographing architecturally important churches in Chicago carefully with a large-format (4x5 inch) camera, and giving framed prints to each church.  One print came back from the lab, but didn’t look right.  Inspection showed the city “no parking” sign (with a large “P”) in front of the entrance was reversed.  I joked with one of my Russian friends that the city was using Cyrillic signs, but he pointed out that only “R” in the Roman alphabet corresponded to a reversed character in the Cyrillic alphabet.

I ended up photographing street signs in one town I lived in because the street names were rampantly misspelled. Many of them. (Used a 35mm "miniature" camera, not a 4X5. I miss my darkroom!)

In Chicago, we don't misspell street signs, we just mispronounce the street names.  Goethe, Mozart, Roosevelt, etc.
Similarly for town names.  I once had a chat with some French businessmen changing planes at O'Hare for Minnesota.
I warned them about Des Moines, Des Plaines, Marseilles, Prairie du Chien, and other names they might encounter.

[Analog Kid]

For a while, I was photographing architecturally important churches in Chicago carefully with a large-format (4x5 inch) camera, and giving framed prints to each church.  One print came back from the lab, but didn’t look right.  Inspection showed the city “no parking” sign (with a large “P”) in front of the entrance was reversed.  I joked with one of my Russian friends that the city was using Cyrillic signs, but he pointed out that only “R” in the Roman alphabet corresponded to a reversed character in the Cyrillic alphabet.

I ended up photographing street signs in one town I lived in because the street names were rampantly misspelled. Many of them. (Used a 35mm "miniature" camera, not a 4X5. I miss my darkroom!)

In Chicago, we don't misspell street signs, we just mispronounce the street names.  Goethe, Mozart, Roosevelt, etc.

Yeah, I remember that" "mo-zart'", "roo'-ze-velt", etc.
So how do people pronounce "Goethe" there? Hell, I have no idea how to properly pronounce that name. Somehow there's an intrusive "r" there, I believe.

Much like Gough Street in San Francisco, which has at least 5 different pronunciations there.

[TimFox]

The infamous local pronunciation is "Go - ee - thee".  Personally, I have difficulty with German vowels:  sometimes interpolating a quiet "r" into German or Danish (e.g., København) helps an Anglophone approximate the pronunciation.

[NiHaoMike]

Anyone want a black blob for the price of an Apple watch?

[PlainName]

Be fair - you get green and brown bits thrown in too 

[McBryce]

(Attachment Link)
Anyone want a black blob for the price of an Apple watch?

Bulova are famous for having created the very first electric watch, the Bulova Accutron. It had no back dial (hour marks were on the glass) to show the components and was green inside. They are obviously playing on this theme.

McBryce.

[Ranayna]

But the Accutron is actually beautiful, and was something special.
That watch PCB that NihaoMike posted looks ugly and nothing at all special. Well maybe special in a way that this feels rather outdated
It doesn't look like any special regards to aethetics were made when designing this PCB.

I Bulova still the same company, or was the brand sold off at some point, as was common with so many old brands?

[McBryce]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but yes, I think it's fugly too. I own an original (working) Accutron Spaceview, but I wouldn't buy that thing. Bulova were bought by Citizen a few years ago, but I don't know if they still operate as an independent organisation, or whether Citizen just bought the name.

McBryce.

[TimFox]

I have an old Bulova Accutron railroad-qualified watch, but the correct batteries are no longer available.
What could go wrong with a small child and a shiny M&M size object filled with mercury?

[Analog Kid]

No, what that ugly POS watch is emulating is something like this:



Now that's what I call a real watch!

(only $32,200, BTW)

I'm still looking for a replacement for the Stauer automatic watch I had for many years, which had a visible backside.
Love those watches: no winding, no batteries. Just stay alive.

[PlainName]

I find that one interesting initially but I wouldn't like to use it - can't easily see the hands or which is pointing where. The first watch might be fugly but at least you can easily see what the time is. Which, after all, is supposed to be the function of a watch.

[Circlotron]

Slightly off topic, but why do wristwatches have an odd number of jewelled bearings? I would’ve thought that they would be used in pairs and so be an even number.

[PlainName]

There are paired jewels for the gears and similar but a single jewel for the escapement lever.

[SteveThackery]

There are paired jewels for the gears and similar but a single jewel for the escapement lever.

To be even more specific, the single (unpaired) jewel is the impulse pin, which transmits the alternating force from the escapement lever to the balance (the wheel that spins back and forth).



It's quite common for watches with extra features ("complications") to have an even number of jewels, because such features consist of more than just a train of gears.

[CatalinaWOW]

Interesting that the drawing seems to show a dual load path.  One is the times on the fork to the jewel.  The other is the grey finger above the jewel to the notch in the hub assembly.  Is the latter path a movement limiter or what?

[SteveThackery]

Interesting that the drawing seems to show a dual load path.  One is the times on the fork to the jewel.  The other is the grey finger above the jewel to the notch in the hub assembly.  Is the latter path a movement limiter or what?

You've got it. The round thing with a notch in it is the guard roller. The finger pointing into it is the guard pin. In normal use the guard pin never touches any part of the roller. When the balance wheel is rotated away from the rest position (as shown the escapement is in the rest, or central, position) the guard pin sits with a few thou gap between it and the peripheral surface of the roller. In this configuration the roller prevents the escapement lever escapement lever from flipping over to the other side. This essential function is to protect against knocks to the watch which might otherwise trip the escape lever. When a knock is received, the guard pin briefly touches the peripheral surface of the roller, which stops the escape lever from travelling any further.

When the lever is supposed to move over to the other sides the notch in the roller allows the guard pin to pass freely.