The difference is that the French car is plotting your downfall from the first day it is assembled in the factory. As is the assembly line worker with the Gitaines dangling from the corner of his mouth while he gives a dismissive Gallic shrug - "Oh mon ami, the seal he is not essential, he only keeps the rain out. ".
Stupid RS, their manual for the Metrix is in the original French!
The difference is that the French car is plotting your downfall from the first day it is assembled in the factory. As is the assembly line worker with the Gitaines dangling from the corner of his mouth while he gives a dismissive Gallic shrug - "Oh mon ami, the seal he is not essential, he only keeps the rain out. ".
At least it's not an Italian car which is doomed far before they even start making the parts for it
Stupid RS, their manual for the Metrix is in the original French!
Vince shrugs, lights Gauloise. "Pas de problème!"
Stupid RS, their manual for the Metrix is in the original French!
Vince shrugs, lights Gauloise. "Pas de problème!"
I don't smoke !
I can read French no problem. The problem is that very few people speak French any more these days in France. There is no sense of spelling or grammar or verb tenses or punctuation or what words actually mean or anything any more, and they sprinkle their sentences with random misused English words here and there to look smart, or so they all think. It's a complete shit show. It's getting harder and harder to understand what people write or say, and it's getting harder and harder for people to understand what I write or say, because they have 10 words of vocabulary and just can't read. It's hard to express nuance with 10 words...
They speak neither decent French nor English, just a really bad mix of the two !
Rant over, sorry....
Same here
Stupid RS, their manual for the Metrix is in the original French!
Vince shrugs, lights Gauloise. "Pas de problème!"
I don't smoke !
I can read French no problem. The problem is that very few people speak French any more these days in France. There is no sense of spelling or grammar or verb tenses or punctuation or what words actually mean or anything any more, and they sprinkle their sentences with random misused English words here and there to look smart, or so they all think. It's a complete shit show. It's getting harder and harder to understand what people write or say, and it's getting harder and harder for people to understand what I write or say, because they have 10 words of vocabulary and just can't read. It's hard to express nuance with 10 words...
They speak neither decent French nor English, just a really bad mix of the two !
Rant over, sorry....
Same here
Did he just tell her to go fuck herself?
Gonna be interesting weather wise in these parts today and tomorrow. Current track will put me on the western edge of it. Cubdriver (Pat) will take a near direct hit.
https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/AutoBriefing/ALYBriefing.pdf
Wait a minute. I thought there was this French government committee with the sole purpose of keeping the French language "pure" and free of those dreaded English words.
You mean to tell me that the great unwashed masses told them to stick it where the sun don't shine?
Gonna be interesting weather wise in these parts today and tomorrow. Current track will put me on the western edge of it. Cubdriver (Pat) will take a near direct hit.
https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/AutoBriefing/ALYBriefing.pdf
Yeah, definitely not liking that predicted storm track - has me pretty much boresited. Forecast I just looked at calls for sustained 30-40 mph winds with gusts north of 60 (100 kph-ish). This is not good considering that the trees are fully leafed out again, as they were last summer when the last big storm ripped through.
-Pat
Ethernet is from devil! 😁
I beg to differ. Serial ports are important; we agree there. But only as debug and out-of-band method, to get things running on the network. As soon as you've gotten network connectivity, the serial port is just an "Oh, shit" device.
Compared to say GPIB, TCP/IP over Ethernet on an instrument is IMNSHO much better. The only thing you'd lose is some timing. Ethernet cables are cheap as chips, can be self made (but it is not economical) and reach much longer than GPIB, at speeds that simply are insane in comparison. And then we haven't introduced a switch, yet. Which is also very inexpensive.
I've got one GPIB instrument so far. I'd be happy to get more, and as soon as I do, I'll probably try getting a cable for it and bodge an adapter/bridging solution so I can talk to them from my networked computers..Didn't you read the grinning hieroglypth at the end It's like two sided coin, when ethernet work (modern implementations) they work nicely, when you have poor connector (RJ-45 rubbish) somewhere, you will loose your mental health quickly.
Us nordic people and irony. Yeah, the 8p8c connector is an interesting piece of technology.
When it works it is extremely reliable, but as soon as one mistreats it, it will extract a gruesome revenge. Almost like a french car.
I recently happened to buy a couple 1000 of it, for next to nothing, including a crimper and, more importantly, almost as many backshells with tab protectors.
The difference is that the French car is plotting your downfall from the first day it is assembled in the factory. As is the assembly line worker with the Gitaines dangling from the corner of his mouth while he gives a dismissive Gallic shrug - "Oh mon ami, the seal he is not essential, he only keeps the rain out. ".
Wait a minute. I thought there was this French government committee with the sole purpose of keeping the French language "pure" and free of those dreaded English words.
There is even a LAW that "forbids" the use Engish words in ads on TV or radio ! But they marketing people go around this by translating the English words or expressions within the ad itseld, so it looks silly ! On TV or printed ads you have an asterisk that links to the translation in French, in tiny characters hidden at the very bottom of the screen or page, so it's kinda invisible, but on RADIO it sounds so silly, because you get the English worded slogan, then immediately after saying it in English, you hear the guy saying " XYZ english " means "XYZ in French", so stupid !!! Why not say it in French in the first place you moron !!!Quote from: med6753You mean to tell me that the great unwashed masses told them to stick it where the sun don't shine?
The "French Academy" it's called. Problem is that nobody listen to them, or really knows about them...
Worse : the GOVERNMENT a few years ago decided to SIMPLIFY the French language, because since French people can't seem to speak French any more, they figured it must be because the language is too complicated, rather than maybe it's because the education system is going south !
So they simplified the spelling of many words... flattening things out, removing all the little things that made the language rich and interesting, just because parents and schools can't fucking teach French to their kids ?!
Luckily this reform was so extreme, so ridiculous that people still use mostly the old / normal spelling, thank Goodness !
By law both spellings of a word are now legal. So if I wanted I could write using a silly spelling and get away with it.. but I would still look weird and ridiculous none the less !
So since the old / normal spelling is still authorized.. we keep using it. The new / simplified spelling will I hope get forgotten and just die...
As a British I wouldn't include automobile and seal in one paragraph. 😄
As a British I wouldn't include automobile and seal in one paragraph. 😄
Just remember the leaky seals at the top of our cars are perfectly compensated by the rusty holes at the bottom to let the water out again.
Crazy pricing of the week goes to
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265277070312
I’d expect the seller to chuck their partner in for a couple of days at that price
As a British I wouldn't include automobile and seal in one paragraph. 😄
Just remember the leaky seals at the top of our cars are perfectly compensated by the rusty holes at the bottom to let the water out again.
Ethernet is from devil! 😁
I beg to differ. Serial ports are important; we agree there. But only as debug and out-of-band method, to get things running on the network. As soon as you've gotten network connectivity, the serial port is just an "Oh, shit" device.
Compared to say GPIB, TCP/IP over Ethernet on an instrument is IMNSHO much better. The only thing you'd lose is some timing. Ethernet cables are cheap as chips, can be self made (but it is not economical) and reach much longer than GPIB, at speeds that simply are insane in comparison. And then we haven't introduced a switch, yet. Which is also very inexpensive.
I've got one GPIB instrument so far. I'd be happy to get more, and as soon as I do, I'll probably try getting a cable for it and bodge an adapter/bridging solution so I can talk to them from my networked computers..Didn't you read the grinning hieroglypth at the end It's like two sided coin, when ethernet work (modern implementations) they work nicely, when you have poor connector (RJ-45 rubbish) somewhere, you will loose your mental health quickly.
Us nordic people and irony. Yeah, the 8p8c connector is an interesting piece of technology.
When it works it is extremely reliable, but as soon as one mistreats it, it will extract a gruesome revenge. Almost like a french car.
I recently happened to buy a couple 1000 of it, for next to nothing, including a crimper and, more importantly, almost as many backshells with tab protectors.
The difference is that the French car is plotting your downfall from the first day it is assembled in the factory. As is the assembly line worker with the Gitaines dangling from the corner of his mouth while he gives a dismissive Gallic shrug - "Oh mon ami, the seal he is not essential, he only keeps the rain out. ".As a British I wouldn't include automobile and seal in one paragraph. 😄
You mean to tell me that hatred of all things British and American (especially American) fostered by that arrogant prick Charles de Gaulle has finally fallen by the wayside?
As a British I wouldn't include automobile and seal in one paragraph. 😄
Just remember the leaky seals at the top of our cars are perfectly compensated by the rusty holes at the bottom to let the water out again.
Not if it's German.
As a British I wouldn't include automobile and seal in one paragraph. 😄
Just remember the leaky seals at the top of our cars are perfectly compensated by the rusty holes at the bottom to let the water out again.