Jim Thompson
 

Hi,

I come to the group "alt.binaries...electronics" for interesting
electronic advice and discussions about same. Mr. Thompson clearly
knows much about electronics. However, he seems confused as to the
purpose of internet groups dealing with electronics. The purpose of
electronic internet groups is guess what: ELECTRONICS.

There are many political internet groups. I suggest Mr. Thompson use
"political" internet groups for political statements and "electronic"
internet groups for electronics.

Larry

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:33:00 -0400 "Lawrance A. Schneider"
wrote in Message id:
:

Hi,

I come to the group "alt.binaries...electronics" for interesting
electronic advice and discussions about same. Mr. Thompson clearly
knows much about electronics. However, he seems confused as to the
purpose of internet groups dealing with electronics. The purpose of
electronic internet groups is guess what: ELECTRONICS.

There are many political internet groups. I suggest Mr. Thompson use
"political" internet groups for political statements and "electronic"
internet groups for electronics.

I suggest you learn to use kill filters instead, newbie puke.

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:59:18 -0400, JW wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:33:00 -0400 "Lawrance A. Schneider"
wrote in Message id:
:

Hi,

I come to the group "alt.binaries...electronics" for interesting
electronic advice and discussions about same. Mr. Thompson clearly
knows much about electronics. However, he seems confused as to the
purpose of internet groups dealing with electronics. The purpose of
electronic internet groups is guess what: ELECTRONICS.

There are many political internet groups. I suggest Mr. Thompson use
"political" internet groups for political statements and "electronic"
internet groups for electronics.

I suggest you learn to use kill filters instead, newbie puke.

Who _is_ "Lawrance A. Schneider"? Aha! I see. He's not only a
newbie puke, he's a gmail loser... I automatically kill file all gmail
except those white-listed.

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson
 

"Lawrance A. Schneider" wrote:

Hi,

I come to the group "alt.binaries...electronics" for interesting
electronic advice and discussions about same. Mr. Thompson clearly
knows much about electronics. However, he seems confused as to the
purpose of internet groups dealing with electronics. The purpose of
electronic internet groups is guess what: ELECTRONICS.

There are many political internet groups. I suggest Mr. Thompson use
"political" internet groups for political statements and "electronic"
internet groups for electronics.


Damn hypocrite. First YOU post political crap, then YOU damn someone
else for doing the same thing.

Where are your electronics related posts? Work experience? Personal
projects?

Jim Thompson
 

Did you solve your VHS to CD problem? If not, I've got a machine
dedicated to doing just that...tape in one hole, CD in another hole,
push the button and viola.

I'll loan it to you for shipping costs. Let me know.

Jim

Jim Thompson
 

I don't know what you are asking. You put a VHS tape into one slot,
you put a CD into another slot, you push the button and the machine
reads the tape and writes the CD. I don't know what the order of
operations is; it may do it simultaneously, or it may read the tape
into memory and spit it out after the tape is completed.

Jim



On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:09:55 -0700, Fred Abse
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering wrote:

push
the button and viola.

Simultaneously, or one after the other?

Jim Thompson
 

On 8/8/2012 11:19 AM, RST Engineering wrote:
I don't know what you are asking. You put a VHS tape into one slot,
you put a CD into another slot, you push the button and the machine
reads the tape and writes the CD. I don't know what the order of
operations is; it may do it simultaneously, or it may read the tape
into memory and spit it out after the tape is completed.

Jim

Please post the make and model.

Thanks

hamilton

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

Did you solve your VHS to CD problem? If not, I've got a machine
dedicated to doing just that...tape in one hole, CD in another hole,
push the button and viola.

I'll loan it to you for shipping costs. Let me know.

Jim
Now you have my interest!

I have VHS player - Roxio software + USB adapter to PC that does OK
except that the software quits recording every time the signal drops
out from the VCR. They are all Kids Christmas tapes that I foolishly
offered to load to DVD.

Any suggestions?
de W8ccw, John
John Ferrell W8CCW

Jim Thompson
 

On 8/8/2012 9:57 PM, flipper wrote:

One imagines you meant "voilà," which English speakers, unable to find
them pesky 'foreign' characters on the keyboard, usually type as
"voila."

Kind of looses it umph, when you have to explain it.

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:23:57 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:10:10 -0600, hamilton
wrote:

On 8/8/2012 9:57 PM, flipper wrote:

One imagines you meant "voilà," which English speakers, unable to find
them pesky 'foreign' characters on the keyboard, usually type as
"voila."

Kind of looses it umph, when you have to explain it.

Yeah, well, when it remains a mystery it looses some umph too ;)

Sort of like when a tree falls and there's no sentient being around to
hear it does it make a noise? No, because "sound" is a 'perception'.
Otherwise it's just air moving around.

---
Ah, but noise exists whether or not it's perceived as sound.

--
JF

Jim Thompson
 

On 8/8/2012 10:23 PM, flipper wrote:

Otherwise it's just air moving around.

Are you picking on JT again ?? ;-)

Jim Thompson
 

"flipper" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:19:37 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

I don't know what you are asking.

He was making a 'joke' about the wooden string instrument called a
"viola" you referenced pushing in conjunction with a "button."

One imagines you meant "voilà," which English speakers, unable to find
them pesky 'foreign' characters on the keyboard, usually type as
"voila."

And worse - pronouncing it "WAH-lah" and spelling it similarly.
Art

Jim Thompson
 

Hmmm...
No luck stealing this thread, I guess I will think a little more and
start another thread...

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:20:07 -0400, John Ferrell
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

Did you solve your VHS to CD problem? If not, I've got a machine
dedicated to doing just that...tape in one hole, CD in another hole,
push the button and viola.

I'll loan it to you for shipping costs. Let me know.

Jim
Now you have my interest!

I have VHS player - Roxio software + USB adapter to PC that does OK
except that the software quits recording every time the signal drops
out from the VCR. They are all Kids Christmas tapes that I foolishly
offered to load to DVD.

Any suggestions?
de W8ccw, John
John Ferrell W8CCW
John Ferrell W8CCW

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:57:04 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:19:37 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

I don't know what you are asking.

He was making a 'joke' about the wooden string instrument called a
"viola" ...

---
Violas have wooden strings???

--
JF

Jim Thompson
 

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:38:15 -0500, John Fields
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:57:04 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:19:37 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

I don't know what you are asking.

He was making a 'joke' about the wooden string instrument called a
"viola" ...

---
Violas have wooden strings???

Sno-o-o-o-ort !-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson
 

On 8/8/2012 11:10 PM, hamilton wrote:
On 8/8/2012 9:57 PM, flipper wrote:

One imagines you meant "voilà," which English speakers, unable to find
them pesky 'foreign' characters on the keyboard, usually type as
"voila."

Kind of looses it umph, when you have to explain it.



Voila: vwah+lah -often used by magicians.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voila?s=t

Once heard a newscaster reading her cards sh said,
"And vi o la it was done" when she meant to say,
"And vwah-lah it was done".
The other newscasters got quite a giggle out of it.
Mikek

Jim Thompson
 

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:20:07 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:24:14 -0500, John Fields
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:23:57 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:10:10 -0600, hamilton
wrote:

On 8/8/2012 9:57 PM, flipper wrote:

One imagines you meant "voilà," which English speakers, unable to find
them pesky 'foreign' characters on the keyboard, usually type as
"voila."

Kind of looses it umph, when you have to explain it.

Yeah, well, when it remains a mystery it looses some umph too ;)

Sort of like when a tree falls and there's no sentient being around to
hear it does it make a noise? No, because "sound" is a 'perception'.
Otherwise it's just air moving around.

---
Ah, but noise exists whether or not it's perceived as sound.

You're playing semantics with what was, admittedly, a misspeak on my
part in saying "noise" rather than "sound" but, no.

---
But yes, since the misspeak was what I was referring to.
---

"Noise" is any signal other than the 'desired' signal and that is not
only a 'judgment', requiring a sentient being, but eventually,
somewhere, directly or indirectly, no matter how remote or delayed, it
requires a sentient being to 'perceive' that it is, or was, there.

---
I disagree, since what we now call "noise" existed long before the
sentient beings populating our planet discovered it.
---

It's like "weeds:" a 'problem' I have solved by deciding I 'want' all
those things growing in my yard ;)

---
But that's just your local redefinition of the much broader acceptance
of "weeds" being defined as unwanted plants.
---

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking you can 'scientifically
prove', without having to be there, that there is always noise but
that is no different than the falling tree moving air.

---
True, since even if there's no one there to hear the sound of the
falling tree, the moving air will still make the universe noisier.
---

It's only 'noise' when you attempt to send, and receive, a signal through it
and, like my 'non weeds', one man's radio noise is another man's'window into
the shape of the early universe'.

---
But, unlike your imaginary non-weed-infested field, the noise is there
whether you want it to be or not.
---

In the latter case your 'noise' *is* the 'signal' and your signal is noise.

---
In which case coherent signals become anathema to my measurements and
are, therefore, defined as noise.

--
JF

Jim Thompson
 

Fred Abse wrote:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering wrote:

push
the button and viola.

Simultaneously, or one after the other?

I ran over a racoon the other day, but it was still alive. There was a guy
standing in front of his house looking at me, so I said, "Do you have a
blunt instrument I can use to put this animal out of its misery?" He said,
"Not with my viola da gamba you don't."


--

Reply in group, but if emailing add one more
zero, and remove the last word.

Jim Thompson
 

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:03:54 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:


Fred Abse wrote:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering wrote:

push
the button and viola.

Simultaneously, or one after the other?

I ran over a racoon the other day, but it was still alive. There was a guy
standing in front of his house looking at me, so I said, "Do you have a
blunt instrument I can use to put this animal out of its misery?" He said,
"Not with my viola da gamba you don't."

Oh, Chr...., I almost peed my pants... or was that Pirates of Penzance
?:-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:20:07 -0400, John Ferrell wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

Did you solve your VHS to CD problem? If not, I've got a machine
dedicated to doing just that...tape in one hole, CD in another hole,
push the button and viola.

I'll loan it to you for shipping costs. Let me know.

Jim
Now you have my interest!

I have VHS player - Roxio software + USB adapter to PC that does OK
except that the software quits recording every time the signal drops
out from the VCR. They are all Kids Christmas tapes that I foolishly
offered to load to DVD.

Any suggestions?
de W8ccw, John
John Ferrell W8CCW

There once was an aide for copying video tapes called a rabbit, it was
essentially a sync regenerator (PLL).

?-)

Jim Thompson
 

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:09:55 -0700, josephkk
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:20:07 -0400, John Ferrell wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

Did you solve your VHS to CD problem? If not, I've got a machine
dedicated to doing just that...tape in one hole, CD in another hole,
push the button and viola.

I'll loan it to you for shipping costs. Let me know.

Jim
Now you have my interest!

I have VHS player - Roxio software + USB adapter to PC that does OK
except that the software quits recording every time the signal drops
out from the VCR. They are all Kids Christmas tapes that I foolishly
offered to load to DVD.

Any suggestions?
de W8ccw, John
John Ferrell W8CCW

There once was an aide for copying video tapes called a rabbit, it was
essentially a sync regenerator (PLL).

?-)

That's for tape-to-tape, where the original has copy protection.

I'm doing home camera tapes to DVD.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:33:00 -0400, "Lawrance A. Schneider"
wrote:

Hi,

I come to the group "alt.binaries...electronics" for interesting
electronic advice and discussions about same. Mr. Thompson clearly
knows much about electronics. However, he seems confused as to the
purpose of internet groups dealing with electronics. The purpose of
electronic internet groups is guess what: ELECTRONICS.

There are many political internet groups. I suggest Mr. Thompson use
"political" internet groups for political statements and "electronic"
internet groups for electronics.

Larry

He used to discuss electronics. I don't think he can any more.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

Jim Thompson
 

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:51:50 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:33:00 -0400, "Lawrance A. Schneider"
wrote:

Hi,

I come to the group "alt.binaries...electronics" for interesting
electronic advice and discussions about same. Mr. Thompson clearly
knows much about electronics. However, he seems confused as to the
purpose of internet groups dealing with electronics. The purpose of
electronic internet groups is guess what: ELECTRONICS.

There are many political internet groups. I suggest Mr. Thompson use
"political" internet groups for political statements and "electronic"
internet groups for electronics.

Larry

He used to discuss electronics. I don't think he can any more.

More flatulence from Larkin. Broken down to responding to google
posters.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson
 

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:36:55 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:09:55 -0700, josephkk
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:20:07 -0400, John Ferrell wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

Did you solve your VHS to CD problem? If not, I've got a machine
dedicated to doing just that...tape in one hole, CD in another hole,
push the button and viola.

I'll loan it to you for shipping costs. Let me know.

Jim
Now you have my interest!

I have VHS player - Roxio software + USB adapter to PC that does OK
except that the software quits recording every time the signal drops
out from the VCR. They are all Kids Christmas tapes that I foolishly
offered to load to DVD.

Any suggestions?
de W8ccw, John
John Ferrell W8CCW

There once was an aide for copying video tapes called a rabbit, it was
essentially a sync regenerator (PLL).

?-)

That's for tape-to-tape, where the original has copy protection.

I'm doing home camera tapes to DVD.

...Jim Thompson

Due to the nature of tapes, sync degradation can be a problem. Thus a
sync regenerator may be the solution.

?-)

Jim Thompson
 

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:49:28 -0700, josephkk
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:36:55 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:09:55 -0700, josephkk
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:20:07 -0400, John Ferrell wrote:

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:54 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

Did you solve your VHS to CD problem? If not, I've got a machine
dedicated to doing just that...tape in one hole, CD in another hole,
push the button and viola.

I'll loan it to you for shipping costs. Let me know.

Jim
Now you have my interest!

I have VHS player - Roxio software + USB adapter to PC that does OK
except that the software quits recording every time the signal drops
out from the VCR. They are all Kids Christmas tapes that I foolishly
offered to load to DVD.

Any suggestions?
de W8ccw, John
John Ferrell W8CCW

There once was an aide for copying video tapes called a rabbit, it was
essentially a sync regenerator (PLL).

?-)

That's for tape-to-tape, where the original has copy protection.

I'm doing home camera tapes to DVD.

...Jim Thompson

Due to the nature of tapes, sync degradation can be a problem. Thus a
sync regenerator may be the solution.

?-)

I'll check it out... maybe just roll my own... I've tinkered in video
since I was a kid... even made a decrypter for over-the-air pay TV
that was better than that provided by the company :-}

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson
 

Jim Thompson wrote:

I'll check it out... maybe just roll my own... I've tinkered in video
since I was a kid... even made a decrypter for over-the-air pay TV
that was better than that provided by the company :-}


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