Comments by "Bob Roberts" (@bobroberts2371) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Did Constantine have Knights that say Nis ?
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  2. See also the DUGA radar system.
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  3. Or the Apple computer commercial from the 1984 Super Bowl. The ironic thing is, Apple products have turned the masses into the zombies in the commercial !!!
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  4. Note that Elisha Gray and Enos M. Barton , in Dec 1925, spun off the general electrical supply side of Western Electric into the still existing company Graybar. See also, Ernestine the Telephone Operator
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  5. Fixed typo There is a story where Sony was shipping the early radios to the USA with batteries from Everready ( Union Carbide ) . Apparently these batteries were intended for non USA sales and Everready protested on the grounds that Sony was skirting the territory agreement. One of the Sony founders ( Probable Morita ) went to the Everready HQ in the USA, to solve the problem. I don't remember the exact words but it was a mic drop event that went along the lines of " If a person in the US buys a Sony radio with an Everready battery, they are likely to buy the same brand as a replacement, therefor Everready will continue to see sales. " After saying this, he got up and walked out of the office. This was effectively Steve Jobs asking John Sculley ( the CEO of Pepsi ) in he early days of Apple and was looking for a real CEO " : Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life? "
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  6. Well, with the sword of Dramocles hanging over his head, can you blame him?
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  7. And it is the absolute truth that still holds today. Per the recent UAW demands of a 32 hr work week but paid for 40 .
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  8.  @TheAleksander22  From what I understand, the GM jobs were broken down so small that not much training was needed to do the job with any proficiency. Did you watch the part about 20 % absenteeism , 7,000 grievances , random unauthorized strikes and generally labor trying to sabotage the company? How about this, in one GM stamping plant ( not Freemont ) it took a shift plus to change a large stamping die. Faced with a possible plant closure, a few physical changes were made along with " don't be a union worker sleeping on the job " . Die change out was reduced to 45 MINUTES !!!!! I got this information DIRECTLY from the guy that redesigned the process and implemented the changes.
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  9. This issue with Sony ( and other high end electronic makers ) is that the quality of lower cost brands has gotten way better. This encroaches on Sony's territory and there isn't enough of a value gain to justify the added price of a Sony.
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  10. With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down
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  11. A somewhat related vid topic would be the package delivery industry. ( UPS / Fed EX / REA Express ) From what I understand, until the 1980's or so there were some odd restrictions on a company being able to singularly offer delivery service from one end of the USA to the other.
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  12.  @TheAleksander22  Also, having worked for a major consumer goods Japanese company, much of Japanese company culture / training has nothing to do with the specific job the person will be doing. It has to do with things like problem solving , getting along with others. In other words ,respecting others and not being a di. . . .k .
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  13. Yep, sad that the union isn't there to demand a 32 hr work week but get paid for 40 , protecting slugs that don't do their jobs / vandalize equipment / steal company items. How about this, in one GM stamping plant it took a shift plus to change a large stamping die. Faced with a possible plant closure, a few physical changes were made along with " don't be a union worker sleeping on the job " . Die change out was reduced to 45 MINUTES !!!!! I got this information DIRECTLY from the guy that redesigned the process and implemented the changes.
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  14. I want to know how such a large post got past the automatic You Tube censors. Many times , regardless of the channel, completely non controversial posts this large get ghosted or deleted.
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  15. Had the original Yugo done well in the USA, the product lime up wold look like this: Yugo : The 2 door car Wego : The 4 door car Weallgo The station wagon Igo The motorcycle In the day, there was a song to the tune of Sunday, Sunday , I wish I could find the source: Hyundai , Hyundai ( La, La Laa ) And Yugos too Those cheap imports look like doggy doo.
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  16. Time 044 The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
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  17. James Bruce said " When car companies quote their numbers they include multiple different copies of embedded Linux, despite the fact that it is (a) worse than having a single common copy " In the automotive environment, various modules do their own thing and only share data not lines of code / processor time. For example, the radio looks at vehicle speed from the ABS system so volume can be raised to compensate for increased background noise. Using one copy of embedded Linux on a singular module would not work. ( unless you are speaking of multiple copies in a single module, maybe this being done to get around limited scan time? ) As for the question " . . . 100 embedded processors in their machines with almost identical code ? Do you count the lines once, or 100 times ? " Id say count the lines 100 times because if some of these lines of code were removed from a single module ( in the automotive environment example ) the system would not operate. I consider a line of code as critical as physical " hard parts ". Something else to consider, the number of lines of code is just to give non technical people * some grasp of the scale of the machine. Telling someone that the machine runs at 400 Mhz is somewhat intangible as many don't have a frame of reference. Tell these same people that there are XXX number of lines of computer code and they can picture phone books stacked as high as a 100 story building. * Non technical people as in, they are not programmers or chip designers but perhaps skilled in the art of manufacturing computer chips.
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  18. Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors Give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
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  19. 0:55 The batteries shown are lead acid, neatly all LA batteries are recycled.
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  20. . . any by hiring you apparently.
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  21. Time 800 where does the wheelbarrow tub go in a car?
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  22.  @vitormoreno1244  Having worked for a Japanese consumer goods company in the USA, they tend to have enough workers to do the jobs and don't over staff to cover the 20 % absenteeism like the GM plant had. This is one reason that they don't lay off. With a thin workforce , it makes more financial sense to retain workers during short term lulls in production than to let them go and have to bring them back.
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  23. 1800 1806 " Ibuka feeling that the failure would be all his fault. " This is significant From what I understand of Japanese culture ( at least in an industrial setting ) , when there is a failure, everyone shares the blame however, if there is a success, the top person gets all the credit.
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  24. mrb692 Said " To take a line from Yzma’s book, “Why do we even have that lever?” Like, in what universe would manually lighting the second stage of an ICBM make any sense, let alone be possible? " Well, in case there was some sort of failure and you needed to place a person wearing an oxygen mask in the 2nd stage to manually fire the engines. See also the ending of Dr Strangelove. . .
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  25. Time 715 " 20 data centers use recycled water " I wonder how much of this recycled water comes from outside sources and what constitutes recycled water? This might be like a materials manufacturer / materials user claiming some % of recycled content but it is actually recycling from internal sources. ( Like a plastics molding company that puts cut off flash / defected parts back into the main batch. )
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  26.  @TheAleksander22  Time 713 to 733 Note that Toyota seemed to have filtered out some of the union troublemakers so not all of the original workers where there. Freemont had 6,800 people 1978 , 5,700 when GM closed it in 1982. These GM workers were being paid an average of $ 13.00 hr in 1982, this is $ 42.41 in 2023. ( Time 1523 ) According to the net, there were 4,700 workers when NUMMI closed the plant. Not stopping the line if there is a problem is short sighted but how many of the assembly problems were intentionally caused by workers? Given the union wanting to sabotage the company, would it be wise to let a GM / UAW worker stop the line? ( Time 1205 to 1212 )
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  27. So why are YOU not a CEO giving 90 % of your salary to the workers?
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  28. Time 123 " Are his eyes crooked ? " Maybe the painting was dome by the woman that " painted " Ecce Mono (roughly Behold the Monkey)
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  29. 058 " What is going on here? " Well, the technology that this convention is about makes it possible for a person physically at the convention not to be there in spirit.
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  30. Time 1810 Low cost cars have another hurdle that is no fault of the car, it is the owners. Some that typically bought used cars and ran them into the ground with abuse and lack of maintenance, do the same with a new car.
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  31. RCA ( American ) had / has ties to JVC ( since 1929 according to Wikipedia )
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  32. The channel CuriousMar has lots of Apollo electronics vids. A few years ago his team got the AGC going again and most recently, the radio system. And for good measure, see the vid Ultimate Saturn V Launch with Enhanced Sound on the channel Starship Trooper
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  33.  @boardernut  It was in a book about Sony Sony: a Private Life " John Nathan 1999 Page 64 There is an excerpt from a paper IMPORTING THE AMERICAN DREAM: JAPANESE HARDWARE AND SOFT POWER By Kenneth S. Klei at Harding edu ( page 10 )
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  34.  @AcuteChronic  said " Morita wouldn't even be a runner up. " The point of my original post comparing Jobs saying " Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life " to Morita spending under 5 minutes in the meeting, stating what amounts to a one liner then WALKING OUT before a reply was given takes incredible self confidence to do this. I don't have a particular malice or like for either of these people other than their ability to make things happen . “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” ( said by someone )
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  35. Has anyone picked up on time 1509?
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  36. See the TV show " Gilligan's Island " and the episode "You've Been Disconnected"
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  37. Rather than sitting on a wire to recharge, they are now being recharged by 5 lte
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  38. To think that , in days past, people were made fun of if they had a hearing aid. Today, not having an ear bud is cause for being made fun of. . . .
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  39. Time 116 Bell labs solar cell Red and green wires are the Bell standard for residential telephone wiring. Green is the tip of the operator switch board plug and Red is the ring of the same plug ( not the sound of a ringer )
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  40. See also the vid " Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok " on the channel " cozyhollow "
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  41.  @alpsalish  The OP complained that a CEO gets paid too much. My solution is for him to become a CEO and give 90% of his salary to the workers as this is the most direct route to equalizing the pay gap. Also, if CEO's were getting paid too much, don't you think that the share holders would be calling for a pay reduction?
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  42.  @alpsalish  If you dislike 90 %, then what % would you suggest be given away? Why would shareholders care little about CEO pay if the extra $ can go to them?
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  43. Also know that International Rectifier either had or sub contracted manufacture in Italy at least in the mid 1980's.I wonder how this fits in with the companies in the vid. ( I have a pile of stud mount 40 Amp / 1,000 Volt diodes with IR Italy markings ) .
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  44. Time 1722 UAW auto worker wage $ 20 in 1984 is $ 60.59 in 2024 money. Japan auto worker wage $ 8 in 1984 is $ 24.24 in 2024 money
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  45. Time 1040 Hitting sales quota, all or nothing. This is a key point in the movie Gung Ho that outlines a sinking Japanese car factory in the USA.
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  46. WinCE is used for small scale industrial machinery control.
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  47.  @poofygoof  The best way to do that is for YOU to be a top level worker and give 95% of your compensation to the workers.
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  48.  @poofygoof  If you apply and get a high level position, you will no longer need to wonder.
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  49. Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors Give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
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  50. Time 2638 Boulder Colorado is about 100 miles from Colorado Springs ( As in Cheyenne Mountian / NORAD ) Who wants to bet that Cray built the WOPR ? See time 3046, looks like the WOPR to me.
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  51. With monster hooplah and Mexican hound The Hollywood lizard is comin' to your town
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  52. 0:25 The DUGA Over the Horizon radar array. This might be the one in Northern Ukraine a couple of miles from Chernobyl. There was one in southern Ukraine and possibly a third somewhere as a proof of concept instillation. This was also known in the radio community as " The Russian Woodpecker " for the interference ti made.
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  53. 920 Looks like they poached parts from the robot on the original Lost in Space TV program.
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  54. Early Sony portable radio story. From a Sony bio book best as I can recall, the book had a dark blue / black cover with SONY in white letters and a sine wave in the background. There is a good story about how Sony imported batteries from the USA to be included with the radio and the maker ( Ray-o-vac / Union Carbide ) complained about the unauthorized " sale " . A founder of Sony had a sit down meeting in the USA with a Ray-o-vac executive , told the executive that it was good advertising and the consumer would likely but the same brand of battery. The Sony founder then walked out in a mic drop moment and there was not any more issue with importing batteries.
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  55.  @stevebabiak6997  I don't post time links because YT tends to delete them and shadow ban the poster
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  56. The Nissan Altima is one of the cars of choice of drug dealers / gang members, what ever will they do now?
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  57. Somewhat related to self checkout. Aldi Grocery in the USA uses electronic price tags on the shelves. They appear to use infra red as a communication pathway as I see a small lens on the tag. There is a chance this is just a light sensor that shuts the display off when the lights are out in order to conserve battery. Supposedly Walmart is moving to this technology as well.
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  58. Time 1020 look for the game Endless Tokyo train station - The Exit 8
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  59. All at once came a sound from the inside Then a beam made of light hit the ground
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  60. Man who travel to Bangkok see video " Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok " on the channel " cozyhollow "
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  61.  @wesjones1181  Sony: a Private Life " John Nathan 1999 Page 64
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  62.  @AcuteChronic  Don't bet on it, look for a copy of the book Morita co authored with Shintaro Ishihara “The Japan That Can Say ‘No’ .” . 1989 The book is very critical of the USA.
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  63. In the day, there was a song to the tune of Sunday, Sunday , I wish I could find the source: Hyundai , Hyundai ( La, La Laa ) And Yugos too Those cheap imports look like doggy doo.
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  64. Time 5220 to 5300 " Technically competent people Vs schmoozers" This even filters down to on the shop floor / tech / engineering type workers and it all stems from the HR department hiring people based on parameters that are not relevant but look good on paper.
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  65. Time 552 Praga They still exist building race cars , go carts , motorcycles, airplanes.
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