Comments by "basspig" (@basspig) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. It seems that we've gone backwards technologically in many areas over the last
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  2. 25 minutes to burn a disc? No wonder it was a failure.
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  3. RFI is the thing I noticed when these first appeared.
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  4. I had a Brother EP20 in 1980that had a 16 character display.
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  5. Show my brother 8700 multifunction printer which prints color and black-and-white at the same speed is probably a led print correct?
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  6. Well this comparison is between a pretty crappy beta machine. If it was a comparison with something like a Sony slh F 1000 you would see a clear advantage of the beta.
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  7. No matter how economical it is, gas is dangerous just go ask the people in the neighborhood and Indiana in 2011 when 80 homes had to be rebuilt because of the gas explosion in one house.
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  8.  @ArdFarkable  Electrical fires start more slowly. You have time to escape. When a house blows up because of a gas leak, you're dead, instantly. Just ask the people of Richmond Hill in Indianapolis. $4M worth of damage, over 80 homes destroyed. Gas is too dangerous to allow in residential areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Hill_explosion
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  9. Blaze brand bdr media self destruct after 10 plays.
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  10. All of the light sensors that are on the south facing side of my house failed within a year and all the ones that are on other sides of the house lasted for 10 years or more.
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  11. Auto manufacturers have lawyers to determine tort law cost vs cost to manufacture. When the Ford Pinto gas tank exploding problem was in the news back in the early 70s Ford Motor Company determined that it was cheaper to pay off the lawsuits then to fix the gas tank design.
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  12. As much as there's planned obsolescence into incandescent light bulbs, in my experience they still far out last these new LED light bulbs.
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