New LCD Cables finished too early (2010 - 03 - 18)

[maplesugarlover]

Evildragon comes from an alternate time line?

 

[Benoît E. Donnette]

That's soooo cool ! I'll like to have radioactive components :lol:


I hope my pandora will shine at night :rolleyes:


Seriously, think about Japansese people who are living a real nightmare...


However, don't say "Wow, I have no news from the components' supplier, their factory could have been destroyed, but I don't want to ask what's happening, it could bother them 'cause they have a lot to do in this huge crisis..."

We all do think about them.


I was simply stunned that the Tokyo stock exchange drop a few days after the earthquake and everybody finding this fact normal. I think that it is a real shame, when a company does a financial effort to help recovery, to say "hey, your decrease in your benefits will prevent me from buying a new toy next summer so I get off right now". I hope that those people won't get their new toys ;-)


I am not only a OP enthusiast, in real life I am a Freelance computer scientist, as well as a photograph. I do heavily depend on Japanese intelligence, and I am grateful for that. Japan engineering and the Japanese approach of quality is simply unrivalled, to me. And during these hard times for Japanese people, seeing their shares dropping looks so much like disregarding the value of their work, and I can't adhere.


On the other hand, you will answer that, owning no share at all, I own no Japanese share and didn't take any risk... Frankly, I wish I could afford it today.

 

[Valpskott]

Has production halted again? I get the sense we have been stuck at 2200 produced units for over a month.

 

[Blue Protoman]

Has production halted again? I get the sense we have been stuck at 2200 produced units for over a month.

Nope, just news of production.

 

[Batou456]

Well at least the reactor vessels themselves weren't compromised instead of just the water, turned steam, in the spent fuel pools getting out. So while it's nasty, it's not nearly as bad as it could have been.

 

[ahahah]

We don't know yet though if the catastrophe in Japan will cause any delays with Batch 2... some parts (like ICs from Panasonic and TDK) are being used in both the Pandora and iControlPad - and they come from Japan.


The parts are ordered and according to the schedule from the distributor would've been there early April, so just ready for Batch 2

It seems that the events in Japan don't involve the electronic industry of this country, so no effect on the batch 2.


it is "only" agriculture and fishing activities that are involved (in the area of fukushima)

 

[3vi1]

Has production halted again? I get the sense we have been stuck at 2200 produced units for over a month.

Nope, just news of production.

Given past behavior, I don't take that as a good sign. When good things happen, it seems we get frequent updates on the slightest item (like the cables being finished early). When things are going wrong... not so much. I could be misreading the silence; it's just conditioning from the past years.


Craig - Sorry to hear that TalkTalk sucks... how about a tweet about what's happening in regards to Pandora progress? I'm sure you know there are a lot of us still anxious to get our hands on the team's brainchild for the first time.

 

[neko]

Well at least the reactor vessels themselves weren't compromised instead of just the water, turned steam, in the spent fuel pools getting out. So while it's nasty, it's not nearly as bad as it could have been.

Yes it is nearly as bad as it could have been. The reactor is leaking iodine-131. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days. It's not in the spent fuel, it's coming out of the reactor.

It seems that the events in Japan don't involve the electronic industry of this country, so no effect on the batch 2.


it is "only" agriculture and fishing activities that are involved (in the area of fukushima)

Umm... The electronic industry runs on electricity, which is currently not being generated by those nuclear reactors.

 

[Gerix]

We all do think about them.


I was simply stunned that the Tokyo stock exchange drop a few days after the earthquake and everybody finding this fact normal. I think that it is a real shame, when a company does a financial effort to help recovery, to say "hey, your decrease in your benefits will prevent me from buying a new toy next summer so I get off right now". I hope that those people won't get their new toys ;-)


I am not only a OP enthusiast, in real life I am a Freelance computer scientist, as well as a photograph. I do heavily depend on Japanese intelligence, and I am grateful for that. Japan engineering and the Japanese approach of quality is simply unrivalled, to me. And during these hard times for Japanese people, seeing their shares dropping looks so much like disregarding the value of their work, and I can't adhere.


On the other hand, you will answer that, owning no share at all, I own no Japanese share and didn't take any risk... Frankly, I wish I could afford it today.

Stock price is related to the present value of future cash flows. If the crisis causes production to drop, that's going to affect the company's ability to pay dividends. Also, if the company is giving away money to aid in recovery, that's going to affect their ability to pay shareholders. Instead of hating the market for acting as it should, you should be applauding the executives for making such a decision in spite of it. And buy the new toys. It will help them recover

 

[Batou456]

Well at least the reactor vessels themselves weren't compromised instead of just the water, turned steam, in the spent fuel pools getting out. So while it's nasty, it's not nearly as bad as it could have been.

Yes it is nearly as bad as it could have been. The reactor is leaking iodine-131. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days. It's not in the spent fuel, it's coming out of the reactor.

As noted by the official organization radiation is rapidly going down exactly because of the short half life of such isotopes, and you'll note zero mentions of "leak" in any of the updates. Surely you're not implying Iodine-131 is not present in the spent fuel on some inane notion it's status as spent is relative to Iodine-131 reaching some kind of artificial zero instead of Uranium-235 levels dropping to the point it needs reprocessing to be useful as a Plutonium-239 rod, in your usual Uranium based terms. Even the New York Times has retracted the usual "exploding car" spin doctoring by this point. If there's something new showing the cores are breached, by all means let me know, but as is there's no evidence of any such thing and the loudest proclaimers of such have quietly conceded the point.

The stuff in the reactor core worth getting up in arms about is longer lived and higher up the chain then Iodine-131 and hence not as convenient in neutralizing itself as an issue.

 

[neko]

Yes it is nearly as bad as it could have been. The reactor is leaking iodine-131. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days. It's not in the spent fuel, it's coming out of the reactor.

As noted by the official organization radiation is rapidly going down exactly because of the short half life of such isotopes, and you'll note zero mentions of "leak" in any of the updates. Surely you're not implying Iodine-131 is not present in the spent fuel on some inane notion it's status as spent is relative to Iodine-131 reaching some kind of artificial zero instead of Uranium-235 levels dropping to the point it needs reprocessing to be useful as a Plutonium-239 rod, in your usual Uranium based terms.

Oops, I mean to type "not in the spent fuel pools". Most of the spent fuel in the pools has been there much longer than the half-life of iodine-131.


Of course there's still Cs-137 in the spent fuel pools which is going to be a big mess.

 

[TitanUranus]

The future of the electronics industry is positively glowing right now.

 

[Captainbubby]

The future of the electronics industry is positively glowing right now.

Ok, I can't hold it in anymore:


TitanUranus, are you holding a giant schlong in your avatar? It looks like you dipped your penis in a radioactive pool.

 

[Timstertoo]

The future of the electronics industry is positively glowing right now.

Ok, I can't hold it in anymore:


TitanUranus, are you holding a giant schlong in your avatar? It looks like you dipped your penis in a radioactive pool.

I guess you need a giant schlong to satisfy a TitanUranus.

 

[EvilDragon]

Has production halted again? I get the sense we have been stuck at 2200 produced units for over a month.

Nope, just news of production.

Given past behavior, I don't take that as a good sign. When good things happen, it seems we get frequent updates on the slightest item (like the cables being finished early). When things are going wrong... not so much. I could be misreading the silence; it's just conditioning from the past years.

Not really, I post updates as soon as I get more information from the companies, and I'm just hoping to get a new update from CC today.

 

[TitanUranus]

I get asked about my avatar a lot - it's William Shatner, it's from an episode of Star Trek. It's the one where Kirk gets split into 2 - a heterosexual Kirk and a homosexual Kirk, which is the one in the fancy suit with the sex toy.


Or maybe I just dreamed that episode, and he's really just standing there with a crappy stage set with a Styrofoam stalagmite waiting to bash an evil android over the head.


No, I was right the first time. Anyway, I want to change my avatar soon, but I need to find some decent software to make a nice animated gif.

 

[may88]

Not really, I post updates as soon as I get more information from the companies, and I'm just hoping to get a new update from CC today.

An update would be mighty appreciated. We've not had a decent piece of official news for a while.

 

[may88]

I get asked about my avatar a lot - it's William Shatner, it's from an episode of Star Trek. It's the one where Kirk gets split into 2 - a heterosexual Kirk and a homosexual Kirk, which is the one in the fancy suit with the sex toy.


Or maybe I just dreamed that episode, and he's really just standing there with a crappy stage set with a Styrofoam stalagmite waiting to bash an evil android over the head.


No, I was right the first time. Anyway, I want to change my avatar soon, but I need to find some decent software to make a nice animated gif.

Stick with this one else you'll be a bigger knob (expresses hatred for animated anything on the forums).


edit: Oh my! double post, sorry.

 

[TitanUranus]

I get asked about my avatar a lot - it's William Shatner, it's from an episode of Star Trek. It's the one where Kirk gets split into 2 - a heterosexual Kirk and a homosexual Kirk, which is the one in the fancy suit with the sex toy.


Or maybe I just dreamed that episode, and he's really just standing there with a crappy stage set with a Styrofoam stalagmite waiting to bash an evil android over the head.


No, I was right the first time. Anyway, I want to change my avatar soon, but I need to find some decent software to make a nice animated gif.

Stick with this one else you'll be a bigger knob (expresses hatred for animated anything on the forums).


edit: Oh my! double post, sorry.

Well, I recently found a decaying 15 year old videotape with a 27 second clip including a pan shot of my doppelgänger, built when I was at uni. Sadly, he never appears in any single frame and the video quality had deteriorated badly, but I thought I could have made a nice pan shot avatar from it. Since you express disapproval at animation , I've recreated him by merging 15 frames of the pan, but now he's too long to make my avatar.

 

[ahahah]

It seems that the events in Japan don't involve the electronic industry of this country, so no effect on the batch 2.


it is "only" agriculture and fishing activities that are involved (in the area of fukushima)

Umm... The electronic industry runs on electricity, which is currently not being generated by those nuclear reactors.

whole Japan has gone back to the prehistoric era since the earthquake?