I got a new router for Christmas ...

[Alma J Wetzker]

Bob Hemus wrote:
> Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 
>> The world on the other side of the pond has a different standard 
>> voltage in all the outlets (220 V rms)  The real problem is that it is 
>> 50Hz instead of 60Hz.  That is why the better power supplies have the 
>> red slide switch 110|220 so they can be used world wide.
>>
>> The moral is that setting stuff up first allows the rest of the world 
>> to see what you did wrong and fix it in their own implementations.
>>
>>     -- Alma
>>
>> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> 
>>>> On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 17:39, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Michael
> 
> Alma, which is better and why?  When I was a kid back in the
> 40's I remember every thing being 50 cycle.  I think I can remember that 
> they changed it to 60 ccycle.
> 
> I grew up in Orange County in SoCal.  Was it only SoCal Edison? I
> had to leave 'cause I was a social outcast.  I voted Democrat after 
> Reagan's first term as Governor.  He destroyed the best school system in 
> the US (IMHO).
> Bob
> 
I am not sure it is a matter of better.  The power company claims 60.000 Hz. 
In reality, they fudge it, dropping the cycles under heavy load and making up 
the average under lighter load.  I guess 60 gives them more wiggle room than 
60.  I do know that the 30 dfps used in video is friendlier to 60.  The real 
problem comes when you try to mix signals or power out of phase.  Not fun.

As to the Dems or GOP, neither is best.  The republicans want to be everyone's 
father and the democrats want to be everyone's mother.  I want them both to 
leave me alone so I can grow up.  (Maybe I don't want to grow up, but I do 
want them to leave me alone.)  Each has a different set of strengths and 
weaknesses.  Higher Ed has never been a republican strength (as far as I can 
remember).  We only get the choices the party wags want to give us.  So far it 
looks like not much of a choice in 2004.

     -- Alma