have you hugged your computer today?

[JR.]

I can't help reflecting upon how good we have it compared to the bad old (pre cheap computer power) days.

I just got in a shipment of bottom metal (made in TX) for my new generation product design and it fits perfectly into my injection molded plastic clamshell (made in TX but tooled in China, that also fit perfectly with PCB (china) and faceplates (MA) all built by separate vendors.

back in the old days it was design, then prototype to see how it fit, than tweak and try again, then maybe by the third try we have stuff that actually fits together.

This is so much better....

Now If we could figure out a way that I could talk directly to my vendors computers without having to deal with humans in between, it would be perfect.

JR

[mediatechnology]

Express PCB comes pretty close. I've never had to contact a human there.

Have you downloaded a Chinese character set?

Glad everything fit.

[JR.]

Express PCB comes pretty close. I've never had to contact a human there.

Have you downloaded a Chinese character set?

Glad everything fit.

I don't plan to learn Chinese or japanese, but I have long been worried that the operating systems for newer generation microprocessors might be in other than english. I probably don't have to worry about that for my lifetime, and since we are talking to machines precise translation should be possible.

JR

[mediatechnology]

...I have long been worried that the operating systems for newer generation microprocessors might be in other than english. I probably don't have to worry about that for my lifetime, and since we are talking to machines precise translation should be possible.

Machine to machine translation IS possible: