Recent content by Todd Walter

Well, the discussion was started about unskilled labour; you were the one who moved it into the office. That's somewhat automated there too, though, (orders via EDI drive the ERP which issues POs and WOs) so headcount is less than it used to be but I seriously doubt either management or the...

A company with a fully dark production line is TCL. Otherwise, the reason you don't see it very often was that it was cheaper to have humans shuttle the WIP from station to station and vision systems were primitive. Now, with minimum wage being raised and tech being much cheaper, customers are...

Brave new world, eh? It's what customers are pushing for, though. The government is going to have to figure out how to charge a robot income tax.

Fully automated means people do not need to do things. You keep ignoring the salient point because you believe people need to be involved despite being told they are specifically being engineered out of the solution.

That history you refer to includes some large scale wars that reduced the potential number of employees at the same time it scaled up the need for them so training was provided. The work then was, and mostly still is, semi-automated. We're talking about full automation now. No people...

Perhaps I'm a bit pessimistic. I don't think many are going to move laterally from button pusher in sector 7-G to engineer. Even if they could, the position will already have been filled as the overall need for labour will have been reduced. edit: a word

200 years ago, there were still a lot of jobs requiring manual labour that you could move laterally into which made for a softer landing. As it stands now, we're automating away the unskilled labour pool as the new mandatory minimum wage makes the ROI on the effort worth it. Most of those...

Thanks, I'll check that out.

I disabled power saving on my USB ports to no effect.

For me it is my wireless XBox reciever. It just winks out and then stays that way until I unplug it and plug it back it in. No rhyme or reason, but dmesg shows an error in negotiating the endpoint. Gigabyte Aorus Master x570.

They're frequently used for kiosks and displays as they are much cheaper than things like Samsung's MagicInfo Player. You can buy the 'business class' versions from Viewsonic with the NoTouch OS on it (allows for centralized managment). That said, you would normally expect a business to use an...

Wireless headphones & a recliner ftw! My kids spent many a night snoozing on me whilst I was slaying monsters in the Witcher 3 when they were babies.

Adlib Gold, probably. Pretty sure they all used the Yamaha OPL3 variants but had different PCM capabilities that had to be accounted for in software. SB16 had a wavetable daughter card available but it's CD audio passthru became the defacto standard for background music since it saved the...

First edition MT-32 was, crashes and all. The rest... eh.. ;) There are examples of the MT-32 being worse in games where it was composed with the OPL3 default sustain in mind. In the GM wavetable days I can remember having to switch some games back to the SB16 for music.

They either made card specific tracks or, worse, used a mapping wedge. Watch for an overview. LGR covers MIDI stuff from the DOS days as well.