Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 7/12/24 18:05, Martin Brown wrote:

On 12/07/2024 00:43, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:43:44 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:28:25 -0700, john larkin wrote:
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:38:17 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
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Ideas are good, but not enough. Someone will have to do the work, too.
Who said 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration? Edison?
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Jeroen Belleman

 
Edison was a great self publicist and plagiarist but arguably the
filament light bulb was invented by Swan in the UK a decade before.
 
https://www.cio.com/article/266493/consumer-technology-thomas-edison-joseph-swan-and-the-real-deal-behind-the-light-bulb.html
 
Even USPTO eventually agreed.
 

Ideas generate money. Money doesn't generate ideas.

 
Ideas as such don't generate anything unless they can be exploited.
 

A good idea often starts in a garage (or lately, a dorm room) with
hardly any capital. It creates jobs and industries.
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HP, Microsoft, google, Facebook, and the first airplane started very
small.

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Apple! Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak also started in a garage IIRC.

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And a lot of giant companies faded away because management had no
ideas. DEC. Kodak. HP. Xerox. Intel.

 
Kodak digital had plenty of ideas - Bayer worked for Kodak and for a
while their digital cameras were the best in the world. I had a DC-120
(looked like a StarTrek tricorder). They couldn't see that digicam mass
production would annihilate the wet chemistry film market and paid the
price. They also got lazy - Fuji film had way better film products.
 
HP split into two when demergers were all the rage. They put a complete
idiot in charge of one half for reasons that escape me completely.
 
Xerox always was a bit of a one trick pony but their print engines were
the best in the world very reliable. My last one survived for 20+ years
with a moderately heavy workload. When it finally croaked I got a new
model containing one of the last print engines of their old design.
 
AFAIK Intel is still going at the moment and remains profitable. ARM now
has the mass market consumer products volume and AMD/NVidia the
AI/graphics. It is Zilog and Motorola CPUs that have sunk without trace.
 

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It's an eternal shame that the Motorola 68k had to give way to Intel's
80xx(x). It was a work of beauty.
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Jeroen Belleman