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  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,834

    NylonGirl said:

    The Super Nintendo video game system had games stored on cartridges rather than discs or downloads. While the game system itself stayed the same, they could improve things by adding to the electronics in the cartridge. One of the things they did was add the “Super FX chip”. The chip enabled more advanced graphics by doing the processing inside the cartridge.

    I wasn’t impressed. I declared it was just a math coprocessor, which computers had been using for a long time. And for some reason, they were putting one of these in each new cartridge since they didn’t bother to put one in the game system itself.

    Putting an extra chip in every cartridge is a rather awkward way to add capacity to a game system. I never had a Super NES, though.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,834
    edited 4:32AM

    Double Post! frown

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  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,834

    Happy B-Day, TJohn! 

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,834

    DanaTA said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...bloody bad gateway again.

    I thought those only occurred in Frederik Pohl's universe.

    I got three of those already!!!  Two before I could even see today's posts!  Quite annoying! 

    I'll jinx it by saying this, but I haven't had a bad gateway in a while. 

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,834
    edited 4:44AM

    Complaint: For reasons known only to Google, I can no longer access YT videos on my main PC. Research indicates it's part of a wider crackdown on ad blockers, but I added a browser to my system with the result that I could play ads all day long but the video would never actually load so that I could watch it. I don't understand. frown 

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  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 827

    I'm on Firefox and use VPN plus two ad blockers. No issues using YouTube here.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,414

    Thank you butterflyfish, miladyderyni_173d399f47, Richard Haseltine, and Torquinox!

    I had a very happy birthday. My niece brought a chocolate chocolate chip bundt cake. So rich I could literally eat only a few bites. Way more sugar than a diabetic should eat, but hey, the docs want me to gain back some weight. angel

     

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 591
    edited 7:56AM

    kyoto kid said:

     They do make the best watches there.

    Perhaps they got Patek Philippe or Rolex to design the mechanism for them  :-D

    By the way, if anyone decides to give them a try, don't forget to remove the whilte plastic collar you see in the photo.  Once removed, the despenser takes on quite a different look to what you see in the photo.  I realised fairly quickly, but strangely there's no mention on the packaging that you need to remove it.

     

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  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 591
    edited 9:44AM

    Couldn't resist (and I can tell you're all deeply fascinated by this stuff), so I've taken a photograph of my very first Hermesetas; an absolute beauty she is!
    Rotated around 45 degrees to capture the top clicker, barrel, and inner mechanism design all in one go. She truly is the 'Swiss Watch' of sweetners  :-D

    Check out that mech!
     

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  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 827

    It's confirmed. You're a geek cheeky

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,414
    edited 11:25AM

    Yep, even after examining the photo in close detail, I still don't know what the heck that is. It has something to do with artificial sweetners? 

    So in East Tennessee, artificial sweetners come in three colors; the pink stuff, the blue stuff, and my personal favorite - the yellow stuff. 

    The white stuff is sugar.

     

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 6,064

    TJohn said:

    Yep, even after examining the photo in close detail, I still don't know what the heck that is. It has something to do with artificial sweetners? 

    So in East Tennessee, artificial sweetners come in three colors; the pink stuff, the blue stuff, and my personal favorite - the yellow stuff. 

    The white stuff is sugar.

     

    White is mine, or honey. I just limit my usage. I worked with an engineer who worked for one of those companies and got an earful of some ot the side effects and contents. Besides I can't stand the taste. But then I do not like any diet soft drink at all. Of course, I was thought to be hypoglycemic in 1982 and was taken off ALL simple sugars. Lost weight and felt better, and now I drink water, milk, coffee, tea with either milk/sugar (black) or honey (herbal). No alcohol. Yeah, I cheat a little. But I don't bake anymore either. My four-year-old hated it then, but he is now all about healthy eating as a middle-age man and parent.

    So a fifth day of migraine but I also have to drive to the base to pickup meds for it and other refills. Hope tomorrow is better, a two hour MRI session in the late afternoon is on my calendar. And driving home in rush hour through Cherry Creek of Denver. My DAZ purchases will be tapering off, got the estimate of some dentist bills coming up over the next year close to $7,000.00 USD. Not covered by insurance but needed.

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 2,359
    Only in the United States: "not covered by insurance, but needed"
  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,834

    @garrett_3d vpn is worth a try. 

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 827

    Torquinox said:

    @garrett_3d vpn is worth a try. 

    I use a VPN, have done for the last seven years yes 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,432
    edited 2:06PM

    Regarding sweeteners:  Despite the controversy over AI data centers, the technology is still pretty amazing.  The following is my query to "GoogleAI" about the image given above.  And the fact that I could have asked the same question by voice, is even more amazing.surprise

    Query:

    In the US, sweeteners come in a display as shown in the attached image. What is the common name of each of the four types, and what is the chemical name of the active ingredient?

    Reply:

    In the United States, foodservice sugar stations traditionally feature a universally color-coded system. This allows customers to instantly recognize different sweeteners by packet color. [1]

    The common name and active ingredient for each of the four sections (ordered left to right) are:

    Blue Packets

    • Common Brand Name: Equal

    • Chemical Name of Active Ingredient: Aspartame [1]

    Yellow Packets

    • Common Brand Name: Splenda

    • Chemical Name of Active Ingredient: Sucralose [1]

    White Packets

    • Common Name: Table sugar / Granulated sugar

    • Chemical Name of Active Ingredient: Sucrose [1]

    Pink Packets

    • Common Brand Name: Sweet'N Low

    • Chemical Name of Active Ingredient: Saccharin (specifically formulated as calcium saccharin or sodium saccharin)

     

    OK, so far, so good.  Then I attached the image of the partially revealed name of the European brand sweetener and asked the same question and got the reply in the image below:

    Thank you Mr. Data.coolyes

     

     

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  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 591
    edited 2:07PM

    @Garrett
    True, and I went even further shortly after taking that photo.  I fancied some coffee, and since I take three sweetners in coffee (to keep me as lovely and sweet as I am), I thought it'd be fun to try to trip it up by clicking three times as fast as I could.  Now this is not scientific by any stretch of the imagination, but without the dispenser in my hand, I can manage around 9 thumb triggers pers second.  This would suggest that the dispenser succesfully managed three ejects per 1/3 second, or in other words, 9 ejects per second - again - without fail.

    Since the tablets are so light, there's no way that gravity alone is making it happen.  I reckon there's a combination of reflex and passive pneumatics (air) at play.

    @Tjohn
    Yup, it's a sweetner dispenser filled with tiny sweetner tablets, where each tablet is equivalent to one teaspoon of sugar (and presumably one of those sachets of sugar).  I've not touched sugar for over a decade now, I always use sweetner, and the benefit of course is that it's zero calories per sweetner, so what's not to like?

    If you have diabetes, it might even be benefiical to switch to these things (although I'm not a doctor so don't quote me on that).  But I personally use them for food as well, since the food over here is becoming more and more bland due (I believe) to sugar taxation practices by the government.  Two perfect examples for me right now (since I am economising for a while), is that putting three of these in a Pot Noodle will restore it to tasing how they used to taste.  And putting three of them per half-can of Baked Beans, transforms the 25p shop's own brand, into tasting like the 85p premium brand.

    And before I forget again, Happy Birthday!

     

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  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 591
    edited 2:21PM

    @LeatherGryphon
    Sorry, hadn't seen your post, that sounds interesting - cheers!
    EDIT : I think they only have Splenda over here out of those.

     

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  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 591
    edited 2:20PM

    PS : I have passed-on the news to my Hermesetas dispenser, that she is now famous through having her photograph exposed to A.I. on the world wide web.
    You have just made her the word's first celebrity sweetner dispenser  :-D

     

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