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| TRON vs BOLT |
A Tale of
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BOLT: Let’s race then.
At first, TRON ran fast. Then his LED display failed.
While he was fixing it, BOLT vaulted past.
BOLT was almost at the finish when his lithium battery failed.
Bruce on his bicycle pedaled past and beat both of them.
Voice-over
Moral of the fable: Prepare for the Return to the Analog World.
Squeezing ever increasing numbers of smaller electrical components onto PCBs is leading to ever increasing failure rates in cars, computers, and cameras.
2 comments:
System failure? How dare you, sir!
I'll have you TRON and quartered for your BOLT pronouncements.
The sentence, as pronounced by the very model of a modern major medic: “Pin, peel back and dissect the cadaver.”
But Bruce, the bicyclist who braves all breezes, might mildly maintain: “I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes...”
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