Driver to drive?

[robert j. kolker]

jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

I don't know which Biafra crises you're talking about.

Circa 1967. The Moslem section of the country starting killing of the
Christian section of the country. It was not a natural disaster. It was
more like Kosavo of recent memory. See:

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0807443.html

Bob Kolker

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:48:35 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

IMHO, if you aren't doing electronics by the age of 10, you probably
aren't going to do it very well, unless you are very bright indeed,
including practically. By the time you graduate, you have 12 years
experience to catch up!

Agreed, but maybe 12 isn't too late. It's like tennis, skiing,
driving, languages, music: if you wait till you're almost grown up,
you're unlikely to be really good at it.

John

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Marc H.Popek
<LVMarc@worldnet.att.net> wrote (in <%XCBd.55782$uM5.30797@bgtnsc05-news
..ops.worldnet.att.net&gt about 'Happy Holidays, may your amplifiers
provide gain and your oscillators start quickly', on Sat, 1 Jan 2005:

I'll bite (correct punctuation?)

Yes.

What's "7D5" ?

2005 in hex. Also Y MMV in Roman.

This is Popek's question.

This is Woodgate's answer.
--
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The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
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[Nicholas O. Lindan]

<cyberzl1@yahoo.com> wrote

They are all over. It just depends on who you ask.

Get some old junker motors and learn the art of motor
rebuilding.

--
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Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com
psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/

 

[Guy Macon]

John Woodgate wrote:

Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote:

I rather suspect that any attempt to use simulation to decide
how much current to send through those LEDs would have failed.

We need a Spice model of the corporate marketroid. Any offers?

That would be less work than trying to convince the "simulation
can do anything, prototypes are obsolete" crowd that the are wrong.

Maybe if we *simulated* them we could figure out how to convince them...

 

[Ken Smith]

In article <6yQ76DFBsx1BFwC7@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:
[...]

We need a Spice model of the corporate marketroid. Any offers?

We could get the most of the characteristics with a model including a
Dilbert cell and a nop-amp. The noise characteristics would be tricky to
model.

--
--
kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
<kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <cr79tl$b6l$4@blue.rahul.net&gt
about 'Question for Win Hill/ Athlon64', on Sat, 1 Jan 2005:

In article <6yQ76DFBsx1BFwC7@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:
[...]
We need a Spice model of the corporate marketroid. Any offers?

We could get the most of the characteristics with a model including a
Dilbert cell and a nop-amp. The noise characteristics would be tricky
to model.

Oh, very good! I love 'Dilbert cell'.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Mike T.]

A Buddhist, a Zoroastrian, and a Wiccan walk into a bar. The bartender says,
"You guys are in the wrong joke."

/sorry
//really, really sorry

 

[Andrew Holme]

radio913@aol.com wrote:

[snip]

the Phase Detector must have a 180 degree phase shift.

Do all phase detectors, whether
XOR or phase/frequency, have this
180 degree phase shift inherently
built-in?

They detect the phase difference. If the inputs are a(t) and b(t) then the
phase difference is:

a(t) - b(t)

The -ve sign in front of b(t) is where the 180 degrees comes from.

a(t) = reference
b(t) = vco

 

[MSHAWO944]

If you can locate a couple of 75 HP 3ph motors, ( maybe a local rewind shop )
you can build a rather inexpensive rotary phase inverter. If you come across
some motors, e-mail me and I will gladly send you some schematics. You'll only
need some elecrolytic capacitors, wire, and a contactor for on off control. By
the way my son received his Eagle Rank this year. Troop #358 San Antonio, Tx

 

[Kryten]

"Mike T." <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:33oqu3F41dl06U1@individual.net...

A Buddhist, a Zoroastrian, and a Wiccan walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "You guys are in the wrong joke."

Mike T. posts to some newsgroups.
The other readers say,
"You are posting jokes in the wrong newsgroups."



"Is this the Philosophy Department?"
"Yes, but then again, No"



If a woman makes a statement in the forest,
and there is no-one to hear her,
is she still wrong?

 

[Chaos Master]

Marc H.Popek stated:

I'll bite (correct punctuation?)

What's "7D5" ?

Not related to the original question but...

In RPG games and games like NetHack, it means '7 dice rolls of a 5-sided
dice'.
This would be a number from 7 (1+1+1+1+1+1+1) to 35 (5+5+5+5+5+5+5).

On-topic:

Maybe 7.5v Zener (sp?) diode?


[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Canoas, Brazil - 29.55° S / 51.11° W / GMT-
2h / 15m


"Now: the 3-bit processor, with instructions:
1. NOP - does nothing, increase PC. / 2. HLT - does nothing, doesn't
increase PC
3. MMX - enter Pentium(r) emulation mode; increase PC / 4. LCK - before
MMX: NOP ; after MMX: executes F0 0F C7 C8
5. HCF - Halt and Catch Fire / 6. EPI - Execute Programmer
7. DPC - Decrease PC"

 

[Martin DeMello]

In rec.puzzles Bill Smythe <chichess@beforercnafter.com> wrote:

I think you'd be better off trimming the list, keeping only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
10, 13, 14, and 21.

Seeing as how my favourites were 7 and 17, I guess it proves that
there's no accounting for tastes

martin

When geese fly in an inverted V formation, why is one arm of the V
longer than the other?

It has more geese in it!

 

[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

In <s25Bd.14$45.8553@news.uchicago.edu>, on 12/31/2004
at 05:01 AM, mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu said:

Nope, about the UN.

It reads like both shrub and the un.

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[Rhyanon]

That's kinda funny, for some odd reason. I guess it's so unexpected.....

"Mike T." <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:33oqu3F41dl06U1@individual.net...

A Buddhist, a Zoroastrian, and a Wiccan walk into a bar. The bartender
says,
"You guys are in the wrong joke."

/sorry
//really, really sorry

 

[Winfield Hill]

John Woodgate wrote...

Winfield Hill wrote...
robert j. kolker wrote...

The AP is already reporting how aid goods is piling up at the airports
and going nowhere. The part of the world battered by the tsunami does
not know from roads and gas stations. Getting the aid where it is needed
them most is going to be very difficult. This feelgood twitch of sending
blankets and teddy bears while the emotion of pity runs high will do
very little good.

This is blatantly false.

Not entirely. It depend on which country and where in that country.

I'm referring to the ugly "does not know from roads and gas stations"
remark, which implies these are backward undeveloped people, which is
false. The roads, bridges and gas stations may be damaged beyond use,
but that doesn't justify saying these people never knew of such things.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[robert j. kolker]

Winfield Hill wrote:

I'm referring to the ugly "does not know from roads and gas stations"
remark, which implies these are backward undeveloped people, which is
false. The roads, bridges and gas stations may be damaged beyond use,
but that doesn't justify saying these people never knew of such things.

Indoensia never had a road network as extensive as in the industrialized
countries. And certainly not Banglidesh. You are talking about a part of
the world where the GPD per capita is less than $1000.00 a year.

Do not confuse third world Hell Holes with industrialized countries. For
all practical purposes they are from different planets.

Bob Kolker

 

[Phil Carmody]

"Rhyanon" <pissoff@uberbitch.com> writes:

That's

What is?
Did you perhaps want to leave some context _before_ your _reply_ to it?
Such as:

"Mike T." <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:33oqu3F41dl06U1@individual.net...
A Buddhist, a Zoroastrian, and a Wiccan walk into a bar. The bartender
says,
"You guys are in the wrong joke."

Anyway, you say it's ...

kinda funny, for some odd reason. I guess it's so unexpected.....

Vaguely reminiscent of the "Bernard Righton" (a diametric antithesis to
Bernard Manning, who is an ignorant and offensive racist, sexist, and
everything-else-ist bigot) joke:

(needs to be said with a broad Yorkshire accent for full effect)

A Jew, a Chinaman, and a Pakistani walk into a pub.
What a perfect example of a racially integrated society.


Bernard Righton is a character of the actor John Thompson, who for
example also plays the host of 'Jazz Club', and professor Denzil
Dexter, on /The Fast Show/.


Phil

--
The gun is good. The penis is evil... Go forth and kill.

 

[Danny Kodicek]

"tadchem" <tadchemNOSPAM@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:TvGdnc6gHPWZgkXcRVn-jA@comcast.com...

"Rhyanon" <pissoff@uberbitch.com> wrote in message
news:10tg01l1rmbag2e@corp.supernews.com...
That's kinda funny, for some odd reason. I guess it's so unexpected.....

The 'unexpected' is the essence of humor. That and pain.

The two main tools of humor are surprise, pain, and insult.

No, wait! That's three!

The three main tools of humor are surprise, pain, and insult. And
indignity!

No, wait again! That's four!

Among the *main* tools of humor are surprise, pain, insult, and indignity.

Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) suggests that all humour combines at least two
of the following:

Cuteness
Meanness
Bizarreness
Recognizability
Naughtiness
Cleverness.

Rather a good list, I think.

Danny

 

[keith]

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:09:33 +0000, Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:

"Old Nick" <nsnfwhite@iinet.net.au> wrote

Rotary converters are sooo 60's.

So are Civil Defense sirens.

No they are *not*! In fact they put them in in the 80's (well after I
left the region).

"If you see a bright flash immediately duck down and cover yourself
with whatever is at hand. Jim and Judy are shown in this film using
their picnic blanket for thermal radiation flash protection. _They_
didn't let a nuclear blast interfere with their outdoor eating
enjoyment."

In the midwest, if you hear a CD siren you'd better find a place to hide
your sorry ass. There is a tornado right on it! They only fire 'em up if
it's on the ground and confirmed, so you'd better know what to do before
you hear it.

--
Keith