Driver to drive?

[Paul Burridge]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:36:24 -0700, Tim Wescott
<tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote:

First: Rich, put down the joint, go drink some water and lie down.

Second: The way that you get an advance is to sell your idea to a
publisher, who issues you a book contract and may or may not advance you
some money on anticipated revenues.

I hope the situation is more enlightened in America for Rich's sake.
In the UK, you gotta be famous (preferably *very*) to get a book
published. So long as you are, then it doesn't matter in the least
what the book is about or how badly it's written - it's guaranteed to
sell. Strange but true.
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Paul Burridge]

I should also add that the converse is true. If you're not famous, no
matter how much merit your book possesses, how original it is and
however well written, no publisher will GaS about it. Every UK
publisher will just tell you to shove your manuscript up your arse and
FOAD. Well they *would* like to, but since you're a nobody, they won't
even bother to reply to you at all! (Kev take note) ;-}

--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Chris Carlen]

Rich Grise wrote:
[edit]

The people who have the money will resist the theory because
it tells how the people without money can theoretically get
money, but the people with the money are terrified that if
they let loose of any of their money at all, it will all
be sucked up by the infinite abyss of the money hole, and
they will die horribly, a pauper in the streets like the
ones they're so desperately trying to avoid becoming in
their own right.
Cheers!
Rich
[edit]

Rich,

I saw your brief posting the other day about just giving out infinite
credit lines to everyone. I don't claim to know whether it would work
or not, nor do I wish to invest considerable effort analyzing it. I
would be interested to read your essays, just out of curiosity, for a
sense of its plausibility.

But my question is this: You have expressed clearly libertarian views,
which I sympathize with very strongly. What puzzles me is the fact that
most libertarians are very much against fiat currency systems and
central banking systems using "liquidity-pumping" schemes (easy credit
extension) to keep the economy afloat with the consequence of constant
inflation. Thus they tend to subscribe to "Austrian" economic thinking
(hard money and free market). They are often therefore rabidly against
the government and/or population being extended massive amounts of easy
credit.

I simply wonder why your economic thinking is so divergent from the
"usual" libertarian economic thinking? (Not that having a different
viewpoint is bad of course; actually it's the whole point!)

What do you think of www.mises.org economics?



Good day!


--
_______________________________________________________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov -- NOTE: Remove "BOGUS" from email address to reply.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:28:01 -0600, uvcceet wrote:

I have a bit of experience in hardware design, but am not overly conversant in
analog such as Audio and Video.

I need to come up with a distribution switch for a CATV application involving
broadcast A/V and am looking for some advice or pointers on details on the
video side.
....
I appreciate any help or comments.

If you're insisting on DIY, rather than something off the shelf, e.g.:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=video+distribution+amp

Then I'd say, as long as you have a handle on the design considerations
for those kinds of frequencies, and impedance matching the cables, I'd
say just bias the amps per manufacturer's spec, and AC couple the video.
NTSC video sets its own black level, you know. ;-) And app notes on
whatever amps you're using, and even mfr's reps, can be a good source
of tips. It seems that the grounding rules for systems with coax
grounded at both ends are different from those for an an audiophile
entertainment center, so keep an eye out for gotchas in this department.
;-)

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:18:49 +0100, the renowned Paul Burridge
<pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:36:24 -0700, Tim Wescott
tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote:

First: Rich, put down the joint, go drink some water and lie down.

Second: The way that you get an advance is to sell your idea to a
publisher, who issues you a book contract and may or may not advance you
some money on anticipated revenues.

I hope the situation is more enlightened in America for Rich's sake.
In the UK, you gotta be famous (preferably *very*) to get a book
published. So long as you are, then it doesn't matter in the least
what the book is about or how badly it's written - it's guaranteed to
sell. Strange but true.

J. K. Rowling?

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Fox zhou wrote:

Thank you Mac. I am trying this method. My way is to use the trigger's
edge to turn on a switch then the constant current source can charge
the capacitor. When the first edge of the clock arrives, it turns off
the switch. Therefore, the voltage of the capacitor is proportionate
with the missing time. (That is called Time-to-Amplitude)If I use a
ADC to digitalize the this voltage, I can get the missing time data.
Using the delay line, I think, this missing time can be compensated.

I think my way is similar to the algorithm of your instrument. My
current problem is how to realize the switch circuit. It should be an
analog switch with high switch speed.

I'd like to know your equipment handles this case.

The switch can be a FET or a bipolar, I guess.

Rene
--
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& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Robert Oschler]

Did anybody else notice that the some of the buildings in the miniature
North Korea city set, were leftover Chinese food containers from a Chinese
take-out restaurant? I nearly died laughing when I saw this.

Thanks

 

[Electric dabbler]

"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:417D0F93.60000@nospam.com...

Tom Seim wrote:
[..snip partial cite..]

Here are the questions:
1. On Nov. 21, 2001, just 72 days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
President Bush took Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld aside and said he
wanted to look at the Iraq war plans. Bush directed Rumsfeld not to talk
to anyone else, including the National Security Council members and the
CIA director.

Questions: If a President Kerry wanted to look at war plans pertaining
to a particular country or threat, how would he go about it? Who would
be included? What would the general war-planning process be in a Kerry
administration? Was it reasonable to look at Iraq at that time?

2. The CIA was asked in late 2001 to do a "lessons learned" study of
past covert operations in Iraq and concluded that the CIA alone could
not overthrow Saddam Hussein and that a military operation would be
required. The CIA soon became an advocate for military action.

Questions: How can such advocacy be avoided? The CIA argued that a
two-track policy -- negotiations at the U.N. and covert action -- made
their sources inside Iraq believe the United States was not serious
about overthrowing Saddam. Can that be avoided? How can diplomacy and
covert action be balanced?

3. In January 2002 President Bush gave his famous "axis of evil" speech
singling out Iraq, Iran and North Korea as threats.

Questions: Was this speech too undiplomatic? How would a President Kerry
frame the issues and relations with Iran and North Korea? Do you
consider these two countries part of an axis of evil now?

4. On Feb. 16, 2002, the president signed a secret intelligence order
directing the CIA to begin covert action to support a military operation
to overthrow Saddam, ultimately allocating some $200 million a year.
Bush later acknowledged to me that even six months later, in August, the
administration had not developed a diplomatic strategy to deal with Iraq.

Questions: How should military planning, CIA activities and diplomacy
(and economic sanctions and the bully pulpit) fit together to form a
policy?

5. On May 24, 2002, Gen. Tommy Franks and the Pentagon's Joint Staff
began work on stability operations to follow combat in Iraq. This was
about 10 months before the Iraq war started. But it was not until seven
months later, in January 2003, that President Bush became involved in
the aftermath planning.

Questions: How would you make sure that there was sufficient planning
for both the war and the peace? What aspects would you want to be
personally involved in or aware of as president?

6. On June 1, 2002, President Bush announced his preemption doctrine.

Questions: Do you agree with it? What are the acceptable conditions for
preemptive war? Bush has said that he believes the United States has a
"duty to free people," to liberate them. Do you agree? Under what
circumstances?

7. In July 2002, President Bush secretly ordered that some $700 million
be spent on 30 major construction and other projects to prepare for war.
Congress was not involved or informed.

Questions: How would you seek a relationship with the leaders of
Congress so that they would be informed of such secret work? Should
congressional leaders have an idea where you are heading? What should be
the overall role of Congress in preparing for war?

8. In August 2002 (about seven months before the start of war in March
2003), Secretary of State Colin Powell told the president over a
two-hour dinner that an Iraq war would have consequences that had not
been considered or imagined. He said that an invasion would lead to the
collapse of Iraq -- "You break it, you own it."

Questions: What would you do after receiving such a clear warning from a
senior cabinet officer or other person with comparable experience?

9. On Nov. 8, 2002, the U.N. Security Council unanimously (15 to 0)
passed Resolution 1441 on new weapons inspections in Iraq. Powell
thought it was a critical victory, putting the United States on the road
to diplomatic success.

Questions: What did this mean, now that Saddam seemed isolated and
friendless in the world? Was strategic victory -- getting Saddam out of
power -- possible through diplomacy or by continuing diplomacy and
weapons inspections?

10. In November-December 2002, major U.S. force deployments began but
were strung out to avoid telling the world that war was all but
inevitable and that diplomacy was over. Rumsfeld told the president that
the large U.S. divisions could be kept in top fighting shape for only
two to three months without degrading the force.

Questions: How might a President Kerry have handled this? What is the
role of momentum in such a decision-making process?

11. On Dec. 21, 2002, CIA deputy John McLaughlin gave a major
presentation to the president on the intelligence evidence that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction. The president was not impressed and asked
where the good, strong intelligence was. CIA Director George Tenet twice
assured the president that the WMD case was a "slam dunk."

Questions: What might a President Kerry have done when he smelled
weakness in an intelligence case?

12. On Jan. 9, 2003, the president asked Gen. Franks: What is my last
decision point? Franks said it would be when Special Forces were put on
the ground inside Iraq.

Question: Had the president already passed his last decision point when
he ordered such a large military deployment and such extensive CIA
covert action to support the military?

13. Around this time, in January 2003, Rumsfeld told the president that
he was losing his options, and that after he asked U.S. allies to commit
forces, it would not be feasible to back off. Rumsfeld asked to brief
the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Vice President Cheney,
Gen. Richard Myers and Rumsfeld briefed Bandar on Jan. 11, 2003, telling
him "You can count on this" -- i.e., war.

Questions: Do you agree with Rumsfeld's assessment? Andy Card, the Bush
White House chief of staff, thought the decision to go to war was not
irrevocable, that Bush could pull back, though the consequences would be
politically expensive. How does a president credibly threaten force
without taking steps that make the use of force almost inevitable?
Should foreign governments be briefed in this way?

14. On Jan. 13, 2003, the director of the National Security Agency, Lt.
Gen. Michael Hayden, issued a formal director's intent on how to support
Gen. Franks in a war with Iraq. Previously, on his own, Hayden had
reallocated some $300 million to $400 million of NSA funds to
Iraq-specific signals intelligence programs to support a war without the
specific knowledge or approval of either Rumsfeld, Tenet or Bush.

Questions: Was this good planning? What would be the procedures for such
decisions in a Kerry administration?

15. On Jan. 20, 2003 (two months before the war), the president signed
National Security Presidential Directive 24 to set up the office for
reconstruction for Iraq.

Question: What do you think of the timing of this?

16. On Feb. 7, 2003 (six weeks before war started), French President
Jacques Chirac called the president and was very conciliatory. He said,
"If there is a war, we'll work together on reconstruction. We will all
contribute. I fully understand your position is different. There are two
different moral approaches to the world and I respect yours." Bush was
optimistic but took no action.

Question: What would a President Kerry have done about this conciliatory
statement?

17. On March 17, 2003, concluding that Saddam was stalling and lying,
Bush ordered war while U.N. weapons inspectors were still in Iraq.

Questions: Was this decision right or premature? Was there any other
action, short of war, that would have effectively increased pressure on
Saddam?

18. On Sept. 30, 2003 (six months after the start of the war), British
Prime Minister Tony Blair told his annual Labor Party conference that he
had received letters from parents whose sons were killed in the Iraq
war, saying that they hated him. "And don't believe anyone who tells you
when they receive letters like that they don't suffer any doubt," Blair
said. President Bush has said emphatically that he has no such doubts.

Questions: Can a president afford to have doubt in a time of war? What
is the role of doubt in presidential decision-making?

19. Secretary of State Powell has said that he believed Cheney had a
"fever," an unhealthy fixation on al Qaeda and Iraq that caused him to
misread and exaggerate intelligence and the threat. In Powell's view,
Cheney and others -- Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense,
vice presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby and Douglas J. Feith,
undersecretary of defense for policy -- were part of "a separate little
government."

Questions: Your reaction? What should or could a president do about this
discord among top officials of his administration?

20. Powell also had said he believed that the Bush administration had
become "dangerously protective" of its decisions on Iraq and was unable
to consider changing course.

Question: How does a president set up a system or process to enable his
administration to alter course or get a clear-eyed evaluation of its
actions and its consequences?

21. President Bush has said on the record that he did not directly ask
Powell, Rumsfeld or his father, former President George H.W. Bush,
whether he should go to war in Iraq. He did ask national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice and his senior aide, Karen Hughes.

Questions: Your reaction? What sort of consultation process would you
have on major national security decisions? Would you consult former
presidents, even former President Bush?

22. Asked in December 2003 how history would judge his Iraq war, Bush
suggested that history was far off. "We won't know. We'll all be dead,"
he said.

Questions: How do you judge his Iraq war? What do you think history's
verdict is likely to be?

Who cares - this group is about ELECTRONICS - I know Bush probably cannot
spell a word that long but that's not good enough reason to clutter up the
news server with crap

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:09:14 +0000, Robert Monsen wrote:

Product developer wrote:
Did you see the pic of Teresa yesterday on Drudge with the beers in
hand? What a double bagger. This dame looks like a lush with a mouth
like Hiliary. I can't imagine a first lady this undesirable. Here's a
woman who got all her dough from her late husband making fun of Laura
Bush. Go figure.

Sorry, you just aren't as funny as Rush. Might be the delivery. Or,
perhaps it's your implicit notion that all women should be sex objects
that makes it hard to laugh "with you". Hard to say.

Well, they elect boy presidents on prettiness, why not a girl as well?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:33:35 +0100, Paul Burridge wrote:

On 24 Oct 2004 19:41:07 -0700, soar2morrow@yahoo.com (Tom Seim) wrote:

Actually people are very interested in voluntary RFID implantation.
Consider going into the hospital for surgery and getting an
incompatible anesthetic. This can be prevented by having an RFID chip
then encodes your unique identity that could, then, be referenced to
your medical records.

Yeah, sure. It sounds like more of a plausible excuse to install RFID
chips in the gullible masses and it still won't stop mistakes being
made.
I know of a case in the UK where a guy went into hospital to have his
leg removed. Fearing some mix up, he wrote "This one" on the leg that
was to be amputated and "NOT this one!" on the other leg.
Unbelievably, the surgeon still managed to remove the wrong leg! :-(

When I heard this, the punchline was that when he went to sue for
malpractice, he didn't have a leg to stand on. <rimshot>


Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:09:14 +0200, martin griffith wrote:

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:01:49 -0700, in sci.electronics.design you
wrote:

Tom Seim wrote:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/224449p-192807c.html

Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and
Florida, a shocking finding
snip irrelevant facts


Remember: Vote Early and Often!

Remember: Don't Vote, It just encourages them

Remember: Even a Vote for Pee-Wee Herman, is a Vote against Bush!

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:04:25 +0000, John S. Dyson wrote:

In article <ckspf8$rbo$5@blue.rahul.net>,
kensmith@green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) writes:
In article <8oicd.14564$nj.6932@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
Clarence <no@No.com> wrote:

"Robert Monsen" <rcsurname@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:Xzecd.376828$mD.361109@attbi_s02...
Jim Yanik wrote:
Saddam was NO THREAT to the United States, or anybody else.

Especially now, sitting in jail!

Actually now he is a bigger threat.

Remember: the intelligence agencies from ALL OVER THE WORLD were

Remember: John S. Dyson is a Nazi Sympathizer!

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Andrew Holme]

Junaid Uppal wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I am currently working on a project to implement 4-bit division using
logic gates / registers etc ( Basic Level DLD Stuff ). I've been
searching online / offline for a lot of time now but haven't found
anything that can help me implement my circuit. Can anyone help me out
in making this circuit please? some pointers / logic diagrams or
anything.

Thanks & Regards

Junaid Uppal

Try something like
http://www.google.com/search?q=division+restoring+quotient+remainder

This page has some really neat Java applet demos
http://tima-cmp.imag.fr/~guyot/Cours/Oparithm/english/Divise.htm

 

In <jmlqn0tgge076d2gth2vhvria4sdvivab5@4ax.com>, on 10/25/04
at 03:41 PM, Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> said:

Been done by a lot of people, and many of their books hit the best seller
list even tho they go around the established system.

John

Examples?

Don't you know how to use a search engine?

"The Christmas Box"

8 Million Copies sold, major TV movie made base upon it.

Author: Richard Paul Evans.

Many, more if you take a look around.

John

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Mac wrote:

I think you are on the right track.

We have a piece of lab equipment at work (made by stanford research, I
think) which generates delays with very high resolution.

Yes, the SRS535, if I remember correctly.
The used AD9501 digital delay generators are out of sale now.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Rich Grise wrote:

I've decided I'm going to write a book. Screw it, I sit here
and claim I have a theory that explains everything, dammit,
I ought to have the hairs to put my mouth where my mouth is.

Now the big question, which will, of course, be everyone's
first objection: If I know everything, howcome I can't figure
out how to get money?

Not really.
The answer to everything was already answered and is 43.

I forgot whether they decided to build the big massively
parallel computer called EARTH before or after the answer
above. Possibly after, as the simulation EARTH is still
running. Ah, yes. The answer was not detailed enough.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[john jardine]

"Jumbaliah" <burnboy1000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b83b4153.0410250733.4a8c3e01@posting.google.com...

burnboy1000@hotmail.com (Jumbaliah) wrote in message
news:<b83b4153.0410241924.5ca822f3@posting.google.com>...

[clip]

What's would be a realistic estimate on max frequency clean output on
these DDS chips? eg. I've read websites where the 9835 50Meg chip was
used and the author was hoping for 0-20Meg output. (
http://hem.passagen.se/communication/dds.html ) I've been
guestimating 1:5. I guess it comes down to the output smoothing
filter's design?

Thanks for the help,
Burnboy

1:5 range is about right, maybe upto 3.5:1 at a push. It seems often
overlooked that beyond this point, no amount of filtering can get the
harmonic distortion down to reasonable levels (say 2%), as the 'distortion'
frequencies or products are moving *downwards* below the output frequency as
the output frequency is increased. The effect is similar to 3rd order mixer
IMD products. Low pass to ones hearts content but those 'sub' frequencies
just can't be stripped out and will insist on messing up the waveshape.
regards
john

 

[Ken Taylor]

"Robert Oschler" <no-mail-please@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:HeidnT5RRsTdyuDcRVn-pA@adelphia.com...

Did anybody else notice that the some of the buildings in the miniature
North Korea city set, were leftover Chinese food containers from a Chinese
take-out restaurant? I nearly died laughing when I saw this.

Thanks


A bid for realism?

Ken

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:25:37 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:33:35 +0100, Paul Burridge wrote:

On 24 Oct 2004 19:41:07 -0700, soar2morrow@yahoo.com (Tom Seim) wrote:

Actually people are very interested in voluntary RFID implantation.
Consider going into the hospital for surgery and getting an
incompatible anesthetic. This can be prevented by having an RFID chip
then encodes your unique identity that could, then, be referenced to
your medical records.

Yeah, sure. It sounds like more of a plausible excuse to install RFID
chips in the gullible masses and it still won't stop mistakes being
made.
I know of a case in the UK where a guy went into hospital to have his
leg removed. Fearing some mix up, he wrote "This one" on the leg that
was to be amputated and "NOT this one!" on the other leg.
Unbelievably, the surgeon still managed to remove the wrong leg! :-(

When I heard this, the punchline was that when he went to sue for
malpractice, he didn't have a leg to stand on. <rimshot

It was worse. The bad leg still had to come off anyway, so he had *no*
legs to stand on. Currently, though, we don't need incompetent
surgeons to maim our patients; we've got MRSA big time. :-(
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Joerg]

Hi Steve,

... As for the PCB layout itself, luckily we are doing a redesign so it
hopefully will be possible to accomodate whatever is required, whether it is
an LC filter or a choke as you suggest, although we only have about one
quarter/third of one inch square to do it in (double-sided board.)


With that little space you won't likely be able to sqeeze any common

mode choke in there. I would try LC filtering since you said RC would
limit the slew rate too much. I am still wondering though why the slew
rate matters if the signal is digital audio. Of course you have to get
your 12 MHz through there.

Ok, since you said it's a coax here is suggestion number three: A coax
starts radiating stuff when both sides are mismatched. I guess the far
end is not under your control but the source side is. You could place a
series termination resistor equal to the Z of your coax in series with
the center conductor pin and make sure you drive that at low impedance.
The amplitude needs to be looked at, either you could bump it up by 6dB
or maybe there is a tolerance range where you have to fall into for
various mismatches at the far end. Anyway, now the coax sees a proper
termination at the source. This means that if something reflects at the
far end at least the reflctions from that will be dissipated and not
swing back and forth the line. This can reduce emissions quite drastically.

To save money on EMC lab time see if you guys have a spectrum analyzer
or if one of your collegues owns a scanner radio with a signal strength
meter. If the noise was in the FM band an FM radio with a signal
strength indicator would work, too. Now you could hook up a simple
dipole using a short coax with a few clamp-on ferrites on either end and
place the radio and dipole ten feet away. Now try out your remedies and
watch the meter or bargraph on the radio. Try vertical and horizontal
polarization because the EMC lab will do that, too. Hint: If it's a
scanner switch to AM mode because you can hear changes in signal
strength better than straining your eyes on that meter. The other method
won't make you friends but I have done it. I took a lens off a lab lamp
and taped that in position in front of the analyzer screen (or maybe the
meter in your case). Talking about 101 uses for duct tape.

Try to get it down 20dB if you can. Open field measurements even at EMC
labs aren't always exactly repeatable. Too many variables. Good luck.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com