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Okay, I searched "Joseph D. Rudmin", and "Joseph Rudmin thoughts electron mass".
A google search turns up this:

A poster session, describes some of the equations, conclusions, and sources.
http://physics.fau.edu/Events/PastEvents/Gulf_Coast_2006/Talks/Rudmin/POSTER0H.PDF

The book is here:
http://www.allbookstores.com/book/9780976894728/Joseph_D_Rudmin/Thoughts_On_The_Electron_Mass.html

Other searches yield paper abstracts:
http://csma31.csm.jmu.edu/physics/mattson/csaaptvip/CSAAPT-VIP%20Fall%202006%20Talks.html
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/SES06/Event/55517

In a Wikibooks talk section, Joe writes about Kaluza's theory, which is the basis of Joe's work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Kaluza-Klein_theory

Yes, I am aware that things can be published on the web. Do a search of Rudmin Arthur Cerdic, and the first thing that comes up on Microsoft's live search is:
http://www.celtic-twilight.com/camelot/rudmin/arthur_cerdic_c7.htm

That was published on the web. But not everything is.

I know for a fact that China is producing a ton of nanotechnology scientists. For one interesting note: this book by my professor is available in two languages - English and Chinese.

Use of .50-caliber Machine Guns Against Personnel There is an old myth that just will not go away claiming that it is illegal to use antiaircraft weapons against troops, especially for some reason, the .50-caliber machine gun. There is no regulation in the US Army or Marine Corps that says this is illegal. In fact every US manual on air defense guns, including FM 23-65 (.50-caliber M2 machine gun), has/had a section on engaging ground targets. There is absolutely nothing in the Hague Convention of 1907 even remotely suggesting that it is forbidden. Even the use of the turn of the century large-caliber anti-balloon machine guns with incendiary bullets (in wide use when the Convention was drafted) were not prohibited from being fired on troops.

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It has never made sense that we can use flamethrowers, WP projectiles, incendiary rockets, napalm, 25mm chain guns, 155mm howitzers, fletchettes, buckshot, and saw-tooth bayonets on the enemies of democracy, much less strafe them with .50-caliber machine guns mounted in aircraft but we cannot shoot the bad guys with a full-jacketed machine gun bullet originally intended as a light antitank weapon when developed at the end of World War Ibut its okay to shoot their web gear? Somebody is on drugs.

        The source of this myth appears to have originated during World War II. In the closing days of the war in Germany infantry units often had halftrack-mounted quad .50-caliber machine guns attached to them from the antiaircraft artillery automatic weapons battalion supporting the division. They were routinely used against ground targets to include enemy troops. They were very effective in suppressing villages and wood lines prior to advancing. The quad-fifties were expending ammunition at a high rate in this role and at some staff echelon it was pointed out that if the Germans were able to mount local air attacks against our forces they might run out of .50-caliber ammunition having expended it on ground targets a valid concern.

    In some units officers apparently looking for a way to justify the ammunition conservation order to experienced combat troops (read as practical and cynical) took the easy way out and lied, merely saying it was illegal to use antiaircraft weapons or .50-caliber machine guns against personnel.

Nathan Garrelts, a professor at my college, is trying to work video games into the curriculum by discussing their cultural dynamics and examining them as literary works. He wrote an excellent article called "Will Master Chief Ever Frag Moby Dick?" for the International Game Developers Association. He has also edited a collection of essays on how digital media influences our perceptions, and how our perceptions influence how we interact with digital media. I wrote an article about him for our newspaper back in December of last year. He's a blast to talk to, and he is really passionate about bringing games and other digital media into a more positive light.

As I recall, and these old brain cells are starting to fail, the undocumented API mess began before Windows was out, back in the DOS days. There was at least one book devoted to the topic, Andrew Schulman's Undocumented DOS, published in 1990. And a related issue was how to make re-entrant pop-up applications, like Sidekick.

This road of bad behavior is long. I agree that when Windows first came out Microsoft worked hard to help programmers migrate their applications, and that the cheating began when Microsoft entered the application field with Excel and Word. I wonder how many readers are too young to know these stories?

I submitted this and the idea of optimizing the shipping when searching across sites for a basket of books to http://www.allbookstores.com/ (think thats the name) and they said they may do it. Site design is strangely familiar. ;-)

Its a good idea and past due.

Maker to consumer. That's what the Internet is about. Not fat cats in the middle. Chinese junk is marked up 6x in WMT and other places. If ever we solve the shipping logistics and taxing logistics then the price can drop precipitously towards the Chinese price! Of course, lots of industries (steel industry) are notorious for lieing on shippers to avoid taxes (finished steel as raw steel) so the dishonesty factor is tough. As it is the government has a system that promotes dishonesty (inspects 10% of the shipments, non-fatal penalties, etc.).

Anyhoo, the general idea of meta seaching is past due. As craigslist blocks the meta searching engines, we must move to client-based meta searching. Death to the csars. Freedom for the people. And such.

TimJowers

Or you could actually shop around or go to bookpool, where it is $28.50 they don't show up on all book stores.

-- Sex Toys...

He taught me english at high school!

While fire sprinklers are installed in some buildings they are far from ubiquitous, and also tend to cause plenty of water damage during their use.

"It is proven that fires controlled by sprinklers result in less business interruption and and water damage than those that have to be extinguished by traditional fire department members." There's a direct quote from Essentials of Fire Fighting. If your sprinkler system is installed properly and it is activated, water damage is probably the least of your concerns.

All Book Stores is a good place as well, although they don't list Bookpool which happens to be my preference for tech books and usually the least expensive.

YMMV- I am in no way affiliated with either of those sites.

and not even a Karma whore a that.

Any self-respecting geek is not going to buy at Amazon and I would hope especially not after following your affiliate link in.

If you want to find good prices on tech books try Bookpool or All Book Stores.

BTW bookpool is $6.04 cheaper than your beloved amazon.

This is getting off-topic, but if you want to compare prices, then go to http://www.allbookstores.com/search_advanced.

There are at least eight places online that have it cheaper (including shipping) than Amazon. Ten if you include used book stores.

The idea is to have a 12 volts 2 coil latching-relay on each lighting circuit. Since they are latching relays (one coil to turn it on, and the other to turn it off), they can be controlled by as many momentary SPDT switches as needed; you can also have as many "master consoles" as you need which consist of two rotary dials, one to turn on and the other to turn off the light.

Some relays even offer a low-voltage "indicator" line, so the master console can have pilot lights to indicate which lights are on.

I am surprised that this system is not more widespread in fancy homes, as I remember going to a school more than 30 years ago that had it's lighting controlled by that system.

What's neat about it is that the big expensive high-votage wire (which has to be installed by a qualified electrician) only goes from the breaker panel to the light fixtures, instead of snaking through the walls to the light switches (and don't get me stated on the 3 or 4 way switches!!!). As the control is done through low-voltage, light switches can be extremely small and unobtrusive.

Of course, it goes without saying that interfacing those to a computer would be an outright breeze...