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  1. Re:There is hope-Corrosion miracle on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    CRC 2-26, #02005, 11(oz)/~$6.
    I've used automotive CRC-2-26 on electrical/onic connectors since ~1990. It does NOT damage organics, displaces H2O, inhibits corrosion on Cu, brass, Al, Stl,.. .

    And we use it in the lab as a good tapping fluid for Al. Light lubricant, OK for DB9, etc
    XLow tox MSDS. Fluid film remains: cured Puntium II heat transfer.

  2. Disordered use of "2ndLaw" on Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics · · Score: 1

    OhioU. Prof Hicks taught Thermoignoramics in the 1950s-80s.
    This writer is confused on "2nd Law".

    0-th ~= Energy goes from high to low. (There exists Temperature and equilibrium.)
    1-st ~= Can't get something for nothing. (Energy is not created nor destroyed, just form changes.)
    2-nd ~= Can't even break even. (Energy is dissipated as Entropy.)

      See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroth_law_of_thermodynamics

  3. Ares NOT shocking on NASA Installing Shocks On Ares · · Score: 1

    This is NOT "..essentially remote-controlled shock absorbers" Mr. Garry Lyles!

    As a MechE & former motorcycle racer I have tuned shock absorbing systems.
    Steel & air Springs absorb the force & motion, oil dampers dissipate the energy as heat.

    This system actively uses Newton's 2nd (F=ma) to provide an active inertia force opposing the vibration!

    This is very like a Bose sound-canceling head set, NOT automotive "shocks"!
     

  4. Enigma: WW II Germans micro-managed. on A Marine's-Eye View of the Networked Battlefield · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The book The Ultra Secret addressed this. Berlin's micro-management was enabled by Radio & the Enigma machine.

    Wehrmacht were hen-pecked, details demanded, encrypted, transmitted. Allan Turing helped decrypt. Allies found it helpful.

  5. Stupid for other reason. on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 1
    Wrong reason, right stupid result.

    Yahoo & Google searches are on words occurring in pages, not meaning. E.g., "lead" could be metal a neck rope.

    I find to use Google & Yahoo you must be smart enough to ask the right dumb question. Ordered Boolean searches get mostly irelevant "hits". "MTD lawn mower blade OR engine" is worthless. "Lawn mower parts" then hacking at links got there.

    Much has been made in recent years of XML tags including meaning. Perhaps this will give a Wiki-like dis-ambiguation.

  6. Re:Quality laptop! Pride not ad. QUALITY on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1
    Duh. Human psychology is to assert YOUR decision was a good one. Ford/Chev/Toyo, etc.
    I manage a university bio materials lab and do not work for any electronics firm.

    My Fuj 1610 mini has faults due to size. ~9" screen, narrow keys, deficits due to size. But is is easy to carry & use.

    And QUALITY and not supporting the country selling bad tires, toxic food, lead toys was his goal!

  7. Quality laptop! Like my Fuji LifeBook on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1
    Chinese Junks are not just sailing ships.

    Get the lead out and look at Fujitsu LifeBook! I just spent ~$2k on a 1610 mini with added DVD burner, floppy, and bonus Lexmark Scan/Print/Fax!

    Quality piece. Was made in and shipped from Japan.

    Like NT5; this is my only NT5.1/XP & I spooked at the End-Usage-misLicense-disAgreement I Called Fuji once, got support from CANADA. Guys said 24/7 lifetime Fujitsu support.

  8. Know how to MAKE a sliderule? on Know How To Use a Slide Rule? · · Score: 1
    When I was in OU Engineering in the late 70's we had to take drafting courses. One exercise was to create from an equation an ad hoc slide rule. Hey! Somebody has to design those cardboard product calculators sales gave out.

    I still have my EE dad's Kueffel&Esser and Pickett aluminum rules! Ever hear of a "nomograph"!?

  9. Re:How many Visla...Mis titled! on Less Than 2 Percent of UK Companies Have Upgraded Windows · · Score: 1
    Mis titled: "Less Than 2 Percent of UK Companies Have Upgraded Windows". Since NT5 every MS update is a DOWNgrade.

    The GateSatan of Mordorsoft finally has what he wanted. MS Windose now requires an umbilical cord. All users' bases are belong to him, continually inspected. Visla is a dog.

  10. Re:Atmel AVR. (or 6809) on What Micro-Controller Would You Use to Teach With? · · Score: 1

    The BEST simple cpu was used at OSU's EE dept: the Moto 6809!
    It is clean "orthogonal", exhibits modern addressing modes, has 2 tandem 8-b accumulators for 16-b ops.
    REsources. Software: Microware's OS9, Flex, out there. AND the BEST TEXT ever is Programming the 6809, Sybex Zaks.

        FPGAs can make a 6809 uController. See OpenCores.

    Or just buy an Atmel Butterfly, a $20 demo w an ATmega169, RAM, I/O. LCD, etc.
    But PICs are not RISC but LISC (Lobotomized Instr.Set).

  11. Learning uControllers. on What Micro-Controller Would You Use to Teach With? · · Score: 1

    The BEST simple cpu was used at OSU's EE dept: the Moto 6809!
    It is clean "orthogonal", exhibits modern addressing modes, has 2 tandem 8-b accumulators for 16-b ops. Software: Microware's OS9, Flex, out there. AND the BEST TEXT ever is Programming the 6809, Sybex Zaks.

      FPGAs can make a 6809 uController. See OpenCores.org.
    Or just buy an Atmel Butterfly, a $20 demo w an ATmega169, RAM, I/O. LCD, etc.
    But PICs are not RISC but LISC (Lobotomized Instr.Set).

  12. Re:Skeptics: this is NOT just a Fresnel on Holographic Solar Collectors · · Score: 1
    "RTFA"? I did. It did NOT elaborate.

    The discussion "holograms - ismirth" says:

    Rainbow transmission holograms are formed as surface relief patterns in a plastic film, and they incorporate a reflective aluminum coating which provides the light from "behind" to reconstruct their imagery. Another kind of common hologram is the true "white-light reflection hologram" which is made in such a way that the image is reconstructed naturally using light on the same side of the hologram as the viewer.

    Prismatic or interference, still sounds like spectral separation, not a hologram.

  13. MIT's Tech. Rev. thinks light bends light! on Holographic Solar Collectors · · Score: 1
    HOLOGRAMS are interference patterns of light which the eye-brain interpret as solid.

    Aren't they confusing the prismatic wiggle pictures with Holograms"?
    I assume Technology Review , an MIT Enterprise means a prismatic or freznel lense.

  14. Re:The Devil on the Left or the Devil on the Right on Who is Your Hero, Gates or Jobs? · · Score: 1
    See post (#14581609) Evidence is that Gates' Gifts are Trojans.

    1. ~1999 under DoJ anti-trust Billg suddenly found philanthropy. Say Amen! ....

  15. Re:The Devil on the Left or the Devil on the Right on Who is Your Hero, Gates or Jobs? · · Score: 1
    Evidence is that Gates' Gifts are Trojans.
    1. ~1999 under DoJ anti-trust Billg suddenly found philanthropy. Say Amen! (Max impact: B & M G Foundation to help kids, 3-rd world poor kids. Oh yeah SICK poor 3rd world kids.)
    2. I saw a report that in one country the purchase of MS produce was suggested before a clinic was built.
    3. ackthpt suggests such a give-get hook up in India.

    The real reason these kids are suffering is lack of infrastructure. Roads, electricity, more than-$1/Year per capita health care. And decent JOBS!

    So Jobs would really be the great help!

  16. Serendipitous re-discovery of old truth. on The Origin of Murphy's Law · · Score: 1
    DISCOVER mag, ~1988, someone tracked Murphy down and wrote an article. As I remember (1) Murphy was USNavy in the NASA program. And (2) did NOT like the modern "...anything that can...will...".
    Too fatalistic, Murphy was said to have said.

    HE said he said "If there are 2 way do something sooner or later the wrong one will be tried."! [Polarized plugs were OK w murphy.]

  17. Re:Article: (Part 4 is not up on the page yet) on The Origin of Murphy's Law · · Score: 1

    Serendipitous re-discovery of old truth.

    DISCOVER mag, ~1988, someone tracked Murphy down and wrote an article. As I remember Murphy (1) was USNavy in the NASA program. And (2) did NOT like the modern "...anything that can...will...".
    Too fatalistic.

    HE said he said "If there are 2 way do something sooner or later the wrong one will be tried."!
    [Polarized plugs were OK w murphy.]

  18. Re:Viewers are modular-use better modules! on Declawing Windows: Impossible? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Viewers are modular. Windose 95 came with a subset of INSO's QuickView file viewers. I purchased INSO's QuickView Plus and it installed adjacent to the OEM stuff. OnTrack's PowerDesk also has ~215 QuickViewers.

    NT5/2000 Windows Explorer shows thumbnails of files. This trivial functionality is provided by the viewers in InternetExploder. Choosing the "Traditional View" option would lose that viewing route. So does 98Lite yanking IE.

    A much more versatile approach is PowerDesk + QuickView. They will display non graphics too: .xls, .124, aimipro, .wav, as well as psp, gif, tiff, pict & spiffy stuff!

    Eschew obfuscatory argot!

  19. Windose is Mud-ular on Declawing Windows: Impossible? · · Score: 1

    Don't muddy the waters! Windose 95 came with a subset of INSO's QuickView file viewers. I purchased QuickView Plus and it installed adjacent to the OEM stuff. OnTrack's PowerDesk also has ~215 QuickViewers.

    NT5/2000 Windows Explorer shows thumbnails of files. This trivial functionality is provided by the viewers in InternetExploder. 98Lite yanking IE would lose that viewing route; so does choosing the "Traditional View" option.

    A much more versatile approach is PowerDesk + QuickView. They will display non graphics too: .xls, .124, aimipro, .wav, as well as psp, gif, tiff, pict & spiffy!

    Eschew obfuscatory argot!

  20. Ran-Dumb passwords on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 2

    As ManDude said "Part of the problem is stupid admins. They want strong passwords changed every 3 days for internal joe average accounts. What else can they do but post it to their keyboard?" In 2 years I went from 0 to >10 pisswords. Most are written in my brainbook. [Bound, holds pens, no battery failures!] In case. My answer is to partition them into several parts: WHERE [eg: osU, TR]. WHAT [eg: unIversity, business]. DIGITS/SYMBOLS [314 (pi), 1414(sroot2, 981 (mm/s^2)]. So the Thomas Register password might be "TrBusi2718". The Windos NT5 Server at the college forces change of >8 char pw every 6 wks, and remembers up to 24 for uniqueness. All I gotta do is remember the few new digits, and apply them as I visit the sites. Since June the field orders are different.

  21. Acronyms: "XP" experimental on No XP-Smarttags in Europe · · Score: 1

    If you've followed the beta reports the "XP" stands for either eXtendedPayment or eXcrable Product!

  22. Re:Intelligence is not.. the right term on Is Technology Making Kids More Intelligent? · · Score: 1

    This article confuses the result of more knowledge with intelligence. Intelligence is the result of brain structures which process thoughts. Like more CPU MHz, better buss, etc. But wihtout data computation takes much longer. "Smartness" is the ability to solve an intellectual task! An engineer who can look up an answer is "smarter" than one who needs time to calculate the same thing! It has >= 4 components, like a vector space. 1=intelligence (brain structures which process perceptions & ideas), 2=knowledge, 3=motivation, 4=personality. 5=? In areas where I had experience and Fred had little I blew him & his 200+ IQ off! My IQ=(a LOT lower). He was as intellectually aggressive and was a very picky, persistent person!

  23. "intelligence" vs "smartness" misunderstood on Is Technology Making Kids More Intelligent? · · Score: 1

    "Smartness" is the ability to solve an intellectual task! It has >= 4 components, like a vector space. 1=intelligence (brain structures which process perceptions & ideas), 2=knowledge, 3=motivation, 4=personality. 5=? In areas where I had experience and Fred had little I blew him off. His IQ "intelligence" was >200: my IQ=(a LOT lower). He was as intellectually aggressive and was a very picky, persistent person! This article confuses the result of more tech knowledge with intelligence. Intelligence is the result of brain structures which process thoughts. "SMARTNESS" includes knowledge, whether you care, and how you attack a problem.

  24. Chinese hat drill on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1

    For some reason one of our Chinese chemists was taken by the 3-of-5 hat puzzle a couple of weeks ago. A full truth table is unnecessary. If you think of "rounds" as the 3 realize lack-of-response by others is information, you can solve it from a participant's-eye-view. And by symmetry, reasoning applied to 1 unspecified person holds for any hence all. There's an extention in which 1 of the 3 people is blind and he can still solve it!

  25. Quantum Vaccuum & virtual particles on More Research on (Small) Multiple Dimensions · · Score: 1

    I've suspected that strings, and the Higgs Bozo are gimmicks to get funding. Check the Feb 3 New Scientist. Alfonso Rueda is reported to have derived Newton's 2nd from Quantum Vaccuum & virtual particles! It seems virtually sensible! But no one's mentioning Rodger Penrose's Twistors.