You don't say why you need low profile expansion cards. Are you trying to stick a regular AT or AT but with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse into an LPX case? (I once did that before realising that I could unsolder the PS/2 ports and solder in a regular DIN connector for the keyboard.)
If you haven't read it already, get hold of a book entitled "Man of High Fidelity" by Lawrence P. Lessing. It's a biography of Edwin Armstrong, who invented wideband FM (and a whole bunch of other stuff--it's worth reading just for the part about detecting WWI enemy aircraft from their spark plug RFI and for the part about inventing the regenerative amplifier that Lee DeForest claimed he had invented in spite of not understanding how it worked--the book is full of patent horror stories). There's a lot in there about Sarnoff and RCA trying to keep FM down in order to maintain their AM powerbase.
Actually they rejected analog solid-state amps in favor of the older analog vacuum tube amps.
The reason is that the (unavoidable, not intentionally added) distortion that the tubes add to the amplified analog of the input signal is harmonically related in such a way as to be "in tune" with the original signal, whereas the distortion added by the early solid-state amps was "out-of tune" with the original signal.
Throughput is what those so-called "water saving" showerheads restrict, latency is the time between turning on the hot water and getting water that's hot.
The drawings used for making (the various positives and negatives used in making) printed circuit boards are called artwork all the time, but that doesn't mean that anyone is calling them art.
Actually "monolithic" means "single, or one, stone or rock". In this particular case it's a single silicon or germanium crystal. Solid state means not a liquid state or a gaseous state or etc. Hand soldered connections are external to both discrete semiconductors and integrated circuits and if they fail it isn't the transistor's fault. I'm not saying that integrated circuits aren't a great idea, but problems with early discrete transistors (as opposed to the circuits of which they were a part) were due mostly to semiconductor fabrication and packaging (your average TO-5 can being much, much larger than the actual transistor inside) being an infant technology at the time and not to their not being part of an integrated circuit.
Transistors *are* solid-state devices, and there is no reason for discrete transistors to fail any more often than does a single transistor out of the many that make up an integrated circuit.
There are a lot of bridges (and other infrastructure) in the US that are aging and crumbling and by no means safe, and the relevant governments don't have the money to fix them, but that's got nothing to do with whether or not said bridges are vulnerable to terrorism.
Newspeak refers to an alteration of the language itself, the idea being that you can make it impossible for the people to have ideas which the government doesn't want them to have by eliminating the words and phrases with which those ideas are expressed. If you define slavery as freedom, then it becomes impossible to say that the reason why slavery is evil is because it deprives the slave of his or her freedom. If you define war as peace, you make it impossible to wish for the war to end and peace to be restored. If you eliminate the word "evil" the government can't be suspected of evil. The concept simply ceases to exist.
Alteration of the news is just done by falsifying the records, although the records *are* increasingly re-written in Newspeak to speed the demise of the very concepts behind the kind of thinking which the government wishes to eliminate.
There may not have been an article but I definitely saw a "crawl" on either CNN or MSNBC (and I'm pretty sure that it was CNN) a few days after some Red Cross warehouse was bombed a second time saying that the warehouse was bombed on purpose both times.
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You don't say why you need low profile expansion cards. Are you trying to stick a regular AT or AT but with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse into an LPX case? (I once did that before realising that I could unsolder the PS/2 ports and solder in a regular DIN connector for the keyboard.)
You left off the part about infinite input impedence...
Actually it's the current that kills you, the voltage just shoves the current through you.
Aren't professional soundcard prices up there in the same range as real oscilloscopes?
insert Apple Cube joke here
We'll have it "real soon now", just like DSL, right?
There's a rumored Slashdot bug that takes posts intended for one story and sticks them in another. And of course it's an intermittent bug.
I thought cathedral ceilings kinda ruled out attics. (floor > living space > sheetrock > rafters > roof sheathing > tar paper > shingles)
If you haven't read it already, get hold of a book entitled "Man of High Fidelity" by Lawrence P. Lessing. It's a biography of Edwin Armstrong, who invented wideband FM (and a whole bunch of other stuff--it's worth reading just for the part about detecting WWI enemy aircraft from their spark plug RFI and for the part about inventing the regenerative amplifier that Lee DeForest claimed he had invented in spite of not understanding how it worked--the book is full of patent horror stories). There's a lot in there about Sarnoff and RCA trying to keep FM down in order to maintain their AM powerbase.
The reason is that the (unavoidable, not intentionally added) distortion that the tubes add to the amplified analog of the input signal is harmonically related in such a way as to be "in tune" with the original signal, whereas the distortion added by the early solid-state amps was "out-of tune" with the original signal.
(The BNC vs. F connector part is a lot easier to cheat on.)
Throughput is what those so-called "water saving" showerheads restrict, latency is the time between turning on the hot water and getting water that's hot.
(For the non-guitar players, they weigh a *lot* more than the average solid body guitar)
The drawings used for making (the various positives and negatives used in making) printed circuit boards are called artwork all the time, but that doesn't mean that anyone is calling them art.
If you're including Intel and Fairchild and Noyce, shouldn't National Semiconductor and Zilog be on that list as well?
But then the article where I learned about that left out the part about his family being well able to provide start-up capital...
I often get people telling me that they don't need my BS.
They probably got a quantity deal on a bunch of old PII laptop chips from the same place they picked up those closeout 20 G drives.
Because that's the size Staples and Circuit City and such were offering on sale with a rebate last week. :-)
NewEgg seems to be selling it right now for $250.00 with a stick of ram and a floppy.
Actually "monolithic" means "single, or one, stone or rock". In this particular case it's a single silicon or germanium crystal. Solid state means not a liquid state or a gaseous state or etc. Hand soldered connections are external to both discrete semiconductors and integrated circuits and if they fail it isn't the transistor's fault. I'm not saying that integrated circuits aren't a great idea, but problems with early discrete transistors (as opposed to the circuits of which they were a part) were due mostly to semiconductor fabrication and packaging (your average TO-5 can being much, much larger than the actual transistor inside) being an infant technology at the time and not to their not being part of an integrated circuit.
Transistors *are* solid-state devices, and there is no reason for discrete transistors to fail any more often than does a single transistor out of the many that make up an integrated circuit.
There are a lot of bridges (and other infrastructure) in the US that are aging and crumbling and by no means safe, and the relevant governments don't have the money to fix them, but that's got nothing to do with whether or not said bridges are vulnerable to terrorism.
Alteration of the news is just done by falsifying the records, although the records *are* increasingly re-written in Newspeak to speed the demise of the very concepts behind the kind of thinking which the government wishes to eliminate.
There may not have been an article but I definitely saw a "crawl" on either CNN or MSNBC (and I'm pretty sure that it was CNN) a few days after some Red Cross warehouse was bombed a second time saying that the warehouse was bombed on purpose both times.