taras22
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| The Science of Cables Here is the thing....understanding of stuff moves on....it does not stand still as it does in the minds of the fundamentalists such as the adherents of the LCR-or-the-highway Creed....bashing the Wright Bros because we have modern aircraft is just... | |
| The Science of Cables @geoffkaitOK looked it up. For some reason have never done seen that movie. So you got me on that one. | |
| The Science of Cables Well that and the scar it leaves...the average chainsaw wound is apparently about 114 stitches worth of, uhhh, fun. | |
| The Science of Cables In our neck of the woods it generally only got to DEFCON Complex and Mysterious....though on some Saturday nights, especially when the Laughs were playing the Habs, things would get ugly...ever see a fight where chainsaws were involved ? | |
| The Science of Cables Point taken, though I came through a time when things may have been even more complicated and/or mysterious. Nobody knew anything, rumours were treated like facts because that is really all we had, there were almost no publications, and the best... | |
| The Science of Cables And that most excellent point to also keep in mind. | |
| The Science of Cables Please file under the lengths people will go to ram their point across. Here’s an interesting article that turned up in my inbox a few weeks back. Excerpts follow:“It was no surprise, then, that in 1983, the magazine jumped at the opportunity to ... | |
| The Science of Cables @prof Here is a thought....if you had actually thought that there was a reasonable equivalence between my original statement and your "paraphrase" why make something up and then dress it up with quotes....why not, you know, just use the original q... | |
| The Science of Cables @prof What’s wrong with being intellectually honest, consider the points someone is ACTUALLY making, instead of making stuff up to disparage? And in that post you ACTUALLY make up a quote that is affirmative paraphrasing something that was condit... | |
| The Science of Cables And just another thought.In many ways our wee hobby is a "its just not good enough" thang. We have over the years been told, either individually, or as a group that our hobby and/or our particular way of undertaking it is foolish , silly, stupid, ... | |
| The Science of Cables And speaking of the One and Only True LCR, that trudgeon that the fundamentalists love to use to beat the non-believers about the head and shoulders so they will hopefully see reason, or at the very least just be quiet in the face of overwhelmingl... | |
| The Science of Cables @prof Have at it. OK. Here is your problem, at the most basic level you have confused science with its close relative applied science. The latter, also known as engineering, which generally defines its mandate with the term "good enough" wherea... | |
| The Science of Cables @ geoffkaitMethinks more like a retreat way way way back to the safety of the trees, errrr, telegraph wires...when life was simple and all you had to consider was which berry, errrr, L and C and R....and you could still buy something with a buck..... | |
| The Science of Cables @ nonoiseThat was very nice but I was expecting a earth shattering kaboom or something like this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E | |
| The Science of Cables @ieales @prof +1 - keep on firing.Yup, yup, great spot on advice there eh....like don’t give up, just keeping blasting away, and who knows, eventually you might actually hit something. I mean, with infinite monkeys, and infinite typewriters, even... |