Joe, a retired Canadian rancher, has a hobby that keeps him busy down in the basement. See The Story Behind Joe, the Man who Excavated his Basement Using Only R/C Scale Models Joe: “First, I would like to make a correction as I have not been digging the basement for 15 years as reported but [...]
Chris Dawson says he prefers G+ to Facebook because of information quality. Facebook has become pure noise. The reason it is pure noise is that I was an inexperienced social media user when I first started using it. I added whoever to my friend list. Now I get random political messages from both sides, people [...]
Mark Roberts describes a conundrum some face when laid off work or retiring in Creation, Contentment, and Work. Human beings are not simply to sit on a beach and enjoy the beauty of creation. Nor are they simply to sit in a cathedral and enjoy the beauty of God. Rather, they are to be actively [...]
At Fast Company: The Talent Paradox: Despite High Unemployment, Two-Thirds Of Your Employees Are Ready To Bail People often describe certain individuals as “natural-born leaders,” but the truth is that business leaders are made, not born–shaped through the assignments they receive and the experiences they have. That formation can happen by accident or by design. [...]
If you want to get a good idea about the Unity Heads-Up-Display, Jo-Erlend Schinstad has a good description of why he thinks It’s A Great Idea. It is also interesting that the first comment completely ignores his initial point about the media representation of the innovation and instead reinforces it. Up until now, there’s been [...]
It appears that Shuttleworth has noticed a lot of the hate about Unity. He also seems to have a good understanding of why it exists and he has a plan. We’ll resurrect the (boring) old ways of displaying the menu in 12.04, in the app and in the panel. In the past few releases of [...]
Current is usually measured as a voltage drop across a known resistance. David L. Jones notes that this ‘burden voltage’ can be a significant disturbance in low voltage and low current circuits. His solution is the µCurrent. He provides a description and theory of operation as well as a circuit diagram for the device at [...]
Tagged build, circuits, measurementCognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings at PhysOrg has some interesting implications for legal and technical prose as well as for the nature of some arguments in the online forums and discussions. To understand why ambiguity makes a language more efficient rather than [...]
Ecoustics has information on optimal HDTV size and viewing distances. The formulas and tables are based on the work of Bernard J Lechner who was an EE and VP at RCA. For 1080p, the optimal viewing distance works out to be about 1.6 times the diagonal screen size. Since the HDTV is becoming rather common [...]
Dr. Dubik and Dr. Wood thought it necessary to make sure that ‘dead as a doornail’ was indeed an appropriate analogy. Since advanced life support technology has confused things somewhat and there are now laws concerning brain death, standards matter. So How Dead Is a Doornail? If the definition of death as expressed by the [...]