Curious if adding a bit of no-wash flux to the problem area would yield a better reflowed joint and give a longer term fix?

Pay no attention to the torture, er I mean Enhance Interrogation Technique, er I mean EITs, yeah EIT's sounds better. Look UFO's!

Never mind that we cruelly froze an innocent guy to death, UFO's!!!

We are overdue for some regulation to bring sanity back to flying. Our family actively avoids flying due to the high annoyance level that has been created.

I would really like to see:
1) Per leg pricing. Let me (or an automated service) build my trip out of the Lego pieces to achieve the trip I want, with the layovers I want, for the price I want.

2) Uniformity of pricing data. Require all carriers to present prices with all taxes and fees included, no exceptions. 1 checked bag per passenger must be included in the ticket price to get rid of the overhead bid disaster that the checked bag fees have created. None of this fuel surcharge BS either.

3) Prices to be locked in and can only be lowered. Everyone gets a partial refund if the final price is lower than they paid. No more of this gouging folks who have a last minute emergency. You can get bereavement fairs, but caregivers are SOL if you have to fly out for someone's final days.

4) 3 sigma seat sizing. Being born tall should not doom you to have to pay extra to be comfortable while flying. Airlines have proven they will race to the bottom on amenities like leg room. They should be regulated more tightly so that we can all comfortably travel.

5) Automatic penalties for delays. My time is money, any arrival delays beyond the advertised time of arrival should get an automatic 10% per half hour refund up to 100%.

I'm sure that about a dozen companies have rights to my first born based on all the EULA's I have clicked through. We need to end that crap.

Maxim and Analog both have decent little niches. I see Analog as having a steady future, no big ups or downs. They go after high end niches that few others do justice to. They also have a good retention of good talent and foster it. I don't see them being a whole lot bigger than they are today, but I doubt they will die.

Maxim is fairly toxic on the inside from all accounts, and it seems like it has been catching up with them. I expect they will be around, but a shell of their former selves in 10 years.

The better question for the semiconductor world is what comes after cell phones. The huge integration and exponential ramp up has really stirred the pot, but the market appears to be plateauing and consolidating.

Few big companies ever really completely go away. Either the name sticks around on top of another shell, or useful divisions are sold or spun off and live on.

Motorola is a good example. The name sticks around on top of a small group that bounces between owners and makes cell phones. ON Semiconductor is their old semiconductor division and appears to be stable and just motoring along. Much of the rest is long gone.

Can you say that Motorola died? Yes, and no. I expect that in 10 years IBM will be a similar story.

To really make the circle complete he needs to pipe it to a digital phosphor oscilliscope. The would be the height of irony.

Another thought would have been to output the X and Y scans on red and blue of a video card to have much higher bandwidth than the audio channels provided.

In short, where the hell is my Geekport?!

Vasectomies are "green".

So far the best population control seems to be hope and a good education. Families with decent incomes and good access to healthcare don't have a strong desire to have 6-10 kids, but rather have 1-3 kids in a more controlled fashion. Long term it will be a lot easier to have a sustainable world with fewer people.

Nope, missed it. Please explain.

A chunk of forest will hold a relatively constant amount of carbon. A new tree grows while old trees rot. Unless you plant different trees that have wider trunks, or add more square miles of forests, it is a net push. Even in the long term planting an extra square mile of new forest will only sequester up to a certain mount of carbon, while burning fossil fuels will steady add C02 to the atmosphere.

It is like fixing a leak in your roof with a bucket. A steady drip cannot be indefinitely dealt with using a bucket, it eventually overflows. You have to fix the source, not run around finding new places to squirrel it away.

Sadly it has become that way.

However, I wonder which way it really flows. Amongst my engineering colleagues I have never seen open anti-religious sentiments per se. However, I have had a few too many bad encounters with christians who jump down my throat as soon as they find out I'm an engineer, assuming I am anti-religous (I sort of am these days, but that is besides the point). Certain religions have become anti-science, more so than most sciences have become anti-religion.

He is director of the Hayden Planetarium, a job which clearly is all about explaining things to the masses.

He has also become a pop figure who does things like the Star Talk Radio podcast, which is all about answering science questions and explaining the universe to the masses in a fun fashion.

However you want to slice it, Mr. Tyson has made it his life's work to be one of many ambassadors of science who have made it their life's work to explain science and the universe to the masses and has done a pretty good job of it in my opinion.

So It is both his literal and figurative job to explain things to the masses.

Horrendous slap in the face to many who struggle to get anything useful. It would be nice to see the big players cut back on their FUD and actually provide the services their customers need at a fair price (novel concept).

We are lucky to have gotten 30/5 Mbps for $35 a month, the price shot up for the 50 and 100 Mbps tiers. However, having a big (or huge) pipe does almost no good when the backbone is puny compared to the need and we all sloooow down in the evening...

I agree. Figure skating, ski/snowboard tricks, etc have always irked my sensibilities. I prefer things with measurable times, goals, etc to the other fluff. Regardless of that, the coverage and inane commentary has been fairly off putting above and beyond the choice of the sports themselves.

Have you ever had a 2 year old?!

Actually I agree with you, and thus far our 2 year old has responded reasonably to rational discussion (kept at his level). Like most things in parenting, persistence is key. A 2 year old doesn't "get it" the first time, but being consistent with disrupting and correcting the errant behavior has always borne fruit after the 20th or 30th time (or we have become numb to it perhaps?).

We have a really mellow kid, so we have not had the need for spanking or time-outs as such. Often we are simply dealing with a tired or hungry-cranky kid and need to deal with that issue rather than the specific outburst as a behavior issue.

The basic bit of wisdom I got before I had kids was that all kids are different. It is dangerous to project your own experience onto other parents, not matter how clearly it appears you or they are doing it wrong.

It is more likely to break a toe from being dropped than actually pose any danger to a plane. Specifically this canon was found in luggage, not carry-on, making the threat non-existent. It is no more dangerous than any other hunk of metal.