EXACTLY!

No one ever bothered to tell me that it wasn't going to be a band across that had a non-linear top to bottom gradient, but that instead it would be more like a dart board or bulls eye, which means you have to stare absolutely straight ahead, and turn your entire head to see anything not directly in front of you, and that you would have pretty much no peripheral vision whatsoever.

Even if computers didn't exist, my advice would still be

AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!

My other rant is about how the only thing available anymore are those ugly skinny frames where the lens height is no more than the width of 2 fingers, and for someone as nearsighted as I am, who needs something that gathers in lots of light, that would still be totally inadequate even if they weren't hideous looking.

But, hey, they save 37 cents worth of plastic and get to jack up the retail price by $20 or more because ironic hipsters or something.

In that particular instance, the electrician may have been trying to figure out how to give the guy what he wanted while remaining in compliance with however much of the NEC carries the weight of law in that particular jurisdiction and how he was going to get the local inspector to agree that he wasn't in violation.

Was he trying for all home runs and isolated grounds?

When burne referred to swapping sub-assemblies as not being 'repairing', and PRMan countered with the contention that "Replacing bad RAM on your motherboard absolutely IS fixing your computer.", I assumed we were talking swapping in a new SIMM or DIMM.

Trying to do electron-microscopy level microsurgery inside an individual integrated circuit package may well be nigh on impossible, but with the right tools, equipment, and materials, and some SMD soldering experience, one could replace an IC on a RAM stick, which would be repairing fixing, whereas just snapping a new RAM module into the socket would be replacing fixing.

Of course this pre-supposes that one could lay hands upon the correct replacement IC to repair the RAM module (after figuring out which of the several on there needs replacing), and it's not impossible that a little cannibalization might be required, but you might be able to turn two bad sticks into one good one.

Yes, pretty much, although to be honest it's been a number of years since I rewound a motor or undercut a commutator, and the car window motor referred to may not even have a commutator and brushes, but be some sort of PWM'ed stationary windings direct drive type, and the repair wouldn't be on a burnt out winding but on a fried switching transistor. I haven't disassembled any cars in a long time, either.

I'm pretty sure these are your words:
"I'm not sure why he moderated me down but it might relate to his lack of understanding of communism."
Perhaps you meant to write:
"I'm not sure why he foe'd me, but it might relate to his lack of understanding of communism."

I'm not sure exactly what y'all mean by "tagging" people--is it more sophisticated or useful than just remembering their user names?

And therein lies the difference between fixing by repairing and fixing by replacing.

You're ahead of those who aren't even aware of the concept of a wiring harness, but way behind the person who would have fixed by repairing by rewinding the motor.

...I hope they wind up having to pay her treble (clef) damages.

What, is Facebook down as well?

So you're saying that Twitter was designed by the same people that did the accelerator controls for Toyota?

No doubt we were intelligently designed to appear to have been the result of thousands and thousands of years of trial and error for some mysterious reason that is beyond the comprehension abilities of us mere mortals.

Or maybe we were intelligently designed with all that extra "code" so as to be able to evolve should it become necessary.

I have an unshakeable, almost religious faith in the ID proponents ability to come up with some sort of explanation of how evolution never happened because pocketwatches.

With your kind permission, there's a long-running thread at tivocommunity.com

http://www.tivocommunity.com/t...

  where this would be an apropos entry.

But the article is about Write-Only Memory. It can't be read, it can only be written to.

Not true. In addition to amplification, a phono pre-amp also has to apply the R.I.A.A. equalization curve which is the reverse of the one used on the feed to the cutter head when the master disc is recorded.

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If Nixon and LBJ run together in your mind then you're not from the US or you're too young to have been around for either.

Who's left from LBJ's administration besides Bill Moyers?