If NASA scientists are right, the Thames will be freezing over again.

Now you're trying too hard. That would be the pot calling the kettle black, at the very least.

I keep running into people complaining about the cold weather. In Central Florida. :(

Only those who fail to adapt

Those damn 'uncivil engineers' are at it again? ;-)

I also know some mechanical engineers who are remarkably lifelike, at times.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

The the poor, the old and the homeless (some overlap there), according to the news.

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You'd lose. Few people need the level of flattery you seem to require in social interactions.

I don't tell you that you are stupid, but that you are ignorant. The intelligent response on your part would be to get educated, rather than irritated, so your responses are are what tell us that you aren't as bright as you seem to think you are.

As far as helpful and informative responses go try out my response in "3D printing using electron beam melting" today. The crack about a mouse/elephant comparison was intended to be funny - and it certainly dramatises the difference between an electron beam welder with millamps of beam current at the target and an electron beam microfabricator with a few microamps at the source.

Of course it was childish and idiotic, as was your "repulsive people" crack. It at least had the virtue of being idiotic enough that it obviously couldn't be serious.

Thinking about it is mostly a waste of time. You don't often get opportunities to make life-changing decisions, and mostly there isn't any real choice. Am I going to act like a selfish swine? Or a responsible grown-up? doesn't need a lot of reflection (I opt for responsible grown-up every bloody time - childhood training sticks).

Badly. Why do you think I'm unhappy about not getting work? It isn't as if I need the money.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

lack, at the very least.

Dream on.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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But only on payday! :)

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Still, some do absolutely nothing to prepare for cold weather when having an extra blanket, or even making sure the doors and windows are closed tight. An extra layer of clothes and being careful not to overheat or get wet can do wonders for your survival.

I have been though the US Army cold weather survival training, and spent a winter out in -40 for a good part of a year.

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Look in a mirror, John. Vanity is thy name. I often find it trying to distinguish between you and Bill. =20 But then your company makes real products for sale to anybody, Bill makes NOTHING and won't even do easy experiments.

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Hey Bomber, learn how to get your news client wanna-be (google groupers) to quote a little of the previous post so that normal news readers can figure out what you are replying to. Usenet is not a blog. A common mistake of web-weenies writing web clients for Usenet (notably including both Yahoo and Google).

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Then why are you advising me to stare at myself in mirrors?

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I certainly haven't made anything recently, but the experiment that I still haven't yet got around to doing isn't all that easy.

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I'll have to block the fundamental with tunable notch - probably the bridge differentiator circuit mined from "The Art of Electronics" - and the circuit is going to contain a phased lock loop (to track the oscillation frequency) and a lot of dividers to drive both the demodulators to track the fundamental and demodulator that sampes the various harmonics. It's all routine stuff, but there's going to be quite a lot of it.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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That's John Larkin's mantra - he's good at electronics, and he thinks that nobody else takes it a seriously as he does. The fact that he doesn't pay serious attention to anything outside of electronics (excepting perhaps his public image) doesn't actually justify his fond belief that he design and sells "insanely good" electronics, but you can see why he likes to think so.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen