What's this newsgroup for?

This news group is primarily for politics and religion followed very closely by food and cooking. Occasionally someone throws in some electronics related stuff, but that should always prepended (that word's very geeky) with an "OT:" in the subject line.

Absolutely. The ego-maniacs who constitute the core of this group never miss a chance to demonstrate how clever they are. By the natureof things, we are cleverer about exisitng circuits - where we've had a chance to make all the regular mistakes - than we are about new circuits (not that we see all that many circuits which we are prepared to recognise as new).

We also discuss a large number of other subjects amongst ourselves - the general rule is that if the thread isn't about electronics, it isn't worth following.

As designers are relevant to the design of electronic circuits (well, depending on the designers and who you ask around here) one might say anything they think of might be relevant.

If you were capable of following that, you might be ok around here

Cheers

PeteS

It's unmoderated: nobody makes rules.

What are you designing lately?

John

Sno-o-o-o-ort ;-)

...Jim Thompson

The sole purpose of a usenet newsgroup is to gang bang the cripples.

You want to read Mark Zenier's Guide to sci.electronics.* at ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/seguide9706.txt

which I now see is the same text that you were pointing to.

Too often people are confusing this with sci.electronics.basics That's where you should be asking beginner type questions, not just because they don't belong here, but because you are more likely to get an answer on par with the level of the question.

The guide is descriptive, it says "The design group is for persons combining components into circuits" which would tend to rule out existing equipment.

This is not supposed to be a tutorial newsgroup, so a curiosity about an existing design likely doesn't fit. It might apply to the equipment newsgroup, though I've never looked in there, because asking about the design might be relevant to what you purchase.

But if it's some circuit you don't understand, be it in an existing piece of equipment or a schematic you saw somewhere, it likely belongs in sci.electronics.basics Because you are seeking understanding in itself, and that's what that newsgroup is for.

Michael

Nah, it's a competiton of egos between the country that designed the Spruce Goose Vs the continent who are building several A380s'

martin

I fail to see the difference ;)

Cheers

PeteS

Give the republicans a break........

martin

... and the Goose during 5 years only managed to consume about 1/50th the money Airbus lost just last quarter. :)

Oh, are the A380s finally rolling out, then? No more delays? ;-)

By the way, the country that designed the Spruce Goose also designed the SR-71 Blackbird and the Boeing 747. ;-)

Michael

Well, the Goose designers didn't have RoHS to contend with back then... ;-)

Loved the 747s' 1G roll on its' press demo, the A380 press day was boring, and you can't land another plane for several minutes cos of the turbulance, great.....

martin

It apparently turned out tht the Goose was strictly a ground effect machine and could not get furthre off the ground.

Neato:

Can't wait till it makes it to all airlines.

Since it's more massive than the 747, would its mass tend to dampen out the unpleasant effects of air turbulence? I fly on Boeing 737s regularly from Sacramento to Southern California for work, and man, the Santa Ana winds just blow that thing all over the place. Rocking like a boat. Can't remember turbulence being as bad on a 747. Even takeoffs are smoother on a 747 (more gradual slope).

Michael

Maybe a few more engines would'a done it...

wasn't that a 707 ?

-Lasse

This presupposes (also a very geeky word) that each participant has really strong political convictions and is always at the ready to duke it out ;-)