Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Getting back to Franklin, he pioneered many aspects of electricity. In one of his less successful experiments, he almost killed himself with electricity from a battery, in 1750. It sounds like a cold fusion experiment gone bad. He was trying to electrocute a turkey. He wrote: "I have lately made

Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-31 Thread Alan Fletcher
On Wed, 31 May 2017 18:04:23 -0400 Jed Rothwell wrote: > Data General and the early microcomputers had toggle switches and LED > readouts of processor states. I never saw anyone use these controls, or read > them for any purpose. My boss, Milt Meinck, back in the early seventies did! When de

Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
bobcook39...@hotmail.com wrote: > I hope you are right about no muon radiation, but I would check LENR > devices for muon releases and not rely on your authority. > It is not my authority; it is the authority of experiments. Obviously, people have checked for all kinds of radiation. They have n

Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: There is a tried and true method that is used to avoid failure modes. When > you build your LSI-11 computer systems, you used structured software > development and unit level debugging. But you stated out a long time ago > using machine code and fingerboned that machine code into

RE: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-31 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
Jed— I hope you are right about no muon radiation, but I would check LENR devices for muon releases and not rely on your authority. A good basis for engineers is to assume the devil is in the details; and LENR has many details, most os which are not well understood, is understood at all. Bob C

Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-31 Thread Axil Axil
There is a tried and true method that is used to avoid failure modes. When you build your LSI-11 computer systems, you used structured software development and unit level debugging. But you stated out a long time ago using machine code and fingerboned that machine code into the computer using toggl

Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: > A good engineer will imagine a billion ways in which an invention will > fail so that invention is built to avoid all those failure modes. > It is not possible to avoid a billion failure modes, or even 100. A product designed to avoid too many modes will not work. It will have

[Vo]:Fwd: Homo Deus

2017-05-31 Thread Frank Znidarsic
If you have a baby save the umbilical cord.

[Vo]:Homo Deus

2017-05-31 Thread Frank Znidarsic
In his book Yuval Harari claims that humans will re-engineer themselves within 100 years. All body parts will be regrown and repaired. Life expectancy will increase dramatically. I thought, yea sure, that is easier said than done. I went to party on Memorial day and met an old friend. She