2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
3:20 p.m.
In message <1138918548.7731.33.camel at r003519>
Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
Actually, I saw an article (I have to find out where
it was) where I guy
used an old toaster oven as a basis for soldering all sorts of surface
mount components at once...ie just like the "real" assembly houses do
it.
www.seattlerobotics.org -> Encoder
The guy you're thinking about is (IIRC) Kenneth Maxon.
I have too many (horror) stories about how the schools
here fail...I
won't use the list bandwidth to go into them.
Try the UK ones if you want to see failure... Chemistry (in practical form at
least) is basically gone, too unsafe - replaced almost entirely by
simulations and theory. The few good science teachers that are left don't get
to teach properly, for fear of some parent suing them because little Jimmy
burned his finger on a Bunsen burner.
Compensation culture is evil. "Everything is someone else's fault". Parents
these days are far too overprotective... Kids don't get to play out for fear
of paedophiles and murderers roaming the streets (two words for you:
"highly unlikely" - two more: "media exaggeraton"). So they sit
inside
playing on their Playstations and Gameboys and eating microwave meals. Why
the hell does nobody cook anything from scratch anymore?
The more I observe the world, the more I realise it's gone to the dogs.
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