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When I see something cheap at radioshack I wonder what the catch is. Why does this 500 pack of resistors cost less than the direct from china places usually use per resistor...
 
If RadioShack of all places doesn't realize that...
If (post-Tandy) RadioShack had realized it, they wouldn't have gone and turned all their stores into nothing but dumping grounds for cell phone accessories and cheap flavor-of-the-month imported electronic crap.

--Patrick
 

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You know what gets me the more I learn about electronics? How much relies on randomly occurring noise. There are circuits that simply wouldn't start up in the first place (and should do nothing theoretically) if it weren't for randomness in the current or voltage.
 
You know what gets me the more I learn about electronics? How much relies on randomly occurring noise. There are circuits that simply wouldn't start up in the first place (and should do nothing theoretically) if it weren't for randomness in the current or voltage.
Nowhere is this more obvious than Minecraft. You can build a huuuuge thing, and it'll function perfectly, but if you save, quit, and then reload the world, there usually has to be something that'll kick off your system, otherwise it just sits there.

...but really all you've (re)discovered is the "how did Life begin?" question. Good luck figuring it out, btw.

--Patrick
 

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The thing about being really cynical is that I am the ultimate equal opportunist. I just don't care. Genderless, asexual, homosexual, genderqueer, whatever? I equally don't care!
 
I got booted out of a IRC chat room for not knowing what Friends was. Guess taking additional classes at night for fun instead of watching tv isn't cool to the kids these days.
 
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