Re: History of decoupling capacitors

From: Jack Peacock (peacock_at_simconv.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:02:05 -0700

<jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message
news:410b846a$0$2838$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
> That sure seems to be the case. Is this another side effect of
> people going online? I just had a waking nightmare...Do people
> know about alphabetical order these days? There's nothing
> in Google and it's ilk that requires the knowledge. There's
> nothing in the online library catalogue that requires that
> knowledge. About the only thing left is phone books.
>
Alphabetical order is an entirely arbitrary ordering, even if it is widely
used. It exists only as an aid to index when mechanical/electronic search
methods aern't available. Given the shift to icons instead of words perhaps
the loss of alpha ordering isn't all that much of a problem. Ever try an
alpha sort on chinese text? (Actually there are sort orders for chinese,
based on brush strokes for the characters, or in written japanese version of
chinese ideograms using the katakana alphabet, though that's not 100%
reliable).

How many people still use phone books? I see people call for a number every
day, even though there's a phone book next to the phone.
>
> I will vote for anybody who takes this terrorist threat seriously.
> Not a single Democrat does.
>
There's Joe Lieberman and Zel Miller, but they've been all but disowned by
their own party.

A commentator on the radio made an interesting point the other day. From
about the 1840s till 2000 there was a lot of blurring between the two major
parties, conservative democrats, liberal republicans, but the parties now
are as polarized as in 1800 when the two party system started with Jefferson
(democrat) vs. Adams (federalist now republican). History does seem to be
repeating, the election in 1800 was a tie, as in 2000. Now if Cheney were
to be involved in a duel with Clinton's Sec'y of the Treasury we'd come full
circle.

There was a terrorist threat back in 1800 too, the Barbary pirates.
Jefferson finally was forced to act, sending in the Marines at Tripoli.
  Jack Pea***

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