Engineering Lifestyle
Time to start work on 400 Gigabit Ethernet
John D'Ambrosia
4/11/2013 12:01 AM EDT
John shares some thoughts about the rapid growth of the Web and social networking as he gears up for the first working meeting on 400G Ethernet.
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Neo1
Are they out of really useful work at IEEE? 400G, you bet!
Are you my third cousin twice removed?
Clive Maxfield
3/18/2013 9:20 AM EDT
Have you ever heard the terms "second cousin" and "third cousin" and wondered what they meant?
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Max the Magnificent
Cool Beans -- thanks for sharing
London Calling: Do advisory boards work?
Peter Clarke
3/6/2013 11:31 AM EST
Do advisory boards [do any] work or are they just there to add a bit of marketing gloss to a startup that might otherwise find it harder to gain share of mind?
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peter.clarke
@TheMicroMan Yes. The purpose is that in answering readers -- from their own experience -- may ...
What that first engineering job teaches
Bill Schweber
3/5/2013 1:41 PM EST
Projects vs. products: here are some lessons you learn on your first real engineering job.
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mac_droz
No offense but talking about pretty girls and dirty jokes were a big part of office life in every ...
Can engineers effectively design at home?
Rick Merritt
2/27/2013 12:50 PM EST
Yahoo's new policy against working at home wouldn't work for me. What do engineers think?
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tmh86
Work at home is best left to each individual to decide or manage for themselves. Dictates from ...
Mock Electronics: An Eclectic Emporium of Electronic Elements
Clive Maxfield
2/18/2013 12:08 PM EST
After complaining for years that there's nowhere to purchase electronic components locally, I've just been introduced to the most amazing electronics shop...
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Max the Magnificent
Thanks Ken -- I only wish I'd had the time to look at these stores .. but I was 100% tied up at ...
Suzanne Deffree
2/15/2013 3:01 AM EST
Would you make a life-long commitment to someone in the same field, with the same sort of thinking, and the same general tendencies?
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LiketoBike
My wife has English and physics degrees. So, the real question is...i or j? :-)
Quotable Quotes (but don’t quote me)
Clive Maxfield
2/7/2013 5:08 PM EST
I must admit that I'm a sucker for a good quote. I like the philosophical ones and the thought-provoking ones and the funny ones and…
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Max the Magnificent
As soon as I was a few words into this I thought "Heinlein!"
Grandpa, tell me about old displays
Michael Dunn
2/6/2013 2:18 PM EST
Everything today is LED, LCD, LCD, LED, or LCD. Let's have a look at displays from a more interesting time.
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DarkMatter
Very cool. Building a Nixie clock has been on my project list for a while.
Jack Ganssle
2/6/2013 1:15 PM EST
A $60 tool makes measuring low levels of current consumption easy.
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