FURIOUS!

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you'd think the kitten would have gone after a CAT-6, or even better, CAT-7 cable

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Hey!  Not just a kitten - he bought a Kable Kitten!!

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36 minutes ago, vmartell22 said:

- the scientists on this board are pretty knowledgeable... 

 

 

even the engineers on this board are pretty knowledgeable... 

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There is some overlap, but engineers get to take easy, cookbook classes as undergrads. ... ?

 

The major difference is that engineers have undergrad. degrees, sometimes a MS.  Scientists are not created until a PhD.

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27 minutes ago, pkane2001 said:

 

This thread desperately needs some cute kitten photos.

 

 

 

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but the kitten's eyes are open

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you mean schiit

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 Thank you  Helen Reddy

 

 

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32 minutes ago, fas42 said:

rubber bands, sticking plaster, and assorted bits of rope holding it all together 

 

maybe it's time to upgrade your system

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6 hours ago, pkane2001 said:

.. are there diamonds in the $6K version? .

Diamond is a good electrical insulator, having a resistivity of 100 GΩ·m to 1 EΩ·m^[28] (10¹¹ to 10¹⁸ Ω·m). Most natural blue diamonds are an exception and are semiconductors due to substitutional boron impurities replacing carbon atoms. Natural blue or blue-gray diamonds, common for the Argyle diamond mine in Australia, are rich in hydrogen; these diamonds are not semiconductors and it is unclear whether hydrogen is actually responsible for their blue-gray color.^[17] Natural blue diamonds containing boron and synthetic diamonds doped with boron are p-type semiconductors. N-type diamond films are reproducibly synthesized by phosphorus doping during chemical vapor deposition.^[29] Diode p-n junctions and UV light emitting diodes (LEDs, at 235 nm) have been produced by sequential deposition of p-type (boron-doped) and n-type (phosphorus-doped) layers.^[30]

Diamond transistors have been produced (for research purposes).^[31] FETs with SiN dielectric layers, and SC-FETs have been made.^[32]

In April 2004, the journal Nature reported that below the superconducting transition temperature 4 K, boron-doped diamond synthesized at high temperature and high pressure is a bulk superconductor.^[33] Superconductivity was later observed in heavily boron-doped films grown by various chemical vapor deposition techniques, and the highest reported transition temperature (by 2009) is 11.4 K.^[34][35] (See also Covalent superconductor#Diamond)

Uncommon magnetic properties (spin glass state) were observed in diamond nanocrystals intercalated with potassium.^[36] Unlike paramagnetic host material, magnetic susceptibility measurements of intercalated nanodiamond revealed distinct ferromagnetic behavior at 5 K. This is essentially different from results of potassium intercalation in graphite or C60 fullerene, and shows that sp3 bonding promotes magnetic ordering in carbon. The measurements presented first experimental evidence of intercalation-induced spin-glass state in a nanocrystalline diamond system.

 

- wiki

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what system a cable is installed in has no effect on the cable's properties

 

 

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but it was a great rumor while it lasted

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http://www.rane.com/note110.html

 

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I've also decided that certain procedures are completely unnecessary 

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Just now, fas42 said:

 

What matters is how one determines what is necessary, or unnecessary -  ... 

 

I start with physics.

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claims that are obviously impossible tell me not to worry about that product or "tuning"