Recent content by Stanley_Smith

:rolleyes: hey guys, I'm new in the field and I'm running into this basic problem that's giving a headache. I got a pneumatic slide that's supposed to go up and down. It's controlled by a double sol, 2 position (I'm pretty sure that's the type of valve on the machine now). The valve power is...

Hi, I'm scanning a code from each box to compare and see if the box scanned is a "good" box. The whole code is about 21 bytes and I only want to compare 9 bytes since those 9 bytes differentiate between the 2 types of box. I created (2) 9-byte strings in DB98, string1[9] starts at 0.0 and...

I'm using a 460VAC/230VAC single phase transformer. My customer insists wanting to have 440VAC/220VAC one instead. The ratio between the two transformers are the same. How different are the two? Are they essentially the same ? Thank you,

Thanks, Warren for the response. Can you please show me how to read in a file one token at a time...

Hi everyone, I need to write a C code program to count the # of fuctions used in a certain file (function counter) Can you guys give me some hints/suggestions/ideas ? Thanks, Stan

Do we have to always impress others? If we try to impress other people all the time; then obviously we are trying to reach their expectation and keep changing ourselves ?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050223/wl_afp/usbushgermanysecurity "The protesters brandished placards reading "Terrorist Nr 1" and "Bush Swim Home" while police helicopters circled overhead" Is this how the US president is considered/labeled by some Germans and...

being an engineer meaning dealing with technical and "boring" stuff, you will be dealing with circuit breaker, calculating current/voltage..., writing software to make a machine work in my case; think like this, your everyday is going to be with machine!... follow YOUR INTEREST...

Is Rumsfeld supposed to stay for the whole second term ?

I don't see the difference between a contactor and a relay. Can anybody tell me what the difference is, when to use a relay over a contactor ? What are some criterias that need to be taken into consideration when choosing a contactor ? Thanks, Thanks,

"Study finds most Bush supporters do not live in reality" So what is reality then ? I wonder...

Actually it's the other way around. Typically in nondemocratic countries, which either run by the same old leader or a party or a group of people for the last couple decades, always have to face some invisible enemies, most likely the US. The so call "enemy of peace", "hostile and unfriendly...

You cracked me up with what you just said ! You seem to be missing the point... It's all about choices, you can do whatever you want but keep this in mind, you will have to interact with other nations like you will have to deal with people around you; even animal in the jungle has to interact...

"who still believe the US is to spread "Democracy and Freedom".. they escape reality" Yeah, whoever thinks like that got to have very low IQ. Remember this, there is no ally that lasts forever, only interest comes first. However, would you want to be an ally eventhough for a period of time...

So do I... I hope you're not suggesting that Iraq before the invasion was a democratic society...