Glom: These might help:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/diode.htm

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/microprocessor.htm

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8) Great link. Thanks.

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Again, no problem. How Stuff Works is possibly one of the best sites on the web for this kind of stuff!

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:roll: Putz...just...ugh.......putz

Please tell me my tax dollars didn't educate this guy.

BTW your electronics explanations were great! Were were you when I went to DeVry? Now if you can 'splain Karnaugh Maps to me with the same simplicity I'll name my first born after ya!

Nope, he's Canadian.

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They didn't. My tax dollars did.

*Sigh*

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Yeah, rub it in Canuck's face! [-X

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You just wait until there's a guy like this from England here, and then BAM! It'll be your turn to be ridiculed! :P :wink:

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It's called the BBC!

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Zing!

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We've had many many nutjobs from England over here. Anyone remember Santa? Is it even true that Nasascam guy is English?

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Santa was English?

You have my sympathy, friend.

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I missed Santa and all the classic nuts. Were they anything like the more recent jobs (Bradgut, mr arriba)?

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Take a look.

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If I were you I'd demand a refund!!

Also did anyone happen to notice that he couldn't even spell the word...well, I can't say it here but it begins with a B and is defined as being born to an un-wed mother.

Oh, I remember some of Santa

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He was the first nut I saw. Missed everyone before him.

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Yeah, he showed up right around the time that I did. I remember him now.

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I've seen the incarnations of Prince...he was pretty hardheaded. Was finally vanquished for good when I caught him using Princz or whatever his new handle was. The BA took care of him shortly after.

Now if you can 'splain Karnaugh Maps to me with the same simplicity I'll name my first born after ya!

Yikes, that's reaching back into the old college fog.

A Karnaugh map is a tool for deriving the Boolean expression that embodies the desired set of outputs given the set of possible inputs. The inputs are arranged on the axes of a grid, and the desired output is the grid cell's entry.

The thing that bakes most people's noodle is the dimensionality. If you have two inputs and one output, you put each input on an axis. But what if you have four inputs? Drawing those hypercubical grids is a real pain in the butt, so that's why you double-up the inputs on the axes. If you have inputs A, B, C, and D you put AB on one axis (with entries 00, 01, 11, and 10) and CD on the other axis with the same entries.

The map is useful only if you're good at recognizing significant patterns in the ones and zeros. Some people are really good at that, and some people aren't. But that's why you mark the inputs in non-numerical order. It groups the 1x and 0x and x1 and x0 entries in adjacent rows or columns so you can draw circles around them and determine that the x can be factored out.

Often it comes down to whether you did well in algebra or geometry. You can reduce a Boolean expression by applying Boolean properties, and that tends to be what algebraists favor. You can reduce it using the Karnaugh map, and that's what geometrists favor. I'm a geometrist, so I prefer the maps. But I haven't worked a Karnaugh map in years. I'm just not in a position where I need to design logic circuits.

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I can't see anything when I stare at numbers - so boolean expressions in plain english help me infinitely...

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