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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:17:11 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: yes! Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:17:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4mt7cjdnqt4i601lvdsrtivbg4iucgfuj4@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 79 X-Trace: sv3-5m9Fc4ommsUMKjG9T+V0/DHpsHWJEipC5XcP5ZCh+sTBfNMnwX+zlN7h/0Nk+0mxR3EytvYF9+4PMDN!SIVzgYPwedoSDi8AWyyakl5Q0fgRyyXkkiLkuhYHTVSgUneqePXnW08qsmysqhCFOI2/Qfq42UV0!aX/J4g8= X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4427 On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:56:18 -0400, Joe Gwinn wrote: >On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:57:48 -0700, john larkin > wrote: > >>On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:31:53 -0400, "Edward Rawde" >> wrote: >> >>>"john larkin" wrote in message news:4mt7cjdnqt4i601lvdsrtivbg4iucgfuj4@4ax.com... >>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:48:36 -0400, "Edward Rawde" >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>"john larkin" wrote in message news:r7m6cjtpei82u2kg6a7g40r07okju99v5n@4ax.com... >>>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:21:55 +1000, Bill Sloman >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On 19/08/2024 3:26 am, john larkin wrote: >>>>>>>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:33:38 +1000, Bill Sloman >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 18/08/2024 2:31 am, john larkin wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:14:51 -0400, "Edward Rawde" >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> "john larkin" wrote in message news:dta1cj1f3pudq93ard2o2ve4dadero917e@4ax.com... >>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 06:26:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On a sunny day (Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:07:52 -0700) it happened john larkin >>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote in <06jvbjp36khao0m5ot65a1o1krricoasre@4ax.com>: >>>>> >>>>>... >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I only got a couple of pages in AoE3, >>>>> >>>>>Which pages? >>>> >>>> Around 360. >>>> >>> >>>Ok since posting the question I discovered that you're mentioned on pages xxx, 294, 360, 524 >>> >>>Bill Sloman should probably not read page 360. >>> >> >>His whining centers on my inability to explain how I design >>electronics, or where ideas come from. >> >>Sorry, I don't know. It just happens. If invention happened from >>definable algorithms, everything would be invented all at once. > >Well, I do much the same - I wake up with a new idea. And cannot say >how it happened - I slept through it. Some people, like us, invent in our sleep. Some famous people invented while walking. I used to think that overnight ideas were delivered in my morning shower, and they are, but now I believe that ideas happen in a nice hot shower too, any time of day. > >To patent something, it is _not_ required that one know how it works, >or even that one's theory be correct. Many are not. Only the ability >to make it work on request is required. Right. Ultimately, we really don't know how anything works. > >Fifty years ago, Jacques Hadamard queried his colleagues (like >Einstein, etc) on where their insights came from - they woke up with >the idea, or it just came to them after intense thinking. > >. > >Joe Gwinn