Smooth out the process, eliminate unnecessary steps, reduce errors and automate repeat work by using a single software solution throughout electrode design and manufacture.Creating and using EDM (electro discharge manufacturing) electrodes is conside...
Machining with minimum quantity lubricant can save money and improve both tool life and part finish. But it can also involve changes to the equipment and how it's used. We have all been conditioned to keep cars cool by filling the radiator with coola...
Capacitive sensors are usually in the range of 50 fF to 20 pF, making it difficult to detect small changes accurately and requiring a suitable analog interfaceBy Wayne Palmer, Analog Devices, Inc. As with traditional mechanical switches, a user's int...
By Grant Smith, National Semiconductor Corporation Small microprocessor voltage monitors have been around for a long time, but they haven't always had the same features and parameters that they do now. This tends to make these devices even more versa...
ByFrankKolankoPeople have been predicting the demise of low-drop-out linear regulators in cars for many years. Yet low-drop-out (LDO) regulators continue to survive and even thrive because they're cheap and easy to use. In this article I'll highlight...
STATES OF WARThe greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure; and the greatness of finances and revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear by musters; and the number and greatness of cities and towns b...
The Italian Revolution(September 1943)Source: Fourth International, New York, September 1943, Vol.4 No.9, pp.263-73.Transcribed: Daniel Gaido.HTML Markup: David Walters.Public Domain: Marxists’ Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2005. You can freely c...
French Communist Party 1927Against the SplitAgainst the splitFor the Leninist Unity of the Party and the InternationalStalin began the split.As Lenin predicted in his testament, Stalin is leading the Russian party to a split.Up until now the split m...
As these lines are written in San Francisco, the Blue Angels fighter planes are roaring and booming only a few feet overhead, with many in the crowd on the ground cringing, then laughing nervously, and finally nodding casually at ‘just entertainmen...
Rough Music is a series of reflections on ‘a watershed in British political culture’, provoked by the war in Iraq and then, even more acutely, by the bomb attacks on London of July 7th 2005. Though written quickly under the impetus of events, I th...
The often disappointing results of decolonization have bred a revisionism that forgets why colonialism was discredited in the first place. The British historian Niall Ferguson became an outstanding popularizer of this current with the publication of...
As fears are voiced within the US establishment of impending debacle in Iraq, a survey of the embattled landscape from Baghdad, Ramallah and Tehran to Beirut and Damascus. American control is slipping, Ali argues—but it is too soon to count on impe...
ZNet, March 28, 2006 I've received many requests to comment on the article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (henceforth M-W), published in the London Review of Books, which has been circulating extensively on the internet and has elicited a stor...
The prospect that Europe and Asia might move toward greater independence has troubled US planners since World War II. The concerns have only risen as the ‘tripolar order’ — Europe, North America and Asia — has continued to evolve. Every day, Lat...
Debating Israel–PalestineIn discussing ‘solutions’ for Israel/Palestine, it may be salutary to recall the famous assertion of the Communist Manifesto—that its theoretical conclusions ‘are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been in...
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