"Factoids," "Kirt's Cogitations," and
"Tech Topics Smorgasbord"
are all manifestations of my rantings on various subjects relevant (usually) to
the overall RF Cafe theme. All may be accessed on these pages:
Average Base Salary per Design Work Type Electronic Design Research
Type
Pay
IC, Semicon
$100.2k
MEMS
$93.6k
Military
$92.0k
Computer Hrdw
$91.7k
Medical
$89.7k
Comm Systems
$89.7k
R&D
$87.6k
Software
$86.3k
Avionics, Marine
$83.1k
T&M
$82.3k
Consumer
$80.8k
Components
$78.3k
Industrial Cntrls
$77.0k
Automotive
$76.8k
Power
$76.8k
Security
$73.1k
Asia's Economies Rated Potential
Ability to Enhance Businesse (Max score = 10)
EE Times Research
Country
Score
China
6.74
Japan
6.28
Korea
6.20
Taiwan
6.14
Other
5.89
Hong Kong
5.67
India
5.54
Asian
5.33
Natural Amenities by County: 1970-1996
The USDA published a map that displays how desirable an area is to live based on topographic variation, vegetation,
access to water, etc. Green is best, red is worst.
L=(Ψ†|i∂τ-H|Ψ)+g(Ψ†|Ψ2)
You undoubtedly recognized the above equation as describing only 10 of the 11 dimensions of String Theory, as developed by Michio Kaku, et al.
If you have the full equation for all 11 dimensions, please e-mail it to Michio so he can get some sleep.
U.S. National Archive Digital Storage Requirements
Silicon Valley's Slice of the U.S. Venture Capitalist Pie
EE Times Research
2005
25.8%
2004
27.6%
2003
24.7%
2002
24.5%
2001
23.5%
2000
21.2%
1999
21.0%
1998
20.0%
1997
23.4%
1996
25.9%
Data File Storage Requirements
Information
Size
All words ever spoken by humans
5 EB Exabyte (1018)
All material ever printed
200 PB Petabyte (1015)
All material gathered by 9/11 Commission
1.2 TB Terabyte (1012)
Pickup truck filled with books
1 GB Gigabyte (109)
Data contained on a 3.5" floppy
1.4 MB Megabyte (106)
Low-resolution JPEG file
100 kB Kilobyte (103)
Engineering Top Pay EETimes Research
Position
Nat'l Mean
Top Pay States
Amount
Eng Manager
$104,210
Vermont
$127,120
California
$123,160
New York
$116,120
Computer Eng
$85,540
Colorado
$99,350
California
$93,520
Massachusetts
$87,910
Software Eng
$83,460
New Hamp.
$93,670
California
$92,600
New Jersey
$92,230
Electronic Eng
$78,620
Wash. D.C.
$93,780
New Jersey
$88,610
California
$87,910
Electrical Eng
$75,540
California
$87,460
Texas
$84,250
Wash. D.C.
$81,940
Ph.Ds Awarded in Science & Engineering IEEE Research
Year
U.S.
E.U.
Asia
1975
12.2k
6.9k
4.0k
1980
11.2k
7.7k
5.8k
1985
12.6k
8.7k
7.7k
1990
16.2k
19.1k
9.9k
1995
19.2k
20.1k
14.2k
2000
18.0k
23.9k
18.0k
Weight of a 150-Pound Man in Other Gravitational Fields Discover Magazine Data
Object
Weight (lbs)
Sun (Earth's)
4,100
Jupiter
380
Moon (Earth's)
25
Eros (asteroid)
0.1
Carbon Atom
10-35
Dust Speck
10-27
Voyager 1
10-7
White Dwarf Star
4x107
Milky Way's Black Hole
7x107
Neutron Star
2x1013
The device a jeweler uses to test for diamond authenticity works by measuring the heat transfer capacity of the stone. A diamond's
thermal conductivity is much greater than that of any of the fakes...until recently when
moissanite was developed. That synthetic diamond substitute
has a coefficient very close to a diamond's, rendering the test unreliable. Even experts are challenged by the moissanite fakes. A reflectivity
test had to be developed to guarantee detection.
RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling
2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed
formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit
design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at
the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps
while typing up your telephone line, and a nice lady's voice announced "You've Got
Mail" when a new message arrived...
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