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Originally Posted by drmiller100
Your friend learned a lot of things from you.
Some of us are so passionate about the desire to learn about the physical world our emotional and communciation sets truly and miserably suck.
In other words, I can be a jerk. And I love to learn, and the best way I know to learn is to discuss, and "argue".
When I am trying to understand, define, and solve a problem, there are many confusing side channels and sideroads I head into.
Once I truly "Grok" something, or Understand it, I SHOULD be able to explain it down to basic principals fairly easily.
Right now, I don't think ANYONE has a good way to actually calculate the losses due to throttling.
Once you can calculate it, then you should be able to explain it.
If we can explain it, but can't back it with math, and we cannot verify with real world examples, then we are talking out our asses.
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drmiller, my comment about acting like a jerk, was not directed at you personally or directly at anyone else individually. The point I was trying to make is I see many rational discussions degrade into shooting matches where one member jumps all over another members post and tries to tear it to pieces to prove some point of superiority. Instead of this tactic I personally would much prefer to have my mistake corrected with a rational counterpoint and some information to support that counterpoint.
It follows the general rules of any organized debate to do so, and it keeps those who may not be blessed with the same level of specific knowledge, interested and possibly educated to a greater level than they were when they came to this or any other thread.
Anyone here had a teacher or professor who went out of their way to help with understanding certain facts, and in doing so changed their student from one who learned with difficulty into a voracious gatherer of knowledge.
God bless those teachers, who faced students, every day, that were of lesser education, and inspired them to a much higher level of understanding.
I doubt if intimidation had any part of that interaction.
regards
Mech