Over the years this has been my favorite electronics forum and it's been great to read about other people's fun projects and even try to offer some help.
I've never taken the forum too seriously and usually it has been a part of my relaxation time, reading some posts while watching TV or cooking/eating some food, or trying to avoid real work for half an hour haha.
Lately the forum seems (to me) to have changed a bit. Fun projects are few and far between, and new fun threads seem a bit thin too. I've still enjoyed offering help or attempts at humour in threads, but so much of the new content seems to be less friendly and less enthusiastic than it used to be. Content is heading closer toward rude requests for help (so people can get their homework done for them) and with the lack of fun new projects even a lot of old regular member activity seems to be focused a lot more on nitpicking and arguing tangential points than on helping some cool concept design through to a working completion.
I'm not sure what the reasons are, but personally I think that people (especially younger people) seem to be changing the nature of their written interactions. There's more of a disconnect from the reality of interacting with real people, and a method of communication that seems to treat forums as "just words on a screen" where people can demand someone to fix their problem or rudely disrespect each other if they don't immediately get what they want. Unfortunately in the future I see people getting even lazier and ruder, as a whole new "spoilt" generation are coming online and the jaded old guard has to deal with them.
Please don't think this is any one incident or anything recent, it's more a slow and gradual change that has eroded the satisfaction and enjoyment of something that was previously part of my daily relaxation.
So as the cliche goes; "It's not you, it's me".
Cheers.
hi RB
you want to have some fun and so do i. then why not chew on the following problem.
let us consider a vibrating string with two ends fixed and mode of vibration is two or more. accordingly you should notice one or more node in the middle of the string and alas i have never been successful noticing that. according to theory that node should be static in time and thus easily noticeable. i think i must have missed some fine points of theory.
NB: you will get some textbook even producing photographs of such nodes say for Vibrations and Waves by A P French. and of course spare me of hijacking your thread by posting a problem but i did it with the hope of having some fun.
-lipschutz
misterT:
What country would that be?
Ahh..I guess it might start with the letter I. Yes, that Country that has lot's of people...
TVTech,
I don't think Iran has been a problem, do you?
Ratch
you've summed my feelings up perfectly here. I've felt the same way for quite a while on here and while I've not "left" the forums, I've taken a step back and generally just observe with the odd post now and again.
Can we please drop the racist remarks....
However relating to which country has the highest active percentage that again in itself is not racist. It's just strong supporting evidence for said country/countries having highly questionable education and business practices which can be easily seen by whom they have working and to what end they apparently do not understand the technical aspects of own positions in their workplace.
If I had the power, I would block one country..
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