On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:24:42 -0500, Tim Wescott
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On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:29:03 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote:

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:16:23 -0400, Joe Gwinn
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In article , Ed Huntress
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On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:20:56 -0700, wrote:

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:56:21 -0400, Ed Huntress
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SAE's online operations produce some good videos of mechanical
operation of car parts. Here's a video on contemporary manual
transmissions (conventional) that they link to at DriveLineNews.com.
If detents, synchronizers, blocking rings and clutch cones are a
little vague in your mind and you want to see them in action, take a
look at this.

http://drivelinenews.com/videos/manual-transmissions/
Thanks for the link Ed. Even though I already knew how manual
transmissions work, and have rebuilt a few, I still like looking at
animations of them working. In fact, I like to watch just about any
type of mechanical system working. I still get fascinated watching my
CNC machines make a part even though I am the one who programs and
sets up the machines and can see in my mind's eye what the machine is
doing as I write the program.
Eric

I love those things, too. I'll bet that most of the people here, at
least the mechanical types, enjoy it as well.

I have some great videos that I'm planning to use as the cover
"photographs" for the online magazine I'm working on. You go to the
magazine home page, and the video starts right up.

People on dialup will not be happy with this. (No, I'm on cable.)

If they're on dialup, they probably won't be reading our issues. We're
"direct": we send out 71,000 copies by e-mail.

And we're on the Web with the same material. But it's a byte-heavy
online-reader format, and I think what's left of my hair would fall out
before I paged through an issue with dialup. g

I hate that online-reader crap, particularly when they combine slowness
with that stupid "I'm going to pretend I'm a paper magazine" page-turning
crap.

If you're going to do an online magazine, then for God's sake do it in
HTML, with decent crosslinking and a good search function on the home
page or even as a permanent feature of the header bar.

(grumpy mumbling fading off into the distance...)

FWIW, this is a magazine that has extraordinary click-in rates from
e-mail, and other very good numbers. They've been doing it for three
years and neither you nor I are going to change it. d8-)

In general, I agree with you. I've never liked those things,
preferring Acrobat for anything that requires precise page makeup. In
fact, the underlying format of FSMD is Acrobat.

But it's improved quite a lot, and I now find it very convenient. I
have fast cable Internet, 6 GB of RAM, a terabyte hard drive, and a
rip-roaring CPU. That's where the price of entry is at the moment;
anyone with a lot less just isn't in the game these days.

Face it: You, me, and the kind of people who are on this NG are *not*
on anybody's trendline. g We're the past. And to drive it home, an
ad-agency exec I've known for 30 years brought me up to date last week
on the industrial-advertiser use of Twitter. When I saw the link rates
and the traffic, I almost fell off my chair. Two of those companies
are machine-tool builders.

I never would have believed it. Things are moving a bit faster than I
realized, and I have some catching up to do.

The online magazines are shaping up the way print magazines were 30
years ago: The really good ones are going gangbusters, and the rest
are being left in the dust.

--
Ed Huntress