Richard Clark wrote in
:

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:43:09 -0600, Lostgallifreyan
wrote:

Hmm, on the subject of Chinese kings...
"A king was pleased with the help of a warrior, and asked what the
warrior would take as reward.

Actually, this is ascribed as the reward offered by an Indian Prince
to the inventor of chess (which was invented in India) which had
become the Prince's favorite game.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


Yeah, but that connects with a much greater mismatch.

As Paul Harvey would say "and now for the rest of the story"

The inventor asked for this reward as you described and when the
Prince discovered the cost, the Prince (using your analogy) mismatched
the inventor's head from his body.

No doubt something all inventors should consider as the price at some
level....

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


Funny, nice use of 'mismatched'. I don't think I'm much of an inventor, the
couple of things I came up with were small (zero-crossing switch, and analog
modulated laser diode driver, laser power meter gain stage and scale/offset
tweaker), built partly by trial and error, but they all worked reliably when
I'd otherwise have needed bigger, more elaborate and more expensive answers
made by other people. But likely have probably nothing to offer than can't be
had better elsewhere. What they did do for me, generally, was firmly
establish cost as an engineering unit. One day we might even measure it with
an SI unit. Ò^O