Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] to prevent mental damages, avoid dB's.

[Berndt Josef Wulf]

I guess this is the difference big between RF engineers and academics - 
applied versus theory. Spreadsheets can help in doing conversion/calculations 
but doesn't stop people from using these values out of context as for this 
you need to know what you're doing.

BTW: I do these calculations in my head - pretty much primary school stuff 
really.

cheerio Berndt

On Friday 29 September 2006 11:33, Brian Padalino wrote:
> You could open Google Spreadsheets in the web browser you've probably
> already got open.  Not only that, but you can share it with your
> buddies for collaborative editing so everyone can use it!
>
> Or you could just write a bc script to to handle it.  That uses much
> less memory, I am sure.
>
> Or we could ask Google to build it into their calculator function so
> you can just type "200 dB in mW" and it would do the conversion for
> you!
>
> I wasn't trying to be a jerk, but I have noticed that spreadsheets are
> much better at converting data to a visual format as well as extending
> a dataset you might be building and doing some visual interpretations.
>  There's always more than one way to skin a cat, as GNURadio is all
> about.
>
> On 9/28/06, Daniel O'Connor <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Friday 29 September 2006 10:13, Brian Padalino wrote:
> > > A spreadsheet could work just the same without all the Tcl/Tk
> > > silliness or input verification problems.
> >
> > Yeah, a spreadsheet, so lightweight compared to a memory hungry Tcl/Tk
> > application.
> >
> > 12623 radar         1 103    0 11972K  6068K select   0:00  3.97% wish8.4
> > 12643 darius        6  20    0   120M 72048K kserel   0:07  0.00%
> > soffice.bin
> >
> > *cough*
> >
> > Not sure what you mean about input verification.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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> > are so many of them to choose from."
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