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From: John Larkin on 15 Jul 2010 16:13 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:45:37 -0500, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:46:06 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:58:50 -0700, AM >><thisthatandtheother(a)beherenow.org> wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0700, John Larkin >>><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>> >>>>I avoided the military because I was afraid it would wreck my >>>>creativity, which in my experience it tends to do. >>> >>> "I avoided..." and "in my experience..." >>> >>> I think that qualifies as "mutually exclusive". >> >>Not so. I've interviewed and hired a number of ex-military techs, and >>I found them to be universally rigid, rule-bound, and inflexible. And >>I did spend a week as a guest of the Navy, in Charleston, in a program >>that was designed to make me want to be a naval officer; it had the >>opposite effect. Even at the age of 16, it was obvious that these guys >>had, by my standards, serious masculinity problems. > >--- >They were more like men than you wanted them to be? They tended to be rigid and rule-driven. And they tended to respect me too much as "the boss", sort of a superior officer thing I guess. That meant that if I told them to do something that that turned out to be wrong, they'd just keep doing it. That's not what I need. >--- > >>And I've designed lots of military electronics, > >--- >How can you reconcile that statement having previously posted: > >"I *was* in the Navy for a week, sort of, and that convinced me >that I'd be [better off avoiding the military,] in business or in real >life." ? (Brackets mine) >--- When I did the formal military electronics, I didn't own the company, so I chust vas following orderss like a good soldier. We have done some lately, like the AH130 heads-up display, but it was "COTS", which means they bought commercial-quality stuff without all the MIL nonsense. Turns out that the COTS stuff is, on average, more reliable than the formal MIL electronics. The system we replaced had a flight MTBF of 22 hours. Have you ever designed official MIL-spec electronics, using all approved JAN parts and rules and multiple design reviews/qual testing/acceptance testing/source inspection? > >>enough to know that I prefer to do less >>constrained stuff. > >--- >The reason military stuff is as constrained as it is is because >people's lives depend on it, and you, basically, like to play fast and >loose and get away with as much as you can. Precisely. They follow rules, I make or break rules. John
From: Paul Hovnanian P.E. on 15 Jul 2010 16:36 Jim Thompson wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:46:10 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." > <Paul(a)Hovnanian.com> wrote: > > [snip] >> >>Oooh. Its the old "where did the energy go" two cap puzzle. >> > [snip] > > Which is trivial to solve :-) I posted my solution on a.b.s.e. as Two Cap Puzzle. -- Paul Hovnanian paul(a)hovnanian.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Have gnu, will travel.
From: Jim Thompson on 15 Jul 2010 16:55 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:36:44 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <paul(a)hovnanian.com> wrote: >Jim Thompson wrote: > >> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:46:10 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." >> <Paul(a)Hovnanian.com> wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> >>>Oooh. Its the old "where did the energy go" two cap puzzle. >>> >> [snip] >> >> Which is trivial to solve :-) > >I posted my solution on a.b.s.e. as Two Cap Puzzle. Yep. Now where's your solution to Larkin's Folly #9 ?:-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | Since New Yorkers think it appropriate to boycott Arizona over stopping illegal immigration and drug trafficking, I suggest that everyone else support building the Muslim Monument at Ground Zero
From: Jim Thompson on 15 Jul 2010 16:56 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:45:37 -0500, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:46:06 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:58:50 -0700, AM >><thisthatandtheother(a)beherenow.org> wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0700, John Larkin >>><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>> >>>>I avoided the military because I was afraid it would wreck my >>>>creativity, which in my experience it tends to do. >>> >>> "I avoided..." and "in my experience..." >>> >>> I think that qualifies as "mutually exclusive". >> >>Not so. I've interviewed and hired a number of ex-military techs, and >>I found them to be universally rigid, rule-bound, and inflexible. And >>I did spend a week as a guest of the Navy, in Charleston, in a program >>that was designed to make me want to be a naval officer; it had the >>opposite effect. Even at the age of 16, it was obvious that these guys >>had, by my standards, serious masculinity problems. > >--- >They were more like men than you wanted them to be? >--- > >>And I've designed lots of military electronics, > >--- >How can you reconcile that statement having previously posted: > >"I *was* in the Navy for a week, sort of, and that convinced me >that I'd be [better off avoiding the military,] in business or in real >life." ? (Brackets mine) >--- > >>enough to know that I prefer to do less >>constrained stuff. > >--- >The reason military stuff is as constrained as it is is because >people's lives depend on it, and you, basically, like to play fast and >loose and get away with as much as you can. Bwahahahaha! ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | Since New Yorkers think it appropriate to boycott Arizona over stopping illegal immigration and drug trafficking, I suggest that everyone else support building the Muslim Monument at Ground Zero
From: John Larkin on 15 Jul 2010 18:50
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:03:43 -0500, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:33:34 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > > >>We once worked with a guy who was always chewing on parts. So somebody >>left a charged electrolytic cap on his desk. > >--- >"so"? > >As if it were an inescapable, preordained consequence? You'll never know what happened. > >And "Somebody"??? Not me. I hate practical jokes. John |