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From: John Larkin on 17 Apr 2010 15:56 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:18:53 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >On Apr 17, 1:27�am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> On Apr 16, 6:02�am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Apr 16, 8:41�am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> >> > > On Apr 14, 3:41�am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> >> > > > On Apr 14, 2:01�am, John Larkin >> > > > > Get a job, bozo. Design some electronics. >> >> > > > "Get a job" is easier said than done, particularly for a 67-year-old >> > > > in the Netherlands. I'm still applying for the occasional job, but the >> > > > statistical expectation that I'll ever get one around here has gotten >> > > > to be vanishingly small. >> >> > > Obama and Pelosi have told us their new healthscare[tm] mandatory >> > > insurance thing will put jobs here in overdrive, spur innovation. >> > > (They're trying to copy you guys, sort of.) (Or maybe Venezuela.) >> >> > > Since you already have that, it ought to be easy for you to start up a >> > > company, and probably a lot of fun. � Just chunk out your life >> > > savings, hire a few employees, and off you go. >> >> > James Arthur doesn't seem to have noticed Obama's "new" mandatory >> > insurance thing was iveted by Bismark in Germany over a century ago. >> > It might conceiveably spur innovation in the USA - though the 64% >> >> 85% >> >> > of >> > the US population who already have medical insurance would seem to be >> > a perfectly adequate market to drive whatever innovation is necessary >> >> Obama said otherwise. �But then, he says so many things. �Shrug. >> >> > - but it isn't going to make a blind bit of difference to my >> > environment, where the nearest I've got to a job in recent years was >> > when Philips Medical Systems was contemplating developing a phased >> > array of ultrasound transducers for cooking tumours in situ - an old >> > idea that is still waiting on a method for measuring the temperature >> > rise inside the tumour being cooked. >> >> > I asked about temperature monitoring during the interview, and didn't >> > get an answer ... >> >> You're right, it's not creating jobs here either:http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=530389 >> >> So, back to the question, why not start your own outfit, and do it >> right? �That's what makes the world a better place, people starting >> cool companies and hiring folks to work in them. > >My wife has been after me to do that for years. It does require >inventing a product that could be developed without investing more >capital than we've got, which could be sold to a significant number of >customers without requring me to set up some kind of distribution >network. > >Since most of the work I've done has been on complex and expensive >scientific instruments sold into the international market in small >qunatities, my inspirations haven't yet met these criteria. That is precisely the market where a precision design could be sold in modest quantities for big bucks, and where potential users are easy to find. Scientific instruments often have horrible electronics. If you can improve the s/n of a million dollar instrument by, say, 30 dB, it will attract attention. And orders. It takes very little capital to develop a small electronic gadget these days. Test equipment, exotic parts, uP development boards, multilayer pc boards... all are amazingly cheap and plentiful nowadays. A decent oscilloscope used to cost as much as a new car; no longer. This is a golden age in which one person can design important electronics. John
From: Michael A. Terrell on 17 Apr 2010 19:19 "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:40:49 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" > <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > >"krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: > >> > >> Fun? You must like dentists, too. ;-) > > > > > > Not me. I prefer an oral surgeon who knows what they are doing. > >Twice, I've had dentists who couldn't remove a damaged tooth and had to > >wait days to see an oral surgeon. :( > > You're lucky. My boss had a couple of dentists, here, try to save a tooth, > only to have to go to a surgeon to have it removed (and an implant inserted). > Each one charged like they saved the tooth. Lucky? They won't do the surgery if they don't see a severe infection & swelling. Some hurt for several years before they will cut it out. As far as trying to save teeth, I had seven root canals before finally getting someone to remove all my upper teeth. The wait allowed the infection to eat most of the bone ridge, so I can't wear an upper plate. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: krw on 17 Apr 2010 19:49 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:19:05 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >"krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: >> >> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:40:49 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" >> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> > >> >"krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: >> >> >> >> Fun? You must like dentists, too. ;-) >> > >> > >> > Not me. I prefer an oral surgeon who knows what they are doing. >> >Twice, I've had dentists who couldn't remove a damaged tooth and had to >> >wait days to see an oral surgeon. :( >> >> You're lucky. My boss had a couple of dentists, here, try to save a tooth, >> only to have to go to a surgeon to have it removed (and an implant inserted). >> Each one charged like they saved the tooth. > > > Lucky? They won't do the surgery if they don't see a severe >infection & swelling. Some hurt for several years before they will cut >it out. > > As far as trying to save teeth, I had seven root canals before >finally getting someone to remove all my upper teeth. The wait allowed >the infection to eat most of the bone ridge, so I can't wear an upper >plate. Sounds like malpractice, to me.
From: Bill Sloman on 17 Apr 2010 19:54 On Apr 17, 9:56 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:18:53 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > > > <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >On Apr 17, 1:27 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> On Apr 16, 6:02 am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> > On Apr 16, 8:41 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > >> > > On Apr 14, 3:41 am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> > > > On Apr 14, 2:01 am, John Larkin > >> > > > > Get a job, bozo. Design some electronics. > > >> > > > "Get a job" is easier said than done, particularly for a 67-year-old > >> > > > in the Netherlands. I'm still applying for the occasional job, but the > >> > > > statistical expectation that I'll ever get one around here has gotten > >> > > > to be vanishingly small. > > >> > > Obama and Pelosi have told us their new healthscare[tm] mandatory > >> > > insurance thing will put jobs here in overdrive, spur innovation. > >> > > (They're trying to copy you guys, sort of.) (Or maybe Venezuela.) > > >> > > Since you already have that, it ought to be easy for you to start up a > >> > > company, and probably a lot of fun. Just chunk out your life > >> > > savings, hire a few employees, and off you go. > > >> > James Arthur doesn't seem to have noticed Obama's "new" mandatory > >> > insurance thing was iveted by Bismark in Germany over a century ago. > >> > It might conceiveably spur innovation in the USA - though the 64% > > >> 85% > > >> > of > >> > the US population who already have medical insurance would seem to be > >> > a perfectly adequate market to drive whatever innovation is necessary > > >> Obama said otherwise. But then, he says so many things. Shrug. > > >> > - but it isn't going to make a blind bit of difference to my > >> > environment, where the nearest I've got to a job in recent years was > >> > when Philips Medical Systems was contemplating developing a phased > >> > array of ultrasound transducers for cooking tumours in situ - an old > >> > idea that is still waiting on a method for measuring the temperature > >> > rise inside the tumour being cooked. > > >> > I asked about temperature monitoring during the interview, and didn't > >> > get an answer ... > > >> You're right, it's not creating jobs here either:http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=530389 > > >> So, back to the question, why not start your own outfit, and do it > >> right? That's what makes the world a better place, people starting > >> cool companies and hiring folks to work in them. > > >My wife has been after me to do that for years. It does require > >inventing a product that could be developed without investing more > >capital than we've got, which could be sold to a significant number of > >customers without requring me to set up some kind of distribution > >network. > > >Since most of the work I've done has been on complex and expensive > >scientific instruments sold into the international market in small > >qunatities, my inspirations haven't yet met these criteria. > > That is precisely the market where a precision design could be sold in > modest quantities for big bucks, and where potential users are easy to > find. Scientific instruments often have horrible electronics. If you > can improve the s/n of a million dollar instrument by, say, 30 dB, it > will attract attention. And orders. Getting far enough into a million dollar instrument to detect where you can raise the s/n by 15dB does take some contact with the users. Regular firms use the marketing department to make this more or less impossible for the engineers who could do it. > It takes very little capital to develop a small electronic gadget > these days. Test equipment, exotic parts, uP development boards, > multilayer pc boards... all are amazingly cheap and plentiful > nowadays. A decent oscilloscope used to cost as much as a new car; no > longer. This is a golden age in which one person can design important > electronics. If you can get into contact with the people who need the gadget. When I first started posting on sci.electronics.design I hoped that it would provide a forum where this could happen. Pity about that. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Bill Sloman on 17 Apr 2010 19:55
On Apr 17, 2:47 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:18:53 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > > > <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >On Apr 17, 1:27 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> On Apr 16, 6:02 am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> > On Apr 16, 8:41 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > >> > > On Apr 14, 3:41 am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> > > > On Apr 14, 2:01 am, John Larkin > >> > > > > Get a job, bozo. Design some electronics. > > >> > > > "Get a job" is easier said than done, particularly for a 67-year-old > >> > > > in the Netherlands. I'm still applying for the occasional job, but the > >> > > > statistical expectation that I'll ever get one around here has gotten > >> > > > to be vanishingly small. > > >> > > Obama and Pelosi have told us their new healthscare[tm] mandatory > >> > > insurance thing will put jobs here in overdrive, spur innovation. > >> > > (They're trying to copy you guys, sort of.) (Or maybe Venezuela.) > > >> > > Since you already have that, it ought to be easy for you to start up a > >> > > company, and probably a lot of fun. Just chunk out your life > >> > > savings, hire a few employees, and off you go. > > >> > James Arthur doesn't seem to have noticed Obama's "new" mandatory > >> > insurance thing was iveted by Bismark in Germany over a century ago. > >> > It might conceiveably spur innovation in the USA - though the 64% > > >> 85% > > >> > of > >> > the US population who already have medical insurance would seem to be > >> > a perfectly adequate market to drive whatever innovation is necessary > > >> Obama said otherwise. But then, he says so many things. Shrug. > > >> > - but it isn't going to make a blind bit of difference to my > >> > environment, where the nearest I've got to a job in recent years was > >> > when Philips Medical Systems was contemplating developing a phased > >> > array of ultrasound transducers for cooking tumours in situ - an old > >> > idea that is still waiting on a method for measuring the temperature > >> > rise inside the tumour being cooked. > > >> > I asked about temperature monitoring during the interview, and didn't > >> > get an answer ... > > >> You're right, it's not creating jobs here either:http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=530389 > > >> So, back to the question, why not start your own outfit, and do it > >> right? That's what makes the world a better place, people starting > >> cool companies and hiring folks to work in them. > > >My wife has been after me to do that for years. It does require > >inventing a product that could be developed without investing more > >capital than we've got, which could be sold to a significant number of > >customers without requring me to set up some kind of distribution > >network. > > >Since most of the work I've done has been on complex and expensive > >scientific instruments sold into the international market in small > >qunatities, my inspirations haven't yet met these criteria. > > --- > Have you never heard of "Consulting"??? Sure. I've even done some, but nowhere near enough to live on. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen |