Re: OT. How the Dutch view our Election

On 3 mei, 17:50, Don Bowey <dbo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx" <bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3 mei, 03:37, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I filter you because all you provide is rudeness... I've NEVER seen
ANY usable information pass from your hand.

Actually, you have, but your memory is failing. Why you needed to be
told that you had to buffer data that was only used after a delay I'll
never understand, but I did tell you and that enabled you to solve
your problem. It was about ten years ago.

Funny, you started posting around late 1998 (according to Google's
archives).  

Actually, my first post in the Google archive is from the 24th July
1996.

So, are we to believe this is your single most recent
advancement of technology online?

Bill, I'm still in school and I've done more!

You need to do more work on your search skills, and I doubt if you
have done more for Jim, which was what I was talking about.

Jim designs integrated circuits, and my interests are in scientific
measuring instruments, so it is a bit surprising that I've ever been
able to give him good advice. By the same token, he's not going to
appreciate most of the stuff I have done to advance technology.

At least the jerk is doing work he likes to do, and is financially rewarded
for it.

And I do envy that.

Hit Google Scholar and search on "A W Sloman" for my published stuff,
but bear in mind that most of the stuff I've done has been commercial,
rather than academic and hasn't been published.

You haven't done much recently (1997), and only one of the hits I found had
you as the sole contributor (two pages in a 900+ page document).  All the
others appear to be joint contributions with two or more others, done in the
mid-70s. Run out of fresh ideas?

My last publication was in 2004 - and it is just a follow-up on the
1997 paper. In general, my co-authors didn't contribute much to the
electronics.

You do need to search on "A W Sloman" including the quotes - which
gives me thirty hits and three pages. Leave out the quotes and you wll
also get Aaron Sloman's 959 hits (no relation, but an acquaintance)
amongst many others.

And you refuse to do any work with grant money?  Why is that?  It seems to
me that one might even work free to do what they love to do.

I'm fairly sure that I'm not in a position to apply for grant money in
my own right. I'd certainly be happy to help academics spend their
grant money, and I got in contact with the Nijmegen University science
workshop - where I worked part-time from 1993 to 1999 - a few moths
ago, after I'd turned 65 and could do work for them without risking
bureaucratic complications. It hasn't yet generated any work - paid or
unpaid.

Judging from what I picked up on Google, the theme that you are
over-inflated is common.  Why not turn off your computer, and study and
think seriously about things in your field?  All your newsgroup time is a
huge waste.

I tried to enroll as an undergraduate in information technology at
Nijmegen University a few years ago - the course is under-subscribed
and it shouldn't have been a problem - but I had to pass the "Dutch as
a second language examinations" in order to keep the course fees
reasonable; I did fine on reading Dutch, listening to Dutch and
speaking Dutch, but my written Dutch scored 499 against a pass mark of
500. This wasn't surprising - none of my Dutch employers have ever
wanted me to write Dutch, since everybody in electronics has to be
able to read English, and anything that gets used outside the
Netherlands has to be translated into English anyway.

Studying in isolation doesn't work.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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