Re: OT: Why welfare doesn't work!


bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sep 11, 6:40 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sep 11, 3:20 am, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Poor baby, you're just full of excuses. No one will hire you because
you're incompetent. Face up to it, go over and sit in the corner and
suck your thumb ;-)

Jim-out-of-touch-reality-Thompson thinks I'm not being hired because
I'm incompetent. When he expresses an opinion outside of electronic
design he's wrong almost all the time, and he's failed to get it right
this time too.

This is another example of why people give you so much ***. You
can't just say you disagree with Jim, you have to be the biggest ***
on the newsgroup about it.

There's a lot of competition for the that particular honour. Jim's a
leading contender - nobody else admits to having reported one of us to
the FBI for "danagerously anti-American" attitudes.

I'm sure you America bashing posts had already been detected by more
than one government agency.

Even the dimmest of the US government agencies wouldn't be silly
enough to regard my kind of America-bashing as any kind of threat. You
and Jim can't afford to be a little less realistic.


Did you have your sense of humor surgically removed, or are you
really that stupid?



Don't sell yourself short. Phil is only a contender, when compared
to your level of being obnoxious.

You may think so. Your opinion isn't exactly definitive.


I haven't seen anyone out of the hindreds on the group sing your
praises. In fact I don't recall one kind word, due to your piss poor
attitude. How can you be right, and everyone be wrong?


So have we, and all your prospective employers who did a search on
your name. Then they saw the real you, and didn't hire you.

You do enjoy your little fantasies.


Are you saying the Euorpean empoyers aren't as smart as those in the
US? Several large companies have admitted to doing online resarch of
job applicants to screen out the losers, or potential liabilites.


And you use you pink and purple UFO to visit 'Nessie' every day. One
of Earl Schibe's best paint jobs, BTW.

You do enjoy your little fantasies. You don't find reality nearly as
satisfying.


Tell us, Bill. How do you know exactly wich ICs that Jim designed,
since most of his work is under NDA? That, or explain your fanatasy
that you design anything.


Yawn. I didn't envy the engineers. In fact, I despised some of them
for releasing half finished designs to the floor. That was why I was
transferred to the engineering department before their first DSP based
design was released to production. The design worked, but was a
nightmare to build and test. My job was to fix that, and I did it. I
pissed off some of the older engineers, but the manufacturing engineers
backed me up, and the production, and test departments were pleased with
the changes. Some of the engineers were top notch, and others reminded
me of you. They were the ones let go in the first layoffs.

I'm no fan of sloppy engineers either, and I've done my fair share of
cleaning up after them. Your ever-complaisant imagnation tells you
that I was one of them. Enjoy your little fantasy.


What you've shown here dosn't back up your claim. You bitch about
America, and chime in on every off topic thread, but you disappear
whenever there is any real design work. We should call you 'Wally', of
Dilbert fame.


I knew some of our other products better than the current engineers
did. I wrote so many request for engineering change orders on them that
I was banned from engineering. It lasted a whole two days before they
needed help on one of those products.

I'm sure that quite a few of your engineering change orders were on
the money when it came to identify that there was a problem. Very few
of the engineering change orders I had to process managed to propose a
change which would have solved the problem identified, but you might
have done better than average.


Not only did I find the solutions, it ended up being part of my job
to qualify new vendors, and to remove problem vendors from the company's
AVL. I also got the engineering samples of new designs from production
to test & approve for production, as well as the limited run items for
special orders.


Don't flatter yourself, Bill. Your idea of technical 'stuff' is a
sick joke. Computer controlled instrumentation is the norm, these days.

It was pretty common back then, but electron microscopes are tolerably
complicated beasts with some nasty habits - when the 30kV voltage at
the cathode happens to flash over to ground you get big currents
circulating through the ground connections. Making sure that this was
non-destructive wasn't entirely trivial.


That was solved in high power UHF Klystons for TV transmitters, with
a photo electric arc detector that shut down the B+. Try your method
with a 65 kW Klystron that cost $45,000.



Yawn. Tell everything you know me about DSP based diversity
telemetry receivers, the FIR filters, the firmware, or the digital
spectrum display that was mostly software based. How about the 90 MHz
A/D converters that followed the analog microwave tuners? Ever design
one? FWIW, have you ever even seen one? that receiver had over a dozen
processors doing various jobs.

I've not yet worked on telemety receivers. The multiphase stroboscopic
electron microscope I worked on from 1988 to 1993 did incorporate a
fast 8-bit A/D converter. It was a nominally 100MHz part, though we
didn't run it faster than 50MHz, limited mainly by the ECL-based
digital signal processing hardware that I specified and whose design
and development I supervised. The timing side of the system ran much
faster, with an 800MHz clock for coarse timing and analog
interpolation to get us down to 10psec increments (though the jitter
on the 800MHz clock that actually worked meant that this was never all
that useful on the prototype).


Our competior hired a guy like you. They spent over a million
dollars on his prototype. It was so late and so bad that they hired us
to compare it against one of our older models, and it failed every
test. Telemetery is a very different field, and we had trouble finding
good engineers. They had learned over 30 years before to use a modular
design, and hire the skills for each level. You haven't got a clue as
to all the problems needed to be solved to track a deep space probe.
One problem the US never had was trying to track directly from the
launch point, but the European Space Agency did. We had to develop a
way to attenuate the signal from the paload and each stage, until it was
far enough away to prevent overload & damage to the liquid cooled LNAs.



You played with a simple electronic cooler. Was it certified for
space applications, or approved by NASA for life critical missions?

No. It just went into hospitals and biology labs. And it wasn't a
cooler, but a thermostat - we needed 0.01 degree (Celcius) stability,
and we got +/-0.001C. And we had to do both heating and cooling to
stabilise the samples at various temperatures from 38C (body
temperature) down to about 10C, though US and European room
temperatures (25C and 20C) were the most popular. That temperature
range made the variation in the efficacy of the Peltier junction an
issue that did have to be dealt with.

Like I said, you haven't got a clue.


Yawn. No matter what you used it for, it was still a thermalelectric
cooler module. That is like claming that using the same reistor in a
different product was a breakthrough. No one working outside the field
would, especailly when you didn't state the specifications. I get tired
of your, "I can piss farther than you" BS. ALl that means is you don't
go often enough.


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