Re: OT: Why welfare doesn't work!


bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sep 13, 11:41 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

If you and Jim think that reporting peple to the FBI is a joke, you do
need to have your "sense of humour" adjusted.

I have never reported anyone to the FBI, Bill. Are you off your
meds, again?

That was Jim, and you seem to be willing to endorse that particularly
hare-brained aberration.

Your search skills aren't up to much, and you do seem to share Jim's
enthusiasm for ignoring reality whenever he finds that the real world
isn't behaving the way he'd like it to

Then post links to all those messages you claim exist. OTOH, why
aren't all these people jumping in and sticking up for you, right now?

Why should they bother? You are coming across as a fantasising nitwit,
and I'm encouraging you to continue to make it clear what a prat you
really are - which isn't an entirely charitable way to behave.

US employers can't be all that smart - if we are to believe your
claims about your employability, they hired you repeatedly, and your
own intenet persona is not wildly attractive.

What you see is a reflection of what you dish out, and I have not
been able to work since I ended up on this group. Also, I didn't have an
internet connection when i was hired at my last job. Once again, keep
your lies s straight.

"Lies"? Find a statement of mine that conflicts with a fact for which
you can find objective confirmation.

He's mentioned his designs for Motorola several times on this user
group, and it struck me at the time that they were the only Motorola
parts that I'd ended up detesting - many years before I learned about
the common factor behind these rare exceptions to the general rule.

He mentioned things from the 'Model T' era of IC design. His recent
designs are all NDA. That means you haven't done anything in so long
that you had no marketable skills.

Why should a statement that refers to what I was doing in the Model T
era of circuit design suggest to you that I hadn't done anything since
then? You need to study elementary logic.

The solution to our problem turned out to be a proper coaxial
connector on the high voltage connection to the cathode. It took a
long while before production engineering could be persuaded to swallow
the extra expense of a 30kV rated coaxial plug and socket, and it
ended up being justified on the grounds that it simplified assembly
and maintenance. The elimination of the catastrophic currents in the
ground connections was a (not unexpected) bonus but not one that
engineering could have guaranteed in advance.

You should try working with 10A 30 KV shielded HV cables, and the
connectors at a transmitter site.

Where do you think our 30kV-rated connector came from? There are more
TV stations around than electron microscopes, and we always bought off
the shelf components when we could.


So you used armored cable with a three foot bending radius?


Meanwhile we'd had to engineer the computer control system to survive
on the electron microscopes that production engieering had stuck us
with - which was easy enough, if not all that cheap. Process control
and local area network hardware has to be engineered that way to
survive the ground surges from nearby lightning strikes.

A lot easier than protecting a transmitter under a 1749 foot tower.

Probably not. The frame of the tower would serve as a half-arsed
Faraday cage. A modern mast of that height might use resin bonded
composites, but that would be a bit too 21st century for you. You'd
see more frequent lightning strikes than an industrial plant, but a
transmitter within the footprint of the tower wouldn't see much that
much current circulating through its ground connections.

The multi-phase stroboscopic electron beam tester took longer to
develop than it should have done, for reasons that were entirely due
to management decisons, and was eventually canned, but only after the
first prototype was doing pretty much exactly what we'd claimed that
it would. The problem was that the idiot manager who had written the
original reqirement specification - the one that I'd thought that I
was sending up by writing a practicable but impractical design
specification based on Gigabit Logic's hideously expensive GaAs logic
- had been lying abut the potential market, and when he finally bailed
out and the real marketing guys got to talk to his claimed potential
customers, there weren't quite enough potential buyers left to carry
us into full production.

Very frustrating.

*** happens. Turn the fans off, first.

So you want to emphasise that you haven't got a clue? For a start, it
did both heating and cooling (as I've already pointed out dimbo).

Gee, Bill that's what the Peltier devices were developed to do. You
act like it was the hardest design job since the beginning of time to
adjust the temperature.

The trick was to engineer the control loop so it that stayed dead-beat
(maximally fast settling) when either heating or cooling. Don't feel
too bad about not being able to appreciate that this was necessary and
desirable - Flaxer published a paper in 2003 that I was able to
pillory because he'd missed this subtle but important point.

"Comment on ?Implementing of a precision fast thermoelectric cooler
using a personal computer parallel port connection and ADN8830
controller?" Review of Scientific Instruments volume 75 pages 788-9
(March 2004).

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