Re: A small rant about the 555 :-)

On Nov 26, 3:12 am, krw <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:07 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman





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On Nov 25, 4:08 pm,krw<k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:32 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman

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On Nov 24, 2:22 am,krw<k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:14:07 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman

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On Nov 23, 3:31 pm,krw<k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:16:31 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman

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On Nov 23, 6:25 am,krw<k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:54:28 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman

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On Nov 22, 11:11 pm,krw<k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:28:19 +0530, "pimpom" <pim...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The people who designed the 555 timer should be given medals for
coming up with a deceptively simple device that is still seeing
so much use after nearly four decades.

Tell that to Slowman.

John Fields would be more interested. It has never turned out to be
useful for the work I've done.

They also deserve to be
tarred and feathered for the pin-out configuration. :-)

Pinouts never bothered me.  That's the layout guy's problem.  ;-)
After a few BGAs they don't sweat the small stuff either.

I hate engineers who don't think about the layout they are effectively
asking for. Any circuit where stray capacitance or inductance can be a
problem should be designed with the layout in mind.

I don't know about you others, but I shudder every time I want to
draw a schematic with the pins of the 555 in their relative
positions as well as when I need to design a pcb for it.

You obviously know nothing about electronics.  Just ask Slowman.  ;-)

He seems to know more about electronics thankrwdoes, but that isn't
unexpected.

I don't have any problems finding a job.  What are you doing, Slowman?
Still whining about your station in life, I see.- Hide quoted text -

I can't say that I've got anything to whine about. I'd prefer to have
a job, but I can get by without one.

Yet you project your inadequacies on others.  ...and whine.  Trypical
leftistloser.

Care to quote an example of this behaviour?

Look in a mirror, Slowman.  

An evasion, rather than a quotation. Once againkrwcomes up empty.

I can't help it if you're blind, Slowman.

Or would you prefer to remain labelled as a "trypical" right-wing
liar?

No liar here, Slowman.  You are the prototypical leftistloser.

krwcan just about manage baseless assertions. His skill set doesn't
include reasoned argument from facts to conclusions.

I can't help it if you're blind, Slowman.  Everyone else here sees,
but you.

Like I said,krwcan just about manage baseless assertions. Credible
baseless assertion would be something that he might aspire to.

Nothing baseless about it, Slowman.  All you have to do is take
fingers to keyboard.  Your incompetence and negativity gushes out.
It's no wonder you're an unemployable leech.  That's what you are.

Since krw only knows about fpga's, I may look incompetent - and
consequnetly unemployable - to him. Back in the real world, I got my
first commercial job a few months before I handed in my Ph.D. thesis,
back in 1969, and was continuously employed from then until 1991 when
my - technically successful - electron beam tester project was
cancelled. I got short term work within fours days, though to took a
couple of months before I got into the job that kept me busy until my
wife moved us to the Netherlands at the end of 1993. I was fifty at
the time, and the Dutch really don't like hiring people who are older
tha 45, but my age didn't outweigh my competence for another ten
years. At 67 I'm almost certainly unemployable in the Netherlands, but
we won't be here forever.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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