Seeks and destroys sea-bound CodeMonkeys... http://i.imgur.com/fDhfx.jpg
--Cpt. Vince Foster 2nd Cannon Place Fort Marcy Park, VA
P.S. I'm bored
This is probably the forum where some people are most busy finding themselves huge numbers of aliases.
But using an alias can sometimes be quite helpful/needed. I'm most definitely limited to what I can write in a forum in relation to employer or customer relations, NDA, product release plans, ... I guess the same goes for a lot of other people. Only students seems to think anything can be discussed - and then they are regularly very surprised when people can't post them complete source code. And if (when) I make a real fool of myself, I can't control the size of the rings on the water when it's me and not an alter ego that is flapping there in the water :)
Unless...you are really not Per Westermark...
I just googled your name and found out you set the Forumla 1 fastest boat qualifying time in 1997!!!!
Just kidding...
Dear z.about.com/.../smoked_sardines.jpg ,
I have no animosity towards you. You just feel compelled to put in a dig at *something* too often.
I like having a target of ridicule. But your contributions to helping people aren't the greatest. (Not to say mine are of super value)
I'd love to see what you've worked on. I'd find that interesting. You Got Any? At All?
Do you really want to know? If you ask nicely I'll tell you.
Dear Jack Sprat,
Will you please tell us what you've worked on? Maybe some photos; and ad a 'touch of proof' that you did it so *those* people won't be skeptical.
Thanks,
P.S. Sticks-n-Stones hurt like hell. But words will only scar me, and make me see a therapist.
now it makes sense, evidently the sardine is on retainer from the American Psychological Association
I guess the APA knows the forum users well enough to send out Jack becaues otherwise:
Would result in *something* (of which I'm sure is APA approved).
Serously, I would like to see what others have done: now especially the Cordial Jack Sprat (even nice enough to remember that I moved).
SO, if ANYBODY has some cool stuff like Andy does (ref: http://www.antronics.co.uk), I --for one-- would like to see it.
Well, I for one am a little reluctant to get into a game like this.
My wife frequently used to ask me what I did. I'd try to explain, but she could never see what it was about.
Then one day, while we happened to be walking through the corridors of a UK hospital, I happened to see something that I had spent 18 months of my life creating, perfecting and making as bullet proof as I could. I called over to my wife and showed her what my career was all about. She took one look, went "oh, that's nice" and walked off.
The thing is, what can be interesting and cool to the one spending a huge amount of effort on can be dreary dull to someone else.
That is about half my point. People on this forum have a clue what it takes (with the exception of the students, et al).
My wife did the same thing. "Oh, thats all it does?" I'll even point to the fact it is on Futureweapons TV show, and it is met with "thats nice."
I guess to the non-engineer, "magic" must be explained as true "magic" rather than technology.
How can somebody just sit there and think, well it flies and hits something, or it monitors the blood glucose levels in real-time, etc without thinking it is "magic" or a huge effort by a person or team?
Those 18 months created that magic that not that many decades ago would easily be recognized as truely phenominal magic.
"Is that all it does?" Well WE know how the guts of these widgets can be like, so this is a good place to show some of that work without getting the "Gee, that is kind of lame" response (sans Jack Black).
Even a computer controlled Benchtop Power Supply we (uhm, the competent 'we' people) know that it isn't dreary nor dull.
I doubt if your wife (e.g. the non-embedded people & critters not sent by the APA) read this forum.
Here is something that I have worked on. I worked on the copier control portion of this project. Vince I know that you have seen this before :)
www.jamexvending.com/.../netpad.html
My favorite "that's nice" story came from a show and tell with my sister and brother-in-law. As we walked through the lab with me explaining how we had multiple computers built right into the assembly machine, programmed with the Franklin (Keil) assembler, my brother-in-law looked around and ask " Do you people employ union painters?" Of course he was a painter. Bradford
Cyril... I can't believe you guys got that thing going. Good Job! (especially in the harsh working conditions, I mean 'criteria'... very severe 'criteria' on that puppy).
Bradford... I was part of a group hosting an IEEE meeting and we were showing these IEEE members the R&D equipment we designed. It was HIGHLY stressed not to touch ANYTHING due to the ESD and mil-spec requirements.
Yep, all Electrical Engineers in this group of IEEE meeting. Immediately after the stern lecture on NOT TOUCHING ANYTHING, some dufus from Hewlett Packard touches a board, and asks "What does this do?"
I smacked his hand away just because he deserved it. (He touched a dead board anyway, but OMG what an idiot). All eyes were on him, not me.
I'm sure he was a union painter too.
One more thing - post a picture of yourself holding a fish above your head and I'll tell you...
I smacked his hand away just because he deserved it.
Why does that just not surprise me?
The realisation that not one single member of the human race is even slightly interested in any of the things that engineers do for a living is pretty much a prerequisite for the job. A complete lack of ego (and ideally a good sense of self-ridicule) is very useful in reconciling this fact.
If you ask nicely I'll tell you.
I did, and you didn't.
A complete lack of ego...
Time to make another APA session appointment.
supposedly big angry military man who claims to be responsible for developing weapons of death...
Supposedly, its better than *them* acquiring the weapons of death first. You're welcome. Thanks.
Most of the EU depends upon the USA for their primary defense system(s). Most of those socialist nations have a 'military' just as a social program, and an investment in R&D. The UK and Isreal actually have a military capable of staving off a first round attack. But guess who 'gets' to sustain the defense?
Major (USA) foriegn aid comes from defense contracts: I've worked with them and competed against them. So, again Jack; you are welcome. Know what a Buzz Bomb is? Well today's Buzz Bombs are far more deadly and accurate. In WWII I doubt if it was projected that Buzz Bomb attacks were going to happen, that the UK would protest the very idea of a Buzz Bomb defense system.
I guess I'm ranting about that because I detect a disdain for the military and the 'weapons of death' industry.
Our sticks and stones are far more powerful than *them* and *they* know it. The complainers and anti-Big Stick people will indeed use their Mighty Weapon: Slander and Ridicule. While the terrorists (and bad nations) ignore such chatter and are willing to attack school busses and shopping malls. I'd rather use my 'talents' to kill those little *^%#$@s before they "Crush Little Kids Who Adorn the Boardwalk."