Today we had a delay generator board that would start up run for a couple of seconds, then reset itself and do it again. We scoped it with our FLIR thermal imager and one of the US8 logic gates was blazing like a tiny comet just before shutdown. It was in backwards.
John
Good grief, if thay'd wanted to invent a notation, it could have been "K4" or "E201" or "IEC-127591/07bis" or something. At least they could try to be original.
John
Rich Grise wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@example.net:
Of course. Like I said, work to rule. Get up there noses. Specify the trailing zeros if you have to, to twelve places, just so they know there probably aren't any significant digits actually down there.
Lostgallifreyan wrote in news:Xns98C2182801131zoodlewurdle@140.99.99.130:
Seriously, make the beroucrats grope in those figures like Basil Fawlty groping inside the tattered remains of a blancmange looking for a roast duck. That should make them see reason, or go mad trying not to.
Lostgallifreyan wrote in news:Xns98C21877870C0zoodlewurdle@140.99.99.130:
Sorry about the typos, I'm angry today, several reasons, and this thread was reason to have a good tetch. I'm done. >:)
Man, you guys are high-tech. Usually this stuff is done by moving the back of the hand over the board, touching a few chips with the finger tips and when a yelping emerges from the mouth of the tester the culprit is found. After that it's looking where the burn gel is.
Actually, its brilliant! Its one more step towards them not being able to do anything right. A few more years, and it will be illegal to even breathe in Europe. After all the idiots suffocate we can sit back and laugh.
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net:
No, no... they'll just tax us to death for doing it, or make it pay-per litre and the poor will just have to suffocate for non-payment. I see your point though.
If a standards change has no clear grounding in engineering, why not just ignore it? In the end they'll adopt your standards because it's the only stable thing they can grasp.
Good Luck! Rich
USA has been using "metric" inches for some decades now (UK also) The ratio is exactly 1" = 25.4mm, so the worst case is three extra places in decimal expressions,
Bye. Jasen
jasen wrote in news:epgkql$e1f$ snipped-for-privacy@jasen.is-a-geek.org:
Of course. I know this. That's the whole point. It's business as usual, isn't it? I'm just saying ignore the bureacrats, and if they really won't shut up, give it to them with TWELVE decimals, expressing trailing zeros, just to annoy them. They'll soon give up and find better work to do.
Like what?
Joerg wrote in news:Ho5vh.2636$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:
I can dream, can't I? >:)
Well, yeah, but with bureaucrats those dreams often end up in tatters and they really come up with something they think is "better". Often something incredibly stupid that distroys business. Like WEEE...
IMHO the society that can live with the least amount of bureaucrats per capita is better off than others.
Working for the UN? ;-)
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