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You've used it extensively, because you've not been aware of anything better. That you don't see this as defect in your expertise says it all.

Nice try. I can see how you might see my "inability" to see the 555 as a nearly universal cure-all as an "inferiority" but it is the same kind of "inferiority" as my persistent failure to master sign language.

That you don't seem to have found many alternatives to the 555 does give a pretty obvious clue to your capacities in this area. You enthusiasm for advancing defective arguments saves me from having to "spew invective" - I just have to encourage you to respond and leave you to manage the task of portraying youself as an idiot.

Even the humblest and most self-effacing senior engineer would steer clear of acquiring a subordinate who tried to solve every problem with a 555.

Far from it, but my own supervisors did keep hammering at the point that my job was supervising my subordinates, not doing their jobs for them. Mostly I could get by by steering them away from bad solutions, by - for example - getting them to tolerance over-simplified versions of their approach early on, which is the sort of trick that could often wean them off their first idea without doing too much damage to their self-esteem.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

That must be why I've been married for 38 years. IOW, another case of Billy Slowman projection.

BTW, are you a cuckold too?

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Wrong again, Slowman. You're unemployable because no one will hire

You always revert to the past and have excuses for your current failings.

She's a linguist, or some such. I let you imagine her specialty.

But Slowman gets to watch ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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...and whine. Like the rest of his miserable life, it's all he can do.

G > What kind of work does your wife do?

BS > That's none of your business.

But you, as an Aussie ex pat living in Belgium think it's YOUR business to comment on the health care system in the US?

Considering you lean toward socialism, whose business something is would be a particularly ironic subject.

Well, someone has to wash her underware.

He's waiting for someone to stuff a Euro into his panties?

Hasn't worked in 18 years? Wow. Recently Bill mentioned that his PdD was in Physical Chemistry. More than a small distance from electrical engineering. Don't get me wrong, but i have spent a year between jobs. On the other hand i can sass the hell out of management and keep my job, because i do it well. Can Bill make that statement?

Not that I'm defending Bill here, but don't Horowitz and Hill both have their PhDs in physics?

Horowitz has the PhD, Hill (AFAICT) has no degrees, not that matters much, electronics design is more art than science. ...Jim Thompson

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Don't know. Ask Win.

Well, my point is that Bill could be entirely useful doing electronics design even if his PhD is in physical chemistry, that's all.

Hard to know, though... if I were advising Bill I'd suggest he start doing some electronics again, put up a web site like Jim's -- it's a great learning resource and advertises that you might just know more than the average bear, and these days you can do so much for cheap or free with, e.g., LTSpice, microcontrollers, etc.--, and I'd be willing to bet that eventually he could get some contract work.

---Joel