Herd instincts?

Why should we? The stuff works, the customers pay the invoices, and you still hide behing juvenile nyms.

John

Not French, and not exactly related, but the Kubrick film (his last) "Eyes Wide Shut", on the Blu Ray hi def release has about forty nations worth of copyright warnings that appear after the film. The most I have ever seen on any disc I have ever owned or viewed. It also has more foreign language dubs than any film I have ever seen ( about ten).

You have no clue what rational is, boy.

So now you think that reciting the ABCs forward and backward (without singing them) is a reasonable driving capacity test?

Fuck you idiot. Come back when you know what matters.

You suffer from an overly fertile imagination. For a while at Cambridge Instruments I might have been guilty of pontification - I was running a team of ten electronic engineers and had to give my boss an e-mail progress report every week. To keep myself honest, I also copied it to all the engineers on the team.

When the project folded - not my fault, nor that of the software and mechanical engineers either, since it took us all a while to realise that what we'd taken on as a pre-production protype was actually a pretty crummy proof-of-principle machine - I kept up the habit of writing the weekly report, and started circulating it again it when I ended up as the senior engineer when we were starting up another project. When the project got properly under way, I stopped being the senior engineer, and expected to be able to stop circulating the weekly report - it took me a couple of hours to put together every week - but was told to keep it up ...

Of necessity it was pretty boring, despite my best efforts and nobody admitted to doing more than than checking it out for references to themselves, but nobody dropped dead either.

The last report isn't representative. It went

"Richard Adams (project manager) has been made redundant.

Bill Sloman has been made redundant - but he has finished the Trigger Board spec part B.

Andrew Dean (senior electronic engineer) remains to archive the hardware, and keep P2 alive against an eventual buyer.

Paul Austin has been made redundant.

Martin Wiseman has been made redundant.

Peter Milne (senior software engineer) remains to archive the software and keep P2 alive against an eventual buyer.

Roland Meins has been made redundant.

Ian Murray has been made redundant.

Tony Edwards has been transferred to write manuals for the S.300 (electron microscope).

Simon Dawes job seems to be unchanged; he is stil keeping P2 alive against an eventual buyer.

Chris Warner has been made redundant.

Barry Barker in back on EBMF (electron beam microfabricator - a mask writing machine).

Steven Fisher has been made redundant,

Now I know why Graham Plows resigned .."

Graham Plows had been the technical director when we'd started the project, and had been degraded to become the manager responsible for the development of the machine and its marketing about a year earlier. He'd left Cambridge Instruments about a month before the project was cancelled to start up something completely different (Technology Sources Ltd.

and what killed the project was the realisation that a lot of the the time that he'd claimed to be spending on finding customers for our machine had in fact been devoted to to doing the ground work for his new project.

And nobody ever bought P2 ...

-- Bill Sloman, Nimegen

It is a machine full of ultra-clean solvent that one places a claimed to be clean assembly into. After a period of time the assembly is removed, and the machine analyses the solvent for VOCs (you do at least know what that is, right?) and creates a report on how clean your post solder cleaning job is on your assemblies.

I really am surprised that you, after having "contamination issues" under your SMT parts (so you claimed), would not be familiar with the process.

Nope, you just dunk your shit into your bath of shit and then call it clean.

The only clean that really matters is conductivity. We use RMA flux and solvent cleaning, and don't have electrical leakage problems. The only problems we have is when we send boards out to contract assemblers and they use water-based flux and cleaning. Even if their rinse water is clean, stuff can still be trapped under parts. It's hard to find a contract assembler these days who still will do organics, so we do the critical analog, leakage sensitive stuff in house and let the assemblers do the more digital stuff.

We have zero field failures from contamination.

John

That's rather amusing coming from someone who's predominate 'arguments' spawn from a limited repertoire of gutter epithets.

Since I said not one thing about any 'ABC' test that just more gibberish from you.

About 370,000 miles at the double nickel.

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It is doing a pretty good job of destroying the greenback right now. The exchange rate has plummeted a loong way down since it hit parity with the Euro in 2002. Still it makes the USA a good place for us to go shopping.

Even US rappers like Jay-Z and supermodels like Gisele are demanding payment in Euros.

You mean like the Nobel prize winning ones that lent their names to LTCM ? Are they rich now? Strange that LTCM was deemed too big to fail and as such they got vast amount of taxpayers money from the Fed to bail them out.

I don't often find myself in complete agreement with the Cato Institute analysis, but on this one I do.

Incidentally the author is a senior professor at a UK university where there is much less political bias in appointments than you have been claiming in the US. Almost any political view can be found from extreme left to extreme right and all shades inbetween. A surprising number are apolitical or have voted for more than one party in different elections.

If you bail out failing banks then they have an incentive not to manage risks properly and it rewards very large businesses for taking irresponsible risks (since they know they cannot be allowed to fail). You will find the directors always sell at the top of the market Enron style even when they are encouraging the small fry to buy more shares.

Same is happening in the UK with Northern Rock bank. They had an insane business expansion plan that whilst it worked with plentiful cheap money made the shareholders and directors a huge profit. It failed disastrously when the money supply tightened after the US sub- prime (ugly word) mortgage market collapsed. But when the chickens come home to roost the masters of the universe demand vast amounts of taxpayers money to avoid a banking crisis (currently equivalent to =A3900 for every person in the UK). And it looks like they may have cunningly restructured the company so that it is in effect an unsecured government loan. The Old Lady of Threadneedle street may get her fingers burnt...

Regards, Martin Brown

Spoken by one who is too cowardly to use a real name.

Thanks! Rich

Ditto for consumers.

Cheers, James Arthur

That's because he's busy holding his wife's purse.

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All of dimBulb's socks are inadequate. :(

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Much better to join the herd over there on the right.

Nice try. In fact I've never had any trouble holding a job once I've got it (granting that the job has continued to exist).

Jim Thompson has managed to confuse getting a job - where I've not been doing too well recently, probably because I'm too old to suit Dutch personnel departments - with holding a job.

Getting a job requires moderately well developed presentation skills - not an area where I've put in a lot of effort.

Holding a job requires that you do the work, and I've always done it better than most.

Jim is - as usual - out of touch with reality - which probably helps him present his (admittedly above average) design skills as if he was another Bob Widlar, Hans Camenzind or Barry Gilbert. Guys like that do get hired, but they don't last - and Jim did leave Motorola because they didn't want to keep on using his team.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Would you want to belong to herd like that? They can't think straight, they don't know much, and most of what they think they know is wrong.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Talk about a recurring theme that's hard to tell apart!

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