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It is highly unusual that an EE junior, or recent grad, can solve simple permutations of Ohm's Law.

The current source is 2 mA. The load is 100 ohms. What's the voltage?

It's even less likely that they will be able to compute the power dissipation. "

About three seconds in my head or both. They really can't do that ? Where did they go to school, Yale and Harvard where people don't learn law and the Constitution ?

I'm actually just a semi-able hack. I could start at about $50,000. What time do I start ?

I think Moore's law can be applied here to measure the rate of this delima as time passes by.

Jamie

On Saturday, 26 April 2014 09:13:28 UTC+10, Maynard A. Philbrook Jr. wrote :

re did they go to school, Yale and Harvard where people don't learn law and the Constitution ?

John Larkin's reputation makes it difficult for him to attract competent ap plicants.

t time do I start ?

When you can deliver the kind of flattery that John Larkin wants, in the qu antity he requires, without visibly gagging.

ma as time passes by.

Jamie could learn how to spell dilemma, with concentrated effort, but he's never going to understand that Moore's law is a statement about the number of transistors in an integrated circuit as a function with time, which has everything to do with technological capacity and nothing to do with the cap acity of the people who exploit the ever-expanding technological capacity.

Hypocrite.

Jamie

Bill, why do you say such silly things? If I lived anywhere near SF, I'd love to apply. Perhaps I'm not competent? ... I do love to learn :^) George H.

Every two years, the competence of EE students drops in half?

Boring, droning hypocrite!

Exactly.

Jamie

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Where did they go to school, Yale and Harvard where people don't learn law and the Constitution ?

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I've been told that my postings here make me unemployable. John's are margi nally sillier, so - by the same logic - he can't be an attractive employer.

John has told us that his average design job takes two weeks from start to finish. You might get bored. He does post bits out of his more exciting pro jects here, but from my point of view he spends a lot of time re-inventing the wheel and congratulating himself on the trail-blazing innovation involv ed.

Recently he got himself into a lather about getting a precise inductance, w hen he could have bought himself a gapped pot core with a central hole, wou nd a coil on the matching coil former to get +/-3% without trimming and bou ght the screw-in adjuster for the central hole to trim the inductor to exac tly the inductance he needed. Several people, including Jim Thompson, told him that this was the way to go, but it was all a bit too not-invented-here for him.

delima as time passes by.

he's never going to understand that Moore's law is a statement about the nu mber of transistors in an integrated circuit as a function with time, which has everything to do with technological capacity and nothing to do with th e capacity of the people who exploit the ever-expanding technological capac ity.

Jamie has at least gone to the trouble of looking up the spelling of the wo rd this time. He's still a bit weak on choosing the word which conveys his meaning.

There's nothing hypocritical about pointing out that Jamie is being an idio t - again.

Well, yes. John Larkin reads these posts for favourable references to his s kills as a a circuit designer and all-around wonderfulness. Sadly, I can't be bothered to insert enough Larkin-directed flattery and he finds my posts very tedious.

On Saturday, 26 April 2014 11:41:10 UTC+10, Maynard A. Philbrook Jr. wrote :

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t he's never going to understand that Moore's law is a statement about the number of transistors in an integrated circuit as a function with time, whi ch has everything to do with technological capacity and nothing to do with the capacity of the people who exploit the ever-expanding technological cap acity.

As if Jamie knew what "precision" means.

Clearly nonsense, but the fact that cost of computation has been halving every two years probably explains why new graduates can't do the mental arithmetic that we used to have to do all the time.

I can obviously work out that 2mA through 100R is 200mV, and 0.4mW, in my head, but I've got this kind of calculation wrong often enough in past that I check it on my calculator before going public.

If I'm improvising a circuit these days, I do it in LTSpice and can pull out the currents and the power from the simulation.

If I were a new graduate I probably wouldn't clutter up my brain with routines for working out stuff I could more reliably pull out of my computer. It's not that I wouldn't know the stuff, but it wouldn't be at my finger-tips.

Yes, the wife suggested I go out to SF and work with John for a while if my current gig winds up. Since they've never met, I guess he (and my son) are not trashing him too badly (even if she just wants to be rid of me for a while...)

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Got any good product ideas/markets? We could design them together and share the revenue somehow.

You could so some of the cooking, too. New ideas again.

That's a pretty low bar- ideas are often a painful gap from customers.

I'd be a fool not to give this due consideration.

Ha. I make a great hot & sour soup. Much better than restaurant stuff.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Really? Are they that clueless? c'mon.

Yes. They mostly learned how to type, c and VHDL. They tend to have done one real electrical class project, and forgotten how it works, if they ever knew.

If something's on your resume, you'd thing you'd come prepared to discuss it. No. The standard line is "well, it's been a while since..."

That one real class project was done in a group of five or more students. Usually, one knows what they are doing and carries the load.

tm

I would appreciate if you would stop using yourself as an example of dysfunctional mental facilities.

Jamie