pimped out

for more than it costs to provide.

Den fredag den 9. december 2016 kl. 23.52.46 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:

it was only $85

Good grief, some people are trying to survive on $2 a day, and people buy this junk.

As used in the SD210-214 lateral MOSFET range? These were unusual in that the drain and source weren't identical. I never did find out why.

The original SD210-214 series were from Signetics who got taken over by Philips which eventually spat out NXP.

People post about that problem at regular intervals - the SD210-214 devices are hard to replace.

No problem. Acopy/paste from one: Description Avago Technologies has combined it?s industry leading E-pHEMT technology with a revolutionary chip scale package. The VMMK-1218 can produce an LNA with high dynamic range, high gain and low noise igure that generates of of a single position DC power supply. The GaAsCap wafer scale sub-miniature leadless package is small and ultra thin, yet can be handled and placed with standard 0402 pick and place assembly. The use of 0.25 micron gates allow a ultra low noise igure (below 1dB from 500 MHz to 12 GHz) with respectable as- sociated gain. With a lat transconductance over bias and frequency the VMMK-1218 provides excellent linearity of over 30 dBm and power over 15 dBm at one dB com- pression. This product is easy to use since it requires only positive DC voltages for bias and low matching coei- cients for simple impedance matching to 50 ? systems. The VMMK-1218 is intended for any 500MHz to 18GHz

That can work better.

This is even more idiotic:

Looks like they wasted a lot of interior space on nothing.

You need to have a critical mass of fame before you can make an impact on even a small corner of the Interent.

Can, but doesn't often. This social network is remarkably restricted. Once or twice I met people at electronic conferences in the Netherlands who recognised me as a regular poster on sci.electronics.design, but it hasn't happened at all in Sydney.

Waiting for "then" can take a while.

Y'know, if you can communicate to them that they really DO want something, and then sell it to them, you provide a service to yourself and to your customer.

Of course, bamboozling people into something they don't really need doesn't help.

OK, this explains why the kids just want to party:

We'll all be dead in 10 years. Pass the beer.

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Probably not. Climate change may get bad enough to cause a population crash in ten years, but the plausible mechanisms for killing off a lot of people are not likely to kill me or John Larkin - living close enough to the equa tor to be at risk of from a super-charged tropical cyclone would be the kin d of thing that might shorten your life.

I used the SD5400 series a lot. However, all this can't rival the NX3020 in terms of figure of merit (Rdson versus Coss).

These days they are. Unless you need the substrate piped out separately.

BTW, Linear Systems now sells them but I found their responsiveness when contacted to be less than desirable.

I will never understand big city life. Out here we can rent nice biz

No. This was about getting clients and work and that's the way I do it. Successfully so.

I have several longterm clients because of it. That wasn't the intent but it happened.

Then you may be doing something wrong :-)

For a professional starting out or seeking assignments there are three things that are very important as a marketing tool:

1. Have a web site (mine looks crummy but I am semi-retiring)
2. Have a Linkedin profile
3. Have access to an online conferencing service

Plus maybe some publications but that is of lesser importance these days.

Of course, if they truly need it. That is in essence what most of my "out of the blue" proposals were for. Ideas how to make a product better, lower its cost, reduce field failures, et cetera. Like venture businesses most fizzled but those that took off did so big time.

Countless gyms do exactly that. And timeshare sales people. And car dealers. And ...

Was that before or after you were part of the team that did the rolled up u ltrasound transducer that slides down inside arteries and measures plaque?

Anything that brilliant and unexpected generates generous amounts of well-d eserved fame, albeit within a relatively small community.

Obviously. Personality reconstruction would seem to be indicated, but the k ind of people that offer it aren't all that reliable.

Publications form a fairly high threshold. Good supervisors mentor their gr aduate students through the process of working out what journals will publi sh, and how to package that in a way that reviewers will like. Mine didn't, and it took me a while to work out what was required.

This goes hand-in-hand with gentrification, and SF seems to be in a particularly bad situation. I mean, at some point this hidepus place will probably get rented out, slide and all. I wonder if prices will drop if at some point the cool, artsy, alternative scene will be completely displaced by overpaid software yuppies, i.e., turns un-cool again. Then the yuppies will either go someplace else, or maybe they will just hire some pseudo artsy folks as decoration to keep the prices up.

robert

Before and after.

Almost none of my clients afterwards knew about it. After Obamacare was enacted and med tech consequently tanked (or actually before because I saw it coming) I almost completely switched away to areas other than med tech. People there wouldn't even know what intravascular ultrasound is.

Got to do it yourself. Be bold :-)

It requires lots of proposals. They are like the cold calls of sales people. Proposals are the life blood of any self-employed engineer or small business wanting interesting assignments.

I never got any formal training in that either. However, as I said the publications were mostly in fields like med tech and chromatography. They are not relevant to my current fields of work and clients don't know about them. I don't even have a list of publications on my web site. The oil guys would understand the chromatography papers but their interests is in me designing electronics for them, not an analytical process.

Software people are what's driving all that. We are working up Internet bubble 2.0. Shortly followed by real estate bubble 2.0.