Our power is off at home, but on at the lab, which is the usual case in really bad weather. Fortunately for us, it was an east wind, so we got a lot of shelter from the ridge behind our house. Also there was hardly any rain to speak of (less than 3 inches total), so we didn't have any water problems either.
A block away, where our road rises up to meet the ridge, there were
80-foot trees snapped right in half.Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
There is a surprising number of people who believe in incremental success, design by committee, collected data by which everything has to be supported, and whatnot. That would bore me sick. I am not saying it won't work, it's just that myriad inventions would have never happened that way.
A client's CEO and friend once said it best: Technology takes a major leap forward if you commit yourself to something where, upon receiving the assignment, you first experience a knot in your stomach.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Yeah, it's a rush when you commit yourself to doing something that you're not 100% sure you can do. And that maybe nobody else has ever done.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
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My biggest motivator is if some important folks say "It cannot be done".
Could be a Chinese proverb: "Man saying it cannot be done shall not hold back man doing it".
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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Make your firm a partnership, which comes under the headings of corporations, partnerships, etc; with a Federal EIN. Every company has the ability to work with a firm who has an EIN.
PS: if you make your firm a corporation; you have to PAY taxes every year. Partnerships are not taxed, except in the form of local licensing.
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Sandy was a no-show in Buf. NY. A bit of rain and wind, a few thousand without power. We'll be sending help down to the lower part of the state.
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The redneck version is, "Bubba, hold my beer and watch this!"
Progress Energy has sent most of their line buckets & crews from Central Florida. They stopped in the Carolinas, overnight. If we get hit with any high winds or other problems, it's doubtful there are enough vehicles & crew left to handle it.
IANAA, but afaict: as an LLC you can elect to be taxed as a partnership or as an S-corporation. The S-corp approach is nearly the same, tax-wise, except that up to a point you can trade off what's salary vs what's business profit.
That gives you some control over the Social Security crapshoot, because self-employment tax is payable only on the salary part. Of course that reduces your eventual tooth fairy ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Social Security payout, and if you go too far, they'll label you an "abusive S-corporation" and crucify you.
So far mine is taxed as a partnership.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
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Right now I'm saying to a customer (and his customer) "It can't be done".... that way (the final customer way) and he don't want to hear that. Shit will happen...
Another Chinese proverb: "When shit flies, never be in the front row".
-- Thanks, Fred.
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It turns out that some things _can't_ be done! And some just shouldn't.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com http://www.highlandtechnology.com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom laser drivers and controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
I've never interviewed with an HR person. All my contacts, even with big companies like HP and McDonald-Douglas, were with the technical managers that I would have worked for. If I had taked those jobs, HR would have gotten involved later, to do the paperwork.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com http://www.highlandtechnology.com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom laser drivers and controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
Some things shouldn't be elected, eiter.
-- No more so than the neverending ads you post about your own digs.
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Last words of a redneck: "Hey y'all, watch me now!"
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Yeah, been there as well. The funniest reply from one client (but they always listened to me) was "Isn't there some sort of loophole to get around Kirchhoff's law, like there is with other laws?"
But when it miraculously does work the old American business proverb comes in: "Find the parade and get in front of it".
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
If that were true, there would be no rednecks.
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The kind where claiming to be "insanely good" is insane.
There are degrees of success.If John's products actually were extraordinarily good, he might have become a second Hewlett Packard. I concede that they might be exceptionally good value for money, but targeted into such a narrow market that John would never have been tempted to expand his production capacity enough to make a lot of money or his management structure enough to widen his product range, but I've not seen any evidence of anything exceptional in the circuit fragments he posts here - its mostly sound stuff, but not exactly surprising.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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EMI was definitely a big company. EMI Central Research was run on the basis that the research engineers might pull something out of the hat as they had done repeatedly in the past. Godfrey Houndsfield invented the brain scanner there
You could have a lot of fun there.
Cambridge Instruments wasn't anything like as big, but they sold more expensive devices than you do - an electron microscope typically cost about $100,000 with the usual add-ons - and the electron beam microfabricators cost a bit over a million dollars.
The innovative electron beam tester that I worked on for my last three years with the company was going to sell for about a quarter of a million dollars apiece. I proposed the basic idea - with the primary intention of illustrating that the boss's 10psec time resolution demand was impractical, if practicable - which meant that I had more control what we ended up building than anybody else, and I certainly had a lot of fun demonstrating that the approach really was practicable.
It was a more serious environment than John Larkin appears to inhabit, but not all that serious. At one point, the walls of the lab around the prototype machine were decorated with words of the T.S. Eliot's "Hollow Men". A high-lighter had been used to pick out the verse
"Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow "
We did get it to work eventually, but it did take a while.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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