Re: Are TS555's really supposed to suck this much?

Actually, you do, by provoking it with your petty little schoolyard jabs.

The only way you can get the attention you crave is by always being wrong, AlwaysWrong. You and Slowman crave abuse, even if you have to do it to yourselves.

And thrive on the personal attention that YOU continue to feed them :-( ...Jim Thompson

I thought you had all DimBulb branches killed?

Haven't you noticed? On Sunday's I pause that filter to make sure I'm not killing off an innocent bystander :-) ...Jim Thompson

After a couple of hundred times, yes.

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If one misses a stroke and hits themself in the forehead, does that count as self-inflicted abuse ?

Hey, I'm just doing my part educating the newbs here. If you cruise the Usenet without protection on Sunday afternoons, don't be surprised if you see things the offend your sensibilities. ;-)

They'll put their eyes out.

After I'd seen your "patents", I knew I was a superior being.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Pity that the idea was obvious to at least one of those skilled in the art at least five years before you filed the patent.

No. It isn't exactly an archive.

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Some of your more vacuous ideas aren't worth dignifying by demolition.

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An obviously fatuous statement doesn't require extended analysis.

Be fixated on using more moderm devices inappropriately. Don't worry - other people can follow implications, even if you can't.

Writing for the brain-damaged isn't a skill I've needed to cultivate. And expecting my prose to cure your confusion is a little optimistic - I've mastered the art of explaining things so that even mangement can understand what they need to know, but you are even less well-informed than the worst of the mangers I've had to put up with.

Precious little of what I write does address your interests - which don't extend much beyond the 555.

Despite your incapacity to follow it, yes.

Still works - found any good weapons of mass destruction on Irak recently? Relying on it to persuade the world that the 555 is not obsolete is still probably expecting too much.

Threatened? You seem to be suffering from delusions of adequacy.

From page 4 of the old Motorola ECL appliction note

"In the design of MECL 10K and MECL 10H, the rise and fall times have been deliberately slowed. This reduces the affinity for crosstalk without compromising other important performance parameters."

If you were careful, it was slow enough that you could get away without buried ground planes. It was slower than MECL 1, 2 and 3 (not that I used any of them) but sufficiently easy to use that it sold in reasonable volume, enough to sustain a wide range of devices.

You still needed an analog design mind-set to get it to work for you - one of my more digitally oriented colleagues commented that every project that he'd been involved that had used ECL had needed long and painful debugging. The one time my project had problems with high speed logic - Gigabit's GaAs clocked at 800MHz - it was due to the drafting office ignoring the specified build-up of the six layer board, so that the buried ground planes were no longer directly under the fast signal tracks. That took weeks to become obvious.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

It says what John Fields understands about me, which tells you rather more about John Fields that me. That Archimedes' Lever shares that understanding - or lack of it - is scarcely surprising.

Which tells us all we need to know about Archimedes' Lever, not that we actually want to know anything about him, except perhaps the magic formula fopr shutting him up.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Actually, you agree with him when he is far-right and totally wrong, and since the information content of your "agreement" amounts to "me- too" it's difficult to see any other purpose than brown-nosing in your support for his bizarre ideas.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

For the rest of you, I'll fill in the rest of the quotes snipped from above. Apparently Slowman agrees with my assessment, since he didn't offer any refutation.

Slow: "his patent here, which he wouldn't have done if he had mastered his field - but it does imply a certain measure of accomplishment."

krw: "You are a liar, Slowman! I wouldn't have said anything about them if *YOU* hadn't specifically asked."

"I suppose people who haven't mastered their field have all sorts of patents in said field. What a moron, Slowman!" There you have it folks; Slowman admits to being a liar and a moron.

Two fatal flaws. You claiming to know something, and you claiming to be superior to anything.

You're an idiot.

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krw exhibits his idea of a logical exposition. He's neither a liar or moron - he doesn't understand what he is saying well enough that one could accuse him of intentionally publishing things he knows to be untrue - and his mental does appear to be higher than eight to twelve which is the level of mental retardation which has been used to define the term moron.

On the other hand, he can't construct a logical argument. That I asked him to list his patents doesn't preclude me from describing the way he presented them as "boasting" - if I'd been obliged to claim to have "invented" such a dismal collection of obvious ideas, under pressure from a patent-hungry employer, I'd have been much more apologetic about it.

Presumably he thinks his second sentence is criticisng the idea that people who haven't mastered their field can have patents in tht field. Since I adduced him as evidence of this proposition, one can understand why he dislikes the idea, but he hasn't made any kind of case against the proposition - and from what I remember of his "patents" he'd be hard pressed to do so.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I don't think Bill is an idiot. I think he's a reasonably intelligent person whose fatheaded personality neutralizes his ability to think. And he's an old hen, of course.

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Actually, it isn't my fat-headed personality that neutralises my ability to think like John Larkin - it's all the scientific stuff I've learned about the world that he doesn't seem to have had the time to find out.

Pecking at nonsense posts - granting the injury my pointed beak does seem to inflict on the sensitve egos around here, something more like a toucan might fit the image better.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen