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But a delusion, nonetheless.

If you say so.

It's scarcely being an intellectual bully to ask you to identify the "gaffe" that you think you are referring to.

The use of the word "eroteme" when you meant a question mark might be an example of intellectual bullying, if it wasn't in fact an instance of intellectual failure on your part.

The sentence in question might look like a question to the ill-informed, but was, in fact, a declarative statement, effectively quoting a certain Mandy Rice-Davies.

I am a member of the group, am I not?

A charming image. Some of our resident psychopaths might, if I got sliced up, which isn't what's happening here, despite your fond misapprehensions.

It's not fear of the answer as such, rather fear of the utter tedium of having cope with yet one more of your fatuous misapprehensions.

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Which dates from a time when he should have made better ones. I selected be tter tools at the first opportunity - which came remarkably quickly, so pre sumably any number of other workers had the same perceptions.

Jim hasn't produced an NE555 or anything remotely as popular.

least one of the authors who cited it hadn't read it carefully enough - ea rning me another minor publication). There are definitely some sour grapes in there, but fermentation is an art.

Too true, but it has it's uses. How come you produce so much of it?

EMI Central Research (the closest the UK ever came to Bell Labs) it probabl y trumps yours. Jim's ideas about academic prestige let him boast about giv ing lectures at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (after Barry Gi lbert found out what a joke it was and pulled out) so he hasn't done all th at well either. He seems to have excelled himself in getting into MIT, and went downhill thereafter.

Still trumps yours.

Lets correct that last part, remove the "intellectual".

The closest Jamie gets to judging matters intellectual is using his spell checker to make sure that he has spelled the word correctly.

If he hadn't been stupid enough to start drinking raw milk in the first place, he might have had enough intellect left now to make that kind of judgement.

There you go again, you can't even get the correcet JAMIE in sight.

I drank raw milk when I was a kid, I am still here and I never got sick from it. To bad it didn't effect you!.

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One should check their own spelling from time to time.

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place, he might have had enough intellect left now to make that kind of ju dgement.

Who cares? One Jamie is very like another - at least in this context.

You may think so.

I was never exposed to raw milk. Tasmania had standards for that. They were initially a bit weak on stopping dairy cattle grazing on brassicas, which probably had something to do with the relatively high incidence of goitre ( which went up when free school milk became available, and went down again w hen the penny dropped - I thought it tasted horrible, and didn't drink it, which may have been wise).

NGSPICE has an experimental GPU-enabled fork. Don't know how good it is as I don't have the hardware, but I am positive it works.

NGSPICE with the openmp compile option runs *transistor* models on multiple cores. That runs 2 to 3 times faster in my personal tests (and the mcnc benchmarks). Unfortunately, there are clear technical reasons why that doesn't work for other models.

With LTspice the cores run at full speed, but the combined result is hardly faster than a properly compiled NGSPICE.

SPICE being free attracted programmers that improved it.

The hardware has advanced to a state where even a computer illiterate will have a system that is only 2 or 3 times slower than the finest money can buy (apart from dedicated hardware). It is now up to the programmers to unlock the power of parallel computing.

-marcel

NGSPICE has an experimental GPU-enabled fork. Don't know how good it is as I don't have the hardware, but I am positive it works.

NGSPICE with the openmp compile option runs *transistor* models on multiple cores. That runs 2 to 3 times faster in my personal tests (and the mcnc benchmarks). Unfortunately, there are clear technical reasons why that doesn't work for other models.

With LTspice the cores run at full speed, but the combined result is hardly faster than a properly compiled NGSPICE.

SPICE being free attracted programmers that improved it.

The hardware has advanced to a state where even a computer illiterate will have a system that is only 2 or 3 times slower than the finest money can buy (apart from dedicated hardware). It is now up to the programmers to unlock the power of parallel computing.

-marcel

Slowman needs a thesaurus to come up with new invective. Start ignoring his ass and spare the rest of us the tripe, or be killfiled. ...Jim Thompson

I haven't got a clue what you might be referring to.

Don't be silly. If you use a word that isn't in my passive vocabulary, you aren't being concise but merely obscure, and deliberately so.

That was then. She might have been asking a rhetorical question, but I was quoting a well-known phrase for informative effect, not asking any kind of question.

The "pretense of spokesmanship" exists only in your fevered and unconstrained imagination.

And all non-wounds.

Wrong. It's ignorance. I haven't got a clue what you might be banging on about - at extraordinary length, too.

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When I was working at Cambridge Instruments, we sold a million dollar elect ron beam microfabricator to AWA in Australia, to be used in their chip fab, being set up to give Australia it's own. The marketing guys found out some thing I didn't know, which was that my younger brother, who was then workin g for the Australian construction company Lend-Lease, had negotiated the c ontract for the construction of the building to accomodate the chip fab, fo r some $50 million dollars.

Jim was working for Motorola at the time he was designing his chips. Those jobs were few and far between, and the people who got them had ahd rather s pecific training, which I hadn't. People like Bob Widlar, Barry Gilbert and Hans Camenzind had formal training in electronics, which I never did.

That wasn't hindsight. I used Jim's chips when they were the best available - and noted that they weren't very good - and gratefully moved on to bette r stuff when it (rapidly) became available.

I'm not in that particular food chain. I've always been a user of integrate d circuits, not a creator.

at least one of the authors who cited it hadn't read it carefully enough - earning me another minor publication). There are definitely some sour grap es in there, but fermentation is an art.

That's a bit silly. Commercicial inorganic acids are cheaper.

ke EMI Central Research (the closest the UK ever came to Bell Labs) it prob ably trumps yours. Jim's ideas about academic prestige let him boast about giving lectures at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (after Barry Gilbert found out what a joke it was and pulled out) so he hasn't done all that well either. He seems to have excelled himself in getting into MIT, a nd went downhill thereafter.

CV's only exist on paper. My paper tiger trumps your paper tiger.

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In reality, I mostly correct them in my responses, and leave it at that. So me are comical enough to deserve attention, but they have to be very funny to get it.

place, he might have had enough intellect left now to make that kind of jud gement.

He's not intentionally suicidal, just another example of stupidity being a capital offense.

The pre- and post-pasteurisation health statistics are pretty persuasive. P asteurisation wasn't the only technological advance involved, but it did sa ve a lot of lives. Paradoxically, the fact that most milk today is pasteuri sed breaks the infection chains that made raw milk more dangerous in the pa st, so Jamie can drink the stuff - and give it to his nearest and dearest - with very little chance that his foolishness will do the damage it could.