Why the common emmiter

John Larkin wrote: (snip)

My oldest posts (before my emailer had spell checking) were a mess. I still can't seem to write the word "to" as anything but "ot" and have to go back and correct it most of the time. It was in my spell checker (I assume as an acronym for off topic or old testament or something), but I managed to delete ot from the dictionary, so the spell checker now catches those. I can read something I am composing, and it looks fine, but as soon as I see it in a reply or in, Google, all the errors jump out at me. I used to get pissed about writing so poorly, but it didn't help, so I gave it up.

Rich Grise wrote: (snip)

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When I was trained as a cashier (at age 15) I was taught to always lay the tendered money on the shelf above the cash drawer, till the customer had accepted his change and left. Then to put it in the drawer, close it and serve the next customer.

That way, if there was a question about what was given, the dispute was easily settled. My employer was not so much worried about my mistakes but with people intentionally scamming me by claiming they had given me a big bill and were short changed. A couple times people didn't notice where I put their money and started protesting loudly about being short changed, but quickly bowed out when I picked up their payment and showed it to them. Sadly, it seems that such practices and how to count out change are becoming a lost art.

I have a few words I often mis-type. "Status" is one, and "the" sometimes comes out "teh."

status status stayst status stayus

see?

John

Yup. And he writes awfully well, period. You're no slouch, either.

Ed

I do and see that a lot.

For a few years, I could not type 'ratio' without it coming out 'ration', automatically. I finally got tired of missing it (the spell checker is no help) and now every time (well, almost every time) I type 'ratio', I slow down and force myself to leave the 'n' off. But the fingers always put up an argument. "t-i-o is always followed by n, dammit."

A lot of my typing errors are homonyms. Weird.

Not that I can type... I'm still a two-finger, gotta-see-the-keyboard typer. That's probably why I'm a pretty good programmer... I type slow enough to think about what I'm doing.

John

^^^^^^^

See? Can't spell!

John

Gee, John. No one is perfect. If you were someone would want to nail you to a cross. :)

Unless, of course, you live in the southern hemisphere ...

Mark

too

Don't be silly. Nobody lives in the southern hemisphere.

John

too

Of course nobody lives there permanently. However, the scientists in Antarctica do need to account for the transistors in their equipment running in "inverted down-under" mode. If transistor-inversion were not accounted for properly in their data analysis, then we'd all be hearing reports (erroneously) of the south pole's ozone **surplus**.

Thankfully, we are smart enough to know better.

Mark

follower) too

Don't be silly. The scientists are smart enough to turn their equipment upside down so it works, just like it does in the real world.

Does anybody remember the dual emitter transistor? You could have common emitter-emitter, or common emitter and common base at the same time.

John

I only remeber the dual gate fet that had a wire ring around all the leads that you removed after the fet was installed. And if you wanted to remove the fet from the circuit you needed to wrap some wire around the leads to avoid static. But it never worked since the wire would come loose and the thing was always dead when I got it back in the circuit.

-Bill

emmiter ?

follower) too

You give them too much credit. It was one of their technicians who said to them, "Hey! We can turn the equipment upside down so it works, just like it does in the real world!"

LOL

Mark

Do you always have to state the obvious?

When was the last time a research team admitted, "While we were sleeping off three weeks of heavy drinking, one of our lowly techs figured everything out. The theory, and the required equipment to prove the theory. He then designed and built the required device and wrote the documentation. After we saw that it worked, we shot him and dumped his body down an abandoned well so the truth would never come out."