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Tom Bruhns wrote:
> On May 2, 2:33 pm, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Joerg" <notthisjoerg...@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
>>
>> news:LWKSj.8203$iK6.2303@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...
>>
>>> For EEs the reason is that while they are motivated most never had exposure
>>> to real hardware. Because everything was given to them. When their radio,
>>> toy, whatever broke they just got new one and chucked the broken one.
>> Yes, although starting somewhere in the '80s even if they had wanted to repair
>> the old one it became substantially harder as more and more discrete
>> components ended up inside of hard-to-source ICs.  I wonder if there are even
>> any professional TV reapair shops left that troubleshoot to the component
>> level rather than just the module level?  (Since of course with labor costs
>> being what they are relative to new modules cost, it's generally cheaper not
>> to do so.)
>>
>> ---Joel
> 
> My cousin was driven out of that business quite a few years ago.
> Things got both more reliable and more expensive to fix if they did
> break, and at the same time, the feature set introduction rate
> increased, making it less attractive to keep the old stuff; now it's
> replaced even if it is working, just to get new features.
> 
> But I don't agree that the current crop of EE grads are inferior; they
> are simply different.  Not as large a percentage are into the same
> sort of hardware that was designed 20 years ago, but then we're not
> designing that sort of hardware now anyway.  An FPGA in BGA running
> GHz clock rates on serial ports isn't something you can plug into a
> little white breadboard, but inside that part can easily be logic that
> would have spilled over ten large logic boards 20 years ago.  The new
> grads we've hired in the last few years don't have the same skill set
> as new grads of 20 years ago, but I also don't see them being afraid
> to do hardware designs.
> 
> I'd also be happy to trade some of the 50+ year old long-time drivers
> I see on the road around here for some much younger ones that have
> gone through driver education and licensing in Germany recently.  Time
> behind the wheel doesn't cure idiotic behavior.  One might hope the
> worst of the idiots would kill themselves off, but there always seem
> to be more to take their places.
> 

Whew, good ... I did drivers ed and license in Germany. Then again in 
the US. But I'm not young :-(

The insurance companies saw that differently after we moved across the 
pond. "You guys are all related to Michael Schumacher". -> Decline to 
quote :-(

-- 
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