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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:15:54 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

>On Nov 8, 4:47�pm, John Fields <jfie...@austininstruments.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:06:58 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman
>>
>> <bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:
>> >On Nov 7, 2:23�pm, John Fields <jfie...@austininstruments.com> wrote:
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>> >> Your inability to grok the relationship is no more my fault than is your
>> >> incessant prattle about that you'd like to be working but that no one
>> >> will have you and you don't want to set up a consultancy because...
>>
>> >I can't find any potential customers.
>>
>> >> well, insert any excuse which will keep you from having to do, in the
>> >> real world, what you must if you want what you want to happen and, when
>> >> it doesn't, to blame someone else for your failure, poor baby.
>>
>> "I can't find any potential customers." Is a dandy excuse.
>
>And a compelling reason not to invest more time and money in what
>turned out to be an unrealitic idea. Some excuses do happen to be
>valid.
>
>> >My situation may not be ideal, but it's much too comfortable for me
>> >to need sympathy.
>>
>> ---
>> It's not sympathy, it's sarcasm, and if its "comfortable" enough for
>> you to not need to look for work then, in reality, you probably don't
>> want to work.
>
>Your attempts at sarcasm are noted, but they are on a par with your
>attempts at logic.

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Which you don't get, either.
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>The fact that I don't need to work doesn't mean that I don't want to
>work, but it does mean that I can reject boring work, like stacking
>shelves at the local supermarket. The local employment situation has
>perked up enough that I fianlly found a local job I could apply for
>earlier this week, not that I think that I've got much chance of
>getting it.

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Wishful thinking, perhaps?
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>> Since your unfamiliarity with the device itself from a hands-on point of
>> view suggests that you only learned about the problem from Kamenzind's
>> book, I suggest you're the one suffering from a lack of circuit design
>> experience since the rest of us generally solved the problem by
>> connecting an adequate reservoir capacitor across the chip's supply
>> terminals.
>
>How very clever of you. What do you do when that isn't enough? 

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Read the next sentence.
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>> With the advent of CMOS 555s, however, (Maxim's ICM7555 for instance)
>> the problem has been eliminated.
>
>Idiot.

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The problem _hasn't_ been eliminated, then???

Check page 6 of:

http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/ICM7555-ICM7556.pdf

For Maxim's take on it.
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>> >Those of his circuits that I worked with were not easy to use but they
>> >did work.
>>
>> A poor workman blames his tools.
>
>Because a good workman finds or makes good tools.

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And you made easier to use versions of his chips?
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>> >I don't seem to do jealousy.
>>
>> You don't seem to see it.
>
>Because it doesn't exist.

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If you can't see it then of course you'd think it didn't exist.
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>> >> Educated adults can, if they "get it", enjoy the multiple meanings and
>> >> glean wisdom from Disney's presentations.
>>
>> >Multiple meanings and wisdom in Disney's presentations? Who do you
>> >think you are kidding?
>>
>> Well, if you don't get it you can't see it.
>
>If it isn't there, you can't see it.

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Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.
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>> >> Your hatred of all things non-Sloman turns your light down even further.
>>
>> >"Hatred"? I dislike pretentious nonsense and satirise it when I can.
>>
>> And yet I see no self-referential satire in anything you write.
>
>You don't see much, do you.

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Show me some self-referential satire, then.

JF