Failed Electro

[Eeyore]

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Even so, the evidence suggests that nobody gets everything right, every time.

I (the company) sold a prototype to a client. We replaced it with a production
model about a year later but let them keep the original which they still have as
it was the first pro-mixer the venue had ever bought.

Obviously a very demanding and sophisticated customer.

They are. They just won Music Pub Of the Year award. AND are lined up for another
award later this year.
http://thehorn.co.uk/

I will be shortly installing a further upgrade still ( 3 way active DSP FOH speaker
controller).
http://www.dbxpro.com/pa/pa.htm

You won't find those in many pubs nor these ...... The pic on top is ours
http://www.allen-heath.com/US/gl2400.asp

Nor to mention a dedicated 32A feed to the amp rack on a CEE-form connector.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Even so, the evidence suggests that nobody gets everything right, every time.

I (the company) sold a prototype to a client. We replaced it with a production
model about a year later but let them keep the original which they still have as
it was the first pro-mixer the venue had ever bought.

Obviously a very demanding and sophisticated customer.

You're not wrong. The pre-production prototype worked just fine for that year before
they got a production model. Nary a problem. I only just recently discovered they
still have it actually and the boss said "we're not letting that one go" because it
was at that point that the the venue became 'professional'.

Graham

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:54:54 -0700 (PDT), bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
[snip]

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?

Yes.

There are more pausible hypotheses.

No.

...Jim Thompson
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[John Fields]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:46:19 -0700 (PDT), bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

On Aug 15, 2:31 pm, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@charter.net> wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote in message

news:a6469adc-3512-40af-b680-f96dee97906b@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com...

Of course it is good, but mind-rippingly good, insanely priced,
perfect-out-the-door good?

Amazing, isn't it?  Can you think back, way back, I know it's a stretch,
back when you were doing electronics, what your impressions were of your
first Tektronix 475?  One of the best instruments ever, perfectly good off
the shelf, and worth a bundle, brand new.

The knobs weren't as robust as they might have been - I had to replace
one of them once.

---
I don't believe they were meant to be operated by gorillas.

JF

 

[John Fields]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:54:54 -0700 (PDT), bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

On Aug 16, 2:32 am, Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:08:58 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have failed
not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When  people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

---
Yes.

For one, that you've always been a psychotic bastard but you needed to
work so you kept it more-or-less beneath the surface until you were
financially secure enough that you no longer needed to.

JF

 

[Eeyore]

John Fields wrote:

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have
failed not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

---
Yes.

For one, that you've always been a psychotic bastard but you needed to
work so you kept it more-or-less beneath the surface until you were
financially secure enough that you no longer needed to.

To call Sloman reasonable would be like considering Margaret Thatcher to have an
enlightened and forward-thinking mind.

Graham

 

On Aug 17, 1:29 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have failed
not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When  people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

SEE A DOCTOR ! Take a psychoanalytical test etc.

Normally I'd hesitate to take medical advice from someone who hasn't
had medical training, but since Graham is so practiced in finding out
about stuff in areas where he hasn't had the benefit of formal
education, his advice is this area has to be just as reliable as his
opinions about anthropogenic global warming.

I am seeing a doctor this evening, but he's a world class cancer
specialist rather than a psychiatrist.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

On Aug 17, 1:57 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:54:54 -0700 (PDT), bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:

[snip]



So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?

Yes.

There are more pausible hypotheses.

No.

None that Jim can think of; but then he really isn't too reliable on
subjects outside electronics, poor dear.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmeen

 

On Aug 17, 2:57 am, John Fields <jfie...@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:54:54 -0700 (PDT), bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
On Aug 16, 2:32 am, Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:08:58 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have failed
not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When  people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

---
Yes.

For one, that you've always been a psychotic bastard but you needed to
work so you kept it more-or-less beneath the surface until you were
financially secure enough that you no longer needed to.

There are others. The idea that pschotic behaviour could be suppressed
by social constraintsis somewhat unconventional

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis

and could really only be entertained by someone who was himself
somewhat out of touch with reality.

And the the timing doesn't work. I was "financially secure" before I
turned fifty.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

On Aug 17, 3:52 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

John Fields wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have
failed not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When  people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

---
Yes.

For one, that you've always been a psychotic bastard but you needed to
work so you kept it more-or-less beneath the surface until you were
financially secure enough that you no longer needed to.

To call Sloman reasonable would be like considering Margaret Thatcher to have an
enlightened and forward-thinking  mind.

Margaret Thatcher did have an enlightened and forward-thinking mind -
it was enlightened by a remarkably silly form of Chicago School
economics, so she directed a lot of thoroughly misguided effort into
schemes that she thought would make Britain more prosperous.

Eeyore ought to understand this, since his ideas about anthropogenic
global warming have a similar disconnecdtion with reality.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

On Aug 17, 1:36 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Even so, the evidence suggests that nobody gets everything right, every time.

I (the company) sold a prototype to a client. We replaced it with a production
model about a year later but let them keep the original which they still have as
it was the first pro-mixer the venue had ever bought.

Obviously a very demanding and sophisticated customer.

They are. They just won Music Pub Of the Year award. AND are lined up for another
award later this year.http://thehorn.co.uk/

I will be shortly installing a further upgrade still ( 3 way active DSP FOH speaker
controller).http://www.dbxpro.com/pa/pa.htm

You won't find those in many pubs nor these ...... The pic on top is ours http://www.allen-heath.com/US/gl2400.asp

Nor to mention a dedicated 32A feed to the amp rack on a CEE-form connector.

One of the well known problems of selling measuring instruments to the
brewing industry is that the people who use them tend to have a
relatively high blood alcohol level. They aren't always the most
discriminating of customers, and the gear they use has to have good
operator-error detection and thoroughly transparent error-recovery
procedures.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

[Eeyore]

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have
failed not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

SEE A DOCTOR ! Take a psychoanalytical test etc.

Normally I'd hesitate to take medical advice from someone who hasn't
had medical training, but since Graham is so practiced in finding out
about stuff in areas where he hasn't had the benefit of formal
education, his advice is this area has to be just as reliable as his
opinions about anthropogenic global warming.

I am seeing a doctor this evening, but he's a world class cancer
specialist rather than a psychiatrist.

Denial of the problem is the first sign ..... etc.

PLEASE see one Bill.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
John Fields wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have
failed not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

---
Yes.

For one, that you've always been a psychotic bastard but you needed to
work so you kept it more-or-less beneath the surface until you were
financially secure enough that you no longer needed to.

To call Sloman reasonable would be like considering Margaret Thatcher to have an
enlightened and forward-thinking mind.

Margaret Thatcher did have an enlightened and forward-thinking mind -
it was enlightened by a remarkably silly form of Chicago School
economics, so she directed a lot of thoroughly misguided effort into
schemes that she thought would make Britain more prosperous.

HAHA !

Eeyore ought to understand this,

I DO understand it. Which is why I quoted it.

since his ideas about anthropogenic
global warming have a similar disconnecdtion with reality.

The only one round here disconnected from reality is YOU. And I suspect it's a mild form
of mental illness, possibly depression related.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Kris Krieger wrote:

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job
applications have failed
not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She
can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the
company is an asshole.

When people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of
these jobs?" she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

SEE A DOCTOR ! Take a psychoanalytical test etc.

Normally I'd hesitate to take medical advice from someone who hasn't
had medical training, but since Graham is so practiced in finding out
about stuff in areas where he hasn't had the benefit of formal
education, his advice is this area has to be just as reliable as his
opinions about anthropogenic global warming.

I am seeing a doctor this evening, but he's a world class cancer
specialist rather than a psychiatrist.

I'm amazed you dignified that with a reply.

Bill's not dignified.

Graham

 

[Martin Griffith]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:49:27 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Eeyore wrote:

Denial of the problem is the first sign ..... etc.



Graham
'supose we could say the same tihng about you

martin

 

On Aug 18, 6:52 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
John Fields wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

<snip>

Margaret Thatcher did have an enlightened and forward-thinking mind -
it was enlightened by a remarkably silly form of Chicago School
economics, so she directed a lot of thoroughly misguided effort into
schemes that she thought would make Britain more prosperous.

HAHA !

Eeyore ought to understand this,

I DO understand it. Which is why I quoted it.

since his ideas about anthropogenic
global warming have a similar disconnection with reality.

The only one round here disconnected from reality is YOU. And I suspect it's a
mild form of mental illness, possibly depression related.

Yes, you do keep on telling us that we are out of contact with
reality. And you told us that the rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere
represents CO2 coming out of solution in the warming oceans.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

On Aug 18, 6:49 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote:
John Larkin wrote.

You don't work at all.

Much as I'd like to.

But you DON'T. I'm beginning to wonder now if your job applications have
failed not because of your age but your attitude.

I have a sister who is basically a psycho bitch from hell. She can't hold
a job, and of course it's always because everybody else at the company is
an asshole.

When  people ask her, "So, what's the common element in all of these jobs?"
she gets hostile.

Those people are better left to their own devices, I believe.

So I suddenly turned into a psychotic bastard when I turned 60? And
only with potential employers?
There are more pausible hypotheses.

SEE A DOCTOR ! Take a psychoanalytical test etc.

Normally I'd hesitate to take medical advice from someone who hasn't
had medical training, but since Graham is so practiced in finding out
about stuff in areas where he hasn't had the benefit of formal
education, his advice is this area has to be just as reliable as his
opinions about anthropogenic global warming.

I am seeing a doctor this evening, but he's a world class cancer
specialist rather than a psychiatrist.

Denial of the problem is the first sign ..... etc.

Then the 95% of the population who don't need psychiatric help would
be showing that very sign; I think you've exposed another defect in
your mastery of elementary logic.

PLEASE see one Bill.

Taking psychatric advice from someone without medical training - and
with obvious cognitive defects - would be a much clearer signal of
mental incompetence.

I think what Graham is claiming is that anybody who doesn't agree with
him must be crazy; I think that the Pope's claim to be infallible on
matters of faith and doctrine is silly enough, but at least he was
elected by the college of cardinals

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

On Aug 18, 8:14 am, Kris Krieger <m...@dowmuff.in> wrote:

Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com> wrote innews:48A89732.1E09B83F@hotmail.com:









Kris Krieger wrote:

bill.slo...@ieee.org wrote
[snip]

I am seeing a doctor this evening, but he's a world class cancer
specialist rather than a psychiatrist.

I'm amazed you dignified that with a reply.

Bill's not dignified.

Graham

But it's dignified to say something rude in retaliation...?  
Especially if he does have a need for the services of a cancer
specialist...?

I wasn't seeing him professionally - he and I were friends as
undergraduates, and the woman he eventually married was one of my
wife's best friends when she was an undergraduate.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

[Eeyore]

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

I think what Graham is claiming is that anybody who doesn't agree with
him must be crazy

It's a well-known FACT ! ;~)


Graham

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:55:44 -0500, Kris Krieger wrote:

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote in
On Aug 17, 1:29 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com
SEE A DOCTOR ! Take a psychoanalytical test etc.

Normally I'd hesitate to take medical advice from someone who hasn't

I'm amazed you dignified that with a reply.

Haven't you noticed he's a troll and will repond to ANY attention,
good or bad?

Cheers!
Rich