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>> Don't worry, I know exactly how you feel, I am at the end of a 3-day
>> "supplier evaluation workshop" from our largest customer - and I have a
>> ton of action items that need to be completed by lunchtime Monday...
>
> Well, I suppose to some extent my plight isn't quite as bad as the project
> manager for the new building. We were supposed to take ownership on 17
> March. However, somebody wheeled some heavy item into the recention area
> and cracked several floor tiles. This caused them to have to retile the
> reception area.
How about this one:
Me: "Hey, electrical engineer dude, what is the maximum current our product
will draw from the power supply?"
<some hours of calculation later>
"2.8 amps"
"OK, well our target is 1.2A, are you sure you can't improve that?"
<some more hours later>
"OK we reduced the maximum to 1.8A"
(WTF!)
"OK I will inform the customer and see what they say"
<some days later>
Customer: "1.2A is the absolute maximum available, if you want more than
that your product won't work. end of story."
"Hey engineer dude, we really need to meet this 1.2A target"
<some 20 minutes later>
"OK I think we can meet it, tell them it's ok"
Now, I *really* cannot wait until we make the first samples of this product
and see how much power it actually uses :-)
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:11:32 +0200, "scott" <sco### [at] scott com> wrote:
>How about this one:
>
>Me: "Hey, electrical engineer dude, what is the maximum current our product
>will draw from the power supply?"
><some hours of calculation later>
>"2.8 amps"
>"OK, well our target is 1.2A, are you sure you can't improve that?"
><some more hours later>
[Snipe]
LOL
It depends how you define Amps and "1.2"
--
Regards
Stephen
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> LOL
> It depends how you define Amps and "1.2"
I'd imagine it's going to be defined exactly how the person who designed the
power supply defined it :-)
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
> > Why does that all of the sudden make me feel as if I'm one of the
> > mole-people.
> >
> > "Thriving community down here, in the deep recesses of the underground."
> >
> > :)
>
> I always liked to thing of POV-Ray, and especially off-topic, as an
> elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and
> programmers...
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
"...an elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and
programmers..." Yes, I like that...
But some of us out here are so asocial that we're even more invisible than
Invisible (me for instance)... Yeah, I admit it, I'm a lurker. I've spent SO
much time reading the posts on these forums, for years now, but I hardly ever
post anything myself. Of course my World of Warcraft addiction has occupied
most of my free time for a couple of years. I'm trying to come out of my shell a
bit though, so we'll see...
Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic around your
(mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome work!
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On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:51 -0400, Robert McGregor wrote:
> Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic
> around your (mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome
> work!
Agreed - and I'm *so* glad there's an RSS feed for it, now I don't miss
it ever, just part of my morning comics routine. :-)
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:51 -0400, Robert McGregor wrote:
>
>> Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic
>> around your (mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome
>> work!
>
> Agreed - and I'm *so* glad there's an RSS feed for it, now I don't miss
> it ever, just part of my morning comics routine. :-)
>
Yup. Me, too ..
Its amazing to me that a comic with no actual drawn character could work
so well. It really brings to light that it's the writing and not the
drawing that really creates a good comic. You could even draw stick
figures (see XKCD) and make a good comic, it truly is all in the writing.
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And lo on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:09 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
did spake, saying:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> Why does that all of the sudden make me feel as if I'm one of the
>> mole-people.
>> "Thriving community down here, in the deep recesses of the
>> underground."
>> :)
>
> I always liked to thing of POV-Ray, and especially off-topic, as an
> elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and
> programmers...
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them,
maybe you can hire the POV-Team; dum dum dum, dum dum da.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Its amazing to me that a comic with no actual drawn character could work
> so well. It really brings to light that it's the writing and not the
> drawing that really creates a good comic. You could even draw stick
> figures (see XKCD) and make a good comic, it truly is all in the writing.
...or, converstly, even if I could draw I'd still make a suckworthy
comic. :-/
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Phil Cook wrote:
> If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find
> them, maybe you can hire the POV-Team; dum dum dum, dum dum da.
Not... The P Team! o_O
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
>
> ...or, converstly, even if I could draw I'd still make a suckworthy
> comic. :-/
>
Not a good writer, eh? Neither am I. I don't have what it takes to make
a comic that people would continually return to and enjoy. Not only
that, but when something is just a hobby or side project often life gets
in the way and I wind up not being able to see it through. Funny how I
can complete huge projects at work, but stuff I do in my free time gets
sidelined so much... :/
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