There were no broken bones; there was some damage to the sensory spinal nerves although no significant motor impairment. I took 12 hour slow release morphine twice a day for pain relief for two years. Lovely stuff, but I feel much older now.
Posted on 10/26/2012 8:50:06 PM PDT by null and void
I am older than any of you so do what I say, then leave me alone!
I am aware that matlab is one of many tools at my disposal.
I’ll bet we have more tools at our disposal than you do. We can do Matlab or we can tweak pots. Whatever it takes. But I guarantee we can smoke your old ass in any situation.
One of the things I try to teach the young fellows is who the end user is and what do they need?
I try to get them to keep maintenance in mind in the field.
I think we build a better product that way for folks under fire.
I try to get the egghead in the foxhole.
Whateveh
Punk! LOL
Yeah, we think of all that stuff. We consider the maintenance angle. We consider the user angle. We engineer the hell out of our stuff. And trust me, we know what solder is.
See, you miss my first rule of respect for military gear.
I want this stuff to serve the fellow who uses it and maintains it.
Maybe your Cal Poly *** can crunch numbers with tools that old geezers built for you, but you have to respect everyone in the process for the process to be valid.
Let us snark no more.
I am just telling you my experience.
I wasn’t ragging on young fellows or old fellows.
I find that experience is the best school.
I just said we keep that stuff in mind. We sweat bullets making sure our stuff works in the field.
We can crunch numbers from top to bottom using tools or doing it by hand. Granted we may have to go to a book to do it by hand. But we can do that. No problem.
In any case we get more done by lunchtime than you could do in a week or more.
We were on the same page until your last punkass line of commentary.
No doubt!
Yeah, well, that’s how it goes I guess.
Gnight FRiend.
I can hardly keep my old eyes open.
LOL
How did you get my picture? Are you the guy that stole my bridge? And my 8 oz bottle of Viagra?
I knew I was old when Mrs. Howell started looking good.
Old coots
That revolutionized the world.. Jack Kilby
http://www.kera.org/tv/productions/the-chip-that-jack-built-2009/
Gravitas is that when you are so old your ass has given into gravity?
Mel
That is why we old folks invented Matlab, Mathmatica, Excel, Lotus 123.
I tell my young coworkers that their calculations are wrong, and give them the left most two digits for the correct answer.
They say “If you know the answer, why did you ask me?” Of course I assigned the problem to them to get the third through 6th digits.
I’m still breathing... does that count ?
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