From: bill.sloman@ieee.org
On 6/11/2025 2:30 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 17:41:39 +1100, Bill Sloman
> wrote:
>
>> On 5/11/2025 7:35 am, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 06:36:28 +1100, Bill Sloman
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/11/2025 12:37 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 14:37:16 +1100, Bill Sloman
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/11/2025 2:20 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 03:02:15 -0000 (UTC), antispam@fricas.org (Waldek
>>>>>>> Hebisch) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 2 Nov 2025 03:00:54 +1100, Bill Sloman
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 2/11/2025 2:38 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:46:51 GMT, Jan Panteltje
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> You don't like him, and are obsessed with him, because he has common
>>>>> sense, and he's on our side, and is winning.
>>>>
>>>> I certainly don't like Donald Trump. I'm equally certainly not obsessed
>>>> with him, but he has power, and he is using it to disrupt international
>>>> trade, and to reduce US investment in science.
>>>>
>>>> His idea that human-induced global warming is some kind of hoax is
>>>> totally demented - even if it i a delusion you share.
>>>>
>>>> Despite your gullible delusions, he doesn't have any common sense at
>>>> all. He's certainly not on your side - he's on an ego trip, and is
>>>> exploiting his position as President of the United States of America to
>>>> make money for himself and his family, and to feed his self-esteem - his
>>>> obsession with getting a Nobel Peace Prize is a little too obvious for
>>>> comfort.
>>>>
>>>> One has to wonder what you think he is winning (apart from the money
>>>> he's collecting for himself and his family). The US economy is being
>>>> slowed down by the tariffs he's now collecting at the borders, which are
>>>> essentially a tax on imports paid by the US population on the goods they
>>>> import.
>>>>
>>>> His health secretary - RFK - denies being anti-vaccination, but US
>>>> vaccination rates are going down and diseases which were well-controlled
>>>> by vaccination are now on the rise in the US.
>>>>
>>>> If you think that this is "winning", you have a very strange idea of
>>>> success, but you do have a lot of very strange ideas.
>>>
>>> Of course I have a lot of strange ideas. People buy them.
>>
>> That doesn't automatically make them good ideas.
>
> My definition is that important people buy our stuff because they
> can't find anything better.
Niche markets work like that. People buy the least worst product they
know about.
If there's only one product in the market it can still sell, even if it
is pretty horrible. The Lintech electron beam testing electron
microscope was a classic example. It had an eighteen month order book
when Schlumberger hired one of Lintech's engineers and got him to build
them a debugged version - Mike Engelhart of LTSpice fame was part of his
team. Once the Schlumberger machine hit the market, Lintech never sold
another machine, and closed down after they'd shipped all their existing
orders. Schlumberger had a long order book by then, and Samsung got
desperate enough to order a Lintech machine, but the order arrived a few
hours after the company had shut down. Cambridge Instrument bought up
Lintech's assets and eventually delivered a Lintech machine to Samsung.
> The new thing involves burst digitizing thousands of big current
> spikes. I can only speculate on the physics right now.
But you can't tell us enough to let us speculate too.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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