John Larkin wrote:

but you did it on abse, so it isn't archived.

Convenient.

Yes it is. I even checked my Sent archive, but I had flushed it
around that time frame. It probably exists in your Sent folder,
though.

You were frustrated at the time,

I was not. I rant about horrible programming on a regular basis.

Oh seriously John, you were telling us all about how bad the
programmer that worked on the code for your arbitrary pulse
generator was, and how you were going buckle down, do some all
nighters and write it yourself. If that isn't frustration talking,
then I guess I don't know the meaning of the word.

but I have noticed a tendency for
you to paint with a broad brush...

It's a newsgroup; it ain't life.

Perhaps, but the stuff you write, like the stuff I write, is
a snapshot of how you think... or perhaps react.

and to take single occurrences as
being the rule, rather than the exception (eg. your wife's car, one
incompetent programmer...).

I can't help what you think you notice or what you think you remember.

??? You just told us, and I quote:

CH If you are worrying about your car "immobilizing" and leaving you in a
CH snow storm, then your life is indeed dominated by low-probability
CH fears.
JL That's not low probability. My wife's car did that to her, after the
JL battery died. We found the responsible box and ripped it out, but it
JL was a pain.

You have told us of a one time occurrence in some miscellaneous car your
wife was driving, but from that one experience, you seem to think it is
not a low probability issue. Why, because it happened to you?

The only significant difference I note in the EE program from when I took
it in the '70's is Chemistry has been reduced, I needed 8 credits inorganic,
and 4 credits organic, and Statics and Dynamics are gone. I consider both
to be a shame, because I learned many important lessons from each.

OK, now extrapolate to not taking electromagnetics or signals/systems
or thermo.

I can easily make that extrapolation, but that isn't the issue. From the
casual searching around I have done, Electromagnetics is a core part of all
of the EE programs I have found.

The last two ee's I hired did come from big-name schools where
electromagnetics and sigs/sys were electives. It's doubly ironic that
many ee's are skipping stuff like materials science and thermo and
electromagnetics, as many electronics designs are becoming dominated
by heat and propagation speed/crosstalk/emi issues.
Can you find an example of an accredited EE program that is missing
electromagnetics from the core curriculum?

If you want to call me a liar, do your own research.

I am not calling you a liar. You have access to the names of the
"big-name" schools that graduates EE's without Electromagnetics.
I thought you might be willing to enlighten us as to which schools
those were.

As I told you, my searching found Electromagnetics to be a core part
of all of the EE programs I looked into. I am seriously interested in the
programs you found that didn't include Electromagnetics. I want to
be sure that my son avoids those schools.

-Chuck

"Hal Murray" wrote in message
...
snip

I used a PIC to blink a LED a while ago. It's got one input, a PPS
(Pulse Per Second) signal from a GPS. The LED is solid on if the PPS
ticks every second. The LED blinks if it is stuck high or low.

How do I do that with a 555?


You build a missing pulse detector using the 555....quite easily
accomplished
actually.