Alan Balmer wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:58:18 GMT, onestone
> <onestoneXYZ@ABCbigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> >Alan Balmer wrote:
> >
> >> Tell us - what is your expertise in embedded systems? You haven't seen
> >> fit to share any of it yet, which would be appropriate before
> >> maligning others.
> >
> I apologize for not having done the research before. You have indeed
> made useful though irregular contributions to the group. In your
> latest round, though (starting June 11) your very first word was
> "Bullshit", and things have deteriorated from there.
>
> >I haven't posted here for some time. I used to post quite regularly
> >until the groups got swamped by flame wars and self appointed net cops.
>
> We hadn't had a flame war here for some time, until the current one
> was triggered by some particularly obnoxious top-poster/non-snipper.
> You didn't start it, but you jumped right in calling those who
> disagreed with you bigots, and adding further insult by expressing
> agreement with something unspecified in the 145 lines which followed
> your contribution.
>
> >  I used to come here for a little pleasure, and to see if I could
> >perhaps be of help to someone, but the recent influx of narrow minded
> >bigots has taken all pleasure away from the experience. I still try to
> >help, of course, but you can't sway a religious fanatic into believing
> >there's more than one way to do things..
>
> Obviously. Well, I shall attempt rational discourse with religious
> fanatics no longer. Top post all you like. Bye, now.
>
> --
> Al Balmer
> Balmer Consulting
> removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net

It is amazing how many posts one mis-spelling can cause.

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:58:18 GMT, onestone
<onestoneXYZ@ABCbigpond.net.au> wrote:

>Alan Balmer wrote:
>
>> Tell us - what is your expertise in embedded systems? You haven't seen
>> fit to share any of it yet, which would be appropriate before
>> maligning others.
>
I apologize for not having done the research before. You have indeed
made useful though irregular contributions to the group. In your
latest round, though (starting June 11) your very first word was
"Bullshit", and things have deteriorated from there.

>I haven't posted here for some time. I used to post quite regularly 
>until the groups got swamped by flame wars and self appointed net cops. 

We hadn't had a flame war here for some time, until the current one
was triggered by some particularly obnoxious top-poster/non-snipper.
You didn't start it, but you jumped right in calling those who
disagreed with you bigots, and adding further insult by expressing
agreement with something unspecified in the 145 lines which followed
your contribution.

>  I used to come here for a little pleasure, and to see if I could 
>perhaps be of help to someone, but the recent influx of narrow minded 
>bigots has taken all pleasure away from the experience. I still try to 
>help, of course, but you can't sway a religious fanatic into believing 
>there's more than one way to do things..

Obviously. Well, I shall attempt rational discourse with religious
fanatics no longer. Top post all you like. Bye, now.

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net

Alan Balmer wrote:

> Tell us - what is your expertise in embedded systems? You haven't seen
> fit to share any of it yet, which would be appropriate before
> maligning others.

I haven't posted here for some time. I used to post quite regularly 
until the groups got swamped by flame wars and self appointed net cops. 
  I used to come here for a little pleasure, and to see if I could 
perhaps be of help to someone, but the recent influx of narrow minded 
bigots has taken all pleasure away from the experience. I still try to 
help, of course, but you can't sway a religious fanatic into believing 
there's more than one way to do things..

  There are many here who know me.  I have nearly 35 years experience as 
an engineer and designer. I have managed the systems division of a US 
corporation, consulted to Stoke Mandeville spinal injury unit, the VA 
rehab centre in Palo Alto, and the USAF, among others, and employed many 
engineers over the years in my own companies.

Within the last 2 years I've developed systems for military use which 
are under trials in the US. A 14 frame per second 4 image per frame, 
image processing system, based on an MSP430 ($600k in systems sold since 
shipping #1 last July). A non-intrusive scanning device which can detect 
tumours within 1cm of the skin surface before they reach pin head size, 
about to start clinical trials. And an adaptive pain suppression system, 
currently being trialled.  I did want to enter the DARPA autonomous UGV 
contest, but they only allowed US residents to play, and travel is a 
bitch these days. Not much I know, but I've had to fit spinal surgeries, 
and a pretty nasty bout of diverticulitis in between work. Hopefully 
I'll do better next year.

> 
> But I forgot, you're handicapped.

Call it what you will, at least I'm not hampered by a narrow mind.

> I just realized what  it is - one
> stone. While I'm sympathetic for your loss, that really shouldn't
> affect your performance much.

I guess that has to be an American joke. It doesn't play in English.

Al

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:00:51 GMT, Scott Moore <samiam@moorecad.com>
wrote:

>Simple. Real time is an operating system that has been constructed
>correctly. Your desktop operating system cannot be used as real
>time operating system because it was designed by people who would
>not know a real time operating system if it fell on them.

I don't think you can say a non-real-time operating system is
incorrectly designed.  It just has different goals.  

For example, A desktop operating system (especially multi-user
systems) try to be "fair" when allocating system resources.  An RTOS
tries to be "correct."  An RTOS has no qualms about starving a
philosopher, if that's what's required.

Regards,

                               -=Dave
-- 
Change is inevitable, progress is not.

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:10:32 GMT, onestone
<onestoneXYZ@ABCbigpond.net.au> wrote:

>"Self appointed GOD" was the phrase used, stooping to misquotes? 

? That wasn't a quote. 

>You'd 
>make a good politician, blinkered perspective and all, perhaps you'd 
>have more success there than your sig seems to indicate you're having at 
>embedded systems? Just trying to be helpful.

Tell us - what is your expertise in embedded systems? You haven't seen
fit to share any of it yet, which would be appropriate before
maligning others.

But I forgot, you're handicapped. I just realized what  it is - one
stone. While I'm sympathetic for your loss, that really shouldn't
affect your performance much.
>
>Al
>
>Guy Macon wrote:
>
>> 
>> BTW, there is no need to call me "God."  "Guy" will suffice. :)
>> 

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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"Self appointed GOD" was the phrase used, stooping to misquotes? You'd 
make a good politician, blinkered perspective and all, perhaps you'd 
have more success there than your sig seems to indicate you're having at 
embedded systems? Just trying to be helpful.

Al

Guy Macon wrote:

> 
> BTW, there is no need to call me "God."  "Guy" will suffice. :)
> 

Guy Macon wrote:
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> says...
>> onestone wrote:
>>>
>>> [...] internet God [...]
>>
>> And the unteachable annoyance fails to snip 70 odd lines of
>> irrelevant quotation, while irritating the world with YATP.  PLONK
> 
> Soon he will be plonked by everyone here and we can go back to
> discussing embedded systems without a yapping (yatping?) little
> dog bothering us.

Yet Another Top Posting.  Blood brother to YACC.

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   Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>  USE worldnet address!

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> says...
>
>onestone wrote:
>> 
>> [...] internet God [...]
>
>And the unteachable annoyance fails to snip 70 odd lines of
>irrelevant quotation, while irritating the world with YATP.  PLONK

Soon he will be plonked by everyone here and we can go back to
discussing embedded systems without a yapping (yatping?) little 
dog bothering us.

BTW, there is no need to call me "God."  "Guy" will suffice. :)

Getting back to the subject of QNX, it has been a while since I 
used it on a project. I usually work on the low end (4-bit uP with
64 nybbles of RAM) but the next time I find myself needing a high
end RTOS for PC hardware, I will be looking at Embedded Linux and
at QNX.  My experience with QNX was very positive.


-- 
Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire. 
Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you 
have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like 
Doc Brown can solve?  My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/ 
 

onestone wrote:
> 
> And here the self appointed internet God fails to mark his post
> as Off Topic, thus inconveniencing everybody once again

And the unteachable annoyance fails to snip 70 odd lines of
irrelevant quotation, while irritating the world with YATP.  PLONK

-- 
Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net)
   Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>  USE worldnet address!

And here the self appointed internet God fails to mark his post as Off 
Topic, thus inconveniencing everybody once again

Guy Macon wrote:

> Neil Kurzman <nsk@mail.asb.com> says...
> 
>>Alan Balmer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 03:35:51 GMT, Neil Kurzman <nsk@mail.asb.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>good if your breaks where delayed because you changed the radio station.
>>>
>>>I hate it when I have to delay my breaks. But it would be more serious
>>>if my brakes didn't work while driving.
>>
>>Sorry my context sensitive spell checker missed that one.
> 
> 
> 
> The Spellchecker Song:
> 
> I have a spelling checker. 
> It came with my Pea Sea. 
> It plane lee marks four my revue 
> Miss steaks aye can knot see.
> 
> Eye ran this poem threw it. 
> Your sure real glad two no. 
> Its very polished in its weigh, 
> My checker tolled me sew.
> 
> A checker is a blessing. 
> It freeze yew lodes of thyme. 
> It helps me right awl stiles two reed, 
> And aides me when aye rime.
> 
> Each frays comes posed up on my screen 
> Eye trussed too bee a joule. 
> The checker pours o'er every word 
> To cheque sum spelling rule.
> 
> Bee fore a veiling checkers 
> Hour spelling mite decline, 
> And if we're laks oar have a laps, 
> We wood bee maid too wine.
> 
> Butt now bee cause my spelling 
> Is checked with such grate flare, 
> There are know faults with in my cite, 
> Of nun eye am a wear.
> 
> Now spelling does not phase me, 
> It does knot bring a tier. 
> My pay purrs awl due glad den 
> With wrapped words fare as hear.
> 
> To rite with care is quite a feet 
> Of witch won should be proud, 
> And wee mussed dew the best wee can, 
> Sew flaws are knot aloud.
> 
> Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays 
> Such soft wear four pea seas, 
> And why eye brake in two averse 
> Buy righting want too please.
> 
> 

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