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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Tell me about electric blankets
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.074234.19477@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec26.060658.18248@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:42:34 GMT
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- kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec26.092022.3114@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- : >
- : >I am me, not the company. So far, they have not chosen to censor me.
- : >I do not expect them to do so for my using a non-pc term.
- :
- : You certainly have a right to say whatever you want, and I would never
- : suggest that you should be censored. On the other hand, choosing to
- : sprinkle your language with vulgarities often suggests that you're rather
- : crude and uneducated, which looks bad when you're working for an employeer
- : that doesn't employ crude and uneducated people.
-
- So. I used one word that some people to consider to be vulgar, and you get
- upset. It is also a word in common usage - yes, even among employees of my
- company. Anyone who assumes anything about my employer, from what I post,
- is a fool.
-
- As an aside, how often, in my thousands of postings I have made over the
- years, have you seen what you consider to be a "vulgarity"?
-
- ... delided ...
-
- : current vector J), such as through a wire at a given, non-changing current,
- : products only a magnetic field, and not an electric field. Period, amen.
- : (At least in a Maxwellian Universe, which is very close to what we're
- : talking about here.)
-
- : Trust me. Hook up one of your HP constant current power supplies to a coil
- : of wire or a resistor. Set it to pump out 1A DC, constant current. I
- : guarantee you that any E field you measure by the coil is not being
- : produced by that coil. (Try inducing a voltage in another nearby coil for
- : starts. It isn't going to happen, because you need an EM field to induce
- : voltages, and you only have a M field.)
-
- Nope - all you have to do is move the other coil. It is a simple high
- school physics experiment. Any conductor moving in that field is going
- to generate a changing electric current, with its associated electic field.
-
- : >: P.S. -- Which division of HP do you work for? Certainly not one where
- : >: they do anything with fields and waves?
- : >
- : >What does that have to do with my training? One of the people in my
- : >group got his degree in religious studies. He still is one of the
- : >brightest engineers in the division.
- :
- : I would hope that he has an engineering degree (or a science degree)
- : _as well_. I think it's rather obvious what training in a given field has
- : to do with one's knowledge on the subject: It tends to lend credibility to
- : your arguments.
-
- Nope - he doesn't. Nor do quite a few other engineers in the company. The
- company has always been willing to employ people for what they can accompish,
- not which particular piece of paper they happen to possess.
-
- In the more technical engineering programs, you learn little more than
- fundamentals. The rest, you learn on the job - or in specialized training
- that you take while working.
-
- Bill
-