At 10:52 PM 7/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
>After all this talk to date on extending bulb life, etc., one simply has to
>ask:
>
>        "How many PIC'engineers does it take to change a light bulb?"

I get 74:

4 to argue that the light doesn't need to be changed
17 to investigate alternative LED and CF technologies
2 to complain about existing CF lamps
4 to go buy diodes and resistors to put in series
7 to make provocative political statements
3 to write PIC assembler code to ramp the light up
1 to write another version in C
2 to design the hardware and actually change the lamp
34 to try to reduce the assembler code by one instruction as a 'challenge'

Oh, and additional 3 P.E.s to argue that many of the other people are
not really engineers at all and one more to complain that the count is off.

Best regards,



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