> >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.

Don't forget the 6 who try to unsubscribble.

Ask Dmitry, he'll say 12.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

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