I am the OP...and I laughed...totally laughed...at
this one.  I prefaced by saying....I don't want to
sound like an idiot, but its good to be one now and
then.  Every villiage needs an idiot...it was my turn
to be one.


--- ThePicMan <thepicman@infinito.it> wrote:
> At 09.10 2005.04.14 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
> >>Sent: 14 April 2005 08:45
> >>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> >>Subject: Re: [PIC]: 18F choices
> >>
> >>
> >>At 19.41 2005.04.13 +0100, you wrote:
> >>>> In the end we all benefit by knowing that any
> application 
> >>running on 
> >>>> a dsPIC is guaranteed to be advanced or "cool".
>  Think 
> >>about it.  Do 
> >>>> you really want an invasion of unwashed newbies
> asking questions 
> >>>> about how to blink an LED on a dsPIC?  Geesh,
> talk about pearls 
> >>>> before swine!
> >>>
> >>>I laughed so hard on this one.... i never laughed
> this hard for any 
> >>>other
> >>>piclist post before!!!
> >>
> >>Sure, although the OP must have felt very insulted
> by Olin's 
> >>sarchastic reply when it is Olin that failed to
> understand 
> >>what the OP meant.
> >>
> >>At least I know I'm not alone in my interpretation
> that the OP 
> >>meant that the dsPIC perhaps needed extra parts
> (RAM, ROM, 
> >>etc..), as most++ other DSP's.
> >>
> >>I wouldn't be surprised if he now thinks that the
> PICLIST is a 
> >>place full of unfriendly presumptuos people.. and
> leaves. One 
> >>more on Olin's (long) record.
> >>
> >>Do you still laugh out loud?
> >
> >You are being presumptious and apparently naive.  I
> showed Olins post to
> >my wife. She laughed and she has never programmed a
> micro in her life,
> >and has never heard of a dsPIC.  If the humourous
> tone of Olins message
> >was clear to such an "outsider", it's pretty sad
> that a piclist member
> >instantly jumps to the wrong conclusions.
> 
> We should standardize your wife then.
> 
> 
> >Regards
> >
> >Mike
> >
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