----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Oli Glaser" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [OT] If you still think there are no bad questions... When people think others are dumb I would like to tell about a fellow back= =20 in the 60s. When you worked for Western Electric you had to screw up real bad to get=20 fired. They hired one engineer that did not have the ability to do any job they=20 gave him. After being assigned to several departments it was decided that they would= =20 give him one last chance. He was assigned to the waveguide manufacturing department= .. As soon as he settled in he began to improve every thing they were doing. The last I heard he had some 30 + patents and some 20 + pending. He was so brilliant that they gave him his on area to work in with no one t= o=20 bother him and he had an unlimited budget to develop what he wanted. I worked with=20 Bell Labs some and very few people ever got With them what he got with Western Electric. He made them millions of dollars over many years but if Olin had= =20 been his boss he would have been labeled an idiot and fired. We can never tell what a person is like in the first few meetings. Derward Myricl PE KD5WWI --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .