I just got off the phone with HP customer care. No tricks, no run alongs, just some info and a shipping box on its way.
I used to use this laptop as a space heater on cold winter nights. Many memories sitting around it, roasting marshmallows and sipping cider...
SAP is one of the worst programs I have ever tried to use. Our company switched over to SAP and it has cost us more in paid time trying to get it functional than the darn licensing. Thankfully we do not use it for payroll... yet.
Common sense doesn't always enter the mind of an engineer (I am an EE by the way), and I have seen my fair share of nonsensical acts and ideas in my years at an engineering college. Hell I came up with quite a few myself, but I have never seen one this blatantly ignorant before.
We have: a prototyping board with a battery strapped to it, an image of a man on fire, a hand full of putty, and an attitude. I feel absolutely zero sympathy for her. If she would have taken a couple seconds to say "I'm an engineer and I enjoy building things. Here is what this does..." or not been playing with a putty, things could have turned out much different.
If you want to get into the nuts and bolts of EE design outside of PICs and microprocessors, Hambley was my text book for several of my undergraduate classes. It will tell you everything you wanted to know (and some stuff you didn't) about MOSFET/BJT physics and design.
For a more info and practice with more basic stuff (resistor networks, AC and DC fundamentals, etc) try Robbins and Miller. I used this one throughout my first year.
Most of my Optoelectronics senior project was design work from Hambley. Bounce a laser off a window into a home made phototransistor, two gains stages, one push-pull amplifier stage, and you get a fully functional laser snooping device. Nothing like listening in on the professors in their offices.
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Hell, send the money to Child's Play. Great cause and run by gamers.
That's assinine - have you seen the USA's laws? As a non-american, I have no desire to be subject to their insanity.
As an American I don't want to be subject to our insanity.
I just got off the phone with HP customer care. No tricks, no run alongs, just some info and a shipping box on its way.
I used to use this laptop as a space heater on cold winter nights. Many memories sitting around it, roasting marshmallows and sipping cider...
SAP is one of the worst programs I have ever tried to use. Our company switched over to SAP and it has cost us more in paid time trying to get it functional than the darn licensing. Thankfully we do not use it for payroll... yet.
Common sense doesn't always enter the mind of an engineer (I am an EE by the way), and I have seen my fair share of nonsensical acts and ideas in my years at an engineering college. Hell I came up with quite a few myself, but I have never seen one this blatantly ignorant before.
We have: a prototyping board with a battery strapped to it, an image of a man on fire, a hand full of putty, and an attitude. I feel absolutely zero sympathy for her. If she would have taken a couple seconds to say "I'm an engineer and I enjoy building things. Here is what this does..." or not been playing with a putty, things could have turned out much different.
If you want to get into the nuts and bolts of EE design outside of PICs and microprocessors, Hambley was my text book for several of my undergraduate classes. It will tell you everything you wanted to know (and some stuff you didn't) about MOSFET/BJT physics and design.
For a more info and practice with more basic stuff (resistor networks, AC and DC fundamentals, etc) try Robbins and Miller. I used this one throughout my first year.
Most of my Optoelectronics senior project was design work from Hambley. Bounce a laser off a window into a home made phototransistor, two gains stages, one push-pull amplifier stage, and you get a fully functional laser snooping device. Nothing like listening in on the professors in their offices.