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the word 'engineer'  is in good companionship. A coincidence? Beer. Career. 
Steer.Cheer.Peer.Veer. Costumeer. Buccaneer.
all acc to Oxford Advanced etc-.
All positive
Inge

By the way, you are  all welcome to help me save a USB HDD 500 gig that 
became mad. Spins but arms leave home, enter platters allright, but wipes 
across whole platter and return back to home. Can't 
stop..click..clack..click...clack. Device manager 
recognises..sorry..recognizes drive and says 'working just fine'.  Bought 
sister drive as close as possible manufacturing ID, swapped controller board 
and magnetic reader system. Click..clack...click...clack..behaves exactly 
same.Seems to me as HDD codes are lost, unfortunately they are unique. May 
not be able to read cyl 0 start instructions. Anyone who can give a hand? Me 
completely helpless in this game. Hitachi won't give me the firmware 
download, that's for sure. Can't see why flash won't work. ESD...nono. used 
wristband. Overvoltage, transients...nono..used advanced power supply with 
CC . If someon got a idea my drive is  IBM/Hitachi Deskstar HDS722525VLTA80.

Inge

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:04 AM
Subject: [TN] NTC Engineers!


> As Friday is a holiday here, I'm pretending today is Friday!
>
> Actually, this is far too true to be funny. I can relate to a lot of it!
>
> Testing for Engineers:
>
> You walk into a room and notice that a picture is hanging crooked.
> You...
>
> A. Straighten it.
> B. Ignore it.
> C. Buy a CAD system and spend the next six months designing a
> solar-powered, self-adjusting picture frame while often stating aloud your 
> belief that
> the inventor of the nail was a total moron.
>
> The correct answer is "C" but partial credit can be given to anybody who
> writes "It depends" in the margin of the test or simply blames the whole
> stupid thing on "Marketing."
>
> Social Skills:
>
> Engineers have different objectives when it comes to social
> interaction. "Normal" people expect to accomplish several unrealistic
> things from social interaction:
>
> 1. Stimulating and thought-provoking conversation
> 2. Important social contacts
> 3. A feeling of connectedness with other humans
>
> In contrast to "normal" people, engineers have rational objectives for
> social interactions:
>
> 1. Get it over with as soon as possible.
> 2. Avoid getting invited to something unpleasant.
> 3. Demonstrate mental superiority and mastery of all subjects.
>
> Fascination With Gadgets:
>
> To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two
> categories:
>
> (1) things that need to be fixed, and
> (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to
> play with them.
>
> Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily
> available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't 
> understand this
> concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers
> believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
>
> No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it
> would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower
> without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering
> unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimised
> and feature-poor toys.
>
> Fashion and Appearance:
>
> Clothes are the lowest priority for an engineer, assuming the basic
> thresholds for temperature and decency have been satisfied. If no 
> appendages are
> freezing or sticking together, and if no genitalia or mammary glands are
> swinging around in plain view, then the objective of clothing has been
> met.
> Anything else is a waste.
>
> Dating and Social Life:
>
> Dating is never easy for engineers. A normal person will employ various
> indirect and duplicitous methods to create a false impression of
> attractiveness. Engineers are incapable of placing appearance above
> function.
>
> Fortunately, engineers have an ace in the hole. They are widely
> recognised as superior marriage material: intelligent, dependable, 
> employed, honest, and
> handy around the house. While it's true that many normal people would
> prefer not to date an engineer, most normal people harbour an intense 
> desire to
> mate with them, thus producing engineer-like children who will have 
> high-paying
> jobs long before losing their virginity.
>
> Male engineers reach their peak of sexual attractiveness later than normal
> men, becoming irresistible erotic dynamos in their mid thirties to late
> forties. Just look at these examples of sexually irresistible men in
> technical professions:
>
> Bill Gates.
> MacGyver.
> Etc..
>
> Female engineers become irresistible at the age of consent and remain
> that way until about thirty minutes after their clinical death.
> Longer if it's a warm day.
>
> Honesty:
>
> Engineers are always honest in matters of technology and human
> relationships.
> That's why it's a good idea to keep engineers away from customers, 
> romantic
> interests, and other people who can't handle the truth.
>
> Engineers sometimes bend the truth to avoid work. They say things that
> sound like lies but technically are not because nobody could be expected 
> to
> believe them. The complete list of engineer lies is listed below.
>
> "I won't change anything without asking you first."
> "I'll return your hard-to-find cable tomorrow."
> "I have to have new equipment to do my job."
> "I'm not jealous of your new computer."
>
> Frugality:
>
> Engineers are notoriously frugal. This is not because of cheapness or mean
> spirit; it is simply because every spending situation is simply a
> problem in optimisation, that is, "How can I escape this situation while 
> retaining
> the greatest amount of cash?"
>
> Powers of Concentration:
>
> If there is one trait that best defines an engineer it is the ability to
> concentrate on one subject to the complete exclusion of everything else in
> the environment. This sometimes causes engineers to be pronounced dead
> prematurely. Some funeral homes in high-tech areas have started checking
> resumes before processing the bodies. Anybody with a degree in electrical
> engineering or experience in computer programming is propped up in the
> lounge for a few days just to see if he or she snaps out of it.
>
> Risk:
>
> Engineers hate risk. They try to eliminate it whenever they can. This is
> understandable, given that when an engineer makes one little mistake the
> media will treat it like it's a big deal or something.
>
> Examples of Bad Press for Engineers....
> Hindenburg.
> Space Shuttle Challenger.
> Hubble space telescope.
> Apollo 13.
> Titanic.
> Ford Pinto.
>
> The risk/reward calculation for engineers looks something like this:
> RISK: Public humiliation and the death of thousands of innocent people.
> REWARD: A certificate of appreciation in a handsome plastic frame.
>
> Being practical people, engineers evaluate this balance of risks and
> rewards and decide that risk is not a good thing. The best way to avoid 
> risk is by
> advising that any activity is technically impossible for reasons that
> are far too complicated to explain.
>
> If that approach is not sufficient to halt the project, then the
> engineer will fall back to a second line of defence: "It's technically 
> possible but it
> will cost too much."
>
> Ego:
>
> Ego-wise, two things are important to engineers:
> How smart they are.
> How many cool devices they own.
>
> The fastest way to get an engineer to solve a problem is to declare that
> the problem is unsolvable. No engineer can walk away from an unsolvable
> problem until it's solved. No illness or distraction is sufficient to get 
> the
> engineer off the case. These types of challenges quickly become
> personal --
> a battle between the engineer and the laws of nature.
>
> Engineers will go without food and hygiene for days to solve a problem.
> (Other times just because they forgot.) And when they succeed in solving 
> the
> problem they will experience an ego rush that is better than sex -- and 
> I'm
> including the kind of sex where other people are involved.
>
> Nothing is more threatening to the engineer than the suggestion that
> somebody has more technical skill. Normal people sometimes use that 
> knowledge as a
> lever to extract more work from the engineer. When an engineer says that
> something can't be done (a code phrase that means it's not fun to do), 
> some
> clever normal people have learned to glance at the engineer with a look of
> compassion and pity and say something along these lines: "I'll ask Bob to
> figure it out. He knows how to solve difficult technical problems."
>
> At that point it is a good idea for the normal person to not stand
> between the engineer and the problem. The engineer will set upon the 
> problem like a starved Chihuahua on a pork chop.
> _
>
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