I have been challenged several times by others as to why I don't post problem questions for discussion.
Well, I guess Codsack has provided as good an answer as I could have.
I certainly have started a few threads... but they were mostly "wake-ups" or just plain "juvenile rants".
Speaking of being juvenile, where I work, I always call the president, vice-presidents and their lower-lackeys by their "kid-names", Bobby, Billy, Tommy, etc., just to keep reminding them that we are all still just a bunch of kids trying to work our way through this thing called the "Short-Bus of Life".
(Short-Bus implies that we all don't really know what we are doing in the grand-scheme of things... look at what we are doing to the environment. We are killing Mama-Earth!)
And yes, I do the same with those that INSIST that I call them Robert or William or Thomas or... irritating, isn't it? I guess I'm just another A-hole on the "short-bus"!
The idea is... We're all just a bunch of kids on the bus-of-life.
RELAX! UN-PUCKER - just a bit! It'll do you a world of good!
Personally, the best and most stimulating information I've received on this site came from our old "Tangents".
I guess the reason that is so is because I'm an old-hand at this process-design and PLC-programming stuff.
My biggest kick is running up against a system that supposedly "Ain't Broke". My typical reaction is that I don't believe it to be so. I study it. Usually, I find that it really is broke, at least from one perspective or another. At that point, I Break It! And then rework it. Am I good at what I do? Yes. Yes, I think I am. And as Pierre says, the proof is in the pudding. My approach to "SYSTEM" has made me... dare I say it... untouchable. That is, as much as there are some in power that think I do nothing but sit in my office and "think", and those particular powers want me gone, the bottom line is that profits are increasing on a weekly basis.
Those particular powers want me gone because I call them for the "duncils" that they are.
So, the word, from the real power, is... "Let him be and leave him alone... no matter how weird he is, always talking to himself and all, he's making money, and he's making more all the time!"
The name of the game is to think "SYSTEM" (as in "profits").
I have yet to run up against a problem that I couldn't solve by considering the Physical Laws of the Universe (as we know them) and then, when necessary, reading the manual. I often find myself resorting to reading books describing one physical phenomenon or another, as well as how a particular PLC handles this or that method.
If I had posted my question, no matter what the answer, I would eventually resort to reading-up; either because the answer was intriguing or because the answer suggested something I didn't know about. In any case, I would resrt to my "library".
The name of the game for process controls is to be Serious about the field, DEADLY Serious! After all, what we do as programmers can literally KILL! Be serious! Pursue all of the knowledge you can get your hands onto so as to produce product in a profitable manner without putting anyone in jeopardy!
Yeah... go ahead, throw anything on that blank paper... let's see if it doesn't kill someone. If it hasn't so far, then Hey, it's great! Go with it!
Let us know where that intersection is so we can avoid it like the plague!
After re-reading this pile of ****... Holy $hit... what a bunch of egotistical ranting... you would do well to ignore this.
Nevermind.
(152) I Love You too, Eric.