Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RANT ALERT: WTF Is wrong with you people?

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Marcus- > On 04/25/2010 02:04 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: >> >> >> Yes I know such positive results are a minority of the posts you're thinking >> about. And yes it takes patience and >> can >> be exasperating, but isn't that generally true of raising kids? They have >> to learn the hard way, and s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RANT ALERT: WTF Is wrong with you people?

2010-04-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/25/2010 02:04 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: > > > Yes I know such positive results are a minority of the posts you're thinking > about. And yes it takes patience and can > be exasperating, but isn't that generally true of raising kids? They have to > learn the hard way, and someone has to > help

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RANT ALERT: WTF Is wrong with you people?

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Marcus- Your sentiments are understandable. I know the feeling. But please allow me to give an a different perspective. I've posted for years (since 1999) 1000s of times on DSP, audio, speech, MATLAB and FPGA groups -- on voluntary basis, because I want to. I can't count the number of times

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RANT ALERT: WTF Is wrong with you people?

2010-04-25 Thread George Nychis
In my time here, I've learned that SDRs bring together two worlds... those in EE, and those in CS. Those from the CS world don't understand a lot of the RF world, but would like to leverage SDRs to achieve something at the higher level and are thrown in to the RF world. Those in the EE world, und

[Discuss-gnuradio] RANT ALERT: WTF Is wrong with you people?

2010-04-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I've noticed a disquieting, nay, alarming, trend on this mailing list in the last year or so. Software Defined Radio has become "cool", it has become the "chic" thing to do in graduate school, or as the foundation for the start up of a new business. Everybody wants to do it. People get on to t