I'll take what you are saying as your experience but you can't design a 555 timer without being able to do the exact same math for a resistor capacitor circuit. I also can't see how you could design much of anything without having the understanding that components are not actually "IDEAL Components" we draw on schematics, and what the effects of inherent resistance, inductance and capacitance are.

I certainly couldn't see anyone using differential forms, when the impedance/steady state math is incredibly easier to work with, but just the same if you try to use that without being aware of the transient response, it can go badly.

That's like saying being able to put a radio next to your computer and tell how busy it is and maybe what it is doing by listening to the signal on an open channel is part of the Windows UI.

" I wouldn't want to be dependent on an internal combustion engine I couldn't hear operating."

Well in this case you aren't hearing an engine operate, you are hearing are sound effects that may or may not reflect what the engine is doing.

Google Boss Tweed for historical perspective
Google Sheldon Silver, to see nothing but the names have changed.

I find it impossible to believe that anyone could have an EE degree, let alone pass a P.E. exam without being able to write down (L*dI/dT)/R and then solve that simple differential equation. Really in my case that's from 40 years ago was the last time I used that information. It's even harder to believe that even absent being able to write down the equations from memory, they wouldn't know the initial current is zero and exponentially reaches the applied voltage divided by the self resistance.

Really pull the other one. Next you will be saying they can't answer "What is the sum of the voltage drops across a closed loop?" or "What is the sum of the currents entering a node"

LOL I read that and laugh like a madman. Google "The Great Depression" then you will see an example of bad fiscal policy and an out of control market really screwing up people's lives yet somehow people actually managed to improve their lot during that mess. The biggest problem the current generation has, is they have accepted the idea they can't when all the ones that have come before knew they could.

LOL Fix H1B and scrap Obama Care ? The program who's architect said "It went through because the American people are stupid"

Sounds like win win to me.

Hell while we are at it we might get some regulations and liability laws scrapped so you can manufacture in this country again.

Democrats traditionally favor large government and using government assistance programs to buy votes of immigrants who in effect become their clients. Their problem is that they perpetually need to replenish the underclass as it becomes depleted by people pulling themselves up into the middle or upper class.

Mother nature wants us all dead and does her damnedest to make that so we better be smarter than her or we are goners.

There are things man was not meant to know MUAHAHAHA. Why is it greens always sound like the bad endings of horror movies from the 50s ?

Entirely different things. In the case of the turn signal that's just part of the UI, not unlike click feedback on keyboards. In the case of blind people that's a safety feature. In either case there is no need for them to be annoying to the driver, which engine noise is to many people. Matter of fact quiet is a feature on luxury cars.

Well if you free yourself from the cannon, what makes it Star Trek ?

For all the use and meaning the clock has. The clock doesn't reflect the world state as much as it does their directors political aims of the moment.

Tell me you aren't a citizen, Please.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

and

http://www.arng.army.mil/about...

Interesting bit of logic there, because defenses aren't perfect you shouldn't have any ?

Hell son, that's a real unfriendly attitude ya got there.