Float charge for a 12V (nominially 12.8V) Lead-Acid battery is 13.8V (at ~75 degrees F). Undercharing the battery at 12V will kill it VERY FAST. I'd say the battery would be lucky to last six months with only a max of 12V on the battery.
We conformal coat our circuit boards at my current job and I can assure you that it is not what he's looking for.
Conformal coating is typically a thin layer of silicone/urethane/acrylic used to keep moisture from getting at the parts on the board. It can not sustain immersion in liquid.
He's looking for epoxy potting, which we also do occassionly. The trouble with epoxy potting is getting the heat out of the board. You need to leave the thermally conductive parts outside of the potting so that you can remove the heat. The epoxy itself isn't thermally conductive enough to get processor heat out, even on a processor with passive cooling.
You can do this yourself if you have enough time and epoxy, though I'm not sure how much success you'll have. A failed attempt probably means a board that is no longer useable.
The very best ones get cured in a vacuum so that all of the air bubbles are pulled out. There are many other types you can use that don't require a vacuum.
Am I the only one that uses the volume knob on the speakers to change my volume? it's right next to my mouse/keyboard, so it's really easy to get to and it always works.
As far as the Mac keys go on a Windows keyboard, what does this guy expect? I use a Mac keyboard on my Windows machine and I don't complain about the CTRL and ALT buttons being swapped. It is what it is.
In certain fields, the caps lock key is used often. I'm thinking of primarily the drafting field where everything is in caps. All caps isn't done often anymore, but there are still places that use it. Does it deserve the spot above the shift key? Probably not, but what else would go there?
Over priced housing marketed to college students. Higher quality and lower cost housing is a mear 15 minute bus ride away.
This is the case in any college town, really...it isn't specfic to Pitt or even a college in a city. Any place where you have a large number of "kids" living with parents that are capable of paying overpriced rent, you'll have over priced housing. In my apartment in State College (which isn't in a city), if only two people lived there it was like $350 each a month. If three people lived there it was $325 a month. Four people worked out to $300 a month...and this was 10 years ago.
I bet you'll find that the problem is not the capacitor, but the circuit that is using the capacitor. Bad circuit designs lead to damaged components and capacitors are usually the ones that fail. The lower voltage you can make the cap, the cheaper it is. Unfortunatley, a lower voltage capacitor also puts it very close to its operating voltage. A voltage spike can then pop the capacitor. You can mitigate the damage by additional protection, but that also costs money.
This isn't to say that the capacitor wasn't the failure point, but after years of working in the circuit design industry, a failed cap means that the circuit broke it.
Such Apple fanboyism that I say I want an iPhone but can't leave Verizon because ATT is horrible in my area, and I get modded -1 offtopic and labeled "unwilling" to change my provider to a vastly less superior one.
You can always just record it thorough your sound card. I do this a lot to get ring tons from TV shows on Youtube. I'm not sure how it would work in Linux, but I don't doubt that it is possible.
Actually you'll find Radiohead to be one of the "greener" major bands around. They've even refused to fly to NYC to do a live song for Conan O'Brien because of the pollution of airplane fuel and they noted it publicly on the show.
I'll call this one beforehand - Score: 5 Flamebait
Metallica hate is so pervasive that, at this point, it seems "popular" to hate Metallica for any number of dumb reasons. My two biggest complains are:
1. Metallica killed Napster - Did you really expect to be able to freely download any song you like, as easily as you like, forever and ever? Metallica may have been the first major band to bring a lawsuit against Napster, but I woudln't of given Napster another three months before someone else stepped in. And what did we get out of Napster crashing? P2P programs that let you share WAY more than music. You could get games, movies, porno, AND music on the software that popped up after Napster got shut down. I'm probably the only one that thinks this, but I appreciate Metallica getting Napster shut down. Now I can get the same music AND files from torrents.
2. Metallica sold out after (insert album name here) - The album changes after whoever you talk to. They adapted their music as time went on. Would you still want to be listening to the exact same stuff that they were making in 1984? A lot of long-life bands have do this to survive. Zepplin did it, the Stones, Chili Peppers...they all GROW as a band. I hated old Chili Peppers, but I love the new stuff. I wouldn't have bought any of their cds had they not changed their style.
On a side note, I do think that Lars is a little bitch.
So your boss decided what needed to be done, how it should be done, and picked you to do it. He then took credit for it.
I wish I had mod points for this comment, I'd mod it up.
As being in a "project lead" position at my small company, I determine how projects go and have the two lower-level engineers implement my ideas. They come to me with questions and I guide them on where to go next. They come up with their own good ideas, but for the most part, the design is mine. Shouldn't I get credit for my design work?
I had mixed feelings about the 3D in Beowulf. The 3D used (and perhaps all 3D) forced me to look at what the director wanted me to look at. If I wanted to look at something in the background, my eyes couldn't focus it. After a while of this, I just gave up and looked at the main suject in the shot. My eyes got tired very quickly trying to focus on stuff that couldn't be focused upon.
Also, every time I uninstall firefox 3, I could no longer click links in outlook unless I reset default browser to IE and switch back. This is very irritating.
That is how your PC works. It uses certain programs to launch certain file types. With Firefox as your default browser, your PC knows that when you click on a URL to use Firefox to launch it. When you uninstall Firefox, your PC now no longer knows what to do with those URL files. Once you tell it to use IE (by making it the default browser), then it works properly.
That's like using Winamp for MP3s, uninstalling Winamp, and then complaining that Media Player doesn't play your MP3s anymore.
I bet they could bring in more money if they didn't scrap the whole thing, but instead sold small slices of it. No way they could sell ~65 tons worth of slices, but they could get a lot more if they sold off some of the historic piece of equipment. I'd buy a slice.
Ummmm...try setting your game resolution the same as your desktop resolution? I started doing this years ago and it has done wonders for the resolution change simply because there isn't one. It's also nice because any screen captures you do will go down perfect as your desktop background without any stretching or distortion.
Here in Oregon, you cannot buy Liquor anywhere but at a state owned liquor store. The state owns the store, then leases it out to a private individual to run. You can buy beer and wine at grocery stores, but not between 1am and 9am. (which sucks when you try to go to the 24 hour supermarkets at 5am to avoid the crowds). All liquor stores close at 7pm, 8pm on friday and saturday nights, and they are closed on Sundays.
Consider yourself lucky. In Pennsylvania, you can't get beer or wine at the grocery store or the gas station. Your option is the beer distributor which sells cases mostly or a bar that has a six-pack-shop attached.
If you're smart about it, you'll never need virus protection, you'll never need to pay for Windows or Office, and you can have your machine running lean. I normally have 19 processes running on my WinXP box. I don't have any third party crapware on there and I don't have spyware.
I can't speak of Vista because I don't use it, from what I've seen it really sucks. Lots of things running with lots of processes, it's bloatware...and that's why I don't run it. It doesn't benefit me at all to run Vista, just like it doesn't benefit me at all to run Linux.
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Float charge for a 12V (nominially 12.8V) Lead-Acid battery is 13.8V (at ~75 degrees F). Undercharing the battery at 12V will kill it VERY FAST. I'd say the battery would be lucky to last six months with only a max of 12V on the battery.
Conformal coating is typically a thin layer of silicone/urethane/acrylic used to keep moisture from getting at the parts on the board. It can not sustain immersion in liquid.
He's looking for epoxy potting, which we also do occassionly. The trouble with epoxy potting is getting the heat out of the board. You need to leave the thermally conductive parts outside of the potting so that you can remove the heat. The epoxy itself isn't thermally conductive enough to get processor heat out, even on a processor with passive cooling.
You can do this yourself if you have enough time and epoxy, though I'm not sure how much success you'll have. A failed attempt probably means a board that is no longer useable.
The very best ones get cured in a vacuum so that all of the air bubbles are pulled out. There are many other types you can use that don't require a vacuum.
Am I the only one that uses the volume knob on the speakers to change my volume? it's right next to my mouse/keyboard, so it's really easy to get to and it always works. As far as the Mac keys go on a Windows keyboard, what does this guy expect? I use a Mac keyboard on my Windows machine and I don't complain about the CTRL and ALT buttons being swapped. It is what it is.
In certain fields, the caps lock key is used often. I'm thinking of primarily the drafting field where everything is in caps. All caps isn't done often anymore, but there are still places that use it. Does it deserve the spot above the shift key? Probably not, but what else would go there?
Over priced housing marketed to college students. Higher quality and lower cost housing is a mear 15 minute bus ride away.
This is the case in any college town, really...it isn't specfic to Pitt or even a college in a city. Any place where you have a large number of "kids" living with parents that are capable of paying overpriced rent, you'll have over priced housing. In my apartment in State College (which isn't in a city), if only two people lived there it was like $350 each a month. If three people lived there it was $325 a month. Four people worked out to $300 a month...and this was 10 years ago.
I bet you'll find that the problem is not the capacitor, but the circuit that is using the capacitor. Bad circuit designs lead to damaged components and capacitors are usually the ones that fail. The lower voltage you can make the cap, the cheaper it is. Unfortunatley, a lower voltage capacitor also puts it very close to its operating voltage. A voltage spike can then pop the capacitor. You can mitigate the damage by additional protection, but that also costs money. This isn't to say that the capacitor wasn't the failure point, but after years of working in the circuit design industry, a failed cap means that the circuit broke it.
Such Apple fanboyism that I say I want an iPhone but can't leave Verizon because ATT is horrible in my area, and I get modded -1 offtopic and labeled "unwilling" to change my provider to a vastly less superior one.
You missed the other game by Mythic that was focused on PvP - Dark Age of Camelot. If Warhammer is as good at PvP as DAoC was, it will be great.
But can I get it on the Verizon network? Where I live, Verizon is the best provider so I'm unwilling to switch to ATT just for the iPhone.
You can always just record it thorough your sound card. I do this a lot to get ring tons from TV shows on Youtube. I'm not sure how it would work in Linux, but I don't doubt that it is possible.
Actually you'll find Radiohead to be one of the "greener" major bands around. They've even refused to fly to NYC to do a live song for Conan O'Brien because of the pollution of airplane fuel and they noted it publicly on the show.
Metallica hate is so pervasive that, at this point, it seems "popular" to hate Metallica for any number of dumb reasons. My two biggest complains are:
1. Metallica killed Napster - Did you really expect to be able to freely download any song you like, as easily as you like, forever and ever? Metallica may have been the first major band to bring a lawsuit against Napster, but I woudln't of given Napster another three months before someone else stepped in. And what did we get out of Napster crashing? P2P programs that let you share WAY more than music. You could get games, movies, porno, AND music on the software that popped up after Napster got shut down. I'm probably the only one that thinks this, but I appreciate Metallica getting Napster shut down. Now I can get the same music AND files from torrents.
2. Metallica sold out after (insert album name here) - The album changes after whoever you talk to. They adapted their music as time went on. Would you still want to be listening to the exact same stuff that they were making in 1984? A lot of long-life bands have do this to survive. Zepplin did it, the Stones, Chili Peppers...they all GROW as a band. I hated old Chili Peppers, but I love the new stuff. I wouldn't have bought any of their cds had they not changed their style.
On a side note, I do think that Lars is a little bitch.
At least they could Slashvertize a good product. Naruto stuff is just annoying.
BELIEVE IT!
So your boss decided what needed to be done, how it should be done, and picked you to do it. He then took credit for it.
I wish I had mod points for this comment, I'd mod it up.
As being in a "project lead" position at my small company, I determine how projects go and have the two lower-level engineers implement my ideas. They come to me with questions and I guide them on where to go next. They come up with their own good ideas, but for the most part, the design is mine. Shouldn't I get credit for my design work?
The article contains some spoilers. If you want to see how the movie unfolds for yourself, save reading the article until after you've seen it.
Shake: "You don't own space, so quit acting like you do!"
I had mixed feelings about the 3D in Beowulf. The 3D used (and perhaps all 3D) forced me to look at what the director wanted me to look at. If I wanted to look at something in the background, my eyes couldn't focus it. After a while of this, I just gave up and looked at the main suject in the shot. My eyes got tired very quickly trying to focus on stuff that couldn't be focused upon.
Also, every time I uninstall firefox 3, I could no longer click links in outlook unless I reset default browser to IE and switch back. This is very irritating.
That is how your PC works. It uses certain programs to launch certain file types. With Firefox as your default browser, your PC knows that when you click on a URL to use Firefox to launch it. When you uninstall Firefox, your PC now no longer knows what to do with those URL files. Once you tell it to use IE (by making it the default browser), then it works properly.
That's like using Winamp for MP3s, uninstalling Winamp, and then complaining that Media Player doesn't play your MP3s anymore.
I bet they could bring in more money if they didn't scrap the whole thing, but instead sold small slices of it. No way they could sell ~65 tons worth of slices, but they could get a lot more if they sold off some of the historic piece of equipment. I'd buy a slice.
The exact reason I haven't upgraded to a widescreen monitor!
Ummmm...try setting your game resolution the same as your desktop resolution? I started doing this years ago and it has done wonders for the resolution change simply because there isn't one. It's also nice because any screen captures you do will go down perfect as your desktop background without any stretching or distortion.
You can just buy one foot sections of "extension" cable that allow you to use all the outlets on your strip...plus they're cheap.
If I had any mod points, I'd mod you up.
If you're smart about it, you'll never need virus protection, you'll never need to pay for Windows or Office, and you can have your machine running lean. I normally have 19 processes running on my WinXP box. I don't have any third party crapware on there and I don't have spyware.
I can't speak of Vista because I don't use it, from what I've seen it really sucks. Lots of things running with lots of processes, it's bloatware...and that's why I don't run it. It doesn't benefit me at all to run Vista, just like it doesn't benefit me at all to run Linux.
Patent Attorny AND PE sure would be nice. Respect from both sides.