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Phil Cook wrote:
> "This program has tried to do something in a way I don't understand so
> I'm going to shut it down" how easy would that have been to use; instead
> of illegal this and exception that?
How about just "the program has malfunctioned, so we're shutting it down"?
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Alain <ele### [at] netscape net> wrote:
> Stephen nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/07 03:00:
> > You always could recharge non-rechargeable batteries. The manufacturers do
> > notlike it though.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> >
> You can, but they don't keep the charge very well. The ones I did recharge
> lasted less than half as long as rechargeable ones. They also got warmer during
> the recharge.
>
They do get warm but I think that it depends on the charger and the current it
depends on the current. I built mine myself and charged them at about 20 ma and
IIRC discharge was between 7.5 and 10 ma.
If your batteries are not holding their charge then the discharge cycle is
probably too low.
And that came from another life, one before Pov :)
Also if you were old enough to wire up a mains plug you were old enough to die.
writing some of the things that I did.
Stephen
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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:47323256@news.povray.org...
> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> "This program has tried to do something in a way I don't understand so
>> I'm going to shut it down" how easy would that have been to use; instead
>> of illegal this and exception that?
>
> How about just "the program has malfunctioned, so we're shutting it down"?
Yes, either would do well, Andy's is more friendly to the "normal" user
(comp. unsavvy).
But the messages didn't turn out friendly because it was written by one of
"our" type: an I.T. nerd / high priest, who disdains communications with and
the intelligence of everyone except other I.T. nerds / high priests.
OK, we might be sensitive, but we never said we're perfect. :-)
Well alright, we imply it sometimes ;-)
--
Brian
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And lo on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:05:58 -0000, Brian Elliott
<NotForSpam@AskIfUWant> did spake, saying:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:47323256@news.povray.org...
>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>
>>> "This program has tried to do something in a way I don't understand so
>>> I'm going to shut it down" how easy would that have been to use;
>>> instead of illegal this and exception that?
>>
>> How about just "the program has malfunctioned, so we're shutting it
>> down"?
>
> Yes, either would do well, Andy's is more friendly to the "normal" user
> (comp. unsavvy).
Agreed Andy's is better.
> But the messages didn't turn out friendly because it was written by one
> of "our" type: an I.T. nerd / high priest, who disdains communications
> with and the intelligence of everyone except other I.T. nerds / high
> priests.
And for some reason has perpetuated through countless operating systems of
countless versions. I thought Microsoft had an entire department dedicated
to user-friendliness; oh wait it's run by 'us' isn't it :-)
> OK, we might be sensitive, but we never said we're perfect. :-)
> Well alright, we imply it sometimes ;-)
Nobody's perfect, we're just the closest thing there is.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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>> But the messages didn't turn out friendly because it was written by
>> one of "our" type: an I.T. nerd / high priest, who disdains
>> communications with and the intelligence of everyone except other I.T.
>> nerds / high priests.
Yeah, well, that's why you have the "details" button that gives you
three pages of gibberish that you can pretend to understand.
(I never really understood why programs produce core dumps. I mean,
seriously. What chance is there of anybody *ever* deducing anything
useful from this data? 10^-78?)
> And for some reason has perpetuated through countless operating systems
> of countless versions. I thought Microsoft had an entire department
> dedicated to user-friendliness; oh wait it's run by 'us' isn't it :-)
It's not *run* be us - we just do all the actual *work*. :-P
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"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
news:4731f3f7$1@news.povray.org...
> Once when playing with a small speaker, I pluged it in a transformer and
> was prety unimpressed by the feeble low hum I got, so, I plugged it
> directly into the wall socket, hoping for a loud hum. Use a regular
> electrical plug, hook the speaker whires in to it, plug it in. Instant
> POF, flash of light, small cloud of smoke, smell of ozone and burnt metal,
> bursted speaker's dome. The coil's whires got vaporised.
> At the time, I was about 10 or 11.
I did the same to one of those tiny 3-volt DC motors, like the cog-ended
ones that are in battery-powered toys. A friend bragged at school he'd
plugged one into the mains, and it went really incredibly fast and was
really hot afterwards.
So I did it, and it went instant POF, flash of light, small cloud of smoke,
smell of ozone and the armature flew out of the casing onto the floor. It
was too hot to pick up. No spin. The brushes were all twisted and
blackened and the commutator was scorched.
And in that instant, I knew my friend had lied. At the time, I was about 10
or 11.
Postscript:
Amazingly, the armature winding didn't burn out. Although the bearing face
that had held one end of the shaft in place was completely gone, and the
brushes were wonky, if you held the shaft of the armature in the right
place with your fingers, it would still spin on battery power.
I kept it for a long time as a special memento.
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...I'm beginning to think POV-Ray attracts crazy people... o_O
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> ...I'm beginning to think POV-Ray attracts crazy people... o_O
Yoy would know :)
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> ...I'm beginning to think POV-Ray attracts crazy people... o_O
>
> Yoy would know :)
Yeah - but I thought *I* was the only one...
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> ...I'm beginning to think POV-Ray attracts crazy people... o_O
> >
> > Yoy would know :)
>
> Yeah - but I thought *I* was the only one...
What an egoist :)
I suppose that you think that you are special :)
Stephen
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