Listen, birdbrain, I love electronics!

Post #227,829 by a6l6e6x 10/3/05 5:07:17 PM Reply	Listen, birdbrain, I love electronics! I got a BS! :) degree in it. I can't say all electronic devices are well designed, and some have horrid human factors, but I wouldn't want to live without them. The squealing and shrieking you're bitching about are actually mechanical problems not electronic. It is mechanical problems from friction, vibration, and thermal cycling that eventually kill electronic devices. (Temperature is a mechanical property of matter.) Yes, there's chemical processes in the mix too. Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #227,833 by Nightowl 10/3/05 5:16:42 PM Reply	Re: Listen, birdbrain, I love electronics! The squealing and shrieking you're bitching about are actually mechanical problems not electronic. It is mechanical problems from friction, vibration, and thermal cycling that eventually kill electronic devices. (Temperature is a mechanical property of matter.) Yes, there's chemical processes in the mix too. Okay.... now tell me what to do to fix it? ;) Brenda "I'll rock the darn boat all I want to, and if it's meant to stay afloat, then it will. If not, then we'll just all go down with the bloody ship!"
Post #227,837 by jb4 10/3/05 5:29:46 PM Reply	Toss it off a 3-story building? Boil it in oil? Both will fix the screeching. with some finite collateral damage, I wot... ;-\ufffd jb4 shrub●bish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #227,839 by a6l6e6x 10/3/05 5:30:23 PM Reply	Unfortunately, we are now in a throw-away society. Unless it's under warranty, it costs more to fix these things than to buy another one. But, make it a different brand. Consumer Reports may be of help on reliability data. Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #227,845 by Nightowl 10/3/05 5:42:45 PM Reply	Yeah that's what I figured. I'll check on the warranty, not sure how new it is. Problem with a different brand, is we're both particular about the method (buttons, etc), used to program them, and we haven't found many with the "type in the info" method. Most have the shitty "keep pushing a button until it is the letter/number you want method. The wildest part is the one that's older than it is works fine, and still does. Problem with it is it only has four programming slots. At least it's easier to fix/replace than Katie's computer or the stupid PA board. Brenda "I'll rock the darn boat all I want to, and if it's meant to stay afloat, then it will. If not, then we'll just all go down with the bloody ship!"
Post #227,846 by ben_tilly 10/3/05 5:45:37 PM Reply	I think of it as a "forced upgrade". :-) The new generation of electronics is almost always substantially better than the last in every respect other than reliability. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #227,847 by Nightowl 10/3/05 5:49:37 PM Reply	Hahah! That's a good one, Ben! I think I'm just in a shitty mood in general today. Katie losing her computer kind of puts me in a bind I was desperately trying to escape. See, Katie said she would take over the Family Report so that I could separate it from my monthly letter.... Guess who is helping Katie with the Family Report now that she doesn't have a computer? And guess who I now have to send the information to to get them started on the report, because I can't e-mail it to Katie? one guess.... two guesses... 3.... right! SIL! Grrrrrr. So much for escape. Brenda "I'll rock the darn boat all I want to, and if it's meant to stay afloat, then it will. If not, then we'll just all go down with the bloody ship!"
Post #228,812 by Ashton 10/9/05 10:29:42 PM Reply	On my fridge is a Stine cartoon It depicts a critter with head bent parallel-to-ground, on shoulder - stack of boxlike objects atop, hand-penned down the margin: So often We fail to see that the unrelenting, sometimes even horrific, pressures we live under are actually pressures that we created by our own DESIRES in the first place. bon ~~DESIRES~~ appetit :-)
Post #228,966 by Nightowl 10/10/05 4:41:33 PM Reply	That applies in many ways to me, I agree But I fail to see how it would apply to SIL, since I never had desires to have her opinions expressed at me in the first place. ;) It's okay... I'm stressed, crabby, slightly depressed, and feeling overwhelmed, but I'm determined to do something about it all starting TODAY. Brenda "I'll rock the darn boat all I want to, and if it's meant to stay afloat, then it will. If not, then we'll just all go down with the bloody ship!"
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