begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:14:23PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >Except that it obviously *is*. > > > >Perhaps you're just the one balancing out the universe ... you guess > >90% correctly, which offsets my 90% incorrectly rate, and the universe > >is happy with an average of 50%.... > > Or, perhaps, you only *notice* when you guess incorrectly.
Hey, don't go introducing reasonable assumptions when I'm trying to foster a paranoid attitude to the universe! I actually suspect that I am so used to it failing to go in that I habitually attempt pre-correct the orientation, but since the cable was removed and left lying about, it's already in the correct orientation, and I switch it to the incorrect one. > >With DC, it's just a matter of a wheatstone bridge, innit? > > Not anymore. The problem is that diodes have an unacceptable voltage > drop for most modern circuitry. Active switching is generally required. Hmph. What's wrong with +48V down those little wires? Is someone scared of a little spark? (Do I need to winkey that?) -Stewart "Just think of the tempest radiation!" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
