25 Jul
2012
25 Jul
'12
2:20 p.m.
On 25 Jul 2012 at 20:23, Tony Duell wrote:
[1] Why this is _necer_ [2] written as 4mF is beyond
me
[2] Actually, 'never' is too strong. I am pretty sure I've seen at
least one schematic that does thta, maybe an HP one.
Ack, you and your ilk keep revising things for no particular good
reason. First, it was a "condenser", a word with perfectly good
Latin roots and you changed it to "capacitor" (is there even a verb
form as in "a capacitor.does this..."?)
Small values were measured in micro-microfarads, but oh no--that
wasn't good enough. You had to change it to "picofarads". We'd talk
about .001 microfarad, but you had to go and change it to 1
nanofarad.
Now you want to change things from thousand microfarads to
millifarads?
We'd talk about cycles per second and you changed it to "Hertz".
Ugh.
We had mhos and you changed them to Siemens (or is it "Siemenses"?
Spelled backward that's "Snemeis", although "Nemesis"
anagrammatically describes my feelings.
Don't you have anything better to do with your time than to muck
about with the terminology?
Hmpf.
--Chuck