For those of y'all still on the mailing list, take a closer look at the cover of the current (15 Dec) edition of EDN. I guess that nobody in their design review process thought to check the temperature scales. How embarrassing...
-- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
For those, like myself, not on the mailing list, here is a link to take a look...
Hilarious!
More specifically:
So what's so funny with that picture? I'm probably too slow to find anything worth a buzz...
Why so much excitement? Did I miss something?
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Your puberty?
Scale mismatch
What's the problem? I see a thermometer reading 100F, with parallax error so it looks like 120F.
So what? What accuracy do you expect from a graphic art? 0.1%? 0.000001%?
And there is also parallax involved. Did you learn in school what parallax, perspective, etc. are?
It might come as suprise to you but all those monsters on SciFi pieces of art are also out of scale. Sometimes even more than 5%....
And did you ever wonder where the censors were when approving e.g. Salvador Dali pictures? Did they ever measure the roundness of that melted clock?
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Minus 40° F does not equal minus 30° C.
"Dang, Marsha, it's -40 degrees outside!" "Celsius or Fahrenheit, John?" "Yup." "Oh, John." "Marsha!"
The top of the scales may even be correct (120 F is about 49 C and one could be generous and assume that is how it's aligned) but the freezing point is an obvious clue, even if one doesn't have the "-40" factoid readily to hand.
-- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
So what? It's not a scientific chart, it's just a graphic art.
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True, it's just funny that EDN, the self-styled "Voice of the Engineer" would have such an obvious mistake. If it had been on People Magazine, that's one thing, but no alarms went off there? Ouch.
-- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
-20F -20C
-40F = -40C
Hopefully this isn't indicative of the Ryerson engineering students get:
They've only been allowed to grant degrees since the 70s.
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D'oh! I was thinking, yep, that's hot, not even looking at the cold side.
The latest Electronic Design has an OK cover. It's the insides that are the failure:
And the article about the Varian brothers was nonsense.
John
Calling -40 -30 is more than your stupid numerics.
Get a clue.
Wrong, dumbfuck. You can squirm all you want. Too bad that it will be to zero effect.
Did you, you retarded f*ck?
You are pretty much a goddamned retard, and you did not even need inebriants.
The only melted clock in this thread so far, is the one between your ears.
Any idiot can see what is wrong with the picture. Any sane, intelligent person certainly can.
It is blatantly obvious that you qualify below either of those points of reference.
Now stop trying to act all smart (you ain't), and try to go figure out what is wrong with the picture, asswipe.
"We can't get mawwied..."
You're not a scientific old fart, you're just a 'well below lay person' mentality dumbfucktard that thinks that technical scales are "art".
Trust me, you are NOT the "Illustrating Man".
All you have illustrated here is your inability to grasp things, and then you run 'round in circles trying to make it look like your lack of knowledge was harmless.
Don't want dopes like you working at my company, chucko.
Had you fessed up to the error.... MAYBE.
Right now, you are as bad, if not worse than the Obama retard is.
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