Wow weirdest thing ever. I was using windows live messenger and suddenly it seemed like the harddisk turned off ?! I had to reboot to computer... I was like: "wtf" "bizar". Only time I saw a computer do that was when a cable was loose. So far no loose cables, so totally weird. Possible explanations: 1. Maybe one of the cables which isn't being used, caused a spark or so, that would be scary if that was the case. 2. Maybe system is just old and slowing dieing. 3. Maybe touching PC case to attach headset cables caused damage because grounding maybe not present. So it might go to the same way as the dreampc, ohoh. 4. Maybe bot in messenger had something to do with it, me blocked it... seems to cause trouble every time. 5. Maybe a network shutdown packet was received by PC. 6. Maybe there was a power drop on the power net, didn't notice any flickering lights though. 7. Maybe one of the power cables is bad ? Bye, Skybuck.

Your damn battery is dead in your PC!!!!

Origins aside (and I have some sympathy for the precriptivist argument), it's considered acceptable these days* to call a cell a battery.. but it's never acceptable to call a multi-cell battery a "cell". He or she said it was _not_ a cell. That is saying that it consists of more than one cell. So, certainly not a lithium CR2032 'battery', which is a single button cell. * the rot seems to have set in earlier than the 60s and 70s-- my 1949 edition of the "Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers" says, somewhat snarkily, "In accordance with common usage the term is also applied to a single cell". Common usage usually wins out in the long run-- there are more commoners than nobility, after all.

Y'er both wrong. It's called a pile. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D Santa Cruz CA 95060 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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Spehro Pefhany 13 years ago

Origins aside (and I have some sympathy for the precriptivist argument), it's considered acceptable these days* to call a cell a battery.. but it's never acceptable to call a multi-cell battery a "cell".

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He or she said it was _not_ a cell. That is saying that it consists of more than one cell. So, certainly not a lithium CR2032 'battery', which is a single button cell.

the rot seems to have set in earlier than the 60s and 70s-- my 1949 edition of the "Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers" says, somewhat snarkily, "In accordance with common usage the term is also applied to a single cell". Common usage usually wins out in the long run-- there are more commoners than nobility, after all.

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ChairmanOfTheBored 13 years ago

Yes. Handheld, tube operated, and therefore HV (as it were) requiring military radio sets were fun little items. The tubes were like my baby finger in size. Needed a 67.5 Volt battery. That WAS more than one Cell.

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Jeff Liebermann 13 years ago

Y'er both wrong. It's called a pile.

Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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ChairmanOfTheBored 13 years ago

ONLY if you use an array of those, all alike, to produce another "battery". In such a case, each 'battery' could be called a cell of the whole, finished device.

Like a box full of 9 Volt cells wired in an array. Then one could rightly say "Each of those is a cell in my new battery."

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ChairmanOfTheBored 13 years ago

Thought you'd pile some on too, huh? :-)

So, would more then one be called a 'pilery'?

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Jasen Betts 13 years ago

10 bucks is way too much to pay. If you need one in hurry buy it at the supermarket.

theyre good for testing LEDs