Well, things can be very simple. If your monitor refuse to work, buy a new one and thow the old one in the trash can.

Damn, things get complicated again. You cannot throw the old monitor in the trash can, you must take your not working monitor to special place for recycling, who knows where it is and how much you have to spend in time and money to do it.

Quote - Yanno, the day I can choose which country the components in the electronics I buy come from, I'll give ya a call.

You can do it, the country of origen is by itself not important, but the vender, the company that made them and the specifications you can choose and must do it. If you want a component made, for example in Japan, you enter in contact with NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi..., or any vendor and ask "do you have the component xxxx and it must be made in Japan ?" If yes and the price is satisfactory you can purchase from him, if not you go to other vendor.

You not only select the component specifications, you also select the fabricant and the quality level that can be from military grade to crap level. Probably who is selling military grade components will not have crap grade, so if you want crap you must go to other vendor.

The story doesn't end here, once ou selected the vendor and component you purchase a batch of them. When you receive the batch you test it. The test can be one by one or by sampling, The test can be very simple or very intensive depending on your product and quality level of your product. If the components passed the test you use them in your product. If the components failed the test, you reject the batch and send it back to the vendor.

Of course, you can do nothing of this and use counterfeit or stolen components and give no satisfaction and return to your customers. When the sitaution gets ugly you only disappear and later appear again with another name.

Products and components made in Taiwan are a problem, many are good and have quality, but other are falsifications, fake, made with defective components or rejected by the quality control of other company or even have nothing inside, of course that never will work.

Products and components from China are more reliable, not so because Chinese from China are better than Chinese from Taiwan, but because they must be more careful to not receive a bullet in their neck.

Ohhhh Wikipedia again:

"The capacitor plague[1] (also known as bad capacitors [2]) was a problem with a large number of premature failures of aluminium electrolytic capacitors with non solid or liquid electrolyte of certain brands especially from Taiwan manufacturers.[3] The first flawed capacitors were seen in 1999...."

It is the lack of screening and quality control. Premature death only happens in the first hours of use and a normal quality control will reject these cases. If you turn on some device and it work for some hours, it will continue to work for years if it was properly designed.

I don't know what crappy products you are using or if you buy a bottle of whiskey and it has inside water instead of whiskey. Capacitors and resistors that have normal quality, you don't need NASA quality, and with proper specifications for your application continue to work for decades. You even can take a radio of the 20's and unless it was smashed it will work today.

The only thing that can damage properly designed electronic devices is overvoltage, heat and mechanical shock, but if apply 20V to a 12V electrolythic capacitor you can be sure that it will explode making noise and a lot of smoke.

Quote - Kawecki, look up "capacitor plague"

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Very strange, capacitors don't blow without any reason and the only reason is overvoltage. Probably you have voltage spikes in the power line and the monitor are using the most cheap capacitor designed for just only the nominal voltage with very little margin above.

Quote - > Quote - No cat pictures yet ?

For what? No one's fighting. Unless you were aiming to start one ;).

Laurie

I have a Nazi cat

No cat pictures yet ?

With the "ignore button" I can return to discuss gamma correction with no more problems, I only have to add "some guys" to my ignore list, of course these guys can do the same with me, and so I shall not have to waste my time reading their posts and arguing with them

I want a ignore button where I can turn on and off all what I have ignored

Quote - and who mentioned 3D Studio Max OR Maya? Now I'm confused. Or maybe you're just trying to be cute, which is sailing right over my head. Sorry, don't get it.

Laurie

Any difference with Poser and DazStudio not be compatible with some figures ?

PS. The ignore button can be useful and very funny.

There are nice 3dsMax and Maya models, Final Fantasy was done in Maya, Shrek was done in Renderman, but none of them woks in Poser or DazStudio !!!!

Quote - "it's become too much like the forums where they debate politics and religion".

All is politics and religion. The world is divided into Republicans and Democrats, aka Poserists and DazStudians, tell me who is who. You cannot expect to one be able to agree with the other and to live in peace.

Now comes the Religion, God did a mistake when created the Woman, so Victorias cannot be anatomically correct because the duty of Man is to correct God's error. Also any sign of nudity and improper use of His creation is offensive to God's eyes.

Next comes the chosen ones that are the owners of the most absolute Truth and no matter how much stupid things they tell you, nobody is allowed to challenge their "wisdom"

For the scenario be complete you have the Inquisitors responsible for watching the obedience to the suprene moral values of the kingdom and removing any heretic post and closing any thread that deviated from the Light.

And as final coment, it will be very funny to see in action the "ignore button" and read the threads where this function was used.

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Quote - know you're an intelligent guy, the only conclusion I can come to is you're trolling

Can you reach to an agreement ? Is supposed that trolls are stupid, so am I intelligent or stupid ? I cannot be both at the same time.