It hasn't zapped their creativity, but, rather, revealed their lack thereof.
Exactly. With the widespread availability of resources like Youtube, now Joe Schmoe can drown his expensive hardware for the whole world to see! Ugh...
It hasn't zapped their creativity, but, rather, revealed their lack thereof.
I was hoping that he had filled the bathtub with distilled water, and that the ibook would continue to function while submerged.
This comment scares me.
An iBook cannot function while submerged in water, distilled or not...its still water.
where a computer was able to function underwater in a tub of deionized water, which is double-distilled water basically.
Scary. According to the description, they are testing the insurance of Spanish retailer "Corte Inglés."
So you think that double distilling removes the conductive properties of water?![]()
BTW, El Corte Ingles is a bad ass department store here in Spain. Its kind of like Macy's, Von Maur, or Nordstrom. A lot of the store are way different than the States in terms of allowing returns.
It'll lower the conductivity a whole lot. I thought that the conductive properties of water had nothing to do with the water but rather the ions dissolved in it. I'm not chemist but it seems like if deionized water was entirely deionized it wouldn't be able to conduct any electricty.
Isn't the air mildly conductive also? There's got to be a few ions floating around in it. I'd imagine if you could deionize the water to the point that it's conductivity was the same as air the laptop would work just fine.
Pure water has resistance of 18.2 megaOhms <snip>
It'll lower the conductivity a whole lot. I thought that the conductive properties of water had nothing to do with the water but rather the ions dissolved in it. I'm not chemist but it seems like if deionized water was entirely deionized it wouldn't be able to conduct any electricty.
Isn't the air mildly conductive also? There's got to be a few ions floating around in it. I'd imagine if you could deionize the water to the point that it's conductivity was the same as air the laptop would work just fine.
I think you mean 18.2 megaohm-cm. Watch those units![]()
I knowI realised my mistake a bit later when the whole subject piqued my curiosity and I did a little research... ah well, I'm a biologist who abandoned physics some time ago!
Besides conductivity, would there be any other reason water would kill electronics?
Thanks, see you in the wasteland.
Does their return policy cover deliberate acts like this? If a return policy is too liberal, the the retailer stands to lose a lot of money. Just think: anyone who bought merchandise there and decides for grins that they want it to be brand new again can just baptize their hardware, and then it's off to the store.
A. They would get the word out to other ECI's in Spain.
2. The person I would talk to would care.
D. I am going to get off my lazy a$$ and do it.
All don't have a very good possibility, the beach is REALLY nice in Valencia this time of year, so that COMPLETELY rules out D![]()
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