[rescue] Perverse Question

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez <lefa at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 June 2003 17:27, Al Potter wrote:
> > > cpus, power consumption figures quoted below, but figure that
> some of them
> > > are designed to run with no heat sink on the CPU.....
> >
> > Passive cooling != no heat sink, for the record
> > passive cooling  no fans on the heatsink ;-)
> 
> Says who?

Frank does ;^)

> a heat sink is still a passive element, doesn't require
> energy transformation to dissipate heat. Hence the term
> passive or Passive since when capitalization of a word
> changes its meaning?

I think you two agree, Frank's issue was the presence of a fan in a
"passive" design. Frank said Passive cooling == heat sink without fan,
exactly what Francisco seemed to be saying as well...

Just because Al Potter was involved doesn't mean we *have to* agrue,
does it? (kidding ;^)
 

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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