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Just had a little argument with the bf because apparently he thinks that I'm the only person in the world who doesn't know that batteries produce direct current instead of alternating current.

So whom better to ask which one of us is the crazy one here than NSG.

Just in (the highly improbable ;P) case that he's right and it really is such an incredibly obvious thing I'll even make the poll non-public so nobody will have to be ashamed for not knowing. :rolleyes::p

I found out when bathing with the car battery didn't produce the same oscillating tingle that touching the outlet did.

Just had a little argument with the bf because apparently he thinks that I'm the only person in the world who doesn't know that batteries produce direct current instead of alternating current.

So whom better to ask which one of us is the crazy one here than NSG.

Just in (the highly improbable) case that he's right and it really is such an incredibly obvious thing I'll even make the poll non-public so nobody will have to be ashamed for not knowing. :rolleyes::p
*nods.*

I knew. but my concern is... his reaction to your lack of knowledge.

Is that how he reacts to someone's gap in knowledge? I hope he didn't laugh at you or taunt you. that really sucks. No one knows everything, even things that are supposedly "common knowldedge".

Just had a little argument with the bf because apparently he thinks that I'm the only person in the world who doesn't know that batteries produce direct current instead of alternating current.

So whom better to ask which one of us is the crazy one here than NSG.

Just in (the highly improbable ;P) case that he's right and it really is such an incredibly obvious thing I'll even make the poll non-public so nobody will have to be ashamed for not knowing. :rolleyes::p

Well, I knew that batteries produce direct current, but I did take Electrical Circuits I and II in college. That and my dad is an electronics technician.

:( not the band
all i know batteries only thing not knock out by EMP blast

Noooo, no, no, he didn't, no worries. It wasn't really an argument argument. Just a silly argument where you end up posting a silly thread on NS to prove to the other person that you're right and he's crazy. :p

So far the poll says you're crazy...

Yes, this was covered quite thoroughly in fourth grade. *nod*

No offense. :fluffle:

*nods.*

I knew. but my concern is... his reaction to your lack of knowledge.

Is that how he reacts to someone's gap in knowledge? I hope he didn't laugh at you or taunt you. that really sucks. No one knows everything, even things that are supposedly "common knowldedge".

Noooo, no, no, he didn't, no worries. It wasn't really an argument argument. Just a silly argument where you end up posting a silly thread on NS to prove to the other person that you're right and he's crazy. :p

You need an "well, yes, I do know that batteries produce direct current, but I am pretty sure not everybody does, so don't worry about it" option. That is what I would have picked, if you had it. :D

Well, I knew that batteries produce direct current, but I did take Electrical Circuits I and II in college. That and my dad is an electronics technician.

You obviously don't count then. << *doctors poll*

:( not the band Yeah, sorry about that...
all i know batteries only thing not knock out by EMP blastThen quick, go and vote for the second option!

So far the poll says you're crazy...Bah, whoever believes in polls? In a thread on NSG, no less!* :p


*Depending on the outcome of the poll, this reply might be deleted at any point in time.

Noooo, no, no, he didn't, no worries. It wasn't really an argument argument. Just a silly argument where you end up posting a silly thread on NS to prove to the other person that you're right and he's crazy. :p

... ok... as long as you're happy with his reaction...

*Puts whifflebat away.*

You need an "well, yes, I do know that batteries produce direct current, but I am pretty sure not everybody does, so don't worry about it" option. That is what I would have picked, if you had it. :DDamn, I totally should have, too. *sniffle*

Yes, this was covered quite thoroughly in fourth grade. *nod*

No offense. :fluffle: :(

Only goes to show the horrible state of European education. :D

Yes, this was covered quite thoroughly in fourth grade. *nod*

No offense. :fluffle:

Was thinking the same thing. This stuff is covered in grade school. I think the dumb one here is your bf because he thinks most people do not know basic knowledge.

Was thinking the same thing. This stuff is covered in grade school. I think the dumb one here is your bf because he thinks most people do not know basic knowledge.Huh? No. That was his whole point, that he assumed that everybody knew that and was all surprised when I didn't.

Huh? No. That was his whole point, that he assumed that everybody knew that and was all surprised when I didn't.

LOL, ok didnt read the OP. I guess you are dumb then..... :D or me for not reading. ;)

LOL, ok didnt read the OP. I guess you are dumb then..... :D or me for not reading. ;)
Eh, I've decided to blame it on the poll being conducted with a non-representative sample. :D

Even the crazy boy himself warned me to not ask that question on the internet, of all places. Guess I should've just asked my mom instead. :p

This isn't really table knowledge per say that batteries are DC so I wouldn't feel too bad. You should slap him around though for being a douche.

Whee, someone joined me! The poll tide is totally turning. :cool:

This isn't really table knowledge per say that batteries are DC so I wouldn't feel too bad. You should slap him around though for being a douche.

Nah, he wasn't being a douche at all, just amazed that I didn't know.

I'll slap him around anyway. ;)

Eh, I've decided to blame it on the poll being conducted with a non-representative sample. :D

Even the crazy boy himself warned me to not ask that question on the internet, of all places. Guess I should've just asked my mom instead. :p

My mom, when she was in school, was told that "electricity is a jiggle in a wire." I have taught classes on the workings of theatrical lighting, from strobes to dimmers and computer control boards to make it all work. How far we have come in just one generation.

But this is why I can say I think most people do not really know about ac/dc. Very few of my students, at the start of class, could even explain how a light bulb works.

Yeah, sorry about that...
Then quick, go and vote for the second option!

don't be just good to see you are back

I'll slap him around anyway. ;)

Nah, just a shock from a tazer should fix his wagon.

I voted wrong! I meant to vote no...

My elementary school education was severely nonexistent, and I probably was supposed to know it in high school, and I may have learned about/been tested on it at some point, but I don't retain any science knowledge from HS.


Edit: after a quick wiki, I do remember knowing this at some point. *shrug*

You obviously don't count then. << *doctors poll*

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Just had a little argument with the bf because apparently he thinks that I'm the only person in the world who doesn't know that batteries produce direct current instead of alternating current.

So whom better to ask which one of us is the crazy one here than NSG.

Just in (the highly improbable ;P) case that he's right and it really is such an incredibly obvious thing I'll even make the poll non-public so nobody will have to be ashamed for not knowing. :rolleyes::p

Batteries will usually say something like "DC" on them, intimating ... something.
BTW, that site doesn't keep my password for some reason. Sorry i haven't replied earlier.

So the guy has never, and I mean NEVER, used a battery-portable device like a boom-box with a wall-plug-in unit known as a -- wait for it -- A/C ADAPTER?!? Why the hell would you need to adapt A/C if the batteries for the device were already A/C?

Oy gevalt.

Hmm. I think my answer's complexity cannot be grasped by the poll options.

If you had pressed me for an answer to "Is a battery AC or DC?" (and had you explained to me what those initials stand for), I'd have said "I think they are DC", but had you asked me in a situation where the answer would be crucial to your safety with your next measure, I'd have declined to answer because I wouldn't have been sure enough.

If you look at a battery, you will notice a + end and a - end. If batteries produced alternating current, you would not see this: the ends would switch charges, or alternate if you will.

Yes. This is why you can run all of Belgium from batteries.

I knew. I know all kinds of stuff. :D

I'd be surprised by this, but on my routine check of the Wii poll results yesterday nothing like this will surprised. In the poll of "Are you left-handed or right-handed" only 93.95 of people predicted which would get more votes correctly :(

I knew. I know all kinds of stuff. :D

I'd be surprised by this, but on my routine check of the Wii poll results yesterday nothing like this will surprised. In the poll of "Are you left-handed or right-handed" only 93.95 of people predicted which would get more votes correctly :(

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Only goes to show the horrible state of European education. :D

Speak for yourself, I knew and I'm European :p

So the guy has never, and I mean NEVER, used a battery-portable device like a boom-box with a wall-plug-in unit known as a -- wait for it -- A/C ADAPTER?!? Why the hell would you need to adapt A/C if the batteries for the device were already A/C?

Oy gevalt.

Readin comprehension, not the guy, her. :p

I knew that Batteries were DC, and that AC was discovered by Tesla, and made for better long distance transmission of power - but to be perfectly honest, I don't know WHY AC is a better long distance distributor.

*nods.*

I knew. but my concern is... his reaction to your lack of knowledge.

Is that how he reacts to someone's gap in knowledge? I hope he didn't laugh at you or taunt you. that really sucks. No one knows everything, even things that are supposedly "common knowldedge".

I like this about you JuNii, this makes me happy. I hate people who berate you for not knowing things, I am like "just tell me, and then I will know! no reason to make fun of me"

also, yeah I knew about the batteries, but only because I found out like 6 months ago in our science curriculum for homeschool, I don't know that I ever had any real reason to know before that.

Just had a little argument with the bf because apparently he thinks that I'm the only person in the world who doesn't know that batteries produce direct current instead of alternating current.

So whom better to ask which one of us is the crazy one here than NSG.

Just in (the highly improbable ;P) case that he's right and it really is such an incredibly obvious thing I'll even make the poll non-public so nobody will have to be ashamed for not knowing. :rolleyes::p

DC.

i wouldn't say i knew that, but if someone asked me i'd probably guess they produced direct current. simply because i'd assume you'd need some extra gizmo for making the current alternate. can't imagine what i'd need to know that for though.

So the guy has never, and I mean NEVER, used a battery-portable device like a boom-box with a wall-plug-in unit known as a -- wait for it -- A/C ADAPTER?!? Why the hell would you need to adapt A/C if the batteries for the device were already A/C?

Oy gevalt.
Oy gevalt indeed - whatever happened to reading comprehension on this forum?!

Once again: *I* am the one who didn't know, *he* is the one who told me. And no, he was not being a jerk about it.

And as for the gist of your question, I'm just going to claim that those wall-plug-in units aren't known as "A/C adapters" in Germany and hope nobody comes along to prove me wrong.

Either way, it's quite obvious that I learned the whole AC/DC thing somewhere wayyyyy back in school but forgot about it and never really thought about it since.

And I'm of course still claiming skewed sample for the poll, esp. with the current results. <<
Even though it should really be 32:3, had Kiryu not pressed the wrong button. Silly Kiryu.

can't imagine what i'd need to know that for though.Exactly. :p

I'm seeing a clear overload of "yes, but" answers, so I'm just going to have to say:

Uh, duh. How do you not know something like that? That's like, elementary school stuff, c'mon!

I'm seeing a clear overload of "yes, but" answers, so I'm just going to have to say:

Uh, duh. How do you not know something like that? That's like, elementary school stuff, c'mon!
Maybe the difference is that you are all of, what, 5 years removed from elementary school while it's a whopping 24 years for me. :p

Maybe the difference is that you are all of, what, 5 years removed from elementary school while it's a whopping 24 years for me. :p

Ah, I see, you're getting old and your memory is going. S'okay, happens to most people. :p don't hurt me.

Well, I think the poll is going to predict that you're crazy. But this isn't an accurate representation, as I have experienced that there is a disproportionate number of more knowledgeable people on NSG than would be represented were you to perform a random poll on the streets.

Wow, you think NSG is smart? :p

Well, I think the poll is going to predict that you're crazy. But this isn't an accurate representation, as I have experienced that there is a disproportionate number of more knowledgeable people on NSG than would be represented were you to perform a random poll on the streets.

Well, I think the poll is going to predict that you're crazy. But this isn't an accurate representation, as I have experienced that there is a disproportionate number of more knowledgeable people on NSG than would be represented were you to perform a random poll on the streets.
Yeah, that's definitely the story I'm going to stick to.

And to think that the bf actually told me so beforehand... ><

DAMN YOU, THOMAS EDISON!!!!

AC is so much more awesome.

I knew that Batteries were DC, and that AC was discovered by Tesla, and made for better long distance transmission of power - but to be perfectly honest, I don't know WHY AC is a better long distance distributor.

It does so because AC has a variable current and is a much more efficient transmitter of energy (it commonly takes the form of a wave function). DC requires both a negative and positive terminal, and requires a decidedly constant amount of energy, to keep the same amount of current/voltage running. AC can also cheaply change voltage using transformers, but DC voltage changing requires the use of expensive electrical equipment.

Damn, I had hoped this was a discussion thread on one of the greatest bands in the history of music.

As to whether or not I knew, well, considering that I have a degree in electrical engineering, I'd say it's important for me to know that.

DAMN YOU, THOMAS EDISON!!!!

AC is so much more awesome.



It does so because AC has a variable current and is a much more efficient transmitter of energy (it commonly takes the form of a wave function). DC requires both a negative and positive terminal, and requires a decidedly constant amount of energy, to keep the same amount of current/voltage running. AC can also cheaply change voltage using transformers, but DC voltage changing requires the use of expensive electrical equipment.

Thank you. I always like learning something new!

Well, I definitely knew it by highschool physics class... but I think I knew it before.

I knew that Batteries were DC, and that AC was discovered by Tesla, and made for better long distance transmission of power - but to be perfectly honest, I don't know WHY AC is a better long distance distributor.

Well, without getting too technical.... Higher current transmissions can be lost through resistance over longer distances, and this lost is exponential in relation to increasing the current, so it's easier to transmit lower current, HIGH voltage over longer distances, and the process of stepping up the voltage and minimizing the current, and then reversing the process with devices known as "transformers" is much easier with AC.

Oy gevalt indeed - whatever happened to reading comprehension on this forum?!

Once again: *I* am the one who didn't know, *he* is the one who told me. And no, he was not being a jerk about it.

And as for the gist of your question, I'm just going to claim that those wall-plug-in units aren't known as "A/C adapters" in Germany and hope nobody comes along to prove me wrong.

*snip*


Apologies. I automatically thought higher of you and assumed the "bf" was being a typical guy and lording his inaccurate knowledge over his "gf". That's such a frequent occurrence that it's slipped into the "autopilot" of my mind's reading engine. Y'know, that lobe that makes faster reading possible because we skim the things that are familiar.

Regardless, "AC adapter". Common stuff.

Damn, I had hoped this was a discussion thread on one of the greatest bands in the history of music.

*snip*


In the...history...of...music...really?

AC/DC? That's all you got? A bar band? Well, it takes all kinds, I suppose.

AC - alternating current, DC - direct current. While I know next to nothing about electricity I can see no way in which a battery could provide an alternating current because there is no source of electricity entering the battery so as to change how much current is leaving the battery. Does that make sense? F@#$@# ehh it does!

In the...history...of...music...really?

AC/DC? That's all you got? A bar band? Well, it takes all kinds, I suppose.

Would you prefer somebody else? Guns N' Roses? Rolling Stones? Van Halen? ZZ Top? Jimi Hendrix Experience? Grateful Dead? Johnny Cash? Chuck Berry? The Beatles?

And this all means? I can't wire a plug, so its all above my head.

And AC/DC bloody well are not one of the greatest bands of all time; that particular honour goes to the Smiths.

Would you prefer somebody else? Guns N' Roses? Rolling Stones? Van Halen? ZZ Top? Jimi Hendrix Experience? Grateful Dead? Johnny Cash? Chuck Berry? The Beatles?

G n'R? That's ludicrous, they're terrible.

Whilst, for that matter, surely you might add a band who are remotely modern?

G n'R? That's ludicrous, they're terrible.

Whilst, for that matter, surely you might add a band who are remotely modern?

Dropkick Murphys? Green Day? Nickelback? Oh, and shame on you for decrying the greatness that was the Guns n' Roses. They had, easily, some of the greatest guitar riffs ever.

And I'm talking the greatest of bands in history. Thus, I list the greatest of rock bands, since rock is the greatest music of all time. Period.

And the Smiths? Meh.

Dropkick Murphys? Green Day? Nickelback? Oh, and shame on you for decrying the greatness that was the Guns n' Roses. They had, easily, some of the greatest guitar riffs ever.

And I'm talking the greatest of bands in history. Thus, I list the greatest of rock bands, since rock is the greatest music of all time. Period.

And the Smiths? Meh.

The Smiths? Meh? I'm offended.:D

I'm not a huge fan of GnR in truth, mainly because Axl Rose is a ****. Greenday, being complete cunts themselves, also have this failing, as does Chad Kroeger.

Dropkick are the tits though.

The Smiths? Meh? I'm offended.:D

I'm not a huge fan of GnR in truth, mainly because Axl Rose is a ****. Greenday, being complete cunts themselves, also have this failing, as does Chad Kroeger.

Dropkick are the tits though.

Admittedly, I would relish nothing more than allowing my fist to discuss with Axl why he's such a bastard. However, Axl's general level of being a total jack@$$ does not detract enough from the talent of the instrumentation to decry it from greatness status.