@angelatlarge I guess you just have to give more answers! :) Honestly, the first few thousand is the hardest After that things get a lot easier.

@DavidKessner After that you care less, right?

@angelatlarge Basically.

@angelatlarge I upvoted a couple for you.

@DavidKessner Sorry I was just annoyed at having made a substantial edit of that iPhone question and not seeing it :) I forgot to edit the subject though: the subjet is rather misleading. The question isn't about tapping power :)

20 more points on your way to 2k. :)

@DavidKessner I think I found a new way to rep beg: complain about not having enough rep

@DavidKessner Thanks. If you do that another 100 times, I'll be set :)

@angelatlarge If I do too many upvotes, they get automatically removed due to "serial upvoting".

@DavidKessner That was a joke. And, really?

@DavidKessner That's a nice feature

@DavidKessner Don't upvote the crappy ones though :)

@DavidKessner That pinout question/answer was really low quality

@angelatlarge Yes, really. Same for serial down-votes.

@angelatlarge You mean @jippie 's answers?

@angelatlarge It was an easy answer, but someone had to say it.

@DavidKessner :)

@angelatlarge That poor guy. I give him so much undeserved crap...

@DavidKessner Isn't that's his mission in life?

@angelatlarge I certainly hope so!

Nice turnout in chat today!

@Kortuk I can't tell if that is a joke or not.

@Kortuk Are you just counting the gravatars?

@angelatlarge Yep.

@angelatlarge It is a lazy estimate of health.

@Kortuk Yeah, most of those are ghosts of engineers past

@Kortuk BTW, are you still planning to post a meta answer?

@angelatlarge I need to find a reference, I am pretty busy at work and my two searches have not found anything yet.

@Kortuk Ah. Didn't mean to rush you, just wondering

@angelatlarge No worries. Short answer. They already have Answer bans and Q bans which are implemented automatically and I believe include spam flags.

@angelatlarge So they just get flat out blocked.

That guy, hhh, just keeps posting "amazing" questions (and answers!)...

@DavidKessner Yeah, @Kortuk is the expert on that

@DavidKessner I think he just needs some guidance. :)

That does not seem like a bad question, he is wondering.

@Kortuk ....must....resist...urge...for...sarcasm...

@Kortuk The "Lethal Frequencies" Q shows extreme lack of understanding, plus extreme "full of himself". Not a good combo.

@DavidKessner Someone who does not know electronics and is interested in learning but thinks certain things are understood.

I wonder if CircuitLab would give me access to their internal file format...I'd like to write an LTSpice > CircuitLab converter.

@Bitrex Post and ask them if you can! That sounds awesome.

@DavidKessner Certain frequencies can be more dangerous, but the solution is to just filter for them. However for what he is planning isolation should be very doable.

@Kortuk I will. If they let me at it I hope I find the time to code it up!

@Bitrex :)

CircuitLab is nice, but uh..their editor leaves something to be desired.

@Bitrex :)

@Bitrex beats for browser what I used to have.

@Kortuk I wish him the best of luck, but until then I don't want to be anywhere near his medical-ish stuff. :)

@DavidKessner From my discussion with him he is just wanting to learn more and making equipment to use with his own body for learning.

@DavidKessner Optocouplers and you are in the clear.

@Kortuk Yup!

He is trying to learn and asking unique questions, at least the one I just linked I think is nice to have around, but tangential.

@DavidKessner I think I missed that one...

Need some expertise there:

@angelatlarge Do you mean "OCR"?

@DavidKessner Crap, yes, thanks.

"Schematic" capture is the process of a human entering the electrical connection information into the computer. One end result is a nice looking drawing, but the drawing is not the end-goal. The end-goal is the netlist that can be used by the PCB layout program. In other cases, the end result is the VHDL, Verilog, or Spice code.

All the nice drawings in the world will not help you design a PCB. That's why the netlist is the most important thing.

Hello all! Wazzup?

@DavidKessner Capture is a bad word though, no? Should we refer to "writing a letter" as "letter capture"?

@rawbrawb Vasuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup

@angelatlarge if it's a wild letter - yes. Tame ones ... that's called exaggeration.

@rawbrawb letter != snark

@angelatlarge I would say that the term "schematic" is the bad word. Schematic is a hold-over from pre-CAD days and implies a graphical depiction of the design. Today, what we have is not always graphical.

@angelatlarge I'm OK with "Letter Capture". :)

@angelatlarge you guys are discussing 4*h's OCR question? It's kinda confusing does he not have the electronic files? or is it that the tool doesn't export in a standard format?

@rawbrawb My guess: he found a schematic graphic somewhere and wants to simulate it.

@angelatlarge OK, something to avoid then ... ;)

@rawbrawb Just a guess on my part

@CamilStaps: Look, holy smokes, someone upvoted my answer to your Stack Overflow question! Do you want to downvote it to get better ones? :)