Man,,, I wish I had the wholesale happy pill concession for this group. -----Original Message----- >From: Olin Lathrop >Sent: Oct 20, 2008 4:45 AM >To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." >Subject: Re: [PIC] Avdd left floating > >Grant Brown wrote: >> It is however a forum in which one may ask a question relating to the >> PIC devices and expect a reasonable answer if indeed someone is kind >> enough to provide one. > >For reasonable questions. Questions that have been answered many times here >and on the microchip forum, or that are answered in the datasheet right >where you'd expect to find them are in the "not so brilliant" catagory. If >you do that, be prepared for a gruff answer. > >Then there are stupid questions we get all too often about what the PIC will >do when you violate the specifications. > >If I remember right, yours was at least in the first catagory, and you kept >pushing and then it entered the second catagory. > >> I asked what I thought was a reasonable question. > >It wasn't, see above. > >> I did not however expect a stupid answer that was intended to >> be-little me. > >If you do something stupid publicly, you may get called on it publicly. >Stop whining and get over it. > >> A simple - thats not a good idea ..... would have sufficed > >If I remember right, the first responses were exactly that, which the >datasheet also tells you quite clearly. But that didn't suffice. You >wanted to know how much you could ignore the specs and get away with it. > > >******************************************************************** >Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products >(978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. >-- >http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >View/change your membership options at >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist