MFD damaged by clay....

[Qlara]

Cool! A creative problem was rectified by a creative solution.....it's a win-win.
Grandma should be happy!

[a_gray_prius]

Originally Posted by qbee42

I imagine the oil in the clay attacked the touch screen coating on the MFD. It doesn't take much thinking to realize you don't want to stick things on a touch screen.

Tom

To play Devil's Advocate, there is also oil on your skin that can end up on the MFD screen. If oils could potentially damage the screen, shouldn't that fail some sort of engineering/design testing?

[qbee42]

Originally Posted by a_gray_prius

To play Devil's Advocate, there is also oil on your skin that can end up on the MFD screen. If oils could potentially damage the screen, shouldn't that fail some sort of engineering/design testing?

Absolutely. Oil, dirt, and skin buildup on touch screens is a problem. The screens are designed for human oils, but are not necessarily resistant to other oils and solvents. That's why they come with a warning about cleaning methods and solutions.

Tom

[kenoarto]

I'm still using the ice pick for my laptop.

[PriusLewis]

Originally Posted by RobH

There are probably a few people here who remember IBM cards...

Anyway, I remember a report from a university professor in the US who was supposed to receive a box of about 2000 IBM cards from another professor in Canada. The US Customs people were suspicious, so they took out a handful of the cards and sent them to Washington for analysis. Apparently the cards were deemed no threat, as the box of cards eventually was delivered, with the handful just thrown back on top of the rest of the cards. I certainly hope the cards were sequenced. In any case, we were certainly protected from the potential importation of dangerous information on IBM cards from a university in Canada.

OK, off topic but YOU started it!

One of my favorite punch card stories is from Hughes Electronics in the early days of communication satellites. Weight was a critical factor in those early satellites, so the weights engineer pulled considerable weight on the program (pun intended). One day he showed up in the software department and wanted to know how much the software on the satellite weighed. A programmer told him it didn't weigh anything. Angrily he picked up a deck of punch cards. "This is software," he said. "What does it weigh?" The quick thinking programmer said, "Oh, you think the software is the cards, right?" "That's right!" the weights guy said. "Well, you're wrong," the programmer said. "The software is the holes in the cards. Those holes don't weigh a thing!" "Oh....OK then!" the weights guy said and left, never to be seen again in the software department.

[qbee42]

Silly story. Probably true, knowing some engineers.

You know what I miss about punch cards and paper tape? The chad. Especially paper tape chad. It had a nasty oiliness to it. Chad was indispensable for office jokes: filling brief cases, umbrellas, etc.

Tom

[Stev0]

Originally Posted by kenoarto

I'm still using the ice pick for my laptop.

If you're using Vista, then it's recommended.

[Qlara]

Too bad....icepick is not part of the bundles when buying a Vista laptop....only junk wares are included.

[bredekamp]

Originally Posted by JimN

This sounds like the precious darlings made something out of modelling clay and grandma thought it was a bright idea to stick it on the display. Since some believe it is Toyota's fault because they didn't say, "don't put crap on the display", on Toyota's behalf I say to all the dim bulbs out there:

DON'T PUT CRAP ON ANY DISPLAYS

Grandma should be reported to DYFS for Prius abuse.

The same reason I don't stick stuff to the LCD monitor I'm using now. It'll damage the screen.

[dwdean]

Originally Posted by qbee42

Silly story. Probably true, knowing some engineers.

You know what I miss about punch cards and paper tape? The chad. Especially paper tape chad. It had a nasty oiliness to it. Chad was indispensable for office jokes: filling brief cases, umbrellas, etc.

Tom

While I understand the potential for office humor in the chad, some of us living in Florida (and probably the rest of the nation) don't remember chads with such fondness....