Would hail the size of cricket balls during summer count as an "ice storm"?
Seriously, I've had my colorbond roof damaged by one such storm (just before Xmas 2010). Insurance came to the party, but really the worst that happened was some relatively minor leaks. No problems with power or phone/net. Now I'm like the guy on the ad looking at my new roof!:)
A year ago there were massive floods, many mobile phone sites lost power and were cut off from deliveries of new fuel, so coverage was reduced. But that was only a few days too, until roads reopened, etc. The cheapest network was out the longest.
Change to homeline budget. I've been on that and TPG adsl2+ for years. You'll save ~$10 per month with no upfronts or risk. Though I am tempted by the 100mbps cable Telstra now has available in my area (ironically it is cheaper to bundle hfc+pstn than hfc by itself).
Polymer notes might be an even easier than coins. But of course Australia is ahead of the USA there too! If we had polymer notes in the 1980s then the $1 and $2 coins would never have existed.
There's even talk of removing the 5c coin, which would make life a bit easier.
Still complaining about the $x.99 things? Petrol is still advertised to the tenth of a cent despite being over $1/litre for a decade. I filled up the other day at 141.9c/L. I sister worked at one and she said they had to make the sign bigger for the fourth digit. Why didn't they just drop the.9?
And wasn't CDMA a step backwards from AMPS, which was turned off in 2000? Apparently.
The "3G" UMTS (and even 4G like LTE) networks use W-CDMA on the air interface, but talk GSM protocols. The CDMA ideas were much superior than TDMA as used by GSM, at a cost of more CPU computations required.
Re fire signs: theres a formula to work out which warning to use, which is a usually a number less than 200. (above 100 is catastrophic iirc). It takes in account temp, wind, humidity and fuel. However, just before the Victorian bushfires a few years ago the number was well over 200, which is literally off the chart.
And re sunnies: I use "Transistions" glasses so I have built in sunglasses at all times!:)
I'm on the Gold Coast. Deodourant does nothing for me.
I got two windows vpses (one 2003 one 2008) for a specific project from burst.net, and they still have problems. Almost daily blue screens on both, even though these servers don't do much (not publicly advertised, just a step between development and deployment, and all access is password protected). Support was quick to respond with some vague wording that the node had to be rebooted, but couldn't give an explanation more than that. When this project finishes we are cancelling and never using them again.
Sounds like your grid is too small to have solar on it: not enough load to keep it within limits; lowering the voltage could cause brown-outs during the peak times. My solar feeds the grid all day and so does my neighbour's: his feeds so much he actually ends up with a credit bill every quarter!
I have heard this story on Whirlpool a few times, starting here. (Links to other threads)
I wouldn't want to be handling 380V with screw terminals and spade connectors!
Reminds me of a place where I used to work (pre-2005): each store had an ADSL modem and ethernet router, same brand. Same connector for the DC power supply. Opposite polarities. So if they were ever unplugged at the same time there was a 50% chance of letting the magic smoke out, which did happen.
Interestingly the Dell 13" version of your example is the same price, with lesser specs (notably, i3).
But AFAIK the Inspiron is Dell's "cheap" brand. Apple don't do cheap. So you might be better off comparing with Alienware or Latitude. Both of which cost more than a similar spec MBP.
Apple (and most companies) do rip off us Aussies, but remember that in the USA prices are advertised without tax, so you have to add 10% GST. Still higher, but not the full $200. One thing that really annoys me is they charge us more money to "service us", but don't make changes to actually service us, like spelling in the autocorrect. When the iPad first came out it was actually cheaper here than in the States!
I still think Woolworth's logo looks more like a watermellon than an apple! It's a stylised "W"! If they'd had a bite taken out of it then there'd be problems but there's no confusion how it stands.
I used to use outlook 2003. Its search was so slow it was quicker to walk over to the Mac, start it up, get into Mail, and do the search there. Both using the same exchange 2007 server. I used to be a folder user for this reason, but since using Mac more and upgrading the pc to outlook 2010 I haven't done as much folder sorting, as search is nice.
I assumed a "dust devil" was something like the dunes migrating themselves over the highway, LOL. At least your link translates the term to the proper "willy-willy".
I once had one that got me to go to logmein123.com and enter a six digit code. Do any of these work with Linux? I was thinking about popping in a live cd and letting them at it, but I didn't have one handy at the time, and I didn't trust them with my main Ubuntu install. I could only manage about 20 minutes of stringing out though ("my computer is really slow today!") before I got bored.
Then why can't you adjust the timetable? Instead of an activity starting at 5pm, move it to 4pm. DST is a lie, just to get you up an hour earlier for half the year.
My suggestion, instead of timezones based (approximately) on local midday (like they are now), it should be based on local sunrise (exactly)! That would make the zones and time calculations much more complex but the advantage is automatic DST, since it would adjust the UTC offset by up to a minute each day. Refer to http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp to see when the "00:00:00" should be. In my "beamtime" I woke at 00:54 (54 minutes after sunrise). The sun set at 11:26, it is currently 16:41 (22:47 GMT+10, by the time I actually post this it will be a few minutes) and daynight will end at 23:58:59 (it's almost spring here so the time between sunrises is shorter than the "usual" 23:59:59; your daynight will almost definitely end at a different beamtime). To see what these are in your local beamtime, you'd probably need a computer of some sort, possibly with GPS data of your location and mine.:)
Though if I was to screw with the time that much, I'd like to make it "metric" at the same time: using seconds, hectoseconds and "manseconds" (see Japanese word for 10,000). So I woke at 0,32,40 and the sun set at 4,11,60 and it is currently 6,00,60 and the daynight will end at 8,63,39 (my current information only goes to the minute, in practice it should be either to the second or rounded to the nearest hs).
All this will guarantee that it will not be adopted anywhere.
Can't wait. The ADSL at my work is unusable during many points of the day due to 30 devices trying to use it and the overloaded RIM/CMUX/ISAM/Telstra smoke signals (whatever it is). Modem syncs at 8160/384 (maximum possible with that port) but even Google and ISP websites can timeout during these times, even when the other devices are not transmitting (checked with tcpdump). This is the worst area in Australia for congested backhaul (Gold Coast).
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Would hail the size of cricket balls during summer count as an "ice storm"?
Seriously, I've had my colorbond roof damaged by one such storm (just before Xmas 2010). Insurance came to the party, but really the worst that happened was some relatively minor leaks. No problems with power or phone/net. Now I'm like the guy on the ad looking at my new roof! :)
A year ago there were massive floods, many mobile phone sites lost power and were cut off from deliveries of new fuel, so coverage was reduced. But that was only a few days too, until roads reopened, etc. The cheapest network was out the longest.
Change to homeline budget. I've been on that and TPG adsl2+ for years. You'll save ~$10 per month with no upfronts or risk. Though I am tempted by the 100mbps cable Telstra now has available in my area (ironically it is cheaper to bundle hfc+pstn than hfc by itself).
Polymer notes might be an even easier than coins. But of course Australia is ahead of the USA there too! If we had polymer notes in the 1980s then the $1 and $2 coins would never have existed.
There's even talk of removing the 5c coin, which would make life a bit easier.
Still complaining about the $x.99 things? Petrol is still advertised to the tenth of a cent despite being over $1/litre for a decade. I filled up the other day at 141.9c/L. I sister worked at one and she said they had to make the sign bigger for the fourth digit. Why didn't they just drop the .9?
And wasn't CDMA a step backwards from AMPS, which was turned off in 2000? Apparently.
The "3G" UMTS (and even 4G like LTE) networks use W-CDMA on the air interface, but talk GSM protocols. The CDMA ideas were much superior than TDMA as used by GSM, at a cost of more CPU computations required.
Re fire signs: theres a formula to work out which warning to use, which is a usually a number less than 200. (above 100 is catastrophic iirc). It takes in account temp, wind, humidity and fuel. However, just before the Victorian bushfires a few years ago the number was well over 200, which is literally off the chart.
And re sunnies: I use "Transistions" glasses so I have built in sunglasses at all times! :)
I'm on the Gold Coast. Deodourant does nothing for me.
I got two windows vpses (one 2003 one 2008) for a specific project from burst.net, and they still have problems. Almost daily blue screens on both, even though these servers don't do much (not publicly advertised, just a step between development and deployment, and all access is password protected). Support was quick to respond with some vague wording that the node had to be rebooted, but couldn't give an explanation more than that. When this project finishes we are cancelling and never using them again.
Sounds like your grid is too small to have solar on it: not enough load to keep it within limits; lowering the voltage could cause brown-outs during the peak times. My solar feeds the grid all day and so does my neighbour's: his feeds so much he actually ends up with a credit bill every quarter!
I have heard this story on Whirlpool a few times, starting here. (Links to other threads)
I wouldn't want to be handling 380V with screw terminals and spade connectors!
Reminds me of a place where I used to work (pre-2005): each store had an ADSL modem and ethernet router, same brand. Same connector for the DC power supply. Opposite polarities. So if they were ever unplugged at the same time there was a 50% chance of letting the magic smoke out, which did happen.
Since when is a corridor a grid?
... and keeping me up with its barking ... and mauling my children
Sometimes Windows is a rabid pit bull, causing massive issues outside its circle.
But then just like any dog can bite, and OS can cause massive issues!
Interestingly the Dell 13" version of your example is the same price, with lesser specs (notably, i3).
But AFAIK the Inspiron is Dell's "cheap" brand. Apple don't do cheap. So you might be better off comparing with Alienware or Latitude. Both of which cost more than a similar spec MBP.
Apple (and most companies) do rip off us Aussies, but remember that in the USA prices are advertised without tax, so you have to add 10% GST. Still higher, but not the full $200. One thing that really annoys me is they charge us more money to "service us", but don't make changes to actually service us, like spelling in the autocorrect. When the iPad first came out it was actually cheaper here than in the States!
I still think Woolworth's logo looks more like a watermellon than an apple! It's a stylised "W"! If they'd had a bite taken out of it then there'd be problems but there's no confusion how it stands.
That's still 11 days away!
(Since this is a non-US story, one must assume that dates are in a sane format)
And it uses the same micro SIM card too!
DRSABCD - Danger, Response, Send for help, Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Defibrillation. Still stuck at "Danger".
I used to use outlook 2003. Its search was so slow it was quicker to walk over to the Mac, start it up, get into Mail, and do the search there. Both using the same exchange 2007 server. I used to be a folder user for this reason, but since using Mac more and upgrading the pc to outlook 2010 I haven't done as much folder sorting, as search is nice.
I assumed a "dust devil" was something like the dunes migrating themselves over the highway, LOL. At least your link translates the term to the proper "willy-willy".
I once had one that got me to go to logmein123.com and enter a six digit code. Do any of these work with Linux? I was thinking about popping in a live cd and letting them at it, but I didn't have one handy at the time, and I didn't trust them with my main Ubuntu install. I could only manage about 20 minutes of stringing out though ("my computer is really slow today!") before I got bored.
Also 802.11a is 5.x GHz - it is b/g on 2.4GHz. 802.11n can run on both 2.4 and 5.x.
The Airport (like virtually all Apple stuff) is great if you don't want to tinker with it. This goes against the OP's requirement.
Of course I noticed I switched the 160 and 140 just as I hit submit...
I thought it was 140 bytes; to get 160 chars they just pack into 7 bit. 160 x 8 / 7 = 140.
Then why can't you adjust the timetable? Instead of an activity starting at 5pm, move it to 4pm. DST is a lie, just to get you up an hour earlier for half the year.
My suggestion, instead of timezones based (approximately) on local midday (like they are now), it should be based on local sunrise (exactly)! That would make the zones and time calculations much more complex but the advantage is automatic DST, since it would adjust the UTC offset by up to a minute each day. Refer to http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp to see when the "00:00:00" should be. In my "beamtime" I woke at 00:54 (54 minutes after sunrise). The sun set at 11:26, it is currently 16:41 (22:47 GMT+10, by the time I actually post this it will be a few minutes) and daynight will end at 23:58:59 (it's almost spring here so the time between sunrises is shorter than the "usual" 23:59:59; your daynight will almost definitely end at a different beamtime). To see what these are in your local beamtime, you'd probably need a computer of some sort, possibly with GPS data of your location and mine. :)
Though if I was to screw with the time that much, I'd like to make it "metric" at the same time: using seconds, hectoseconds and "manseconds" (see Japanese word for 10,000). So I woke at 0,32,40 and the sun set at 4,11,60 and it is currently 6,00,60 and the daynight will end at 8,63,39 (my current information only goes to the minute, in practice it should be either to the second or rounded to the nearest hs).
All this will guarantee that it will not be adopted anywhere.
Can't wait. The ADSL at my work is unusable during many points of the day due to 30 devices trying to use it and the overloaded RIM/CMUX/ISAM/Telstra smoke signals (whatever it is). Modem syncs at 8160/384 (maximum possible with that port) but even Google and ISP websites can timeout during these times, even when the other devices are not transmitting (checked with tcpdump). This is the worst area in Australia for congested backhaul (Gold Coast).
Looks like 19900 baht in Thailand: http://store.apple.com/th/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini?mco=OTY2ODExMQ
Which is US$ 667 according to Google at the moment. It is AU$699 in Australia (US$ 729).
I'm pretty sure you'll end up with lots of dren.