I have solar hot water, free from the sun. Even now (middle of winter) there's enough sun to keep my electric hot water just on minimum bills! It's a 400 litre tank too, so plenty of hot water.
Just before Christmas was had a massive hail storm (some as big as cricket balls) which actually damaged our Colorbond roof. Colorbond has a good reputation when it comes to hail, but it was over 20 years old. Solar cells had zero damage: we have both PV and hot water. In fact our insurance claim took longer because we had to wait for a solar contractor to disconnect the panels so the roofers could get underneath them. We did get a light colour for the roof, not quite white.
Oh, here in Gold Coast Australia, electricity is about 20c/kWh and they pay us about 50c/kWh on what we feed back into the grid from the solar. Some people actually make money doing that! And the cells cost me nothing - the government paid the $8k for cells and installation!
I've already bought some apps for my ipad at the new lower price just because it was cheaper. I am using credit I got from dick smith ($50 itunes card cost me $40). I see woolworths has the same special at the moment.
I've had several digital alarm clock radios with a backup battery - and they all run/ran fast when off the mains. Here there is 50Hz power so maybe the backup oscillators are setup for 60Hz? I haven't done the calculations on how fast they go.
The other day I booted my P4 for the first time in about a year. I was surprised the clock was less than a second out - then I remembered Ubuntu automatically synchronises using NTP on boot. (Windows usually complains when I try to use Internet time, stupid thing)
I didn't think it was too bad; indeed our normal 3G seems to run at the USA's "4G" speed: I often download Ubuntu updates to my netbook at over 700KB/s sustained when sitting on the train (Optus 3G), for example. When the NBN comes online this can all only go up: more fibre backhaul for LTE and other new technologies. Not to mention the possibility of gigabit fibre in your own premises!
The "Cheque" button usually accesses a secondary "savings" account these days:) Or a business "cheque" account even if you don't have paper cheques to go with it.
And I think you mean that there's three buttons on EFTPOS machines: "Savings", "Cheque" and "Credit". Most ATMs seem to have an extra option or two for accessing other accounts.
I've had a Visa debit card for 10 years: it is basically a Visa card with $0 credit limit. Handy for buying stuff from the Internet (and the Internet itself) without having to get "credit" (I was a student at the time, and I've never needed to "upgrade" to a real credit card.)
I'll probably be retiring the XMBC Xbox this weekend after using it almost every day since 2004. I'm finally upgrading the 63cm CRT to a 101cm LED LCD FHD display, so composite will probably look poor. I have a PC that will become a HTPC so now I'll actually be able to watch HD content.
I thought the point of those domains was that they didn't have cookies, thus saving large amounts of bandwidth and time (more caching and concurrency) for the static files.
(The unrelated complaint among so-called intelligence New Zealanders is that ANZAC Day is not observered on the following weekeday because of this conincidence)
Today is "Easter Monday" over here in.au, even though it is Tuesday. Yesterday was Anzac Day. Easter is less important than returned veterans. (I'm not being sarcastic) Easter gets moved. It's its fault for jumping around so violently anyway!
Well, you collected a bunch of things, and now suddenly the scanner stops working. You look around and suddenly you notice that there's nobody around. You could abandon the basket and go to another store, but that would take time and effort... Or you could "come back and pay tomorrow".
You tried to pay but they wouldn't accept it (cashier not around, scanner broken, etc) so my feeling is that walking out isn't so bad. Of course once you realise no-one's around and then take more stuff you wouldn't have paid for, that is much worse, and is proper stealing!
Most new books I can see around here are printed in China (or other Asian countries). I have a toddler and his aunties and uncles and grandparents always buy him books, which he loves. Though he loves the iPad too!
Stunts (AKA 4D Sports Driving, a DOS game) had that: if you failed the question check enough times it would let you on the track but crash (the car) after a few seconds.
Don't most of those cables go through NZ and/or Guam? Also, if both Reach and SXC are damaged, or ISP becomes misconfigured then our packets could go through Japan (Finland is highly improbable though). Then there is the Chinese who have "accidentally on purpose (allegedly)" hijacked large parts of the Internet causing traffic to go through them.
Internet routing is quite interesting. Recently my office got a new IP address, in the 14/8 range, a range only allocated to APNIC a few months prior. Most sites worked but some just didn't - upstream providers had old bogon filters that stopped our packets.
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My 386 got a game port when we installed a sound card a year or so after we bought it. I still have my gravis gamepad, but no port to plug it into.
I have solar hot water, free from the sun. Even now (middle of winter) there's enough sun to keep my electric hot water just on minimum bills! It's a 400 litre tank too, so plenty of hot water.
Better me getting my tax back than some bludger.
Just before Christmas was had a massive hail storm (some as big as cricket balls) which actually damaged our Colorbond roof. Colorbond has a good reputation when it comes to hail, but it was over 20 years old. Solar cells had zero damage: we have both PV and hot water. In fact our insurance claim took longer because we had to wait for a solar contractor to disconnect the panels so the roofers could get underneath them. We did get a light colour for the roof, not quite white.
Oh, here in Gold Coast Australia, electricity is about 20c/kWh and they pay us about 50c/kWh on what we feed back into the grid from the solar. Some people actually make money doing that! And the cells cost me nothing - the government paid the $8k for cells and installation!
I've already bought some apps for my ipad at the new lower price just because it was cheaper. I am using credit I got from dick smith ($50 itunes card cost me $40). I see woolworths has the same special at the moment.
Not really "throw away" if you've been using it for eleven years!
Need to keep the rabbits out!
I've had several digital alarm clock radios with a backup battery - and they all run/ran fast when off the mains. Here there is 50Hz power so maybe the backup oscillators are setup for 60Hz? I haven't done the calculations on how fast they go.
The other day I booted my P4 for the first time in about a year. I was surprised the clock was less than a second out - then I remembered Ubuntu automatically synchronises using NTP on boot. (Windows usually complains when I try to use Internet time, stupid thing)
I didn't think it was too bad; indeed our normal 3G seems to run at the USA's "4G" speed: I often download Ubuntu updates to my netbook at over 700KB/s sustained when sitting on the train (Optus 3G), for example. When the NBN comes online this can all only go up: more fibre backhaul for LTE and other new technologies. Not to mention the possibility of gigabit fibre in your own premises!
Buy a new microwave oven: sounds like it is leaking badly!
The "Cheque" button usually accesses a secondary "savings" account these days :) Or a business "cheque" account even if you don't have paper cheques to go with it.
And I think you mean that there's three buttons on EFTPOS machines: "Savings", "Cheque" and "Credit". Most ATMs seem to have an extra option or two for accessing other accounts.
I've had a Visa debit card for 10 years: it is basically a Visa card with $0 credit limit. Handy for buying stuff from the Internet (and the Internet itself) without having to get "credit" (I was a student at the time, and I've never needed to "upgrade" to a real credit card.)
I'll probably be retiring the XMBC Xbox this weekend after using it almost every day since 2004. I'm finally upgrading the 63cm CRT to a 101cm LED LCD FHD display, so composite will probably look poor. I have a PC that will become a HTPC so now I'll actually be able to watch HD content.
I thought the point of those domains was that they didn't have cookies, thus saving large amounts of bandwidth and time (more caching and concurrency) for the static files.
That could be called a vending machine
(The unrelated complaint among so-called intelligence New Zealanders is that ANZAC Day is not observered on the following weekeday because of this conincidence)
Today is "Easter Monday" over here in .au, even though it is Tuesday. Yesterday was Anzac Day. Easter is less important than returned veterans. (I'm not being sarcastic) Easter gets moved. It's its fault for jumping around so violently anyway!
Well, you collected a bunch of things, and now suddenly the scanner stops working.
You look around and suddenly you notice that there's nobody around.
You could abandon the basket and go to another store, but that would take time and effort...
Or you could "come back and pay tomorrow".
You tried to pay but they wouldn't accept it (cashier not around, scanner broken, etc) so my feeling is that walking out isn't so bad. Of course once you realise no-one's around and then take more stuff you wouldn't have paid for, that is much worse, and is proper stealing!
TVs tend to be in cm though. One thing in common old units is tyre pressure in PSI though.
The USA was the first country to have metric money, so why are they the last to have non-metric everything else?
Most new books I can see around here are printed in China (or other Asian countries). I have a toddler and his aunties and uncles and grandparents always buy him books, which he loves. Though he loves the iPad too!
Stunts (AKA 4D Sports Driving, a DOS game) had that: if you failed the question check enough times it would let you on the track but crash (the car) after a few seconds.
I couldn't finish this: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109033997044 though my (then) housemate did. Finish the world's hottest burger and get your name on a plaque.
Don't most of those cables go through NZ and/or Guam? Also, if both Reach and SXC are damaged, or ISP becomes misconfigured then our packets could go through Japan (Finland is highly improbable though). Then there is the Chinese who have "accidentally on purpose (allegedly)" hijacked large parts of the Internet causing traffic to go through them.
Internet routing is quite interesting. Recently my office got a new IP address, in the 14/8 range, a range only allocated to APNIC a few months prior. Most sites worked but some just didn't - upstream providers had old bogon filters that stopped our packets.
Yes, 10:04 PM -- Friday April 01 2011. The fools have been filtering in all day
"karmawhoring" has fallen 5% below 85% tolerance.
Several of my friends bought the "IBM Deathstars" back in the day and ALL of them failed.
Still a little late: