"If he wants to handle any of the usual things that people have to handle (yard work, banking, groceries, etc) he has to sleep from about 2pm-10pm in order to wake up and get to work for his shift."
Grocery stores are 24/7 , banking is done online or via ATM these days.
As far as yard work is concerned, while that is confined to daylight hours, at this time of the year sunrise is around5:45am and sunset is at 9:12 pm, all times when I am not at work. I prefer to mow the lawn on my day(s) off anyway. But the other day I mowed the lawn after I got home from work, and thn had a shower and went to bed.
What is needed mainly is a bedroom that has good enough darkening blinds and curtains, good a/c and either a quiet neigbourhood or good soundproofing. no children, or pets, and a supportive spouse. If you are into TV programs a DVR or VCR is needed.
I have been working nights (11pm-7am) for the past 3 years, 9 shifts per fortnight. I couldn't do it if I had to sometimes work other shifts though.
"by using only the sensors, most importantly the camera, already present in most mobile devices"
Not going to help much if the device is inside something, like a pocket of a coat, a drawer, a bag or purse etc. If it was out in the open, I could see it or hear it.
"Resistive electric heating is generally less efficient than a heat pump"
Heat pumps don't do so well when it is cold outside, which funnily enough is when you need the most heat. (Like when its 20 below 0)
"much less efficient than gas heating"
Pretty much all of the KWH that go into an electric heater come out as heat. A gas burner will always lose some up the chimney or whatever.
Gas may be cheaper (per KWH, but not every place is near a gas pipeline.
I don't know why this country uses BTU as a measure of heat energy, I know the USA isn't metric, but shouldn't you be using American Thermal Units instead of British ones.
After the problems I had upgrading to FF5 , and at least now having most of the add-ons back working, I won't be upgrading anytime soon.
Firefox has more versions than Herbergers has sales...
I hear that one of the upcoming features will be control of the major functions by thought. But you have to think in Russian
I see that Thunderbird 5 is out, (whatever happened to Thunderbird 4 - it never 'surfaced ) But a working Email program is even more essential than a browser so I won't be upgrading that either.
I think its time for a new Poll
Now that FF is F'd what browser are you sitching to?
1) Opera
2) Chrome
3) Chromium
4) Safari
5) I have to use IE (company policy) you insensitive Clod
6) Seamonkey
7) If Lynx is good enough for CowboyNeal, its good enough for me
Smaller commercial planes are sometimes turboprop powered. I last flew on one 10 years ago, but I am sure they are still in service on small city to city routes of 300 miles or less.
No, not Thunderbird 2, but the latest release of Thunderbird is 5 (What happened to version 4?)
Anyway with all the bugs of FF5.0 theres no way I am gonna upgrade to Thunderbird 5
(its not just add-ons that don't work with FF5 - I cant get on my online banking site now.
Time for a new/. poll I think
Now that FF is F'd, what browser are you going to switch to:
1) Chrome 2) Chromium 3) Opera 4) Safari 5) Seamonkey 6) I have to use IE (work policy) you insensitive Clod 7) If Lynx is good enough for CowboyNeal, its good enough for me
"At least in the colder regions of the country, "heating" doesn't usually show up on the electric bill"
While the heat may be provided by burning fossil fuels directly, it takes electricity to power the fan to blow the hot air around the house. I was told that the fan in our central air setup is about half a horsepower. Turning the mode to auto, so it only comes on when the furnace (or A/C) is running helps.
And for most people, hot water is a big consumer of energy. I guess/.ers reduce that but not showering every day.
Anyway 31W for a STB is not that significant, thats only a little bit more than a 100W light bulb (which is about 27W if CFL)
A few months ago I started using FoxTab. When I upgraded to FF4.0 it still worked. But when I 'upgraded' to FF5 it stopped working (and tthere was no warning that Foxtab was an incompatible add on when I went to upgrade.
And now even though I disabled Foxtab add on, when I CTRL-T it does open a new tab, but does not make that new tab tthe current one. If it wasn't for the fact that all my passwords are in FF, I would be switching to Seamonkey.
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"If he wants to handle any of the usual things that people have to handle (yard work, banking, groceries, etc) he has to sleep from about 2pm-10pm in order to wake up and get to work for his shift."
Grocery stores are 24/7 , banking is done online or via ATM these days.
As far as yard work is concerned, while that is confined to daylight hours, at this time of the year sunrise is around5:45am and sunset is at 9:12 pm, all times when I am not at work. I prefer to mow the lawn on my day(s) off anyway. But the other day I mowed the lawn after I got home from work, and thn had a shower and went to bed.
What is needed mainly is a bedroom that has good enough darkening blinds and curtains, good a/c and either a quiet neigbourhood or good soundproofing. no children, or pets, and a supportive spouse.
If you are into TV programs a DVR or VCR is needed.
I have been working nights (11pm-7am) for the past 3 years, 9 shifts per fortnight. I couldn't do it if I had to sometimes work other shifts though.
Tonight is my night off.
"by using only the sensors, most importantly the camera, already present in most mobile devices"
Not going to help much if the device is inside something, like a pocket of a coat, a drawer, a bag or purse etc.
If it was out in the open, I could see it or hear it.
"I'm in China and using Firefox 4.0"
Firefox 4 is an older browser.
I think Mozilla is working on version 8.0 right now. The official release is 5.01
Scotland was a nation, even had its own King. Robert (The Bruce) defeated the English at Bannockburn.
I am not a number, I am a free man
Mike Nesmith has produced and copyrighted some musical works.
"Resistive electric heating is generally less efficient than a heat pump"
Heat pumps don't do so well when it is cold outside, which funnily enough is when you need the most heat. (Like when its 20 below 0)
"much less efficient than gas heating"
Pretty much all of the KWH that go into an electric heater come out as heat. A gas burner will always lose some up the chimney or whatever.
Gas may be cheaper (per KWH, but not every place is near a gas pipeline.
I don't know why this country uses BTU as a measure of heat energy, I know the USA isn't metric, but shouldn't you be using American Thermal Units instead of British ones.
and 100% incompatible
After the problems I had upgrading to FF5 , and at least now having most of the add-ons back working, I won't be upgrading anytime soon.
Firefox has more versions than Herbergers has sales...
I hear that one of the upcoming features will be control of the major functions by thought. But you have to think in Russian
I see that Thunderbird 5 is out, (whatever happened to Thunderbird 4 - it never 'surfaced ) But a working Email program is even more essential than a browser so I won't be upgrading that either.
I think its time for a new Poll
Now that FF is F'd what browser are you sitching to?
1) Opera
2) Chrome
3) Chromium
4) Safari
5) I have to use IE (company policy) you insensitive Clod
6) Seamonkey
7) If Lynx is good enough for CowboyNeal, its good enough for me
Lift up a huge boulder with one outstretched arm (seemingly defying the laws of physics/balance)
How about running in slow motion (faster than a car)
I suppose it would cost 600 million of todays dollars :(
Smaller commercial planes are sometimes turboprop powered. I last flew on one 10 years ago, but I am sure they are still in service on small city to city routes of 300 miles or less.
"Because a balloon, at best, is filled with Hydrogen"
Baloons these days tend to use Helium, its not flammable. I guess a baloon would be easier to spot though.
Don't Antivirus and other security software disable autorun on USB hardware? I know I have some program that does.
No, not Thunderbird 2, but the latest release of Thunderbird is 5 (What happened to version 4?)
Anyway with all the bugs of FF5.0 theres no way I am gonna upgrade to Thunderbird 5
(its not just add-ons that don't work with FF5 - I cant get on my online banking site now.
Time for a new /. poll I think
Now that FF is F'd, what browser are you going to switch to:
1) Chrome
2) Chromium
3) Opera
4) Safari
5) Seamonkey
6) I have to use IE (work policy) you insensitive Clod
7) If Lynx is good enough for CowboyNeal, its good enough for me
Totally unenforceable.
(And whats to stop people from buying their animals in another town/state, or online?)
"At least in the colder regions of the country, "heating" doesn't usually show up on the electric bill"
While the heat may be provided by burning fossil fuels directly, it takes electricity to power the fan to blow the hot air around the house. I was told that the fan in our central air setup is about half a horsepower. Turning the mode to auto, so it only comes on when the furnace (or A/C) is running helps.
And for most people, hot water is a big consumer of energy. I guess /.ers reduce that but not showering every day.
Anyway 31W for a STB is not that significant, thats only a little bit more than a 100W light bulb (which is about 27W if CFL)
How would you know it was gay, unless there were two of them (of the same sex)
I guess they have another department for catching the humourus disoganised criminals
Even if it was going to pass close enough to be withing range of, say a space shuttle, they couldn't get one launched in time.
They fact that it was only spotted a few days away is worrying.
"what kind of problems would you want it chugging away at?"
Well obviously the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
Should be abolishing daylight saving so you don't have to change it every 6 months
Any way you burn coal, the result is CO2
We may have enough coal to last us a thousand years, but nowhere on the planet would be inhabitable by then.
A few months ago I started using FoxTab. When I upgraded to FF4.0 it still worked. But when I 'upgraded' to FF5 it stopped working (and tthere was no warning that Foxtab was an incompatible add on when I went to upgrade.
And now even though I disabled Foxtab add on, when I CTRL-T it does open a new tab, but does not make that new tab tthe current one. If it wasn't for the fact that all my passwords are in FF, I would be switching to Seamonkey.
FF5 should be spelt FFS
I mean already more than 50% of the cars are only carrying the driver, so if you have driverless cars, they will be going around empty.
All change !
Don't you know that when you
play at this level
its no ordinary version numbering scheme
(Apologies to Tim Rice, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson (Chess)
Anyway I am finding problems with Add-Ons too, even though the only one that was listed as incompatible was Foxytunes
FoxTabs doesnt work at all, instead of top sites, CTRL-T opens a new tab (blank) but doesn't move the current tab to that one.
My first thought was IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices like Iraq and Afghanistan )