Then check out page 117 of the Connevans catalogue - I've got exactly the same alarm clock and I can vouch that it's evil. It's US made so I'm sure you will easily find an distributor near you.
I'm deaf. Yes really I'm deaf. I have a serious problem sleeping through vibrating alarm clocks - paid £50 for this super duper powerful alarm clock and while the first couple of months was terrible (wake up with a nasty shock) I've started to get used to it, and it won't be long before I start to sleep through that one....
Hmmm now what about that washing machine I junked a while ago - take out the motor, put an unbalanced weight on it, and then tape it to my bed's leg....?
Hmmm to 1) - in the UK we are having chip n PIN now - where we have to enter a PIN instead of a signature, but I can't enter PIN until right at the end of the packaging and when the cashier has calcuated how much it would cost. *shrugs*.
In the UK, all the govt depts always explain what is on the machine readable data of the driving licence (barcode) and passports (bunch of alphanumeric characters) and other cards - normally there's a leaflet saying which bit stands for, and reading it, I can work out what most data stands for - my DoB, part of postcode, driver number, etc etc.
Actually due to working in Wales and living in England, I find when I use most the ATMs in Wales, (and some ATMs in Bristol where I live acutally) and when I enter my card, it pops up in 2 languages, "Enter your PIN" both in English and Welsh, and the bottom left button is marked "Enter" in English, and the bottom right button is marked "Enter" in Welsh - a person preferring Welsh would press the button labelled in Welsh, and as I don't speak a single word of Welsh, I opt to press the button marked in English:)
Tho some ATMs in Wales (like 95% of ATMs in England) doesn't ask me that quesiton at all - just enter the PIN number and straight to the selection menu without needing to press anything - no language choices anywhere. Pain if I entered in the wrong PIN and have to wait until I've chosen how much money I want to take out.
Does this has subtitles? I bet you that it doesn't... wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't either.
It's great to see the rapid rise of internet video/broadcasting etc but very worried about subtitles - it's extremely rare to get subtitles (apart from Japanese video like anime) - not even BBC subtitles their online videos.:(
"I also don't see the big deal with tagging body parts like this. It enforced accountability and I'm pretty sure dead people or someone who no longer has that arm attached to them doesn't much care what happens to it - tagged or not."
Maybe. But what about their relatives? UK had a few scandals fairly recently relating to baby organs being harvested for reserach without parents permissions at Bristol, Alder Hey and a few other hospitals. Look at this...
Also people don't like the thought of being seperated from various body parts after death. I don't care but most would.
"You give a certificate to say the your car meets emmision standards, and that is all."
You obviously haven't met the MoT test here in the UK. A mandatory annual safety/environmental test. Costs £42.10 (USD$78.51) for a hour test. Tests nearly everything relating to safety/emissions on your car - and if you have modifications that breaks rules - off with it. Blue headlights? Illegal. Big phat sticker in windscreen? Illegal. Loud exhaust? Illegal. And so on. If you don't get your car MoT'ed, you can't get a tax disc without one. And without a tax disc, your car would be towed away and crushed. (see 2nd paragraph of Section 2)
For example, I've had my car failed and having a mandatory retest (free tho) just for having a nail in the tyre. My car also failed the test other times for more serious faults such as broken brake hose (broke in the garage), blown headlamp bulb, rusty inner NSF wing (my worst problem to date, cost £70 for welding), frayed handbrake cable, leaking rear suspension, also got warned for having worn brakes (still within the legal limit but needed changing), etc. I know of people who failed the test and needed to pay £1,000 to fix it all - but of course, I agree with all the above - safety is important!
Rules are continiously added on the MoT test - maybe one day there'll be a rule on the MoT test "You must carry a black box recorder for safety reasons" for example? (Tho new rules generally only applies on cars made after a specific date). So to make my point, there's a way (in the UK anyway) to be able to enforce new laws such as having to have a black box or GPS speed limit enforcements.
Huh? Electricity for me is around 11p per kWh and gas is around 2p per kWh (in its most expensive tiers - after a certain amount of kWh, the price halves) and while I've got a gas fired boiler for the central heating system and DHW. My cooker is also gas fired but the oven is electric. I pay £22 a month for gas, £20 a month for electricity - and I actually use up pratically no gas at all in summer even tho having a gas cooker and use the boiler for DHW.
OTOH, most of our power plants are natural gas fired - though recently receving letters from British Gas recently seems to say that natural gas is running out and they're raising up prices to reflect but then again they'd use any excuse to raise prices... (trying not to rant here;))
My car (Parts made all over Europe, German electronics, assembled in Spain) does have an werid bug - if you stall the engine, it starts up fine, but when you drive along, and then stop again, it will stall. Start again, drive along and it'll stall. Then the time between start and stall will shorten until the car never starts again unless you turn off the ignition and turn the ignition on again and it'll act as if nothing happened. I've learnt when I stall the engine I turn off the ignition and start again. I suspect the ECU is reset every time the ignition is turned off - which is a good thing in my case;)
Yes I agree, but remember this is an extremely cheap GM car with an EFI system designed in 1989 bolted on top of a car that was designed for carbs. This is also a car that you can buy a working good running engine, maybe 60,000 miles on, along with ECU and loom for £20 at a scrapyard. Nearly all EFI cars that I read the manual always talk of some "Limp Home Mode" but my car evidently doesn't have one despite that it'd be easy to implement one as all ECU's has a "Cold running mode" to use when the lambda sensor is cold.
The other thing I think of is that when reading the Haynes manual for Novas - it shows an exploded diagram for a 1.2 carb, and an exploded diagram for a 1.2 singlepoint injection throttle body - and damn, there's far fewer parts in a throttle body than a carb.
"Do people think EFI is more reliable because it needs less routine maintenance? If so, then I think they have the wrong definition of reliability." - that's what I'm trying to say, EFI cars needs as much maintenance as carbed cars.
Well I had a similar problem with my car, but reading the manual it says "If the ECU warning light comes on but goes out after a minute or so, disregard it" and I've made enquiries, and most people just said "It's nothing, just ignore it" and the car still works fine. It stopped 4 or so years ago anyway.
1.2l (73ci) 1992 Vauxhall Nova here, my 2nd car I've owned for 6 years. It has a singlepoint injection, has done over 124,000 miles, cost £4,000 new (my dad owned it originally), cheap ass car, only one breakdown since its manufacture which was a broken lambda sensor in which a quick replacement fixed it - and it was only because the car was so cheap it didn't even have a "limp home" mode on its ECU program. Original clutch, original head gasket etc. Starter motor had to be changed but only because the solenoid was sticking when the engine was hot. I know of many EFI Novas which has done over 200,000 miles with only a couple breakdowns. Oh yeah, and my experience is that the car goes 250 miles on one tank in towns, 450 miles motorways and each time I fill up, I put in 35 liters (9 US gallons) of petrol. It's also still smooth as a nut, and once I accidentally left the engine running overnight (>10 hours) it only used less than 1/8th of a tank (5 liters). Downside, the power output of the engine totally sucks, only 45bhp and I think that was being optimistic.
Anyway, compare that with my old car, again an Nova, only had it for 2 years, made in 1989, same 1.2l engine block but different head, carbed, broke down more times than I can remember. It had only 60,000 miles on the clock when I finally flogged it, but it suffered a blown head gasket (1 month after I got it no less!), and many others (but it was over 6 years ago so don't remember), drank petrol like there was no tomorrow, 200 miles out of a tank if I was lucky. At least it was 55bhp....
Also my mum's N reg Ford Mondeo (96 I think), full of electronic gizmos. My mate and I betted it'd have a serious breakdown at 80k miles (he's a carb nut like you, I'm more open to both) but it's at 95k miles now and it's still in a very good condition, never broke down ever. Only needed new tyres, battery, exhaust, and always serviced and nothing else. Even better than my newer Nova.
My view is that if you look after and service a carbed or injected car very well, it will look after you for a very long time.
That sounds a little incorrect to me actually, as my house was built in 1934 and it sure isn't called "Victorian". I went house buying last year and I found "Victorian" normally meant the late 1800's and maybe the first few years of the 1900's (probably 1903 or so) houses were called "Victorian" but after that, Edwardian, then pre-war, post war. My house acutally don't have any name of a period of history attached to it so I just call it a "in-between wars" house.
Also Victorian houses looks lovely and my house definitely don't look Victorian, but looks much definitely a 1930's house.
I would. I'm deaf, and while minicoms/TTY's are available, I detest them. I love being able to sign to my family/friends via the phone - as a consequence, I got a D-Link IP videophone - only £180 - and it was worth it even tho very few people have it at the moment. At least £180 is still cheaper than a minicom.
Netmeeting and a $20 webcam doesn't cut it. Not by a long shot. Especially that Netmeeting doesn't work through my firewall while the D-Link videophone does.
Actually I only recently installed my new toilet and while it only use 4 liters for low flush, 6 liters for full flush, it does the job extremely well and never had a problem - and that type of toilet is quite common. It replaced the old 1930's toilet I had, it had a huge ceramic tank about 7 foot off the floor. No difference really in flushing efficency, in fact I found the new one to do the job better. Tho I'd suspect it would be a little less reliable than the bog standard mechanical flush toilet as it's pneumatic and stuff.
As for water bills, my water bills are a fixed amount per year so I can use as much water as I want and I won't be charged a penny extra. No water meter or anything here. Yet I still want to save on water;) But then again I've got a 400 litre bath, so I can't speak about water savings I guess;)
Adding to what you've said, but for BSL, there's also some signs that is the same for different English words, or 2 signs for the same word - such as "fish" (referring to a live fish) and "fish" (referring to a dead fish that you eat) - for example "fish and chips" - I always sign "fish" using the live fish sign (I've been brought up with this one!) and some people who recently learnt sign normally laugh at that which annoys me.
Also sometimes there's signs for different words such as "pullover" "jumper" and "jersey" in BSL, the signs for those is the same.
Oh yeah as you know, there's quite a few signs that has no English equivalent!:)
I'm currently working on a project in which we are developing an online BSL Dictionary - and we are battling those problems you speak of, but we aren't solving the problems in a clever way - just entering a field where "This sign is used when you eat the fish, such as 'fish and chips'" and letting the hearies work it all out. Not enough time to do it properly;) There's loads of ASL dictionaries out there but all of them are simple and relies on English word searches.
Good luck with your project and hopefully we'll see it soon:)
Wouldn't people just search for other channels right after 1) finished? In the UK at least we got some way to find out what's on other channels without having to change - such as teletext page 606 on any analogue BBC channels or page 120 on ITV/C4 or page 126 on C5 shows what's on now and next on all channels in a convient box on the bottom half of the screen. For Digital, just a quick press on "Info" or "Guide" which shows a list whats on different channels while still watching the current channel?
When I was in the States a few years ago, I remember watching a channel devoted to showing what's "on now and next" tho you're unable to control the rate of scrolling or view your current channel.
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Then check out page 117 of the Connevans catalogue - I've got exactly the same alarm clock and I can vouch that it's evil. It's US made so I'm sure you will easily find an distributor near you.
I'm deaf. Yes really I'm deaf. I have a serious problem sleeping through vibrating alarm clocks - paid £50 for this super duper powerful alarm clock and while the first couple of months was terrible (wake up with a nasty shock) I've started to get used to it, and it won't be long before I start to sleep through that one....
Hmmm now what about that washing machine I junked a while ago - take out the motor, put an unbalanced weight on it, and then tape it to my bed's leg....?
Hmmm to 1) - in the UK we are having chip n PIN now - where we have to enter a PIN instead of a signature, but I can't enter PIN until right at the end of the packaging and when the cashier has calcuated how much it would cost. *shrugs*.
In the UK, all the govt depts always explain what is on the machine readable data of the driving licence (barcode) and passports (bunch of alphanumeric characters) and other cards - normally there's a leaflet saying which bit stands for, and reading it, I can work out what most data stands for - my DoB, part of postcode, driver number, etc etc.
Actually due to working in Wales and living in England, I find when I use most the ATMs in Wales, (and some ATMs in Bristol where I live acutally) and when I enter my card, it pops up in 2 languages, "Enter your PIN" both in English and Welsh, and the bottom left button is marked "Enter" in English, and the bottom right button is marked "Enter" in Welsh - a person preferring Welsh would press the button labelled in Welsh, and as I don't speak a single word of Welsh, I opt to press the button marked in English :)
Tho some ATMs in Wales (like 95% of ATMs in England) doesn't ask me that quesiton at all - just enter the PIN number and straight to the selection menu without needing to press anything - no language choices anywhere. Pain if I entered in the wrong PIN and have to wait until I've chosen how much money I want to take out.
Does this has subtitles? I bet you that it doesn't... wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't either.
:(
It's great to see the rapid rise of internet video/broadcasting etc but very worried about subtitles - it's extremely rare to get subtitles (apart from Japanese video like anime) - not even BBC subtitles their online videos.
Parent wasn't. Canada is in America, just like the US. North America that is.
Um, AFAIK (I'm a Brit after all), isn't someone who's 18 in the UK legally an adult so 19 would be an adult?
msconfig isn't available on WinNT operating systems (i.e. Win2k, WinXP etc)
"I also don't see the big deal with tagging body parts like this. It enforced accountability and I'm pretty sure dead people or someone who no longer has that arm attached to them doesn't much care what happens to it - tagged or not."
Maybe. But what about their relatives? UK had a few scandals fairly recently relating to baby organs being harvested for reserach without parents permissions at Bristol, Alder Hey and a few other hospitals. Look at this...
Also people don't like the thought of being seperated from various body parts after death. I don't care but most would.
"You give a certificate to say the your car meets emmision standards, and that is all."
You obviously haven't met the MoT test here in the UK. A mandatory annual safety/environmental test. Costs £42.10 (USD$78.51) for a hour test. Tests nearly everything relating to safety/emissions on your car - and if you have modifications that breaks rules - off with it. Blue headlights? Illegal. Big phat sticker in windscreen? Illegal. Loud exhaust? Illegal. And so on. If you don't get your car MoT'ed, you can't get a tax disc without one. And without a tax disc, your car would be towed away and crushed. (see 2nd paragraph of Section 2)
For example, I've had my car failed and having a mandatory retest (free tho) just for having a nail in the tyre. My car also failed the test other times for more serious faults such as broken brake hose (broke in the garage), blown headlamp bulb, rusty inner NSF wing (my worst problem to date, cost £70 for welding), frayed handbrake cable, leaking rear suspension, also got warned for having worn brakes (still within the legal limit but needed changing), etc. I know of people who failed the test and needed to pay £1,000 to fix it all - but of course, I agree with all the above - safety is important!
Rules are continiously added on the MoT test - maybe one day there'll be a rule on the MoT test "You must carry a black box recorder for safety reasons" for example? (Tho new rules generally only applies on cars made after a specific date). So to make my point, there's a way (in the UK anyway) to be able to enforce new laws such as having to have a black box or GPS speed limit enforcements.
Huh? Electricity for me is around 11p per kWh and gas is around 2p per kWh (in its most expensive tiers - after a certain amount of kWh, the price halves) and while I've got a gas fired boiler for the central heating system and DHW. My cooker is also gas fired but the oven is electric. I pay £22 a month for gas, £20 a month for electricity - and I actually use up pratically no gas at all in summer even tho having a gas cooker and use the boiler for DHW.
;))
OTOH, most of our power plants are natural gas fired - though recently receving letters from British Gas recently seems to say that natural gas is running out and they're raising up prices to reflect but then again they'd use any excuse to raise prices... (trying not to rant here
My car (Parts made all over Europe, German electronics, assembled in Spain) does have an werid bug - if you stall the engine, it starts up fine, but when you drive along, and then stop again, it will stall. Start again, drive along and it'll stall. Then the time between start and stall will shorten until the car never starts again unless you turn off the ignition and turn the ignition on again and it'll act as if nothing happened. I've learnt when I stall the engine I turn off the ignition and start again. I suspect the ECU is reset every time the ignition is turned off - which is a good thing in my case ;)
Yes I agree, but remember this is an extremely cheap GM car with an EFI system designed in 1989 bolted on top of a car that was designed for carbs. This is also a car that you can buy a working good running engine, maybe 60,000 miles on, along with ECU and loom for £20 at a scrapyard. Nearly all EFI cars that I read the manual always talk of some "Limp Home Mode" but my car evidently doesn't have one despite that it'd be easy to implement one as all ECU's has a "Cold running mode" to use when the lambda sensor is cold.
The other thing I think of is that when reading the Haynes manual for Novas - it shows an exploded diagram for a 1.2 carb, and an exploded diagram for a 1.2 singlepoint injection throttle body - and damn, there's far fewer parts in a throttle body than a carb.
"Do people think EFI is more reliable because it needs less routine maintenance? If so, then I think they have the wrong definition of reliability." - that's what I'm trying to say, EFI cars needs as much maintenance as carbed cars.
Well I had a similar problem with my car, but reading the manual it says "If the ECU warning light comes on but goes out after a minute or so, disregard it" and I've made enquiries, and most people just said "It's nothing, just ignore it" and the car still works fine. It stopped 4 or so years ago anyway.
Heh...
1.2l (73ci) 1992 Vauxhall Nova here, my 2nd car I've owned for 6 years. It has a singlepoint injection, has done over 124,000 miles, cost £4,000 new (my dad owned it originally), cheap ass car, only one breakdown since its manufacture which was a broken lambda sensor in which a quick replacement fixed it - and it was only because the car was so cheap it didn't even have a "limp home" mode on its ECU program. Original clutch, original head gasket etc. Starter motor had to be changed but only because the solenoid was sticking when the engine was hot. I know of many EFI Novas which has done over 200,000 miles with only a couple breakdowns. Oh yeah, and my experience is that the car goes 250 miles on one tank in towns, 450 miles motorways and each time I fill up, I put in 35 liters (9 US gallons) of petrol. It's also still smooth as a nut, and once I accidentally left the engine running overnight (>10 hours) it only used less than 1/8th of a tank (5 liters). Downside, the power output of the engine totally sucks, only 45bhp and I think that was being optimistic.
Anyway, compare that with my old car, again an Nova, only had it for 2 years, made in 1989, same 1.2l engine block but different head, carbed, broke down more times than I can remember. It had only 60,000 miles on the clock when I finally flogged it, but it suffered a blown head gasket (1 month after I got it no less!), and many others (but it was over 6 years ago so don't remember), drank petrol like there was no tomorrow, 200 miles out of a tank if I was lucky. At least it was 55bhp....
Also my mum's N reg Ford Mondeo (96 I think), full of electronic gizmos. My mate and I betted it'd have a serious breakdown at 80k miles (he's a carb nut like you, I'm more open to both) but it's at 95k miles now and it's still in a very good condition, never broke down ever. Only needed new tyres, battery, exhaust, and always serviced and nothing else. Even better than my newer Nova.
My view is that if you look after and service a carbed or injected car very well, it will look after you for a very long time.
I feel it all depends on your taste - some women who is drop dead gorgeous to some guys, are alright to some, and vice versa.
In fact, you can buy a "battery extender" off Ebay
And I'm sure you can easily find a cigarette lighter adaptor for a Palm - and hack that to fit a 12v point of your needs.
But I agree, the lack of a backup battery in a Palm and lack of "Real context switching" is a serious oversight.
That sounds a little incorrect to me actually, as my house was built in 1934 and it sure isn't called "Victorian". I went house buying last year and I found "Victorian" normally meant the late 1800's and maybe the first few years of the 1900's (probably 1903 or so) houses were called "Victorian" but after that, Edwardian, then pre-war, post war. My house acutally don't have any name of a period of history attached to it so I just call it a "in-between wars" house.
Also Victorian houses looks lovely and my house definitely don't look Victorian, but looks much definitely a 1930's house.
*puts hand up*
I would. I'm deaf, and while minicoms/TTY's are available, I detest them. I love being able to sign to my family/friends via the phone - as a consequence, I got a D-Link IP videophone - only £180 - and it was worth it even tho very few people have it at the moment. At least £180 is still cheaper than a minicom.
Netmeeting and a $20 webcam doesn't cut it. Not by a long shot. Especially that Netmeeting doesn't work through my firewall while the D-Link videophone does.
Actually I only recently installed my new toilet and while it only use 4 liters for low flush, 6 liters for full flush, it does the job extremely well and never had a problem - and that type of toilet is quite common. It replaced the old 1930's toilet I had, it had a huge ceramic tank about 7 foot off the floor. No difference really in flushing efficency, in fact I found the new one to do the job better. Tho I'd suspect it would be a little less reliable than the bog standard mechanical flush toilet as it's pneumatic and stuff.
;) But then again I've got a 400 litre bath, so I can't speak about water savings I guess ;)
As for water bills, my water bills are a fixed amount per year so I can use as much water as I want and I won't be charged a penny extra. No water meter or anything here. Yet I still want to save on water
Adding to what you've said, but for BSL, there's also some signs that is the same for different English words, or 2 signs for the same word - such as "fish" (referring to a live fish) and "fish" (referring to a dead fish that you eat) - for example "fish and chips" - I always sign "fish" using the live fish sign (I've been brought up with this one!) and some people who recently learnt sign normally laugh at that which annoys me.
:)
;) There's loads of ASL dictionaries out there but all of them are simple and relies on English word searches.
:)
Also sometimes there's signs for different words such as "pullover" "jumper" and "jersey" in BSL, the signs for those is the same.
Oh yeah as you know, there's quite a few signs that has no English equivalent!
I'm currently working on a project in which we are developing an online BSL Dictionary - and we are battling those problems you speak of, but we aren't solving the problems in a clever way - just entering a field where "This sign is used when you eat the fish, such as 'fish and chips'" and letting the hearies work it all out. Not enough time to do it properly
Good luck with your project and hopefully we'll see it soon
Was it only me that I misread SRAM as SPAM?
Actually nearly all ISPs in the UK including mine sells routers as a package solution. Here's Eclipse's package
Also my ISP have got Linux help pages here
Wouldn't people just search for other channels right after 1) finished? In the UK at least we got some way to find out what's on other channels without having to change - such as teletext page 606 on any analogue BBC channels or page 120 on ITV/C4 or page 126 on C5 shows what's on now and next on all channels in a convient box on the bottom half of the screen. For Digital, just a quick press on "Info" or "Guide" which shows a list whats on different channels while still watching the current channel?
When I was in the States a few years ago, I remember watching a channel devoted to showing what's "on now and next" tho you're unable to control the rate of scrolling or view your current channel.