You really think that a Ford Festiva and a Mercedes have the same performance and quality of parts?
Who said anything about a Festiva? There are other cars more comparable in size, power and gadgets. Your average car at even a quarter the price has more than adequate performance, unless you are racing, or towing a large boat or trailer.
And there is no point in making a part to finer tolerance than required. Do you think Mercedes make their petrol engines to the same tolerance as their deisel engines? No way. They could, but do not, as its not needed.
In theory, you might expect a Mercedes to last longer than a Toyota, but in practice they get written off just as early due to the high cost of replacement parts.
So what do you really get in the S-class that matters? Well, a badge, prestige, lots of cool gadgets, and the privilege of beta-testing new features that may or may not be in other cars in a few years.
I have a no-name chinese BT mouse, and once it sleeps I must click a button to wake it. But there is no noticeable delay beyond that, at least in Linux. Maybe its a Windows driver issue??
The only reason for getting bluetooth was to avoid an extra dongle on my laptop.
Some people may want BT for the increased range that you typically get.
I just re-read this 5 times and realized that the terrorists have won.
Actually, the (sep11) terrorists won when the US withdrew their troops from Saudi. That was their top goal. Goading the US into a futile war in Afghanistan, and removing the hated Bathists in Iraq were just happy bonuses.
You must have round trip ticket and all hotels booked.
Wow. China must really hate Italians. Are you sure you didn't apply at the Burma embassy by mistake? Its easy to get a Chinese visa in Australia, and even easier to fly to Hong Kong and get one there.
Nonsense. If you have a contract, any lock will be removed for free. Its only the prepaids that are normally locked, and then only for 6-12 months, or until you spend enough money or pay a fee.
Why would they lock the phone if you are already committed to a contract? Pure corporate greed, thats why. But fortunately the regulator will not allow it.
Please folks! the cost is $1 per user per year - not day! The maths is based on an estimate of 375M unique visitors in 2009, and a whole bunch more wild guesses.
The initial power surge to kick off the light will eat into your usage and savings --
Sorry dacut, but that is another myth. The actual simple reason is that a rarely-used bulb uses very little power. So you cannot save enough to justify the extra cost of the CFL. That will change eventually when CFLs get cheap enough.
the secondary conditions took five specialists to figure out (at one point I heard two of them arguing about what I had). I was off work and in pain for about two months >
You should have gone to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. It would all have been wrapped up in 42 minutes.
And on the plus side, the Christian Scientists have a damned good newspaper. They may be a bit weird, but they are nice weird, unlike the Scientologist litigation-happy arsehole money-grabbing weird.
Why do these "marriage is so harsh" sort of jokes always get moderated as "insightful
The moderators are married. Marriage is OK, but there are two big points:
ladies: your man will never change. His faults will not go away when you marry.
gents: your wife will change.
Just get a written agreement on everything before you marry. Work, kids education, number of kids, money,... Including minimum frequency of sex. It may seem awkard, but it is so much easier that way.
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You really think that a Ford Festiva and a Mercedes have the same performance and quality of parts?
Who said anything about a Festiva? There are other cars more comparable in size, power and gadgets. Your average car at even a quarter the price has more than adequate performance, unless you are racing, or towing a large boat or trailer.
And there is no point in making a part to finer tolerance than required. Do you think Mercedes make their petrol engines to the same tolerance as their deisel engines? No way. They could, but do not, as its not needed.
In theory, you might expect a Mercedes to last longer than a Toyota, but in practice they get written off just as early due to the high cost of replacement parts.
So what do you really get in the S-class that matters? Well, a badge, prestige, lots of cool gadgets, and the privilege of beta-testing new features that may or may not be in other cars in a few years.
6000 pounds back in 1966. Today, ... 200,000 pounds. ..$6/hour then would be like $20/hour now.
Nice, only off by an order of magnitude. Try $200. A pity salaries have not increased like house prices.
There is always an annoying wake-up delay
I have a no-name chinese BT mouse, and once it sleeps I must click a button to wake it. But there is no noticeable delay beyond that, at least in Linux. Maybe its a Windows driver issue??
The only reason for getting bluetooth was to avoid an extra dongle on my laptop.
Some people may want BT for the increased range that you typically get.
I just re-read this 5 times and realized that the terrorists have won.
Actually, the (sep11) terrorists won when the US withdrew their troops from Saudi. That was their top goal. Goading the US into a futile war in Afghanistan, and removing the hated Bathists in Iraq were just happy bonuses.
Will it give me free beer and hookers?
Only if you enable the "restricted" packages section of the repository.
HD DVB-T stream and then sends it over the network. This can be close to 30MB/s,
Bits maybe, not bytes. Around here, A DVB channel is 22Mbps max. The wifi certainly struggles, but not the 100Mbps LAN.
Why?
You must have round trip ticket and all hotels booked.
Wow. China must really hate Italians. Are you sure you didn't apply at the Burma embassy by mistake?
Its easy to get a Chinese visa in Australia, and even easier to fly to Hong Kong and get one there.
What is this IE6 you speak of?
Nonsense. If you have a contract, any lock will be removed for free. Its only the prepaids that are normally locked, and then only for 6-12 months, or until you spend enough money or pay a fee.
Why would they lock the phone if you are already committed to a contract? Pure corporate greed, thats why. But fortunately the regulator will not allow it.
Please folks! the cost is $1 per user per year - not day!
The maths is based on an estimate of 375M unique visitors in 2009,
and a whole bunch more wild guesses.
Does nobody RTFA? ... Really? They don't? Sorry.
It was a thing your grandad used to store contacts before they had electricity. See also: Filofax.
And finally it makes sense why their helmets look like radomes.
yes, mod parent +1 bleedin' obvious, +1 SNAG, but -1 "whoosh".
If you hook up a scope to your outlet (don't be an idiot; to all the non-EE types, don't try this if you don't know how)
Who are these people who have oscilloscopes but do not know that mains power is dangerous?
The initial power surge to kick off the light will eat into your usage and savings --
Sorry dacut, but that is another myth. The actual simple reason is that a rarely-used bulb uses very little power. So you cannot save enough to justify the extra cost of the CFL. That will change eventually when CFLs get cheap enough.
A low power factor leads to increased transmission line losses, but thats a big difference from doubling generation costs.
it should be trivial to put in an inductor and capacitor in the package to exactly compensate for it.
Only if you make some very bad assumptions. That works for old-fashioned floro tubes (inductive load), but not for CFLs.
Well, sort of - but doesn't ald old-fashioned spinning-disk type meter measure current, regardless of the power factor?
No, it does not - that would be silly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_meter#Electromechanical_meters
Parent linked to an article on opednews, whos enlightening articles include "9-11 and the Mormon-Mossad-CIA Connection". Need I say more?
the secondary conditions took five specialists to figure out (at one point I heard two of them arguing about what I had). I was off work and in pain for about two months >
You should have gone to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. It would all have been wrapped up in 42 minutes.
And on the plus side, the Christian Scientists have a damned good newspaper. They may be a bit weird, but they are nice weird, unlike the Scientologist litigation-happy arsehole money-grabbing weird.
Come on, what next Vermont only allowing black cars so the climate systems don't have to work as hard in winter?
No, black cars radiate more heat, as well as absorbing it. So white wins everywhere.
Except on sunny winter days, in which case you really want lots of glass facing the sun. So just drive southwards, if you live in Vermont.
You do know that marriage is a contract, don't you?
Also, pretty much all of Southern Australia uses a 425 ml pint,
What!? Thats a schooner, not a pint. Only in Adelaide would that piddling amount be called a pint.
Hmmm... maybe when I thought I was ripped of with a US-pint it was even worse than I realised, and the bastard gave me a schooner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_beer#Beer_glasses
Why do these "marriage is so harsh" sort of jokes always get moderated as "insightful
The moderators are married. Marriage is OK, but there are two big points:
Just get a written agreement on everything before you marry. Work, kids education, number of kids, money, ... Including minimum frequency of sex. It may seem awkard, but it is so much easier that way.