I worked for a rail company. For an intranet site I made the pull-down menu was a stylised train, with each 'carriage' being the menu option the use would click-on to trigger the pull-down. But, being into javascript as I was, I added an Easter egg such that, if the user clicked on the cab of the engine the train would start-up and accelerate off the edit of the screen, only to return with an added carriage proving a menu of company relevant specific web-links. On a customer complaint system I developed the icon on the 'Query' button of the main screen would be replaced by an icon of a fish on 1st April. It might still be doing that for all I know....
I wonder what the energy payback period is expected to be? I've heard up to thirty years for solar panels, which has always put me off because I would guess in 5-10 years there will be improvements in the amount of energy a panel can produce.
I have the Nokia 1100, which is even more basic. I bought one for my Mother (not the most tech savvy person) and liked it so much I got one for myself, replacing my fancy colour screen/Polyphonic Panasonic.
The torch (flashlight, to you Americans) is a great feature.
Hmm All other food: Sold & marked in metric units. Yes, very carefully put, Sold in metric because it's the law, and as described here if you do otherwise you'll be in trouble (thanks EU).
Thing is though, most people (I know) don't go the local market to buy half a kilo of carrots, they'll still go buy a pound.
I'm English and agree with have a mishmash here. I walk four miles to work but still have another 5Kg to lose (and another 2 inches of my waist).
It's even more complicated than that. For temperature, I tend to think in Centigrade (or should that be Celsius now?) in the in the winter (Hmm, minus 2 tonight) but
Fahrenheit in the summer (gosh, must be in the eighties today!).
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I worked for a rail company. For an intranet site I made the pull-down menu was a stylised train, with each 'carriage' being the menu option the use would click-on to trigger the pull-down. But, being into javascript as I was, I added an Easter egg such that, if the user clicked on the cab of the engine the train would start-up and accelerate off the edit of the screen, only to return with an added carriage proving a menu of company relevant specific web-links.
On a customer complaint system I developed the icon on the 'Query' button of the main screen would be replaced by an icon of a fish on 1st April. It might still be doing that for all I know....
I wonder what the energy payback period is expected to be? I've heard up to thirty years for solar panels, which has always put me off because I would guess in 5-10 years there will be improvements in the amount of energy a panel can produce.
I have the Nokia 1100, which is even more basic. I bought one for my Mother (not the most tech savvy person) and liked it so much I got one for myself, replacing my fancy colour screen/Polyphonic Panasonic. The torch (flashlight, to you Americans) is a great feature.
Hmm All other food: Sold & marked in metric units. Yes, very carefully put, Sold in metric because it's the law, and as described here if you do otherwise you'll be in trouble (thanks EU). Thing is though, most people (I know) don't go the local market to buy half a kilo of carrots, they'll still go buy a pound. I'm English and agree with have a mishmash here. I walk four miles to work but still have another 5Kg to lose (and another 2 inches of my waist). It's even more complicated than that. For temperature, I tend to think in Centigrade (or should that be Celsius now?) in the in the winter (Hmm, minus 2 tonight) but Fahrenheit in the summer (gosh, must be in the eighties today!).