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bymarc_gerges
3, 2011 @08:10AM
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Attached to: i don't understand, but then I've been brought up to save...
While I agree it's a good thing to have a small nest egg, so one can weather bad times, millions in the bank for a comparably low pay couple seem obscene.
After all, although money and 'stuff' is not the most important in life, sometimes it's nice to be able to spend some.
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bymarc_gerges
18, 2011 @09:02AM
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Attached to: [Family] And suddenly we are three...
Jorg, call social services - to take on something like this without professional help is very, very hard. If you have somebody to help and guide you, you as well as him may come out of this ok.
Good luck!
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bymarc_gerges
11, 2011 @05:06AM
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Attached to: T-Mobile Slashes Fair Use Policy, Says Download At Home
Mmmh.
I have 500MB a month (for which I pay 10EUR), and am usually getting along fine with it. That includes surfing, emailing, the odd app and video during train rides. I could upgrade to 2GB for 20EUR, but I don't see a need for that right now.
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bymarc_gerges
2010 @11:32AM
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Attached to: Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission
This is pretty much exactly what's in every Prius. Little electric motor driving the sun wheel, IIRC in my 2nd gen Prius it's a 9kW motor doing up to 10000rpm in both directions. Transitions from forward to backward speed seemlessly.
Very cool tech, but hardly new.
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bymarc_gerges
5, 2010 @10:35AM
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Attached to: The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter
It ain't really necessary unless you go to seriously deep temperature. If your usage profile includes -12 C (conversion for those of us having no clue about Fahrenheits), proper oil with the right viscosity will be 'there' within half a minute, tops. From then on, light load is way better to heat up the engine than letting it idle for an eternity. It's quite some air pollution, too.
Now, if you're going -30 or so on a semi-regular basis, I'd suggest a block heater or a propper fuel based heating system. Those will actually prewarm the engine.
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bymarc_gerges
13, 2009 @12:27PM
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Attached to: Entire<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.SE TLD Drops Off the Internet
I seriously hope someone is fired or loses a contract over this.
It seems a silly idea to fire somebody just after having invested $(whatever_this_snafu_is_supposed_to_have_cost) into his education.
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bymarc_gerges
9, 2009 @08:43AM
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Attached to: How many countries have you visited?
In Europe you can hop on a train or bus or car and visit 10 countries in a day.
Europe's not quite that small. You could do it with a sports car or private plane I suppose, but your life would be truly miserable.
That'll actually be a nice challenge, I'll need to try that one of these days.
I'm in Luxembourg, so 2 countries is about 5 minutes, 3 about half hour, 4 about an hour. 5 about 3 hours, but then it's getting somwhat pesky.
Starting in Dover/UK, I can do France, Belgium, NL, Germany, Luxembourg, then down south to Switzerland, Italy, back to France, taking Monaco into Spain. Around 2000 km, that'll be 20 hours of driving.
Better way: starting in NL, doing B, then down to Lux, dashing over to Germany, Switzerland, taking Lichtenstein, Austria, then down to Italy, over to France and Monaco. 1500 km.
Good plan, I'll try that next summer :)
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bymarc_gerges
28, 2009 @02:41AM
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Attached to: The reconstruction of the last days.
Jorg, as said, answer not for us, but for yourself. We don't need any justification.
In your writeup, you got the call when getting out of office in Lux City. Filling in blanks, I assume you got on bus to Howald (Konz?), picked up the car, went to your parents and then drove over to hospital.
I expect my reaction to have been to take a taxi and get to hospital. Irrelevant of the fact that ER is not open to outsiders, or that the dealer expects the car to be picked up that evening, or whatever else.
No wrong or right here, yours is just different than mine would have been.
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bymarc_gerges
27, 2009 @01:13PM
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Attached to: The reconstruction of the last days.
Sorry, my comment got lost the first time. Fickly network.
One question, which you may want to clarify (for yourself more than for us). Why are you on slashdot and facebook, instead of being in hospital with your wife? May tell you some about that relationship...
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As ringtone sales begin to fall, the mobile content industry searches for something else to sell people. They've tried ringback tones -- which replace the regular ringing noise callers hear with a song -- and even endtones -- snippets of songs to let you know your call has ended. Unsurprisingly, these haven't really sold too well. But brace yourself for an even more useless idea: "push ringers". Push ringers are ringtones that get pushed to your phone by whoever's calling you, meaning they'd get to control the sound your phone makes when you receive a call. While such an idea holds a fascinating potential for abuse, it's hard to imagine very many people willing ceding control of their ringtone to whoever happens to call them. Never mind the technological barriers to the idea, the sociological ones make it bound to fail.
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uary 25, 2007 @04:42AM
Hopefully I've finished the design for the Z80 core board now. I made a few changes yesterday - moved the bus connector to the left of the board (beside the memory and CPU), realising it was pretty damned stupid to put it on the right hand side (beside the CTC and PIO) in the first place, since that would require a huge via farm in the middle of the board, and then some very creative track routing, to get the rest of the address bus over to that side.
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rabblerouzer writes: "Hugh Thompson, who was interviewed by Slashdot on the dangers of e-voting, now has a cool blog entry on how he was able to bring down the gaming/movie console on an airplane. He calls it one of the most interesting examples of a software "abuse case" he has ever seen."
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. The space program really takes off after this. Compiled by Tony Long.
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EggsAndSausage writes: "Microsoft has admitted — in a roundabout way — that Vista has "high impact issues". It has put out a call for technical testers to participate in testing of Service Pack 1, due out later this year, which will address "regressions from Windows Vista and Windows XP, security, deployment blockers and other high impact issues."
It's hard to know whether to be reassured that Service Pack 1 is coming, and thus that there's now a sensible timeframe for considering deployment of Vista within businesses, OR to be alarmed that Microsoft is unleashing an OS on the world with "high impact issues" remaining in it.
In other news there's a battle raging over the top 10 reasons to get / not to get Vista. (And a rebuttal.)"
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