Posts by LaeMing

Re: Buying less because what they've got lasts longer?

Power supply capacitors are usually what goes in a modern LCD. I have dozens of screens from XGA to FullHD at work salvaged from eWaste piles and roadsides and fixed for a few dollars (I prefer the visual arts students be creative with kit the school hasn't actually paid lots of money for!). I will still buy a new monitor for my primary, but if you have hobbiest-level electronics capability or better, LCD monitors with a good few more years in them can often be fixed by swapping out any bloated capacitors. I presently have a 3:4 success rate on this. Plus one light box made from a backlight with a genuinely dead LCD removed from it.

Re: Might want to re-think the name

Oh for the days when I had a v-arse!

You're lucky!

Each read-through reduces my total knowledge.

Re: Everyone feels like this.

Just like the NSW government here in Aus colloquially referrs to the Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong government.

Re: Would this really be a problem you could complain about?

Especially in response to a head comment that is just a throw-away slag-off of lawyers.

Re: New Barbarian Manifesto

Sounds just like corporate managers voting themselves bigger and bigger pay rises. But that is obviously not going to damage the corporate sector in any way.

Re: Beyond hope...

Admins of the world: whitelist the real TLDs and block the rest.

It means if you turn your head enough to the side, the graphs all show average global temperatures is staying steady!

Re: circumventing the heavily regulated systems

Some very good points and ideas above.

But angrily breaking things and hurting people is easier.

Nothing helps sleep like lying under a bald-eagle-down doona

Re: Casio FX-82

We got to use calculators from year-8 with the 2xAA battery-powered FX-82 as the standard. Even better was when my younger brother go to year 8 and I offloaded my '82 on him and got myself a FX-115m (that is the one in the article photo, though not in the article!). Had all the binary, octal and hex modes that a budding computer geek needed (at least that is what I convinced my mum of).

It also had solar cells running the display but an internal button-cell running the actual chip, so when smart-arses covered the solar cells while walking past my desk, I didn't loose what I was in the middle of. Suckers!

Still have it right here and last used it just 2 days ago. It is on its third button-cell in [redacted] decades!

Re: Diamonds are a hymen's best replacement

"2) Diamonds were not even part of engagement rings till someone put a nice marketing spin on it and suggested your other half should wear something that costs 2-3 months salary."

More precicely, the modern concept of a diamond engagement ring was bought in after 'breach of promise to marry' laws went out, since in the olden days sex amongst pre-marital couples was just as common as today (irrespective of what the Daily Mail, and associated old fogies. would claim) and so in the abscence of legal backing to keep the guys honest, an innovative jewlery company came up with the concept of "if he isn't prepared to put up a deposit of 3-months salary on your virginity, then keep them legs together girl!". (Obviously they phrased it more delicately than that!)

So guys, if your girl demands a ring, make sure you are getting a fair return on that investment!