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I just love a little C4 in the morning. It's a blast. Implosions R Us

Thanks for replies. MAC is tempting, little worried about devil in details of switching to Apple OS. Old Window files etc. I detest typing on Pads, I need the haptic feel.

MacAir has 2 Pounds, Retina Eye?? Is it really pleasing, not tiring on my own eyes?

Windows Office files can be handled by NeoOffice which has word processing, spreadsheets, etc. For regular txt files, Macs work well, also.

OS X can also read and write NTFS usb drives, as well as FAT formatted usb drives.

Retina is the high resolution screen. Old MACs have had nice graphics and screens, and the Retina is even better.

Snipping tools were in the Mac OSX a long time ago, which was included in Vista.

I enjoy my old Macbook Pro 17, which I don't travel with. Using Remote desktop on it is even better than a Windows laptop.

When traveling I have a Lenovo Yoga II, which is light like a Mac Air, but using it I miss the Macbook.

Switching between OSX and Windows isn't difficult, and you can always google for an answer.

The Mac hardware is a bit pricier than a Windows platform, but you do get some premium features.

"The persistence of economic slowdown in Europe, the United States, Japan and China is the primary cause for the contraction of Thai exports, Pridiyathorn said."

Economic slowdown in the US? What kind of data are you smoking?

With 93 million people not working, labor participation rate lowest since '78 and not improving much, 46 million people on food stamps for the last 38 months. 1st quarter GDP growth looking to be 0 to 1%, the US is not doing well and hasn't for the last 7 years. Add the "new normal" for job growth in the 150k per month instead of 175k, while the population is growing faster than that.

If you have a high tech skill, you're doing ok. If you're a warehouse worker or burger flipper, a robot is answering the job listings.

And all that electricity to power the cars will come from where?

Is it April 1 already?

If the greenies want to reduce CO2, they sequester themselves underground.

CO2 is food for plants, not a dangerous gas. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas.

Not difficult to see who the fool is

So few words yet so much stupidity.

Where climate change is concerned, water vapour is a double edged sword, although I think trying to explain the albedo effect of water vapour to the author of this little gem would be akin to playiing a violin to a buffalo.

I think you're much better at playing the violin to your buffalo as water vapor [a clear gas] has very little albedo.

Is it April 1 already?

If the greenies want to reduce CO2, they sequester themselves underground.

CO2 is food for plants, not a dangerous gas. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas.

Yes that's true, {well almost, there are plenty of studies that show too much CO2 is actually bad for plants}, if only there were enough plants to absorb the amounts we are pumping out.

Mind that would mean an end to all the deforestation, destruction of greenbelt areas man is prone to.

Dear lord, who wants to do that.

Crank up the A/C while I drive 400 metres to buy some piece of crap I don't need.

Consume. Consume. Consume.

True, to much of anything is bad, like consuming too much di-hydrogen oxide will kill you.

Actual peer reviewed studies have shown even at 4 times the current atmospheric CO2 plants do very well. One example, (which hasn't reported on 900 ppm higher concentration)

Journal References ["] Experimental Conditions 300 ppm 600 ppm 900 ppm

Is it April 1 already?

If the greenies want to reduce CO2, they sequester themselves underground.

CO2 is food for plants, not a dangerous gas. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas.

epic ignorence

And nice spelling from an AGW acolyte, who also never studied basic organic chemistry.

Is it April 1 already?

If the greenies want to reduce CO2, they sequester themselves underground.

CO2 is food for plants, not a dangerous gas. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas.

Not difficult to see who the fool is

So few words yet so much stupidity.

Where climate change is concerned, water vapour is a double edged sword, although I think trying to explain the albedo effect of water vapour to the author of this little gem would be akin to playiing a violin to a buffalo.

Right quick to fire off an ad hominem attack of the AGW acolyte crowd.

I can tell you never took basic organic chemistry.

Is it April 1 already?

If the greenies want to reduce CO2, they sequester themselves underground.

CO2 is food for plants, not a dangerous gas. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas.

Isn't H20 a food for plants also?

Is water considered a food for humans? CO2 + Sunlight = O2 + C (for plant building)

But H2O isn't demonized as a green house gas.

Good luck selling the planes.. Park the 380s while you're at it.

Is it April 1 already?

If the greenies want to reduce CO2, they sequester themselves underground.

CO2 is food for plants, not a dangerous gas. Water vapor is a much more effective green house gas.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Does anyone find the challenge to the power companies to adjust their generating stations for an hour a bit crazy?

The power stations can't be turned off like a switch and they continue to burn fuel.

Its a waste and the feel good crowd should focus their efforts on LED lights, insulation and "low e" windows to cut power consumption all year round.

wear a hijab, niqab, and burka and he'd probably pass for a woman. Awfully hot in those robes.

I thought the white people here were just visitors (guests).

Hardly enough to be an immigrant.

no, the term is autonomous ATM

I like it.

I can make the image and use the computer at the same time because the image utility uses the volume shadow copy service (VSS). Did I miss something?

People shouldn't forget to make a rescue disk to boot to, to run the imaging if there's a disaster. Can you download that rescue disk from MS still, or do you have to make it? I've had mine for both Win 7 and 8 for a while and I "think" they are specific to 32 or 64 bit systems?

I guess MS likes the File History deal, but I wish they'd left the scheduler as in win 7 where it could run at night by itself. I'm not real sharp on the newer stuff. Did I miss something?

Cheers

VSS is a good process, but if you open a file after the VSS snapshot is run, the backup may see the file as open. It usually is a timing thing, we've seen outlook pst files not being able to be backed up since Outlook was started after the VSS process ran. Most of the time it works well, but make sure you have enough room on the VSS configuration to snapshot the disk or it will fail, and it isn't as easy on Win 7 to find out why.

He could be getting the Kremlin flu

on the earlier Honda city, they had a known fault that caused power lose and required a high power charge - the flux capacitor, not sure if they were located near the aircon unit or not.

on a less serious note 240,000 K is some 'milage' for a small petrol engine, but Honda's are the best

A Japanese cast iron block is so hard, it hardly wears, even at 240k km (149k miles), if proper maintenance is followed. Keep a clean air filter on it, regular oil changes and even if you drive like Jensen Button, it will be fine for many more miles, especially if doing highway miles.

What's the fastest posted speed in Thailand? 120 km/hr, typical is 80-90 km/hr. Hardly the speed to wear it out quickly.

Bravo to the taxi driver. There is hope.

AC mechanic loosened the main ground wire on the body/engine or main power fuse, and now it's loose. This would explain the loss of electrical power (power steering is probably electric, too) and no amount of power from the alternator will keep things going.

Either side, power or ground have to complete the circuit. So something got disturbed in the AC fix.

Once the problem is solved, it will probably be a DOH! moment.

Running any ICE at high load generates more heat. Slowing down and using light throttle for a few minutes while moving will allow the head and cyl temp to drop, which will help keep the oil from breaking down in the heat soak.

But running the engine and not moving (unless water cooled with a fan) will make the engine hotter.

Running a turbo charged engine at idle for 30 seconds allows the turbo internals to slow down. When the engine stops, the oil flow stops (unless you have an accumulator) and the turbo bearing could get damaged if left spinning at high speed. As well as preventing "coking" of the the oil from the heat.

Diesel engines actually run cooler at idle, where gas engines get a little hotter at idle. Since Diesel engines have no throttle plate, the get their running speed by the amount of fuel injected. At idle it's a minimum amount of fuel. A gas engine actually needs a little more fuel at idle than running at the BSFC (Brake Specific Fuel Consumption) speed.

Obama:

If you like your country, you can keep your country. But you got to bring back the Red Shirts, they are the only party I like.

They can't make it talk, but they can make it howl

Reminds me of: "Hold my beer! I think we can make it!"

Must have been just the fuse that exploded or there would be five dead casualties.

Now I know why the GF kept a screwdriver under her pillow.