Posts by G0HJQ 15 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Oct 2011
The printer companies have been doing this for years ... selling the product for a reasonable price, then forcing the users to pay a fortune in ink costs every time they use them.
The latest to jump on the bandwagon is Dymo ... their latest label printers have NFC chips in the paper rolls and will only work with labels you buy from them (at vastly inflated prices of course)
The printer companies have been doing this for years ... selling the product for a reasonable price, then forcing the users to pay a fortune in ink costs every time they use them.
The latest to jump on the bandwagon is Dymo ... their latest label printers have NFC chips in the paper rolls and will only work with labels you buy from them (at vastly inflated prices of course)
Alton Towers have a restaurant where the food is delivered from the kitchen to each table on a maze of overhead Roller Coaster tracks ... complete with loops and a person with a long stick for when it gets jammed.
Soup is delivered in caraffes with a well-sealed lid. Beer unfortunately only comes in bottles.
https://www.altontowers.com/activities/places-to-eat/rollercoaster-restaurant/
I bought some of the Poundland LED lamps. They all failed after just a few weeks.
Like most others, they used a series capacitor to limit the current, followed by a bridge rectifier and electrolytic smoothing capacitor, which is perfectly adequate and pretty efficient at these low powers.
However - instead of using an aluminium backed printed circuit board to take away the heat of the LEDs, they used the lower cost SRBP (Synthetic Resin Bonded Paper) circuit board, which resulted in the LEDs severely overheating.
There's a company which is hoping to use ultrasonic energy to charge mobile phones wirelessly ...
http://ubeam.com/
They are proposing to use sound levels of 145 to 155 dB.at 45kHz to 75kHz ... millions of times more than we are ever likely to get from normal sources, yet no-one will mind because it will let them spend more time on facebook and twitter complaining about it.
Wonder if they've just fixed it, or it affects just some customers? I can access Stackoverflow.com just fine in Manchester with Virgin Media.
I've had the 100 Meg Fibre To the Cabinet / Coax to the house for several years now, and have had virtually 100% reliability, and speeds which rarely drop below 75Meg even at peak times.
I raise my glass to Mr Branson!
That explains it.
I was unable to get into "The Register" from home (Manchester), all last weekend. Most other sites were OK, so I was blaming yourselves. Sorry.
I must admit that I've been very impressed with Virgin so far (I must be the lucky one?). I rarely get less than 80MB download speed, and reliability has been excellent (Touch wood)
Gary.
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