Fantastic, That'll be nice and handy for me at least once in the future.

Thankyou.

In some places yes.

Firstly I'll agree with you on one thing, some people whom are parents, SHOULDN"T be. Unfortunately parental licensing or beating the dickheadedness out of someone are both things that aren't legal anywhere I know of. Just because some people are hopeless at being alive (and consequently being parents) doesn't mean that everyone should be tarred with the same brush. Some of us actually TRY to be good parents and try to lead by example to our children as opposed to just auto-piloting through and hoping things turn out ok on the other side..

Sometimes no matter what you do to guide or educate your children and how well behaved a child is otherwise, a kid is just going to off the deep end and just make a God awful racket regardless of where they are and you can't do a damn thing about it. That is aside from trying to parent that behaviour out of them, either at the time or afterwards. While all this is going on you still have to live a day to day life, you can't exactly go locking kids in the basement (a-la Fritzl) until they are old enough to not be an inconvenience to others.

All I can say is thank-you for not contributing to the gene pool.

Welcome to Australia.

Ten years ago I could get away with saying "thank Fuck I don't live in Victoria". Now New South Wales is equally as bad.

Only those whom use a gun with a cylinder as opposed to a clip.

My guess is that at the time the options available just did not pass muster in some way. For a long time they were only using dual chips in Atom systems, which wouldn't be good enough for the RT due to increased power usage from dual chips. Stack on top of that there were a large number of power inefficient Northbridges in use and the use of Atom chips gets even more doubtful.

  The first atom SOC the Z2460 and a single-core SOC at that, was only released in Q2 2012 and the first DUAL core Atom chips (Z2760) were released in December a mere two months after the RT went to market in late October. This makes the use of the dual core chip impractical and frankly if they even considered the single core for the RT (which I honestly doubt, given how seriously a failure of this new platform would burn Microsoft) it would be an outright miracle for it to come to market that quickly.

There would have to be an entirely new platform developed, bug tested and ready for release to consumers within a mere 90 days. Hell even if it was 120-140 days with the use of engineering samples it would be an absolute miracle of an effort. ( see this & this for the info i just wrote up. )

Up until the SOC was released, the atom had a large percentage of systems using a comparatively inefficient chip-set (~20w) for a 2-8w tdp processor. Even going to a more efficient Northbridge still leaves them a fair few watts behind the SOC systems.

This one actually works....

There's a first time for everything.

This is what i read the grandparent post as.

I remember something similar where my then (now ex) girlfriend was feeling pretty damn frisky while I was in the middle of doing some on-call work on a Saturday afternoon. Well things started happening and unfortunately at that point I had to call one of our data centre guys to eyeball something for me. I kept on the phone and tried to keep a straight face, all while there was some reverse cowgirl happening at my desk. Funny enough I managed to not cut the call short and we both burst out laughing the instant I got off the phone.

Frivolities were paused at that point until I completed my work and then we could continue on uninterrupted.

Goddamnit, no mod points today.

Agreed, unfortunately there are tragic individuals like myself & my missus whom slather it on. We go through one of the 220gram jars every 2-3 months or so.

When the taste of a beverage tempts me to drink something else to wash away the taste of the first beverage, no matter what it is, there's got to be something wrong with it.

"Fosters"? Puhleeze. From what I understand (and may well be wrong about), what you call "Fosters" is a product we call "Crown" (and it is still overpriced and not that great). The "Fosters" they offload on us poor convicts would be the fifth keg of the night at a frat party, at BEST. The last bar that honestly served "Fosters" in any seriousness was the one on the set of "Crocodile Dundee".

The others here know of what they speak. Blue Tongue, little creatures, cascade and many many others wipe their boots with Fosters.

Oh and VB is absolutely shit too and is only popular thanks to the assholes in their marketing department.

Is it a "standby" UPS or a "line interactive" ups?

If it is a "standby" ups then it basically does nothing to the power until it detects the power drop below a threshold voltage level and it then kicks the batteries into play to supply a correct voltage /sine output.

If it is line interactive then all power going in goes into the regulation/filtering circuits and won't have any of the fluctuations in voltage/sine wave that could potentially be present in the power.

I Hope this helps you in some way.

I can't see why not, motorbikes have had this sort of thing for over thirty years and even brand new bikes with all the whiz bang electrickery & dual clutches, etc STILL have a manual kill switch that cuts the ignition.

I mean even if it's sitting on the top of the steering column so a dickhead passenger can't trigger it by going "what does this do", it's still a good idea.