Mine has a rotary dial, but it's digital, it senses me turning it and changes the readout on the display. It changes depending on how fast I turn the dial, which is nice.
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What happens if you press "start" while it's running? Mine adds 30 seconds to the cooking time. What happens if you press "start" before anything else? Mine starts cooking on full power for 30 seconds.
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The stone is more versatile:
Gary's weather forecasting stone: Stone is wet Rain Stone is dry Not raining Shadow on ground Sunny White on top Snowing Can't see stone Foggy Swinging stone Windy Stone jumping up and down Earthquake Stone gone Tornado
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As you said earlier time is just numbers, move the numbers or use them differently.
It doesn't tick, it counts. It counts the frequency of the emission from a specific transistion of a specific ceasium isotope.
The important thing to remember is that time is not a constant but a variable. Indeed have two identical atomic clocks that are showing an identical count of time and keep perfect sync with each other essentially forever when close together. Move one to the top of a moutain for a while and bring it back. The count of time displayed by each clock will no longer be identical.
That's the problem, a "day" is defined as the period of time from say noon to noon, trouble is that is anything but constant.
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I wish it would, but in both cases it does nothing. A new ROM might fix that, but probably does not exist.
There's also a couple of blank buttons (on either side of '0'), which also do nothing.
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There are many things I tme in seconds. I doubt a doa; would be that accurate.
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I hope you test Kiribati :)
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Decent doa;s er.... dials have the first bit wider apart so you can see = the seconds.
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Funny, any microwave as old as yours I would have broken by now. They usually die when the water condensing on the bottom shorts something out inside the workings. Maybe I should dry them out after cooking?
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Mine are never wet after cooking.
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Indeed, alcohol solves all.
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It changes a lot slower than you climb a mountain (unless it's Everest and you're taking a day or three to climb it).
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I fail to see the point in that service, what's it for?
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I'd put them in a sewage plant.
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They fail at this. In daylight, all things are 100% visible. Adding lights to them doesn't help, all it does is distract, and reduce the chances of seeing the edges of the object.
Most of them are. Most DRLs are brighter than dipped headlights, this is pure insanity. If you want lights to tell other motorists you're moving, then use sidelights. 5w or 10W, no more!
But when everyone has DRLs, you still notice all cars equally, so all they're doing is temporarily giving priority to those with DRLs. And once everyone has them, things without DRLs, like pedestrians, are noticed less so they die.
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Seconds on a time of day clock are not needed, which is why they were only used for a basic stopwatch.
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Because our brains run really fast?
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But you don't often need absolute. You just want to know what sort of time it is. I often glance at an analogue clock on the wall of my living room to see I have about 3 hours before bedtime. I don't care if it's 3 hours 20 or 2 hours 40, just somewhere around 3 hours. In fact I usually just look at the hour hand.
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Are you familiar with the concept of a high or low pressure front moving in rapidly? If you're just walking up one mountain you're generally correct. If you're off on a multi-day hike good luck.
A lot of it is handled by GPS now but airports have their elevation prominently displayed. You twiddle the aneroid barometer in your Cessna to match the known elevation. I would do the same with the watch since knowing the altitude of a trailhead was usually easier than getting accurate barometer info.
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What do you call them? Those little hills over there? The Snowies? We've got the Big Snowies and the Little Snowies. The big ones top out at 8,681'