OT: Danger! Time warp!

[rbowman]

My Omron wristwatch does pulse rate, no fuss, no bother, just touch the two pads with your finger tips.

[rbowman]

They fit nicely and are unobtrusive if you don't use them.

[rbowman]

Nor the 18 hours of sun in the winter.

[damduck-egg]

When people started to all anal a decade or so back about their flashy watches that would work in water at depths that most would only reach if they fell of a ferry or something that was supposed to fool people that you were associated with aviation I got one of these and stuck it on a strap.

Its about an inch and a half in diameter. If there isn't enough power to work it then it is time to be down the pub or indoors having a nice meal in front of the fire.

G.Harman

[Max Demian]

I missed it on my RC clock as the battery was low and it doesn't show seconds then (presumably as a warning).

[James Wilkinson Sword]

What's wrong with a flashing battery symbol?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

If you don't have markings, what do you have?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

You only get three types of watch.

1) Not waterproof at all, go out in the rain and they die. 2) "Water resistant" - most rain's ok, but not persistent heavy rain, and you have to take it off to wash the dishes or go swimming. 3) Water proof to 50 or 100m. So what if you don't go that deep, the point is you can take it underwater. They're not going to delieberately make ones that only go 3 metres deep are they?

I always buy 3).

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Er what?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

But you can't tell if it's pointing to 2 or 14.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

My watch clearly isn't fancy enough. It only has a barometer, an altime= ter, a thermometer, and 10 timers.

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[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I find that I can convert absolute to relative a lot faster and easier than converting relative to absolute.

[snip]

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

There's a difference between a time-of-day clock and a countdown timer.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I wish I had a microwave like that. Pressing 'start' 10 times sounds a lot better than what mine requires.

1. Press "time/temp cook" to start things
2. Press 0 (first digit selects power level, 0=high)
3. Press 1 (display shows 00:01)
4. Press 0 (display shows 00:10)
5. Press 0 (display shoes 01:00)
6. Press 0 (display shows 10:00)
7. Press 'start' to actually begin cooking

However, this microwave is 21 years old and a new old could be LESS reliable.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I think it wasn't stupidity, but lack of knowledge.

BTW, one other thing I heard in history class was that when the railroads were new, some people believed that the human body would come apart at speeds greater than 13MPH. Maybe the same ones who thought Earth couldn't be rotating since they didn't feel it.

[Mark Lloyd]

One of the timezones I used for testing my website is Arctic/Longyearbyen, which is at a latitude of 78 degrees north. There there is no night between mid-April and late August, and no daylight from late October to mid-February.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

People live there?!

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I have heard of this speed thing, but I thought it was 30 or 40 mph and it was to do with the Model T Ford.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

Yes,

[Mark Lloyd]

They didn't actually learn.