It was made to last? I wouldn't recite THAT without some fine print underneath it. In the case of this TV, the guy in the video said that the TV repair man made very frequent visits!
Things back then were REPAIRABLE by knowledgeable people. Now adays, things are shrunk down into very tiny components and it is much more difficult to pin point where the device has gone wrong.
I say we switch to a 6 hour system. 24 hour systems are good for the militaryp probably because there are tasks and things to do and its already confusing enough to keep track of what gets done when. When you throw in the AM and PM, you just double the confusion.
Since, most of us are not in a military role, we use the 12 hours system. I like the 12 hour system, because it splits the day in two and and gives us a peek to our day, almost like a plot does for our books.
Well, imagine a 6 hour system! the first 6 is the sleeping. Tech geeks stay up until about midnight usually, and wake up at about 6 AM, because we want to get in early enough so that we can get out before our regretful woot-off purchases get delivered. So, the first 6 is the "Sleeping 6".
The next 6 is the put-out-fires section of the day. This is where you make phone calls, smash ur face with coffee drinks, and fix everything that went wrong after you left work the day before. This is the "Working 6".
The next 6 hours is lunch, cooldown, chit-chat, and slipping off your business casual. You've already put in 6 hours of work, so you only have 2 hours left. You're just sitting around chit-chatting to others and solving things as they are brought to you. Then you leave, go home, take off your dress pants and leave on the work shirt and open tabs to load all the pages that weren't safe for work. This is the "Cooldown 6"
The next 6 is the fun 6. You go out to dinner with your geeky friends to talk about raid problems and 5-boxing AV. This is where you unwind, hang out, game, actually use the geeky crap you crave. This is the "Geeky 6".
Some will say that this will get confusing! Someone asks what time it is and you say 4?! How do you know what 4 it is? Well, then its just by task association!
"Sir, what time is it?" "It is 4 o'clock. Why? What are you going to do?" "I was wondering why my bag o' carp hasn't arrived yet." "Yes it is getting late into the Cooldown 6, isn't it?"
It may force us geeks to be more sociable than usual, eh? Yeah, that'd never work...
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"I'm heading to university next year, and I've purchased a MacBook. I'm also taking my four year old desktop, just in case I'm left with no computers when the MacBook is being repaired or whatnot. With only two USB ports on a MacBook, I want a Bluetooth mouse. Budget is about $100, and of course, it needs OS X support. Thanks for the help!"
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