Any suggestions, please?

Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knugum at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 09:31:04 UTC 2010


Den 2010-09-11 09:43:14 skrev Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>:

> On 11/09/2010 01:49, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 17:42 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>> Forgot to respond to the following.....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/09/2010 12:30, Li Li wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 08:24 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, September 10, 2010 03:40 AM, Li Li wrote:
>>>>>     My experience in places like that was that PSUs died more
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> often than in the lower voltage, higher amperage countries.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Power supplies today are all of the switching type. I'd put it to  
>>>>> heat
>>>>> and humidity being the contributing factor rather than the voltage.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah-but it's still winter and cool in the southern hemisphere.  The
>>>> predicted high for Friday at Sydney is only 20 degrees C and this is
>>>> almost exactly the average for the date.  I don't know where Basil
>>>> lives,
>>>>
>>> Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, on the east coast, just above
>>> the Victoria/New South Wales border.
>>>
>>> [pruned]
>>>
>>>
>>>> Now I'm interested: I'll ask people at my former employer if they have
>>>> any stats on PSU replacement frequencies, say in 100 V Japan and 250 V
>>>> Oz for comparable equipment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Just to clarify: we actually have 230V (+/- 10%) [50Hz] but it is still
>>> referred to as 240V.
>>>
>> God, to deal with that AND walk around upside down, it's no wonder the
>> beer consumption down-under. I'd stay drunk. :) Ric
>>
>
> You realise, of course, that the human eye is a simple lens and that the
> image which is transmitted to the retina is, therefore, upside down.
> Simple physics.
>
> So it is the brain which makes the necessary adjustments to make you
> believe that what you are looking at is at the top when, in fact, it is
> at the bottom.

He he he…
I have actually read about people who dried to use glasses that turns the  
picture upside down (so everything look upside down). They wear them for a  
couple of weeks and after a while the brain starts to turn the picture  
right again. I have not tried that myself, but it's kind of fascinating if  
it works.


-- 
Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg




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