Any suggestions, please?

[Vic Main]

At 12:43 AM 09/11/10, you wrote:
>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.
>
>Which is why people in the Northern Hemisphere are under a handicap, and
>have less brain-power to deal with things. In other words, their "CPUs"
>are overloaded because they spend most of their brain power working out
>what they see. Seems to affect those in North America the
>most.....strange that...must be the magnetic field of the world as now
>being measured by the European Space Agency GOCE..)
>
>On the other hand, we here being already upside down do not suffer from
>the above as we see things the right way up naturally - except for those
>who live closer to the Equator (like in Northern Territory or
>Queensland) where they are in a state of confusion of what is what.
>
>BC
>
>
>--
>Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how 
>fervently they believe it.

So does that mean the Tazzies  or Kiwi's are the least handicapped of 
all ??  ;-)

Vic