Depends how you wash by hand. Get a small dish of solar-heated water with a tiny dash of detergent, clean stuff then rinse under a tap with a diffuser. Less than half a bucket of water (guess who lived in a T2 for a year?).
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Bloody hell Edukator. As if the typical household is going to do that? I can play this game too - Detergent? You eco-vandal, I've washed up i na mountain stream with a handful of gravel!
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In terms of influence, the three that spring to mind are;
Dyson Cyclone Vaccum technology- Hoover may have the monopoly on the name of the appliance, but there aren't many vaccum cleaners with bags these days!
LCD and Plasma Flat screens- As above not many CRTs around these days.
Apples iPod/iPad and apps.
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In terms of influence, the three that spring to mind are;
I could quibble about all 3, but to pick one:
LCD and Plasma Flat screens- As above not many CRTs around these days.
Yet the 15 year old CRT I'm watching cricket on in the background works just fine. Sure I've been thinking about getting an LCD TV, but it would hardly revolutionise my life.Posted 11 months ago # -
I'm kind of with you in spirit, Edu, but have to quibble about a couple of points:
E-mail: things were read and generally thrown in the in-tray for a few days till it was convenient to draft a reply the secretary turned into a letter. With e-mail people expect a reply within a few minutes and you have to write the thing nicely yourself. People seem to send e-mails before rather than after engaging their brain. More work, more stress.
Only if you let it be that way. I'll often let people wait whilst I consider my reply - if it's important I'll write a draft and then go back and edit. Just because the transmission media is instant doesn't mean the important bit has to be too. Meanwhile I've just sent off something really important for which I wasn't sure an e-mail would legally count - what a hassle it was having to go to the post office for recorded delivery. About the only point you might have is the secretary thing, but it's really not all that hard to do that bit is it (even I seem to be able to manage it)?Internet banking: makes buying things and paying for things easier.
A problem for those with a complete lack of self-control? See above regarding recorded delivery letter, substitute cheque for letter, bank for post office.Posted 11 months ago # -
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I was being positive about Internet banking.
At the same time as e-mail arrived companies started introducing quality normes such as ISO 2001 and procedures. Those procedures took into account new technology when defining response times. Not complying with the time in the preocedure becomes professional misconduct so as you suddenly get bombarded with a mountain of brain farts as the public get computers, you get threatened with the sack if you don't deal with them pronto. More work, more stress, home later. I'm relating this as a spectator in many companies BTW. I was self-employed and replied when I felt like it.
My friends know that if they want a reply within a couple of weeks it's better to phone me on the land line and if that's off the hook then push a note under the door or call back later. Edit: posting on STW might be a good way of getting hold of me, I've posted here at least twice a week recently.
I've never known so many people that still work moaning about stress. Observing them stopping the car to reply to a work texto on their day off skiing it's obvious where that stress comes from: being bombarded 24/7 by their portable devices, being tied to their PC and being under constant pressure to respond and perform.
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Observing them stopping the car to reply to a work texto on their day off skiing
Sounds like they are having trouble managing the new technology.
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Douglas Adams had it right
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
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The flushing loo - life would be crap without it.
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I was being positive about Internet banking.
At the same time as e-mail arrived companies started introducing quality normes such as ISO 2001
Apologies Edu - it did seem a bit strange including internet banking with your list of gripes, but I assumed you were being sarcastic.I assume you mean ISO9001? I'm not aware it says anything in there about email response times though - certainly I've worked for an ISO9001 accredited company for many years (it does seem to have become a lot less fashionable more recently), and we've never had anything mandated about that. It all comes down to mis-application - anything useful can be mis-used. As for people stopping the car to answer texts
Then again I was the only person working on a hi-tech software team who didn't own a smartphone, so clearly I'm the abnormal one.Though it's all irrelevant as email is disqualified on an age thing - I had my first e-mail address at uni over 20 years ago.
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The queen sent her first email in 1976
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to me
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but i didn't have an email address until 1999, she thought I'd taken the huff
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