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Chris C-B wrote: due to laboratory contamination
I will drink any Kool Aid they want, believe any wild and incredible story. Just don't send me to the re-education camps.
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Slacker007 wrote: Just don't send me to the re-education camps.
I hear the chow mien is excellent... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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it better be. not like there is anything I could do if it wasn't, but still. 
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Just to be clear here. You mean the DeltaCron3000, correct? The most lethal assassin the world has ever seen. More powerful than Chuck Norris, is what I heard.
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Quote: More powerful than Chuck Norris
See. That right there makes this story unbelievable!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DeltaCron3000 Plus, with Reward Program.
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A week ago I had to replace my desktop's second monitor. The new Scepter monitor has a feature that I do not care for: When you turn off the computer, the monitor goes into power save mode for an hour or so, then it turns itself totally off. Once in that state, the power must be turned on manually. When you turn on the computer the monitor stays off until you press the power button.
This morning I started the computer and tried to use the Edge browser, but it refused to run. But Task Manager showed it was running.  I thought I may have picked up a virus or something, so I reverted the system drive to a Macrium image I took a few days earlier.
When the computer restarted I glanced at the second monitor and it was off. Turned it on and there was my browser, trying to run on a dead monitor! 
I will now retire to a corner where I will kick myself until I'm dead!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Windows should have detected that monitor wasn't available. This makes me think it's not really off.
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I did the unspeakable: I read the monitor manual! There is a system setting where you can disable the monitor tranferring from sleep mode to power off mode!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: I did the unspeakable: I read the monitor manual!
Your hat, coat, and self have been deposited in the street, and your engineer-card has been revoked!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Since Windows has started supporting multiple monitors, I never really got the impression that any version of Windows detects (or cares about) a monitor being powered off. A monitor being physically disconnected however is another story.
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Astronaut Howard Wolowitz: Welcome to team putz!
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You had us at the posts title. No further details were needed…
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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You are too kind!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I once had that.
So every morning I came into the office, turned on my monitor and then my laptop.
One day, I didn't press the on button well enough and the monitor stayed off.
And I was like crap my monitor broke!
Even called in my boss for a replacement monitor and then he just turned it on...
Not my proudest moment 
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Herself just sealed some pasta sauce to reheat in the sous vide for supper, and she was holding the lid down in case it opened on it's own.
So I just ran the numbers: the lid is about 10" wide by 15" long, so that's 10 * 15 * 14.7 pounds of air holding the lid shut since there is as-near-as-damnit no air on the inside (-0.1MPa on the gauge). That's about 1000Kg
That's the weight of four motorcycles sitting on the lid ... no wonder it's seriously thick perspex!
No, darling - you don't need to hold the lid shut, you couldn't open it if you tried!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: No, darling - you don't need to hold the lid shut, you couldn't open it if you tried!
Good luck with that. I wouldn't try it myself.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So I just ran the numbers: the lid is about 10" wide by 15" long, so that's 10 * 15 * 14.7 pounds of air holding the lid shut since there is as-near-as-damnit no air on the inside (-0.1MPa on the gauge). That's about 1000Kg
Going from heathen to metric.
Impressive.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Inches and miles are a "natural measurement" for me - I can estimate cm up to 10 or so, but above that I revert to inches. I know how long it would take me to walk or drive 3.5 miles, but 5.5Km is not something I have a "feel for". But I measure wood in mm, ingredients in g, droplets in picolitres, and "medium distances" in m.
Go figure.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: But I measure ...
politicians in 'idiocies'?
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David O'Neil wrote: politicians in 'idiocies' corruptions?
FTFY 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My mind is metric. I would never cross beams!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Inches and miles are a "natural measurement" for me
I've always assumed I'm built wrong. My foot isn't a foot long, and my thumb isn't an inch wide, so for any measurement that needs any sort of accuracy, there's nothing "natural" to me about the imperial system. 
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