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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -
The world media is doing it's best to scare the shizen out of mum and dad investors, claiming Gold and Silver prices are in free fall, they report the drop in $ terms because the $ number is big, For gold reporting a drop of 10% / ounce isn't as dramatic as reporting a fall of $500/ounce.

As a percentage it's nothing unusual, the problem is dressed up by the media because of the record price per ounce, they'll report a record drop in $ units for sure, but as a percetnage it's nothing unusual and has happened before. Of course panic selling takes place from small investors, the price drops, and the same coorporate Clark Kents who cried wolf are the ones buying on the cheap.

Also, an ounce isn't an ounce. Put the figures into standarised units, use $/gram or $/kilogram, because metric units are the same in every market. An ounce might be a Troy Ounce or some other Ounce, and the media is known for cherry-picking the units to maginfy the effect.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by kruddler -
I use everything, laptop first and foremost.
Ipad (for work)
phone (for when i'm in bed)

Laptop is far superior to all IMO, but you can get by with the others.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
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I'm a Windows desktop oldie, just prefer the larger screen and keyboard.
I'm predominantly a PC person too, simply because my arms aren't long enough, if I can reach the screen it's blurry!
Im a tinkerer and like to upgrade sound/video, memory/network and even motherboard where possible so desktops provide that outlet.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by cookie2 -
Used to be a dyed in the wool laptop user but finally my old laptop ran out of gas! After some deliberation I finally settled on a combination of iPad and phone. Going OK so far!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by kruddler -
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Well that wasn't fun! Power outage here for 5 hours last night. Enter the before mentioned 8kva generator - purred for the duration. Glad I serviced it couple of months ago - new plug, oil and all filters cleaned.

Fortunately, no fires. Thoughts and prayers to those in affected areas.

Yep copped the same here.

Was 40c when the power went out, and didn't come back on until just before midnight.

Luckily, my previously mentioned large collection of milwaukee tools helped me out.
Had a few lights which doubled as USB chargers to ensure all our devices were good to go.....and gave us light.
Even had a milwaukee fan to help me get to sleep and take the edge off.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
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I'm not sure what was wrong with the old one.
Seemed pretty reliable and easy to understand.
I think the main problem with the old site was the growing cost to maintain it, the problem with all this technology is the minute you let it age it becomes expensive to keep functioning and secure. It's like a boat with a hull full of holes, keep patching and eventually you have no hull left and you're floating on a raft of patches. It's not dissimilar to our own website's problems.

The problem with the new site isn't really the design, once you get your head around the Favourite Locations concept it works pretty well. It could be a bit easier for new users to navigate, they needed a better onboarding experience. To me the main problem was that the high cost of the replacement basically gave people political ammunition to rally against change.

I have to work with arrange of age groups across the technology sector, my older segment is anchored in the desktop experience, we think of web experiences in terms of a keyboard and monitor first. Pretty much everybody under 40 thinks about phone first, some of them have no interest in the desktop and will sit at a workstation reading from their phone. To the oldies it looks like the youngies are bludging, the youngies think the oldies are Luddites.
I'm a Windows desktop oldie, just prefer the larger screen and keyboard.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Baggers -
Well that wasn't fun! Power outage here for 5 hours last night. Enter the before mentioned 8kva generator - purred for the duration. Glad I serviced it couple of months ago - new plug, oil and all filters cleaned.

Fortunately, no fires. Thoughts and prayers to those in affected areas.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Lods – on
I'm not sure what was wrong with the old one.
Seemed pretty reliable and easy to understand.
I think the main problem with the old site was the growing cost to maintain it, the problem with all this technology is the minute you let it age it becomes expensive to keep functioning and secure. It's like a boat with a hull full of holes, keep patching and eventually you have no hull left and you're floating on a raft of patches. It's not dissimilar to our own website's problems.

The problem with the new site isn't really the design, once you get your head around the Favourite Locations concept it works pretty well. It could be a bit easier for new users to navigate, they needed a better onboarding experience. To me the main problem was that the high cost of the replacement basically gave people political ammunition to rally against change.

I have to work with a range of age groups across the technology sector, my older segment is anchored in the desktop experience, we think of web experiences in terms of a keyboard and monitor first. Pretty much everybody under 40 thinks about phone first, some of them have no interest in the desktop and will sit at a workstation reading from their phone. To the oldies it looks like the youngies are bludging, the youngies think the oldies are Luddites.