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#2862258 5-Feb-2022 16:50

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Agree re the scope of work required. Is $120/hr considered moderate? I would have considered it at the higher end for desktop PC service.

Self interest on my part, I do desktop PC service, among other things, but I'm not charging $120/hr.

I'm curious as to what a normal rate is.

My elderly father has stupidly bought a corporate PC that he has no idea how to use or maintain so he has to get a technician to come over for a couple of hours at least once a month. I'd love to know how much this is costing him as I want to talk him into replacing it with something simple like an iPad.

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#2862260 5-Feb-2022 16:56

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American recipes.

"Half a stick of butter"
"4 fluid ounces of milk"
"Roll the dough out to 3/16 of a culinary football field"

American media descriptions of anything involving sizes: "The wossname was the length of three football fields, the size of three olympic-sized swimming pools, almost as large as Rhode Island, able to hold four Libraries of Congress and weighing over 7,600,000,000 pounds". That last one is particularly important, never give a weight in the most relevant units, always give it in pounds even if it's a ten-ton press or a 40-ton bulldozer.

And it's as tall as 5 Statue of Libertys.

The Register settled many arbitrary standards and even have a calculator.

The Reg unit calculator

I mean, obviously everyone knows the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum.

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#2862264 5-Feb-2022 17:08

geoffwnz:
The Register settled many arbitrary standards and even have a calculator.

The Reg unit calculator

I mean, obviously everyone knows the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum.

I was googling something about power cables a week or so back and one of the posts that came up gave the lengths in the usual metric and then, for US readers, a unit that turned out to be something like medieval Armenian length measures (unlicensed Armenian phrenologists optional). I guess they'll need to use El Reg's unit converter for those...

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#2862266 5-Feb-2022 17:13

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Provisional tax.

The idea of paying tax before you actually earn money is very odd.

Good point. So if we die three months after we've paid it, do they give a refund or does it go into a special coffer.

Your final tax bill gets assessed at the end of the tax year and you either get a refund or pay the deficit.

Provisional tax exists to stop small businesses failing to accrue enough money to pay their tax bills each year.

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#2862271 5-Feb-2022 17:44

geoffwnz:

I mean, obviously everyone knows the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum.

I would think it would be zero unless the sheep is wearing a space suit.

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#2862280 5-Feb-2022 18:21

Apparently I have a few annoyances today!

I was downloading something via BitTorrent and was getting frustrated with the extremely low speed. Then I just happened to tab or otherwise click back into the app window, only to see a little blue turtle icon in the corner. Some quick researched showed that this was a toggle that would limit transfers to 10 KB/s. I must have accidentally clicked it at some point.

But that's not the true annoyance. The real annoyance is that this icon only shows up blue when the app window is active. When it's in the background, it shows up grey and it's impossible to distinguish whether it's enabled or not. Presumably someone had the bright idea to 'mute' the UI when the app is inactive, a classic case of form over function.

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#2862284 5-Feb-2022 18:44

Rikkitic:

geoffwnz:

I mean, obviously everyone knows the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum.

I would think it would be zero unless the sheep is wearing a space suit.

I don't think it explicitly mentioned a live sheep...

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#2862301 5-Feb-2022 20:38

Gurezaemon:

Rikkitic:

I would think it would be zero unless the sheep is wearing a space suit.

I don't think it explicitly mentioned a live sheep...

And a dead sheep could still have velocity, as there's little resistance in space, so once you give it a good shove, it'll keep moving...

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#2862304 5-Feb-2022 20:49

One wonders at the boiling point of said sheep in the vacuum...

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#2862305 5-Feb-2022 20:51

Ge0rge: One wonders at the boiling point of said sheep in the vacuum...

Depends if it's a perfectly spherical sheep or not.

Edited to add: In any case the thing to compare high-speed objects to is a can of ravioli.

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#2862315 5-Feb-2022 21:07

neb:
Ge0rge: One wonders at the boiling point of said sheep in the vacuum...
Depends if it's a perfectly spherical sheep or not. Edited to add: In any case the thing to compare high-speed objects to is a can of ravioli.

If the sheep explodes under internal pressure, its velocity and direction of travel might be difficult to calculate.

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#2862323 5-Feb-2022 21:45

Rikkitic:

If the sheep explodes under internal pressure, its velocity and direction of travel might be difficult to calculate.

In the absence of other forces, the average velocity (and velocity implicitly defines direction of travel) of the sheep will be same as before the explosion. Re spherical: I expect that any sheep will *eventually become *approximately spherical in a vacuum.

* - where the values of eventually and approximately are inversely proportional

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#2862329 5-Feb-2022 23:09

Geektastic:

Provisional tax.

The idea of paying tax before you actually earn money is very odd.

That's rather an obtuse simplification. When would you say tax should be due and are you using AIM?

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#2862333 6-Feb-2022 00:19

bazzer:
Geektastic:

Provisional tax.

The idea of paying tax before you actually earn money is very odd.

That's rather an obtuse simplification. When would you say tax should be due and are you using AIM?

Tax should be due on money you have earned. Not on money you might earn.

No. We don't run our own accounts.

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#2862334 6-Feb-2022 00:21

Eva888:
Geektastic:
Provisional tax.

The idea of paying tax before you actually earn money is very odd.

Good point. So if we die three months after we've paid it, do they give a refund or does it go into a special coffer.

In that scenario, it goes into a special coffin.

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