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I've disassembled the unit and it seems to me that it's the laser itself that is gone burger. So got it today, wowed today, put in the bin today - sad really. The amazing thing is that four hundred green laser spots coming from less than 0.4 watts of power lit up my daughter's bedroom almost well enough to be able to read a book i.e. it was very easy to see in the room. I was thinking it might be too bright to be used as a night light. Eyes are particularly sensitive to green though so perhaps this is not so surprising. |
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20th April 2013, 07:36 | #37562 |
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Interestingly this morning I wake to an email from the manufacture saying "Teapot give me an address in NZ and I'll ship you a new unit". That's five stars for service from me.
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21st April 2013, 15:47 | #37563 |
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Where did you get it from?
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21st April 2013, 22:48 | #37564 |
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...c-with-IT-goal
This Would love to see schools develop classes for kids that want to take a specific career path.
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22nd April 2013, 08:19 | #37565 |
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yea, just what we need. more IT Fuckos.
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What education should be doing is setting a foundation, not a specific career. Say you want to get into a journalism career. Those sorts of schools are going to teach you all about journalism. What happpens when you go and get a job in Journalism? They're going untrain you, and build your journalism skills up themselves. What aren't they going to do? Bother with the shit you should know already. Teach you about the world. Geography, history, interpersonal communication, how to write a fucking business orientated email/letter, which is sorely missing in the business world today. The worst thing you could do for a journalism career is take a journalism based course. Exactly the same for IT. Take an IT course and it'll teach you all about RAM and CPU's, but it won't give you those basic business skills, basic marketing, negotiation, reporting and writing skills, etc etc. What happens when they want to get out of IT? They're fucked, because that's all they know, and they don't have that foundation to pivot on, to go try something else. Anyway, people get into IT because they want to manage computers. People get out of it when they realize that 99% of IT is managing people.
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22nd April 2013, 09:45 | #37567 |
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I don't understand what point you're trying to make?
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22nd April 2013, 09:54 | #37568 |
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Specific career path classes that early on are a bad idea mmkay.
They need to be focusing on general skills and knowledge, not specialised crap.
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22nd April 2013, 10:44 | #37571 |
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22nd April 2013, 11:42 | #37573 | |
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You'd be clutching at straws to name applicable skills you'll learn from sitting in such a specific class at high school, that will help you make it in the real world. 50 years ago sure, someone taking woodworking for 4 years might actually become a career long woodworker. There was enough demand for woodworkers (as an example) that it became necessary to upskill young students in that field.
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22nd April 2013, 12:36 | #37574 |
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bob you're making yourself look like an idiot, fyi.
i suggest you abort this train of thought immediately.
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22nd April 2013, 12:46 | #37575 |
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Damm them trades that directly contribute a tangible good or service. we need more people writing scripts to help me manage my friends list on Facebook from a mobile device. that's the way to build an economy.
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22nd April 2013, 12:51 | #37576 |
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TBH I think something like woodwork can appeal to students who learn with their hands which can compliment them with other fields of expertise, obviously ones in trades/engineering.
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there is this lolsy perceived issue in sydney atm because tradies are ballin outta control and driving audi r8s n shit around and the dudes that spent forever studying law books etc at uni instead of smashing nails during day and sloots during the night are mad as fuck about it.
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22nd April 2013, 14:23 | #37580 |
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22nd April 2013, 14:33 | #37581 | |
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Can't really blame people for getting into an industry that had huge demand a decade ago, and is still expanding. If someone works in an industry that is saturated with supply, of course they will not make good money (re: your reference to underpaid tradies). They should relocate somewhere that has a supply deficit to rectify the situation. In much the same vein, low level (unskilled labour?) IT workers make sweet fuck all these days too. |
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22nd April 2013, 14:41 | #37582 | |
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22nd April 2013, 15:52 | #37586 |
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I was thinking more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YAhykMMxc
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22nd April 2013, 16:01 | #37587 |
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One of my kids might end up being a spaceport ILS calibration pilot, I have no idea. Good luck on Mr Guidance councellor explaining how that's gonna pan out.
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It's like the standard "career goal" job interview question. I think the best answer is "wait and see what happens", particularly working with tech.
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22nd April 2013, 18:08 | #37590 | |
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I have no doubt at all that the ideas taught in a 6th form Economics class won't always apply |
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22nd April 2013, 21:30 | #37593 |
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Get started, I'll put it on lay-by. Sweet?
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I said I could make you one. Didn't say I would.
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22nd April 2013, 22:53 | #37595 |
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NZ does a deal and provides a new home for the Afghan interpreters that helped our reconstruction team, after spending time at the Mangere refugee centre they'll be relocated to Hamilton or Palmerston North.
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23rd April 2013, 08:29 | #37596 | |
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23rd April 2013, 08:33 | #37597 | |
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legit version of above, but the dude makes a handle for his chisel. |
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23rd April 2013, 08:52 | #37598 | |
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Aaaaaaand the govt will be closing the Mangere refugee centre soon. Refugee's arriving in NZ will be sent straight to their new homes with no real knowledge of how to live in this awesome country. |
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23rd April 2013, 09:00 | #37599 | |
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