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Saves money on light bulbs.
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any way to verify that it is off, for sure, totally, not halfway? |
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or is that in the deluxe model? |
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Unfortunately, this idea doesn't address that particular
symptom, but I
would propose an RFID tag on the sufferer, which when it
goes out of
range automatically shuts down the house apart from an
enormous
red humming neon sign on the roof that reads "Off" in
friendly letters. |
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Is it the number of times the sufferer needs to click the switch, or the number of times he needs to see the light go on and off? If it's the latter, then programming the switch to 5 will need 25 clicks, unless you get the light to flash 5 times with 1 click. But that wouldn't save light bulbs. |
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I have a feeling that this would just make it so that the sufferer would then feel compelled to flick the switch twenty five times so that light can go on and off five times like it was supposed to in the first place. |
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[shudderprose] beat me to the punch on that one but I feel compelled to leave it. |
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Another alternative: switches that auto-off after
some time delay; the auto-off can be prevented by
touching/activating the switch *again* (every few
minutes). If you leave the house, all your lights will
go off within a few minutes (and the stove and iron
too, of course). |
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5??!!!!! not 5!!! It has to be in multiples of 2, in square roots,
cube roots, or a prime higher than 23! |
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The lights in the hallway to my flat are timed, they only stay on for about 2 minutes. |
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[twitch], I like 5s, they're practically decimal! Stop twitching! |
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Decimal sucks. Octal is where it's at. Just ask the Hutt. Much more musical besides. |
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