Posts by graeme leggett

Re: Good idea

a combination of USB charger and 3way socket adapter? saw them at B&Q at the weekend. Reduced to a tenner from £15.

Re: Hang on...

try something closer in spec

http://www.scalextric.com/shop/sets/digital/c1223-triple-cup/

three cars, 4.5 m long track, pit stop challenge element, - £200.

The platinum is six cars, 8.5 metre track.

Re: Am I the only one...

commenting on myself here.

There is already a standard test method for pickup, etc

BS EN 60312-1:2013 Vacuum cleaners for household use Dry vacuum cleaners. Methods for measuring the performance

So why not just tag on a current/voltage measuring element to it and have a consistently measurable method for energy efficiency?

Re: Rubbish

I suggest that anyone interested further in the subject and the work already done to hunt down missing episodes and how the few that do appear come about, listen to the interview with Richard Molesworth in the Radio Free Skaro podcast (episode 357) earlier this year.

http://www.radiofreeskaro.com/2013/03/10/radio-free-skaro-357-wiped-clean-by-the-wrath-of-pamela-nash/

I second bright silver as being in the best traditions of 1950s and 1960s British experimental aircraft.

With bright yellow on leading edges etc as was also used at the time.

Think RAF Museum Cosford research aircraft collection.

The Hunting H126 had a rather fetching all over yellow http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/hunting-h126/

You ought to duplicate the in front of the windshield black panel if you've got time

Re: Hmmm

Why not try it. Artists get paid lots for their works if people like them enough.

Re: Sun Server Keyboard...

And the Amiga had one too - <Ctrl>-<Left-Amiga>-<Right-Amiga>; which since it could just about be done with one hand (rather than two as with Ctrl+Alt+Del) had a nickname of "Vulcan death grip" (or similar - it's been a long while since I put my Miggy away in the loft)

Perhaps if Gate's single button had been under one of those covers you get for switches on military kit, it would have been more popular - harder to knock by accident and with a certain "hard-bitten" look.

you can also get points at Esso petrol stations and domestic energy with EON, so it's fairly easy to ring up those points.

plus buying your shopping on the Tesco credit card and using a Tesco mobile.

Re: AirFix?

It's OK, Humbrol do cans of spray these days.

And recently a line of RLM colours in enamel - but they would make it hard to track visually.

Re: Happy Clappy Crappy

"Perhaps they simply want to keep their jobs?"

Ah, the Cthulhu approach - join in with the devotions or else.....

Re: Use of the phrase

To quote one of John Finnemore's characters

"If you want me, I will NOT be in the seminar room"

Re: What an advert for tolerance

I will admit - for the record - I did intend to make that statement beneath the cloak of anonymity.......

Re: Just back from the Daily Mail

The DM and UKIP would be overjoyed if ISS compared their records with the Immigration people and even one cleaner came up as not being supposed to working.

Re: You Sure?

"The washing powder example the other poster used is a good example of subjectiveness. There aren't any standardized, factual comparisons you could make."

I think you will find that there may be. These look like good candidates (British Standards and International Standards Organization)

BS EN ISO 15487:2010 Textiles. Method for assessing appearance of apparel and other textile end products after domestic washing and drying

BS EN ISO 105-C10:2007 Textiles. Tests for colour fastness. Colour fastness to washing with soap or soap and soda

BS 8475:2006 Instrumental colour measurement of textiles. Method

Re: Wife

with Windows 8, the picture/gesture is an alternative to typing in your password - you can use either when logging in.

Re: This .Net patchwork of which you speak

the mechanism for adding a client (from the client) to a Small Business Server uses the .net 4 framework.

it seems to me if you've installed any of the .NET framework versions, then WSUS will find out and proffer the updates.

Re: Gallons?

But the ordinary American buys fuel for his car in gallons and when the information is presented to them in liquid measure can compare the cost differential in his/her head to the cost and price variation they see at the pump.

As opposed to saying that google got the fuel for about 17 cents cheaper per pound, which sounds like little to worry about.

Re: I'm curious

mea culpa - I typed in a hurry and got it (embarrassingly) wrong.

Sand, Black, Field Blue, Signal Red ?

Eye-catching scheme.

Re: No wonder

"tough (as staff)"

as "stuff" surely?

Re: Pushrods! @graeme

@Don Jefe

Thanks, I understand now.

Re: Hershey's chocolate

How about a Texan bar?

A hexagonal pencil did the job too but you were more likely to find an ancient Bic in the glove compartment (or even the parcel shelf under the dashboard) of the car

Re: Obligatory Bill Hicks quote...

Unfortunately Apollo lost a number in the theoretically less challenging area of on Earth.

White, Chaffee, Grissom in the Apollo 1 fire. Clifton Williams, who would have LM pilot for Apollo 12, died in a T-38 accident.

Re: It *looks* like the Victorians *should* have been capable of doing this

The Victorians would just have rivetted together lots of small cast or wrought pieces.

perhaps if/when he survives the next one, he can have an extra day's holiday in lieu. Or if he likes the south east - Lewes.

Re: Not the same thing

Re number 2.

up until recently i would have given airline pilots as an example but then there's been that palaver with Ryanair and fuel levels...

according to Computer Weekly

"Delta Air Lines's smartphones features will not be limited to in-flight shopping, but will come loaded with passenger manifests, frequent flyer information, updates on connecting gates and flight attendant scheduling, pinned to the home screen with Microsoft’s Live Tiles feature on Windows Phones"

Though Delta's own statement puts the non-shopping side of it as being delivered later saying "In the future, Delta expects to provide flight attendants with certain customer-specific information to enable more personalized service"

So it could be one per attendant on duty.

Re: Is it just me...

looks a bit like some of Armstrong Whitworth's work on aeroclinic wings in the late 1940s

Re: Oh my this takes me back

" weren't early computer adverts wordy"

I think all adverts used to be more wordy back then, back there does seem to be a lot of text there.