Posts by graeme leggett

Re: Orac

@Tim11

Orac made "The System", the advanced and computer controlled civilisation that built the Liberator, blow up - so that he wouldn't be proved wrong about his prediction (apparently showing the Liberator being destroyed) seen at the end of the episode when he/it is introduced.

That's quite badass

Re: Not just the cooling

Anastasia sounds good, though the Pilot of the Future will probably be at a deskstation and not in the pointy end of Skylon.

Going by the picture you are looking a little drawn and lack colour in your cheeks. Tell you what, you nip off to the south coast of France for a week and I'll OK it with your boss.

But you ought to give up that filthy pipe, it's not good for you.

Re: Video CD.

Laserdisk was the way to pick up somethings in good quality with subtitles as opposed to US NTSC VHS with dubbing.

Could be pricey though, Pioneer NTSC/PAL output Laserdisk players being expensive and rare secondhand.

And then DVD really took off and made everything available in a much more convenient size

Hence my defunct Anime collection on LD somewhere in the loft and a LD player in garage.

Re: The only valid Lightning motorbike is the BSA A65

I found there's a Lightning Motorcycle Corp that make electric motorcycles and fast ones at that

Re: Smoke and electronics

It's the "smoke theory" of car electrics as applied by Lucas ("Prince of Darkness") Industries to British cars , as old as the hills (or Hillman?)

Re: Sleuthing... a whaling vessel?

Tis a whale then, the very Leviathan of the Bible mistaken for an island....

(Too early for me to accurately quote Moby-Dick, or anything)

Re: Just a thought on ....security..

Tallboy and the building falls neatly into the hole leaving the skyline clear.

the SABS could deliver an accuracy of about 85 metres which should be accurate enough

or "Bomb, Medium Capacity, 22,000 lb" (you may know it better as Grandslam) to be sure of the job

history shows rationale for outlook

Look at its history, started out as Institution of Welding Engineers Limited merged with British Advisory Welding Council pre-war

it then merged with the British Welding Research Association (fomerly the Welding Research Council) in 1968

Does sound like an oversight. Insufficient camera memory for ascent, descent and a decent margin of error?

Re: Majority views

perhaps though these single-parent families still believe in two-parent families and just feel they personally have been unfortunate

Re: "The code was unbreakable until code-breakers at Bletchley Park ..... "

The British bombes seem to have had the edge in that the more general principle of a crib and the diagonal board allowed them to break 4 and 5 rotor machine code relatively quickly.

Re: Saw title of article

The genius in Elite is the folding of all the universe data into such a compact space.

The story of Elite is written up in an informative and entertaining wya in one chapter of "Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/dp/0571214975

Re: Pathetic strop by apple

Looking at it on a laptop with IE I had to set the zoom level to 50% to see the area of the homepage - by which point the statement text was too small to read.

It's off screen on my iphone 3G unless I scroll down a bit to make the url and search box disappear.

Perhaps it can be read on an iphone 5?

Re: unbreakable

Sometimes it was possible to get an aircraft to overfly an important area revealed through decoding and thus give a plausible reason for its "discovery".

Re: Wrong Term

jets are often full of people with a vested interest in the activities but no ability to influence the outcome

Re: "We welcome #Windows 8 with various 0Ds combined to pwn all new Win8/IE10 exploit mitigations,”

or a bunch of adults acting like children...

Re: Is it just me

Well they are all straighforward tales of daring do where the hero prevails due to a combination of courage, strength of character and the assistance of an ally he has befriended (bedded?) over a wily and resourceful enemy

Part of a tradition going back to Buchan's Hannay and Sapper's Bulldog Drummond (though the latter is more of a cold killer than the former)

Re: Nato played no role then?

NATO was a Western European idea not a US one, perhaps the EU should be seen as a parallel political concept to the military one.

Re: The coming of commercialisation

I dispute the claim about tapes slightly.

I once had a compact cassette go banana shaped due to being in my car in hot weather.

On the plus side, like most mass-production cassettes, I could crack it open and the contents were transferred to a fresh shell.

Re: the scottish play

might have meant "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"?

Re: Norfolk Broadband

"Thass roight bor...."

There, fixed that for yew.

Re: Tea? FFS

I know what I'd rather have to drink with a bacon sandwich on an autumnal Sunday morning at a carboot in a damp field. Apples isn't even close in such circumstances..

"The word 'school' appears to be used in the original article in the Colonial sense of 'University'"

That makes more sense, I was trying to reconcile £400 computers and the "Back to School" bargains on grey trousers at Tesco (et al)

Re: Anders Breivik

@Dave15.

Have you been reading Raffles? He seemed to have the right idea.

On the debit side of his character he did leave his friend Bunny in the lurch for a few years. On the plus side, he did save aforesaid chum when the latter was shot by a Boer at the cost of his own life.

Re: Poor workman blames his cables.

There is a need for different size (length) cables.

Portable HDD or DVD to netbook - 1 foot is probably over much

Charging phone in car - at least 3 ft to get from cigarette lighter to handsfree clip

Borrowing a clients USB printer - about 6 ft or more

Re: Star Smashers is a personal favourite here

i got Pig and Robot when young and only the other day bought a second hand copy such were my fond memories. I was not dissapointed.

Re: Time..

dying in the 1780s didn't help his case. The "Age of Reason" was a big time for medical curiosity.

Marge/imitation dairy spread will do fine though you don't need much - the important thing is that heat of the bacon causes the aforementioned additional layer to melt into the bread.