Posts by graeme leggett 2468 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2007
It doesn't matter if it looks innocous, if it shows that data has been collected when it shouldn't have it.
And the ICO could ask another jurisidiction investigating the wifi slurp if they cold compare the sort of collected info.
Unfortunately google are damned by being open and honest here. Though they still have the "single newspaper reporter programmer" defence in place I believe.
No one's mentioned the "zombies". (and they were in all-Black, IIRC)
Enjoyed it when I was young, perhaps it's time to renew the acquaintence. Though it might be a biit spooky for my son, and I don't fancy the task of explaining the ending to him.
And someone buys those collector edition Lego Death Stars - the ones without minifigs.
A Portal lego set would more likely end up as a bit of objet d'art in a worker's cubicle, bought for the recipient by family or friends than as a child's birthday present that spends a week or so assembled before the bits are reused in an unholy chimera of a model.
A couple of years ago, I travelled on East Coast Mainline service.
wifi was available throughout the journey, worked (after a brief registration was completed), and was free.
this January, I travelled again on the same East Coast mainline route
wifi was available, but was now charged for all but a brief 15 minutes of free use. 15 minutes for a journey between Peterborough and Aberdeen.
technically there was a Minister of Defence at the time - Churchill.
And there was a department within the ministry, MD1, which was a handy way for him to back a bunch of interesting characters in their weapon-developing enterprises: Stuart Macrae and Millis Jefferis being the prime two.
Between them they brought the Limpet Mine, Sticky bomb, PIAT and Time Pencil to the war effort, and by sharing with the admiralty's Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development, the Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon.
"... hanging around the American Air Division Memorial Library in Norwich, before it burnt down."
It is worth mentioning for those not acquainted with the story that much of the library's collection was saved or replaced. In fact if you ever want to gen up on USAAF activities in north-west Europe and their aircraft you could do worse than drop by at a Norfolk library.
It ought to be a partnership. You get the benefit of the franchiser's experience and resources (advertising etc) and you build a business with your own graft on top - end result both their and your bank balances are enriched.
Now how often that happens I don't know - but Dyno-rod and McDonalds always seem to be busy.
The UK is a nation. England, Scotland etc are "consituent countries", and also nations. Hence you can say "the English national football team is forever letting its fans down". But the UK is a "sovereign state".
The Union Flag/Jack is the national flag of the UK. The red cross on a white background is the national flag of England, the white St Andrew's cross on a blue background is the national flag of Scotland etc, etc
Assume the tube is 10 inches across - area of the tube end is 5 squared Pi or nearly 80 square inches.
At a vacuum of 26 inches of Mercury, the force down on the lid is the equivalent of having the best part of 1,000 lb sat on it.
I'm assuming a vacuum of 29 inch Hg is -15 lb/square inch pressure.
(I think my aths is correct, but if not do please point out where)
It seems that the loco in question is a ATSF 3460 class
Tractive effort - 220 kN
Weight with tender - 323 tonnes
0.68 kN per tonne
What may account for the difference is the tender weight, for a long journey a large tender and large coal and water supply is required
recalculating "output" excluding tender weight
Mallard - 1.45 kN/tonne
ATSF 3460 - 1.17 kN/tonne
Going by some freely available data
Mallard, 158 kN on 167 tonnes (with tender) - 0.95 kN/tonne
Milwaukee Road class F6 4-6-4 203 kN on 241 tonnes - 0.84 kN/tonne
(streamlined) F7 class 4-6-4 - 224 kN on 360 tonne - 0.64 kN/tonne
Not sure if that shows anything other than aerodynamics is important.
and the energy generated is derived from the the fuel you burn to turn the engine over.
Not really free, but the cost is minimal - compared to running aircon in a car, or having an automatic gearbox.
And might be less than that lost due to low pressure in tyres or a lot of dirt on the car paintwork
I think the only US unit that is bigger than the Imperial (avoirdupois) is the "fluid ounce" and then only by about a millilitre (or 1.5 ml if its the FDA's fluid ounce which is exactly 30ml).
Their Pint (both wet and dry) , Quart, Gallon, hundredweight and ton are all short measure.
Our workforces do work in millimetres and kilos (and Nm-1 and the rest). Unless they are dealing with the US when they might work in inches and feet and lbs as well.
British engineering companies are not losing out on sales to our European neighbours because we are using Whitworth threads - we use M4 and M12 and every M inbetween like everyone else.
If the kit is being used for matters where minimal interruption to business is a necessity, then buying kit that is going to last longer makes sense.
eg buying a brand-name Memory stick rather than a no-name since the price differential is much less than the time lost and aggravation caused by it not working one day (obviously the correct answer to the problem is not to put anything important on it in the first place)
But economies of scale ought to kick in somewhere, unless one is paying then for the "dedicated sales team" and superfast delivery at the other end.
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