Posts by graeme leggett

Ada Lovelace gets a poor showing sometimes because although a romantic figure, there's not the evidence to point to and say 'she did that'. But as a symbol of women in technology and as a bridge between the literary and scientific sets could be a justification as an early communicator?. Her 'social' network included

Mary Sommerville

Babbage

Charles Wheatstone - influential but a bit of a sod over claiming IP that wasn't necessarily his to claim?

Dickens

De Morgan - her tutor

Brewster - optics

Faraday - nuff said

Perhaps a hypothetical soiree of the above could be considered.

Re: iCOMP

And Google would drop Microsoft in the hot water the moment they found some dirt on them.

Re: RE: Mooseman

There are quite a few French overseas departments. Is not one suitable?

Re: War Is Bad

I think you may be getting your anti-Me 262 and anti-night fighter operations confused with the melee between the Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Spitfires and the Me 109s and Fw190s over Europe.

In "Big Week" February 1944 the Luftwaffe lost 355 fighters and 100 fighter pilots. In March-April 1944 (according to Galland) the Luftwaffe lost 500 aircraft and 400 pilots. In the first half of 1944, Germany lost 2000 pilots while the US had far more pilots to replace their own losses.

Re: "Are you affected by the outage? Leave us a comment and let us know."

Are you outraged by the affectation, then?

Looks like I picked a good day not to buy my partner one for her birthday. Though they do seem nifty devices....

Re: The ALCU might be confused

The town of Kenner? the mayor did it off his own bat.

"His memo, dated September 5 reads that any purchases for use at city recreation facilities made by sports booster clubs for "apparel, shoes, athletic equipment and/or any athletic product" must be approved by the city first"

Since which the mayor has reversed his stance, and blamed the city attorney for giving him bad advice.

Re: Small minded petty eurocracy

If looking for a 'Rome office' to carry on EU related business, I've heard that the Netherlands has much more exciting requirements for setting up a company.

Such that it's easier for an East Anglian to set up a company with the EU27 in Dublin rather than (45minute flight away) Amsterdam.

Re: #PeoplesVote for space race

And Star Cops?

Re: Is their hardware history better or worse than their software history?

The US gave us money to develop the P.1127/Kestrel/Harrier under the guise of Mutual Weapons Development so, among other things, Bristol only had to cover 25% of the cost of engine development.

Plus the idea was part French.

Overall it's all so complex

http://www.airvectors.net/avav8_1.html

Re: @Steve K

And while in Smiths, pick up a magazine with a Cassette tape stuck to the cover?

Re: Correlation, causation, and all that

The pseudo science lot will be over this like a rash.

Particular Structure Rresonates (when tested) will not be seen as a specific case of Things Resonate but as a general case of OMG Aliens

Re: India? Good for them... I hope.

The world has moved on, these days it's "BT" calling you to say there's "a problem with your router".

I haven't hung on the line long enough to find out what form a miscreancy they are up to. But I'll hazard a guess it's going to be some form of remote viewer and then mucking up your system. Perhaps someone can enlighten us.

Re: A principled stand?

Perhaps we could get him to lie down in front of a bulldozer.

Re: eh?

You recall previous French intransigence and agricultural based strikes and blockades? British lamb in roadside BBQ, anyone?

In the past, you got the EU to admonish the French and issue fines. The French complain but comply eventually. Under WTO? "bouff" will be the response.

Re: Or turn a woman in a bikini into a beach ball

If I remember a flounder is a flatfish and doesn't do that much swimming.

Though once when diving a long long while ago, I found a very small flatfish and it did an impressive job of swimming upside down to stay against the protection of my glove.

Re: Still need that "killer app" ?

My son wears a watch - ordinary for school, waterproof Timex for Scouts etc.

It doesn't help him look to his mobile because its a huge smartphone (Moto 5)

I don't wear a watch because I got out of the habit when working in laboratories and with strong magnets in mass spectrometry.

What I'd like to see in a smart watch is a basic information I get off the top line of my mobile - time, date and the alerts that come up. Not really a smartwatch but more a dumb repeater so I don't have to fish my phone from my pocket each time it goes ping.

Re: Diplomat?

"specialising in psyops" which he conveniently published in book form so other people could learn about them.

Perhaps 'diplomatic' refers to being a member of the Foreign Policy Association, or being confidant of Chiang Kai Sek

Re: Blakes7 Internet Federation

You listened to the audio remake though didn't you.

http://www.b7media.com/audio/blakes-7/blakes-7-audio-adventures/

And the Big Finish audio dramas

https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/released/blake-s-7

Re: Wittertainment

My Windows tablet took hardly any time to run the April update.

That was once I'd attached some external storage to give it room to do the job.

When I say hardly any time, I mean it did take some time but not a really long time.

Because on the reboot it decided something was stopping changes to C:/ and then rolled back.

At least I think that's what the error code meant.....

Or the Line Out on the 30pin connector.

Re: Well

Snails are fish for some regulations regarding trade, well fancy that.

Are you acquainted with freshwater snails?

Apparently some people eat them.

I think he overlooks that by claiming he was manipulated during the undercover filming it means that he is not actually a sophisticated businessman at the top of his game (as he might like to think) but an privately educated dolt who is an easy mark for a journalist.

Re: "A ship in port is safe. But that's not what ships are built for"

Driving a couple of battleships up and down the Med on the off-chance of meeting some Italian warships would

1) use up lots of fuel, not just the battleships but the escorting screen as well

2) expose the ships to air attack (and not long after we taught them about Taranto)

3) lack focus in application of effort to achieving strategic or tactical goals

The battleships sortied from Gibraltar and Alexandria when they were needed to cover convoys headed to resupply Malta.

And as to the Grand Fleet in WWI, and Home Fleet in WWII, you do understand what a "distant blockade" is, don't you?

Try and catch it out by asking it how the local sports team is doing?

Re: "written at the height of the Cold War by a veteran with a fascism fetish."

But it's got Denise Richards. And Doogie Howser.

And Michael Ironside.

Re: At least

technically a so-very-dark-blue-as-to-appear-black but nowhere like the blue we are likely to get.

At one level switching to 'blue' passports will be a useful thing. At European entry points the border control will see us coming at a distance and be able to put on a sympathetic so-you-went-through-all-that-for-a-different-colour-piece-of-card face.

Re: The BBC

I did

the timestamp "9 hours ago"

'Cheating may have swayed Brexit poll - Christopher Wylie'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43558876

Re: Follows old adage...

"Rush" is a cracking good film in my opinion.

Makes F1 look as exciting and dangerous as it seemed at the time.

And the old cars gave me a dose of nostalgia - but then I was always a sucker for the paint job of the Lotus John Player Special.

Re: Submarine palaces for marine fauna

Not sure if it was quite what you meant but Sir Galahad was hit inshore by bombs dropped by Skyhawks and caught fire but did not sink. More similarity with Ark Royal in WWII. Where you thinking of Atlantic Conveyor?