Posts by John Blagden

It's been done!

Twice!

By Apple!

Think Microshaft has the cojones?

Truly depressing

Wonder how Williams got hold of the questions before-hand!

Just saying.

Ah!

"The iPad is what the Mac should have been"

I was with you until you said that!

'orses

I've got a 1909 Strand Magazine that compares 'orses to the new-fandangled motor-cars. The comparison revealed that 'orses needed to be replaced every 30 miles on a long journey, left a lot of smelly environmental keepsakes around (24 tons daily in London apparently), were very dangerous at one end due to 'teeth' and at the other with 'hooves', tended to violently react to strange noises/lights/animals/humans/americans, needed overnight covering and tending/feeding 24/7/365. Oh, and tended to die a lot.

In cars 'all' you theoretically had to worry about was carrying a spare can of petrol.

Sorry!

The Great Exhibition was 1851.

Advance

"You can be sure on a design like this, incredible attention has been paid to saving every ounze in weight as possible."

It's a technology demonstration. Of course everything is going to be lined up to give it the best chance.

Once they can prove the technology can do something they can ask for more budget. Once other companies cotton on to the fact there is a market you'll get lighter materials, better photo-cells, more efficient motors, lighter and longer lasting batteries etc. All of which might be useful in some other areas as well.

Let's review this in ten years, m'kay?

The longest journeys start with a single step.

'point'

or they could just have got a lot of free publicity.......

Kudos anyway.

If we could make baiting telemarketeers into a national passtime, it might stop the bastards wasting so much of OUR time.

1/24th Scale?

To go with my old Spit?

Pig on the wing!

Which escaped it's earthly bonds over Battersea Power Station and eventually landed on a pig farm in Essex.

Airline pilots flying over London were told to watch out for a thirty-foot long pink piggy 'flying' between 10,000 and 25,000 feet!

Only a few months...

Every time I hear the phrase "it shortened the war by x months/years" a shiver runs up my spine. German rocket and aircraft technology was so far advanced we could have had REAL problems dealing with the ground-to-air and air-to-air missiles against our bomber fleets, which until D-Day was the only realistic way of striking back. Very, very close-run thing

If RAF Bomber Command and the USAF had not created huge logistical and militarily intensive problems for Germany by their aggressive bombing campaigns, simultaneously keeping a large proportion of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe away from the Russians on the Eastern front, then that German research and engineering almost certainly would have given them the ability to completely change the course of the war. Remember that next time someone says 'War Crime'.

Without full air-superiority the D-Day landings might have evolved into the slogging war of attrition that Churchill and his WWI experienced Generals most feared. It nearly happened in Normandy! How much longer would the war have taken? What weapons would Germany been able to bring to bear or develop in the meantime? Remember they had several projects that were aimed at bombing America. A winged A4 (V2) on top of a larger first stage and Horten HO 229 Flying Wing were only the start.

Perhaps an unconditional surrender of Germany might not have been possible, a brokered peace or cease-fire being the probable alternative. Many American Generals would then have been quite happy to ally with Germany against who they saw as the 'real' problem, Soviet Russia.

Only a few months.....

Cases

Given the many 3rd companies making a living supplying accessories to the iPhone/iTouch who see a huge market for the iPad, what's the betting that someone will design a clip on case with a webcam in it and connection/power via the docking port? Put a pull-out stand on it and voila, instant video conferencing with no nasal passages dominating the proceedings.

Entourage Database

Clean out your 'Deleted Items' folder, do some housekeeping by deleting old eMails, not forgetting the 'Sent' folder. Quit Entourage then start again but hold the alt/option key down. Choose the 'Rebuild Database' option and wait.............