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My last TV required 3 or 4 software updates to keep working.
First was due to BBC bending rules on service naming. Rather than 01 BBC1 02 BBC 2 03 BBC Choice 04 BBC News 24, suddenly 1 on TV up pops the news, 7 BBC1 and so on.
Then there was another
Finally an update to enable CAM support so I can see those not very good pay channels.
AFAIR Two visits from Sony and a couple of updates on a card to shove in the port on the back.
At least the UK is not too embarrasing still, we may not have the super fast lines, but still have an extensive 125mph network.
The Shinkansen network along with the TGV network are world class high speed rail.
Our lines are basically at capacity.
Deltics, they made the hairs on the back of your neck raise. You do not get it until you stand near one and can simply feel the raw power.
I still remember my first time seeing one close up about 40 years ago.
I do have a soft spot for 50s as well. There was something about English Electric locomotives.
There has been some fantastic engineering in the UK.
Brunels main line, superbly laid out in 1830s and still suitable for regular 125mph operation but APT-E tested at over 150.
Churchward getting steam locos just right for the GWR that they had not changed that much under Collett and Hawksworth.
Stanier taking the Churchward ideas into the Duchesses.
Gresley with the high speed ECML Pacifics.
Riddles making sure 9F was 10 coupled.
Miller with the HST.
All the unsung engineers who worked for EE, Brush and the other companies. Who worked closely with British Rail to produce some excellent Diesel and Steam designs.
There are locos in service now nearly 60 years old running reliably and being reconditioned for another decade of operation, the engines in them started in 1930s and the latest version is still being built in France (after the gutting of GEC by the pair of incompetents).
The last major BR coach design is still world class for safety, ride standard and is normally found sandwiched by the worlds fastest Diesel locos.
Anyway a final note about the East Coast Pacifics and Gresley not wanting Diesel.
Quite simple, the LNER could see that large steam engines were much more suitable for their services at the time. Speed was not an issue with regular 100mph operation. They could see that the future was electric, hence the Manchester Sheffield and Wath electrification with pre WW2 designed locomotives.
The LNER were looking at large electrics to replace the A4s not the two generations of Diesels used from 62 to still today.
The HST is the most punishing environment ever found for a Diesel power unit.
Personally I like the 16CSVT, but I have found some internet footage of a pair of D18-25 and a 16CSVT working hard together. And the train they were pulling had stupidly fast acceleration.
The orginal plans were for gas turbine due to light weight and cheap fuel.
The prototype was electric powered, the squadron sets were going to get a driving motor coach (what became a class 91).
POP the test rig
APT-E the gas turbine powered experiment
APT-P the WCML prototypes
APT-S the production version
If BR had been allowed to build a production version with the snags removed we would be travelling in it today.
APT, was a very good design and those first 3/6 trains were APT-P P for prototype.
They ran in two sets coupled power car to power car.
The tiliting gear was world class and still better than the Pendodildo. Faster too with over 160mph done.
The tiliting gear in the Bombardier cross country is more APT than the Italians.
APT - hydraulic rams controlled by G force sensors.
Pendodildo - screw jacks controlled by lineside transponders.
My source is impeccable, he invented the tilting train and was on the APT-E project.
Main difference between APT-E and APT-P active tilt was the failover mode.
Chris Fayling is a complete and utter twat.
Needs sacking, may be deselecting. Totally incompetent.
I noticed no one has reminded us about his cancellation of railway electrification schemes, forcing the purchase of Electro Diesels to fill in those gaps.
But his nadir has to be the pizza company.
I do not like the new plastic earth pin craze.
Lost a decent power output USB PSU due to this.
Only had one plug fail, pretty old, it just shattered.
Most though seem to stay plugged in.
My least favourite is a plug with PSU in it with a switch to the lights on the output side. This light I HAVE to switch off at mains after turning it off. A bad design.
Perhaps Apple should get MK to make their adaptor.
Pegasus Opera reverse ok cancel, so you tend to click cancel if you do not read, until you panic click on OK because you want to cancel.
What a shit idea.
I do not at all blame myself and this is what backups were invented for.
Mind you they were not fans of us, a customer with it had lots of index errors, (Pegasus said backup) so we reindexed using a software product of Extended Systems which happened to support a few variants of that file type. We knew that format trashed indexes so used the server engine we use to not get any index errors.
Mind you some was the natural animosity between Nantucket and Fox developers.
I tried to watch the Playstation Academy programme on ITV.
The following was blurred out so stopped watching at the first break. Cars were just a blur.
It appears that they were driving Nissan sports cars 370Z I THINK (blurred out)
The game (Gran Turismo), studio (Polyphony Digital), console (Playstation), maker (Sony) alll blurred out.
So blur, head, blur, legs. Standing next to a blurmobile.
Worst ever case of blurring I have seen.
Hewitt
Just not possible as Hewitt is not the son of Prince Phillip.
Look at the pair of them Harry is a chip off the DoE block.
I find it so funny as people really get wound up by Prince Phillip, then get similar by Harry.
I get great enjoyment out of people getting wound up like that as it makes them out to be fools.
Oh and look at those ears!
Toxicity in games.
Seen it in SP games with casual PVP where hard core types wipe out everyone, why not sod off back to COD.
Yet a more hardcore MP game with a SP element was not toxic until the COD crowd got a free trial. They whinged like mad as it was slow and they got wiped. Lots of cheating accusations and the like, no it was a game played by older skilled slower players, not so much by kids.
Game 1 was a casual but fun MP aimed at the SP players to give the game life. Got toxic.
Game 2 was a FPS with story and a decent MP needing skill more than reactions. Toxic for a week then returned to fun.
It does seem to be that the COD crowd are most toxic.