Posts by Tom 7

Re: Kind of too late now

Oh you mean all those features that were available in JS2 in, what 2002, but for some reason were not allowed into ECMA script?

Nothing to do with the writers of Actionscript and Typescript being in the standards group for ECMA???

Re: Where did the rural internet money go?

My exchange got upgraded to FTTC recently. My cabinet was a mile or so away. Its now 6 miles away back at the exchange...

Re: "before those persistent helium molecules find a way through"

Helium molecules are actually atoms. They are the smallest thing floating around out there. They ooze out through thin layers with relative ease. I'd imagine the pores in metal are pretty good at stopping it though.

Why the hell we waste He in weather balloons is beyond me - having spent time deliberately filling things with H2 and setting them off its bloody hard to hurt yourself doing it. Well unless you get some 02 and mix that in as well. That makes your ears ring for days!

Re: next up - hosted AirCons

A good thing to do in when its hot in summer is to light a fire in the late evenings - if you just heat the chimney it sucks in the cold night air in and cools the house down. Excess heat from the server smallholding could be used in a similar way.

Alas it tends not to work where lots of neighbours have aircons raising the ambient by 15C like most big cities!

Re: MeToo

Not really a tablet fan but playing with the Pi most of the intel ecosystem from linux 'make's it over to the arm really easily for someone with some computing experience.

Having said that it cant be long before 64 bit multi core arm jobies will be hitting the counters for people who want to... errr ... watch 4K videos at twice normal speed?

Re: What?

Real scottish accents are - but the film industries best are found on Scooby Doo and are normally voiced by US citizens who think scortlend is part of NJ.

Re: He missed the main problem...

The glasshole operator didnt help but the main problem is being aware you might be being filmed - most people aren't vain enough to want it and most people find it uncomfortable - and will continue to do so.

Humans interactions have evolved over eons and knowing you are being filmed changes the whole thing out of all proportion.

Re: Not dangerous, Actually need *less* restriction and less paranoia

Planes can go very fast and helicopters have open blades - almost all drones propellers are in cowlings and the thing doesnt move anywhere near as fast as even a toy glider.

I'm not saying they're not potentially dangerous but they are more of a choking hazard.

Re: two fridges

I thought the idea of 'connected' fridges was they could let you know when your four* litres of milk was running out or going off so you could get a fresh one.

* this is the milk that now costs £10 as it has to have electronics attached to it to be of any use at all and the people who program these devices will have to be imported from India to do it manually.

Re: Poorly explained

You have assumed the Reg journo

a) actually read it

b) has a clue about what the book is about.

Re: I never met him personally...

I must confess that having mocked Diana's funeral hysterics I can see where it comes from.

Re: What would be nice

And it would keep the bloody flies down!

Re: None

They cant make you pay through the nose for a £2 connector if they dont have somewhere to connect it.

Actually maybe they can...

Re: It will tell me how much power an appliance is using...

They dont seem to be particularly smart meters - unless you call them smart because it was smart of the power industry to get them allowed.

To me a smart meter would actually tell me what the price is - not on a screen but let my home controller know so when there is a breeze blowing and the price has dropped I can work out whether to spend my money on electricity for heating (running the ground heat pump, topping up the hot water etc) but it seems I'd have to crawl under the stairs and have a look.

It is conceivable that there will be overproduction of renewable power in the next 30 years and I'd like to be able to use it but I cant see the energy companies wanting me to know when its available.

Re: After all this isn't MS Office that you are installing

Anyone checked the EULA lately?

Re: Eventially...

Memory (or do I mean arse) wipes.

Why would anyone want to come to the UK to do space launches?

because the proclaimers of free enterprise and low taxation will tax the proles to give you a subsidy and a number that works in an offshore bank.,

Re: The problem with electric bicycles

I think you're missing the point of this - a lot of towns and cities have car free areas (or at least places you wouldn't park unless you are picking up your lottery winnings) so this means a delivery van can provide good service for relatively small items quite easily and effectively.This isn't a mode of transport - it seems like quite a sensible solution to a very common problem and returns the transit van to its original purpose as a delivery vehicle and not a collecting things quickly before their owner comes back vehicle.

Re: Volkwagen

I found working on the VW engine easy - especially when it fell out on the drive. With a lift the standard engine was so easy to work on - its all these fancy turbos and carburetors that dont fit the engine bay that makes things difficult. Friend has on where the turbo was welded in place in the 17 piece exhaust! My VW before last I had to buy a special tool to get the spark plugs out!

The chrome/ff approach appears to be a mid engined jobie where the body wont come off to get at it!

Re: Brilliant!

Staring very hard at things really does affect them!

Re: Nothing wrong with Patent Trolls...

But don't blame the players, blame the game.

Er in the US the players write the rules of the game.

Re:Re: Potentiometer + cloud

"With management in the cloud"

Not been paying attention for the last 40 years have you?

Re: Just for clarification?

I dont think you can really call it an English muffin if you add polenta or semolina. Works better without IMHO.