Posts by James 51

Re: The Tracer Bullet Effect

I made a similar post recently. England should leave the UK. There is no way that the other three nations would get the opt-outs and other benefits the UK currently enjoys if they had to apply for membership on their own.

Re: laser mounting

Every action has an equal an opposite reaction. Assuming everything worked at 100% efficiency the photons would push the ship back (when it leaves the laser) just as much as they pushed it forward (when it hit the sails). What you could do is use the laser as thrust pointing straight out the back but it's hard to see that being better than an ion drive. Perhaps an ion drive could provide the breaking thrust?

Blackberry have had a few products like that. You might need BES 12 now though that they've withdrawn meetings.

Perhaps like Marlow and Barksdale in The Wire they are bothered by it even when they shouldn't be.

Re: Speculation?

Given the hack on the Mint website over the weekend it all depends on what you say about it because you might actually have a point. Unlikely but possible.

Re: So what about congestion

Bad drivers are bad drivers, it doesn't matter the mode of transportation.

Re: The next step

In some application forms I've seen you're asked about absence from work over the last few years, back door way to ask about health they couldn't get away with up front.

Re: Copyright

Perhaps his company had the same attitude as Moist von Lipwig to lock picks, while only illegal geographically but in their case why take the risk.

The BB classic has an excellent keyboard or if like myself you value the replaceable battery the Q10 is an excellent alternative.

We might be able to compile programs we want but that is going to be beyond the ability of most people who could buy this tablet and may never look beyond the software manager that's built into Ubuntu.

Actually where I live you can't. There are two GP practices but they share the same building and their receptionists sit side by side. Both use the same system to book appointments and a lot of stuff is done on paper (which is then suppose to be transcribed). There was a recently head count at the surrounding practices too to ensure that no one had moved outside of their catchment area and they were given a few months to get register with another GP before being taken off the books if they had.

Re: Uh, oh. Enemy du jour detected, closing fast!

I was skimming through the comments and read that as 'Better get out the first aid kitten then'.

Re: The "subtle" advantage of Sickle cell trait is enhanced Malerial resistance

Now things get very murky if someone says "I'd like my sickle cell gene to be enhanced to give me the Malerial resistance without the random blood clots."

If they have one copy if the gene that is essentially what they have. The problem is when you have two copies of it. Perhaps hemochromatosis would be a better example, there is suppose to be higher rate among western european populations so there shouldn't be the same 'heritage' hangups.

Hopefully a promise.

Re: HA!!

The other version of that story is about the write protect tab on floppy disks.

Not sure how practical that is. It's rare but someone may need a large vehicle to carry a wheel chair, equipment and a carer. Or someone who has a large family car becomes ill is effectively forced to buy a second small car that can not accommodate the whole family. A case by case basis could be brought it but that would drive the cost of administering the system up.

Better to think of colour as short hand for range of the EM spectrum when it gets into non-visible light. Of course it's possible to create false colour images using that part of the spectrum.