Posts by TRT 9611 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009
The first UK council to abandon reason and declare themselves a blanket 20mph Borough.
The speed profile for getting anywhere in Islington now looks like...
Tube > UBER Bike > skateboard/scooter > walking > the bus > driving > giving up and sitting outside a pub for a beer instead because it's generally going to be more fun that whatever else you were heading to Islington for in the first place (possibly with the exception of sex).
Don't use them to keep ANYTHING in. They degrade into a shower of centi- and milli-particles (bigger than micro- or nano-particles), spreading the former contents of the bag everywhere and coating everything in a statically charged fuzz of plastic.
Trying to clean them up is like playing asteroids, except that the geometric progression of division into smaller and smaller objects in greater and greater numbers doesn't end after three hits.
a trip in a teacher's 2CV, overspill from the clapped out Bedford school minibus, back from a field study centre, heading towards one of those new fangled "fun pools" of which there were only one or two in the country during that era, on a very hot, sunny, late June morning.
The road noise suddenly increased, and as we looked up to where the roar was coming from, a steadily growing sliver of daylight was appearing between the roof and the top of the car's passenger frame.
We all grabbed onto whatever dangly bits of roof we could and held on for dear life until we managed to get to the swimming pool, and the teacher could get to a phone box to call a garage!
So basically there are 10 possible indicators of the failure mode requiring this corrective action, and the most reliable of these indicators, the AOA disagree warning, is marked "where fitted". And how many of these indicators are shared with other abnormal flight conditions? It's all well and good saying that the pilots should have followed the bulletin, but there's a certain degree of having to recognise that one needs to do that. Of course now it's all over the news, it's at the forefront of a pilot's mind.
That might work. It's also a very shit way of achieving something that should not need achieving in the first place. It's the airline equivalent of thumping the TV in exactly the right spot to fix the colour, only 150 plus people aren't going to die if Dot Cotton's dress is the wrong shade of blue.
Scroll down to the bit about the relationship between Boeing and the FAA.
Good evening.
Now, let's move on to something ruder.
Wankel Rotary Engine.
Well... ha ha ha.
Now it's time for 'A Book at Bedtime'. Alan Hutchinson reads another extract from a series of bedside books.
Number 32. 'The lady lies with her left leg planted firmly on the ground and the right hand waiting. The gentleman with the melon switches on the battery and places his left thigh on the edge of the swivel table, keeping the neck of...
Pivoted so they swing forwards and backwards if they catch a hump. The purpose of them is not so much to deflect a car, more as to provide optical & lidar "infill" in the gap between the road and the truck body that to a dumb silicon shit it doesn't look like open road or a bridge or something otherwise 'not-truck'.
This kind of thing wouldn't ever happen to me, because I'd never be forking out £260 for a bottle of plonk in the first place, let alone £4,500. In fact, £26 would be pushing the limit for me - have to be a very special occasion to warrant even that much - and then it would have to be one of the ones with bubbles in it, which I've heard can be quite expensive. Most of the time, when perusing the wine list, the only sound is a tiny exhalation of disbelief followed by "Just a jug of tap water, please."
They do. They're not brilliant as you get RGB strobing during fast, non-saccade eye movements, but that could be sorted with a little inventiveness in the optics. And you don't need LCD shutters to adjust intensity; lasers can be modulated way faster than liquid crystals - down to femto-seconds. Multiple scan beams is another way to improve resolution, by dividing the screen up into different chunks you aren't creating as much flicker, which the non-peripheral vision is more sensitive to.
Mine flashes if I hit a dip/hole of a certain size, enough to make one wheel travel a little bit further round the surface of the road than the other. It seems like it should only be a tiny, tiny amount of discrepancy, which of course it is, but the rotation/torque sensors on my car's wheels are especially accurate; it's an integral part of the design of the transmission system apparently.
...but whilst you're there, I have a NetApp mug full of biros I picked up from trade shows... perhaps you can start there? You can use the Kilimanjaro high stack of little post it note pads with now vanished AntiMalware providers logos on them, if you like.
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