Posts by Paul_Murphy

Re: Fake news

At least the lines will be there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68616330

Re: Full charge in 10 minutes?

The answer is to generate and store locally, or at least as locally as possible. Tesla has the idea with it's solar roof tiles feeding into 'power-wall' battery pack(s) that are used for domestic and personal vehicle(s).

Re: Crytome.org

Thanks, it came back after a little wait so probably just a glitch.

Re: tribbles, how to remove?

And let the star seeds travel the galaxy.

Re: Still laughing..

Not Trygve of the treehouse? http://www.trygve.com/index.html

>Good grief. Is there anyone who ISN'T keeping nude pictures of themselves online these days?!

Well one of those women wasn't, for starters.

I'm also not doing that, so there are at least two of us that don't store nude pics of ourselves online.

Anyone else?

Re: Interesting

Also a bit dutch... :-)

Re: Trigger's broom?

Of course it's reusable, as long as everything can be reused.

The actual number of swappable components is relatively immaterial as long as the basic frame can stand the pace.

If the object is to, for example, rebuild the GPS constellation, after it's unexpected demise, in a few days then I can totally see a production-line approach where used components are removed, tested, re-filled and slotted back into other airframes for re-use.

Re: Malware? On a Mac?

I would say that they are a 'prime market' who have too much money and are more than happy for the inner workings of their iStuff to be hidden from them.

Re: There have been planes like this before.

After the Mosquito I would suggest the TSR2 (if it had been continued) or the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow (ditto) as the Mosquito equivalent of the jet age (excepting the Buccaneer for the low-level stuff) the Harrier being the only other jet plane that could fly slower and lower.

Since the Americans screwed the country (and Europe) over with the F111 it's been downhill ever since.

Re: Based on location and nominative determinism...

A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!

Re: I keep seeing these

or like this?

http://www.callagold.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/P1120875-400x300.jpg?x71152

From: http://www.callagold.com/all-about-rings/ring-removal/

Re: Excellent test roads

And I guess the real world testing will show up those and other items that can't be replicated easily in a test environment.

Re: Excellence in engineering versus planned obsolescence

And not forgetting the 24/7 team that will be looking after each car that is sold for not only it's expected lifetime but until it's beyond all hope of economic repair.

Re: A never-ending study on how to mess up humans...

Perhaps the real solution to manned spaceflight is to stop messing about with inadequate vehicles and work seriously on physics to identify an energy supply which will actually get enough stuff up there to make things really feasible.

Like a nuclear powered rocket maybe? up to 8,000,000 tons enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

Re: Cooling

I can't see fluid cooling happening on blades, but a chiller unit that clamped to the front might be worth a punt.

I'm still waiting for water cooling for servers to be the norm.

Re: SSO

I believe that android has/ had a feature where one user has their login/ swipe pattern and a separate swipe pattern would go to different account - I haven't used it (if it exists) and it may have only been on cyanogenmod, but it sounds like a useful feature.

Re: Lizard squad?

I just caught the tail end of this thread.

Re: If someone can show me

After looking at the Linux Steam client Wine (and PlayOnLinux) would be the first port of call but you may also want to look at Cedega.

Re: Meh...

I have has 4 GSs (all estates) - the first one suffered from noisy tappets but the others were great. They could really do with ABS but otherwise too many features to mention that I miss; starting handle (surprisingly handy), inboard brakes that you would struggle to get wet, brake pedal at the same level as your right foot when driving, ability to take the engine out using a trolley jack and of course user-selectable height adjustment of the car - very useful for changing wheels and putting heavy loads in the boot.

I also swapped some engines and gearboxes around and got a 1300cc engine with the 4 speed box which I had loaded to the roof with wood and pulled away with no issues.

Shame about the rust and fuel economy really, a modernised version would certainly turn heads.

Re: Until we become a spacefaring race...

and a significant fraction of the population don't live on the surface of the earth, then most of the race will synchronise their day with the rising and setting of the sun

That makes no sense - the rising and setting of the sun? where - in space?

Once (if) we are a space-faring race we will need to have a time system that is robust enough to handle communication lag over light seconds and minutes, that people can agree on and will mean the same thing where ever everyone happens to be.

What's needed is a far away slow pulsar that can be used as a metronome, or to discover some thing similar to a half-life of reality.

Answers on postcards would almost certainly not be good enough :-)

Other makers

I wonder what the story at other manufacturers will be, since I doubt VW will be the only ones making use of technology to make their cars appear better to the buying public.

If your competitor appears to be making cars that are so much better than yours, in terms of fuel efficiency at least, then what do you do?

Get consigned to history or see what you can do to catch up??

Re: Who's to blame

I would recommend the film 'Idiocracy' at this point, but I'm sure that everyone is aware of it already.

I am also bewildered that people can't tell a 'bomb' from a 'not bomb' (explosives, power and detonator being the three essentials) and that apparently a bomb needs a clock (with a display!) - if that is their means of identifying a suspect device then I wonder what the american(tm) police would make of booby traps and remote-triggered devices.

I also wonder what would happen if a person made a IED using only a single colour (not red) of wire - no doubt the item would be dismissed as a 'not bomb' since there is no red wire to cut.

<sigh>

Re: Who trained the Japanese to torpedo bomb?

I don't think a Lancaster counts as a dive-bomber, but with a tall boy or grandslam I doubt people take much notice.

Re: BBC to balme

So you're saying that Dr. Who isn't an entertainment program, but a documentary?

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Re: @ Def

>Better start planning now for a major move to another galaxy

A more local star system would be a better bet, and a slightly further away one should be sufficient unless FTL transport is deemed to exist in which case a galaxy would be another option.

Re: I was thinking of another type of hologram

Well there could be two differently lost socks or, potentially, the same sock at different points in it's existence (though the same point in ours) though of course that could be used to prove sock time travel, which would open up a whole new can of worms - or a whole new washing machine if using the sock-idiom.