Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Sounds vaguely familiar.. LOL

> it was only a voltage drop under certain load conditions

To be fair though zero-load power supplies are very reliable

Re: Water Bills

I do know a certain bank names after a couple of large Chinese cities can't handle a property that gets municipal water but has sceptic rather than municipal sewer

Only one box on their form apparently

Re: Supply pipe

Alternative would be they had 2 stop cocks in the van so they split your house pipe into 2 fitted both with a cock and then rejoined them before they reach you

I don't think white walkers count

Re: Justy sell'em anyway

I doubt anybody in the UK gives a fsck about her corporate issues

I assumed they were supplied by CNN

Like who makes all those flammable USA flags in the middle East?

And the people's front of Hayling Island

No problem, population of non-Grande Bretagne is about 4.5M

So if only 0.2% of them are Brexit supporting Anglophile separatists he ahs the market sewn up

Isn't all Nationalism tinted with xenophobia ?

It isn't like Yorkshire would split from the UK due to wanting fraternal bonds of love and understanding between all peoples. It's because we are a natural master race that are superior to southerners and Lancastrians - we are just too reserved to ever mention it.

Re: "The current regulatory system is broken"

>heavy-rail freight trains. ..... Why are we reinventing this?

Because trains are communist

Re: Your headline reminds me...

Story of a Brummie rock band touring the USA in the 70s

After many meals of burger and fries one of them announces rather loudly - "I could bloody murder an Indian"

Re: Your headline reminds me...

Some vital bit of corporate infrastructure <cough F35 avionics development cough> is running on VMS and they can't find anyone in-house to support it.

Re: Hard work and good products

So far they have been great.

I don't need a flagship phone that costs 4x as much as a laptop

I need >2Gb RAM, an SD card, the same Qualcom chippery everyone else has, a couple of day battery life and a regularly updated unlocked Android.

If I can pay $100 for that because it's aimed at the Asian market rather than instagram influencers that's fine by me

Re: Wrong as usual

Because BBK are a manufacturer of lots of brands - it's like saying Foxconn are the biggest phone maker in the world

Re: "hires 5,000 engineers"

> market of skilled and experienced engineers as demonstrated by the rising wages in China.

Paying more for skilled engineers because of market demand ?

Damn commies !

Re: mulling whether it’s worth suing Riverside Arena or not

And how much damage to their life, job, housing etc when the other lawyer has access to any previous police records (thanks to some friends on the force) and the ice rink hires a PR comp to make sure this all gets out on Fox news and social medo

Re: Getting all fired up!

I hear they are doing this for getaway trips to remote exclusive lake resorts

Re: Not a bad start that

>Maintenance may be an improvement. Electric motors will have fewer moving parts and lower operating temperatures.

That's why electric probably has a future in GA (small private plane hobby)

The big running cost is maintenance because engines have so many complicated parts and every last part must be manufactured, tested, installed, serviced by lots of paperwork.

If you make an electric motor that the FAA certify the equivalent of ETOPS, ie these motors typically run for 100K hours with a failure so we can relax service intervals.

And for GA a 1 hour flight time with 100mi range and 1 hour recharge would be perfectly fine

Re: Not a bad start that

It's a "Look Squirrel!"

Every time United get attacked for taking a gazillion $ in bailouts and still selling their staff's organs, or it beats a passenger to death for looking Arabic, or somebody points out how much carbons it emits, it points to this and screams GREEN

Re: Makes sense.

>Inter island travel in the Caribbean for instance would be a perfect use case for this type of aircraft.

Small nations are generally exempt from/don't care about headline grabbing climate accords

It might be worthwhile if you are trying to run some elite rich eco tourist resort

Re: Great idea.

It will link London to its trading partners in the Faroes

Re: G-ERTI - UPDATE (SPOILER ALERT)

It's not an airline, we only have one plane, you can't put one plane in a line - it's an airdot

Re: Why 19?

19 is probably the limit where you need cabin crew

Middle English plouw, plough is a C17 attempt to sound French

Re: What's the problem?

>So long BestBuy, you just lost a sale.

But as the other poster said, how else are you able to buy electronics without going into a physical store?

It's not like there is some magic shop on your phone that you can just touch the picture and have the item delivered to your door at a lower price

Re: Sounds like

That's the Afghanistan mistake. If you lose a war against the USA you get to have a prosperous business selling them stuff. But if you win, you won't see afghan BMWa or PlayStations anytime aoon

Re: Only trout ?

fetchez la vache

Re: Sounds Like...

>can't they just make a new Hubble and launch it?

Hubble was super-compromised by it's need to work with Shuttle, and be built from a KH-11 spy satelite. It's not what you would build today.

Arguably neither is JWST, if you assume launches are now relatively cheap and regular you might go for a production line of 2-3 year launch cycle with new instrument technology on a common bus.

For all it's whizzy space technology - the best thing Hubble did in terms of research/$ was the whole Space Telescope Science Institute, the IRAF software infrastructure, the data archive and the funding for post-docs.

It led to a much more efficient processing and publishing than typical astronomy of the time - although ground based has learned a lot from it.

Re: Sounds Like...

>Could an astronaut wearing a EVA suit exit and enter the Dragon? Is there space to dress and undress the suit?

Couldn't we just send Geordies astronauts ?

Re: Sounds Like...

Mar a Lago = 26.67N

Hubble orbit inclination = 28.5 deg

So yes, Cthullu willing, it could hit Florida man