Posts by Pedigree-Pete

Re: @Matt

Brain: Weird, so did mine & don't recall ever hearing that joke. Great minds & all that.

Re: In before rounded corner jokes…

Tee Hee!

Re: Thermonuclear wars...

Difficult to be sure on that, fortunately we have never had one.

Tim Berners Lee

Sir Tim Berners Lee to us mortals.

Re: Classified

JC, nah, he'll be chucking up under the Gs

Re: alternative to nuclear from the oceans

Engineering problems, all. Roll your sleaves up engineers & get cracking.

Re: Foxconn

Conspiracy, pedantry, irony & sarcasm are always welcome here:)

Beer, it's nearly Friday.

Re: Why is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration looking at the ground?

"Overweight dinosaurs".

That about sums it up.

Re: True brand devaluation is.....

Hardly surprising since I recall being advised that in China the word Copyright infers the right to copy:)

Re: I'm far from being a native speaker

Thanks for the reminder on the correct use of the apostrophe. Even us native english speakers sometime lose the plot.

BUT

surely there is something wrong with "there's are" if there's is a contraction of there is.

Back on subject, I quite liked the Logitec Harmony I played with.

Beer, because it's Friday (subs any other day of the week as suites)

Re: Complete, its_glow

No irony here then....

Re: I'm for -

Hmmmmm! We are having enough trouble trying to keep the United Kingdom together let alone Europe.

Re: re. collision avoidance on aircraft

Try sitting in the passenger seat with a Garmin/Tom-Tom/Streetmap/Multimap print out of the route from pick-up to destination in view. That tends to motivate the MI to get more AI.

Re: Favorites

I kind of like

{"368","flooding. Traffic flowing freely","936"," "},

Re: "hopefully without a patent-war"

A "pace" in space is roughly spitting distance! (See posts on earlier Dragon articles!)

Re: enlighten us..

"will be able to provide a high quality positioning"

"It is currently able to locate to within ten metres in most of mainland China"

GPS maybe. But I'd like to see someone satnav their way aroundf Peking with 10mtr accuracy.

(Turn left 9.5mtrs ago!)

Re: Miles per pound.

I've done this consistently for years. It's about 12p per mile depending on how & what you drive.

WHAT! I hear you cry, hasn't this gone up with soaring fuel costs? Not if you buy increasingly leaner cars & begin driving like a saint.