re. Slides

Slides do _not_ have infinite resolution. An ISO 50 slide can have a very high resolution indeed, but it is not infinite. The resolution is set by the grain size of the photgraphic emulsion. Higher ISO rating film has larger grains, so you get faster exposure at the cost of lower resolution.

How about diesel?

Are small, diesel fueled engines suitable?

re. Munter

Gabriele Munter was a German expressionist painter. People in her paintings usually have rough looking faces, with slightly blotchy colours. Hence, the word 'munter' is used to refer to a person or thing that looks rough or crude. This has been extended to mean ugly or even fugly.

@John 4 re. flirting

I'm sure that everyone you know has learned to never compliment you on any aspect of your appearance, in case you think they're coming on to you.

Get it right (think about it)

Blake's (and other people's) body fat and muscle mass will not change much on a day to day basis, no matter how much they eat or exercise; true.

However, a persons weight will vary, noticeably, day to day, depending on how much they eat and drink; depending on the pattern and timing of eat/drink activity and other activity. I suggest that one night you try eating a large donner kebab, washed down with four large cans of beer. This is guaranteed to make your weight increase by at least five pounds. Within 24 hours, this extra five pounds will disappear. It's true, I've tried it, it's amazing; where does it go?

What's so special about 2?

"The figure isn't even a power of 2!"

Why should it be a power of 2? If I was performing dilutions and I knew I'd have to go for over 1,000,000; I wouldn't dilute by factors of 2. I'd use a dilution of 99:1, three times. After that, I'd titrate a sample with dilutant and stop diluting when the testers reported no taste. After that, you note the final amount of dilutant and out pops your number.

I agree that the 'resolution' of the dilution is silly. Its accuracy is a different matter. The major contributor to uncertainty would be the preparation of the original source material; that is where any serious inaccuracy would most likely be introduced.

Re. The speed of light

"2. The speed of light is constant"

The speed of 'light' depends on the properties of the medium that it's traveling in. For a bulk medium, like the vacuum of space, a block of glass, etc; this is easy enough to work out and the behaviour of the waves/photons, whatever, is easily predicted. Hence school level physics.

When the photons start interacting with exotic substances that absorb and re-emit, then it all gets very complicated and scientific articles are born.

Another Use For Butts

As I found out many years ago, you can use your butt to steer a barge. Just wedge the tiller between your butt-cheeks, adopt a comfortable stance facing forward and leaning back slightly; then you have both hands free to eat a sandwich and drink a beer (or food/beverage of personal choice).

If you get your stance adjusted properly, you can turn your upper body to the right, whereupon the barge will steer proportionally to the right, and vice versa. At the time, as far as I could see, nobody else was steering in that way.

I know your sort

You're one of those technical, engineery type people who always looks at things from a practical and scientific point of view. We've got multi-million dollar procurement budgets and 1000s strong administrative empires to maintain here. There are senators and generals who need to be impressed; you just don't understand.

More details please

That sounds interesting and may be useful for me. Is this something that 'works for you', or has it been observed and noted generally?

Communication Skills

"..They will be rare as hen's teeth and probably have some weird crap going on around them..."

I understood that bit. Can you re-write all of it for me, using that simple language. If you have time. Please.

There's more...

".. So that's everybody with an ordinary degree and above .." (waves hello.)

When I recently bought something at Comet, on the customer details section of the screen (which I could see), the drop down menu for customer title included 'Lord'.

I can only assume that the back-office techies were having a bit of fun. Or, perhaps this was in response to Lord Somebody making a formal complaint about his title not being available when he went to buy something there.

re. Yup, Happened to me as wel

You could try reversing the neutron flux. (If it's a heart attack, anything is worth a try.)

Maybe You're Past It

It's probably because you're old and slow and you don't know how to use the intertubes properly. It could be your browser too; install Chrome and your comments will fly onto the page.

This comment appeared a mere 15 seconds after I pressed the Submit button.

A squid is already damp!

Please ignore the simpleton.

re. boffing

...or shagging with shagging.

Think About It

"..You can also open/edit Office documents on the Web which is something never seen before.."

Could that be because these Office documents of which you speak, are in a proprietary format which is owned and controlled by........Microsoft; and they've only recently started doing it?

" You don't need to have Office installed."

You do if you want any 'advanced' (= reasonably expected) features - such as copy/paste between a web based document and an old (Office 2000) installed application. I know, I've tried it.

It's all relative

".. the West of the Midwest."

Is that the same as the Far West?

I beg to differ

"..all possible permutations of the joke on 'religious tenants', and none of them are funny.."

That would be an ecumenical matter. Yes.

My Dog

My dog is far too sensible for that; but I have a hotmail account.

@AC 15:59

Are you one o'tham thar power engineers? Five Amps? pah! that's leakage current.

re. FFS - Why..

Because law abiding people provide low-risk push around fun.

Maybe.

"..It seems a regular piece of garbage claimed by leftists, communists, and socialists,... "

You forgot the gays and the Jews and the Gypsies.

We had to destroy the village in order to save it. - Wise words.

@ Scott Mckenzie re. Hmm

"... 'spit hairs' that's not quite accurate, they can flick them from their abdomen using their legs"

You're just splitting hairs.

@ Number 6 re. "7483"

That was just the number of that particular beast. It's the way the local council keep track of them.

Me Too

"My 6310i is still the perfect phone:"

I've got two, and two spare batteries. I can't think why I'd need anything else.

If I made a small effort, I could set them up to send and receive e-mails, but I can't be bothered because I have a netbook with a broadband stick for that.

Bookmark Organisation

" Being able to order my bookmarks in the same spatial manner would be a definite plus. "

You can create named folders in the bookmark container. Those folders can contain more folders and......bookmarks. As you run your cursor down the list of bookmarks folders, they pop out to form their own windowed list, etc. (Have I misunderstood what you were wanting?)