Posts by Jan 0

Re: I can see two cases here

Why not use a real satnav app on your 'phone? One that can download whole countries in advance?

Re:You don't use motors for griping things

Somewhere, there has to be a motor powering the hydraulics.

That sounds very like my Victorian terrace. I've replaced the gruesome concrete tiles with proper insulation and ceramic pantiles.

The 77 mm of PIR external insulation* is covered in brick slips, rather than whole bricks.

Above and beyond, I've replaced the ancient double glazed windows, with Acoya draught sealed wooden sash windows and modern double glazed units.

There's no reason why our government couldn't facilitate this for whole terraces.

*More would be better, but Planners don't think that very deep "reveals" are acceptable when the neighbouring houses don't have them. (In an ideal world I'd have used Spacetherm, but until more of us use it, the price will remain eyewatering.)

Re: Soled

just how is your blind drone, with it's rotors inside a "tinfoil" bag going to navigate to it's target? Perhaps you could just launch it with a catapult?

Re: Lucky they built it in Bristol then, otherwise it would be confusing

Keeping the original name:Brunel C.A.T. would have been even wiser!

"""Dabsy might approve"""

Re: Lift??

How many miniature "fully figged ships" do you see entered in the Americas Cup Races? There might just be better designs for sailing ships in the 21s century.

Re: No shit

@Doctor Syntax.

My street of terraced houses has lamposts, which could help. (Even better, a line of charging bollards could make it easier to walk along the pavement.)

Does the good doctor live in a street where the street lamps are fixed to the houses?

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***Bring back our Dabsy***

Re: I wonder

That's a cunningly interesting question:) How much has the Universe expanded in eight thousand million years?

(Sorry, for me a billion will always be a million, million, which is why I like to use superscript numbers.)

Re: Homeopathy or Supplements

>Did I get that right?

Iverectin has been taken by people with a variety of parasites, but that's irrelevant!

See: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115869

or maybe not, if you think that Lemsip is an effective antiviral, then you really are clueless and not in a nice way.

Re: Hydrogen in pipes

Hydrogen used to be ~50% of traditional "coal gas*". How much was lost back then? Are modern gas pipes leakier?

Re: "permit the flow of personal data [..] without the need for further safeguards"

>Monetisation

I think the correct spelling is GREED.

Re: Phones are lovely but they'd be much better without cameras

>The reason the back isn't made out of metal is because of inductive charging.

Yeahbut we're savvy tech readers who wouldn't dream of wasting energy, so we don't think of that.

Re: Where to turn this off?

What did you expect when you first got a gmail account and let google store all your emails? Don't you have a server at home that you could use? (or at least a sever operated by a small company?)

This is a journalist who used the expression "minus 271 degrees Celsius", so they're probably more au fait with kitchens than laboratories and advanced technologies.

That's certainly not legal in the UK.

I don't know about the rest of the world outside North America. Is it legal in Japan?

Re: Resistance is futile

What happens if I remove or simply fry the SIM card in the car that I haven't bought yet?

Re: FF convert

@aerogems

You must live in a strange country, with only 2 "sides" in politics. Even in a one party state, there will be multiple"sides".

Re: Milestone moment

Surely not as ugly as contaminating coffee with bovine secretions.

(It's not all about tea, India grows some excellent coffee too!)

Well, at least reveal your name. I'm willing to become Jan 1, Jan 2, .... Jan ∞

Re: Sooo....

How about the enirmously complex radiogram? A fusion of two whole technologies! Designers really pushed the boat out in those fays.

Re: Reminds me of an old (early '80s) AI koan ...

It's pretty sad that none of your respondents has another anecdote about a Lisp machine. Surely somebody here had a recalcitrant Linn version?

I was more of a Poplog afficionado, but there was no dedicated hardware AFAIK.

Re: 4G or ADSL backup

Have you tried a MiFi, in a waterproof bag, on a pole? Works for me.

Re: Susie

According to the article, it would seem that it can land with 7 tons too)

>The spacecraft is designed to return to Earth by skimming – using a lifting body design through the atmosphere at Mach 25 before extending aerodynamic surfaces to reach a safe speed for a vertical rocket landing, carrying seven tons of cargo.

Re: It is utterly crap

Ah diddums.

Re: GB Map Location

Why bother when os-locate is free, excellent and ad free?

Re: There is an article

I guess you're too young to understand how much inflation has intervened in 16 years.

Re: Airborne Diesels? New breed of Zeppelin?

Methanol only? I used to mix in nitromethane and nitrobenzene* too.

A glow plug engine is a diesel engine.

*not recommended, the smell was amazing, but I'm not dead yet!