Posts by graeme leggett 2470 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2007
I think electric drills with torque "control" meant Yankee screwdrivers fell out of favour. Stanley don't do them anymore. Still they did the job at the time, and had replaceable tips.
But for real torque that you can get your weight behind, put a screwbit into a "brace and bit" drill.
Also multiple points-of-view and the book-within-a-book. And being fairly cerebral though the "Nazi's won" aspect will catch the public's attention.
It's been a long while since I read any PKD let alone Man in the High Castle so my memory is probably faulty but I never would have put it down as something you could easily make into the visual form.
Might have been easier to start with Eye in the Sky?
BBC uses two values to determine what the population thinks of its output.
One is the actual viewership - how many watch the programme. This is useful in seeing whether the programme ought to be on BBC 2 or BBC1. If it's on BBC2 and gets high numbers watching, then it will probably get pulled over to BBC1. Bit like your bigger brother taking your sweets off you. It's also useful for journalists to knock up page filler saying "Eastenders beaten by Coronation Street", "X-factor flop, has Cowell lost it?" etc
The other is the audience appreciation index, which is a measure of how much those who did watch it thought of the programme. They might not plan on watching next week but if they thought the sets were nifty and they could hear what the actors were saying a little-watched programme could get a good AI. For the BBC, anything over 85 is excellent. A quick google search showed that Good Morning Britain has been around 55-60 in the past. The Doctor Who Christmas special got 83 but Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown's Boys also on at Christmas both got 87.
Three things! there are three values to determine how a programme is doing - audience share. Which is how many of the actual viewers were watching your programme as opposed to something which was on the other channel(s) at the same time.
I'm certain I had a point when I started typing this pose. Ah yes. A programme could have a low viewership but because it has a high AI it might be kept on. More so for the Beeb as it has to meet targets for quality programming in less "mainstream" areas. ITV has to get numbers and AI up to justify what they charge advertisers.
Have a listen of the audio re-imagining (Derek Riddell, Colin Salmon) - it's rather good and like any audio drama, the scenery is better.
There's also the prequels to the same reimagining.
Or - though I cannot speak for the quality myself - you can get the original cast inew audios via Big Finish's efforts.
I think you could go round the clock - as it were - on the levels. But although you could just keep shoving 10p pieces in, the levels got harder and harder and it would be more fun to stop, die, and then start again. Though perhaps taking the shortcut to level 10.
At University there was a charity challenge where a few people played it non-stop for 24 hours.
Wasted alright, Played enough Guantlet while at University that it put a severe dent in my lab work. Enough in fact that I had to come back and put in an extra couple of days after the end of term to pass the unit.
I won't say its the reason I failed to work enough to actually achieve a degree. It was a symptom rather than cause.
ditto here. I've had Here+ on my 620 for a long while.
I quite like the commute aspect - lets you know the expected time to complete the daily grind to (or fro) work and shows indicators of traffic density along the way. And it doesn't try to tell you directions for a route you already know.
10 December 1941 en route to Singapore and returning from a sortie intended to intercept the Japanese invasion force heading to Malaya. The Admiral had declined the air cover offered by local squadrons (RAAF and RNZAF) and a carrier had not yet reached Singapore.
First attack on Prince of Wales at about 11:40
Destruction of the struts holding the propeller shaft means the unrestrained shaft (turning at full power) damages the seals and bulkheads and causing severe flooding. The list to one side and loss of auxiliary power meant most of AA guns were unable to operate and limited the ability to pump out water, or steer her.
Repulse - a cut down battleship design built in record time in 1915/1916 and lacking compartmentalisation and anti-torpedo bulges - is hit (for the first time) at 12:20 by torpedoes
Repulse rolls and sinks at 12:33
Prince of Wales hit by bombs at 12:41
Prince of Wales sinks at 13:18
Because some cars just aren't ready for easy gadget installation. [I could reminisce about the 70s and 80s when all it took to mod your car was a drill and hacksaw - and a bit of body paste afterwards - and you could fit almost anything. But that's long in the past.]
Take a 4 year old Astra, dead common on the roads:
You can't fit a new head unit easily because the factory fitted option is tied into the display of the trip "computer".
A dash mount phone holder is stymied because the dash is a textured finish.
And the ODBC connector is underneath the panel the handbrake "rests" on.
"with Radio 4 Extra in glorious MONO"
Well a lot of the stuff on Radio 4 Extra was actually made in mono. (Hancock, Navy Lark, Much Binding in the Marsh, all the varieties of Round the Horne, Take If From Here) . and some of that has been reclaimed from off-air recording, so accurate rendition is not the prime importance
Mines the one with "Everybody down" written on the back.
that weblink does say "... or onsite service for desktop computers3"
though it does also say "Availability of each option depends on country in which service is requested and location of Apple Authorised Service Provider. Apple may also request that the customer replace components with readily installable parts."
Franking for a 1st class "letter" is 50p, large letter is 76p, SmartStamp is 62p and 93p respectively
For a 2nd class letter its 37p against 53p
1st class small parcel (up to 1kg) is £2.90 franked and £3.20 by SmartStamp
One other advantage of a franking machine is the rate it can stamp/frank the post. With an IS350 you can 30 or more letters through a minute. Now if you could buy stamps on reels, you could probably make some sort of "pricing gun" device and get a similar speed.......
a brick in a box would be entirely the wrong shape, for posting without paying the right postage..
Might I suggest that you take the offending pamphlet, and write a short not asking not to be mailed again.
Then, and I must stress that this is so that neither the pamphlet nor your note get damaged and thus become illegible during its passage through the postal system, and for no other reason.
Stick the letter and pamphlet between two offcuts of plywood. You should pick your pieces such that they will protect you note, but they should not be so thick that the final package will not fit through a letter box. Wrap or put into a sturdy envelope and address (remember to write clearly and use the postcode - you don't want the Royal Mail to send it to the wrong person).
Now take it to be posted. Since the package fits through a letter box, if the post office should happen to be closed then just put it into a pillar box. You did put a stamp on it didn't you? No? Oh dear. Well you can't interfere with the mail to retrieve it, so I guess the recipient will have pay (including underpayment surcharge) if they want to receive it........
[this is of course entirely hypothetical and should not be used as guidance for a course of action]
I get a lot of named , and unnamed for Virgin Media. Since contacting the appropriate department to stop it involves a) reading some very small print, and b) telephoning someone and probably pay for that luxury - its easier to drop it in the bin and recycle. (though as I hear the council don't like envelopes in the recycle, perhaps I should save them all up together and post them back to VM en masse)
I listened to the (short version) of the podcast of BBC Behind the Stats.
They had something to say about the exact methodology and some discrepancies in how Piketty reached his numbers and though the central premise of his conclusions was not disputed.
When challenged on the discrepancy between the ONS and his way of calculating something (household survey vs tax receipts?), he seemed to admit (a bit tetchily?) that there were uncertainties in measuring such things as wealth.
I was dismantling a piano this morning so that it could be replaced with one that works, and even as I was breaking up its ancient hulk I was thinking, "that lid would make a good shelf", "haven't got any screws like that" "what could I do with 100 felt washers?"
So the glamorous techies and visionary designers hang together in the new we're-(nearly)-all-in-it-together-mothership, and the poor sods that arrange for their salaries to get paid, order in toilet bleach, and schedule the window cleaners live in a neo-brutalist bloc.
Except the pictures show that seing as it is in Californ-i-ay, it looks pleasantly balmy, and airy, and stucco-ed instead of concrete.
Difficult to get a law implemented everywhere, but how about if a levy could be engineered on IP4 addresses?
Could that help distort the economics of owning but not using large blocks of IP addresses towards making it worth owners returning them or "selling" them on to others to actually use?
You took the temperature logger down to "between -50 to -60°C." which I assume is outside it's operational expectations at which point any temperature reading must be a tad suspect.
Assuming you are not using a full PID temperature controller because of cost or weight, why not try splitting the heating into two elements (no pun intended) a small heater that can deliver a constant trickle of heat and a larger one under thermostat control?
Isn't laser eye treatment a medical procedure and therefore clinics are already covered by existing regulatory bodies eg the Care Quality Commission (for England) ?
( here's the registration for one Optimax clinic http://www.cqc.org.uk/directory/1-102643313 )
or the practioners by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists?
(PS I see that NICE published guidance in 2006 for the public about the NHS providing these treatments)
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