Posts by Liam Johnson 396 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
Why would you have to study French at university in order to be able to speak it? Most other contries in Europe manage to bring their student up to an exelent level of English without them having to study just English.
Besides, there is little use in speaking French, surly Japanse, Chinese would be more useful?
Sorry, but I do not want a 3D TV. It is just a silly gimmick.
What would be nice would be an ultra high resolution 3D head set with head tracking.
You could be on the beach with Private Ryan or wander around in a classic like 12 angry men.
Or more likely get right down close to that hot porn action.
Well we can tell who doesn't get out too often. Don't you know travelling through hyperspace is not like dusting crops??? You have to drill down through at least 40 Tatooines before you get to the right one! If there were only one, then any old numpty could do it and where would that leave the poor spacing guild navigators???
Personally I like my music to be reproduced on fairly good quality equipment, but it seems the yoot o' t’day have crap ears. They seem perfectly happy to play bass heavy rap music on a bl**dy f*cking mobile phone at volumes somewhere between inaudible and just loud enough to be f*cking annoying.
Maybe Sony are on to something – but I hope not.
Although it is getting a bit better, some pages still take so long to load that I forget what I wanted there in the first place(*). Dread to think what it will be like to 40 year time :-(
(*) mostly bacause I can be bothered to wait and head off to another page instead. Half an hour of news, youtube and other assorted sites and I will probably forget to go back to the first page at all.
I also would not be happy if she was shot in the head and made into pies, but that does not mean I see a problem with doing that to pigs.
Rabbit chucking might seem a little quaint to us city types, but that is only because the only animals we ever see are wrapped in clingfilm or shitting on the pavements.
Raspberries are not very sweet, which is why in Germany, home of the brothers Grimm, you get Himmbeergeist but not Himmbeer-Schnapps. Most fruit can be fermented and distilled to make a Schnapps, but Raspberries are soaked in pure alcohol and then distilled to extract their essence - the Geist, or spirt. Raspberries don't have enough sugar to make it worth fermenting them.
IIRC the specific characters and names of the Dwarves, Grumpy, Sleepy, Bashfull, etc were a Disney invention. Get rid of those from the image and they should be fine. To be replaced with more generic dwarves, with red beards, axes and chainmail, of course, or do they just come from Tolkein?? Could be fun - oh what a big axe you have etc, etc.
Odd story - the guy obviously lost it big time to try and poison the women, but you have to wonder what he had been through if all the neighbors knew he had kidnapped their cat. How did they know? Did they see him? Or could the cat simply have wandered off on it's own and he gets smeared in the rumor mill.
Not condoning what he did, just curios about the other side of the story.
For your entertainment, the Sherlock Holmes investigation icon.
It is very funny the number of people crying out for good old "12 gauge" justice.
I suppose you did read the article? I suppose you missed the bit where it was the bad gossip about this woman's daughter that started all this in the first place.
Perhaps if she had read the comments here she would have been straight out polishing her pitchfork rather than trying a a bit of intelligence gathering first.
It would have definitely saved some confusion here.
No, I understood the point very well thankyou. You seem not to have read my post, since it doesn't fit with your world view. The paper is about setting an upper limit - all very clear.
The various "missed the point" comments seem to be implying that wind farms will make an impact as part of a larger plan. This is of course bollocks as the paper explains you would have to cover the entire planet with wind farms to cover our projected energy needs, IF we scale back a bit.
Hence my question. If you decide you only want to cover 1% of the available surface with wind farms, and that is rather a big area already, what are you proposing for the other 99% of our energy needs?
Did anyone even bother to estimate what would happen to the weather if we take all that energy out of the wind? Or perhaps there isn't a model which is accurate enough to do that?
And to all those claiming "you missed the point":-
Please name 100 other large scale renewable energy solutions so that we only have to cover 1% of the Earths surface in windfarms.
>>BMI does make sense.
No, it doesn't. In fact, so many people agree that it makes little or no sense that it is a wonder it keeps getting used. Well, not really, easy has always been more popular than correct.
>>Then weight/height^2 is proportional to the radius of a person
True
>>i.e. how fat they are.
False
You are assuming a 2-dimensional person with 3-dimensional fat, which most people are not.
You just have to love food research types. Here they go and publish some research that being “overweight” is better than being “normal”, but respond with “shock and horror” at the idea of putting on some weight to move from one band to the other.
What is the point of publishing research if you are not even going to believe it yourself?
Or from the other point of view, if you know BMI is crap and not a realistic measure of anything, why use it in your research in the first place?
I don't really follow the argument you are making here. Sure, you can take nice photos with a mobile phone if you have enough light and are not worried about the noise and the stripes and are happy to view them at half size.
But someone with the skill to compose a nice photo will achieve more by not using the crappy excuse for a camera built into their phone. This is especially true since the phone manufacturers insist on increasing the pixel count, when a simple low noise 1.3MP sensor would make a hell of a lot more sense.
A previous Nokia mobile with 1.3MP used to take nice grain free photos in a variety of lighting conditions. My current 2MP sensor produces stripy grainy images almost all the time.
Besides, a large part of producing decent photos is knowing when to override the default exposure settings – good luck doing that on your average mobile.
So you are saying that they never need to replace this rail infrastructure once set up?
To all the "but, but, but" comments
I have no idea if this paper is correct or not, but if everyone absolutely believes that rail is so much better, then nobody will bother implementing all your nice ideas for making it even more efficient.
No doubt a fun project to be involved in, but 80mph?? What sort of test is that? Pretty much every single car on the road can do that speed easily and above all safely (if they were on a race track). A large number will also do 126mph – it is nothing special. The speed record for a human powered bicycle is 81 MPH for gods sake. Apart from the simple joy or building a vehicle and divining in it, where is the challenge? It’s got a high tech LPG powered engine, with the slight difficulty that the power is transmitted through steam. If you are going to spend all that time and money, surly you can beat the guy on a bike on your first test run?
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