Posts by werdsmith 7138 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
Most interesting that the BBC receive roughly the same number of complaints accusing them of being either left or right.
For many, the definition of bias in news is “anything I don’t like to hear” or “anything that doesn’t align with my opinion”.
There is also a faction of anti BBC people who are of the same calibre as flat earthers.
The next flight, when it becomes scheduled for Virgin is an Italian air force research flight.
Science has been sending up sub-orbital rockets for research for decades. The UK has launched over 400 Skylark sounding rockets way up there. This is like a sounding rocket capable of carrying half a dozen humans.
I would assume if your drunk and driving your insurance is going to be cancelled.
In the UK the insurance is not void for a drunk driver and will still pay out the 3rd party claims promptly, however the insurance company can pursue the guilty driver to recover that money at a later date.
Nissan call theirs "ProPilot". Does Nissan suffer the same problems?
I am having trouble believing that anybody is stupid enough to think their car will drive itself in all situations it may encounter. Especially when their car warns them repeatedly that it can't do that.
There are available replacements for RF tuners and expansion packs like ZXpand that do the job of replacing tape loaders with SD cards. I run a ZX81 version 1, with a ZXpand and replacement tuner.
Replacement parts are out there too.
Old phones will see limited use when 2G spectrum goes, but 80s computers go on working because they don’t depend on external services.
but if he'd been in Silicon Valley rather than Cambridge, I suspect he'd have been a multi billionaire and Sinclair would be a name alongside Microsoft, Apple, Tesla.
We also shouldn't forget that the reason we had Acorn, the BBC micro, and ultimately ARM is that Sinclair ticked Chris Curry off enough that he left Science of Cambridge (the precursor of Sinclair Radionics) and created Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd which became Acorn.
And if Acorn had been in Silicon Valley instead of Cambridge? The Acorn Market Hill barely noticeable door entrance was a few strides away from Clive’s Kings Parade rooms above a shop. They went off the same start line at the Baron of Beef.
To look at Fulbourn Road campus now, and compare legacies.
RISC-OS flies on any pi, not just modern ones. It’s fine on a Zero.
This is why I love Pi, it’s the cheap thing made for playing and learning and while it doesn’t have the mystery of the 1980~ price breakthrough micros, because we are all so used to tech now, it’s still addictively fun and broadly scoped in where it can be applied. For me anyway, nearest thing there is to the excitement of the early days.
Of course the Atom was better than the ZX81, as you might expect for more than double the price. Relative to incomes today an Acorn atom was more expensive than a MacBook Air M1.
The ZX got the microcomputer, a programmable processing machine, within reach of many more people, and importantly children and shifted 1.5 million of them. That was the Sinclair legacy. It was the kickstart.
Everything in my life stemmed from the little bit of Sinclair experience that got me into the first job and started my career. My life and marriage (met at work) developed around that career, I am certain I was heading in the wrong direction before that. It was because of Clive because for us at the time, nothing else was affordable. He brought the price down, that was the pivotal action. Never mind BBC micro and Commodore 64, out of my price range.
6 Kings Parade, Cambridge. If you are ever a tourist there, you will probably look at Kings College Chapel. Turn around and look at the windows above number 6.
Nope. I averaged one new school a year and never went to one with those kinds of facilities.
How long ago was that? Our local school has music rooms full of Macs with midi keyboards, art rooms full of Macs for design. They have laser cutters and CNC kit, all kinds of science stuff.
Even many years ago when I went we had gas cabinets, Van Der Graaf, language labs with headsets and workshops stuffed with lathes, brazing stations, oxy-acetylene, milling machines etc.
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