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Re: I'll see ....

Harriers............two days before the Government made the announcement about closing the squadrons they went out with a bit of a bang. Complete squadron + more (I lost count at 12) at low level at 15 second intervals over Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria................and I mean low and tile-shattering. Whole building (a hillside pub) rocked to its foundations. Trying to make a point / swansong I guess as everyone knew what was to be announced. They would then have turned north and headed up the Lune Gorge, I would have loved to have watched that convoy through there

Re: Easy

" 15 Spitfires (and one Seafire) in the air together....that would be too many Merlins "

some of those would have had 16-cyl Griffins instead of Merlins........even more noise

Re: Why not

don'y you mean the RPi 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 ?

Re: Missing the point

"I think there is a case to be made for a more powerful board with a mass storage interface that falls within the educational mission of the RPF"

what would you call it?

Raspberry pudding? Raspberry tart?

Re: "managing" the Chinese.

" Both RS and CPC/Farnell/Element14 do manufacturing of various products in China already and it is these companies that are doing the manufacture and distribution of Raspberry Pi SBCs (not including the Zero) on behalf of Raspberry Pi."

You do realise that at least some of the European demand is actually being produced by Sony in South Wales? Probably the only part of Sony that now makes a profit

see http://www.sonypencoed.co.uk/contract-manufacturing/

Re: What to buy?

"I've been using Acer laptops for some years, and like them a lot."

Its queer how different peoples experiences and perceptions vary.

OK, I've not done it for a couple of years, but when I was doing repairs of home-user kit you could almost be sure that any callout to a dead laptop would be for an Acer (or one of their subsidiaries). There appeared to be both problems with their chargers (undercapacity causing overheating/burnout on the power socket) and their motherboards (the later multilayer ones delaminating due to poor manufacture). The funny thing is the failures always seemed to be after 13-14 months - i.e. just after warranty expiry. It got so bad that my colleagues and I were convinced they had built-in timed self-destruction. Daft I know, but thats what it seemed like.

I presume your experience is with a newer generation of machines

Re: As a male student, currently at uni

"One has an NVQ in Sports"

you do of course realise that "NVQ" stands for "Not Very Qualified"?

Re: Discrimination?

" main perfectly happy as we are... the therapies on offer (ABA and the like) are more about making you NTs more comfortable around us than anything intended to benefit us and acting NT "

I can't agree more - I've never been diagnosed but I'm sure I'm in the autistic spectrum somewhere.

One question: I've never heard the phrase "NT" in this context. What does it mean? Normal Twats?

Re: Alternative headline

"The future must be fucking TERRIFYING for you"

not as long as we wear the tinfoil hats......we're safe then

Re: Separate competitions with the same rules and prizes?

"That's why the old Young Scientist of the Year was one competition open to ALL, be they male, female or transgender."

Hey, I was part of a team that won that. Three male, one female.

but......nearly all the other teams were all male.

Meeting George Porter at the RI was one of the biggest days of my life - and yes it was open to males and females. However.......what you won't have seen on screen is the bitchy behaviour of the programme management team towards their juniors, who were all women. Junior female studio workers being threatened with the sack because someone's whisky bottle was empty........BBC hadn't heard of equality back then.

@TRT

"The only problem is that the women seem to keep falling pregnant"

What are you doing to them?

Re: Reminds me of the time....

""Using that stuff you'll never father children"

tri-N-Butyltin oxide at a guess.

He had a good point.

Re: Nitrogen containing compounds

as a general comment, I've personally known too many people killed, blinded or otherwise injured as the result of getting nitrogen chemistry wrong

and too many plants demolished........in this country alone we had three in the 1980's in just a few years: Fine Organics, Wendstone, Mostyn Chemicals. All blown to pieces

Re: Cancer ahoy

"Lovely stuff."

I didn't realise you were a chemist Lester

not many would have known that little problem without looking it up......

happily thats one beastie I never had to source or handle