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Richard Dawson

Peppa Pig does elementary phyiscs (@Aubry)

Daddy Pig says that matter is Not made of photons. That's simplifying things in the same way that saying dinosaurs are made of felt is simplifying things. They're not. It's just completely wrong.

Matter is made of electrons, protons and neutrons.

Not photons. Light is made of photons. Light travels at the speed of Light. Other stuff is slower.

Richard Dawson

Moschops

According to a rather fine Moschops DVD compilation I've just analysed, Dinosaurs could talk and were made of felt.

I just don't know what to believe any more.

Richard Dawson

Moschops

According to a rather fine Moschops DVD compilation I've just analysed, Dinosaurs could talk and were made of felt.

I just don't know what to believe any more.

Richard Dawson

Easy on the Fundy chaps

Afterall, it's not good manners to be mean to the simple folk. I'm inferring from his posting that Jesus fought the dinosaurs and won, so think on that before posting.

Presumably chickens evolved sometime in the Middle Ages.

Richard Dawson

Who knows ?

I've always found them to be inscrutable myself. Damn inscrutable...

Richard Dawson

Not a push mechanism

Just a minor point, but I don't think that these updates are 'injected' onto your PC. I thought that Windows Update made a request to an MS server, which would then supply the updates. So it doesn't provide a loophole to hackers.

Well, assuming that it's not riddled with bugs anyway.

Richard Dawson

Not all Tesla, all of the time

I think you Tesla fans are brandishing your clubs of outrage without good cause. It appears that the chaps at MIT are using a rather different mechanism of power transmission than that used by Tesla.

Just because the great man came up with a way of wirelessly transmitting power doesn't mean that he has dibs on all mechanims for doing this.

Richard Dawson

Make me a Ferrari too !

I don't think you chaps have quite got the Ferrari analogy right, or at least you haven't taken it to its correct conclusion.

You see, file sharers aren't building their own game from scratch. They're just copying it. There is no effort or skill to be lauded here - they're hardly plucky little engineers, working away in a workship on a labour of love are they ?

And to say that they wouldn't have bought the game anyway so there are no lost sales is a bit (well, ok, not at all) like telling the magistrate that you wouldn't have bought the bottle of Talikser that you've just lifted since you normally make do with Bells.

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