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Tricky
As we have already used Swiss Cottage once, I believe my only move is an Elsworthy Reversal:-
Chalk Farm
Posts by Roger Greenwood
229 posts • joined Thursday 7th September 2006 11:10 GMT
Re: woohoo free ADSL for everyone....
@mad mike You may be right, but many businesses are already on drive by download, although I don't know what the current size threshold is. I do know when you change suppliers they change the meter as they like their own kit (I saw one changed yesterday). Gas supplies are the same.
I also know many (larger) substations already have radio telemetry, usually as a backup to the landline. Easy then to plug in directly to the 400V system, not via the transformers or HV network. I agree that powerline tech is not there yet, but I am sure they are still trying to sort it as people knocking on doors are very expensive. Time will tell.
Re: woohoo free ADSL for everyone....
"how is the data getting from my house" - try telegraphic communication through the ether (radio). Currently they just drive past. Simples.
Expect future signals via the power lines themselves.
Posted in LOHAN sucks 27 inches
Re: I'm seriously impressed
Our vacuum pump (3.6kw 3ph.) goes down to 150mBar (abs) and yes you can fry bacon on it once it's been running a while. It doesn't have a sticker though.
"Office 364"
Does that mean the the system needs a day off once a year?
"experiencing some market headwinds"
is the phrase of the day.
"90% reduction in the population"
Solution:- close down the health service completely and let nature take it's course. Either that or Soylent Green.
BTO
Built to order.
"they understand how SMEs work"
really?
no, really? all of them?
"Should everybody move to the Fens?"
The fens are busy pumping perfectly good water back into the sea otherwise the whole area will flood:-
http://www.mlcpumping.info/
As has been mentioned many times, water is heavy and moving it around costs a lot.
Icon shows pint of water with 5% impurities.
"particularly popular with small business"
I think not. More like have to put up with.
It's not me, it's you - price increases + complicated pricing + BSA = you're dumped.
Posted in LOHAN enjoys a silicone lightbulb moment
1 atmosphere
(about 15 psi) is not a lot of pressure for the seal to withstand. Flat seal would be fine, O-ring better (we use them here for clamping flat things to other flat things, under a vacuum). KISS.
Re: Last time?
"Homage to Catalonia" ?
"Redmond had massively miscalculated "
Were they using excel?
No mention of Android . . . .
on UK Microsoft Dynamics CRM website. Wonder why that is?
( http://crm.dynamics.com/en-gb/marketing shows windows/blackberry/iphone only)
Re: Problem?
The Scunthorpe problem is still with us:-
"Added: GB4MGY (England)
Name: S####HORPE STEEL CLUB TITANIC MEMORIAL EVENT
Manager: G3RAU
Date: 2012-02-15 12:54:30"
Re: Pedantry alert
I would also point out that until it has been in a barrel for 3 years it is not even whisky.
ps why do they call it single malt when I only drink them in trebles?
Re: Original support lifetime.
I bought some new XP pro machines in 2010, can I have support for 5 years please? Thought not. Better get another beer then.
It was funny the first time . . .
. . . now just stop it.
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Posted in Mornington Crescent
The DLR has been largely ignored . . .
. . but a Tactical Order of Battle move, at Shadwell, would be a STOB.
Posted in why is there an Apple forum?
Re: why is there an Apple forum?
Surely the best place for an apple is in a pi? (I have one at home right now dreaming of custard).
Re: Under the covers
and if you put anything other than Microsoft (r) fuel in it coughs and splutters, fuel consumption takes a dive, your boot (trunk) won't open anymore and your passenger seat becomes inaccessible.
Re: Why not actual satellites?
Exactly - get some cubesats:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17439236
"Beyond the clouds" - sounds much better.
You posted this . . .
16 days too early.
"how much does a 'load of old bollocks' weigh"
I think that would be about 1 x Steven Fry.
"Region 1429"
Where's that then? Is there a sign? Or maybe a Satnav?
5 why's
Starting with "why did we trust this platform in the first place?"
Re: Self-evident wisdom
"only downside of splitting the functions" - also efficiency losses in conversion.
Posted in AOL pulls the plug on Brizzly
Q. "what sort of oddball" ?
A. The same ones who assume that all computers are clever and will look after everything for them, as long as they are careful not to let the magic smoke get free.
There are also lots of new new idiots^H^H^H^H consumers being born every single day.
Two things
1. Who is paying for thousands of these Hoovers?
2. Why did we not launch our own "Dyson"? (c) (r)
British Saddleback fuelled and ready to fly
Gloucester old spot providing fighter cover.
". . .often-more-relaxed attitude to . ."
Health & Safety Law is more like it.
If they want to use ideas from linux . . .
. . a great improvement would be multiple desktops.
<CTRL><ALT><Right Arrow> tabs me around.
Sheffield has more than a Macdonalds . .
. . . It also has a burger king.
Posted in Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble?
You can check out any time you like . .
. . . . but you can never leave.
even better . . .
. . swap them for Facebook shares. What could go wrong?
Or . . .
. . . he could be in a pickle.
"boss is a cheapstake"
mmmmmm . . . . . Steak.
(Well thats what I read)
Dixons . .
should offer you, sir, the boss job - you are their only hope.
(My gloucester old spot is fuelled and ready for take off).
Posted in Honda NSX reborn as a hybrid
So this is why . .
I can't get my Skydeck - too busy on the NSX.
Android . .
. . version of x-plane only £1.93 - bargain.
Flightgear
Naming it "Flight" puts it just ahead of Flightgear alphabetically. It's ok though, MS will put their name on the front of that and ensure no confusion.
"donkey's years"
I wonder how many years a donkey actually has? Why not mule, burro or ass years? Where are the vulture standards when you need them?
Posted in CERN: 'New physics starts now'
Top article - thanks
and from the physics standard model link :-
"I can't remember what they mean anymore, but I can't bear to part with them."
Should be a line from the BOFH about his children.
If the JPL built cars . . .
you couldn't afford one.
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David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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