Posts by The Sod Particle

Dude, Aspergers has as much to do with mental illness as blue eyes has to do with a cold.

Re: Toot toot!

Thomas's carriages are Annie and Clarabelle as any fule kno

Re: The networks pushed themselves into irrelivence

if I recall correctly, Three doesn't and never has supported anything other than 3G networks, hence the name. When out of range of one of its 3G towers your phone would connect to another provider, I forget which one, for telephony purposes over 2G. Crucially this arrangement did not apply to data which could only travel over Three's own network. This worked transparently to (for?) the user. You probably lived in a 3G/Three notspot as they are now known.

addendum:

At the time providers didn't provide coverage maps so caveat emptor!

Re: Come to Home Depot...

well if you're going to have a Bosch...

Re: Food processor with a V8 engine!!!

it's been done already

https://youtu.be/vDlMLqdvHzI

copy and (flour) paste for your pleasure

Re: A six-state memory element? Oh dear.

When I was at school (back in the 80's) we were taught hexadecimal mathematics, and octal and binary, perhaps because of the burgeoning computing industry. My 14,16 and 19 year old daughters have no idea that other bases exist...

Definitely helped when programming my spectrum :)

Re: Making things simple

Neither, I'd hope the IoT heat sensors and or door switches would see I was entering the room, know that it was dark, and turn on the IoT lights for me. Those same sensors would obviously also be talking to my alarm, heating, media and telecommunications servers.

Re: Viscosity?

Such a phase change, (liquid to gas), can carry large amounts of heat away from hot components, but suffer from at least two drawbacks.

1. Once the coolant is in its gaseous phase it becomes a rather efficient insulator, preventing liquid coolant from having maximally efficient contact to the hot component.

2. The collapse of the bubbles of gaseous coolant can cause the erosion of the surfaces adjacent.

A viscous coolant which phase changes to a more fluid liquid solves both of those problems.

I don't know if that's what they're doing but it's a possibility.

Re: "just as F1 gave the world disk brakes"

OK, what about ABS Or traction control, both now banned? Turbos? Carbon fibre monocoques?

Not that F1 invented these technologies but it did make them practicable.

They may have meant

Anthropogenic

although they might not

Re: Where I live.

Same here in Nottingham, Currys, Comet AND a PC World all in the same retail park, (city center shops closed down years ago). No wonder Bestbuy didn't last long when they tried to join the party and failed to be any cheaper (or more knowledgeable).

A shame though as this pretty much leaves the large retail space to DSG.

John Lewis do do it right, polite salespeople, knowldgeable and courteous. People will and do pay the extra for good service.