Posts by Norman Hartnell

Re: RAILWAY STATION

Agreed - and yet it's a "bus station", not a "road network station".

Ain't English wonderful?

Re: After-effects

For me, it was Elite - could still see those spinning ships as I tried to sleep...

Re: Named by whom?

Because it was already taken?

Re: Surprise!!!

@Timmay "It'll be in the last place they look."

Of course it will be - they won't carry on looking after they've found it, will they?

Re: Less than one second?

@Dan 55 "English (where it's at the start)."

Within the endlessly-nested folders, full of countless Access database files, the information lurked.

Re: Wow

IIRC the whole environment - the galaxy, the names, the prices, everything - was generated procedurally, so there was no need to store a mass of data.

If he wants a pain index, why not just stab a compass into his nads instead of killing wildlife?

Re: Scansion

Too many syllables in the first line. You have to run "said the" together to make it fit.

Jonathan Creek? And wasn't it someone's ashes?

Re: It's baaaaack!

Emily Lakdawalla has some info here: planetary.org

Re: "I know absolutely nothing about the black holes..."

@Denarius: "his longevity after the ALS diagnosis has puzzled me"

Occam's razor: he doesn't have motor neurone disease, but something else with a much longer decline rate.

Re: A lot of risk was taken for the Moon landings

@cambsukguy I think I'm right in saying that the LEM descent and ascent stages used different fuel tanks, so the fact Armstrong landed with so little remaining fuel didn't affect the take-off.

Re: Lurch on lift off

The crew compartment of the Shuttle used to rock by something like 6 feet when they fired the engines, and it was released as it came back to vertical, so I presume it wasn't unexpected.

Re: great idea

If it's running Android, won't MS still get money from it?

Re: I just think it's a shame

RiscOS runs on Raspberry Pi, so you can have a very cheap RiscOS machine these days. It's amazingly fast as the OS is very small compared to Raspbian.

Re: 501 days of fun..

+1 for the Goons reference.

Re: Obviously the future.

The main reason I still wear a watch is to stop myself from feeling that something is missing if I don't wear one.

Re: From a Nexus 4 owner

Mine would happily slide off the for-all-intents-and-purposes-horizontal wooden-topped bedside table until I bought a case for it. Very slippery indeed.

Re: So, the BBC CAN still sink lower

As I remember the myth/truth, it was "The bloody thing's stuck again" when a door failed to open, and it was cut from the original broadcast despite being whistled...

Re: whatever will they do next...

If only they had given us some sort of opt-out so we didn't have to see our face next to an advert...oh, hang on, they did, clearly shown when you log in. So what was your point again? Do you think Google should provide free services from pure altruism?

Re: Just buy a beaglebone black.

...or buy an Arduino TRE when it's out, that should do you.