I've got a really expensive open-top Mercedes*. (that has a massive fuel tank)
It's very rarely sunny here, therefore I have a rigid plastic roof that came from Halfords. It wasn't very cheap. It clips on top of the Merc, making it a bit like driving a rattly 2-seat saloon-car, but one that is more cramped inside than if I'd just gone and bought a normal car.
It's cool though, because underneath there's my really expensive Merc, and I make sure everyone knows it, and for 2 days of the year I take the roof off to prove the point of it being open-topped. I keep a raincoat in the boot just in case.
Is the offending pushbutton required for any other, desired, feature?
If not, get a stanley knife and cut the track to the keyswitch. It's a bit invasive but why not - a cut track can always be bridged back later with the old soldering iron.
Might be. Though probably not as significant as the 'eastern push' as you put it.
What I'd be more worried about is the way that Skylon's trajectory got steeper as it climbed, not flatter. Whoever made the film doesn't know what an orbit is.
You could cover the rod in a flexible plastic sheath for the duration of the ascent. That'll stop consendation being a concern and you can leave it all unsullied by lube. I believe such devices can be bought from chemists etc.
If you do use one from Boots, rather than something made up using polythene and sticky tape, then do watch out for it getting caught up between rod and runner, come the moment of ignition.
NB. the sheath would become part of the craft, not the launch-pad. Once free of the pad, it would be like a glorious trailing tail of post-the-moment celebration.
Nobody goes into HR becaue they want to help people.
Maybe once, when it was called Personnel and you wanted to do honest administrative work, but definitely not now.
They go in now so that they can mess with the humans and thereby save the company money, just like you might mess with the rent or the diesel or the electric bill or the paper for the photocopier. The humans are a resource to be economised on and bargained with and screwed.
HR people get paid as much as they can screw out of the company to make an effective job of manipulating the company's resources.
I also find that I want to top up my tyres before a trip like that, but I have to have yet another device just to compress some air into them to raise their pressure. When will those idiots in the camera / GPS industries learn, and include this simple feature in their devices?
Don't try to preserve our crappy 2012 smells: there will be new ones in the future that will be equally tantalising due to their novelty. I just hope they remain good, honest, unavoidable smells from the factory rather than engineered-in strawberry flavour that's been put in at the injection-moulding machine.
Failing that, we should have good meccano / mamod smells put in with our new shinies - that'll surely confuse people. Sewing-machine oil, anyone?
Is it still less evil? As a person who carries no i-thing, nor any of the other likely-looking shiny devices, I believe I don't have any hidden allegiance.
Now, if I ever do get myself such a device I think I'm going to give my money to the people who charge you directly when you purchase, who sell you a pretty good product, and who run a fairly-secure, fairly-closed system.
As opposed to the people who farm their customers as a source of advertising to sell to the lowest bidder. We all know that they sell the devices and software to make money, and I'd rather pay them myself than have some stragers pay them to steal my data.
It's just another ploy to get you to go in their poxy store during the long bank holiday weekend. I fell for it at Christmas, found it was a con and a con it will be this time too. There are loads of better places to buy your stuff.
HD-Ready meant a TV could operate as an HD *monitor*. So it has the appropriate resolution, and it plays the HDCP game. Therefore you can plug it into an HD player / reciever and be happy that it was indeed future-compatible as promised.
They were selling HD-ready TVs long before it was practical to make cheap HD receivers / decoders, of whatever technology or standard. Therefore complaining that they don't receive what is now being broadcast isn't pertinent. Plug them into a new box and they will display it.
We used to run around hitting each other with sticks. Them were the days.
Seriously though, get a proper helicopter like a Honey Bee or whatever.
NB I know the Honey Bee is now old, and it's fixed-pitch so you might debate how real it is, but it is a really good combination of light, strong, cheap and real. Learn to fly something that needs your skill instead of just bobbing about.
Get two of these in one room and they'll fight for sure.
(more fun to be had than with my old Morley Bell 47G)
There was a nice demo on the 1980s channel 4 program "the secret life of..." where he put ground-up rust on some sellotape and ran it through a tape recorder.
That kind of thing inspires budding child engineers to wreck anything with the word Tendberg on the front.
It doesn't matter how we think they think, as long as we all still turn up at Amazon etc and buy whatever competitively-priced, big-name kit that we think we 'need'.
A consciencious consumer probably ought to feel queasy about a lot of the stuff they choose to spend their money on. (I have no solution btw)
Lift is just the force normal to the direction of flow - so there's probably still quite a bit of it if you go backwards - it just doesn't necessarily act in the right direction to keep you up in the air.
IIRC, the Mercury capsule had its C/G on the axis, so it was non-lifty, whilst the Gemini and Apollo capsules had their weight shifted off-axis, and that made them lifty - which meant that if you could tilt them you could steer / fly them where you want to go.
(which technically makes them gliders, but don't bother trying to soar)
Two imbalanced balloons would still tend to put it off the horizontal to some degree - whereas if you do your rigid triangle and take the (long) strings from each end of the beam up to a single balloon, then it can't help but be properly level.
Yep. And I hope the batteries etc are heavy enough to make sure the launch trajectory (assuming a horizontal beam) is up, not down. If not, it could use a stiff vertical stick at each end of the beam before attachment of the balloon string.
What it needs is some sort of gun mechanism to put the delta-v into just the junk, not itself.
I think develop something like a big duvet, spinning, and with inbuilt stiffeners and dampers to keep it in the right shape while it fills up with space-crap and can be deorbited / tracked / boosted / maintained / forgotten about / hidden behind.
...far cheaper to either get the system repaired or....
I shouldn't think he actually planned upon setting fire to anything so telling them after the event that £a > £b, and therefore why do it, is irrelevant bollocks.
And also completely missing the point of TRYING STUFF OUT - but then safety and killjoy are effectively two sides of the same coin.
It is a way of using the surface of the sea as farmland for producing biomass.
Some carbon (and other stuff) takes a temporary role in the storage mechanism, and after you've used up the ethanol you made, the world is more or less where it was before you farmed the seaweed. (how more or less is obviously an important and complex thing)
Certainly worth considering if it means we don't muck about making fuel on the proper farmland that we need for making food.
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Watching the control-room folks in their open plan office and then 2 minutes of solar array - it's like big brother only without the birdsong.
Re: Why bother?
Or a decent product from a decent company.
convertible
I've got a really expensive open-top Mercedes*. (that has a massive fuel tank)
It's very rarely sunny here, therefore I have a rigid plastic roof that came from Halfords. It wasn't very cheap. It clips on top of the Merc, making it a bit like driving a rattly 2-seat saloon-car, but one that is more cramped inside than if I'd just gone and bought a normal car.
It's cool though, because underneath there's my really expensive Merc, and I make sure everyone knows it, and for 2 days of the year I take the roof off to prove the point of it being open-topped. I keep a raincoat in the boot just in case.
*(I haven't. this is figurative.)
re: commemorate
Playmobil
Re: time on mars
Yep.
When are we going to get back up off this stinking blue rock and go back to our cold, red homeland.
What?
No comments about dropping dead donkeys?
Call this a tabloid?
Shame on you all.
(RIP Burro)
re Flat Earth
Just a bit of pincushion distortion, that.
Camera too close, messes up the perspective.
Sorted.
Re: E586 and the "security" key
Is the offending pushbutton required for any other, desired, feature?
If not, get a stanley knife and cut the track to the keyswitch. It's a bit invasive but why not - a cut track can always be bridged back later with the old soldering iron.
Re: ZTE MF60 for 65 quid?
Ebay from ShenZhen
Re: "within spitting distance of the ISS"
Yes you can spit pretty far in orbit but you need a PhD in celestial mechanics to actually hit something if it's any distance away.
IIRC that was one of the things that qualified Mr. Aldrin to do what he did. (the PhD, not the spitting)
Re: Slightly OT
Might be. Though probably not as significant as the 'eastern push' as you put it.
What I'd be more worried about is the way that Skylon's trajectory got steeper as it climbed, not flatter. Whoever made the film doesn't know what an orbit is.
At last
A reason to get a phone that costs more than £15.
Re: Long history
Is it DC? I was wondering this, and didn't see it in the report.
Always intrigued by thoughts of mahoosive transistors / valves / mercury rectifiers / whatever they use to tie into HVDC lines.
Re: 5 star
A space-suit made from a duvet by your mum does not count.
Re: Paging David Banner
Somehow that puts me in mind of the Candygram and someone punching a horse.
SWANKer
Stuff like that sometimes really froths up when being degassed - it may well have frothed right into your vacuum pump.
I see the beard's coming on well. Jolly good. Promotes creativity etc.
misadventure
Microsoft: "We made this thing to show Google that they're not all that, but nobody wants to use it and it loses money. Do you want to buy it?"
FB: "Er, no."
sheath
You could cover the rod in a flexible plastic sheath for the duration of the ascent. That'll stop consendation being a concern and you can leave it all unsullied by lube. I believe such devices can be bought from chemists etc.
If you do use one from Boots, rather than something made up using polythene and sticky tape, then do watch out for it getting caught up between rod and runner, come the moment of ignition.
NB. the sheath would become part of the craft, not the launch-pad. Once free of the pad, it would be like a glorious trailing tail of post-the-moment celebration.
Re: Microwriter Agenda
Like the idea of chord typing, but I once learnt BSL so my middle finger is I not O!
(E and U are correct)
Help?
No.
Nobody goes into HR becaue they want to help people.
Maybe once, when it was called Personnel and you wanted to do honest administrative work, but definitely not now.
They go in now so that they can mess with the humans and thereby save the company money, just like you might mess with the rent or the diesel or the electric bill or the paper for the photocopier. The humans are a resource to be economised on and bargained with and screwed.
HR people get paid as much as they can screw out of the company to make an effective job of manipulating the company's resources.
Re: And still no built in GPS
I also find that I want to top up my tyres before a trip like that, but I have to have yet another device just to compress some air into them to raise their pressure. When will those idiots in the camera / GPS industries learn, and include this simple feature in their devices?
There will be new smells
Don't try to preserve our crappy 2012 smells: there will be new ones in the future that will be equally tantalising due to their novelty. I just hope they remain good, honest, unavoidable smells from the factory rather than engineered-in strawberry flavour that's been put in at the injection-moulding machine.
Failing that, we should have good meccano / mamod smells put in with our new shinies - that'll surely confuse people. Sewing-machine oil, anyone?
less evil?
Is it still less evil? As a person who carries no i-thing, nor any of the other likely-looking shiny devices, I believe I don't have any hidden allegiance.
Now, if I ever do get myself such a device I think I'm going to give my money to the people who charge you directly when you purchase, who sell you a pretty good product, and who run a fairly-secure, fairly-closed system.
As opposed to the people who farm their customers as a source of advertising to sell to the lowest bidder. We all know that they sell the devices and software to make money, and I'd rather pay them myself than have some stragers pay them to steal my data.
(btw I won't be buying media from anyone.)
Re: And again, why?
http://www.ted.com/search?q=advertising
Re: no, you can NOT pick it up in store
It's just another ploy to get you to go in their poxy store during the long bank holiday weekend. I fell for it at Christmas, found it was a con and a con it will be this time too. There are loads of better places to buy your stuff.
Re: Today's sets ?
HD-Ready is a much-abused term.
HD-Ready meant a TV could operate as an HD *monitor*. So it has the appropriate resolution, and it plays the HDCP game. Therefore you can plug it into an HD player / reciever and be happy that it was indeed future-compatible as promised.
They were selling HD-ready TVs long before it was practical to make cheap HD receivers / decoders, of whatever technology or standard. Therefore complaining that they don't receive what is now being broadcast isn't pertinent. Plug them into a new box and they will display it.
Scrap dealer 'rescues' sunken ship.
Re: We used to do this with ...
We used to run around hitting each other with sticks. Them were the days.
Seriously though, get a proper helicopter like a Honey Bee or whatever.
NB I know the Honey Bee is now old, and it's fixed-pitch so you might debate how real it is, but it is a really good combination of light, strong, cheap and real. Learn to fly something that needs your skill instead of just bobbing about.
Get two of these in one room and they'll fight for sure.
(more fun to be had than with my old Morley Bell 47G)
Re: Same goes for dinosaurs
So there were guys throwing pointy sticks at T.Rex...?
And presumably Raquel Welch was just like standing there watchiing as usual?
So for anyone who's watching Iplayer, i.e. in the UK, that's probably gonna be "HD off" then.
Re: rusty?
Thanks for the link.
And yes it was a small typo on my part, not a Chinese knockoff.
Re: rusty?
There was a nice demo on the 1980s channel 4 program "the secret life of..." where he put ground-up rust on some sellotape and ran it through a tape recorder.
That kind of thing inspires budding child engineers to wreck anything with the word Tendberg on the front.
Re: I'm quite fancying an AppleTV box
Oh come on, Happy Days is worth $154.93 of anyone's money.
(anyone in Britain, that is)
Mine is on order, anticipating future installation of XBMC.
million != billion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
This is not a type N post
Who are all you people? I don't understand.
When I'm making my yogurt, for how long should I heat the milk? Should it froth up or does that spoil the taste?
Cheers, I think.
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Re: Selective Racism?
It doesn't matter how we think they think, as long as we all still turn up at Amazon etc and buy whatever competitively-priced, big-name kit that we think we 'need'.
A consciencious consumer probably ought to feel queasy about a lot of the stuff they choose to spend their money on. (I have no solution btw)
Re: Moving.
Lift is just the force normal to the direction of flow - so there's probably still quite a bit of it if you go backwards - it just doesn't necessarily act in the right direction to keep you up in the air.
IIRC, the Mercury capsule had its C/G on the axis, so it was non-lifty, whilst the Gemini and Apollo capsules had their weight shifted off-axis, and that made them lifty - which meant that if you could tilt them you could steer / fly them where you want to go.
(which technically makes them gliders, but don't bother trying to soar)
Any technology that has the appearance of a carriage clock gets my vote.
Re: Keeping it Horizontal.
Two imbalanced balloons would still tend to put it off the horizontal to some degree - whereas if you do your rigid triangle and take the (long) strings from each end of the beam up to a single balloon, then it can't help but be properly level.
Re: Re: Horizontal
Yep. And I hope the batteries etc are heavy enough to make sure the launch trajectory (assuming a horizontal beam) is up, not down. If not, it could use a stiff vertical stick at each end of the beam before attachment of the balloon string.
Horizontal
What's the likelihood of that beam actually being horizontal when attached to two ballons?
Good to see that pipe-smoking hasn't died out among the boffin fraternity.
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Re: A re-usable one would be good
What it needs is some sort of gun mechanism to put the delta-v into just the junk, not itself.
I think develop something like a big duvet, spinning, and with inbuilt stiffeners and dampers to keep it in the right shape while it fills up with space-crap and can be deorbited / tracked / boosted / maintained / forgotten about / hidden behind.
eengleesh
their != they're
...far cheaper to either get the system repaired or....
I shouldn't think he actually planned upon setting fire to anything so telling them after the event that £a > £b, and therefore why do it, is irrelevant bollocks.
And also completely missing the point of TRYING STUFF OUT - but then safety and killjoy are effectively two sides of the same coin.
I was going to mention Runaway...
But instead I'll mention the smart-bullets in "Who framed Roger Rabbit". Those were mexican if I remember correctly.
But this is a solar-powered system.
It is a way of using the surface of the sea as farmland for producing biomass.
Some carbon (and other stuff) takes a temporary role in the storage mechanism, and after you've used up the ethanol you made, the world is more or less where it was before you farmed the seaweed. (how more or less is obviously an important and complex thing)
Certainly worth considering if it means we don't muck about making fuel on the proper farmland that we need for making food.
I came here to say the same thing
But I do wish The Reg would learn to use the word "and" in its headlines.
Two items do not a list make.
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