For the rail works, you can't really blame Virgin. It's network rail or what ever they are called these days. Virgin owns the trains and has little / nothing to do with the tracks themselves.
I work in the fishing industry and was at he recent Fishing Show in Glasgow Scotland last week. I asked a couple of skippers what they thought about the new weather maps.
The view echoed by all the Skippers is that it is going to cost lives. These guys used to use the detailed weather maps with the flat down view, isobars, wind speeds and directions etc etc to work out where it was safe to fish and where to avoid. The current weather map is missing all this relevent information.
Plus with the stupid perspective view over the uk. The silly roaming camera that only seems to get as far as wales before giving up on the idea of even visiting Scotland and giving us a view of our weather and meandering down the east cost of the country back to _Mother London_
I prefered the old weather map, at a glance you could see where the weather was, not wait for the camera to move across the map.
What will the BBC do if this new map does cause lives in the fishing industry? Refund the families the license fee and two free tickets to Strictly Come Dancing?
BBC, it's all well and good updating your technology, it is. But when people need the weather to survive it doesn't help.
You have to remember that these shows were filmed months ago and not filmed week by week. So it isn't a case of "Oh no! Crap ratings, quick knock out a Dalek episode" and film it within the week.
I think this may be the problem I am experiencing. My flat has plaster board walls, which are not the thickest in the world and even then using a DLINK 614+ I can't get a signal in my living room. 30 feet away.. I'm not too happy about that. I think I might have to dick about and try the box in wierder positions.
Those limpet things scared the crap out of me.. Especially when moving slowly through the dark sections then.. *schlick* your being drawn up and eaten...
Thats why I bought a Cannon BJC-3000. Seperate ink tanks, if the yellow goes, I get a yellow cartridge for about 6 pounds. I don't have to replace everything at the same time. Plus, the standard black cartridge is double the size of the coloured ones.
It prints well in b&w, but the colour is OK, nothing to shout about.
Yeah, I use the Hercules Fortissimo, and I love that card. Liked it so much, I got my Dad one for the hell of it.
I don't like the idea ofthe digital output being turned off on machines that play DVD-Audio, it kind of makes my coax connection between player and amp useless doesn't it?
Ramdisks.. Takes me back to the days of my Amiga. I always thought the ramdisk on that was a great boost.. Made a lot of things a hell of a lot easier.
Misc motherboard stake pin connections - 2. No physical alignment constraints and poor silkscreen markings make these a big hassle.
The amount of computer case LED's I've fried over the years by plugging the connector either the wrong way around, or into the fan connector or something equally stupid is terrible..
The worst one was when I plugged it into the reset jumper by accident.. Although that was a block that was just numbered 1 to 10 or something with no manual:( It sucks
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Sorry, I am afraid that every good slashdotter knows that guns don't kill people.. Chuck Norris does.
Pink for Homos birthday?
Nice...
Regarding the Atari 2600 joystick.
You moron, yes technically it wasn't an analog joystick because it was a fricken digital joystick!
I got as far as that and gave up. If the author can't get his facts right on something that basic the article is not worth a damn..
For the rail works, you can't really blame Virgin. It's network rail or what ever they are called these days. Virgin owns the trains and has little / nothing to do with the tracks themselves.
Xara came out of a product for the archimedes.
( It was really arm code at the core run through macros to create x86 code for the PC version )
It reminded me of the remote control that came with my old Philips Cd-I player..
This is as far as I can zoom on my home town.
Scotland, LOD
I work in the fishing industry and was at he recent Fishing Show in Glasgow Scotland last week. I asked a couple of skippers what they thought about the new weather maps.
The view echoed by all the Skippers is that it is going to cost lives. These guys used to use the detailed weather maps with the flat down view, isobars, wind speeds and directions etc etc to work out where it was safe to fish and where to avoid. The current weather map is missing all this relevent information.
Plus with the stupid perspective view over the uk. The silly roaming camera that only seems to get as far as wales before giving up on the idea of even visiting Scotland and giving us a view of our weather and meandering down the east cost of the country back to _Mother London_
I prefered the old weather map, at a glance you could see where the weather was, not wait for the camera to move across the map.
What will the BBC do if this new map does cause lives in the fishing industry? Refund the families the license fee and two free tickets to Strictly Come Dancing?
BBC, it's all well and good updating your technology, it is. But when people need the weather to survive it doesn't help.
You have to remember that these shows were filmed months ago and not filmed week by week. So it isn't a case of "Oh no! Crap ratings, quick knock out a Dalek episode" and film it within the week.
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Thats when you keep a handy copy of it on the memory stick dangling from your car keys. :)
Yeah, someone gag him so the whiney little fuck doesn't say anything again.. ever...
Ah.. But if you remember Mark 'n' Lard affectionatly reffered to her as Mary Anne Hobgoblin, and for some of us it has stuck :)
Thats the idea I had. One long continous roll of clear tape.
I thought that would be pretty easy to implement.
Yeah we still have Royal Bank pound notes up here in Scotland, thankfully..
Damn, I hate pound coins..
I think this may be the problem I am experiencing. My flat has plaster board walls, which are not the thickest in the world and even then using a DLINK 614+ I can't get a signal in my living room. 30 feet away.. I'm not too happy about that. I think I might have to dick about and try the box in wierder positions.
Oh god tell me about it..
Those limpet things scared the crap out of me.. Especially when moving slowly through the dark sections then.. *schlick* your being drawn up and eaten...
*shivers*
Thats why I bought a Cannon BJC-3000. Seperate ink tanks, if the yellow goes, I get a yellow cartridge for about 6 pounds. I don't have to replace everything at the same time. Plus, the standard black cartridge is double the size of the coloured ones.
It prints well in b&w, but the colour is OK, nothing to shout about.
You know it shits coffee beans too :) I'm sure there is a a Java joke there
Yeah, I use the Hercules Fortissimo, and I love that card. Liked it so much, I got my Dad one for the hell of it.
I don't like the idea ofthe digital output being turned off on machines that play DVD-Audio, it kind of makes my coax connection between player and amp useless doesn't it?
I know CBS did a lot of research into spinning colour wheels. I think they did a lot of research into NTSC colour encoding..
I could be wrong..
In October 1925 he succeeded in transmitting full television in his small attic laboratory in Soho, London.
Logie Bairds Scanning Disc Televisions sold for a number of years in the UK, and similar ones were sold in the States pre 1935.
Baird managed to refine the quality as the years went on, but swapped over to CRT round about 35.
It's interesting to note that Baird also demoed color television (demonstrated in 1928); big screen TV; and open air projections for large audiences.
I'm a Baird fan because I live 20 minutes from where he was born and lived.
Ramdisks.. Takes me back to the days of my Amiga. I always thought the ramdisk on that was a great boost.. Made a lot of things a hell of a lot easier.
I've never actually had that problem before.. The biggest problem with transformers is which one goes with what product...
Floppy disk labels are handy for slapping on the back of them and scribbling in Cd writer pen the name of the modem/printer/scanner etc...
The amount of computer case LED's I've fried over the years by plugging the connector either the wrong way around, or into the fan connector or something equally stupid is terrible..
The worst one was when I plugged it into the reset jumper by accident.. Although that was a block that was just numbered 1 to 10 or something with no manual