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  1. Re:When crossing the road on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    But if you walk on the right and the hinge is on the right the handle will be towards the centre, ie, closer to your left hand.

    I work for a French company in Australia and newly arrived French people do tend to walk on the right in corridors.

  2. Re:When crossing the road on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    I was okay as long as I thought about it every time I crossed the road. It was a mistake to talk on the phone to my wife back home while walking back to the hotel from the pizza shop.

    Don't leave us hanging. What happened? Did you die?

    Clearly not. I just had to dodge out of the way.

  3. Re:When crossing the road on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    And the USA followed suit of course seeing as they modeled their country on France.

    Now why is that not Flamebait?

  4. Re:Don't bother on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    The Canadians and Australians can't mod because we are all pitching in.

  5. Re:Things you should know... on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    Always wear a backpack when taking the tube and rug up against the cold. Make sure you run the last ten metres or so on to the train, especially if there is a bit of a commotion going on.

  6. Go! on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    The museums are awesome, out of the rain/snow and heated. London can be a bit crowded for my taste but there are plenty of quiet places indoors.

  7. Re:As Hoffnung advised... on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    I thought that was a public toilet?

  8. Re:Internet kiosks? on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    chilled or room temperature are usually both on tap

    Is there a difference?

  9. Re:One tip on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    Or at least go in July.

  10. Re:London Deathrow on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    I work for a French company and visitors we had around that time were for some stupid reason being routed from Paris to Melbourne via Heathrow. We just sent them to the local shopping centre to buy more clothes, bags, etc. Very simple really. In fact its probably cheaper to travel that way in the future and not go to the trouble of having your stuff lost in the UK.

  11. Re:English, and regular traveller on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    especially when travelling with my girlfriend, since it just makes things easier for charging phones, iPods etc.

    I've got a solar girlfriend, but she's not much use in London.

    I bet she's hard to keep warm in November.

  12. Re:When crossing the road on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes. In Sydney too. Here in Melbourne we prefer our tourists to learn the hard way.

  13. Re:Commas on Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes I realised my mistake about one ohnosecond after I posted that.

  14. When crossing the road on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 5, Informative

    LOOK TO THE RIGHT

    Because everybody in north America drives on the wrong side of the road, you just don't know it yet.

    I live in Australia (where we drive on the left) and I once had to work in South Korea where they drive on the right. I was okay as long as I thought about it every time I crossed the road. It was a mistake to talk on the phone to my wife back home while walking back to the hotel from the pizza shop.

  15. Commas on Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut · · Score: 1

    Interesting that on their web site the wingspan is 63,40 m but mass is 1 600 Kg. I suppose they can afford less confusion with the mass of their aircraft.

  16. Re:NASA already has a Solar UAV on Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut · · Score: 1

    Maybe it has pedals.

  17. Re:Gene Roddenberry was prescient. on IBM Smartphone Software Translates 11 Languages · · Score: 1

    A few examples from the Heinlein juvenile books between 1950 and 1960:

    • Communicator: Space Cadet
    • Laser Cannon: Between Planets
    • Warp Drive: Have spacesuit, will travel

    Roddenberry was derivative at best. Many other authors of the time were using similar devices.

  18. Re:What??? on Apple vs. Microsoft Multi-Touch Mouse Comparison · · Score: 1

    And muscle memory fails entirely if you need to make *any* little change, like sitting slightly to the side of the keyboard, or even adjusting the height of your chair; keys provide the ability to re-align your typing in-flight, without needing to look at the keyboard, or to do some sort of error analysis of the output to determine the modality of the current misalignment.

    Strangely (and very OT) my right Humerus (the bone between the shoulder and elbow) now has an 8 degree bend in it where I broke it three months ago. I thought I would have to relearn how to catch balls, etc. But not so. It works perfectly.

  19. Re:Confused on English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder · · Score: 1

    Its a bit like people who put obscure perl code in their sig, waiting for somebody to run it out of curiosity.

  20. Confused on English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder · · Score: 1

    Does TFA talk about shell code or assembler code?

  21. Re:Gene Roddenberry was prescient. on IBM Smartphone Software Translates 11 Languages · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah Robert Heinlein's characters had cellular phones in the late 1940's but I wouldn't claim he was the first. The only bit he got wrong was where a character ends a call because he is in a crowded area. That wouldn't happen today.

  22. Re:...like lung imaging. on Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls · · Score: 1

    Rather than putting the 3He in the mouse, put the mouse in the 3He.

  23. Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen on Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls · · Score: 2, Funny

    if all Debian developers caught swine flu and perished. Not a big deal, just move over to Ubuntu

    Ummm...

  24. Re:Glad we got that covered. on Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will they inspect all trucks entering the US from Canada and Mexico?

  25. Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen on Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls · · Score: 1

    Is that because they hadn't seen The Sum of all fears yet?