A move in the right direction but until they get rid of their ridiculous GBP60 "delivery charge" in the UK they still won't be getting any of my business.
Not wanting to state the bleeding obvious but its a balloon with a bit of string. Even the French were flying (and crashing) things like that 250 years ago.
If we can pipe oil around we can sure pipe water around too.
Moving water around the country doesn't help a lard ass SUV driver to drive down to the supermarket to buy bottled water.
Yes but when you flew West in Concorde you could see the sun rise in the wrong hemisphere.
Just let me know when I can fly a Boeing and experience that. (thinks must get that cryo coffin booked as its going to be a long, long wait)
It goes beyond cool. Concorde was subzero years before Clarkson invented the term
When fighter pilots were flying supersonic for a few brief minutes Concorde was giving you a real hard push in the back, accelerating down the runway, lifting off the ground at 250mph, flying for 3 hours, crossing the Atlantic faster than the earth rotates and seeing the sun rise in the west..... and all this without a pressure suit or a bone dome. No drama, no sweat, just utter perfection. Only getting close up do you really begin to appreciate the curves and the wing leading edge profile, everything else flying passengers today looks so clunky and crude in comparison.
The reality was there for Joe Public in the 70's. 12 men walked on the moon, thousands flew on Concorde, some of them old enough to be your grandmother. The rest of the world just never got it at the time, and the Japs took 40 years to begin to start to catch up.
Its a pity the French were involved though but nothing's perfect;-)
Lets have the US adopt ISO 8601, or if thats too radical (which it probably is) then DD/MM/YY *before* they start mucking around with the seconds. Their half backward half forward way of doing things causes more than enough hassle for people outside the US trying to work to their date "standards"
I'm surprised a story like this didn't appear on April 1st (thats 1/4 not 4/1 by the way!)
Magnetic core memory was still being used as the sole memory medium in the mid 90's for a centralised process control system I worked on.
It was a legacy ICL (UK) mainframe system from the early 70's adapted for realtime data acquisition and control but was kept going - it was actually quite reliable, until two more generations of equipment had been rolled out in the rest of the company and a rationalisation of regional control locations had been made.
Due to a few problems in the new systems development and some logistical problems it remained in service around 10 years after it should have been replaced.
In total it had a few (single digit) kilobytes spread over about 10 boards around 12 inches square. The power requirement was huge though - in the order of a few kW.
It was very crude even by the standards of the first computer I ever worked on - a SWTP (South West Technical Products) 6800 in late 1979.
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Only when the lights go out
Everyone, everywhere withdrawing all their money at the same time is *exactly* what happened in Argentina back in 2001.
A move in the right direction but until they get rid of their ridiculous GBP60 "delivery charge" in the UK they still won't be getting any of my business.
Not wanting to state the bleeding obvious but its a balloon with a bit of string. Even the French were flying (and crashing) things like that 250 years ago.
If we can pipe oil around we can sure pipe water around too. Moving water around the country doesn't help a lard ass SUV driver to drive down to the supermarket to buy bottled water.
You don't need to read anything to know how crap Yahoo is. They are the equivalent of M$ bloatware for the pseudo portal world.
HTML email from *anybody* is the top entry on my blacklist. Surely everyone knows its the spawn of the devil?
Yes but when you flew West in Concorde you could see the sun rise in the wrong hemisphere. Just let me know when I can fly a Boeing and experience that. (thinks must get that cryo coffin booked as its going to be a long, long wait)
It goes beyond cool. Concorde was subzero years before Clarkson invented the term
;-)
When fighter pilots were flying supersonic for a few brief minutes Concorde was giving you a real hard push in the back, accelerating down the runway, lifting off the ground at 250mph, flying for 3 hours, crossing the Atlantic faster than the earth rotates and seeing the sun rise in the west..... and all this without a pressure suit or a bone dome. No drama, no sweat, just utter perfection. Only getting close up do you really begin to appreciate the curves and the wing leading edge profile, everything else flying passengers today looks so clunky and crude in comparison.
The reality was there for Joe Public in the 70's. 12 men walked on the moon, thousands flew on Concorde, some of them old enough to be your grandmother. The rest of the world just never got it at the time, and the Japs took 40 years to begin to start to catch up.
Its a pity the French were involved though but nothing's perfect
Lets have the US adopt ISO 8601, or if thats too radical (which it probably is) then DD/MM/YY *before* they start mucking around with the seconds. Their half backward half forward way of doing things causes more than enough hassle for people outside the US trying to work to their date "standards" I'm surprised a story like this didn't appear on April 1st (thats 1/4 not 4/1 by the way!)
Magnetic core memory was still being used as the sole memory medium in the mid 90's for a centralised process control system I worked on. It was a legacy ICL (UK) mainframe system from the early 70's adapted for realtime data acquisition and control but was kept going - it was actually quite reliable, until two more generations of equipment had been rolled out in the rest of the company and a rationalisation of regional control locations had been made. Due to a few problems in the new systems development and some logistical problems it remained in service around 10 years after it should have been replaced. In total it had a few (single digit) kilobytes spread over about 10 boards around 12 inches square. The power requirement was huge though - in the order of a few kW. It was very crude even by the standards of the first computer I ever worked on - a SWTP (South West Technical Products) 6800 in late 1979.