Posts by ridley 493 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Aug 2008
During the second world war the RAF kept seeing on their new fangled RADAR huge numbers of German aircraft forming up for a raid over the continent early in the morning.
This led to us readying/launching many many squadrons who then couldn't find any formations and the RADAR signal disappeared.
When it was realized that they were seeing the Sun, scientists went "that's interesting", radio astronomy was born.
I know someone who was asked to quote on what he thought was a few holes to be drilled through some thick steel on a construction project.
He didn't fancy the job so he vastly over quoted.
He got the job for several hundred thousand holes in the Magnox reactor project that was starting up.
He built his entire business and retired a wealthy man on the results of that one contract.
"Again, a cheap Android tablet or even an Arduino gives a more reliable, focussed education platform than a 'easily fixed'"
Not really, there's a reason that Chromebooks/bases etc are popular in schools. Nothing needs to be updated, patched etc it just works, plus the actual suite of software is just superb for the school environment.
Currently I am at an office 365 school and trying to use it is like pulling teeth when you're used to Google Suite for Education.
Teams and One note? No thanks.
Different functionality with the app versions of word etc as
opposed to the web versions is such a block to teaching.
Give me strength.
Give me strength.
I think you're being a little economical with the truth with saying you can upgrade your domestic supply to 350Kw, what exactly would be the point in doing so?
As you point out you could fully charge 21 100kwh cars with that supply from 11pm-6am.
Why would you want this in a domestic environment?
I remember tivo or it's like introduced technology that filtered out the adverts from recordings but was taken to court as this was "theft" and the sw was banned.
Didn't stop me installing similar software on my tivo.
I miss my tivo 1 even 20 years later, way ahead of its time.
How does this get down voted?
Audio is most definitely compressed to a few tens of dB in the main, that's not controversial it's just true.
Vintage vinyl also suffered from the loudness wars, finding a decent recording became very hard towards the end of vinyl.
It's all very nice having a large dynamic range available on digital audio.
It's just a shame that the audio engineers in the main choose to not use it, instead compressing the sound to a few tens of dB so it sounds "good" in the car or via crappy headphones etc.
Finding well mastered audio is pretty damn hard.
When you try to open a MS365 file on your phone. You need to press an "open" button after a preview is displayed.
However, as the preview is loading a "delete" button is in exactly the same place as the "open" button appears a fraction of a second later.
Get the timing wrong and panic ensues.
Why MS, Why?
I used a 6128 to develop software to control a seawolf missile via a thermal imaging camera.
Went on to use it to develop software to help integrate a thermal imaging camera into the gunnery control computer on a T59 tank. We were selling the TI system the Chinese for resale to Pakistan.
Spent a year in Pakistan trialing the T59 with my trusty 6128, sometimes burning new ROMS beside the tank in the middle of the Thar desert, even with all the dust and 50+°C in the shade it never let me down.
Happy days
This reminds me of the situation at the school I work in.
We are an MS school and a MS system can become quite complicated to set up and maintain, esp for a sus admin of the calibre that a schools budget can afford.
We went O365 at the start of the pandemic, MS Teams/Onenote for remote learning is "sup optimal".
Two years in and we still do not have OneDrive installed, only the browser version. So no file manager integration...
We have been told that all our files are being moved into the cloud now, and we have been promised OneDrive "hopefully in 2022"....
How is this supposed to work?
(By the way why does file syncing take so long in O365? I mean, it can take hours at times. When I worked at a Google school syncing was near as made no difference instant)
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