Posts by ridley 417 posts • joined 27 Aug 2008
No, the demand is low across the industry. The demand may or may not be low in BT but given the demand is low across the industry BT can lower the rates without the contractors jumping ship.
If demand for a particular position is low BT can cut that position via the notice period.
In 1995 I was running a small computer company when someone offered me some 1mb memory sticks at what I though was a very good price, so I bought iirc 300 of them at a few pounds each.
That night the love earthquake happened and dram just disappeared. Over the next few weeks dram became scarcer and scarcer and I just held, didn't even bother building pcs. Suppliers kept offering me more and more...
Eventually o sold for iirc £100 a stick and went on a very nice holiday.
During the war our early warning, such as it was, monitored the German Luftwaffe in France gathering for a raid so they would scramble to meet them.
Several times they would scramble and they raid would strangely disappear before they could intercept.
After a while they noticed that this happened in the early morning but not at any other times.
Eventually it was realised it wasn't a raid at all, but the Sun rising and so radio astronomy was born.
If only the Germans had known they could have caught us with our pants down by launching at the right time.
I worked on HMS broadsword and her seawolf missiles (we were adding thermal guidance), I was somewhat surprised bag the core memory and paper tape programme loading, including a strip taped to the side of a filing cabinet that needed to be loaded to avoid firing the missiles at the superstructure...
"YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of COVID-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS."
Has anyone found this policy?
I have found a policy that advises that if you want to monetise you content that you should not do x-y and recommends that if you want to monetise it that you should not dispute the existence and transmission of COVID-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS.
But that isn't a ban, just means you won't make money.
Having an Amiga A4000/030 and lusting after the power of those '040's I decided to get the daughter board and source the CPU's from elsewhere as the daughter board with CPU IIRC was about £700, a lot in those days.
So I ordered the daughter board off CPC? Farnell? for £29 but was told that they were on back order.
Six months! Later I received my daughter board..complete with cpu and cooler all for £29. Now some people would have alerted Farnell to the mistake and others would have placed an order for all the daughter boards in stock. IIRC there were 20-30 in stock...
Most coasters do not have an active braking system anymore, for just this sort of reason.
They usually rely on a metal plate under the carriages passing through magnets attached on the side of the track. When they do this large amount of eddy currents/electricity is generated, the energy to do this is taken from the motion of the carriages.
No moving parts, no computers just physics.
For this to work the spun structure needs to be very large or at least a long way from the hub.
If not then you are going to have real problems with different parts of your body experiencing different amounts of "g". I cannot remember the figure for the minimum radios needed but it is much bigger than you think.
I can thoroughly recommend reading "Chickenhawk" an account of a Huey driver in Vietnam.
I particularly liked the passage when he was on a rescue mission and was far too overloaded to take off in the tiny clearing he had landed in (he would need to be moving to get clear air).
So he just made the clearing bigger using the rotors...
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