Posts by EddieD 1117 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
Why not? They show surface features, paths and tracks as well - or at least, the ones I have do. I use them when I go fossiling. I wish I could attach a screeny.
And as has been pointed out elsewhere, Google don't use standard colouring for their maps - I can read them, but it's far, far easier to use another source that has stuck to conventions and has a history of being definitive.
Bing has O/S maps, 1:50000, 1:25000, which I was brought up to read and understand, so I tend to only use google if I need street level views in an area that hasn't had StreetSlide.
I wish it was possible on Bing's overhead views to switch off the Road line layer, it's very distracting.
Plants make CO2 as part of the cellular respiration, during the day the photosynthesis producing oxygen overwhelms this, but when it's dark they are net producers of CO2, and many plants require light cycling to mature.
That's a bit simplistic, but it's been 30 odd years since I studied the Calvin cycle, and I hated it back then.
I got one of those many years ago, being a young English man in Edinburgh (Waverley to Bruntsfield via Holyrood...say what???) - although having cycled here for 2 years I was able to point out his errors, and phone the company.
Nowadays, whereever I go in the world, I have my trusty GPS with me (i.e. my phone) which can point out when the taxi is taking the scenic route.
When I was last in Paris I found out that booking a taxi on a Monday morning was virtually impossible, so I had to run across the city, towing my suitcase, and my bike in a case to a very posh hôtel, and grab one of the taxis there to get me to the Gare du Nord - there had been a fire in the EuroTunnel the day before, and it was first come, first served even for those who had a ticket. Aye - a bit of competition would be nice.
Exactly - a very high quality, but dumb, monitor, and a discrete box which can be updated elsewhere - we can use displays wirelessly, and upgrade a cheap box as often as necessary as that side of the technology is developing rapidly, and the monitor every decade or so when there's a step change in the display technology.
But that wouldn't make as much money for the vendors which rely on in-built obsolescence to pump their bottom lines.
I don't mind John Lewis having the exclusive deal, I like them, they're a workers co-operative with strict rules on pay scaling and profit sharing, and they're pretty much ubiquitous - and if you're not near a shop, they're online.
It could be far worse if Vodaphone/O2/EE/whatever had the deal, because I presume you can bung in a SIM of your choice?
I may be tempted. I just sold my soul to the machine, and got a Nexus 7, which I love, big time, but I may bite the bullet and get one of these too - I like Nokia products, my Lumia 700 is getting a bit long in the tooth but has worked well, and a second tablet doesn't take up much room
Share and Enjoy
Share and Enjoy
Journey through life
With a plastic boy
Or Girl by your side
Let your pal be your guide
And when it breaks down
Or starts to annoy
Or grinds when it moves
And gives you no joy
Cos it's eaten your hat
Or had sex with your cat
Bled oil on your floor
Or ripped off your door
You get to the point
You can't stand any more
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig
We'll tell you, 'Go stick your head in a pig'.
I wonder if they knew someone who had a lot of spare ones going cheap
More seriously, I'm glad to see this - Nokia's mapping/gps contributions have always been extremely good, and I look forward to seeing the results of this - serious competition for streetview (Although Microsoft's Street isn't bad, even if they haven't obscured the numberplate on my car very well)
Well said - reminded me of Mitch Benn and the good Dr Lehrer - both of whom use somewhat fractured phrasing to make the lyrics fit the tune (this is aimed at folk down the way who criticise her scansion).
Emma, you made me chuckle (and I've copied the vid, just wish I had the talent to play it)
I don't think that they're really gamers - my brother who has lived and breathed Dr Who since William Hartnell has never played a game in his life, his older daughter, addicted to the new Who, doesn't touch games either.
And besides, you'd have to have a genius of a designer to make something worthy of the Time Lord - as your reviewer has said, no game has ever been worth the name Dr Who, in the last 30 years or so.
Maybe one will come along, but I won't hold my breath.
Being good-twoshoes and having not had the money to move house for many years, my driving license is just a large (and now somewhat foxed, badgered, and possibly beared) piece of paper, no photo, nada... I do have a rather impressive array of vehicles I'm allowed to drive compared to more recent passers as well. This was a bit of a problem when my car was in for an insurance repair, as the garage refused to accept it for a courtesy car. I told them to get my car ready for when I needed it. I also doubt if the major airlines would accept it, or my staff card - I'm not sure a University counts as a "nationally recognised company".
Susan Calman relates a touching tale when she tried to check into a hotel in London - they insisted that she show a passport as she was a "foreigner".
I can't wait for a Glaswegian hotelier to return the compliment.
I can't fault you - I wouldn't choose the same one myself, but there are some real goodies there.
As you say, there are howlers - but in a 50 year history, Dr Who has less than most things that have hit their half century.
Keep the articles coming - I'm a market you can't glut, as the other good Doctor said...
Was the second incarnation of the Dr that I really remember - I remember the final episode with Troughton, cast into the time vortex in Monochrome, and then I saw Pertwee fall out of the Tardis in colour, for the first time, and I watched avidly till the almost end of the Tom Baker era - by which time my Saturday evenings were taken up with my first girlfriend...
There's a grand interview with Tom on the BBC today:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24657064
Amazing that the series has lasted so long - I think it's the constant evolution that has made it a success, even if I'm not too fond of the recent series, many, many millions of viewers can't be wrong :)
I didn't see a problem with the graphic, once I'd looked at it for a few seconds.
"The tech seems to be maturing," he added. "I remember old laptops, which used to break every year, so you needed to buy a new one."
I don't remember that time at all - I've still got a late 90s vintage Macbook G3 and a couple of iBooks, a few ancient Latitudes - all of which got very heavy usage as we couldn't afford to buy many back then...
In fact it's only of late that the annual upgrades have started, because someone seems to have started making machines that cannot be user serviced, or upgraded at all, so they go obselete very quickly, quickly enough in fact that it looks like a marketting strategy, but no-one would do that, would they?
I've found them in the Pyrenees and across Mallorca - yummy!
Shaggy Ink caps - fried in butter with garlic...
Young puffballs..slice, to ensure it's not a young something else...delicious with eggs
Cepes...'nuff said.
Also tonnes of wild rosemary, thyme, occasionally marjoram..
Dang - I'm in scotland, and our 'shrooms have been a hurried lover - came and went...
Fortunately, I never drove a Citroen.
Back when I was learning to drive every car was different - the wipers and the indicators seeming to swap randomly; sometimes the horn was at the center of the wheel, sometimes on the end of the indicator stick.
I lost count of the number of times I wiped my windows instead of indicating, or hooted instead of squirting my windscreen when learning, much to the irritation of my instructor.
But it taught me to check things before I started.
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