Posts by Dabooka 1217 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2007
The work they did was immeasurable, and the conditions rather grim in certain circumstances too.
Coincidentally I have just finished The Emperor's Codes, a great book for anyone interested. Despite reading plenty in the past about Bletchley, this book still offered significant amount of new information especially about how the US pollical scene was in the run up to them joining. I will admit now much on how the ciphers worked went right above my head!
They do have mini kegs but I personally find them gimmicky and difficult to get a decent pint out of without some being wasted or the latter pints being a bit too flat. Watney Party Sevens were notoriously worse
For cask ales and ciders from the breweries they can be great. I often get them for gatherings at my house when we'll be on an ale and it doesn't matter anywhere near as much
It's about how it is implemented, copy and paste is already covered in the usual plagiarism academic regs of the institution.
We need to be better at how it is implemented and utilised, focus on the research elements it can support but not to rely on output. We've had these discussions before, thirty years ago with the rise of the WWW and even bloody word processing before that,
Our early LAN parties saw token ring cards pilfered and network play in my mum's dining room. The movement required for four players was so great it invariably planned the whole weekend as towers, CRTs, keyboards etc were lugged about and setup, resulting in a whole weekend of varied gameplay.
Doom, Quake, Rise of the Triads, Heretic and even strategies such as C&C, Red Alert all found their way on to our (by know) TCP network. Pizzas and beer also featured
Happy days...
Doing A Levels 1991-93. Apparently TP was used as its structuring was a good basis for the real world apparently.
Knowing what I know now I work in the sector myself, it was probably as much to do with the fact it was cheap! I am pretty sure there were grumblings back then it was already obsolete although I can appreciate why for someone's the first dip into programming how it would have been a reasonable choice back then. Maybe. I don't know, I never took it up in any sense afterwards.
(And for those outside the US, college here in Blighty is post compulsory school, so was then usually attended between 16-18 years of age)
Somewhere they'll be managers in marketing or other departments who called this bullshit out for what it was; they'll have had had their cards marked for being against it and yet now, after being proven correct, they'll remain a pariah. For making the bleeding obvious call all along.
PHBs never go back and promote the guy who correctly went against their idea.
5 downvotes? I wonder why?
Work based first aid provision has been diluted down something rotten over the last 25 years and hardly resembles what used to be taught. Bearing in mind we now have to support and maintain a patient for much much longer than we used to, learning more than the basics condensed into a few hours is actually something that most folk would benefit from.
You can easily be on for four hours plus. Nothing is taught to prepare people for that length of care anymore.
I'm sat here using my 20 yr old Microsoft Intellimouse Optical.
Given to me by a tech friend at work who could get used to it, it's survived a redundancy, two jobs, a return back to my original employer and about 12 office moves since. It's a lovely faded 'smkoers yellow' and the surface as become shiny through repeated use but otherwise it's good as.
I also quickly Googled it and there's some very optimistic pricing out there for these things used!
This.
I don't know enough about Tesla components but the comparisons need to remain on point to hold validity. Most moderns are written off for all sorts of things, I guess it's just breakers are able to salvage and reuse parts (depending ion the category of write off of course, at least in the UK) which for whatever reason Tesla can't / won't allow.
The fact is cars are less likely to be killed by rust nowadays than a component failure. It's an issue for all manufacturers going back a number of years although it certainly appears Tesla is worse.
I'm struggling to get one of mine back on the road because of a bloody fuel pump off all things.
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