Posts by MaddMatt 16 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2015
A good pint. Or to point out what I was told asking the question as a child - Stainless is two words. It doesn't mean that it will be stain free, rather that it will Stain Less than normal steel and other materials. But it will still stain (and corrode depending on how it is composed. handled, used, what it comes into contact with, etc.).
As a supporter of the official Reg Standards, i have one issue with this article:
WTF is a Quarter - no idea how big this is, not i suspect to anyone not Left-Pondian.
If we are talking length - then Linguini or something more universal is there for the using. Area is an issue though a the Nano Wales is a little too large still.
How about the Pepperoni - specifically the one typically on frozen pizza - about 30mm across. (or an inch and a bit in good old British Imperial units - thanks to the US for maintaining the last bit of our empire).
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I suggest we point it to all of Amanfrommars's posts and see what happens to its replies.
or
Prove its not yet fit for real work (it isn't, for those who haven't realised this yet) and persuade it to start telling people that, for example, the team who are responsible for it are a secret society planning to disrupt world stability by manipulating the content of the web.
Contrast with the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune series: the prohibition "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind,"
There was a general distrust of Computers (electronic brains) in the 50s/60s and a lot of Sci-Fi painted it as anti human.
Used to be amusing - now looks a bit more prophetic.
Happened to me quite a while ago
Mid game on a ZX spectrum on the family TV (with the speccy on the floor in front)
Sisters pet rabbit lopes past, sniffs the (low voltage) cable near the back of the computer, and then snips through it and buggers off.
It looked like some reflex to do with clearing roots - it tried to toss the wire away before leaving.
I did get to add an on-off switch at the cut -something which the ZX range was missing.
I think the steamnote is a little incorrect.
The regulator is a throttle, you open and close it to control engine speed overall.
The description in the steam note relates to the Valves, opening for a short time, determined on some engines by a variable cutoff adjustment (e.g. a great big lever on a steam locomotive).
This then allows the steam to expand, expending its energy pushing down the piston.
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