* Posts by Rolly_Poly

13 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2017

England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

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Re: Well, duh

According to this link

https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/antarct/science/icesheet.jsp#:~:text=The%20ice%2C%20which%20has%20accumulated,sea%20level%20about%20200%20feet.

There's circa 6 million cubic miles of ice in the glaciers (~250,000 of them) which will raise sea levels by 200 feet.

Rolly_Poly

Re: Well, duh

You post clear calculations, make your valid arguments, cite your sources and still somebody down-votes your comment.

Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset

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Re: I wonder

It would be a simple fix, to mandate that all new housing developments must have underground parking (dig a big hole and line with concrete) where not only motor-vehicles are kept but also a UPS - and other essentials - to avoid the problems you've pointed out.

Obviously, might affect the profits of the large building firms but it works in many other countries.

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Has El Reg been sold to the yanks?

Since I retired over 5 years ago, I rarely read stuff here. It was only because living near Salisbury, a few peeps I know were affected by this last weekend.

'Analog' 'fiber'

I notice analogue and fibre in the comments but the article seems to have been written by a USA-ian.

BT strike action is coming: Comms union to serve notice to company

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Paris Hilton

Register going Stateside?

What's with all the American spellings, by a Briton, writing on a British website about a British company?

IBM AI boat to commemorate historic US Mayflower voyage finally lands… in Canada

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Re: Look at that!!

That's quite impressive, especially the way it holds course.

https://data.saildrone.com/data/sets/1021_atlantic

First Light says it's hit nuclear fusion breakthrough with no fancy lasers, magnets

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Re: Tokamak, or not tokamak, that is the question...

The last thing we meed at the moment, is the current mob of deluded, psychopaths heading up national governments, to be anle to control the largest magnetic field in this quadrant.

Planet Earth would be ablated in a parsec.

Debugging source is even harder when you can't stop laughing at it

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Holmes

Philip the Brit, spelt colour as 'color', humour as 'humor' and sympathise as 'sympathize'?

Is this a story lifted from a US site and posted here, with a few tweaks?

And Richard studied English Lit. too

You've stolen the antiglare shield on that monitor you've fixed – they say the screen is completely unreadable now

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Re: As I've mentioned before..

In the late 70s, I had the joy of working for a short time, at a TV rental company.

As a 'boy' it was my lucky role to clean the TVs when they came into the workshop.

Half a sandwich, numerous coins, tea/coffee/beer deposits, pens, knitting needles and in one case, a dead mouse, were all retrieved (I kept the coins)

One method of cleaning the non-solid state tellys, was to open them up and put them on a rack, outside in the rain. After they'd been left somewehere suitably warm for a few weeks, they'd receive a new coating of Fablon and back out they could go.

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Re: IBM ATs are "liquid" proof

Sadly the same isn't true of Amstrad 1640s.

My cat decided to scent mark my PC and a few days later, a new motherboard was required.

My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day

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4 x pages of comments about modern stuff peeps have kept!

My 1950 Bush Radiogram - valve powered natch - no longer works but my Sinclair QL and Amstrad 1640 both function as they did the day I bought them new.

Farewell, Android Pay. We hardly tapped you

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Re: What could possibly...?

@Lee D

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3199009/security/why-you-dont-need-an-rfid-blocking-wallet.html

This is where UK's Navy will park its 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers

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And these extra 10,000 tons that have been mysteriously added to the ship(s)' displacement...?

http://www.aircraftcarrieralliance.co.uk/the-ships/key-facts.aspx

Is there a London-class Heavy Cruiser of WWII vintage hidden aboard somewhere?

Even converting 65,000 proper tons to an American short-ton leaves them short by a couple of WWII destroyers.

For the benefit of the young and poorly educated :

16 oz = 1lb

14 lb = 1 stone

112 lb = 1 cwt

20 cwt = 1 ton

And 1 ton = 2,240 lb