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    1. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      One of the light sockets experienced some damp which shorted out the fitting? Steam from the kettle perhaps?
    2. gomezz

      Amusing Items

      <wrong topic>
    3. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      Is that true of all makes and models of circuit breakers? Just wondering if Martin left out telling us of another step involving turning off the whole consumer unit at some point which is when the circuit breaker then go reset? As for the initial issue then a nearby lightening strike (had one...
    4. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      By the 80s most people mindsets were being fixed in how the personal computer architectures worked ignoring what was going on in the wider world of computing. Another clue thing to think about: Ever had to work with ones-complement arithmetic and the use of negative zero?
    5. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I am talking about an architecture that originated in the early 1960s.
    6. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Words can be subdivided into bytes.
    7. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      But how much smaller is not fixed. I have worked with six bit bytes and nine bit bytes in my time. Anyone with the right background can name that hardware platform. :)
    8. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You are right of course and I am always irritated when I see them get mixed up as a scaling prefix: M for Mega and m for milli. In this case mixing up (m)etre with (M)olar concentration I see as less likely to cause confusion for the average reader.
    9. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Listening to this week's In Our Time about life in the universe one of the experts said a new 39M telescope would be four times larger than the currently largest 10M telescope. Surely it would be sixteen time larger, even more if you take the curvature of the dish into account?
    10. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I guess the same kind of technology used to inject "painted ads" onto sports fields that aren't physically there.
    11. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off...
    12. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      In those days the viewers would (mostly) have known where the colours where spotted and it was only when a colour was knocked well away from its spot that extra info was useful.
    13. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Were not the on screen presenters painted green to give clearer pictures. A forerunner of the launch of colour on BBC2 using snooker so no longer having to tell viewers the green ball was behind the brown.
    14. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Special K is a new additive to make your coat even better in the rain.
    15. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Looks like someone has been paying attention Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists
    16. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Instead of the hyphen put "say scientists". The word scientists on its own after the hyphen doesn't really mean anything.
    17. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists I know I misread what this was saying but not sure the hyphen makes it totally clear what was meant.
    18. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Are you making the assumption that "stationary" means paper products? Edit: Ah! Now I see it.
    19. gomezz

      Change of Circumstances...

      Also the postcode for the Bournemouth area.
    20. gomezz

      Assume v. Presume

      The opposite of Delivers = Downdrops. :D
    1. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      One of the light sockets experienced some damp which shorted out the fitting? Steam from the kettle perhaps?
    2. gomezz

      Amusing Items

      <wrong topic>
    3. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      Is that true of all makes and models of circuit breakers? Just wondering if Martin left out telling us of another step involving turning off the whole consumer unit at some point which is when the circuit breaker then go reset? As for the initial issue then a nearby lightening strike (had one...
    4. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      By the 80s most people mindsets were being fixed in how the personal computer architectures worked ignoring what was going on in the wider world of computing. Another clue thing to think about: Ever had to work with ones-complement arithmetic and the use of negative zero?
    5. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I am talking about an architecture that originated in the early 1960s.
    6. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Words can be subdivided into bytes.
    7. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      But how much smaller is not fixed. I have worked with six bit bytes and nine bit bytes in my time. Anyone with the right background can name that hardware platform. :)
    8. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You are right of course and I am always irritated when I see them get mixed up as a scaling prefix: M for Mega and m for milli. In this case mixing up (m)etre with (M)olar concentration I see as less likely to cause confusion for the average reader.
    9. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Listening to this week's In Our Time about life in the universe one of the experts said a new 39M telescope would be four times larger than the currently largest 10M telescope. Surely it would be sixteen time larger, even more if you take the curvature of the dish into account?
    10. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I guess the same kind of technology used to inject "painted ads" onto sports fields that aren't physically there.
    11. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off...
    12. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      In those days the viewers would (mostly) have known where the colours where spotted and it was only when a colour was knocked well away from its spot that extra info was useful.
    13. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Were not the on screen presenters painted green to give clearer pictures. A forerunner of the launch of colour on BBC2 using snooker so no longer having to tell viewers the green ball was behind the brown.
    14. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Special K is a new additive to make your coat even better in the rain.
    15. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Looks like someone has been paying attention Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists
    16. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Instead of the hyphen put "say scientists". The word scientists on its own after the hyphen doesn't really mean anything.
    17. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists I know I misread what this was saying but not sure the hyphen makes it totally clear what was meant.
    18. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Are you making the assumption that "stationary" means paper products? Edit: Ah! Now I see it.
    19. gomezz

      Change of Circumstances...

      Also the postcode for the Bournemouth area.
    20. gomezz

      Assume v. Presume

      The opposite of Delivers = Downdrops. :D
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