Re: Switch off at the socket?
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:17:36 +0100
In message <h98nbf$l80$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin
<richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> writes
>In article <slrnhbfmf6.79o.pm@nowster.eternal-september.org>,
>Paul Martin <pm@nowster.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>0.6nkg = 600ng, which is definitely measurable. You can't use SI units
>>like that.
>
>I don't see why n ...
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"Platform Neutral" BBC ignores Freesat
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:47:06 -0700 (PDT)
I see that 16 months after launch, BBCi still isn't fully supported on
Freesat.
"Press the red button for coverage of <something>" - unless you have
Freesat, when you can forget about all that extra sport, music, etc
being available via the red button!
Is there any date published for when the streams are goin ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:00:47 +0100
It is not a measure of the number of atoms, or of the ratio of force
applied to an object to its resulting acceleration. The SI system of
units used to be called the MKS system, standing for
Metre-Kilogram-Second. You can see from this that actually the Kg is
one of the fundamental units, defined in the first pl ...
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The Wrekin Channel Allocations
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
Something I've wondered about for years...
Why, when the standard channel allocations on Group A transmitters
which use those channels is almost always (from BBC1 to C4)
33-26-23-29, the Wrekin allocations have got BBC1 and 2 reversed, i.e.
26-33-23-29?
There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for it, and ...
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Hijacking some of a satellite transponder bandwidth
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:42:36 -0700 (PDT)
I was reading an old satellite technology magazine that said that in
the 1980's there were organisations who would hijack part of a
satellite transponder and use it for their own nefarious purposes.
Apparently they even made their added signals (analogue days remember)
symmetrical so that they were harder to spot. ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:20:35 GMT
Interesting discussion. Here's some food for thought:
If a sealed container does *not* allow particles to pass its walls but
*does* allow loss of energy via exchange of thermal radiation with its
outer environment, then a chemical reaction within that container could
increase the temperature within that contain ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:51:20 +0100
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:43:07 +0100, "Norman Wells"
<no-one@myarl.co.uk> wrote:
>The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Norman Wells wrote:
>
>>>> Because relativity says its so. ANY release of energy is accompanied
>>>> by a loss of mass.
>>>>
>>>> Its vanishingly small for typical mechanical and chemical energ ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:45:45 +0100
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:22:20 +0100, "Norman Wells"
<no-one@myarl.co.uk> wrote:
>The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Norman Wells wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>> Energy is neither created nor destroyed
>>>>>>> Only according to classical physics.
>>>>>>>> Except in nuclear power stations a ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:14:59 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:44:23 +0100, Roderick Stewart wrote:
> In other words, selling bits of paper they knew to be worthless.
Yes, of course -- why do you think banks and other financial institutions
are so keen to sell on debt? It is called hedging the risk, or
as some might say, distributing or even sharin ...
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Re: Eurobird 1 failure (was Sky satellites)
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:37:10 +0100
In article <pan.2009.09.16.18.48.42@yoyo.ORG>,
J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> The type of programming that used to be shown on BBC-2 and has
> now been moved to the digital cultural/intellectual ghetto of BBC-4,
> and just the type of programming that should be shown on BBC-4 rather
> than pretentious p ...
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