Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Did it sink in the sink?
Admit your insight - things you knew all along that have now become public knowledge.
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Did it sink in the sink?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
That Rishi Sunak is a climate sceptic
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
And the Irish Catholic upbringing. Which develops your preservation instincts no end.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
That was Noah's Arc
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
Good Friday Agreement + Brexit = chocolate teapot.
I didn't want to ask. 😂
classic33
Leg End Member
There's two light boards on either platform at the local railway atation. They light up with the word OFF showing, when the inbound train, in either direction passes a certain point.
Watching one yesterday, as the train was late, and very few announcements being made. I was asked why did I keep looking in their direction(Is it illegal to look around these days?) and I'd to point out the board. They'd neither noticed it before or what it did. Hanging there twenty odd years, previously wall mounted and they'd never noticed them.
I thought everyone knew, but not the case.
Watching one yesterday, as the train was late, and very few announcements being made. I was asked why did I keep looking in their direction(Is it illegal to look around these days?) and I'd to point out the board. They'd neither noticed it before or what it did. Hanging there twenty odd years, previously wall mounted and they'd never noticed them.
I thought everyone knew, but not the case.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'm half ignorant. I have noticed such boards but I've never known what they do.
Punkawallah
Über Member
Then of course there'll be that other '66 'big event' in 2066, before the 1000th Battle of Hastings stuff , when we remember, even celebrateEngland's 1966 World Cup win, 100th anniversary.
Well, at least it will mean Hastings & Battle will be quiet for the nerds :-)
Are we arranging a meeting place? Zimmer friendly, of course.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Both dressed in King Harold's army costumes while sat in wheelchairs waving those plastic swords, complete with tartan rug, ear trumpet and slippers!
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Then of course there'll be that other '66 'big event' in 2066, before the 1000th Battle of Hastings stuff , when we remember, even celebrate
I can't help feeling there's an implicit assumption there, that England won't repeat the World Cup win by 2066...
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
You should be that in, things you knew all along….oh hang on
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
I told a schoolfriend in the late 1960s that in our lifetime we would be able to buy a personal computer that was more powerful than a mainframe computer of the time costing millions of pounds and filling a large hall. This personal computer would fit into a suitcase, cost less than £25,000, be able to store, create, and play back music, photos, and video, and be able to store thousands of books worth of data. He looked at me as if I was crazy... Little did we realise that my forecast was actually very conservative!
Indeed. Fits in a pocket, never mind a suitcase, and costs a few hundred pounds, and also makes phone calls as well as all the computery stuff you list.
My phone has WAY more processing power and memory than the room sized mainframe I was proudly shown by the Swansea University Computer department before I was offered a place there, in 1976. That was an ICL 1904S, with 128K of main memory, and exchangeable disk pack each able to store up to 300K of data.
