Also where did Indy hide on the submarine? Or did he just hold his breath while it crossed the Adriatic?

This actually has an answer: he tied himself to the periscope, which remained above water: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4060/how-did-indiana-jones-manage-to-follow-marion-to-the-island.

Not the Adriatic though – it was from near Sicily to somewhere in the Aegean.

Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick looks remarkably young for a chap who was a toddler in 1985, when he was featured in the original film…

I don’t think this is a plot hole. In Top Gun: Maverick it is only said that Maverick has ‘Thirty-plus years of service’. It seems reasonable that means no more than 33. He was already a fully-qualified pilot in the first film, which seems to indicate a minimum of 4 years in the US Navy. So it’s a maximum of 29 years later. And Miles Teller was 34 when the film came out, so it seems to work, independent of the year either film was set.

very few people , rightly or wrongly, are going to feel bad about copyright infringement.

Until it affects their interests, of course. Surely some of you cheapskates would be appalled if the product of your employment was ripped off.

Forex is the way forward for currency trading

lost me there

I saw a nice shiny one in the Santa Cruz HQ last week, along with with Steve, Greg and Josh’s old bikes 😉

I’d rate the Dean St Townhouse. Lively but cosy bar, big rooms, doesn’t feel like a big impersonal hotel.

I also stayed in a Room For London fairly recently — the boat thing on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank. Pretty romantic but you need to win a lottery to stay there. Literally, not figuratively.

Have to say I was a bit underwhelmed by the experience/price factor at both the Zetter and Nopi.

Off to Bob Bob Ricard on Friday…

Good point. I’d say Pebble Hill is for going down!

Why is Box Hill such a big deal, incidentally?

Because:

– it has a cafe at the top (2 in fact) so is a natural stop, thus encourages all-out climbing effort
– you can see a long way ahead so you can chase people down
– it is prominent and scenic
– it is consistent and shallow enough that hardly anyone would find it a problem if they have low gears and take it slowly

Indicating at junctions seems to be going rapidly out of fashion, at least in my area of S London. Really noticed it in the last year.

One issue I’ve found is that MTB shoes can rock side-to-side on pedals. This gets increasingly pronounced as the tread around the cleat wears.

Just replaced my old pair of Sidi MTB shoes with Shimano touring shoes (also MTB cleat) and the difference is very noticeable

Would they have details of differing contract conditions in there ? Not sure as I don’t think I have ever read one

Not differing individual conditions, but where it’s linked to grade (as per OP) or length of service. It’s quite a good idea to read them…!

I’d agree it’s ultimately negotiable, but you should know your initial bargaining position i.e. what you have signed up to.

Also interesting, if she never signed a new contract I would assume the company needs to show she knew about the change of notice – no idea how they do that.

though HR tell her this is the case for her ‘grade’.

IME that kind of detail is given in the copy of the staff handbook given on joining, and which the contract states forms part of terms and conditions. I would make doubly sure this isn’t the case before doing anything else.

Thanks lightman + timb34, I shall ask them.

Going back to the original question,

Flagging activities on Strava…. ….why?

I can see maybe flagging a segment if the time is way out – i.e. obviously done in a car, or a faulty GPS giving big jumps in the time.

But I got an email today saying that 3 full rides/activities of mine from last year had been flagged

AFAIK, you can’t flag a segment of someone’s ride, so if you think there’s a blip in their data, you can only flag the whole ride.

I’ve just noticed I have a data blip giving me an unrealistic KOM on a tiny climb in the middle of an otherwise kosher ride. Guess I should really set the ride as private. Bit annoying as the rest of the data looks fine and I set quite a few decent PRs!

Teacher’s …

Needs improvement.

@midlifecrashes: I thought this came down to “no notice” being redefined to mean “about half a day’s notice”?

Kimbers: in context isnt this just a bit of rightwing tubthumping as he trys to claw back some shred of credibility after allegations on newsnight he blocked interventions of these schools 2 years ago

That’s not quite right – AFAIK he set the policy that Ofsted would not carry out no-notice inspections of any school or academy.

That’s right – must have been well over a decade ago!

Not quite – ISTR you sensibly stayed near the top of the lift, whereas we did an epically sweaty carry/push to what seemed like the top of an Alp and then rode (or slid on my a*se in my case) down some horrific vertical wall of scree and gorse bushes to the Joux Plane…

Me too, me too. Although I didn’t get a picture of Mr Landis until I infiltrated the start village next day: https://www.flickr.com/photos/elliot100/196880983/in/set-72157594209740037 Smug git.

It is on the BBC site – Berkshire though:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-21241708

[swamp_boy] BTW can anyone tell me why it’s called Prince Albert?

As you can see from Rocketdog’s above, it originally had a extra bit of steel up front.

By the way, mine’s even older than his.

I can happily sit and tweak fonts all day. Its a [character] flaw.

There’s about 75% of a good pun there.

Bought my manbag in Selfridges January sale, about 30% off.

I have the same as you Prophet2. £1300 all in I think, including dual air Pikes, RP2, SRAM X7 shifters and rear mech, reasonable wheels, Gobi saddle. Replaced the stem and seatpost. Also swapped in adjustable Pikes for the non-adjustable ones. Ride it with the FR setting at all times, and forks usually wound down to about 125mm.

Desire S is Android 2.3x, so already supports moving apps to SD.

Another vote for CT non-iron. I’ve tried a few brands (inc TM Lewin) and they’re the only ones that are really good enough. I hang them straight from the washing machine.

Cheers, giving it a go…

The jeans are pretty overpriced, but I do like their t-shirts.

Yes, it just sits in the gap, mine keeps popping out, and I also have never had one in the bottom.

nbt: yep, julian, how are you?

I know Marco and Aodan (correct spelling I believe), but who the hell are you lot?

cheers people :thumb:

No one?

@porterclough: I meant you’d display the full range of the image over time by varying the tone-mapping. But I guess this is just the same as varying the exposure per frame while using a video camera that uses some kind of exposure compensation.

Oh sure each image would have to be within normal range, I was thinking more that you’d animate over a second or two – the same sort of time that it would take your eye to adjust. A bit more Googling seems to show this is exactly what’s done in video games – you look down a dark corridor and can see detail, you turn your view to an outdoor window and you can only see a white rectangle, after a second or two the brightness reduces and outdoor detail is visible.

interesting… cheers for the info. Thinking aloud, but presumably a way of viewing a true HDR image on a screen would be to make an animation which tweened between a series of normalised images taken with different exposures. Might muck about with this…

@ coffeeking “This simply wouldn’t be possible without HDR”

I remember combining two exposures of a landscape, one for the clouds, one for the ground, from scanned film negatives in Photoshop years ago. Isn’t that much the same thing?

I never got very far with film photography but I think it was possible to use similar techniques with film in camera by shielding part of the image and thus effectively having variable exposure acros the image. Assume doing this at printing (dodge and burn?) isn’t quite the same thing.

Just in case anyone looks at this thread again, I just installed a top-swing, non-E-type SLX mech for my triple ring setup, and it works fine without any modification. I thought the E-type mounting boss on the frame would be in the way, but it’s just low enough not to be an issue.