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From: Hiram on 19 Jun 2008 15:01 On Jun 19, 1:54 pm, Conor <conor_tur...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > Does he do it cheaper than others then? > > Considerably. £89 here. > I doubt my doctor does that many, if any, I think he just makes up a figure. Conor, is that you posting over at The Register?
From: Conor on 19 Jun 2008 17:03 In article <860b488b-4eb9-47a7-b4f4- a51d541cedff(a)h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, Hiram says... > On Jun 19, 1:54 pm, Conor <conor_tur...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Does he do it cheaper than others then? > > > > Considerably. £89 here. > > > I doubt my doctor does that many, if any, I think he just makes up a > figure. > > Conor, is that you posting over at The Register? > No. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams
From: Hiram on 20 Jun 2008 00:31 On Jun 19, 10:03 pm, Conor <conor_tur...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > Conor, is that you posting over at The Register? > > No. > Ah ok, just a bloke with the same name as you. You seen to be all over the place! :)
From: Eeyore on 20 Jun 2008 07:55 Huge wrote: > Mike G <metier(a)largefoot.com> wrote: > > > Some years ago I seem to recall a passenger jet taking off, > > flying to New York and landing, all under the control of a > > computer. Just to prove it could be done. > > Any suitably equipped Jumbo Jet can do this. Most certainly not. Probably on the 400 series only. The autopilot on the 'classics' was shocking. I still don't know any pilot not taking off manually either. Graham
From: Eeyore on 20 Jun 2008 07:59
Mike G wrote: > "Brimstone" wrote > > Eeyore wrote: > >> Brimstone wrote: > >> > >>> If flying was more intellectualy challenging than driving a > >>> road vehicle then we wouldn't have computers controlling aircraft. > > >> > >> No, that makes no sense at all. > > > > OK, I'll rephrase it. A computer (or other machine) hasn't yet > > been offered commercially that will steer a road vehicle (there > > have been some experiments) whereas such devices are used to > > control the direction, height and speed of an aircraft. Thus > > driving a road vehicle is a more complex task than flying a > > 'plane. > > Some years ago I seem to recall a passenger jet taking off, > flying to New York and landing, all under the control of a > computer. Just to prove it could be done. It did have a pilot > though, just in case. Sure it wasn't a Virgin A340 from Heathrow to Shanghai ? The Americans are funny about auto-land. It was a manual take-off too btw. Graham |