I wonder if one of these, intended as a novelty toy, would be worth having continuously plugged in to a USB port of one's computer for practical use in case there are power cuts. Would it then run off the computer's battery?

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /311683648

William

I was looking through the

Stocking fillers

in the Tesco groceries website, and I found the following.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /312096610

Can anyone figure out how it is used please?

I looked up AUX port on the web but at present I am not clear how it is used.

As it has a port it seems as if it is meant to be used with a device of some sort, but which type of device and for what purpose or result?

Why the earphone?

PROFESSOR PUZZLE MINI MICROPHONE GADGET
Always be ready to take centre stage with this star quality earphone and mini microphone set! Simply plug it into your device, put the earphones in and speak into the mic to wow those around you. The glamorous gadget that will put you in the spotlight!
Ages 8+
Set contains: earphones and mini microphone
Compatible with universal AUX ports

William

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https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-large … k-12736209

William

Ah, the add an attachment only becomes available after one has requested and received a Preview.

William

Hello Alfred, Can one attach a PDF document to a post in this forum?

Wow! I should have checked. WordPad never used to have justification.

Thank you.

William

Some of us regularly use software from the Serif Plus range and from the Serif Affinity range, but how much can one get done with just what is bundled in Windows 10?

For example, using Print from WordPad and from Paint, even if one does not have a printer attached, gives access to Microsoft Print to PDF and then one can, in the United Kingdom, if one so chooses, upload the PDF document to Viking Virtual Print House and order a print to be delivered by Royal Mail.

One can save a jpg graphic file from Paint and upload it to the website of one of the several businesses from which one can order a custom greetings card. If one so chooses, one may configure that greetings card to be more like an art print with the greeting inside replaced with descriptive text, send it to oneself and then frame it.

Now the two PDF documents are not a good as might be liked. For example, (I (CORRECTION I had written as follows) WordPad does not have text justification (CORRECTION It does now. Please see later posts) and the PDF document from Paint might not have the picture centred.

But, can one manually justify the text in WordPad?

Can one build a white margin into the picture in Paint so that the image looks centred in the PDF document?

What can one achieve using just what is bundled in Windows 10, given that one has an internet connection and a payment card (credit card or debit card)?

For convenience of this discussion, please regard everyday things like email, forum posts, purchasing software and downloading it, ordering grocery and clothing, and so on, where one is just only using the internet, as not being part of this discussion.

William

This edition dates from early 1953.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1bkBzw1QnY

This is an early one. Ones from some years later do not have the initial guesses and they have the panel walk on at the start, said to be so that viewers could see full length the dresses that the ladies were wearing.

So, this post, in early November 2022, is nearly seventy years after the broadcast.

William

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(8 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Thinking about it, I think it is over fifty years since I studied optics.

It was at a level of a simple lens depicted as a vertical line in the centre of a sheet of paper. A horizontal line all across the middle. At the right, a short vertical line going up from the horizontal line, the short vertical line having an arrow head at its upper end and was designated as the object. Then there was a dot on the line a distance away to the left from the lens.

Suppose please for our discussion here, at least to start, until something else is needed, that the object is the painting at The National Gallery in London discussed in the following article and that our experimental set up is located such that a fish eye lens is needed to get the side edges of the painting into the photograph, and the centre of our line of sight is the eye of the white horse, even though it is not quite in the centre of the picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_San_Romano

William

Yes, I wondered where Hermannstadt was.

An interesting story of people, German heritage, with their own dialect version of German, in an area tha is now in Romania.

But the band also plays in Germany.

For example, in Dinkelsbühl.

William

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(8 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Indeed.

So as the product is only available at all until the middle of December, part of the reason I have ordered one now is to try to maximize my chances of getting one..

With these things I have no idea how many are put out on the shelves at any one time. If there are, say, four, then they could go quckly or sit there for a long time. I suppose it only needs one person to buy one, try it, be impressed and tell friends and there could be a run on them.

Over the years there have been a few things that I could not get until the third order.

For example a Tesco Aura Cereal Bowl Ochre. Alas now discontinued, but eventually I got three.

They were £1.50 or £1.75 or something like that.

Shortly after Tesco cut the four ochre items from the Aura range I searched on the web and saw them being sold elsewhere for over £7.

I have a Tesco Aura Cereal Bowl in each of the four colours. I stand small pots containing houseplants in them, I have never used them as cereal bowls.

For larger pots containing house plants I use Tesco Aura Pasta Bowls.

William

The internet performance here seems to have gone back to normal, at least for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdgk3mv7ls

An interesting puzzle, with an interesting answer - where did that performance take place?

William

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(8 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Thank you, Joe.

I have watched this video all the way through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gboGX89BpNU

21 minutes 9 seconds

The video was made three years ago and the kit reviewed was $26 at that time.

So the Tesco one is £3.50 and not purported to do as much.

However, on the basis of watching the video and learning of how it fits on and gets adjusted I have added one of the £3.50 ones to my next grocery order because I think it is worth that to have some enjoyment experimenting with it and if I can get a picture using it then I can email it to myself from the camera and then there is the opportunity to put it into a PDF document using Affinity Designer software and get a digital print from Viking Virtual Print House.

I found the best bit of the video was about the telephoto lens. The Blue Sky kit does not have one of those.

However, I note that it has a macro lens.

I did not know what that was about, but I found this article.

https://www.imaginated.com/blog/what-is-macro-lens/

I did once try to take a close up picture of something with my very basic mobile phone and it was a very blurry image.

There is some information about how to use the Blue Sky kit on the Tesco website.

The picture on the Tesco website just shows the front of the pack. There might well be printed information on the back of the pack.

William

https://news.sky.com/story/giant-christ … t-12736338

There is a video available on the page..

Noteworthy is the way the silver coating comes off the first one.

William

YouTube is running the My Mix play list.

It paused, then went through the second one fine.

It then paused a little.

Then did a five second advert.

Then started another video, stopped after a few seconds, then, while I am typing this, keeps singing a bit, then pauses the starts again.

How long will it take until it gets to the strangers looking out of the window? :-)

William

Well, it is now playing this fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvAsFefBmGY

William

I have having great difficulty using the internet today.

I cannot get things like YouTube to play videos and I cannot get Sky News live.

Some static pages say not available, then come up later.

So I am wondering if it is my computer system, the BT connection or some major problem on the internet that I cannot fix.

My internet connection has dropped out then restarted on its own accord.

William

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Thank you.

So the quality of the image that is gathered relies on the quality of the lenses of both the clip-on item and of the mobile phone with which it is used.

I wonder how alignment is achived as various mobile phones are of different body sizes.

At the relatively low price perhaps I might get one, not necessarily to use straightaway but to have available, notwithstanding that I rarely take photographs.

But I am wondering if some specific type of mobile phone of the correct physical case size is needed.

Wiliam

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(8 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

I saw this while searching for clips (I wanted paper clips)

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /312098533

How does that work?

I remember those adverts year ago on ITV for some brand of colour television showing the picture display quality of the advertised television on the viewer's current television.

William

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(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I have been thinking of trying to devise some abstract emoji-compatible characters for some verbs.

These could then be used with my designs for personal pronouns and regular emoji to form some simple sentences in a language-independent form.

I searched on the web and I found the following.

https://theidealteacher.com/emojis-verb … e-learning

This is interesting.

However, maybe I still need abstract designs for verbs like "to be", "to have", "to want", "to must" and for some others.

William

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(9 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Thank you, Alfred.

William

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(9 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

When I saw Jacks comment I checked and it worked fine for me, but when I tried again later, I got the blocked version.

William

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(9 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Thank you.

William

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(9 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

What was that, please?

William

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(9 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/scie … 13668.html

William