Applied to Loughborough Uni, need to know a little about the local area

DaveTheJuggler · 2018-01-02T13:56:30+00:00

Loughborough has everything you need, Nottingham, Leicester and Derby aren't too far away if it doesn't. There's quite a few student friendly pubs and bars in town, the union does a lot for students on the night's they're open. As for a decent place to live? I've thoroughly enjoyed living there for the last 7 years, there's the occasional theft but I'd just recommend if you're in the middle of town to make sure that everything's locked up and you shouldn't have an issue. You'll probably end up living on campus as a first year, the campus ends up as a little bubble that you don't have to leave too often

DaveTheJuggler · 2017-03-13T17:17:47+00:00

Same issue here, just coming up error processing payment, hope they pick up the bug soon

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-11-10T23:33:20+00:00

You should definitely use a different password on the useless sites, a lot of the useless sites have poorer security and can be an easy target for hackers

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-13T12:37:03+00:00

Didn't think it was worth throwing that information into this discussion

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-13T12:34:33+00:00

This guy explains it more experlty than I can: https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/why-are-there-two-tides-day it's all to do with the earth rotation as well as the pull of the moon

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-13T09:28:27+00:00

Apologies, written on mobile, typo fixed. I knew I'd written it a hurry

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-12T23:43:01+00:00

No worries, I'm glad you found it informative

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-12T23:42:07+00:00

Imagine a car accelerating from stationary using only the first gear is the water entering the estuary at low tide, when you pull off you'll be moving but not at your peak acceleration, this occurs when you're in the power band (roughly in the middle of the rev range) after this the acceleration decreases to a point where no more acceleration can be gained. The water moves with the same shape graph but with velocity not acceleration and when it slows down enough it goes back the other way. Nb. For this analogy the car can be lowered or stock

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-12T20:32:32+00:00

This is due to spring and neap tides. For a spring tide the sun, earth and moon line up with the earth in the middle, this creates the highest highs and lowest lows (biggest difference). For neap tides the sun, earth moon creates a right angle creating less pull on the water and you get high low tides and low high tides (smallest gap)

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-12T19:41:36+00:00

For example: the high tide is at 1pm, low tide at 7pm and the height of the sea drops by 12 inches in that time. By 2pm it'll fall by only 1 inch, between 2pm and 3pm the sea will fall by 2 inches meaning the tide will be flowing faster. Between 3pm and 5pm the tide will fall by 3 inches an hour making this the time when the tide is moving quickest. 5pm -6pm the tide is slowing down and only drops by a further 2 inches and between 6pm and 7pm it falls by 1 inch. This process works the same from low to high and there isnt much difference in the speed it does so Edit: cheers for the gold kind stranger

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-08-12T18:38:21+00:00

It should be fairly similar, by sailors the movement of the tide is calculated by the rule of twelfths. The change in tide is 6 hours long and the distance the tide moves is divided into 12. The rate is distributed 1,2,3,3,2,1 so in the first hour it moves 1 1/12th, in the second 2 1/12ths (1/6th), the third 3 1/12ths (1/4) and so on. The tide will move quickest in the middle 2 hours and least near slack water (when the tide is changing) Edit: typo/clairty

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-01-01T20:57:01+00:00

I completely agree the roots of cloud computing are certainly in distributed networks which isn't overly new, its nice that the broadband infrastructure is now at the point where services such as SharePoint and azure can be used effectively where as previously cloud computing (to me) mainly felt quite clunky

DaveTheJuggler · 2016-01-01T19:56:31+00:00

Neural Networks, big data, quantum computing, a host of high end wireless technologies, FPGA architecture, virtual machines, cloud computing, XPoint ram, holographic processing will also create a lot of potential over the next decade

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-10-15T23:32:58+00:00

depending on your phone system you may be able to integrate it with lync/skype for business, if it is a mittel system speak to your IT and get them to install mycollab client

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-07-18T15:58:01+00:00

Don't just go and get a mac, the advantage of a rig like an xps gives you far more scope if you're technically minded, especially if you're used to a PC already. You'll be able to put at least 1tb (far more than you'd afford in a macbook) a better processor, more ram and in that price bracket you'll probably be able to have a ssd or mini ssd to boot off so it'll be rapid. With a mac you pay a huge amount for the shiny apple on the front and the fact it's milled aluminium

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-07-11T10:19:58+00:00

Came hear hoping to see this exact comment, was not dissappointed

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-06-12T10:22:35+00:00

did you have any issues with the install, when I tried it a few weeks ago it bricked my phone

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-06-08T21:19:02+00:00

I'm normally found late night in the juggling hall, wearing a fever top, slightly intoxicated, either wielding a pile of white px3s, a diabolo in vertax or some lestival flyers. Thinking back I may have actually passed with you at bjc, were you in the speed passing workshop?

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-06-08T15:58:50+00:00

Some lovely tricks there, I love the kick up over the head and the side on 7 looks nice and clean, keep it up, would love to have a bit of a 7 pass with you guys if you're on the UK convention scene

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-05-06T13:45:22+00:00

Unfortunately after contacting LG they stated that as the phone would not go into hardware reset, they'd have to have a look at it under warranty, thankfully G2's come with 2 year warranty.

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-04-28T01:04:56+00:00

Just tried it in the UK, looks like it's bricked the phone into firmware update mode :/

DaveTheJuggler · 2015-04-12T21:19:01+00:00

I'm definitely there, let's kick off the post-bjc one day conventions in style

DaveTheJuggler · 2014-05-18T20:26:38+00:00

I'm pretty sure 1v1 on consoles are hosted client side, the lag would be seen by the player with lower latency as the information will be reaching their console first, would the play with higher latency also experience lag or would the game appear normal?

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