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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Leon on 13 August 2013, 10:40:03 PM

Title: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Leon on 13 August 2013, 10:40:03 PM
Follow this link to a Google Streetview of the police box on Earl's Court Road, and then click the double white arrows on the ground...

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.492159,-0.19092&spn=0.005291,0.013937&sll=51.492140,-0.193028&layer=c&cid=12502927659667388442&panoid=c9UMhWP_MWm9U0L48xEjYw&cbp=13,291.8,,0,18.86&gl=US&t=m&cbll=51.492132,-0.192862&z=17 (https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.492159,-0.19092&spn=0.005291,0.013937&sll=51.492140,-0.193028&layer=c&cid=12502927659667388442&panoid=c9UMhWP_MWm9U0L48xEjYw&cbp=13,291.8,,0,18.86&gl=US&t=m&cbll=51.492132,-0.192862&z=17)

You can even move and look around!

:D
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 13 August 2013, 10:40:54 PM
 :-bd
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Steve J on 14 August 2013, 07:10:46 AM
Very clever :).
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Techno on 14 August 2013, 07:18:46 AM
What happens ?....It didn't want to play.
(I'll have another look later on.)
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 14 August 2013, 11:56:38 AM
Phil - probably due to your connection working on morse.

IanS
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 14 August 2013, 12:40:23 PM
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Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Fenton on 14 August 2013, 12:46:27 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 August 2013, 12:40:23 PM
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;D ;D...Nice one..though I didn't get the middle bit
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Techno on 14 August 2013, 01:04:54 PM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 14 August 2013, 11:56:38 AM
Phil - probably due to your connection working on morse.
IanS

It's not that fast Ian.
(Probably the carrier pigeon's got lost on its way back with the floppy disc AGAIN. =))
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Fenton on 14 August 2013, 01:15:38 PM
Thanks for sending me the photo of your computer Phil...I think I can see why your having problems

(http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/SteveW_04/decmateii.jpg) (http://s625.photobucket.com/user/SteveW_04/media/decmateii.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Ithoriel on 14 August 2013, 01:18:34 PM
Quote from: Techno on 14 August 2013, 01:04:54 PM
(Probably the carrier pigeon's got lost on its way back with the floppy disc AGAIN. =))

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6.
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Techno on 14 August 2013, 02:26:39 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 14 August 2013, 01:15:38 PM
Thanks for sending me the photo of your computer Phil...I think I can see why your having problems

You're going to tell me it's because I've got green writing on the television thingy, instead of white aren't you ?

Oh...Pants !...Just seen the pigeon being taken out by a sparrow hawk....I'll have to send another one off now. :-< =)
(Never going to see this vid am I ?) :P
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Leon on 14 August 2013, 03:28:40 PM
Does Google Street View work for you normally?
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 14 August 2013, 04:35:30 PM
Quote from: Leon on 14 August 2013, 03:28:40 PM
Does Google Street View work for you normally?

Does it ever work normally.....

Seriously it's most likely a band width problem, rural Wales wont have the best of signals......

InaS
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Techno on 14 August 2013, 06:34:33 PM
Quote from: Leon on 14 August 2013, 03:28:40 PM
Does Google Street View work for you normally?

To be truthful Leon, I'm not sure if I've ever tried it...
I'll have another go at this one in a while.
I'm sure Ian will be right , though (as you can probably guess)...I haven't got a clue what bandwidth is in relation to my PC.
Cheers - Mr Dunce.
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 15 August 2013, 06:57:18 AM
Techno - just the wolf pack and unicorn heard to contribute - costs about £1m to install a sat dish and local cabling - village up on the Lancashire moors did so about 6 months ago.

IanS
Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: Techno on 15 August 2013, 09:50:34 AM
Ahhhhh....
Think I understand now !

Nothing like a sat dish and direct cabling from that anywhere near here as far as I know.
There IS a sodding great mast about half (?) a mile away, in direct line of sight, which carries all sorts of signals...mobile phones, TV and goodness knows what else.
According to a local TV fitter as far as TV signals are concerned, we actually live too CLOSE to that because of the way the signals are generated from there.
(He tried to explain.....I tried to understand....Something about an umbrella shape from the mast....He lost me completely.)

Basically all we have is a connection to the local exchange (sub exchange) which is about a mile away.....and about the size of a biggish garden shed.

Basically, I reckon I'll just have to put up with it always being slow ;)
Never mind....There are far worse problems in the World to worry about than that. ;)

Cheers - Phil.

Title: Re: Calling all Doctor Who fans...
Post by: petercooman on 15 August 2013, 07:29:06 PM
Yes there are Phil, like never being able to search for monokini's on streetvieuw......

NEVER!!!!!



;)