Re: [slim] Re: USB power: the same in England as US?

2006-08-09 Thread Bill Burns

mikerob wrote:
ftlight Wrote: 

Fifer wrote:
Most sporrans are wireless now. 
audiofi Wrote: 

Except Scotland where they still rely on cave painting to

communicate, I

hear electricity is due up there soon*

You do realise that if wasn't for that great Scot, James Clerk

Maxwell,

you probably wouldn't have had any power for your damned USB port ...

;)

And no Internet without Kelvin's contributions to undersea cable theory

and practice!



ah, but Lord Kelvin (real name William Thompson) wasn't Scottish but
was from Belfast in Northern Ireland.



But his father had moved to Belfast from Scotland a few years before 
William was born.  Does that make him Scottish or Irish?


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Re: [slim] Re: USB power: the same in England as US?

2006-08-08 Thread Bill Burns

Fifer wrote:
Most sporrans are wireless now. 
audiofi Wrote: 

Except Scotland where they still rely on cave painting to communicate, I
hear electricity is due up there soon*

>

You do realise that if wasn't for that great Scot, James Clerk Maxwell,
you probably wouldn't have had any power for your damned USB port ... ;)


And no Internet without Kelvin's contributions to undersea cable theory 
and practice!


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