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The British (actually England, Wales and Northern Island) have the design covered by law (TSRGD 2016). Scotland have minor change in the regulations.

The sounder (aka bleeper) and device (aka tactile) are for visually impaired pedestrians. In Scotland, you can also have a voice telling you the vehicles has a red (e.g. Vehicles heading North on Main Street have been given a red signal).

Systems in other counties have advantages and disadvantages (IMHO), lack of a clear standard compared to background noise. Too complex, so problems in maintenance. However some difference in sounds give a better indication to pedestrians on the start/middle/end of crossing time.

There is also Countdown - http://content.tfl.gov.uk/PCaTS-Note-2-Overview-Presentation...

dtmf.io gives errors for every option ? 'We're sorry, an error occurred. Please try again soon.'

I visited the London Bus Museum (not the Transport Museum in Covent garden) http://www.londonbusmuseum.com/ There Bus pre-first world war with the 164 (my local route) still with the exact same stops.

To me the book was always about Go taken to the extreme. The Game is the Empire and visa-versa. Imagine if Japan had been more dominate in previous war, then conquered space - then you had the Player of Games.

Wonder if not British reader will get "half-inched" :)

yes, a setting. (Are you running the latest version of app?) Also Pebble Notification Centre is a good alternative.

Spot on, sometimes it can be career limiting. Never be the one to break the bad news.

The Head of State in the UK, (aka The Queen), has quite a few reproductions. Every item of money (coins and notes) and a lot of stamps.

http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/circulation-coin-... - more than 50,000,000 coins in circulation. Then add notes and stamps, plus other commonwealth countries, plus tourist items....

Found some details of the cards

http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=store&ProductGrp...

The study was very flawed. The 85 percentile walking speed for pedestrians (1.2 m/s) is for when people start the crossing at the end of green man. So some 15 percent of the people are slower. However if youo take into account most people start crossing before the end of the green man, then the time is ample. "the sensor-controlled systems" - are hopelessly inefficient and actually confusing for pedestrians.

A countdown which displays the time until the red-man is best for a balance of all users.

BBC is not funded by government. It is a separate licence fee and have governance in place to keep it at a very long arm length away from government. Which may be a reason why the current government want to change/destroy/modernise ot so that it can influence output.

Very cool, I´ve seen other sell them:- https://msraynsford.myshopify.com/products/carcassonne-tile-...

Cool use of javascript.

Wow - Great way of generating Carcassone tiles. Thanks for posting. (Runs off to hackspace with files in hand)

Wow big leaps in the article, big assumptions. With little backing for the assumptions.

Excuse the pun, but I call "Bull"

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

Splendid Snap is a group card game. It consists of a pack of cards, with a selection of symbols on each card. On two cards, there is one identical symbol in common on each card. There will always be one and only one match of symbols.

I have built a website, (django & python) to allow anyone to make their own pack by supplying the raw ingredients of a word list or images or both.

The maths behind how many symbols on each card is fun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fano_plane Code in github.com