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Using an, umm, extension to the world-famous FUFME of yesterdecade.

(Oh, are you a newcomer? Well, their site is long gone, but you can start by reading http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/internet-sites/fufme-com/377859/ to see what it was all about)

My 9 year old Vaio N505SN is almost as thin as that and 2.6lbs. Nice tough magnesium shell. Still working great as an XP netbook after all these years too.

Railways. Television. Electric motor. Flushing toilet. Steam engine & locomotive. Computer. Seed drill. Tank. Custard. Cat flap. Jet engine. World wide web. Penicillin.

You forgot parliamentary democracy. And ready chopped suet.

Yes, I know the Icelandic *invented* it. The British made it *right*. Er, I meant 'parliamentary democracy', not ready chopped suet. But that was first made in Britain too: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/food/atora-shredded-suet/1166349/

"Gabriel Hugon watched his wife trying to finely chop a large piece of suet and thought that he may make many housewives lives easier by selling ready chopped suet. He sold his engraving business and in 1893 he opened The Atora Suet factory in Openshaw, Manchester."

Christmas puddings have never been the same -- thankfully.

For those outside the UK, it's probably worth pointing out that The Sun is a fanatically right-wing paper written for a reading age of approximately 9 years. Most prominent in The Sun are the "Page Three Stunna" (a different picture of a topless woman every day), a large sports section, and a large comics section. Fairly typical Sun headlines are "Do Fellas Prefer Flirtier Females?", "Driven to suicide by websites", and "Immigrant got me pregnant at 14". These are *real* headlines from The Sun, I'm not making this up. Ok, they're not quite at the level of batshit crazyness of some USian tabloids (National Enquirer, I'm looking at you here), but they have printed their fair share of "I got pregnant by a space mushroom"-type stuff.

Sorry. Yes, the preference I stated was my own, of course. ...and, yes, I was brought up on Heinz (in England, mostly). Actually, I was shocked to learn Heinz wasn't an English company; worse, it was American .

BTW, if I can take the opportunity to point out my personal preference for Hamburgers. This review seems to agree with me :

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/restaurants-cafes-national /schwartz-brothers/261849/

Find them here

I had them when I went to Bath University (many years ago) and went back last year, and they were just as good as I remembered.

If you get the chance, I highly recommend them.

Hello!

And what about PCI version - will be there DX10 PCI graphics card?
BTW, I've just bought Vista Ready DX9 Geforce 6200 256 MB DDR2 on PCI bus:
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/graphic-cards/pny-verto-ge force-6-6200-pci/1046235/

PCI ATI Radeon X1300 and even X1550 are also available:
http://www.visiontek.com/products/cards/retail/x15 50_PCI.html

Regards, Roman

Speaking as someone that has produced records (a few little dance hits in the UK) what he's doing is what's going on in just about every studio in the world. Namely, using samples to make a beat. It's nothing special, what's interesting is tying that with the video. Having said that, software to do that has been available for nearly 10 years (called Steinberg X-Pose) and it's quite good fun to use - just set video and sound samples to keys on a keyboard and bash away.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/multimedia/xpose-it/

Steinberg did once think it was going to be the 'next step' in AV production - maybe they were just early? If he'd used that software he probably could have done it in a tenth of the time.

My mistake, The Rio 600 did display ID3 data. The SoulMate, did not however. Displaying data from the file should not be patentable though, and there was definately not any navigational control besides next and previous.

Since the dawn of the Automobile Revolution, automobile marques have been proactive in their approach to appeal to certain segments of society. By targeting these groups, automakers would find a much higher loyalty rate in an increasingly unloyal industry. Even today this tradition continues, with companies such as Toyota appealing to the youth market with its Scion brand, BMW and Mercedes appealing to the affluent market, Buick appealing to the understated senior market, and Subaru and Volvo appealing to the aging hippy market. One demographic spoken for by a large multinational automaker that often raises a bit of controversy, however, is the gay and lesbian market. It is within these confines that Honda finds its must staunch loyalists.

The connection stems much further than their not-so-subtle "H" logo. Since the inception of Honda by founder Kilimanjaro Honda in Tokyo, Japan in 1948, Honda has had a long line of successful industry firsts. Honda's first products imported to the United States were motorcycles capable of producing almost twice as much horsepower as their American brethren. Sold out of a small shop in San Francisco, their demographic was clear. From day one, Honda coined the term "Crotch Rocket" to target the gay and lesbian community. It wasn't long before Honda had made its first inroads in gaining market share in the vital west coast community.

While commercially successful, Honda didn't wish to fight a one-front war against Christians. In 1962, Honda started producing the HX100, their first entry into the area of gas powered lawn mowers. This allowed residents to show off their sexual preference to neighbors when not commuting. The new market, however, was something Honda was not experienced in, and proved to be initially unsuccessful. Honda faced several lawsuits alleging their lawnmowers oxidized almost instantly when mowing over damp grass.

It wasn't before long that founder Honda realized that the next battle would have to be fought in the ever-expanding industry of automobiles. In 1972, Honda began offering the United States its first car, the Honda Civic. While industry brass wanted to call it the "Civic Lesson," for the lesson it was trying to teach regarding the homosexual agenda, "Lesson" was eventually dropped from the title before release. Honda's experience in the lawn equipment market proved beneficial in their foray into automobiles, as the first generation of Civic Lessons were powered by their 49cc lawnmower engines producing a then-respectable 20 horsepower.

The response from the homosexual community was very positive, and sales of Civic Lessons matched other popular rivals in the west coast market from Toyota and AMC. Initial figures had pinned sales at achieving a 53% homosexual rate of buyers of Civic Lessons, a figure that has yet to be beat. The Civic Lesson proved to be a remarkable car for the homosexual market, as these families did not have any children and thus did not need room for a back seat. Honda foresaw new potential, however, with gay and lesbian

The only thing that could top it would be a hack & slash video game that worked both upper body and lower body, but I think we'll have to wait for holodeck technology for that one.

I dunno about that. Samba De Amigo was a fun game for the Dreamcast that tracked hand movements to see where you were shaking a pair of maracas. Combine that with the fancy footwork of a DDR game and you've got yourself the ultimate body workout!

"natural" decaf coffee - or I should say, decaf coffee that has not gone through the decaf cycle (which to many, ruins the taste).

De-caffeinated coffee ruins the point of drinking coffee, anyone who wants de-caff (or no alcohol beer, or nicotine free cigarettes) should just go and drink orange juice and leave those of us with a serious addiction to it.

I'm more worried about it cross-polinating with real caffeine plants and diluting my Coding Coffee

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/electronics/misc_video/tiv o_in_general/_review/352675/ was the original home of this article, before it was shamelessly plagarized in a pathetic attempt to gain karma.

Make LordKariya a foe today!

Does this make anyone else think of Z for Zacharia?!

Here's just one example of an unhappy owner of a large IBM DeskStar drive:

I have bought 4 75GXP drives all of the 60 GB variety. Initially I bought two to connect to a RAID system but one failed after only 5 months. Just as well I had my RAID set to mirror otherwise all would have been lost. I have in excess of 25 GB of MP3 files which have taken years to collect hence my need for reliable storage. I then contacted the suppliers of my drives and asked about replacement. I was told it would take at least 6 weeks as they had to go back to IBM.

Given the importance of backup I bought a third drive whilst the 1st was being checked by IBM. Guess what 6 weeks later a second drive failed. BY this time I received back a drive from IBM. This was a second hand drive that had been returned by another customer under warranty. I know this because I was able to unerase the data on the drive and the former user was from Germany. This drive failed after only 4 weeks.

The second drive to fail was also replaced by a second hand drive. This also is making ominous noises.

In fairness when they work they are fast and very quiet but the uncertainty about when they will fail has left me very unimpressed. Of the 4 purchased 2 are new and working fine 1 is broken and I can't be bothered to send it back as I know they will send me another dodgy 2nd hand drive and the final one is noisy and I am sure would fail if it were used as a RAID drive.

My advice therefore is to look elsewhere. When I upgrade my system shortly I shall buy 2 120GB drives from another supplier but I shall research carefully first.

-- From http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/computers/hard_disk_drives /ibm_deskstar_75gxp/_review/393167/

Question tradition. Question everything. Question my advice. The important thing is to really think about how you're living your life and what you really need for happiness and survival.

Here's some of my favorite books that capture this spirit. They're short reads, with a deep impact:

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

The Alchemist by Paulo Coehelo

There is whole lotta other progs like: Morpheus, Gnutella or WinMX and they play fair (all links are reviews).
Why should I even consider using something with spyware?

There is whole lotta other progs like: Morpheus, Gnutella or WinMX and they play fair (all links are reviews).
Why should I even consider using something with spyware?

There is whole lotta other progs like: Morpheus, Gnutella or WinMX and they play fair (all links are reviews).
Why should I even consider using something with spyware?

Here in the UK, Nescafe cans already self-heat. Can't say I've ever bought one, I'm not a coffee guy. Here's a description of the method (taken from this review):

"1. Turn can upside down and depress button.
2. Shake from side to side until all the red liquid has disappeared (takes quite a few shakes, this)
3. Stand upright (the can, not you) and wait for three minutes (during which time you hear a couple of pops and a hushed fizz)
4. Open can with ring pull and drink your hot coffee!"

The can mentioned in the story looks easier to use, but these things are on the market.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/review/349432.html