I used to spend all day, every day, paring wood with a chisel. The first couple of weeks into my apprenticeship I had calluses on my hands, my arms ached, my feet were sore and my back felt like I'd been standing all day. After that I never felt sore again from a good days graft.
These days I sit at a screen all day. My back aches, shoulder hurts and the pain in my fingers never seems to go away.
I have a Greasemonkey script to disable this highly annoying feature that so many websites like to use.
Some of us, most of us on laptops, like to use the keyboard for browsing. The spacebar is used as page-down. Shift+space to go the other way. Arrow keys for smaller scrolls.
The only time I get the full 20mbit is on Astraweb's european Usenet server, wherever that is. Even then I need 30 odd [SSL] connections and it's probably more like 18.5mbits. This is during peeks times btw.
I get very few internet problems with VM. Rebooting the modem and router solves most of them - I do that weekly out of habit. Only had one 2 hour outage in the last 12 months.
Now their HD content; I could rant about the lack of that for a while...
<img src="http://phorm.com/advert.jpg> will work however they choose to 'encode' it.
I hate the thought of Phorm as much as the next person but they are no different from any other banner ad pusher except they have access to all your clicks.
I knew this. I spout it occasionally. No one likes to listen, especially my black mates after they start their chip-on-the-shoulder rants. People can't seem to understand that a small handful of English would have been easily overrun by masses of Africans. Without the help of the Africans, the slave trade wouldn't have happened.
Plenty of people would buy a bricked laptop for the same price as a £10 bag of smack. They'd take a chance on someone being able to fix it for that price.
If you are willing to pay something, why not use something else like the old University Networks. No uploads. Maximum download speeds your pipe can handle.
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His tin foil and gaffer tape safety suit is fucking amazing. I want one. I want one for the whole family.
Man walks into the doctors
-- Doctor, I can't stop sneezing!
-- You have the Sneazles, said the doctor, after having a quick look.
-- What about my bad feet?
-- A common case of Toelio, said the dismissive doctor.
The man dropped his pants
-- and this?
-- Ah, the doctor exclaimed, the Smallcox!
Mange tout. Mange tout.
Someone posted a reply to this a few days ago. 54mbits on ADSL2 in rural areas.
I used to spend all day, every day, paring wood with a chisel. The first couple of weeks into my apprenticeship I had calluses on my hands, my arms ached, my feet were sore and my back felt like I'd been standing all day. After that I never felt sore again from a good days graft.
These days I sit at a screen all day. My back aches, shoulder hurts and the pain in my fingers never seems to go away.
These touch screen tables sound fantastic to me.
I have a Greasemonkey script to disable this highly annoying feature that so many websites like to use.
Some of us, most of us on laptops, like to use the keyboard for browsing. The spacebar is used as page-down. Shift+space to go the other way. Arrow keys for smaller scrolls.
I suppose NoScript blocks this action too...
VM tells me I'm getting 50mbit soon...
The only time I get the full 20mbit is on Astraweb's european Usenet server, wherever that is. Even then I need 30 odd [SSL] connections and it's probably more like 18.5mbits. This is during peeks times btw.
I get very few internet problems with VM. Rebooting the modem and router solves most of them - I do that weekly out of habit. Only had one 2 hour outage in the last 12 months.
Now their HD content; I could rant about the lack of that for a while...
I get 9 months retention. How exactly is that recent?
Plenty of people will post if your request it.
It's good to share.
Demos alone on XBOX Live hit 2gb, 3gb even 4gb. I was like a kid with a new toy when I got my 360 in January. 10gb of demos a week easy.
Phorm doesn't work like that though.
<img src="http://phorm.com/advert.jpg> will work however they choose to 'encode' it.
I hate the thought of Phorm as much as the next person but they are no different from any other banner ad pusher except they have access to all your clicks.
And you can opt-out!!! *haha* I know, I know.
Clap. Clap. Clap.
I knew this. I spout it occasionally. No one likes to listen, especially my black mates after they start their chip-on-the-shoulder rants. People can't seem to understand that a small handful of English would have been easily overrun by masses of Africans. Without the help of the Africans, the slave trade wouldn't have happened.
I think a nice gun would have been more fitting for Her Royal Highness.
Not bad. Pre-punchline could do with some rewording :)
Speaking of rewording:
Sinbad walks into a bar with a penguin under his arm.
"Where did you get that?" asks the barman.
"Iraq" says the penguin.
You can sort of do that in the prefs. There is something like a new user modifier. Set yours to 75% -5 and you'll never read my comments again.
I think you'd miss some comedy gems though.
How dare you post a URL with "page 3" in it and the resulting page not contain the pictures we were all hoping for.
Interesting.
I had to hold down my 3 year old daughter while they stuck a needle in her spine. This is a standard test for meningitis.
If I could have made her relax, or even taken the needle myself, I would have done it. The memory haunts me to this day.
She had a bladder infection, thank fuck.
Plenty of people would buy a bricked laptop for the same price as a £10 bag of smack. They'd take a chance on someone being able to fix it for that price.
I read The Sun.
If you call me a Chav Scumbag, I'll set my Rottweiler on you.
I see the majority of posts say the same thing: we liked the old Slashdot better.
Is that a vocal majority, the majority of users with mod points, or the actual majority?
About $0.15 for each episode from Usenet on a pay-for-the-bandwidth-you-use package. SSL connections all round.
If you play with fire (BitTorrent) expect to get burnt.
If you are willing to pay something, why not use something else like the old University Networks. No uploads. Maximum download speeds your pipe can handle.
Ironically, that was really hard to read.
But I don't follow the 'rules' either and I'm glad you've taken the time to highlight the point.
I still run a P3 with 256MB of SDRAM. It was my gaming machine once upon a time.
Startup times on GTs are not quick. Try 2 hours for a cold start on an ultra-modern CCGT. That's two hours to achieve full load from cold.
A warm start, after being off for 2-3 days, takes about 90 minutes.
A hot start, after being off for 8 hours, will take about 30-40 minutes.
Hydro, and the like, can be brought online quickly - I have no figures here on extact times. Gas cannot.
30 mph is 44 feet per second.
:)
Stopping distance at 30 mph, as quoted by the UK Highway code, is 75 feet. These distances were set many, many years ago and are very conservative.
2 seconds is plenty of time to stop if you are paying attention to the road and its conditions.
I prefer metric.