You should see the pavement outside my house and everyone else's house in Swindon - first town in the UK to have cable. Not only did Swindon Cable dig every single little bit of tarmac up 20-30 years ago for TV fiber, they thought it would be a good idea to dig it up again to lay super-duper fast cable for 50mbit speeds, on-demand services, 1000 channels of TV that no one watches - no one wanted any of this. No one wanted the mess.
None of the new houses, in the fastest growing town in the UK, have cable - work that one out.
It's my view that the people complaining most are the same Christians who hate Jews, Muslims and any other religious believers that don't follow their God.
I have no religion* and they hate me too.
*not strictly true, I told the government I was a Jedi, so I must be.
I have very little connection problems in the evening. Only once being hit by their throttling.
Phorm does scare me though...
Just got off the phone to them, had my TV package upgraded to include Setanta and all the kid's channels, got a free wireless router in the post and a reduction of £12 a month. All I had to do was ask. Give it a few months and I'll ask for another V+ box for upstairs...
I drove a 2.5l diesel turbo Golf probably 5 years ago. I was amazed at the acceleration. And this was about the same time I'd just given up my MR2, which was no slouch.
"Nearly every bridge in the class failed first at a joint"
Then the joints were badly formed. Having worked in wood for 8 years, I can say that joints held with PVA will not break first. Try it yourself sometime with two long pieces of planed 25x50mm.
Once again I'm amazed at the backward nature of our friends across the water. I thought their issues with mobile phone payments was bad enough...
The thing I like about Direct Debit is I don't have to worry about bills. I can budget easily, there are no monthly shocks, I know exactly how much is coming out my account on the 24th of each month.
I know some people in the UK moan (moan in the UK? Surely not?), moan about the utility companies at year end when they are in credit. A simple phone call to adjust payments is very straight forward and if you feel you're paying too much, they'll decrease the payments without question. I once told them I wouldn't be a home weekends any more and they instantly reduced monthly payments by 25%.
I suppose if I had one moan it would be the council tax because it's paid over 10 months, not 12. Some see this as a 2-month free bonus - they are stupid.
TVU are not the only one. I actually think SopCast is better both in terms of software and content (sorry, can't link, blocked at work). Quality is a little better than YouTube but not much.
1. Take a power drill, make sure the hammer action is off. 2. Place the CD on the chuck, tighten the chuck around a bolt and washer to keep it in place. 3. Clamp the drill in a bench vice. 4. Spin the CD at 30,000rpm 5. Hold an oily rag against the CD and polish away.
Disclaimer: I typed this message with two fingers.
Not unusual, no. Mine you, I've only been working in this company 10 years...
Lunch is ordered in every single day.
We have a subsidised restaurant and sandwich bar. The coffee bars take the piss out of Starbucks.
Huge fridges burst with snacks and drinks.
Free coffee and soft drinks from machines in each corner of each floor in each building.
Bowls of strawberries and muffins lie around the rest area.
Um, stale sandwiches and fruit left over from long meetings..?
The company pays for a personal trainer and gym membership for everyone.
Fully stocked gym, several trainers, but only one working at a time, one physiotherapist. Open 24/7. Treatment room looks well equipped although I've never needed to used it.
A doctor calls round each Friday, after the weekly barbeque, to see if everyone's in good health.
Doctor is in his office 5 times a week. Two nurses are always there.
Employees drift in an out at times that suit themselves.
90% of us are on personal contracts. I'm supposed to do 37 hours a week, I'll only do 35 this week though as I want to go home early on Friday. Do my work and everyone's happy. We refuse to talk about people being 30 minutes late in the mornings - it's not productive. If anything, we'll complain when others are coming in at 8am and not going home until 8pm. People working long hours is not productive, it creates a bad atmosphere, if there's work for two people, employ a second person.
This is a massive company in the UK. My site alone employs 2,000 people.
My daughter spends hours on a 'Paint' homebrew game and sometimes passes the time away with a falling sand game. The games don't need to be big budget.
"Yes you can do all this in Word or OpenOffice, but it requires setup and in my experience almost *no* user of those programs bothers to do it."
The last set of documents I put together totalled 5,000 pages - this was during the tender phase of our project. I do not write the content, I just handle the collation and presentation. I don't understand why people have so many problems with MS Word.
The largest tender specification document was over 600 pages. One MS Word document, zero crashes. Edited by engineers. Finished by me.
I'll admit that I use a custom template but I've only ever made one. The MS Word styles are just like using CSS - no big deal. Cross references work with a GUI with minimal fuss. My styles are called HEADING 1, HEADING 2, etc and all the section numbering is automatic. From what I've read, you need to do this in LaTeX too.
Cross references work with a GUI with minimal fuss. Figure numbering is automatic. Table of contents is automatic. Footnotes work as expected. Tables are formatted automatically.
Engineers write. I tidy. I did try and get people to use a master document but that scared them a little...
I have no doubt that LaTex is a great piece of software but MS Word is a powerful tool in the right hands. Some of us use it properly.
Virgin try and charge me £0.50 per song per day. Are they having a laugh? Even £0.50 forever would be too much. Format shift with them? Not a chance unless I go the analogue route. Streaming or nothing is the only thing on offer.
But, I might ask them to start filtering the gross emails my daughter gets from their email servers. She's 8 BTW. If they can stop music sharing, they can stop everything else while they're at it. Especially if it comes from their servers (or Phorms' servers).
Having built patterns for injection moulding dies I can say that the dies wear out pretty quickly with all the rapid heating and cooling. You cannot make them accurate and expect them to maintain their tolerance.
Look at Lego bricks, or anything injection moulded, you can see where the plastic has cooled quicker in places. The dips on flat surfaces are very hard to engineer out even with slow cooling and high pressure.
Hell, stick two bricks together and feel the difference between them with a fingernail.
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Give him a break, he's probably only six years old.
You should see the pavement outside my house and everyone else's house in Swindon - first town in the UK to have cable. Not only did Swindon Cable dig every single little bit of tarmac up 20-30 years ago for TV fiber, they thought it would be a good idea to dig it up again to lay super-duper fast cable for 50mbit speeds, on-demand services, 1000 channels of TV that no one watches - no one wanted any of this. No one wanted the mess.
None of the new houses, in the fastest growing town in the UK, have cable - work that one out.
Mess. Big mess.
Who on here would admit watching that film?
By the way, is it "Bollocks"?
Your list in DVD Shrink is too long. I don't have it installed here, nor have I used it in a while, but I'm 99% sure you do not need to save the ISO.
Us power users like to save ISOs, but Joe Public does not.
It is a one-click application. Maybe click "Next" to everything...
It's my view that the people complaining most are the same Christians who hate Jews, Muslims and any other religious believers that don't follow their God.
I have no religion* and they hate me too.
*not strictly true, I told the government I was a Jedi, so I must be.
Horses for courses.
I have very little connection problems in the evening. Only once being hit by their throttling.
Phorm does scare me though...
Just got off the phone to them, had my TV package upgraded to include Setanta and all the kid's channels, got a free wireless router in the post and a reduction of £12 a month. All I had to do was ask. Give it a few months and I'll ask for another V+ box for upstairs...
No diesel Golf in the USA? Wow.
I drove a 2.5l diesel turbo Golf probably 5 years ago. I was amazed at the acceleration. And this was about the same time I'd just given up my MR2, which was no slouch.
"Nearly every bridge in the class failed first at a joint"
Then the joints were badly formed. Having worked in wood for 8 years, I can say that joints held with PVA will not break first. Try it yourself sometime with two long pieces of planed 25x50mm.
Click the Home button? All the time. Maybe ALT+ENTER if I'm in keyboard only mode. Home is Google with a ton a RSS feeds.
Don't listen to the others.
"Failure to display" is your only problem as the tax would have been back dated. No one gets done for failure to display these days.
But then again, your whole story sounds like bullshit.
5% cheaper in most cases.
Once again I'm amazed at the backward nature of our friends across the water. I thought their issues with mobile phone payments was bad enough...
The thing I like about Direct Debit is I don't have to worry about bills. I can budget easily, there are no monthly shocks, I know exactly how much is coming out my account on the 24th of each month.
I know some people in the UK moan (moan in the UK? Surely not?), moan about the utility companies at year end when they are in credit. A simple phone call to adjust payments is very straight forward and if you feel you're paying too much, they'll decrease the payments without question. I once told them I wouldn't be a home weekends any more and they instantly reduced monthly payments by 25%.
I suppose if I had one moan it would be the council tax because it's paid over 10 months, not 12. Some see this as a 2-month free bonus - they are stupid.
The last place I worked only had one licence to the CAD system. The boss printed the single account password and stuck it on the wall in his office.
He was out one day when the 30-day password change dialog popped up. Hmmm, what to choose?
"PIESMAKEMEFAT" seemed long enough and was easy to remember if you looked at him.
I never progressed in the company. Maybe I should have picked something else?
That's not true.
Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) are used. Very little heat is wasted. There is steam, it's in the name, wikipedia it.
Gas plants are huge. One CCGT being build in the UK at the moment is 1600MW. Try 5 years to build from project start to generation.
One for business
One for friends
One for women
Doesn't everyone have three phones?
TVU are not the only one. I actually think SopCast is better both in terms of software and content (sorry, can't link, blocked at work). Quality is a little better than YouTube but not much.
1. Take a power drill, make sure the hammer action is off.
2. Place the CD on the chuck, tighten the chuck around a bolt and washer to keep it in place.
3. Clamp the drill in a bench vice.
4. Spin the CD at 30,000rpm
5. Hold an oily rag against the CD and polish away.
Disclaimer: I typed this message with two fingers.
You missed one. :)
Pay as you go downloads. I paid $25 for 90gb last time but I see you can now get 110gb. Now that's how cheap bandwidth is.
Hear that MAFIA? We pay happily, just not your stupid prices.
Not unusual, no. Mine you, I've only been working in this company 10 years...
We have a subsidised restaurant and sandwich bar. The coffee bars take the piss out of Starbucks.
Free coffee and soft drinks from machines in each corner of each floor in each building.
Um, stale sandwiches and fruit left over from long meetings..?
Fully stocked gym, several trainers, but only one working at a time, one physiotherapist. Open 24/7. Treatment room looks well equipped although I've never needed to used it.
Doctor is in his office 5 times a week. Two nurses are always there.
90% of us are on personal contracts. I'm supposed to do 37 hours a week, I'll only do 35 this week though as I want to go home early on Friday. Do my work and everyone's happy. We refuse to talk about people being 30 minutes late in the mornings - it's not productive. If anything, we'll complain when others are coming in at 8am and not going home until 8pm. People working long hours is not productive, it creates a bad atmosphere, if there's work for two people, employ a second person.
This is a massive company in the UK. My site alone employs 2,000 people.
My daughter spends hours on a 'Paint' homebrew game and sometimes passes the time away with a falling sand game. The games don't need to be big budget.
"Yes you can do all this in Word or OpenOffice, but it requires setup and in my experience almost *no* user of those programs bothers to do it."
The last set of documents I put together totalled 5,000 pages - this was during the tender phase of our project. I do not write the content, I just handle the collation and presentation. I don't understand why people have so many problems with MS Word.
The largest tender specification document was over 600 pages. One MS Word document, zero crashes. Edited by engineers. Finished by me.
I'll admit that I use a custom template but I've only ever made one. The MS Word styles are just like using CSS - no big deal. Cross references work with a GUI with minimal fuss. My styles are called HEADING 1, HEADING 2, etc and all the section numbering is automatic. From what I've read, you need to do this in LaTeX too.
Cross references work with a GUI with minimal fuss. Figure numbering is automatic. Table of contents is automatic. Footnotes work as expected. Tables are formatted automatically.
Engineers write. I tidy. I did try and get people to use a master document but that scared them a little...
I have no doubt that LaTex is a great piece of software but MS Word is a powerful tool in the right hands. Some of us use it properly.
Their content. Spot on.
Virgin try and charge me £0.50 per song per day. Are they having a laugh? Even £0.50 forever would be too much. Format shift with them? Not a chance unless I go the analogue route. Streaming or nothing is the only thing on offer.
But, I might ask them to start filtering the gross emails my daughter gets from their email servers. She's 8 BTW. If they can stop music sharing, they can stop everything else while they're at it. Especially if it comes from their servers (or Phorms' servers).
0.001mm? Rubbish.
Having built patterns for injection moulding dies I can say that the dies wear out pretty quickly with all the rapid heating and cooling. You cannot make them accurate and expect them to maintain their tolerance.
Look at Lego bricks, or anything injection moulded, you can see where the plastic has cooled quicker in places. The dips on flat surfaces are very hard to engineer out even with slow cooling and high pressure.
Hell, stick two bricks together and feel the difference between them with a fingernail.
Accurate to within 0.001mm they are not.
You can, you just change the burner nozzles to squirt atomised diesel instead of powered coal.
They go pop. The first one to ever go pop in my house made me jump.
Don't pay for them in the UK. Your energy supplier will give you some for free if you ask.
The 30 seconds wireless thing doesn't happen on my Vista install. I can connect to the *cough* neighbours AP within 5 seconds from any state.