Me too. That's why I use a Nokia 1100. It's very small, makes and receives calls and text messages, and has fantastic battery life. I have never been happier with a phone. Pick one up if you can, I think it's just what you need.
I have one 250gb drive for music strictly, and sub-categorised by band or miscellaneous category thereafter (and then by album in order of year). So, something like:
e:/music/ramones, the/1977 - rocket to russia/
I find it works very well for organising large quantities of music, as my collection is currently around forty thousand files.
As for choosing what to play, Winamp has "jump to file" feature accessed by hitting J, thereby enabling you to do a search for what you want. However, the list it shows organises everything by filename, and I prefer to be organised by directory order. Which is why I use AMIP, a plugin for mIRC (I don't use mIRC, and it's not required to be installed for one to use AMIP) which organises files as I want them to be organised. To access the search dialogue just hit ^J.
In October I bought a top-end R52 and it has performed admirably. Since then it's been dropped numerous times, been to Australia and back, and to San Francisco and back (I live in the UK) and various trips to Europe, and hasn't faltered once. No keys came off, no cracks in the case, not a single dead pixel on the monitor. Having owned Thinkpads for years now, based on my experiences of post-IBM Thinkpads I would not hesitate to recommend them, or buy another one myself.
+ Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.
+ Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman." Sainted.
+ Italian Wars - Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.
+ Wars of Religion - France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots
+ Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.
+ War of Revolution - Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.
+ The Dutch War - Tied
+ War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War - Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.
+ War of the Spanish Succession - Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved ever since.
+ American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
+ French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
+ The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.
+ The Franco-Prussian War - Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.
+ World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United Kingdom and the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by Allied forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.
+ World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.
+ War in Indochina - Lost. French forces plead sickness; take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu.
+ Algerian Rebellion - Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
+ War on Terrorism - France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.
The question for any country silly enough to count on the French should not be "Can we count on the French?", but rather "How long until France collapses?"
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage."
Or, better still, the quote from a recent Wall Street Journal: "They're there when they need you."
He's never been on the receiving end of a father-in-law either. This is a real conversation between my friend (he's a network engineer) and his father in law:
father-in-law: hi father-in-law: how can i get my internet back on my desktop??? friend: your internet? father-in-law: the E father-in-law: its gone friend: you use opera. it's the big red O father-in-law: dont like it, i want the E back friend: make a shortcut to it from the programs menu father-in-law: ??????????????? what???? friend: in your program menu father-in-law: its not there friend: trust me, it is father-in-law: ok connect to vnc and you do it friend: no, i'm busy father-in-law: dont fuck me around i need the internet back NOW
And then people wonder why nobody wants to help them when they fuck shit up.
I too have been caught without a license. When the inspector turned up at my door with three (yes, three) colleagues demanding to be let in to inspect my TVs, I told him he could come in with two police officers and a warrant from a judge. Whereupon he turned and left, and I haven't seen or heard anything from the licensing authority since then (summer 2002).
I absolutely will not pay for a TV license. It's complete horse shit, and nothing less than a tax on receiving information, which I'm quite sure is banned under some European Court of Human Rights judgement.
Since the advent of these polyphonic ringtones, my - and I'm sure I'm not the only one - life has became increasingly more miserable.
In the train, in the office, walking down the street, every idiot seems to have their phone not only with one of these ringtones, but also at maximum volume setting.
I have my cellphone on silent and vibrate, because I don't want to A/ appear to be an idiot B/ annoy anyone unduly. Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but if more people behaved like that, city life would be more tolerable.
>> Firefox just has a simplified feeling
That is why I am a dedicated Opera fan. Not that I am bashing Mozilla, indeed I find it excellent. I just prefer Opera.
I agree that Firefox just has the feel of a nasty little replacement for IE. I cannot stand it.
what about IRC? I told a joke to some kid in my university class once and he said "LOLL." To which I replied "gay" and his friend looked at him and goes "owned." I IRC a lot, but I've never shamed myself by LOLing, either online or offline.
I didn't find out until later that both those kids IRCed too. UnderNet at that, so 'nuff said...
I noticed thhat a few weeks ago. Why do they do that? I mean, not that it makes any difference to my search results. It's just irritating. To the best of my knowledge they don't do this to any other country.
Channel 4 without a doubt has very high quality programmes; factual and non-factual.
I am not that big a fan of the TV license fee. However in its defence one could argue that without it, the finest journalistic department in the world (BBC News) would not exist.
BBC News alone is almost worth the entire license fee.
Are they as bad as DC's drivers? I've driven in some scary places to drive (Paris, Rome, all of Africa) and I have NEVER encountered a bigger bunch of maniacs and idiots as in Washington DC. It was not a pleasant experience, at all. I'd rather try taking a truck through central Rome than ever drive in DC again.
I too have driven on the Autobahns, but it was in my old car, a 1976 Jensen Interceptor FF, which was certainly not underpowered. If anything, I found that people in slower underpowered cars caused more danger than those of us belting along at 120+mph.
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Me too. That's why I use a Nokia 1100. It's very small, makes and receives calls and text messages, and has fantastic battery life. I have never been happier with a phone. Pick one up if you can, I think it's just what you need.
Randomise your playlist a couple of times and then hit shuffle, or just let it go through from the start. Works well in my experience.
I have one 250gb drive for music strictly, and sub-categorised by band or miscellaneous category thereafter (and then by album in order of year). So, something like:
e:/music/ramones, the/1977 - rocket to russia/
I find it works very well for organising large quantities of music, as my collection is currently around forty thousand files.
As for choosing what to play, Winamp has "jump to file" feature accessed by hitting J, thereby enabling you to do a search for what you want. However, the list it shows organises everything by filename, and I prefer to be organised by directory order. Which is why I use AMIP, a plugin for mIRC (I don't use mIRC, and it's not required to be installed for one to use AMIP) which organises files as I want them to be organised. To access the search dialogue just hit ^J.
Hope that helps.
In October I bought a top-end R52 and it has performed admirably. Since then it's been dropped numerous times, been to Australia and back, and to San Francisco and back (I live in the UK) and various trips to Europe, and hasn't faltered once. No keys came off, no cracks in the case, not a single dead pixel on the monitor. Having owned Thinkpads for years now, based on my experiences of post-IBM Thinkpads I would not hesitate to recommend them, or buy another one myself.
As a twenty-five year-old Brit, I completely disagree with both your statement and the sentiment that the EU is a ``great thing.''
Real Alternative Player.
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http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternat
It's great.
Hope that helps.
The Complete Military History of France
+ Gallic Wars
- Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.
+ Hundred Years War
- Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman." Sainted.
+ Italian Wars
- Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.
+ Wars of Religion
- France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots
+ Thirty Years War
- France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.
+ War of Revolution
- Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.
+ The Dutch War
- Tied
+ War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War
- Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.
+ War of the Spanish Succession
- Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved ever since.
+ American Revolution
- In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
+ French Revolution
- Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
+ The Napoleonic Wars
- Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.
+ The Franco-Prussian War
- Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.
+ World War I
- Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United Kingdom and the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by Allied forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.
+ World War II
- Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.
+ War in Indochina
- Lost. French forces plead sickness; take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu.
+ Algerian Rebellion
- Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
+ War on Terrorism
- France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.
The question for any country silly enough to count on the French should not be "Can we count on the French?", but rather "How long until France collapses?"
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is
leave behind a lot of noisy baggage."
Or, better still, the quote from a recent Wall Street Journal: "They're there when they need you."
He's never been on the receiving end of a father-in-law either. This is a real conversation between my friend (he's a network engineer) and his father in law:
father-in-law: hi
father-in-law: how can i get my internet back on my desktop???
friend: your internet?
father-in-law: the E
father-in-law: its gone
friend: you use opera. it's the big red O
father-in-law: dont like it, i want the E back
friend: make a shortcut to it from the programs menu
father-in-law: ??????????????? what????
friend: in your program menu
father-in-law: its not there
friend: trust me, it is
father-in-law: ok connect to vnc and you do it
friend: no, i'm busy
father-in-law: dont fuck me around i need the internet back NOW
And then people wonder why nobody wants to help them when they fuck shit up.
I too have been caught without a license. When the inspector turned up at my door with three (yes, three) colleagues demanding to be let in to inspect my TVs, I told him he could come in with two police officers and a warrant from a judge. Whereupon he turned and left, and I haven't seen or heard anything from the licensing authority since then (summer 2002).
I absolutely will not pay for a TV license. It's complete horse shit, and nothing less than a tax on receiving information, which I'm quite sure is banned under some European Court of Human Rights judgement.
Since the advent of these polyphonic ringtones, my - and I'm sure I'm not the only one - life has became increasingly more miserable.
In the train, in the office, walking down the street, every idiot seems to have their phone not only with one of these ringtones, but also at maximum volume setting.
I have my cellphone on silent and vibrate, because I don't want to A/ appear to be an idiot B/ annoy anyone unduly. Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but if more people behaved like that, city life would be more tolerable.
I think they kept a couple of Cyrixs aside to use in their server.
>> Firefox just has a simplified feeling That is why I am a dedicated Opera fan. Not that I am bashing Mozilla, indeed I find it excellent. I just prefer Opera. I agree that Firefox just has the feel of a nasty little replacement for IE. I cannot stand it.
what about IRC? I told a joke to some kid in my university class once and he said "LOLL." To which I replied "gay" and his friend looked at him and goes "owned." I IRC a lot, but I've never shamed myself by LOLing, either online or offline.
I didn't find out until later that both those kids IRCed too. UnderNet at that, so 'nuff said...
I noticed thhat a few weeks ago. Why do they do that? I mean, not that it makes any difference to my search results. It's just irritating. To the best of my knowledge they don't do this to any other country.
I have advocated us (the UK) doing that for a long time. It's not a popular thing to say, but I believe it is the wisest course of action.
Finally, someone who agrees with me. Every time I say that to my friends, I'm labelled a Nazi, a racist, uncaring, etc etc.
Channel 4 without a doubt has very high quality programmes; factual and non-factual.
I am not that big a fan of the TV license fee. However in its defence one could argue that without it, the finest journalistic department in the world (BBC News) would not exist.
BBC News alone is almost worth the entire license fee.
What are the advantages of paid accounts over free accounts? Not being a user of LJ, I don't know.
And I did try and visit livejournal.com, but apparently it's blacklisted here at work ):
Ohhh, sorry, I didn't read that part of your original post. My bad (:
Since when is NTL banned? I know for a fact my friend writes on here frequently from home, and he uses NTL.
I personally use Blueyonder. NTL are just shit.
As a former customer of Hello Mama's may I just say that my pizza was often late, and often the wrong order.
Now I live in Hamilton so Domino's for me!
Are they as bad as DC's drivers? I've driven in some scary places to drive (Paris, Rome, all of Africa) and I have NEVER encountered a bigger bunch of maniacs and idiots as in Washington DC. It was not a pleasant experience, at all. I'd rather try taking a truck through central Rome than ever drive in DC again.
I too have driven on the Autobahns, but it was in my old car, a 1976 Jensen Interceptor FF, which was certainly not underpowered. If anything, I found that people in slower underpowered cars caused more danger than those of us belting along at 120+mph.
Okay okay, my math somehow got all fucked up. Sorry...
He meant 'p' as in 'pence', the British Pound's equivalent of the American cent.
So at today's exchange rate, where 1 Pound Sterling is worth ~1.8 US Dollars, 5p is indeed worth around 3c.