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  1. For me it's about watching what I want on There Will Be 22 Million Cord Cutters By 2018, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm dropping Sky in the UK and going to streaming services, namely NetFlix and NowTv. Amazon isn't for me. I've given up Sky due to the endless adverts. I've only been watching box sets on Sky recently which are mostly on NowTv (owned by Sky) and the NowTV sets don't start with a Lias of ads. I also noted that TVPlayer is available on my Roku and has plenty of channels I'd watch but it usually doesn't work. When I lived in Florida, I had to get a TiVo as the ads there came up so often it was impossible to follow the show I was watching.

  2. Re: Ragga Jungle for me on Happy Music Boosts Brain's Creativity, Study Says (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Ragga Jungle for me on Happy Music Boosts Brain's Creativity, Study Says (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    I listen to it most of the time when I'm coding.

  4. 6502 on the C64 followed by 68000 on the Amiga and Atari ST. Cracking games and the demo scene. First high level language was Pascal followed by C and Modula 2. Later C on Macintosh (MPW) & c++ on NeXTStep along with Objective-C. Now I'm doing C++ on Linux.

  5. I've got a C64 under the TV with a SD card attached. DropZone still owns.

  6. C64 assembler on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    Cracking copy protection on C64 disk games. Had to write a disassembler. First commercial language was C on a Mac Plus with lots of 68k assembler.

  7. Or they carry boats overland to attack Paris again. I heard they might...

  8. Aye, he can afford lead for his battery.

  9. Re: Move more, eat less on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    I'm the OP for the thread. I use a knife and fork as I'm a Brit. I did live in Florida and most people seem to cut with a knife, put the knife down, switch hand with the fork and then eat the food. One thing I did notice in Delray Beach/Boca Raton was over sized portions. A large delivery pizza only fits in an American fridge diagonally. After a day you have to chunk it out. Large cokes are like a small bucket and I noticed lots of, in particular, teen girls wandering around the Boca mall with buckets of Pepsi/coke. I asked people about it and they said that people consider quantity good value for money. Makes sense of course but it's not helpful. Living by the beach in Delray there're extremes... Joggers who are toned and, frankly, lard buckets. Most people don't seem bigger than the uk average in relative size to be honest.

  10. Re: Move more, eat less on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    OP for this thread here again but I'm bothering to log in :-) Speaking from personal experience I got the put the utensils down from a TV show her in the uk. I decided to use it and after a while I got used the practice. Got to say I eat less than I did as I'm not shovelling food. Now if only I could cut the beer down...

  11. Raspberry Pi and SoftEther on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities? · · Score: 1

    It's what I use and clients can use openvpn. Works fine for me.

  12. Popplers? on Mushroom-Like Deep Sea Organism May Be New Branch of Life · · Score: 1

    Let's hope not.

  13. Re: What about the UK? on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    We use 22/7 instead.

  14. Java or C# on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 1

    I've seen trading platforms in Java (Island) and was surprised at the number if transactions per second. I don't see Java jobs in London that much but lots of C#. Maybe that's UI work. Bloomberg are very C++ orientated and they're known for their trading platform. Lots of Boost in there AFAIK.

  15. Re:What if... on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, it's a bit odd here. Temperature in Celsius and distance in miles. People's height in feet & inches and weight in stones & pounds. It's even odder in a supermarket where we use both imperial and metric. You can buy cheese at the deli in either unit. Thank goodness we ditched the old coinage for a metric system. Mind you, it'd be more hip to say we used LSD as a currency :-)

  16. Looking forward to the UK tour on Ig Nobels Feature Exploding Colonoscopies, Left Leaning Views of Eiffel Tower · · Score: 2

    They do a trip to the UK and come by HP Labs in Bristol, conveniently where I work. It's worth attending for a good set of laughs and the award winners take it all in good humour.

  17. Re:Research? on Revisiting the Macintosh ROM Easter Egg · · Score: 1

    I remember actually seeing this via MacsBug back in the early 90s. I also remember we had a few MacPlus' that had engraved signatures on the inside of the box.

  18. Re:Useless nostalgia. on Commodore 64 turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Good grief! Taking the drive apart! It's a whole load easier to crack the game. Often a lda #1 and a nop. Skate or Die was hard though - lots of self modifying xor code in loops.

  19. Re:Is that so? on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it'll not be like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Sq-s7V_qg

  20. There are good US magazines on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 1

    What about National Geographic? That's a top US mag and we get it in Europe too - even translated. As for magazines I buy, T3 magazine is my favorite but there are far too many adverts in it. It's also pretty expensive IMO.

  21. Re:They'll be back... on LulzSec Announces That It Is Done · · Score: 2

    No, that's gorilla STRATEGY. Gorilla tactics is deciding who to fling poo at.

    I thought it was barrels?

  22. Beer atom? on Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's where the beer atom was split?

  23. Re:In a word: NO. on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Develop it? Can't we just use the Stargate under NORAD?

  24. Re:It's the Dark Side on The Possibility of Paradox-Free Time Travel · · Score: 1

    I thought of Dr. Emmet Lloyd, creator of the flux capacitor.

  25. Good luck! on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    Really... I hope it works out well.