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Not available in the UK (yet?) this Japanese netbook stores one screen under the other. It doesn't use one of the usual Atom chipsets but an AMD Neo / ATI graphics combo. There's built-in TV which you can watch on one of the screens as you work, though both screens form your desktop. The screen size is 10.1" x2 and the weight is 1.8Kg. Battery life is quoted as 4.5 hours max. ...and in case you don't think the idea will catch on, see: http://onkyodirect.jp/pc/dx/

Nice looking website with 100% glowing testimonials from happy customers which: "We have not changed or altered ... in any way what so ever". But, before you place an order google on the name first! Nuf said.

Internet wins! Should HM The Queen be nervous?

She had a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone... Ah, yes - the mandatory ugly sister!

It would fold before it got started.

If my dish rotator goes missing I now know where to look. Guess we won't be doing this on this four year old netbook then!

SM says 6 pm but I haven't found where that is stated. If that isn't the best time it's still somewhere to start from. But, the top of the chat forum seems a much beter place to show a window than in a side column of the main index. Enables people who don't want chat to ignore it, but chatty folk to still find it easily. Good move I think.

Too many Hollywood films? King Ralph (1991) ======================== Phipps: Sir Cedric! Sir Cedric! Good news. We've finally found an heir! Sir Cedric Willingham: That's wonderful, Duncan. Who is he? Phipps: His name is Jones. Ralph Jones. Sir Cedric Willingham: A good man? Phipps: [embarrassed] Well. He has his strengths and his weaknesses. You see, he's [uncomfortable pause] Phipps: American. Sir Cedric Willingham: Quickly, Duncan! The strengths! ---------- Phipps: When in public, a royal personage must refrain from chewing gum, using profanity, picking his nose, scratching his p... p... p... p... private parts and staring down the bust lines of visiting female dignitaries. Ralph Jones: What the hell! That's everything!

Don't believe Merlin. It's actually an IQ test to become a BNP MP.

I'm going to float the idea that live chat should be re-enabled over the holiday period.

Well that's going to encourage her to join up isn't it! Come on folks whatever you think about her you've got to admire that she has made a successful career. And a little diplomacy in keeping your views (which many might regard as envy) to yourselves is good for our town and good for everyone! This is what a good moderator would do Mons! No one is going to come aboard the community effort here if they think they are going to be unfairly attacked, and that's particularly the case amongst your own kin. You might think it was just having a bit of fun, but the media would make a meal of it. And showbiz careers live or die by the media.

There are plenty of places to accommodate visitors if the truly local businesses don't have the enterprise to jump in. First step might be to set up some local accommodation pages here. Information in a standard format with lots of pictures. Ask then all for a discount over normal walk-in rates for people quoting a voucher code or alternatively booking from a bedlington.co.uk e-mail addy (generated though an on-line form) as pay back for the free advertising. Maybe give them the possibility of making last-minute offers too. As for the fair a little prior research as to the best time of year - taking into account conflicting events; weather patterns; and also best accommodation availability would be called for. I can tell you from experience that arranging it during peak holiday period wouldn't impress accommodation providers at all. But those same people will kill (and really slash their prices, so long as no one else knows) to get out of season bookings. That's cash-flow they would never have had otherwise, and can make all the difference to the bottom line. Jen: The tragedy is that it's not our "only" claim to fame - not even our second claim to fame - but I suspect you knew that already.

Well, you've just made your own case for a modern quality compact! IMHO optical image stabilisation, multi-point auto focus, and time to first shot is more important than all the stops and lenses you can stuff in a camera bag. If the image is blurred, or you miss the shot completely completely because you're fiddling with settings, or you simply haven't bothered to pack a camera because it's too bulky, then you've got nothing to show for your investment. The optical image stab on my little Lumix is amazing, and is the nine point auto focus. I has a pretty good quality 5x zoom that's strong at the wide angle end (almost exactly the same field of view as the totally huge wide angle lens fitted to the Cannon G3). It also does exposure framing, multi shot and excellent video with good sound. A complete no-brainer for not much more than £100. My main point again is that if you buy a compact, keep up the interest and move on to an expensive SLR then you haven't wasted any money. The compact will always come in useful as back-up. If you buy an expensive camera and it gathers dust (as many many do) then you've wasted an awful lot of money. In my case the SLR was always left at home and I was using my phone camera. If you aren't already using the camera on your phone a lot, then it's probably not a camera you need, it's a David Bailey type image!

Where is the policy that one community resource refuses to help another! More likely it's someone's feels their comfy little domain is being threatened. I will take this one up with someone "higher up" and report the results.

Yes, Bit Torrent goes official, and fully legal too! The EU has stumped up 19 million euros to fund four years of software development and testing in an effort to establish a European-wide standard for broadcasters to distribute TV programs by Bit Torrent. It's not something that you can easily simulate in a laboratory so: They need testers.

XBox 365 - the number of days before they will be persuading you to buy the neXtBox. WeeHee - shiped with a roller-coaster sim in ROM. xxxxBox - Australian edition. XBoxBox - A box within a paradox squigle - The Box formerly called XBox d'XBo - a far cooler update!

When the 7.2Mb I was sold in the shop, gets somewhere near 384Kb that's sometimes actually available, for more than 5% of the time, I will believe that 100Mb could happen.

Nothing really. For once I've got all the gadget and gismos I can use. Thought I might have wanted another netbook but I recently upgraded the memory and hard drive of my four year old one, and I'm now more than happy with it for another couple of years. Doesn't mean I haven't got a few even smaller computers to play with though. A nice quiet Christmas with just a few family, and a glass or two of port. Anything else I can make/do myself.

No, not the Coal Board. Open cast was always private mining AFAIK. Acorn Bank was operated by Costain Mining. Can't immediately recall who the company (Wimpey?) operating the site at Horton Road, Bebside was, but (probably as part of PR) we youngsters were invited down the cut there on more than one occasion. Couldn't see that happening today on H&S grounds alone! Yes, Symptoms is right, there was another Bailey Bridge crossing Bebside Road. There was yet another crossing Hartford Road at one time. But that was before the track of the road was moved, thus providing space for the golf course. These bridges can't have been too popular with the United Bus cleaning staff, or drivers; on wet mornings I can remember the bus getting really splattered with the grey stuff.

Whatever you buy this year will be "outmoded" next. But my little Panasonic Lumix is the by far the best performer I've ever had; and it cost about a fifth the price of any of the earlier Canons. It's also small enough to keep with me all the time - and is streets ahead of the Ixus I bought for this same reason. All the technicals are pointless if you miss the shot; so start with an ulta compact and aim to keep it with you. If you can do that then you might want to think about something more expensive. If you still find that you don't have a camera with you when you need it then you've saved yourself a bundle on something which maybe would only have produced marginal improvements, and would certainly have become rapidly outdated.

I really can't get into it. If you folow someone's every life move this way then does it mean you haven't got a life of your own? (Discuss) Could have stalker appeal though!

Yes, those bargains I alerted about here some while back are now evaporating fast. But it isn't the season, it's the falling value of sterling combined with low inventory. I'd advise you to avoid Dell though. There are better machines to be had elsewhere, and Dell is just a little bit too 'proprietary' for their own good. I'd recount a few experiences, but it's easier to say look at just about any other brand (with the exception of Elonex!).

"On Linux you'll get what you want for free" - and sometimes those great Linux programs get ported to Windows.

Ah the Fenwicks - London-Newcastle- Paris-Milan-Bedlington! The family that has close associations with Santa Claus.

Bug Report 2: The snow isn't activated on the next page reload, it's activated on the nex page load. (There's a significant difference).