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No I'm not. Long before CDs (and you) were even thought of Bipolar ROMs were called WORM or WORMM -- I said originally. ...and your contribution here is?

Originally (and more logically) called WORM: Write Once Read Many-times Variants PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory (Generally mask programmed) EPROM: Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory (UV Erasable) EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory E2PROM: Same as above. Flash: An EEPROM technology.

The answer will always be: when you were in your teens. But I think there's a very good case for the 1960's, when "the mould was broken" due to the immediate post-war generation. Unless you lived through it you can't really understand the forces at work then. It started in the late 1950's but got into full-swing in the early 1960's.

I'm gob smacked you know it's Jupiter. I asked a skipper of a reasonable sized lump of hardware in the Med the other night and he hadn't got a clue - thought it was Venus. Do hope his GPS batteries etc. hold up; even if it's just for the sake of his passengers! For those Brits thinking of following our forefathers and setting forth on the briny: Venus is the "morning star" which sort of means it comes up in the mornings, as it's closer to the sun than we are. The cause is the (sub-conscious) appreciation that the mating season, and the subsequent Summer bounty, is almost over. It's the ancient positioning for hibernation and long-term survival in Northern climes. Grab all the nuts (scones) even if it means bending the rules and abandoning all etiquette. If you are Gordon Brown it's the realisation that the evolutionary process itself is at an end. Better start a war real fast to garner votes. Just about no-one can be fooled into thinking "it's Global” anymore. Dumb, unquestioning, patriotism is the only way out. It worked for Maggie, so maybe...

2-3 So now we know Monsta has a second login!

I think the problem here is that the human mind tightly associates the two events, whereas they are in fact two quite seperate ones. The way this problem is framed reinforces that association - but quite misleadingly. We all know that the chances of getting the £100 are 1 in 3. Nothing post selection is going to change that. But here we are being given the opportunity of throwing away that selection as if it never happened. It's one we'd be silly to decline. Yes, we COULD be throwing away the prize, and yes we are have no option but to select what is presented to us IF we are to change. But if we don't change we stick with those 1 in 3 odds. If we do change we have reduced the odds to 1 in 2. It's simply an irrelevant reordering of events: Say one of the 1p cups was taken away before the selection. Our chances would then clearly be 50:50. The person taking away the cup isn't playing against us, he's constrained in "winding back the clock" to that 50:50 situation for us, by always removing one of the 1p cups. Maybe the mental block is that we are constrained in the swap to taking what is given. But "taking what we are given" is still a random choice, because our first choice was a random choice. That's the only way the two events are linked.

Sorry missus - don't understand the question, like. The last two OK, and the second one I've just had explained to me by a lady friend as a drinky beloved of the opposite gender. But the first one I had to Google on; and I'm damned if I can see what "The diurnal variation of precipitation in monsoon season in the Tibetan Plateau" could make you angry - unless it's the cover price! http://scholar.googl...F-8&oi=scholart

Did someone remove something? Well... I'd bet it was designed to be removed by the author, so - otherwise lacking in imagination - he'd have something to complain about. Protest meeting in the Market Place at 4pm perhaps? Actualy I think the mods let certain people get away with too much - but then I only work here.

Voted Wii because its the only one I'd ever consider buying just right now. But it's not the best "computer" ever; the one I'm using now is! Though I'm still working hard to set it up just right (and dual boot Linux). Lots of historic consoles missing off the poll. I'm no expert, but you don't have to look far on the net for details.

Back to the original prob. Yes, the new machine's WiFi module is faulty. Goes noisy and quits after an hour or so. Currently using it with a USB WiFi dongle. But that wasn't why MSIE was quitting. Upgraded Flash to latest version and the prob simply went away. So anyone reading this - go upgrade Adobe Flash. There's some incompatibility between newer MSIEs and less recent versions of the Flash player. This hapened on an out-of-the-box machine, so it's probably a version alignment problem which doesn't show up in the normal course of things. -- Case closed with thanks to everyone --

Airport? Those dont count! Seriously I will start to pay more attention to McD's when passing them - which is always my inclination. BTW if you use paid-for WiFi it could turn out a lot cheaper to pack a Wireless Broadband dongle. I was checking some rates the other day and they were nothing short of extortionate. At Stanstead for instance it should be easily possible to bypass what looks like a cozy monopoly in the terminal.

I came across the term in the mid 70's. Originally it was applied only to devices intended to lock software to one computer at a time - an anti-piracy device. Then, I imagined it to be a play or corruption of dangle. It could even have been a typo. Because dongles dangled from the printer or serial port. It could also have been because the software DON't Go LEss one (is fitted). Thinking back maybe the first one I saw was fitted to a Commodore PET, but soon many expensive pieces of software were shipped with either a serial (RS232) one or a PC Parallel Port one.

That's not true at all! He's being welcomed back in just the same way as any Brit who'd been unjustly incarcerated. He says he didn't do it, Gaddafi says Libya wasn't involved. Where does all this "hero for blowing up" nonsense come from? Gaddafi is playing to his electorate in exactly the same way that Brown is. He's actually very careful to avoid saying anything of significance about the matter - also just like Brown. http://www.algathafi...glish/audio.htm

Oh, and if you are looking for conspiracy theories Monsta, then look no further than the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.u...and/8211596.stm Which concludes: And this is what a Maltese Journalist who covered the trial at the time says: http://www.mathaba.n...erbie/gauci.htm And... Dr Hans Köchler, the UN-appointed international observer at the trial: That's the only date Megrahi was in Malta And, an article alleging that Gauchi was paid $2M by the CIA. http://www.maltatoda.../05/03/t13.html

"The point of the Justice System" is to bring guilty people to book for their crimes and not to make more victims out of the innocent. It's to apply the same fair rules for all. One of those fair rules is trial by your peers, another is to be allowed to se the evidence against you so you can challenge it. Neither happened in this case. I'm not proposing any conspiracy myself; I'm simply repeating what the lawer for the prosecution - the guy who brought the charge - now says. If he is a terorist then why isn't he glorying in this act of terrorism? Other terrorists do; so what's different here? He's now free from any consequences, and would (according to your warped view of his people) have much to gain. But he continues to protest his innocence. We'll at least get to see his side of the story even if we are not trustworthy enough to see HMG's. Anyone with basic intelligence will listen with an open mind. And no, the book wasn't about "killing jews", that came much later. Hitler's book was about many other things including how easy it was to manipulate minds of the dumb masses who couldn't/wouldn't think for themselves. A conjecture he went on to prove admirably.

Ah well, we are not allowed to know that. More spectacular in its disregard for the traditional standards of justice the defendant and the defence team were not allowed to know this either. Nor was the jury, because in a further perversion of basic British justice there wasn't one! But we can take on trust the remarks of the honorable Lord who drew up the indictment on behalf of HMG. He says the one Maltese witness produced to give evidence at the show trial, and on which the conviction hangs, was "not quite the full shilling" and an "apple short of a picnic". Presumably to distance himself from the whole charade which he anticipates will start to unravel at some point. It's believed by many that this sole witness is a well paid CIA plant. The charge is that the guy conspired with another. But the co-conspirator isn't guilty of conspiracy. Odd that the English language shouldn't mean what we all accept it to mean. Now explain why this "hero's welcome" thing is so important in your thinking? The pair were handed over, not voluntarily but under extreme pressure and threat, with assurances that they'd get a fair trial. Very many people believe they didn't.

If you'd lived a little longer you would know about the Irish people who were framed by "British Justice" for crimes they didn't commit. Their crime was that they were Irish. The subsequent gradual climb-down by our great and good was sickening. The same gutter press that was baying for blood then is baying for blood now. There's no evidence anyone with half a brain would accept that this guy is a terrorist. BTW the people who did the bombings you mention ARE HOME! They are the product of the same sort of half-understood sycophantic ramblings that characterise your BNP meetings.

Yes, but I can only speak for Italia at the moment. I get 100 hours for €25 charged in 15 minute chunks. Can get this down to 20 euro cents an hour by paying more up front. Credit is completely non-expiring, or so the shop claims. But the thing in Italy is that tourists can't buy Italian SIMs. Of course this MUST be against european free market rules, but try telling someone that! I believe the Italian economy would collapse if there wasn't a steady stream of other mug Europeans paying ludicrous roaming charges. Hey, I have that t-shirt too! Strangely the deal in the shops is even better than the deal you can get topping up on the web. Well, not too strange, because holiday home owners pay almost three times as much for their electricity as locals! Doubtless all part of the great self-interest lottery that is the EU. For some obscure reason McD's are thin on the ground in Italia. I've sniffed the spectrum at the odd one or two and there's no trace of McWiFi, free or not!

Shines a new light on all the British and USA Nationals who have been incarcerated abroad and then returned to heroes welcomes. Clearly they were guilty after all, and should have been left to rot in foreign jails! Or is there something different about the situations - like maybe race and ethnicity? Ever read Mein Kampf? Yeah, go on, Google it!

No it's not £28 for 30 days. For the record the t-mobile 30 day rate is £15. And, I pointed out that Three provides a better deal for much over a week. Once again you've entirely missed the point. The point of the thread is to find who gives the best value when you occasionally find yourself away from home for an odd day or an odd few days now and then in a totally unpredictable and erratic manner. Where you waste the least money, and get the best service. It's not instead of a copper to the home service, it's in addition to it.

Terrific idea Monsta! But why stop there? No, no, I've also decided to... Send back my mobile phone, and simply stay out of touch for 23 hours a day.Tame some wild pigeons for semi-instant messaging (PidMS).Get the old ZX81 out of the attic for tracking my expenses (the 40 characters per line on a huge TV will eliminate all eye-strain).Put the GPS up on That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds (difficult with a ZX81 though ) and mark my tracks on the road with a large lump of chalk.Ditto the new digital camera; going to take art lessons. P.S. The money saving, technology eliminating, ideas are flooding in now. Selling the house and living in a cave seems like the best money saver of the lot though. Then I'll be your neighbour!

I don't think he did it! Neither do some of the more intelligent members of the victims families. The evidence doesn't stack up. And explain how his companion is innocent and he is guilty? He's going to publish his side of things, and he should be listened to with an open mind. If he was guilty its unlikely that he'd want to take the matter further. History indicates that the vast majority of people who continue to protest innocence after such a length of time are indeed innocent. There's too many vested political interests involved in this thing ever to get at the full truth. But the guy himself needs to be listened to over the obscene baying-for-blood noises of the gullible, uninformed, and plain dumb.

I asked my compiler and it says syntax error! Can't think of the artist who performed that one. Lint says something about wrong keyword used in a for statement. And, it thinks that there's maybe a glaring logical error in there too. Still, it's formatted like a pro and not a Pascal hacker!

Sorry don't understand the question like. Gonna have to PM me mate Monsta!

OK Bedlington Comsumers here's the final roundup: The Bedlington.co.uk Guide to Erratic Mobile Broadband Choice Cheapest for Erratic Heavy Use: T-Mobile (But...) HSDPA dongle, and a £10 top up costs inside of £30. The charge is a flat £2/day, or £7/week (used as a block of seven days). Going weekly, and then using an odd day of your choice, leaves an awkward £1 credit from a £10 top up - which you can't use for mobile calls or SMS. Fair usage is 3GB/month but they don't cut you off completely. If you're only using the PC mobile for a few casual days a month this isn't a consideration anyway. Credit is valid 180 days from last use of service. But they imply they'll zap the dongle against further use then - which is cruel; but will they do the deed and cut their own noses off? The gotcha here is that they are not Skype and Internet messaging friendly. No VoIP traffic! http://www.t-mobile....ayg/allowances/ Best for Occasional Random Light Use: Vodaphone £15 a Gigabyte and use it any time any day any year without loss of credit. The no-strings champion, but when you do use it the per megabyte cost it isn't at all cheap. Best for Heavy Use, Skype, other chat services, and not having to count the cost: Three The options and freebies make my head hurt. But they do like Skype. They like it so much that they don't take any of your bandwidth allowance when you use it! £15 for 5GB which you can use any time in the month. HSDPA dongle is very friendly £9.99 to buy too. Credit expires after 30 days - bummer! But seems you can carry on with the freebies, and they don't kill the card/dongle, almost never. They've also got the best UK data coverage, which has to count for a lot - especially in Bedlington! Conclusion Three wins by a knockout. T-Mobile is worth considering if you are going to use the mobile Internet heavily now and again (especially in a one-off weekly block, or the odd day now and again), but beware the 180 day no-use cut you off without a dongle. If you only want coverage for week or two, it's still probably more sensible to pay Three their £15 for better coverage, get unmetered Skype, and be done with all the counting days hassle. The Three card can also be used in a moby, and there's a free SMS allowance, and other user delights to explore. However Vodaphone is the lightweight champion if you need to check email and the odd web page etc. on the road now and then, any day any year, without worries if your unused credit might have expired. The rest don't feature unless anyone can pitch differently. I know there are deals which cap your daily charge at £2 (Orange), but they ruthlessly expire your credit if you don't use it.