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Didn't you know? In Grodo's Broke Britain we're all middle class now. You don't even need to be struggling with negative equity to qualify - there's now plenty of national debt to service to go around! Simply no point in sticking your nose in the air and feigning this working class superiority. All the pubs are to be taxed into closing, and replaced with fixed-price government tea rooms. Of course in Bedlington we're well on the way to that already. Back to the No-future!

Yes! As much as you can any closed-source code. It doesn't actually do much directly to the registry. I always used something different to de-fragment and sort that. But generally I do use all the tick boxes. It's an excellent utility that I've used for over a decade on numerous machines, including those of customers. Never had a single problem that I can recall, and never had to restore one of the backups it creates. Why do you have to dis people who are making a genuine effort to help people and only asking for some voluntary compensation based directly on the results they achieve? CCleaner comes highly recommended, and would even be worth paying £20 for. One of the real, genuine, legal, bargains out there! Needs to include registry compaction, though I guess they are playing safe, as in the wrong hands..

Yes, we shouldn't have to put up with all these old folk. Far cleaner to terminate them at birth I say! 39 closing a week according to a trade body. Something just under six a day nationally. Been going on for some time, but has accelerated markedly more recently. Mr Brown has taxed them out of existence; just like he's taxing genuine earners out of the country. Genuine earners, unlike his friends in the City, who ARE being rewarded for failure! At the current rate all UK pubs will have closed their doors by 2037! A pub-closure tax should fix the situation. One year's turnover averaged over the previous five years. Daft? Of course! But no more daft than taxing tax (VAT on fuel duty)! Or pretending you are encouraging people to save for retirement, and then taxing that retirement money twice over, when ordinarily it could only be taxed once. But folks, remember - it's all a GLOBAL problem. Count the globals. Brown-speak - the more you say it the more true it becomes.

I'm sure it's stopping all that atomic testing! (Youngsters: ask someone of an age to explain). Isn't that a Barbie in the other hemisphere? Must make it hell being a young girl there! Getting this huge heavy box home from the store in such anticipation only to find a pile of metal bits, a badly printed book of assembly instructions, and a plastic bag with a vital bolt missing.

This thread is a great basis for a forthcoming Eating-out in Bedlington Guide, so please do make a point of posting your past and on-going experiences.

Cympil is talking about images that already exist somewhere else on the web. Though it's not always possible to do this for a variety of reasons, one of which is that some sites specifically prevent you from linking in this way. The most interesting pictures are often ones that don't already exist on the web somewhere. Say ones you take with a digital camera or mobile phone. For those we provide members with some webspace (see MyControls), or alternatively you can use a site that specifically provides a picture hosting service, and then link to them as Cympil describes.

Thanks for posting the link. Though if you read the whole story it does say that if you joined after 19th December your data wouldn't have been compromised. And even then no financial data went astray, only emails and DOBs; stuff people often post on other sites anyway. At least they are honest and admitted the breach. Our banks have traditionaly covered theirs up, but bet you still have a bank account!

Yes, several badly off-topic posts need deporting too. Possible topic split on The Ethenics of Ethics; the other way around would be simply too provocative!

Deport them! Come the revolution she's first choice for Home Secretary. If the feeble minded Jacqi Smith can do the job then Bedlington's candidate could do it in her spare time! MONGO had better watch out too, he's also likely to be in-line for a one-way on Ryanair.

Sadly no. Scooter was only a way of getting from A to B. If Bedlington had had a mod chapter might well have joined though. Apparently kids aren't allowed them (legaly) these days. Wonder why? Might have something to do with a society that is so confused that it believes a good take-away restaurant can be disadvantaged or diminished by calling it what it has always been affectionately called. (see Take-away thread) Carol Thatcher you are not alone in believing that the loonies are running the asylum. Rant over - for now!

Take a look at the video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ire/7883819.stm One dumb kid larking on slips and loses a bit of skin. Old days: school matron (often doubling another job) dabs a bit of TCP on it and a sticky plaster; admonishes kid to be more careful. Life (and education) continue. Today: Paramedics called at considerable expense - eeeaww eeeaww eeeaww. Conference on on-going situation. TV news crew alerted to news-worthy critical situation. Health and Saftey officer consultation. School must be closed for H&S reasons. Thousands of people and business disrupted. Thousands of additional journeys (on icy roads) putting even more countless thousands at risk. More conferences, lots of form-filling, written reports, recommendations (need to order road salt before Winter?), targets set, performance monitoring. What a total load of cobblers! What a message to the kids about facing up to risk in the real world; taking responsibility for your own actions; taking individual initiative; employing elementary common sense! Ship a few head teachers out to Gaza to see what risk is all about. Is it that the generation that lived through the blitz are gone? In the rather cushioned '60s I drove a motor scooter through 20 foot snowdrifts to get to school. And you know we were handed strange things called shovels, which were great at moving snow and ice. The exercise was quite good for our health, and the resulting paths through the school yard were equally good for our safety. Unfortunately we didn't have pretty strips of flourescent plastic to cordon off the snowfall and ice, you just sort-of kept to the cleared bits using your own powers of observation.

Don't know, but you've only got to eyeball the vast amount of parked-up new cars to realise that somehow they have to be turned into cash by increasingly cash-strapped manufacturers. Some industries can turn off the tap much more quickly. But with computers you have to commit to lots of high value components well in advance, and if you don't keep the development effort going you're out of the business. A lot of well-known brands use contract manufacture to keep their costs down, and those contractors will just keep going until the minimum contract is fulfilled as their payment is guaranteed. The computer industry has never experienced this scale of downturn before, so there are a lot of buying mistakes in the pipeline. If I had to guess on houses I'd say that they have a lot further to go. It's going to get a lot worse than even I imagined it could. There will be false dawns. The trick is not to get sucked in by the industry propaganda that the market has bottomed. As any experienced stockmarket trader will tell you, the time to buy is when even the super-optimists have given up - it's called market capitulation.

There are some huge bargains on the way. Why? A combination of things; particularly an unprecedented depression in the industry is starting to take hold. Firms will need to clear current inventory and get cheaper better value product to the market just to survive. Hold off that purchase for a while, and make do with what you have - things can only get cheaper! Advice offered by someone who has been in the business since year one.

Good on you - but you shouldn't have to exercise some common sense when people are paid very good money to get the message out. BTW the plans reminded me of something but I couldn't say what - until it suddenly came to me. Beamish! All that's missing is the cast iron band stand. We really do need this feature - for the buskers, come the next phase of Gordo's world-saving economic miracle. Anyway, why not go the whole hog and turn the entire town into a "living" museum, instead of doing it on the instalment plan?

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And, once again the Banks lose in Court. If they don't appeal to the House of Lords we'll have a final decision from the regulator by year-end. Of course a lot of people will say that compared with their other problems it's just a drop in the ocean to them now. As a good part of them are already in de-facto nationalisation it could well be the taxpayer who has to fork out.

A lot of people - especially in the Linux community - would like it that way, but the migration onto the desktop is inevitable. Support from MS and Apple! When was the last time you rang the MS support desk?

Surely the "main stream" on gaming is consoles? Well there's the disagreement you see. It has nothing to do with elitism. Either you are willing to turn your brain on or not. Either you are willing to try something different (and give it a fair chance) or not. Microsoft are assured of their continued gigabucks from the people that aren't, but they won't stem the slow but steady rise of open source. Being dumb, and stubbornly maintaining your ignorance, is expensive. BTW lots of people use Linux but don't even know they do. It's turning up in lots of domestic appliances - and phones quite soon now.

Compatibility with what? I know of a couple of people who also installed XP on netbooks. I also know of a couple of people who were converted to Linux trough them. The dumbed down interface provided on the eee's can be broken out of, but many people install Ubuntu. There's now a special distribution for them, and it's much better tailored to running out of flash than XP is. The people who went the Ubuntu route were the more computer literate, and generally get much more out of their machines. In the long run they are the people that matter. The new Toshibas already have Ubuntu installed. There's only one bit of paid-for design software I was keeping an XP boot partition for, and it took me by surprise the other week to see it's now released for Linux. When I come to upgrade that software to the next major release I will of course be opting for the Linux version. Installed the demo version and it works great. The Mac is a great help for this kind of expensive paid-for application, because when it's made to port to a Mac then there's very little development effort to release a Linux version too. The rapid rise of portable APIs like Qt are helping this process along. That said there's oodles of things you can do on a Linux machine (and for free) that it's often awkward and/or expensive to do with another OS. I can read and write legacy FAT and NTFS drives with Linux, and connect to a Windows (SMB) LAN, but the reverse isn't true with Windows, at least not without a lot of expense and hassle. Thus Windows will shortly be history here.

It wouldn't be an exception then; this is the way MS has always worked. One lousy major release followed by one quite stable one. You sucker folks into installing an upgrade then you make sure that they have to move on again. After another couple of years, and when they've forgotten the bad experience, knock out another bad experience dressed up as a major advance. The point is that all these releases, and near empty fancy boxes, are totally unnecessary. The OS could be continuously updated. But, if you do that, you lose the opportunity to sell the same old code time and time again to the same purchaser. Selling the same products to OEMs at a fraction of the price you or I can buy the shrink-wrap is another strategy. There's no need to charge three figures, it's just they've locked you in to their proprietary data formats, and their way of doing things. So you meekly shell out another wodge of cash, rather than make the effort to break out of the exploitation cycle. When they have to slash prices drastically to keep users they do; witness the competition Linux was giving them on netbooks and their knocking out XP to the OEMs for a few dollars a throw just to stem the rise of Linux on that class of machines. But, just so long as there's a dumb following, they will play it for every billion dollars it's worth.

As an amusing addendum to our discussion on the crafty right-wing Dutch MP - Mr VanWilders: The Muslim lord who was railing against the 14 minute film, but was forced to admit by Kirsty Wark he hadn't actually seen it (because he didn't have to), also didn't have time to stop on the motorway to send extended text messages. And, as a consequence... No doubt he will appeal on the grounds that his conviction is racially motivated, and that if he isn't released pronto civil disturbance will inevitably result. Well, there is a precedent for the home secretary intervening on those grounds!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7910110.stm First rational thing I've seen this government do in a long while! Give that minister a knighthood. And while you are at it give him a sensible job title; Minister for Digital Engagment sounds like he's running a computer dating agency!

Because you make the selections yourself. And, as I said, the sub is only to get rid of the ads every 15 minutes. That's how it's both legal and free.

http://www.spotify.com/en/ The subscription is only if you don't want an ad every 15 minutes.

A picture would help a lot. I think at this stage the owner has probably abandoned it.