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Somehow I think they are flogging a dead horse. If you look at what a DVD costs to produce compared to the selling cost, then make the same comparisons on an audio CD, it's apparent what a huge rip-off CDs have always been. This is particularly true here in the UK where we've been exploited for so long. The days of the big record company are over, and their "money for old rope" back-catalogue profits too. I don't buy the nonsense that this will kill the music industry. Technology always opens more doors than it closes.

Up until the present day "brand imaging" it had always been the Howard Arms, at least within living memory. I'm wrong about Greggs being beside Barclays (extreme right edge of photo), it was Carricks. For a while we had two bakery chains there. And, I'm still being told that Clevva Clothes wasn't still there by the late 1970's - very puzzling! What you can say with reasonable certainty is that it's a high-summer shot taken late morning. Maybe June or July. That there are virtually no cars around at that time of day - except a bit of passing traffic - , few people, and the shops look shut, says it must be a late Sunday morning. Get the year right and you can almost pinpoint the date and time!

Ignore Monsta, he's on commission from the Ruskies! It always helps a lot if you say exactly what your operating system is. Some of the world doesn't even use Window$ you know. If XP Pro then hit the [start] button, select Control Panel; then the Security Centre (cute spelling that!) harlequin shield icon; selecting that you should be able to turn the firewall on. Be warned that all this protection can slow your machine down something awful, and there's no guarantees it will protect you if you do something else silly. There's no substitute for common sense - like not opening e-mail attachment when you aren't absolutely sure of their origin. Ditto for installing so-called "free" software of indeterminate origin.

Are you sure? I'm told that Clevva Clothes had moved by 1975, and that it was a fruit & veg shop by then. Difficult to tell from the cars, too few and too far away. But... Greggs looks suspiciously modern, and I think it was originally beside Barclays. Pity there wasn't a bit more to the left or right.

It pre-dates 1975 and it's certainly not the early or mid 1960's. So... 1971 sounds like a fair guess.

Game On! Wayne

Cupid {Thinks: That should put it on hold! }

Does nasal hair removal with a pair of tweezers count? A junior female I know did (daren't say who!). Very minor, and she wouldn't tell me what it cost, but I'd guess a couple of thousand. There's a lot better things to do with that sort of money than suffer pain.

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It' OK, it's fully tax deductible - honestly! Comes packaged with our modern all-appearance, 10-second-sound-byte, society. And.. it can only get worse. You "read" The Sun don't you?

Meanwhile, at Barclays they have more immediate concerns... Apparently they don't know who their own chairman is! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7181741.stm So what hope is there that they can prevent your - Mr/Mrs J Bloggs - account being raided? Think on this the next time your card is embarrassingly refused for no sensible reason; purely in the interests of protecting you from fraud, of course!

That one has been going a few years now, and is a great effort. Quite difficult too as a lot of the material prior to modern videotape (around 1969/70 for the colour professional tape machines) is sadly lost forever. A lot of the early video tapes were wiped for re-use to save money. Dare I say that I remember almost all of the early programmes!

Thanks C. Where did this info come from? If it's a credible source I will follow it up.

This gets more comical by the day. Now we learn that their pension fund trustees also had an arm and leg invested in NR, and in extricating themselves have manage to turn a healthy surplus into, at very least, a £100M deficit. They're demanding someone bail them out of their foolishness too! http://news.bbc.co.u...ess/7182668.stm This is a poison-pill which could more or less assure that anyone anticipating any sort of rescue will walk away. Meanwhile the taxpayer is holding the baby to the tune of a very large proportion of the entire national reserves. The current hopes that middle east oil money will save the day. Somehow, I don't think so! The pound has now plummeted to an all-time low against the euro and inflationary pressures are building. IMHO Alastair Darling is completely clueless, and the sooner he gos the less damage the economy will suffer. Even if he were to resign tomorrow (most unlikely) the outlook would be only a tiny bit less bleak. The unelected Mr Brown hasn't got the guts to call an election, and - next in a long chain of sleaze - his aspiring deputy has been caught-out taking illegal contributions to the tune of £103,000. The entire British political system is a complete and utter farce, right down to the local government level. What's to do? Call an expensive enquiry (led by trusted political chums) to tell us what we already know; tinker with a few inconsequential things; then paper over the cracks and pretend things can continue as ever - all in typical British fashion. There are times to envy countries which have had a revolution!

Hey, hang on there junior! Maybe those who miss the obvious like that need contact lenses? With contact lenses they may see that it's far cheaper to order web space from their local hosting company (and domain registrar who is a founding member of Nominet) than buy Sir Richard any more Caribbean islands. They may even see that if they are doing something to help get the old place out of its near teminal decline then this needn't cost them anything at all!

That doesn't work with my configuration of XP Pro. Indeed it doesn't work on any XP machine we have here right now. Right clicking always brings up Display Properties. XP Home Edition maybe? P.S. Why not run this forum? Someone else might just come along who wants to promote *their* repair business!

Sadly, it's very true! There aren't enough hours in the day for Fair Trading to argue, and even if they did there are so many grey areas to argue. Only a fool buys from a written specification. The manufacturer's reputation is very important when you are buying speakers, many things are so subjective and others wide open to interpretation. A listening test on your own ground is the only way. Though hearing from someone who actually uses them is a million times better than heeding someone who has BA practical experience (or near zero technical knowledge)!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810869 It might be safer to use the "WORKAROUND" method!

Make sure you've reopened your browser from cold. Go to: http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/index.php?act=Login Make sure the Remember me? [] checkbox is ticked before you hit the [Log me in] button. If this doesn't work I will show you how to force a Windows form password save.

"Current retail price is £279.99"? We're comparing apples with oranges here! £170 next bid (including postage) with 4 1/2 days to go. Would you buy second-hand gear from someone with zero feedback? When you're talking about little boxes like this the power rating can be pretty well meaningless. Is it RMS? Is it Peak Music Power? Is it even honestly measured? More often than not it's a figment of a marketing guy's imagination. Efficiency is what matters, and for little boxes it can be horribly low. The only way to choose (apart from noting your strained wallet) is to do an A-B comparison at home.

I'm looking forward to your review of those amazing £150 Bose speakers!

Could be several things. First clear your cookie cache. Which browser are you using? For instructions on MSIE 7 see How Do I Get The Bedlington.co.uk Icon To Show In My Browser? and at steps 4/5 substitute the [Delete cookies..] button.

I think he could be getting out at an opportune time. The rise of the Linux/SSD based mini notebook is at hand. Won't be noticed by many people for maybe a year or so, but they will sell themselves, and not just on price! A very few years down the line lugging the things people now lug around will be so uncool! Prediction: The MFF notebook will become almost as ubiquitous as the cell-phone is today. I'd expect MS is already aware of the threat and will be doing ultra low-cost OEM deals on XP to - a very few dollars - a try to stem the threat. XP is slated to die next January anyway. MS would have to pay me to run Windows on a flash based device!

Link to Harman Kardon Soundsticks II Specification

BBC Click is currently reporting that Time Warner has abandoned DRM so there is only one major still holding out. They're wrong - Sony has thrown in the towel too!