Because if you shut the lid down it goes to sleep and doesn’t like it.

I assume you mean if it’s updating and you shut the lid it doesn’t like it. I think the suggestion is to just shut the lid without shutting the laptop down first. Then you can set it to update and restart at some point while you get coffee or something.

I’ve been on sabbatical since August, living in Colombia this year after 4 years in France. Yesterday my boss emailed me to tell me he’d done my start-of-year appraisal so I’ve got one to go back to, with the sole target of “come back to work”. This August I’ll be going back to work in Bristol, earning more than I ever dreamt I would in my 20s. So pretty good.

See also ‘edit’. Just because you don’t use tape it doesn’t cease to be a video.

See, I assumed “edit” to be “an edited video” as opposed to “a raw video that’ll bore the devil’s dumplings off everyone.”[/quote]

There was a Dan Atherton one on here referred to as an “edit” that was literally 15 minutes of continuous headcam footage. Ruined it for me.

you can’t start a post with

Okay feel free to shout me down I don’t care…I’m venting
and then get all grumpy when people point out you’re chatting breeze[/quote]

Are you new here?

In fantasy land it’d be Nissan GTR, Geometron, mega shed, commercial espresso kit and then call park tools and say “one of everything please”.

In real life I’d get a fairly nice used car and put the rest into the mortgage.

A used, pre-2015 Gaggia Classic is still the answer, the new 2015 model has been ‘updated’ and has lost most of its useful features, including the 3-way solenoid that allows you to adjust brew pressure. Steer clear.

Here in Colombia they eat mild cheese dropped into hot chocolate to melt a bit and fished out with a spoon. Much nicer than it sounds, and the only decent use for mild cheese I’ve ever found.

A pair of proper weightlifting shoes. More a present from me to my back.

Having known someone with one and spent some time with it, the positive I would say is they are incredibly well behaved when trained. The one I knew would stop eating if any food fell out of her bowl and eat the food off the floor before carrying on, would stay out of any given room in the house when told even with doors left open etc. However as noted, they don’t need much exercise and are fine not even really leaving the house as long as they scamper up and down the stairs a few times per day. Also as mentioned can be very expensive essentially just because they’re fashionable at the moment. From what you’ve said it doesn’t seem like the dog for you.

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/one-feel-black-p-id_8285966.html

what about students using adhd drugs to help study – wright or wrong?

I did a meta-analysis of the studies on this for uni about 6 years ago. According to the results available at the time, the best “cognition-enhancing” drugs (I think they were Ritalin and Modafinil but I’d have to check) have about half to two thirds the effect on cognition as caffeine. Caffeine in subjects who usually use very little outperformed all the others by a huge margin, but the ADHD drugs etc have become popular (or at least well known as study drugs) because many people have become highly tolerant to caffeine.

TL;DR: Take two weeks off caffeine before you need to cram and take your exam.

Part 2

If there are 4 black balls and 4 white, what is the prob of drawing 4 white and 4 black.

(0.5)^8 x 64 = 0.25

There’s a book called Starting Strength that I highly recommend. It’s specifically designed for weightlifting novices looking to increase strength and power for other sports.

The basic program is low bar back squats every workout, then either bench press or standing press alternating every workout, then deadlift or power clean alternating. Warm up with gradually increasing weight/decreasing reps (from empty bar 2×5 up to slightly below max for one rep) and then do 3×5, upping the weight every workout.

The book is well worth buying just for the instructions for how to perform each lift properly and safely. If you eat and sleep enough you can carry on increasing weight every workout for months. I’m currently following this program for a second time after a 2 year layoff.

Edit: Book also worth buying for comments such as “If you insist on using gloves, make sure they match your purse”.

Common mistake by an outsider.

Not one they’d need to make for us to spot um though. Can smell um cor we.

I run 2.0 beavers front and rear with tubes on a very similar bike and they do the job. The duel compound on the cheap wired ones isn’t bad compared to most brands’ cheapest compounds. I did notice they have small notches, maybe mold injection points or something, around the bead. I’d definitely be carefully shaving them off with a sharp knife if I was to try them tubeless.

I Am Not A Woman 🙂

(IANAL is quite a common acronym here for “I am not a lawyer”, used when dispensing questionable pseudo-legal advice)

This? IANAW.

They don’t keep you dry. They give you a sense of being dry.

Personally I quite like the sense of being dry that they afford. I do agree to a certain extent though, I never owned one living in the UK for 20 odd years, but bought one after moving to Lyon the first time it rained but was too hot to wear a coat. I now live in a colder climate but still use one, as it gives the freedom to wear any non-waterproof jacket I like even if it rains.

Agreed that you need at least a half decent one though, my m+s one folds up small enough for a proper bag but wouldn’t fit in a woman’s handbag and is about as small as I’d go.

but then, what can you do?

Maybe get together with a few mates who are all worried and have a sort of “intervention”, tell him you care about him but this is a bit much.

The Fault in our Tars – Drama based around the discovery and subsequent cover-up of problems with major roadworks

Tar Trek – Sequel in which an inspector from HSE travels the length and breadth of the country taking tarmac samples

Tar Wars – Completing the trilogy by covering the lengthy court battle that ensues

Edit: should have been in the taking away a letter thread 😳

Interstella – Matthew McConaughey gets pissed on reassuringly expensive lager

The Fantastic Fur – Dark sequel to 101 Dalmatians

Sink City – comic-book style plumbing thriller

+1 for swiftkey.

Personally I would install the google now launcher, it’s not third party but it’s more or less down to preference which of the two google ones you like more.

The only other top tip I can think of is to install the amazon underground app, because they often have promos giving usually paid apps for free. Also any games you buy include all in-app purchases for free, so all those annoying games you can’t complete without paying for upgrades can be completed and all “expansions” can be unlocked for free.

Funny how everyone slags off Ian Brown, but he’s the only one who produced anything decent in his solo/subsequent career.

Yeah, the rest of them were crap…

So should I still buy a Stooge or not?

If you’re looking at energy companies, then any power station is going to have environmental people on site permanently, with a computer in an office somewhere but spending a lot of time out on the site. If you’ve got no ideological objections to it nuclear is probably a bit more interesting than most. The nuclear plants also tend to be remote so there are some very well placed for mtb if that’s a factor (think Heysham and Sellafield rather than Sizewell and Dungeness).

The major regulators (EA, SEPA, ONR) are a good shout too.

Left field suggestion: Colombia. There’s no seasons and you might bump into Nairo.

Changes the chain line by 6mm I think. You could always use the CRC page as a guide to what’s available and then go directly to the manufacturers web sites to see if they do different versions for boost and non-boost, assuming that the difference isn’t built into the cranks.

Go to CRC, click on MTB, click on chainrings, drop down bolt circle filter, filter for 94 bcd, there’s everything from steel SRAM for £16 to X01 for £50 via absolute black oval ones for £34.

HTH

It’s only an hour and a half’s drive to Birmingham for a decent curry. A bit less from Stockport maybe.

Full disclosure up front: I work on this project. My real name is also fairly easy to guess from my name on here so for that reason I’ll not be saying too much, except to note a few things:

1) I’ll never stop being surprised at how nuclear can turn normally sensible people into complete tin foil hatters.

2) Quite right this project could have been a boon for the steel industry. In fact, we could have had only the second forge in the world (first being in Japan) capable of producing the largest forging for these reactors. But the current government cancelled the loan to the company that was going to make it shortly after being elected.

3) The fear of radiation is more dangerous than radiation itself: “Interestingly, even the upper bound projection of the lives saved from the evacuation is lower than the number of deaths already caused by the evacuation itself.” Source.

Which, incidentally, gives the approximate number of evacuation deaths at 600, which given that it’s in a peer-reviewed journal leads me to believe (perhaps optimistically) that the 1600 figure is likely to be a mis-quote of this paper.

Never done a pic before, here goes…

I’ve updated an older laptop running 8gb ram and sdd to W10, and also updated then clean installed a brand new laptop, also running 8gb and ssd but with a much newer processor. Both are running fine, I’ve not really had any major issues, but I have found that I’ve been googling how to do things a lot since the switch. So rather than spend 5 minutes trying to find something, I spend 30 seconds trying to find something, 2 minutes on google and it’s done.

I haven’t gone back to 8 but have spent a lot of time making things work in 10 and still can’t find things in 10 via the start menu, even things as important as the “panneau de configuration” whatever that is in English.

That’s control panel, and although the start menu route is indeed horrible (start > all apps > windows system > control panel), if you right click on the start button it’s one of the options. Right clicking the start button seems to just list all of the actually useful things you used to be able to do in windows very easily, like run, command prompt, control panel etc.

Do you mind me asking how much it cost you? All in, including re-pointing wall, stain for fence, new gravel and time spent weeding.

Some 2015 carbon Norco Sight (140mm) and Range (160mm) around that price from Evans.

https://goo.gl/maps/jNAEYM4yDp62

Febreeze. HTH.

8 grand for a pint bottle of Köstritzer schwarzbier in my local supermarket. Luckily that’s in pesos so £1.72. So apparently it’s 20 times more expensive to import a beer from Newcastle to Norway than from Germany to Colombia.