What denon amp is it, is it dlna compliant?

No, not really, it’s not like cane creeks one. I think tf or mojo will give you starting points on tune. But you do need to play to find out what works for you and your bike.

Edit beaten to it, I’m agreeing with this chap above me!

The new bike I’ve ordered has this shock fitted and but never thought about lockout as I had Fox float x on my old bike which did lock out which was handy on long climbs

Is there something missing from the post or did you just want to let us know?

If your question does a lack of lockout matter, then my answer is no I’ve never wanted it back since switching to the X2, but I guess it depends on the bike and how bobby it is

If you die in the same car accident what happens then? As she is younger and you both die at the scene, she would get it then it passes on to her next of kin. But if you outlive her and cark it on the way to the hospital, her half passes to you, and from you it passes to who? The state? Your next of kin?

Would it be better off going to her nephew say, than your parents? Theoretical I know but the will puts these things on paper. If you are happy your assets going to people you might not like as they are her next of kin, or indeed she is happy with her assets ending up with yours, or both of you are happy the state gets it all. Then no there is no need to a will.

On the other hand Death Scenario mapping is fun, so don’t shy away from it. Bring a 10 year old boy if you want to map out all bizarre scenarios, I can rent you one. But it’s good to know that in the even of a minibus based death with all the family, some dying, some on long term life support, some transferred to robots, others in suspended animation. It’s all mapped out, so not to worry. You might not need to go to the same level…

Portions are ok, but I don’t think they are particularly special sized. Wife does though, and the kids are always nicely full.

Special dishes, I think it’s just what you prefer Mexican wise nothing really stands out for me apart from the chilli which I think is really good.

All good dishes though, not being negative.

Really good meal though, cocktails are good if you like that sort of thing too.

I would, also if there are further issues then it’s under apples warranty not a 3rd parties

I think they transfer your data to another phone and give you that, then send off for a proper repair rather than do it out the back. Thats what happened to me last time

The same, really. I’d hate to advertise consumer goods when playing music…

However – the fact that you never see anyone with a Microsoft or HP sticker on a guitar or on other personal items shows fanboism at work.

Or kids love stickers and when given one will throw it on anything. My sons homework books (as they are allowed to decorate them) are plastered with Hope, Apple, Raceface, VMWare, Fox, Gibson, 661 stickers – to be honest he doesn’t have a clue what half the stickers are for, but god do him and his friends love a sticker.

He doesn’t have a MS sticker as I don’t think I’ve ever had one, but he does have a MS Server Drinks bottle he uses on his bike so I feel he is sufficiently promoting all brands for him to leave the house.

Scrap that – he has a Minecraft sticker on his guitar and I’m not sure Yamaha have anything to do with Mojang or Microsoft! I have just given him a lecture and sent him to sit on the naughty step to think about the confusing message this may deliver to people. And I just realisedI have my company logo on a sticker on my laptop, I don’t even make things, let alone laptops – so off to the naughty step for me.

Just buy what you prefer people no one really cares what anyone else has anyway, especially not if it works for you…

Synaptics have clearly invested in it significantly, as it’s their business!

In agreement there but it’s not something that is available with all windows laptops by your own argument.

See this is what I am talking about. You’re blaming the OS for the hardware durability, which is madness. If your Windows laptop breaks, it’s not because it’s Windows – it’s because HP, Dell, Lenovo or whoever have not made it well enough. It has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft.

No I’m not, I am grouping all laptops produced by a multitude of manufacturers that are designed to run windows into the same group. I know that windows lasts well as an OS, I have run windows on mac machines for years and I know that it lasts when set up well. I will phrase it another way – all my apple produced devices have lasted far better than my Non Apple devices, and when the non apple devices went wrong no one company would stand behind it.

As an implementer of Microsoft products for many years, and a former employee, I know the difference between hardware and software. I am frustrated by when MS is held back by the hardware boys as some of their software is exceptional, I don’t have time for my own personal tools to go to the trouble I have to for my clients in trying to make a collection of parts together work well – so I don’t.

Gahh… again – there’s no such thing as a Windows trackpad.

And if they did control the supply chain, or indeed mandated standard I suspect we wouldn’t be having the debate of Non Apple v’s Apple trackpads

Focus as you will go through the fun of trying to work out what is needed to keep the baby alive for a bit, and will in the early days take so much stuff a micra would be a challenge.

The focus is a good workhorse that is easy to do move kids and they associated gubbins around in. Run it into the ground, sell the micra and keep that money back for a new car in a few years when the Focus smells of sick and has raisins in every imaginable crevice

My old Sony E Series did all that and so does the Wife’s Lenovo Yoga laptop. The Yoga can do it too by touching the screen. I suspect lots of other laptops can do this too which makes the MB a bit outdated.

Having used both of those at home and work, then no they are not even comparable, they feel like a cheap rip of a mac implementation. And reaching for a screen just makes no sense. Even simple things like clicking at the edge of a trackpad, mac it’s the same feel no matter where you click with the heptic feedback, windows machines the feel is completely different from centre edge.

Use a mac trackpad and a windows trackpad for a significant amount of time for more than browsing the internet, there is no way you would consider a Windows implementation a viable alternative. As someone said Windows PC’s are not built as with a common approach to hardware and software, so it would be unfair to think that a windows machine could match it without significant investment by the hardware manufacturer.

I love windows machines, they are great and W10 is brilliant, but people are allowed preferences and there are differences in platforms. Try fixing a Mac laptop these days, it’s a nightmare. Windows machines are often far ahead in this. Also I have been badly burnt by several high end PC’s letting me down at critical moments, for quite pointless things, so that will tarnish things just as it would if it was the other way round. For a heavy user who travels a lot windows machines generally lasted a year, Macs last about 4 and then get retired to family use. The windows machines are junked.

A computer is a tool for me, it has to work, feel nice in the hand and be reliable. There are many laptops that work and are reliable, but feel like cheap pieces of plastic. The closest I got were high end Sony’s which worked really well, however screen cracked and keyboards died, so on long haul trips I was taking a spare, such was my lack of faith in it. If it’s a device to browse the internet then it’s pointless to get a mac, if you use it all day every day then I think people can use whatever tool they want, and if some features are important to that person then thats a reason to have the machine.

Other genuine question then – what exactly is so great about the Apple track pad?

It actually works! It is more than a pointing device. Gestures is something that is easy to mock if you are not used to them, but going to a machine without it feels like a massive massive step backwards.

Zoom reliably with one hand on anything I want, jump to a section of text, left and right click without having to use another set of buttons, show all my apps that are open, jump between my various desktops. It just works in an easy to use intuitive manner.

I don’t have to reach up to a screen like windows, I don’t need two hands like most laptops if I actually want to control zoom or click.

It just works in a way you don’t even think about it, and going back to windows feels like a step back in time.

Bloody love mine. Run it with a 36 up front and an x2 shock. Most versatile bike I e ever ridden, just love it. I built the perfect bike to me, and it’s just great

It depends what you want from your business bank account?

For me I have few transactions compared to other businesses, I am not buying and selling stock regularly. And I will never go to a branch. But I will pay all my bills online for insurance etc, I don’t use an overdraft etc.

Must be able to accepts payments out of the EU.

So I looked at the online accounts, essentially if you do it online you get it the transactions free, and if you need to go in branch or get an overdraft etc they will bend you over.

This included if I had to go in branch to open it. If I needed to and couldn’t do it online (the application), they were out the process.

Pretty much all of them are free for 12 months or 18 months, so you shouldn’t be paying anything in the first trading year. If it’s not on there website then they will but you might need to talk to them.

Went with HSBC in the end, as I hate Natwest’s systems internally and customer facing (personal preference), Barclays took a month to acknowledge my request. The others required branch visits. HSBC won by default, and have been good so far.

Just accept they are all a bit crap, and how much this matters depends on the line of business you are in. So pick the one you resent the least!

Humans hurting humans will never end, doing it in the name of others or legends, thats not going to end either.

Humans suck, they blame each other for the ills of the world, and generally the last person we look at to improve the world is the one staring back in the mirror.

Humans are a destructive selfish species by default, we wouldn’t be where we are in the food chain if we weren’t. As a result this sense of entitlement will be abused – it sucks, but it’s not going to change anytime soon.

Edit: The above does not take away from the outrage I have at taking another life, let alone a toddler who has no idea of ideology let alone tries to fight against it. What I typed above does not justify what appears to have happened

Top button is park, press this and you are in park. P lights up along with and up and down arrow, saying you should move the gear stick to put it in a gear to move.

Neutral disconnects drive, but does not lock the box (that’s parking). Push forward to reverse, pull back to go to drive.

Flick left to go into sport mode ( higher shift point). Once left forward becomes manual down shift, back becomes up.

Flick the stick left to go back to normal drive.

If it sports auto you have paddles to change gear, but to get full manual switch to sport and use paddles, staying in D and using paddles will switch you back to drive after about 30 seconds of once you have finished overtaking.

It’s a great box

No the m57 uses a different setup, certainly doesn’t have the reliability history of the 320d in terms of lunching turbos.

Check for oil leaks and glow pugs, if it’s a low mile 6 year old car check DPF. The later engines were fitted with the newer flaps that are much less likely to fail and came with vortex breather.

Expect the usual build up of gunk due to low intervals in-between changes.

Generally pretty built proof, and if buying approved used you will get a warranty that will take car of anything big

thats what I thought as well, actually want the 330d Msport auto 2010 reg @45k mileage £14k

Sounds like a more sensibly place to put the money, a 10 plate will be an E90 though, but I don’t think thats an issue, better value certainly

Is there an alternative to use? I want some fox decals for my shock and fork in the same share as my bike, I have the pantone code and have emailed several times but never received a response, wanted to make sure as they don’t list X2 decals but they never seem to get back to me.

13k miles I would get the petrol, although it may cost you more if you are financing over 3 years.

If you are going used why don’t you get a 6 pot and slightly older, nearly news will normally work out more expensive than a deal you will get off a new one.

If you get a saloon make sure you have folding seats option ticked otherwise they are fixed.

If you are doing 130k a year, the diesel, but I guess that’s a typo? If it is, I would at least get a 5.

Are you talking new, used, cash,lease, pcp, company?

Just ask them to prove match or swap between the two each year using quidco

Being unable to sit down and switch off

Its a story nicked from Facebook, made to make a point to a middle aged aged woman’s group of friends and a lazy intern picked it up. As others have said breathing out a bit much will generally start a fight on the tube, so. Wouldn’t worry about Londoners being unable to stand up for themeselves just yet.

Shame there wasn’t a northerner there to bang on about how industry died 30 years ago and they still can’t be bothered to do something about it and find a new job, that would have got him to move

Every time I have had ‘fancy cars’ I have battled against this. People assume that I want to be seen in them, when as someone who hates being looked at it couldn’t be further from the truth.

I buy cars because I want to buy them, I have had many cars that people would claim are for attention (2 seaters, built for driving, often in bright colours, with big engines etc) – but they really aren’t and to be honest get pissed off that I can’t spend my hard earn money on things that I want to without them saying I am trying to show off.

But this is true for anything really, I have had them same for with bikes, houses, motorbikes etc. Truth is I buy what I want for me and my family, and would rather I didn’t have to interact with the world, let alone be judged by them, but there we go.

I’d prefer to judge people by there deeds not their possessions, so judging people for having possessions will always seem like reverse snobbery. Just like I would expect someone to judge me if I looked down on others for their possessions or lack of them, and any association I might have with lack of possessions and not being prepared to work and contribute.

I’ve no idea if the chap in the TVR would try to judge you just because you were viewing from a flat, and not a house and any implications about your wealth and work ethic that could come from that…

I’m not sure of the point I am trying to make anymore but it’s probably best not to stare out of the window at someone, judge them and jump on the internet to tell people how you are better than a stranger you have no idea of.

And I am well aware of the irony of me judging you for judging someone else, and neither of us are actually judges so we should really just back away from all this judging business!

I pretty sure I’ll go for the 320d or the 520d

I would if I were you. As you have the CO2 limit you can’d go to the x30 engines, you can’t fiddle it so no point pretending.

5 series deals are crazy cheap as it’s about to be replaced, so BMW are stacking them up. 3 series deals are always good but not up with 5’s at the moment.

I have been a very high miler recently and until recently been on a company car scheme so was swapping every 50k miles with was between 18months and 2 years. Every time I came from a swap I tried everything else:

Mercs were always horrible to drive unless it was a full fat AMG and even then it was like a fat old uncle trying to get off a bouncy castle, entertaining but not something that I wanted.

Audi’s were often nice to look at in a well built washing machine kind of way, but really really dull to drive, and were either horrible front wheel drive or even duller 4 wheel drive. Also represent giving up on life and accepting you are never going to have fun again.

VW’s are overpriced compared to other VAG’s that share the same build. And not much cheaper than Audi’s so why would you not get an Audi over VW? Or better still get neither!

Then you are left just FWD cars, until you get to Lexus – which I just don’t get the look of at all, and remind me of a Dad trying to dress funky but ironing creases down the front of his jeans. Don’t drive great either.

So after all the above, with the massive bias I obviously have – I always come back to BM’s I prefer to enjoy the drive and not care if other people think I’m a tool for driving a BMW. And I will continue to judge them for giving up on life and buying an Audi or Merc, especially if it’s silver.

My name isn’t Bob, it’s neither Ian, or Colin, but who doesn’t love a chance to say Bob?

Free if out of contract, £19.99 if still in contract:

https://www.vodafone.co.uk/vodafone-uk/forms/unlock-code-request/?cid=vnty-vod-auto/dvynfvtq(uv(bx)tbu

Or probably some market stall will do it if the right kind of phone

Jerky or billtong

ignore my post, talking rubbish!

Cassette and cranks are a work of art. They have given me zero problems, chain works as a chain, i do run it with an xtr mech and shifter, as I generally prefer the feel. For some reason sram gxp bbs seem to die on me, so I use hope with gxp adaptors.

Great kit but like the feel of xtr shifter so run that, no concern over quality

Apple Watch ? I have no idea, but just wondered

I think you could, by going through health app, and syncing with Strava from there. But you need your phone, and the HRM is a bit rubbish as it’s just a wrist mount thing.

It’s a pretty expensive way to do a bad job

I’m on the flat rate scheme – it works fine as I don’t really have much complexity.

By ‘pay/don’t pay’ VAT do you mean they some are VAT registered some are not? All should be paying VAT, it’s just some can charge it, and of those that charge it those not on a flat rate scheme can claim it back.

On the flat rate scheme you can’t claim back VAT incurred (with a few exceptions such as one off capital purchase over £2k etc), so if you deal in a lot of raw or don’t do pass through expenses, you could be missing out.

You are allocated a VAT amount depending on your industry – you then pay this percentage of your sales as VAT. Thats it.

So if you are on a flat rate scheme you couldn’t claim back VAT on any of your contractors whether they charged it or not.

If you go on the standard voluntary VAT scheme, then you can do the gives and gets. And you have to pay attention to each of the amounts you are incurring and charging.

Decide if you are going VAT registered first – based on forecasted sales, and then decide if you want to flatmate. It makes sense for Service folk with low raw costs, but I don’t know your line of business.

I use a Suunto Ambit 3 and it works like a dream through Movescount, and onto Strava – logs all HRM stuff too, and syncs with other Underarmour apps.

Getting a solid bar of chocolate without the wafer or biscuit in was always the dream. She hit the chocolate jackpot and she’s complaining – how joyless is her life that she didn’t go round the house telling her great victory to anyone that would listen?

If you are happy with the car, do it. If you want to change it’s the perfect excuse.

I personally would do it if I was happy to keep the car

Cool, might see where my wheels went

They have little brushes that rub over the lens, brushing the dust out or use the dust to scratch a proper mark into the lens.

Best to strip the player apart and clean properly, but thats a lot of hassle

Oh and was the EE modem VDSL or ADSL?

If you have an open reach modem stuck to the wall it means you can do anything you want as you’re just using a modem. If the Home Hub is the only unit you have, and you only had EE ADSL I doubt you could make it work without some jiggery pokery