First graduate job, 43 hour week, 1 hour lunch included. Leave bang on 5pm. Manage my own projects & time, meet clients, have full managerial support for any idea I come up with. If I have to leave after 5pm, it’s because I bit off more than I could chew. Very glad to be out of University, there are good employers out there!

I’m enjoying the responses so far.

I want to know what it is about fruit based names that inspires such strongly polarised opinions. Apple and Orange are the only companies I know that cause such division.

Blackberrys? Pfft

Interesting use of the smiley. Does that mean you said it in jest or not. I’m confused.

Don’t worry about it – you’ve already told us you’re wasting your life by viewing this thread, why are you still here? ;)

We got to the end of the small section which of course had a clear as day bridle-path sign so I’m sure I was in the right.

That’s my favourite! Nice little linking bridleway in the lakes, glorious summer day, but it’s a footpath on OS. band new, clear, bridleway signs either end. Got rather a lot of abuse for riding along it -very- slowly giving way to everyone and being careful not to get in anyone’s way!

Then you’re riding down really wide bridleways like you have a deathwish, with more than enough space for you and walkers even if a bus appeared by magic in front of you, the old married couples: Men instantly whooping, women tutting, men then quietly falling in line with their wives and complaining…

The “Speed camera detector” things you can get use GPS to locate you, and cross check it with an inbuilt database of the locations of speed cameras. As long as your database is up to date and the camera is on the database, it’ll tell you the camera type and trigger speed, accompanied by warnings if you’re over the threshold according to its GPS. Mobile speed camera spots are on the database too. I’m unsure if it’s a legal requirement for the locations of speed cameras to be logged in the database, or whether car mounted cameras can only catch you for speeding if they’re in the database logged location, etc.

My car is fitted with FLIR jammers anyway, and diplomatic immunity plates.

Maybe he really likes his new bike in the same way as he really liked his BMX back in the day, so the likeness could be psychological. That doesn’t make it any less real to him. He likes his new bike, so what? Good on him :)

Fat bikes look like fun.
I can’t wait for them to become mainstream, get marketed as amazing, and watch everyones oppinions of them change.

Well, I doubt anyone is saving at the moment so incomes are still being spent – people just want more for their money!

I took up smoking, the long term cost benefits through shortened life outweigh the cost of the fags themselves

Occupy London empty tent claim based on rubbish science

What can we do to stop the media perpetuating lies? Seriously? (I appreciate that the source of the counterclaim is media, but still)

So inform me, who are the protestors who can give up their time to camp outside a church for a few weeks?

You. Me. There’s a way. If more people did it, your mortgage would be the least of your creditor’s worries.
I really enjoyed the media’s use of a thermal imaging camera “some of these tents have no people in them!” as if it somehow detracts from what they’re trying to achieve.

Has anyone told him this?

Or expanding till they consume every resource available then very quickly dying out.

Plenty of hydrogen up there. We just need forward thinking engineers to put it to use for massive amounts of power, then use that power to synthesise hydrogen into as many other elements as we want! So, breed more and make more engineers! Fully synthetic future, here we come*.

Just a shame this’ll help out the rest of the population too… :D

(*bye bye Happiness and moral rigidity)

With this job, it seems there’s no chance you’re going to do a day’s work with productivity comparable to existing employees, so there’s no need to worry about it being free labour. It’ll just be assessment of your proactivity and how well you fit in.
If however it turns out you’re doing work that requires no training / none of your experience (eg cold calling, tea making, the usual), tell them to stuff it and go the invoice route. Nothing to stop you walking off ten minutes in!

Clear blue skies, and that not-quite-too-cold cold you get when wrapped up. Fires, bobble hats and scotch.
Scotch scotch scotch

Science. Explains how, but the ‘whys’ run out.
Some people need a why. Enter God.
I don’t need a why.
:)

Tesco had £60.3 billion revenue last year, but bizarrely they still insist I pay for my beans.

There’s a market down the road where you can get your beans for free. You’ve just got to put in a little effort, mind.

The paper which some of the headlines are drawn from is from 1996.
Gayle (2002) states one of the reasons for this in Jamaica is that having the school qualifications, and proof of them, does not guarantee you a job, and there were very few examples (of people interviewed) of attaining a job because they passed at school. It is more realistic to learn a trade. This trade being, sometimes, hustling.

Not sure that it’s THAT much different over here for some of the population.

The masculinity thing seems to come from this – the most important thing a male can do is provide for his family. Why would they study if there’s no money to be made from studying?

Also, [allegedly, source unverified] if you really injure someone on the road in China, by law you’re financially responsible for their health treatment. If they die, the death by dangerous driving fine could potentially be much less than that.
With regards to the being blamed for the incident if you help, a judge ruled in one case (paraphrased) “There is no reason someone would help someone hurt that much unless they caused the injury”.

Very strange policies.

Is the ‘dad beard’ sill common? How many of you have grown a beard for the first time shortly after becoming a dad?

Wet shave twice a day. I’m just so fresh and clean. :D

Pre or post 1998?

Ooh Ohh Skyrim! Haven’t read anything about it – is it going to be good?

I usually go for OEM copies
Scan have some. £107 for Pro, probably a better deal out there though.
But if you have your original product key, you can get an iso of the OS and use it. Just google Win7 student edition iso.

I blame the beards

the point is, music isn’t made worse (for me) when I hear it through my cheap speakers or on my iphone.

Me neither – I don’t mind – good music is good music; [relapse]It’s just decent quality makes me feel nicer inside, similar to a good cup of coffee or a ray of sunshine…. [/relapse]

Albums are an anachronism – they flourished briefly in the mid/end of the 20th century

In their current form, yes but I’m unsure what you mean by ‘back to singular songs’ – previous to albums we’ve got operas, sonatas, concertos etc composed of individual movements… [Discounting Folk]

nope really don’t care. I want to impressed by the artistry not the sound quality.

They’re not mutually exclusive – what’s wrong with both decent artistry and a sound that can envelop you?

Spotify Premium (streams mp3 at 320kbps) is good enough on the laptop / mobile for ease of access to music. Prefer CD for the HiFi, or FLAC – both sound better than Spotify.

No difference between FLAC and CD for me – I do like having physical media around, it’s just not the same selecting the music from a screen, no matter how much you customise Foobar or use pretty players. Digital album art is pants.
Wanted a decent phono stage and deck for a while now, listening to music should be an event.

I have a strong dislike for the prevailance of poor quality encoding, people just don’t seem to care…

Best provider I’ve used is BE, fully unlimited, brilliant customer service, not the cheapest in the world. They have a call package and line rental (I believe).

Recently moved to Sky, they’ve over charged me, there’s an unexplained phone call on my bill (we don’t have a phone), they’ve changed to date of my direct debit without telling me. Should be really cheap, but leaving me frustrated.

Wish I was still with BE.

He’s been in between Oldham and the city centre every few days for a couple of weeks now…

That would be largely true if you were dealing with something like a train where the wheels are too all intents non deformable. But with a pneumatic tyre it deforms, and this deformation requires force/energy that is not returned in a useful manner. Generally speaking the lower the pressure in the tyre, the more it deforms, and the faster it rolls the quicker it deforms, so as speed increases so does the force required to deform the tyre.

But don’t forget the hysteresis! For a high pressure tyre, the tyre deforms, but as it rotates it returns to its original undeformed state, the elastic pushing against the ground in a useful way. Some losses of course, but hysteresis is one of my favourite words…

Bruce! We did those maths! The viscosity of the air would have to be ~3 orders of magnitude higher than it is (at sea level) for the boundary layer to grow to the wing!

pick up decent power amp off ebay (Quad 306/606 II/707 if you’re lucky, or maybe something nad or rotel)

8)

why would that be then – Mr Woppit?

Briefly, CDs are digital. The way you convert the digital to analogue is important, there’s a massive market for DACs (Digital Analogue Converters). Decent sound cards will have better DACs than onboard sound. Really good CD players have really good DACs.
Edit: Whoa, Refresh fail!

Same principle, we’d need an impellor powered submarine shaped like a plane with a hydrofoil, and a large pump system to simulate the forward airflow the plane would generate from thrust and a sheet of plywood to simulate the treadmill surface such that boundary layer viscous effects could be taken into account!

Surely it also depends on the viscosity of air. If it was abnormally viscous then the conveyor would drag it backwards (or was it forwards?) which might or might not affect the air speed relative to the wing.

The air directly next to the treadmill will move at the speed of the treadmill, no matter the viscosity. Viscosity would indeed affect the region of air that is dragged back with it. (Laminar) boundary layer thickness is governed by sigma=5x/sqrt(Re_x), now, I’m unsure of the Reynolds number for an aircraft on a treadmill as it’s too complicated and perplexing, but let’s say it’s taking off. As Re=(rho.vel.Length)/viscosity, viscosity would need to be in the order of 1E-2 for a 2m high boundary layer. This is a few orders of magnitude larger than most gasses.

I may have made it all up, though.

Oh. I thought we had a powered one.

Me too! Except mine was infinately long!
Fun this!

I suspect a plane capable of vertical take off may be the only kind not able to take off from a treadmill.

It’ll take off fine. It’ll just be going backwards at the speed of the treadmill. Vertical take off doesn’t require any use of wings, just a shedload of thrust pointed down.

Oh and not having everyting in the hardrive duplicated to fill up my SSD would be nice too.

Wait a sec…

The WinSxS folder is the only location that the component is found on the system, all other instances of the files that you see on the system are “projected” by hard linking from the component store. Let me repeat that last point – there is only one instance (or full data copy) of each version of each file in the OS, and that instance is located in the WinSxS folder.

I don’t understand :oops:

House of Leaves

Jones Bootmakers? They love their shoe care, there. No amount of leather treatment will stop the soles coming off though.