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+1 I'll have been with them for 20 years in a few months through dial-up, ISDN, ADSL and Infinity and not once had an issue. ISDN was a rip off price wise, but my stupid choice to invest for a few kbits/s more.

Just looked at the car list and am yet again disappointed that there's no 1977 Austin Allegro modelled.

Agreed. Laughed my socks off the first time I saw it.

Again, not answering the question, but I went for an Xbone a couple of weeks ago. The BC swung the decision form me, plus the fact that all most of my upgrading mates have stuck with MS too. Also the free Windows 10 roll out and its XBone interoperability came at an opportune time. The Windows 10 streaming works pretty well, at least for single player, so now I can stream the Xbone to my PC and play it from upstairs using my XB360 controller attached to the PC. I've also got my XB360 on a long HDMI cable, so I can play that remotely too. I've yet to try my 360 wheel, but will report back on whether that works via the PC streaming interface.

Apparently one of the reports said they traveled 60m in the air, they must have a bit of time to think. By my quick reckoning: 3.5 seconds to fall 60m 9 seconds to fall 400m either way, doesn't bear thinking about.

I've done Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, APL, Lisp, PROLOG, OCCAM, Basic in a number of forms, C, C++ and my language of choice: Smalltalk. All now pretty much obsolete, but it does mean that I can pick up any new languages pretty quickly. I "learned" Python in a day for a quick project. I've just downloaded Unity to have a play with when I get time, which is almost never, but it looks fun.

Every so often, and mostly bits of code to model something specific with too many variables to be trivial. Started out as a programmer, but not done it seriously in years.

I learned that lesson many years ago when picking up my old VW Scirocco from the garage. Though sadly there were no young ladies to cause distraction. Garage left gear in first with handbrake off, which is something I don't normally do. I get into the car and am scanning the paperwork, idly insert the ignition key, turn and ... bang. The whole bonnet of the car is now protruding through a wooden fence into some old lady's back garden. The old lady is sat out the back of her house looking initially shocked, then shouting at me quite a lot. No damage to the car and the garage were good about it. Said the fence was rotten and needed replacing anyway and placated the lady and repaired it at their cost, even though technically it was my fault for not doing the correct pre-flight checks. Left me feeling like a proper turnip though.

Mine got through this week. One advisory on some corrosion on the rear exhaust.

I look like Worzel Gummidge before I get in mine.

Just has this happen to my car. The day after MOT too. Just checked all the under seat connections and cleared the codes, which has sorted it for now. My guess is the same as yours, but we'll see.

I have a roadster and in the winter regret not buying the coupe. Then in the Summer I forget this fact.

My daughter did this a few months ago. I followed a tutorial on youtube and got it back up and running. Can't remember the exact details, but it did involve a restore and a reinstall from backup from itunes. All purchases are logged, so you can redownload anything that you've paid for. The whole process took less than two hours, IIRC.

I actually preferred Sniper Elite 2. I felt it flowed better somehow with the slow-mo nads explosions not as obtrusive.

I shoot a Martin Gonzo Safari Compound ... one of Ted Nugent's endorsed bows from 20+ years back with just a standard sight and use fingers for release. Easton aluminium arrows. I'm now back to shooting 1-2 inch groups at 10m most of the time, but as that's point blank, that's not a great feat. Still, onwards and upwards.

Depends. I only have a double port in each room. One of my drivers (I say mine, but really my wife's) was no unsightly cables in the living room. I have a WDTV, XBOX360, Youview Box and PC all on my TV cabinet. It made sense to run a single cable to the cabinet and stick another switch in there with short cable runs internally. Caters for expansion too. I used to have 6 devices there. Perhaps not a purist solution, but ticks all my requirement boxes.

Ledbury, Herefordshire. I was of old a member of the Severn Valley Yeoman Foresters, north of Worcester.

With a concerted effort to reduce my pile of unplayed (and mostly old) games over the last couple of months and with my week off work last week, I have worked through the following: Assassins Creed - Black Flag - finished and thoroughly enjoyed. Army of Two - Devil's Cartel - finished and well, it was ok. Very samey. Mafia 2 - GTA 3 in the 1940s/50s - finished. I enjoyed it (especially as a freebee) even if it feels somewhat dated now. Witcher 2 - again a freebee, but played the tutorial, found the controls an arse about and haven't picked it up since. Kane and Lynch - Dead Men, Clunky, clunky controls - and so dated now - not sure I'll continue with this one. Wolfenstein New Order - just started this and it's pretty good so far. Oh, and Max: Curse of Brotherhood - which is a platformer with some nice little game mechanics, which being an old school kind of gamer really appealed to me, so I finished that.

Anyone do archery? I used to be quite big into field archery in my late teens and early twenties, but then left it for 20 odd years. So what with my 11 year old running round the house pretending to be Merida from the Brave movie for the last few years, I got her a cheap starter bow and a decent boss for the back garden. Of course, she tried it once, found it too difficult and hasn't touched the bow since. But, rather than being a total loss I got a new set of arrows for my compound and recurve bows, dusted them off, checked them over as they've not been used in a fair while and have been reinitiating myself with archery, I'm enjoying it and will probably join a local club soon. The clubs round here seem to be mostly target archery (which is a bit less interesting to me) and after speaking with a few of them, I've found one that isn't too prejudiced against compounds and it's within 5 miles of me, which is good. Need to relearn my technique though, as the string rash currently adorning my left arm is a sight to behold and my arm guard has given up the ghost. Any of you chaps and chapesses partake?

It's definitely worthwhile working out a network architecture beforehand. Mine kinda evolved, and it's not the best approach, but it works for now. I started off with running trunking carrying cat 5e from the living room where my router is up to my room into an 8 port unmanaged switch, and thence up into the loft space and down into each bedroom with network sockets on each end. Now it's that, plus another two switches in the lounge for all the AV and games consoles, another switch in one of the bedrooms to my daughter's laptop and another in the loft which links to the cctv cameras. This means I have now got daisy chained unmanaged switches. It works, and speed is fine for the moment, but isn't the most efficient or elegant solution. I now feel I should have gone for a more organised centralised architecture with a bigger managed switch in my room, but that means basically a lot of rework. So think it through and plan before drilling and cabling. In my case going up through the loft is the easiest way to distribute cabling to all rooms, but it does mean trunking drops from the ceiling rather than up from the floor.

I said farewell to my much loved, much abused, long neglected Mitsi FTO today. She had been sat languishing on my drive waiting for me to rescue her for too long, the nags from wife and neighbours about shifting her decaying carcass growing ever more vocal. Each day she would sit there and watch me go out and then come back in the Z, hoping that one day it would be her turn again. Sadly that day never came. Her seats were haemorraging foam, the calipers and gear box linkages were seized, her head gasket on the way out, rust eating away at her subframe. She was winched away for recycling this morning, turning once to stare accusingly at the Z, and then was gone. What a cad, I am.

Silver 350z Coupe, 04 Plate, I think. About 3pm at Elvetham roundabout in Fleet. Me in roadster with top down ... gave thumbs up.

I ditched Sky late last year as they were charging £82.50 and were increasing it by £4 a month. That was the final straw. So I went with BTTV. I'm with btinternet, so it's only £12 per month (12 month contract) if you're already with them ... but which is just a Youview box with freeview, the standard catchup apps and very little else, so I wouldn't advise going this route if you have a Smart TV or alternative means. They're cancelling their BT film subscription service (which was poor anyway) and offering Netflix instead (SD netflix with one bit of viewing equipment at any one time). You do get BT Sport with it for free (SD only, I think) if you're on btinternet. Don't watch sport, so don't really care. I got the kids package, which my daughter is now out growing, so will ditch that soon too. Overall, I'd avoid it given my choice again. So, for extra TV and film, I got Netflix with HD and 2 concurrent viewing platforms (£7 per month, no contract), which I'm enjoying as I'm catching up with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and other series. Films on it are limited (for my tastes). Needed GOT, so also subscribed to NOW TV Entertainment (£6/month with no contract) and watch that on the Smart TV upstairs and via XBox - got some decent box sets of TV series on it. I didn't go for the Sky Movies or Sports option. Mulling over Amazon Prime, but they give you a free month then charge you a full £79 for a year. You do get Amazon Prime express delivery on orders, so if you use Amazon a lot, it might be worth it. A mate of mine has it and says it's got a decent amount of stuff on it. I found my new Smart TV has a satellite tuner built in, so just plugged in the old sky connection and can get Freesat. The old Sky box reverts back to a Freesat box when you cancel too. All of the online stuff is predicated on having a decent broadband rate. I can run the above fine on my 38Mbit/s internet connection. Not sure how well it would work with slower connections. And a word of advice ... if you're serious and committed about ditching Sky and don't want to spend an hour and a half on the phone, say you've got a contract abroad for a year or two. They don't pass you around their customer retaining cycle then. They'll still send you the please come back letters and offer you half price or better for a year and some magic beans, but I don't think I'll ever go to another contracted tv provider after my period with BTTV is up. Bottom line is I've reduced the TV bill from about £85 a month to less than £30, and still get the bits of Sky I want, but without a contract.

I got some warm white LED strips for under unit lighting in the kitchen, which were about £12 for a 5m strip and another tenner for the 12v transformer. Self adhesive and cuttable to whatever length you want. Fitted in 5 minutes and do the job well. From LE lighting. I'm pretty sure they did coloured strips and even multi-switchable colours with an additional remote control switch and unit too ... At further expense, naturally.

Whilst it is a fact that language evolves, my position is that we should resist any change that increases the ambiguity of meaning. So your initial example of disinterested vs. uninterested should be combated as they mean very different things. Evident misuse of words which have very separate meanings through ignorance should not be lightly condoned, and is a matter for reinforcement of education rather than acceptance of change. Whilst I freely admit to grammatical imperfection, I will strive to improve when it is pointed out to me. The axiomatic argument that "language changes over time" and is fundamentally a mechanism of communication for the majority is too often used as an excuse for those too lazy to learn contemporary grammatical standards. I think Bill Watterson hit the nail on the head with this Calvin and Hobbes cartoon ...