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In all honesty it's closer to 8.1 than anything. The return of the start button is nice and the utter lack of the metro interface and its app style is a blessing!

On top of Andy's reply it will only activate on "genuine" copies of windows and non enterprise versions.

Think of it like the bastard child of windows 7 and 8.1!

If you recall Friday night used to be Horror night on ITV/BBC etc Mum used to always record the Friday night horror; then on a Saturday we went shopping, then got back and Dad and brother usually went shooting. Mum did the housework and then we would sit together and watch the Friday night horror! LOL she was always too much of a wuss to watch them on her own....so there we sat watching Hammer films, Stephen King stuff, whatever had shown Friday night. I grew up with the Hammer Horror films and Lee was a great part of that! The missus and I have a conversation that rolls around occasionally about who you would have at a dinner table as your guests: Lee was always amongst my guests! (along with Stephen Fry and Billy Connoly!) can you imagine dinner talk?? LOL https://youtu.be/jIwrP1Od0Qw loved the way he hammed up this role in Gremlins 2

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/06/11/christopher-lee-has-died-at-age-93 Christopher Lee has passed away. mad as a fish and a superb actor. one of the greats!

just avoid the tw@ hayes method of wrapping an entire slice of bread round your hook and awaiting carp to munch their way to it!! which I seem to recall he enthused about in one of his episodes on surface fishing

you should see how annoyed they are when I show them landing a 17.5lb ghosty on the Pen Rod! LOL

1: never used fake; never will. the issue I have with a lot of "glugs" is that they are very oily. which, to me, is fine for feeding on the bottom where you will get a large amount of flavour/smell through the water. but on the surface you are only gonna end up with a vast floating layer of oil...kind of defeats the object I reckon. 2: avoid commercial surface floats..in my view they are far too heavy and large to be effective for wary fish. I use balsa float bodies ive painted myself. you can get them in various sizes and they can be adjusted weight wise with simply split shot either side. just get the balsa body from ebay, use a very sharp scalpel to split one side, end to end. You can then use a cocktail stick to attach it to your line. use "dope" to water proof, then paint however you want. Ive also made good use of the trout line "bite indicators/floats" http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SILVERBROOK-STRIKE-BITE-INDICATORS-GAME-FLY-FISHING-TACKLE-TROUT-SALMON-FLOATS-/180991414700?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item2a23edd1ac they are easy to see and again can be weighted if required and come in various sizes. I virtually always use bread as floating bait; the nice thing with bread is that you can adjust size and weight. you can also adjust if it slowly starts to sink which is a superb way of picking up wary carp that shy away from surface baits. often a very slow sinking bit of bread will pick them up.

that icon allows you to register for day 1 release of Windows 10; it also gives you an update on whether your current pc can handle the system and whether you will lose anything when you install: like Media Centre etc without registering for the free update you wont get to run the compatibility checker. chances are there will be a stand alone checker at some point as well.

Hard to know what's best! They either spend a bloody fortune on a system that doesn't work or they got the other way! Lol

I see HMRC are now going Google! What could possibly go wrong there! Lol

I agree to an extent! ( bet that shocked you!) I'm not a huge fan of cloud based stuff; but we have just rolled over to google domain at school and it's been a game changer for us! Financially, educationally and in methodology and pedagogy! Yes, you accept Google will use your stuff for testing etc But to be honest what I've seen so far has been damned impressive! And having taken the plunge its nice to look at pictures I haven't looked at ages on my hdd! I'm not taking them off my physical devices! Don't trust the cloud that much! Lol!

I tried with and the forum wouldn't allow "this image type"

I agree...they certainly do.. ill see if google offer some way of embedding for you

lol only if you don't want to hotlink files direct into forums! the google system wont give you a JPG link; it uses googles own file format to give a small size but virtually lossless image transfer. sadly that means you cant drop them into forums like you can photobucket links you have two choices: you can use their unlimited service which will create the new file types or you can have 15gb of free storage at the same resolution/file size of your originals. ive not tested the latter version yet.

Google has just shipped out a new Photos app and service. basically its using a lot of new tech to geo locate, face recognition, create animations etc etc the plus side of all this is that they are offering UNLIMITED cloud storage! ive started backing up my photos to the service; its produced some pretty cool stuff like below: https://goo.gl/photos/vCUNnowr9gY5NL5U8 only just started using it; but even as a free back up service the unlimited feature is worthwhile considering if you don't mind Google testing out their algorithms on you! LOL

I'm constantly telling mum and dad I've booked them a lovely room to ship them into! Just funny to get called various names by mother! Lol Truth be told I'd rather they spend every last penny on themselves whilst they can enjoy it! And I've told them so when these discussions have come up.

re Phones figures: our carp lake, is quite extensively stocked and fairly heavily fished. I think I have found 1 carp dead this year so far! last year im not sure I found 1 single dead fish! our "bream" lake on the other hand had 4 or 5 bream floating about at the end of last year...but is hardly ever fished and certainly not heavily fished! I cant imagine that 18% death rate of hooked fish is likely on most waters. to me that number seems incredibly high. I caught 10 carp the other night and with an 18% mortality rate one of them should have gone belly up! and 10 carp out of that lake is a roughly "normal" catch for a day/afternoon. given 5 -6 people fishing it per day (usually a lot more) the population in the lake certainly couldn't handle the pressure.

its odd: the missus bought me an RSPB membership for my birthday! a couple of weeks after I had joined BASC in fact! LOL the car now has the BASC sticker on one side, and the RSPB on the other! im sure it gets a few funny looks sat in an RSPB reserve car park! LOL but having said that my family is good friends with an RSPB officer who has probably "taken care" of 100+ foxes in this last year to ensure the "nesting birds" were unharmed! taking care of foxes usually involves a .177 round through the lug hole! we regularly lamp a "free range chicken farm"...we are now up to 50 odd foxes "controlled" from there with a regular death toll of 100+ chickens on some nights just so "little tree hugger jonny" can ensure his chickens lived "wild and free"!! thats wild and free enough to be savaged by foxes, rats and various other prey species on a nightly basis!

in the end it comes down to one thing: your own personal level of "care" if you accept you are partaking in a "blood sport" then the bench is set for you to decide what you find acceptable or not. Take pheasant shooting: we breed maybe 1000 birds a year, raise them from 2 day chicks through to release upon the farm. they are then penned in and fed and watered until mature enough to be released. then kept (hopefully) in the area by feeders and cover crops until we shoot the land at the end of the year! Now; we can glitz that up as much as we like; Hundreds of pounds spent on heating and feeding the chicks until they are strong enough to go out in pens. hundreds of pounds spent on pens and feed hundreds of man hours spent ensuring the environment they will be released in is suitable and maintained to the best of standards. then we line up 10 people with shotguns..make a shed load of noise scaring the birds out of their wits and blow the crap out of them for sport!! that's the cold hard truth of the matter. The odd thing is; I can accept, to myself that; along the way, we are producing conservation areas for wild birds, feeding wildlife alongside the pheasants, controlling vermin, creating superb natural habitats that will benefit a lot of wildlife etc and that the birds are handled as best as they truly can be, given the end goals! all birds shot go into our food chain. I can also accept the US hunting culture! Bow fishing; deer hunting.... where do I draw the line? I don't understand shooting bear for sport, any of the "big 5", cougars, giraffe so on and so on....I personally don't like the way the fish are handled in the video! Ive stated before as well; that videos from the US for Pen fishing rods with poor carp handling etc will not be suitable for a UK audience! and I believe I was right when I stated such things. so we make our own choices.. if its your fishery and you invested in the fish then you can have a rule stating all fish need to be laid on a mat; kissed on the lips, given a band aid, patted on the tush (as Bob Ross used to say), treated with antiseptic spray and released to the tune of pan pipes if you so wish! and the people fishing those waters will have to respect those rules! if it aint your fishery then you simply have to follow the rules: as a bailiff and club chairman I would certainly be berating the people in the video if that was one of our waters. the thing is its a world of double standards that will never reach and level playing field because the standards change on a personal level! To me; like Chesters...I accept that in general the "public" are actually effecting my life in 10 second periods! that is to say: the chances of me thinking about them, and them thinking of me are likely to take up no more than 10 seconds of my life at any one given time! You bump into someone in Tesco; they **** you off; maybe 10 seconds later they have forgotten you and you have forgotten them! life goes on! would I then give a flying crap if they were hit by a car 30 mins later and killed? nope! not in the slightest!! and that's what Chesters was getting at! that's also reversed: we, here in the forum; have a nice little community....maybe some of us are friends, maybe some of us have met up outside of the forums etc..but if I suddenly disappeared because I was killed...I wouldn't honestly expect any single one of you to care much beyond the initial 10, 5, 2, minutes of shock when and IF you heard the news! and I wouldn't come back and haunt you for that! LOL yes there are terrible, horrible things going on in life....wrong things, right things, acceptable to some and not to others things.....but in the end; its our own level of acceptance and justification that rules what we find acceptable or not! I was steward on a carp lake where they only wanted 50lbs of carp in the keepnet at any one point in time! to me it was reasonable; to some of the chaps fishing the match it wasn't reasonable and they would have happily stuffed their nets with 100lb of fish! to the owner; she was happy to actually go fro 30lb's per net! it was her fish that were being man handled after all! to me; is there much difference between a wet mat, or a nice patch of grass soaked from the landing net? nope. not really. do I understand the argument that barbed hooks might be better for fish than barbless? nope not at all...my mind will pretty much always think barbless has to be logically better!

I think its disgusting! there is no way she should be wearing a blue bikini with a camo bow!! its just wrong!! sorry? there was a video? ......

Amazon prime and Netflix have a decent enough collection of old Horrors (Them! Etc) I have the complete collection of the Universal Monsters stuff which I stream to my iPad! Love them old Universal movies! The Wolf Man/ Frankenstein sagas are epic! Can't believe they are rebranding the "monsters" as more action movie based stuff! I dread to think what will happen!

Yeah they some pretty good stuff on occasionally. I usually try to catch the Hammer Horror stuff and some of the classic horrors. shame they don't have a few more channels like that with reruns of the old Black and White stuff as well

float ledgering will work superbly well for crucians... despite there being a large weight holding the float the actual bite sensitivity is superb; especially if you have running ledger. I set up with a waggler locked at correct depth, then a very light bomb that will sink the float but isn't anything heavy or bulky; place one shot as a stopper between the bomb and the hook: this gives you a "hook length" between the bomb and the hook. basically the fish is then simply pulling direct to the float as the ledger itself is free moving. also you might want to look at some of the "polaris" floats which you can get in very light to fairly heavy and they work exceptionally well in windy conditions. with both methods I sink the line and if I can manage I also sink the top inch of the rod tip

the grinner is a good knot; it can be limiting on smaller hook sizes if you pass the line through the eye twice though...hence why I use the clinch knot on smaller sizes and the grinner (with a double pass through the eye) on larger hooks. but as Gozzer says; its confidence in the knot and how you tie it that matters. I know both the knots I use and how I tie them work for me.