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Everything posted by Ken L
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It plays games, music and movies. I do loads of travelling, so it's a one box solution. That'll do for me. But wait a minute.......... It only plays movies off UMD disks. You can only buy these from Phony so even if you've forked ot for the DVD, you'd have to pay another £15 for the privilige of watching it on a 4" screen. That's OK, I'll rip DVD's and record my own from my DVD's thinks you, but no, Phony don't sell blank disks. Ho-hum, it's a Universal Media Disk right, so I'll start buying those from now on and I can just stick it in my DVD player for that full on big screen experience. 'Fraid not, they only play in a PSP. Right !, I'll just have to buy UMD's from now on and plug the PSP into the TV to watch my movies. Hahar, Phony have got you there too. You can't plug a PSP into the telly.... Music then. Well actually, it will play music but only MP3's and some strange Phony format that nobody ever heard of (if you use WMA format, you've got no chance) and you have to record it to a memory stick (you have to cough up for those as extras) because (you should have thought of this already) you can't buy blank UMD disks and record to those. The upshot is that you're limited to the capacity of a cheap flash player with none of the advantages of price, flexibility, light weight, battery life and compactness that you'd have if you bought one of those for sixty quid. Games. It does play games rather well but battery life kinda sucks. No suprise that the second hand shops are full of PSP's at the moment. If Phony weren't so paranoid about piracy, and had integrated GSM and bluetooth with a slot for GPS and the like, they'd have had a killer machine on their hands but having looked into it's capabilities and limitations, I'm not remotely interested - even at second hand prices.
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http://www.fishwrecked.com/videos/
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I've used UK-Hooks several times and always had good service even if the old site only displayed a quater of the stock and was a bit clunky. Well they've upgraded the site and stuff should be easier to find and there should be no more messing about with printed catalogues. It's mainly sea stuff but there's plenty on there to interest lure nuts. BTW, no, I don't have any interest in the comany. Edit: I supose I should have included a link http://www.uk-hooks.com/
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It's an Adder. Given the light colour, it's almost certanly a female. It's to fat for a grass snake (especially at this time of year), the head's the wrong shape (it has a classic heart shaped vipers head in the photo) and it lacks the charicteristic yellow colar of the grass snake.
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I was using Ares to trackdown and download music and comedy that I couldn't find or buy in the shops. Unfortunatly, the site no longer seems to be working. Can anyone recomend a download site that doesn't mess about with .RAR and .RAW file formats ?
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Yep, poisonous. A bite will ruin your day but unless yo're very small, very old or have a heart condition, you should make a full recovery.
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I did read a report a few years ago that some fungi that were normally good to eat (but closely related to species that arn't) had suddenly mutated to start producing toxins. If it was reported here, I'd have said misidentification but in eastern Europe, they take their wild mushrooms seriously and know what they're picking.
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St David. Fine man, fine man. Of course, he couldn't tell the difference between a dafodil and a leek so the Welsh had to adopt both as national emblems. Of course, if St George were about today, he'd be just another eastern European assylum seeker with a tall tale about a dragon. Bound to be a delusion so he'd be on benefits as a schizophrenic.
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She'll easily earn the money to pay it back. she's got a job as a female Cyberman in the new Dr Who series.
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You can download a crap french car ??????
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You don't have to use a TV. A lot of big plasma screans and most projectors are just monitors.
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Well done. They're not as common as some of the lucky bugg3r who have access to top water might have us believe.
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Write to them and ask where you can buy a radio licence.
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Emz. That happens when the guys stand up suddenly to get a better view. It's called "Postural Hypotension". What did you think I meant ?
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Must be all the blood rushing away from the brain.
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They're certainly not native to inland waterways in the UK. I did read one report that suggested that the birds that we’ve always had along our coast are still there and those ravaging the rivers and lakes are a different race of cormorants normally found in continental Eurasia.
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The big difference is that Goosander are a native inland bird where the Cormerant isn't. They're not exactly common in the midlands either and the only pair I ever saw was on the Severn a couple of years ago. Kingfishers, Herons Grebes and Goosander are all part of an active and diverse freshwater ecosystem. Cormerant's arn't and their spead in large numbers negativly impacts on all of our piscavorious birds as much as it does anglers. Shame the RSPB can'r see that....
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I confess that I'm not quite sure how you can skim a profit off the top and pay another group of people will will have to manage the contract a salary and still end up with better kit and a better service for the same money. Every experience of privatisation I've ever seen would indicate that the exact oposite is true.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4915722.stm
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At the other end of the spectrum, you have this: http://www.swp.org.uk/ and this: http://www.respectcoalition.org/index.php?sec=24
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Sad innit ? I have actually found myself agreeing with the greater part of what they have to have to say for the past 4 or 5 years. The only problem I have is that I despise and detest the rest of what they have to say and the frequently obnoxious people that I see saying it. I don't think I could vote for them though because much as I might like to see them strong enough to influence policy, I'd hate to think that I was part of putting them in power if ever they got into government.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/...a7a_16x9_bb.asx
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And of course at 10 seconds after 12:10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August (8th of Sepember if you're American) next year, it'll be: 12.11.10:09.08.07 Not really that unique either...
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It's about three years old and runs XP. I have a 250 Gig external drive that I use for backups and try to keep at my parents house (I have no wish to loose all my data if my PC goes pop) but regularly burn data CD's for friends - another way to be sure I can recover data if something goes wrong. This is where the DVD drive will come in. Good point about the jumpers Kempo. I remember a mate of mine having to sort that out when he installed me a second HDD.
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My machine is starting to show it's age but I'm a little reluctant to replace the whole thing until Mr Gates sorts ot the release of Vista and speeds things up a bit. I could however do with the ability to backup lots of data onto DVD's rather than CD's and I've not done a lot of PC surgery before. If I buy a DVD writter like this one http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw...gory_oid=-24858 can I just open the side of my PC and unscrew/unplug the existing CDRW drive and replace it with a DVDRW drive ? and is software like Nero usually bundled with the drive or downloadable or will I have to budget for that as well ?