It's nice, (certainly a hell of a lot better than I can do), but is your explanation above the reason it looks a little 2D?? Would look so much better if you could get the lighting or what ever better so that it has a more 3D feel to it. Certainly not a critisism, just an observation.
+1
Exactly what I was thinking.
Imgburn works perfectly for creating bootable installation discs from ISO files.
It took me ages to find it too, so many other (free) programmes just copy the ISO as is on to the CD/DVD without actually extracting the files in it.
Brilliant because it's so true. Imagine if the internet was the first thing an alien race saw of our world before meeting any humans. If they had the technology we'd be wiped out before having the chance to prove ourselves. 
Good idea. I was thinking of emigrating to Brazil anyway.
No evidence or not in the UN report. What exactly do you think is the most likely outcome of an undefended costline with no internationally representative voice to let the world know of what is happening on that coastline??
Just stop and think for a minute. Look at history and how business and even countries have proven they will act when they are able to do so without reprisals and then tell me that you can honestly believe that absolutly no abuse of the Somali "national" waters is going on?
That said, of course it's not a justification for what Somali pirates are doing, (and yes they are pirates by the given definition of the word), in International waters. I onced worked for a Somali owned company here in the uk so I got a pretty good insight on what is really happening on the ground in Somalia and according to my sources the BBC are pretty much accurately reporting the situation. If anything the levels of violence and control being metered out by the various factions is understated by the majority of the world media.
Just stop and think for a minute. Look at history and how business and even countries have proven they will act when they are able to do so without reprisals and then tell me that you can honestly believe that absolutly no abuse of the Somali "national" waters is going on?
That said, of course it's not a justification for what Somali pirates are doing, (and yes they are pirates by the given definition of the word), in International waters. I onced worked for a Somali owned company here in the uk so I got a pretty good insight on what is really happening on the ground in Somalia and according to my sources the BBC are pretty much accurately reporting the situation. If anything the levels of violence and control being metered out by the various factions is understated by the majority of the world media.
Well DHCP is still used to provide the IP address for the router and can also provide a "public" subnet for use behind the router in your home/office depending on if you require that service from the ISP. This is what SME companies often do in order to have publicly routed IP addresses for their Exchange or Web servers etc.
The way it works here is this:
If you want to use ADSL as your method of broadband connection then you MUST have a BT line installed, (with the exception of a few places like in Hull, Isle of Man and Gurnsey etc). You pay BT directly for this line and any calls made over it are also charged by BT.
Then you have a choice of which ISP you use (including BTs own ISP) to provide the actual Internet connectivity. This is what is known as Local Loop Unbundling in the UK and was an initiative to increase competition and remover BTs monopoloy over access. It has only really been partially sucessful in practice.
Alternatively you can obtain your phone line from a Cable company. There used to be many regional cable companies but due to financial issues over the years they slowly all merged in to two big players called Telewest and NTL (who used to be Cable & Wireless). That is until recently when they both decided to merge, at which point Virgin Media stepped in and bought the newly formed merged company.
Another alternative is to have a VoBB (Voice over BroadBand) service, but this of course requires that you already have a broadband connection from an ISP, (which if using ADSL requires you to have a BT phone line - confused yet??
). VoBB is provided by the likes of Vonage and others and you pay them directly for all calls made over the service.Then there is the carrier preselect option which used to be fairly popular but died out considerably with the crash of the Telecoms industry in 2000/2001. With this option you need a phone line (from either BT or a cable company) and your OLO (Other Licenced Operator) provides you with a small box that is programmed to dial an operator access code before the number you dial. BT then route the call to the OLOs network who then handle the delivery of it to other carriers.
Finally, you have a whole heap of access numbers which you can either find on line or by buying a Calling Card which allow you to have cheaper calls, (usually used for international destinations).
Any clearer??
The UK was one of the first telecoms industries to introduce competition through deregulation and still remains one of the most competitive telecoms markets in the world. Although there are considerably less options available now than there were in the 90s.
Yes, all ADSL is essentially a dial up system which use log on details, (configured in the modem), to establish the connection. Although often PPPoA (PPP over ATM) is used rather than PPPoE.
Kind of.
See here for a more detailed explanation:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/howitworks/
The ISPs actually own equipment ,(the home gateways), on the BT premises in some cases. BT own the DSLAMS. Of course ISP engineers aren't allowed to touch any BT equipment and vice verse.
Edited to add:
Slightly more up to date explanation here: http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/equip.htm
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Stop throwing up strawman arguments, and stop exagerating what I'm saying to suit your argument.
If your appreciation of civil liberties is limited to the fact you have the right to vote then that just proves my point that you are in no position to be listened to as you are ignorant of the relevant facts. Of course your History teacher isn't going to teach you such things because laws get passed all the time, basic education is exactly that, basic. It doesn't deal with the minutiae of legal matters.
Do some research and look for yourself at the number of laws passed over the last two decades which have taken away "freedoms" from individual citizens in this country.
The automatic migrations happen at 12am midnight. That's how the system is designed to work. It's like this so that people don't have interruptions to their service during the day and that the new service will be working first thing on a working day.
Because they are crap. Change your ISP. There is absolutely no excuse for an ISP to at the very least give you the provisioning date provided to them by BT for the day the telephone will be live in the new premisis. The ISP then only requires a maximum of 5 days after the line goes live to provide a broadband migration (from BT) on a new telephone line.
Pay for a business broadband connection. If you're not already on one then you'll have to put up with the standard residential processes involved.
My advice (as an insider) is to make sure that you have given everybody involved as much notice as you possibly can. Unfortunately the ISPs are reliant on BT to do the changes on their network before they can do what they need to do. IF you are changing ISP then get a MAC code off your old ISP (see here and here) and give it to your new ISP along with the exact date you want the service switched, they will then "order" the migration between your ISPs from BT. However, BT will have to have provisioned your new line at your new premisis before the broadband service can be migrated, so they need plenty of notice in order to get this done first.
Why are you guys even bothering to waste your time arguing with a 16 year old about the principles of civil liberties and the dangers of authoritarian regimes?
Shaz of course you haven't seen any of the things you say you haven't seen, you simply aren't old enough to have seen in happen.
You talk about "when" the government "starts going that way" in reference to moves towards the likes of China and Zimbabwe but you have no idea what you're talking about because they are already "going that way". You would know this if you actually had any idea of what the governments of the day, have been doing in your name, all under the banner of "protecting us from terrorism".
At which point exactly will you have decided that are "going that way"??
When they come to lock you up? or your neighbour? or someone you know?? It's nothing to do with being paranoid. It's all about believing in living in a truely free society with the right to free association and thought etc etc and actually being politically aware and caring enough about such principles that you are able to decry it's slow but persistant errosion. The fact that you personally are unaware or uncaring about such changes to our civil liberties is irrelevant to the fact of their happening. Please feel free to continue to "not care" until the day they come for you or your family on some trumped up charge for something that you never even realised had been made illegal. I suppose on then will you "care".
Shaz of course you haven't seen any of the things you say you haven't seen, you simply aren't old enough to have seen in happen.
You talk about "when" the government "starts going that way" in reference to moves towards the likes of China and Zimbabwe but you have no idea what you're talking about because they are already "going that way". You would know this if you actually had any idea of what the governments of the day, have been doing in your name, all under the banner of "protecting us from terrorism".
At which point exactly will you have decided that are "going that way"??
When they come to lock you up? or your neighbour? or someone you know?? It's nothing to do with being paranoid. It's all about believing in living in a truely free society with the right to free association and thought etc etc and actually being politically aware and caring enough about such principles that you are able to decry it's slow but persistant errosion. The fact that you personally are unaware or uncaring about such changes to our civil liberties is irrelevant to the fact of their happening. Please feel free to continue to "not care" until the day they come for you or your family on some trumped up charge for something that you never even realised had been made illegal. I suppose on then will you "care".
So.... you think it's a bad idea to teach our kids the concept of social responsibility and the consequences of potential bad behaviour?
Well, pretty much proves how much it's needed then doesn't it ??
If you don't agree with these types of schemes please pray tell what YOU would do to try and instill a sense of community good will in the kids of today, that is all to obviously missing from a very large proportion of them???
People are very quick to dismiss such things but then never put up any (let alone viable) alternatives in my experience.
Yes it's the second one in the list.
Sorry about that, I forgot I hadn't actually linked to the video, just the search I was running at the time.
How fast is an F1 car
I found this clip which really drives home just how fast F1 cars are. A bit old but still interesting I thought:
http://video.google.com/videos ... #q=F1&hl=en&emb=0
http://video.google.com/videos ... #q=F1&hl=en&emb=0
Ok well I've been doing a bit of looking around and I found THIS which seems to state that actually F1 tyres aren't as high profile as they appear. Apparently "The size of a dry front Formula One tyre is 270/55 R13, whilst a rear is 325/45 R13". I was thinking they were more like 60-70% aspect ratio, just proves how your eyes can mislead.
Also, I found THIS which seems to give a plausable explanation for the diffrences. See Weltmeisters reply.
Also seen it mentioned that an F1 tyre only weighs 10kg. Could it also be that a 13" wheel with 325/45 tyre actually weighs less than say an 18" wheel with a 325/25 tyre on it?? Are 25% aspect ratios even possible??
You know, I have often wondered why most single seaters use tyres with what would be considered very high aspect ratios on a road car based race series. Why is that?? I mean I know the tyres themselves are of a completely different construction and therefore play a completely different role in terms of the suspension performance etc. What I'm not clear on is what is the benefit of the set up compared to the larger wheels/low profile tyre approach used on tin tops? Is it purely down to unsprung weight or is there something else going on? Would love to know.
You're probably right, I haven't really thought it through. I just know that preload is used on motorcycles to either
a) Get the suspension back to the correct ride height for a different weight rider.
or
b) Alter the ride height for the same rider.
I've never thought to measure if there is any actual change of seat height (sans rider) with any change of preload so it may well just be that the overall suspension deflection changes too with the different weight riders.
Even so, the analogy with the torque of a bolt still seems interesting unless I've totally misunderstood how that works also.
I know where you're coming from but two things spring to mind (not saying they are correct though).
First is motorcycle suspension where spring preload is used to allow for a heavier/lighter rider.
Ok, we're agreed (I think) that the preload's purpose it to affect the ride height. We're also agreed that there is an optimum ride height that gives the correct geometry for both the suspension and the overall CoG and steering angle etc. So then, what is the purpose of the preload for allowing for riders of different weights? IF it has no affect on how much force is required to get the ride height to the correct setting what is the purpose of it for a rider of a different weight?
eg.. rider A weighs 70kg and lets assume this means the seat height (for the sake of convenience) is 100cm, which just happens to be optimum on this particular motorcycle. Now we all agree that if a 100kg rider sits on this bike the ride height is going to be lower, lets say 90cm, and therefore incorrect. So what do we do? we add preload, so that when the 100kg rider sits on the bike the ride height is once again 100cm. The question is: How can two different weight riders, (and therefore applied forces), result in the same deflection of the suspension system if the preload is not increasing the amount of force required to deflect the system initially?? or does the increased preload merely increase the initial height of the seat sans rider?
Second thought is. Isn't preload an analogue of torque settings in a bolt? which (I believe) affect the amount of force required to be placed on the bolt before it starts to deform?
Like I said, just questions/ideas. Not saying they're correct as I have to admit I find it a little confusing.
"Eddie Jordan is left speachless as McLaren reveal their replacement for Hamilton"
As DHL unveil their new compulsory uniform Eddie Jordan remarks:
"Jeez I know I need to loose weight but my man boobs will never fill those !!"
As DHL unveil their new compulsory uniform Eddie Jordan remarks:
"Jeez I know I need to loose weight but my man boobs will never fill those !!"
Well given it fits in the handle I would guess it's the slot part that is meant to do something. But I'm damned if I can think of anything that is that shape.
How about you grow up.
want smutt go look at porn on the net.What shape is the other end? is it hex shaped?
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