As hardcoreobscure says, you should get pretty good speed (I was often limited by hard drive write speed when downloading, put it that way), but pretty heavy firewalls.
Soton unrestricted torrents last year, which briefly brought the network to a standstill when people found out, but it soon calmed down. I had a fair bit of trouble with the Counterstrike server lists, but then Steam is broken 95% of the time anyway. LFS was fine IIRC. Pings were usually excellent too, often sat at 5-15ms in CS.
Depending on just how geeky you are :P network staff may open things up to you if asked nicely, depends what you want really.
I hope you enjoy your day at UEA, I personally didn't visit there, but it was too far away from home for me really.
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Now that FireFTP, Firebug and Greasemonkey have been updated for FF3, I doubt I'll use Opera much any more.
...except you'll say Safari is better, which tbh sucks more than my hoover. It's OK as a bog standard browser I guess, but it lacks pretty much any function a user could want, other than it loads web pages.
I did use Opera for a long time, but have gone back to Firefox (3) now because I can't live without Firebug. Version 3 seems to suffer less memory leaks than previous versions.
Dude that's an even worse clarification :P The Escort never came with a 2L engine (CVH or Zetec) as standard. The Cosworth YB engine was developed from the orginal Pinto, which never appeared in Escorts - always being used for RWD setups.
But yer AWD is less effecient then 2WD.
I guess not everyones the same though. If living far away from home is going to lead to problems on your course, then that won't work. After all uni is about getting a degree.
I live in a house with 2 friends from home, and 2 friends from uni at the moment, and it's the best environment I could ask for. Halls were awful for me, my flat was full of weird or very annoying people that I would never ever have chosen to be friends with. Of course being stuck with them for a year meant I had to to a certain extent, but I never keep in contact with them now.
Whereas my friends from home, and now uni, all share the same lifestyle, interests and sense of humour. I couldn't ask for more really.
I live about an hour away from home when I'm at uni, that said I usually only pop back maybe twice a year during term time. It's just nice to have the freedom really.
As for Universities, Southampton is brilliant for Comp Sci, which is where I go. The facilities are the best of any that I saw, the lecturers are mostly great at what they teach etc. That said it's a long distance from home to you. I did notice a LOT of people at Soton come from the south and within a 2 hour drive, so clearly people do stick to unis close-ish to home.
As Becky has said, you don't need to do a degree in hardware to know hardware. You know most of it anyway, and what you don't know you can pick up in a few weeks no doubt. If you want to design hardware, you need to know the science behind it. I would suggest straight Comp Sci over any of these new hybrid courses.
If I lived in America I'd probably buy a V8 over a 4 pot, just for fun really. Sure it won't go round corners and drinks fuel, but meh. What I'd never do is buy a V6 model of a V8 car, such as a Mustang, that seems stupid.
Can't actually advise a car myself, but I wouldn't massively value the opinion of someone from Europe telling you to get a 4 pot because you don't need the power etc. Maybe you want the power.
Can't actually advise a car myself, but I wouldn't massively value the opinion of someone from Europe telling you to get a 4 pot because you don't need the power etc. Maybe you want the power.
But you can have multiple windows open, which can be very useful (that said 16:10 still isn't wide enough for that really, unless you have a large resolution).
I think also wouldn't a 22" widescreen be about as high as a 19" 4:3 screen?
Similar to that really.
Exactly, most people here don't seem to realise you're not paying to cover the cost of your car, you're paying to cover the cost of other people's cars/health.
If you only have 3rd party insurance then your car isnt covered at all anyway.
They were above the quick reply box, Victor then moved them to the bottom, so they are now out of the way.
Ha. Why in god's name is everybody using these Vectra VXR wheels now. Ford seem to use them on every single car the produce, slightly ironic then that the Kuda adverts claims designed from scratch, or similar.
Yer but pretty much every kid whos plays games wants to be a game designer when they're that age. Or a games tester, because they get to play games all day.
Pretty much none of them realise what's involved, and tbh I think it's pretty pointless saying 'I want to be X' in a computer based job when you're that age. Keep it general and many possibilities will be open to you. Maybe.
Pretty much none of them realise what's involved, and tbh I think it's pretty pointless saying 'I want to be X' in a computer based job when you're that age. Keep it general and many possibilities will be open to you. Maybe.
Why would he have any experience at 14? It's hardly an issue, and probably a good time to start.
I would say you can't really go wrong with a maths/physics/computer science type course at uni, for A levels you'll need to do maths etc.
Being a game designer and a code monkey however are two very different things.
I've never had true results from speedtest. It's always much slower than what my connection normal acheives, also the extreme flash seems to bog down pretty much any machine you throw at it 
Use something like Rapidshare in parallel to measure speeds, much more effective I find.
Use something like Rapidshare in parallel to measure speeds, much more effective I find.
100% wrong.
I've had £400 work done on a £1k car through insurance before.
Stuff like this though sometimes makes me wonder if there's any point getting a nice car. I've just given up caring about my little car now, barely worth anything etc. But if I bought a new car and this kind of thing happened I would not be amused.
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Because you're paying $3/min and you really want to make the most out of your money?
Ha yep I just clicked on this thread to post that.
Classic monkey island on-the-go ftw
Is it not an exe or zip?
If it had .jpg as an exetension I guess perhaps you might open it if it was from someone you trust. What gets me is Windoze having extensions turned off by default. How the hell are you supposed to know what's going on.
So many people fall for it though. I bet 95% of Windows users don't even know what an extension is, they just know the icon that looks like a sheet of paper opens in Word, the one like a picture opens in Paint etc etc.
If it had .jpg as an exetension I guess perhaps you might open it if it was from someone you trust. What gets me is Windoze having extensions turned off by default. How the hell are you supposed to know what's going on.
So many people fall for it though. I bet 95% of Windows users don't even know what an extension is, they just know the icon that looks like a sheet of paper opens in Word, the one like a picture opens in Paint etc etc.
Ha funny you should say that, as I friend of mine had a slightly modified minor as his first car. Absolute awful condition but still fun for sliding around in the wet. He sadly put it head first into a tree, it was either that or an oncoming truck in the middle of the road
He's had other ones since, good laugh.
Agree though, Minis aren't cheap as a first car, but still possible.
Focus sounds like a good deal
I think as you say, for a bit of a laugh a £50 snotter would be great, just run it for as long as it goes then move on, can't say fairer than that really.Yer that's a good point actually, although possibly slightly out of budget with regards to insurance hehe.
Good effort, will be interesting to see how you get on.
Personally, I could live without a car, but I'd never choose to. Whilst here in the city I basically just walk the 5 mins into uni or down to the pub so defo don't need a car. In fact had it here last term and used it about 3 times.
But at home living in the country you need a car to get anything done. Bikes are fine and good fun sometimes but tbh you have to be pretty dedicated to go a proper distance, short distances are quicker just to walk once you've got the bike out, locked up, ridden, parked up, locked the bike up etc.
Buses are crap, too much waiting, too full, too slow.
Trains are FAR too expensive, they wonder why people never use them. Paid £9 to go about 20 miles the other day as I didn't have the car with me. That's gone up from £7.80 before christmas. And they're usually 3 carriages too short and thus full.
Personally, I could live without a car, but I'd never choose to. Whilst here in the city I basically just walk the 5 mins into uni or down to the pub so defo don't need a car. In fact had it here last term and used it about 3 times.
But at home living in the country you need a car to get anything done. Bikes are fine and good fun sometimes but tbh you have to be pretty dedicated to go a proper distance, short distances are quicker just to walk once you've got the bike out, locked up, ridden, parked up, locked the bike up etc.
Buses are crap, too much waiting, too full, too slow.
Trains are FAR too expensive, they wonder why people never use them. Paid £9 to go about 20 miles the other day as I didn't have the car with me. That's gone up from £7.80 before christmas. And they're usually 3 carriages too short and thus full.
Rubbish. If you don't know what you are talking about, don't make it up. I know plenty of people who had old minis as their first cars, some modified and all correctly insured.
What are you buying? An old Merc?
Forget £2k, £500 will get you something acceptable, £1k will get you something that won't go wrong.
I've had my car for three years now, driven pretty energetically shall we say, only thing that went wrong is a snapped cutch cable, which is very common with Zetec engined (not zetec spec) mk3 Fiesta's. Paid nearly a K for it, which seems a lot for a fiesta, I'm sure you'll hear of people buying them for £20 etc, but it was fine for my first car. Top spec model (for a fiesta) so was nice enough inside. Personally I wouldn't bother with a 1.1/1.3, guess they're pretty reliable though.
(an R clio, presumably mk1 phase3 will arguably be the best handling first-car hatch you could get btw).
Well that's the thing, it's all statistics, women are generally involved in low speed crashes - bumping into someone at the shops kinda thing - not sliding across the road and wiping out 3 cars/people at 50mph etc.
If it's more likely to be broken into/stolen, the you would expect the price to rise. How much it rises in relation to the actual value of the car is debatable.
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