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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motogp/15584165.stm A fitting tribute. Also good on the BBC for their coverage yesterday.

Why'd they do the run with over half a tank of fuel in?

Was stealthily in the Golf (> 400lb/ft torque mind ) queuing in traffic on the other side of the bypass as you pulled off the fountainhead roundabout and gave it a dab of throttle, was lovely to hear Was a saturday I think yeah as we were coming down the A35 back from Ikea Mine's going in to whifbitz end of the money for a fair bit of work. We have to get a meet as weird there's so many regulars on here, you, b'have (not sure if charlie sold up yet), the guy with the white TRD wing, yet we never manage to do a meet. Ok I know we met at KFC once, bar that I think I've met you going down the bypass once, and that time... i had my mum in the car so I couldn't give it WOT! Was amused at that

SimonB saw the other week blasting up just past Waitrose - so back on the road then? Also there's a white facelift that parks in the Littledown carpark Monday-Friday in the 'works' section. Anyone on here?

for those that haven't bought this yet, it's £9 at the moment on the PS3 from play http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/13456536/Fallout-New-Vegas/Product.html?searchstring=&searchtype=allproduct&searchsource=2&searchfilters=ae212%7B646620%7D%2b&urlrefer=search

And I was going to pop by his current employer sometime too.... now I don't think I am!

1p start no-reserve?

What a downright waste of money. EU sale of goods act is all you need. Hell, keep the receipt and I'll warrant it for 5 years for £10 and act as the broker

Looked for any 21:9 (dubbed "cinema-wide") aspect TVs? It's the format of the future imho

Even my mum now runs Ubuntu... When my daughter starts school I'm hoping she won't have to go near Windows. I'm going to bring her up being able to use a CLI - I think it helps people visualise problems and not be dependant upon GUIs

What is this reformatting you keep speaking of? Surely if you run a proper OS you don't have to do this? Upgrade, new install for new build (or even just a block-level migrate to new HW) but reformat? Ditto for reboots - once a month maybe if that? People should either get to Linux or OSX or some *nix derivative. Ubuntu for instance if you need to stick to the KISS principle. Until I can have a stable windows build for 18 months with no issues quite frankly I'd rather take a cheese grater to my intimate parts. *awaits people to start talking of windows 8 and how fab it'll be* I agree though on the points above re SSD for the boot volume and anything requiring a large amount of swap, even the basic 64Gb SSDs (£69 now) are useful, but really... backup backup backup. People are too use to the MTBF of common HDD and cheap SSD are far from it. You want a SSD that'll last 5 years trust me, you'll be in for a shock of the prices we have to pay in enterprise.

1Gig only really important if you're pushing really big files Chris, or something in your chain doesn't support 100Mb. It's just throughput (I'm sure you don't need that high a duty cycle) Only really required for meaty things like network attached disk arrays tbh.

Ever seen this incredible font called Comic Sans MS? I heard it's the new in thing with web design.

I've corrected this for you. I am literally : 1. Having Whifbitz bolt on a lot of stuff + syvecs in November 2. Having it mapped November/December 3. Buying a house in January I thought once I get a house, the lead time on 1) and 2) become greatly extended. I thought you'd have been minted by now having been approached by Hollywood.

Yeah that. This I assume is the unit you were talking about when I talked to you on the phone the other week? Also apologies not even got in the car to check which loom I want

Doesn't the roof spoiler probably spoil half the airflow that should go to that wing?

May I then also recommend heavy usage of the blink tag? As well as some possible tastefully animated GIFs? I'm getting all nostalgic now and want to break out netscape and go surf some geocities sites.

ARGH my eyes! Looks fine, but aren't you changing all your red engine bay now? Just wondering if you may go for colours that are less vivid/contrasting? Just unfortunately the frontpage makes me think cheesy gothic/vampiric, but that is just imho (which can happily be ignored )

A little light reading giving some interesting views, not definitive, but interesting how much incoming MS are probably making from Android OEMs http://www.infoworld.com/t/android/microsoft-makes-more-android-windows-smartphones-707 And http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/microsoft-collects-license-fees-on-50-of-android-devices-tells-google-to-wake-up.ars Ouch! Both on hit for Android and MS.

was horrific watching it live this morning. As soon as saw the helmet rolling off the track with Edwards I think most knew it was pretty bad. You could tell the commentators discussed Edwards but not Simoncelli I think they knew it was dire. Nice at least that the BBC cancelled the re-run in respect of it all, having a 5 minute slot informing people (re-run was meant to be BBC2 1pm).

That price on the dash posted? What are your methods of payment?

Thought I'd reuse a thread with probably the most camera enthusiasts on... take a butchers at this (it's been in dev for a while) http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/lytros-new-light-field-camera-lets-you-focus-after-you-take-a-picture.ars Imagine having a camera where you don't have to focus or tweak f-stop / depth of field - you can do it all when you do post-production tweaking.

Hydrogen power ftw? It's fairly abundant. Trouble as many say, infrastructure does not exist for many of these alternatives. What's needed is a driver to new profits - i.e. new fuels - currently everyone's happy to maintain the status quo. Make an alternative fuel TAX/VAT free for a given period - 5-10 years, whatever it takes to make it to that delta where investment vs loss/profit hits that zero point, so it'd be an incentive for car manufacturers to build the vehicles, energy companies to invest and build alternative fuel points/stations and also make it cheap enough TCO wise for people to buy the vehicles (bar the hippies).

Wow just having had a re-read of this thread it's like an intermixed plethora of threads merged into one. Lbm you're playing with us all as if we're mere puppets in your banana-encased world

Many assumptions there. Clock speed, materials and also die/transistor size, cache sizing also take into account total power draw/thermal requirements of any given chip or core. Some dual core low power chips use less power than single core chips, as well as you have to look at either single thread or multi-thread performance/requirements. What's most important varies by application - single thread then that's fine. SMP or multiple single-threaded applications spread evenly still again require analysis of your performance per watt. Unless we take this dual/single core to a comparison of a model and what you're getting per core per watt, this arguement is just pointless. Define dogs years? Core shutdowns or at least trickle feed on them probably 3-4 years in consumer/distributed application. No core is truly shutdown unless you have it shutdown from the start. Not many designs or OS are able to literally do the equiv of a bootstrap to a core whilst the OS is up or if the other cores are using/reserved cache which'd be allocated to that shutdown core if you powered it up. Yes you can take power usage down to single % figures, but generally this has been due to ramping up the clock speed on the other cores for faster single-threaded execution - equivalent of leaving an engine idle of minimal fuel, rather than it literally not running. Generally non-exploitation of multi-core hardware comes down to crap application design or sloppy developers not taking on the complexity of multi-threading any application, or skirting around it and using an arbitration system to distribute to multiple threads. Got any info on this ICS? I do love the word *should*, it's like a drug to me when vendors use it. Also many OS do not truly yet exploit multi-core/thread/chip architectures yet unless they're an entirely closed solution (HW/firmware/OS designed by a single vendor), or I would say it's in it's infancy. Even in enterprise systems. Intel et al can push out some very clever designs, but then it's their partners down to using it to the full. Good chip design is showing up flaws now in memory and other sections of IO, it's hard to get a truly fast and efficient system to have memory, buses and storage to feed it. Again, well yes, maybe some mobile OS do not yet have effective use of multi-threaded systems but again - without applications using them it's a mute point. Dual-core in phones whilst useful to spread the load currently imho is a marketing tool, drawing in the same people who think megapixel count is everything on a camera, or screen size is everything on a display. Useful? Yes sometimes. Vital? No. Truly beneficial or exploited yet? No. An efficient OS is one that can literally run 99% utilised 99% of the time - otherwise you're being sloppy. I'm counting CPU, memory and storage usage in that ethos tho. So aren't you contradicting your first point? New ARM chip looks interesting though - a thorn in Intel's side. I do love the chippy blokes from Cambridge. So when are we going to start discussing other things that should be looked at rather than just cramming more hardware in? like better memory utilisation? More efficient application and OS design in general rather than any 'appendage waving' of 'oooh i've got a dual core phone'? Have a read of some of the enterprise and HPC space sometime where we even have to take into consideration memory allocation to book/chip/core allocation because we're shaving oh... micrometres off the distance between memorybuscore. When you're doing millions of I/O every micrometre counts. BTW you still using this? I hope you take all this as an objective discussion, I'm not trolling (or not trying to) and like a good healthy debate. I did like windows. NT4 was good.