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I don't think the stock Vauxhall Astra they used for the stop test had 'sports-grade' brakes somehow... They do make a good point though - the stopping distances were set back when cars mainly had drum brakes and electronic aids like ABS and ESP hadn't been invented. I don't suggest Top Gear's test was entirely accurate, but there is a point there that our road rules are horribly in need of updating for the modern world.

It seems the BBC and the PC mafia have had it in for Clarkson for a long time. Unfortunately, this might just be the nail in his coffin they've been looking for. Personally, I like Jeremy Clarkson and find him very entertaining. It's a shame he feels the need to be quite so controversial at times though - he can be very funny without it, and the controversy only gives people a good excuse to knock him.

Beware cheap eBay screens/glass. My Dad broke the glass and screen on his HTC which I tried to fix for him with a supposedly genuine replacement from eBay (not even Hong Kong). It was of very poor quality, it didn't fit properly, the LCD panel was poor and the digitiser was very inaccurate. Phone ended up scrapped. Was a pig to do as well.

IIRC, the Top Gear boys tried this, and found that it wasn't the great idea that it sounded at the start... Having said that, you might not have so much trouble if you avoid driving through 'sensitive' states with makeshift provocative car sign writing!

@Ventrue: If you are Worthing based and interested in schools ICT, have you thought about contacting JSPC based in Sompting? They have a very large customer base of schools across the West Sussex area and always seem interested in nurturing new talent. Might be worth a call? Home | JSPC Computer Services You may struggle to find volunteer work, as because of requirements for DBS checks and disclosures, there is quite a lot of admin involved and schools that need to have the level of technical support available to justify the admin probably already have their provision in place. Good luck!

Can I have one of those without the cream and sugar! I'll take one of those without the cream, sugar, coffee, water... Hang on, that'll just be a whisky then!

Doesn't an accident of any sort, regardless of where or the circumstances become a 'material fact' in respect of an insurance policy? Regardless of whether it results in a claim or not? Remember on an insurance proposal, they ask about accidents in the last x years, not claims.

Sounds similar to a problem that we had before with an HP LaserJet. That wasn't just for one user, but would randomly fail to print and throw errors. That was narrowed to a logic board problem in the end, luckily it was under warranty. I think it was memory at fault, but wasn't replaceable on that machine.

Can't remember where I found it now, but there is a reg hack to go back to the previous one. I had to do that because the new one didn't work at all for me - wouldn't even display on my machine.

We have Windows 8 across site here. I looked into upgrading it to Windows 8.1 but found it broke too many of the workarounds that were in place to get Windows 8 working how we liked. We have a minimal metro tile set which is burned into the image, and have now trained everyone to type the first few letters of the name of a program they want to run. Helps that here everyone uses Google Apps most of the time, so just need to be able to open Chrome and SIMS mainly, both of which have Desktop shortcuts. Looking forward to Windows 10 - the preview I played around with picked up the original group policy start menu redirection that remained on the system to populate the reincarnated start menu. That's what we have feeding the 'All Apps' list in Windows 8, but it acts oddly and 8.1 seems to ignore it totally. As there were no major benefits to Windows 8.1 for us, I decided to skip it but am waiting with interest for Windows 10 release and SIMS support.

Gas and air is hilarious stuff. When we were in with my wife giving birth to our son, I was sitting close to her and ended up getting rather high on the 'spare' gas and air that she was breathing out! But then again, as I'd clocked up getting on for 40 hours awake that 'day', it didn't take much lol

Surely any failure to start which is remedied by a jump start has to point to battery or charging problems? Have you checked/had checked your alternator output? Might not be charging the battery properly leaving it either wanting for charge, or damaged through overcharging.

I've got an LG G2, on O2. Had it just coming up to a year, pay £25 a month tariff + phone plan for 600 minutes, infinite texts and 750MB data. Got free upgrade to 4G a couple of months in when they (allegedly!) enabled my area It's a great phone, but the 16GB storage (with no expansion) is too small and it seems to be getting very slow of late - hoping the Android 5 update (if it ever comes!) will improve matters.

Bit of T-Cut and it'll be fine! Seriously, though, nothing there that can't be fixed perfectly well by the looks of it. Can't see it being enough to be recorded either - don't forget, it only gets recorded (and therefore affects value) if its written off.

If you have given them your details, you will hear a lot from them in my experience! Never used them, though, we are not into used/refurb gear here.

+1 I was going to suggest Arduino. Quite easy to get going and build a traffic lights or something like that. If you are lucky and your school has/had Flowol, you might find some of the Mimic kits around which give you bare bones of gear needed to build various things.

I'd say a new one, but not the Currys Essentials one. We have one of those that I bought in a hurry when our Beko died (not heating water, same as yours), and it's not great to be honest. The basket design is poor so you can't put cups and glasses in it without them falling over. The runners stick so the tray comes out jerkily and it doesn't dry very well. It's cheap, but cheap for a reason IMHO.

Which setting there are you talking about? We suffer with long first-time logins on Windows 8, but I can't see any settings in there which refer to setting up Apps.

Biggest drawback to this is that licencing SMART for non-SMART screens costs an absolute arm and a leg! I've been quoted around £600 a licence previously!

We have Learnpads here for our Early Years classes and they like them. Personally, I'm not sold on the idea of Windows tablets - the range of true apps is limited compared with Android and iPad, and if you are going to use 'classic' Windows software, why go down the tablet route? And the idea of putting a tablet on the domain and enforcing a clunky domain login seems to defy the point of tablets entirely. Children these days are used to picking up a tablet at home and getting straight on with things - it must seem so backwards to them to be held back by a old fashioned login process that takes (comparatively) ages.

Congratulations mate!

I've been there with the earlier generation of ThinkCentre AIOs They are expensive, and we never did find an alternative supplier. Getting the parts from IBM took an age as well - they gave the finance team grief about setting up the account which wasted a lot of time, and then delivery was long winded as well. I highly doubt the monitor panel would fit - LCDs like that are very fit-specific. The thinkcentre LCDs are very thick compared to most panels and you would have to be lucky for the mounting locations and connections to be correct for a different application.

This is a difficult one, it's a very personal thing. CBT is all about being taught how to control your own thoughts - basically telling yourself not to be anxious is certain situations for example. I've tried it, it didn't work for me. I became irritated by the exercises, analysing every thought and every response. Also, the fact that I knew my anxiety was irrational meant that CBT exercises designed to prove this to you didn't help me - I just wasn't 'strong' enough to be able to tell myself to stop being anxious. I ended up being referred onwards from CBT (which my local NHS takes as a starting point for all talking therapy) for proper counselling, but they were unable to offer me provision that I could access for various reasons, so never undertook it. Kind of got through it myself after that, or so I thought... Ended up going down like a stone again 2 years later, and discovered the joys of Sertraline. The meds might not be popular with everyone, but they make such a positive difference for me. Good luck, find something that is right for you and take care of yourself.

I share the same concerns. Unfortunately for us, we are just over the 500 pupils threshold, so have to look at their pricing for 1000 pupils, which makes them considerably more expensive than ParentMail's offering. We are also concerned about giving our parents another different system to have to work with, whereas they are already using ParentMail. The functionality appears to be very similar, although there are a couple of significant differences.

In these days of energy efficiency, cost saving and environmental responsibility, wouldn't it be better to set up power saving settings so that unused displays and computers sleep after a short period of inactivity?