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I tend to think that it's the longer journeys, such as my norfolk-birmingham run - and longer, that will feel a hit in arrival times. I think over a longer run you have more overall control of your speed and can spend more time nearer the legal maximum. In those instances dropping the upper limit can't help but have a negative impact. Over shorter runs you're probably more at mercy to local traffic flow, peeks and rush hours, so yes maybe dropping the limit if it improved flow could conterintuitively speed up journey times. As you say uniform speed = better flow. Dropping the speed limit =/= uniformed speed, just variable speed with a lower upper limit.

Interesting. 4.5min doesn't sound a lot over a single 32mile stretch. The problem comes if the 32mile stretch is deemed so successful the national speed limit is dropped to 60mph. I semi-reguarly finish work at 4pm and just make it to the NEC in Birmingham at 7pm for the start of a show. Over that kind of distance such a change in speed limit could easilly add up to me missing the start of the show... I thought most phantom traffic jams are caused by a knock on effect when tailgaters break. Does a 10mph speed reduction really cause people to back off and tailgate less? Or are they less scared by their tailgating and don't feel the need to panic break so often?

"Where we're going we don't need roads" - Doc. Brown 1985

Don't know what's available here, but may be worth a look. Came accross is (old resource, btw) a couple of days ago when I was reminiscing about ACE computer magazine... https://archive.org/details/comics For those who want to delve into the delight of ancient computer periodicals... https://archive.org/details/computermagazines

$6,000 - WTF? Can I compare this to 3DO again?

Easy... ...If you're willing to pay £10 for the privalidge

Valve SteamOS keynote at CES tonight! Hopefully we'll get more news in the morning on AAA publisher support for the project...

On this particular issue, I do think Thatcher had a lot to answer for. The "right to buy" policy itself I think was a good idea, no problem with that at all. It was the restricting of local authorities from replenashing stock that caused the biggest problem. Right to buy should have been married with a policy of income gained through sale of council stock should only have been used in refurbashing or new housing stock - rather than pocketing the money as most authorities did. But sure, successive governments did nothing to rectify the problem. Personnally I think it's one of the biggest travisties of the last Labour government that they never sorted this mess out why they were in power. I agree with above, we need a 50's/60's style mass social housing development scheme urgently. And we need to be less precious about the "green belt" while we are at it. Edit: I don't think the housing bubble will burst (or at least not drastically) until there is a major development scheme in place. Probably why successive governments have avoided it.

Netbooks/Laptops wired or wireless? If wireless what's the laptop:access point ratio? How are profiles managed? Roaming? fixed? I get similar things here and the problem usually turns out to be a mixture of wireless access points and large user profiles. EDIT: In terms of removing printers with Group Policy. This must be done before you remove the printer share from the server otherwise the remove command will error not being able to find the printer. The only solution then is to hunt the registry and manually delete all mention of the printer.

Well done Ben!

Fantastic pieces of kit! Never failed to be impressed by them. Actually seem to use good quality components inside and everything is clean and very well cable managed. Seriously good value for money IMHO. My only gripe is I've never found a suitable ultra-small form factor model by them other wise I'd use them more here. mATX cases are a little too bulky for desktop PC's. Never had to contact them for support so can't comment, other than the kit I've had from them (touch wood) has always been reliable enough not to need it.

Wohoo! Unpaid time off for all union members

AFAIK - there's no central "great fireall of UK" (yet), and no legal requirement for any ISP to install any user filtering at all. All we have is the top 4 or 5 ISP kowtowing to David Camerons grandee-ism and then giving you the option to label yourself as a terrorist or pedo by opting out. While other ISP's exist who are not bowing to tabloid pressure without an act of parlament to back it up then there remains consumer choice. In short - switch ISP.

I see nothing wrong, agree with them even. I've seen how hard good teachers do actually work, and how much is done out of hours and during so called holiday time. No I don't begrudge them their time off. I couldn't and wouldn't want to do their job. And they are right, If I'm not happy working through the school holidays - then I picked the wrong job. Actually, I'm very happy working through the holidays - it's term time I struggle with

Do you think the head would let my buy 30 of these? Sinclair ZX Spectrum USB Keyboard by TynemouthSoftware on Etsy

Sunrise over the turquoise mountains Messenger birds in sight They came up through the valley Both sides at a time Through the cold steady rain Raid! I bend down Poke a double decker on a Taboot , Taboot Taboot (Phish)

More like Ding Dong! (slightly less camp )

Went to Tesco's for some burgers () Don't think they were kosha

As mentioned above, we've just moved from central to local filtering. This is the biggest factor for us. Not so much individials (although there's already been a couple of occassions when that level has been handy), but groups. Our box is linked to our AD and we have three/four filtering groups. Staff get full YouTube, Students get YouTube Edu - for instance. I'd take a lot of convincing to allow an ISP control over our filtering ever again.

We've just wrestled control away from our LA and now have our own Smoothie - difference is like night and day! There's always choice. Any ISP enables filters I don't agree to without asking will find their contract terminated fairly quickly and I'll take my custom elsewhere.

Silly question - but if you thought it important enough to impose said restrictions, and customers buying your service agree to using under those restrictions, why would you leave a back door open to bypass those restrictions? Kinda makes the implementing said restrictrictions a bit pointless.

Actually, niether do I. Sort of thing I'd try if I had one lying around. That said, remembering how well Win95 ran (full IE active desktop and compressed hard drive on a 486DX2/50 with 8Mb RAM) - it's probably for the best we don't. >mode -evangilise /enabled That's why I hate PC's. I don't think I've ever had one that's lasted more than 6 months before the HDD needs reformatting and everything loading on from scratch. Never seem to have that problem with Macs. At home I find the combination of PS4 and iPad gives me 99.999% of all the computing power I ever need. And they are instant on

Repeat after me - "Windows 7 was NOT designed to run on a 486 processor!"

Lol, can't say I particuarly noticed (very used to reading forum posts and understand written text rarely comes out the way you mean it to sound - in your head) EDIT: I will say this in response to your reply though As we found out in the £700 build a week or so back, it's bloody tough getting everything in budget. You gotta make sacrifices below about £1000. I was £3 over budget, your changes - potentially could increase the bill. I think that's the fun in these threads - the challenge of spec'ing at a budget and working out which corners are the right ones to cut.

The only think I'd question is the choice of hard drive. Personally I'd go for capacity over speed. Apart from a little bit quicker boot times, I doubt you'd see major speed differences any where else. Personally I think there are usually other bottlenecks at play, usually human, that make most speed gains more theoretical than practical. I think SSHD's are a perfectly acceptable halfway house giving a slight speed boost from the SSD cache combines with traditional hard drive capacity. And should cost about the same or slightly less than the SSD. Alternatively just get a standard HDD and put the money somewhere else - better APU?