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My daughter was diagnosed with it at 9 years old. Pretty rough to see a 9 year old girl being told she has an incurable disease Happily, though, the only hospital visits we've ever had were the original endoscopies and then her regular appointments; we've never had anything bad enough to hospitalise her. After the initial round of steroids (and six weeks of nothing but protein shakes, I don't know how she managed, bravest person I know) the medication has controlled it and she carries on normally. Might be a bit more of a challenge once she gets to drinking age and can't drink like her friends, thanks to the medication, but that's a problem for the future; in the here and now, we're very lucky. The only certain trigger we've ever identified was stress, and the correlation there is very strong. Food-wise, though, we've gone through all sorts of combinations, and none of it has ever made a difference. You hear stories of all sorts though--some people realising that compounds in certain paints set them off. +1 for Crohn's and Colitis UK, we're also big supporters of CICRA because they're a research charity, headed by my daughter's doctor. They're a smaller charity as well, so the money they get is used more efficiently--no paid staff etc. It is surprising how many people have Crohn's, but because of the nature of it no-one likes to talk about it. Everyone is probably within one jump (i.e. friend's sister, colleagues partner) of a dozen people with it without realising. The tide is starting to turn though, I think--there are more high profile sufferers, more people willing to talk about it. As far as I know, they still don't know what causes it--could be genetic, could be environmental, could be a virus (as an auto-immune disease, the latter would fit). I get the feeling that research & care is much, much better now than it was even twenty years ago though. It's a really crappy thing to be diagnosed with (pun not intended) but it's not necesarily as dramatic as it once was--you absolutely can manage it and get on as normal. People around you are probably doing it all the time without you even knowing.

It's important now, absolutely, both because mobile devices are such a common way of quickly checking information and because Google is now prioritising sites that are mobile-ready. But in two years time, let alone five, it'll be absolutely essential. If you're redoing your site now, do the job well enough that you don't need to revisit it till next decade.

Yeah, bit awkward when you hit the wrong switch and your Katy Perry starts blaring out and undermining your carefully cultivated image of cool

My cousin's in amongst that rabble. He's dressed in red, with a big black hat on To quote him: "don't get in our way".

The new environments look incredible. Looks like they've managed to make the levels much bigger in scale; the first game always felt a little cramped.

I think so long as SYSTEM has access rights to the folder where user v2 folders are, so it can create a new one, you should be ok. Easy way to test is to have a look at the permissions set up on other users' folders, then manually create the new folder with equivalent permissions; I think all it needs is Full Control for System, Domain Administrators and the user.

Quite liked it. Put me in mind of Black Mirror in the way it's playing the technology as just another part of life that everyone is used to and everyone still acts the same, they've just adapted to the miracle of technology and made it every day (much like we have with smartphones--I mean, they are quite literally the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, they are a window onto all the world's knowledge, and all we do is play stupid games and complain about their battery life). I liked the way they hint at the implications of robot labour, and quite what we'd all do in a post-work society--as the angry teenage daughter said at one point, "so we're all just supposed to be poets now or something?" Her reaction to the pointless nature of a good education in a world without employment prospects was good as well. Not quite up there with Orphan Black for entertainment, not yet, but it's a promising start

Even easier than deleting the reg key by hand or with another tool... * Windows Key + Pause/Break to bring up System Properties * Advanced System Settings (on the left) * User Profiles section, Settings button (in the middle) * Find the user in the list and click Delete Does it all for you, then you just need to clear out the .v2 folder on the server (make sure you unhide system files etc.) and get them to log on at that machine again so it can recreate a clean profile.

One of my favourite moments in this job: In the middle of three horrible days, where the bandwidth to the Smoothwall was being throttled horribly to the point that domain users couldn't use the internet. Struggling to work out if it's the Smoothwall, the ISP, or the core switch that connects them both. Feeling lost and confused and overwhelmed. Teacher comes in with a pack of shortbread. "What did you want?" I ask. "Nothing. I was in Asda and figured you were having a horrible day, so thought I'd bring something to cheer you up." They're good 'uns here, they are. I am spoilt

Seriously, though, Internet Explorer is hardly sat there with a negligible market share, is it? It's not 19-bloody-98 anymore, we don't have "Works best in IE5.5+" buttons in our footers anymore. Their website is hardly doing anything amazing and funky with HTML5, it's just an exam board website that people want to print from. Not supporting IE at all is simply ludicrous and I cannot believe any web design team was allowed to get away with it. We have Chrome pushed out here, but I shouldn't have to explain to teaching staff, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, that they need to open AQA in Chrome because AQA think they're such special bloody snowflakes. Daft sods.

wait what is this news i did not oh my god what now Though I suspect that Shenmue, of all games, is one built up in my head through nostalgia, and wouldn't hold up all that well today. I wonder if one of the stretch goals will be a bit of variety for poor Ryo's wardrobe? I still remember standing in his bedroom and gazing upon the hanging rows of brown leather jackets, and the drawers of blue jeans and white t-shirts...

Another fact I didn't know, as taken from io9:

AFAIK, publishers/developers set the prices they want in the Steam Sale ahead of time, and are encouraged towards 75% etc... so I'd say this is the publishers.

I'm flying to Florida on one of them next month... better wedge my carry on luggage in tight, hadn't I? Don't reckon I'll tell the wife what it'll be like

On a similar note: is this suitable as a replacement for MIT AppInventor? Because that software is such a pain in the

4k with scaling would be sharper than running a lower resolution, though, because if you run at 1440p on a monitor 2160 pixels high, it has to sort of smear each logical pixel over 1.5 real pixels and it just looks horrible. The only lower resolution you could get away with is 1080p, because that's a factor of 2x so it all lines up nicely. I'm not suggesting you run your desktop in 1080p, but you can certainly runs games at 1080p for dem framerates and have it look good.

Remember that with the new refund policy, you can request a refund on a game you purchased then rebuy it at a cheaper price if it comes up in the sale. Valve have explicitly stated this is something you can do and it isn't considered abuse. So anything you've bought in the last fortnight and not touched yet...

We did exactly that a couple of years ago - our oldest machines were 5 year old HPs with Core2Duo E7400/E8400, and they were still working fine in low demand areas. Rather than replace 80 for ~£32k, we upgraded about 160 with SSDs for less than £10k. Because we only did staff machines, for cost reasons, we have some of those PCs with SSDs in and some with HDDs in. The difference is agonising--the HDD machines are all but unusable (to the point of student complaints), whereas the SSD machines are still soldiering on. I'm only replacing them now because I won't have another opportunity to until they're 9, and that'd have a knock on effect on the next oldest generation, and that is starting to push our luck too much. We'll be harvesting the SSDs we used in to upgrade and putting them out elsewhere, and by September we'll be an all SSD shop

A real legend of a man. There's not many folk release heavy metal albums in their 90s. My favourite Christopher Lee story: The things he did in World War 2, attached to the SAS, are still classified.

...yes. Though you have picked a famously cheesy example. But in my defence, videos of LARP are always terrible and cheesy and the most godawful way of showing anything about it, not helped by the consistently shoddy level of potata cameremanship. It really is much better than that. This is a better video, promotional thing from one of the national systems:

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120GB has been fine up till now for us, but we're starting to have to monitor the IT suites for things like SCCM cache and stored profiles, as that's where the bigger installs go - CS5 is 10GB+, Visual Studio is 10GB+, Movie Studio Platinum is another big chunk... As and when I replace the PCs in those rooms, I'll probably go 240GB class--that's a couple of years yet though (servers next year), so hopefully they'll be even cheaper by then 240GB SSDs now are already down at the price of 120GBs a couple of years ago. Once V-NAND loses the Shiny New Tax, I expect that'll make capacity drives much cheaper to produce, and a theoretical Samsung 860 EVO will be a no-brainer.

I've done the "this is my budget, what can you build me" approach before, was surprised at what I got Personally I prefer higher clock speeds/IPC over threads at the moment - the promise of multi-threaded performance has still not arrived after years of promises, even in stuff like games, and Intel are stubbornly refusing to budge beyond "here's 4 cores and you'll like it" for all but the most ludicrously expensive of parts. The way I see it is: everything benefits from higher clock speed. Only a few things benefit from more threads. And given that the latter often comes at the expense of the former... When a PC is only doing Internet Explorer and PowerPoint, I'd rather save money in buying a dual core Pentium and get more PCs instead normally I'd always buy i3s and put them into the IT suites, then shuffle existing IT suite stock out (so that the best machines are always in the IT suites), but CPU improvements have been so slow in recent years it's not worth the effort. We got i3-550s 5 years ago, and we're just upgrading the last of them to 4GB RAM (from 2GB at the time) and an SSD, and they're still more than capable. We're only now replacing Core2Duos to be honest, though those really are creaking at 7 years old, especially where they weren't SSDed. A warning on those quad core Celerons: they're gussied up Atoms, and their single-thread performance is pretty dire. A Celeron G is a dialled down i3, without HyperThreading (same as the Pentium G) and slightly less cache than the Pentium. A Celeron/Pentium J is a clocked up Atom, built to be low power, and the instructions per clock is pretty dire. Compare the J1900 and the G1620 - similarly aged Celerons, where the former is a fancy Atom and the latter is a dialled-down i3 - and the latter is about twice as fast. 2 good cores is better than 4 naff cores in almost every situation.

i7s shouldn't be in a school at all, except perhaps in your machine, in your office, and only then if you're doing lots and lots of virtualisation and/or video editing. End users simply do not need them. If you're putting them into an IT Suite: Core i3, 8GB RAM, 120/128GB SSD. Will last you five years and more, if looked after by the tiny end users. If you need a media room - video editing, lots of Photoshop - go for Core i5 instead, but apart from that specific use case an i5 is overkill in a school. Even the future proofing argument is irrelevant, IMHO - the only difference between i3 and i5 is that the latter is a true quad core, and Microsoft Office is never going to be that heavily threaded, is it? If they're going into offices or at the front of classrooms: Pentium G3xxx, 4GB RAM, 120/128GB SSD. If all they're ever going to do is Internet + Office, this is plenty. We've just bought 154 of the latter with a five year warranty for well under £300 ex VAT a unit (in USFF cases). Stone, VeryPC and Novatech were all very competitive. I know VeryPC do a case that can mount the monitor to it, I suspect the others can do to. 22" 1080p monitors can be had for around £70 on top of that, perhaps.

At last: proof that we on EduGeek are the keepers of all knowledge and wisdom and we should scrap this democracy lark and save everyone all that time and effort by just coming to us for a decision instead. As in our poll above, the robin won: Robin tops poll to find UK's 'national bird' - BBC News