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I would consider O2 as well as Be. They use the Be network but they are a bit cheaper if you are an O2 mobile customer, even if its only PAYG. you can get 16Mbit for £10 a month, no connection fee, free router, and a 50 day money back guarantee.

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touché but I still think that if they are getting double digit pay rises, bonuses et al it will have an impact on inflation.

Out of interest I got these figures on average earnings for Men for 2007 Source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/ashe1107.pdf Men 2007 Annual 10% earn less than £14,268.80 25% earn less than £18,626.40 50% earn less than £25,911.60 25% earn more than £36,748.40 10% earn more than £52,499.20

I disagree there will be a substantial amount spent on pay awards to people on higher incomes (say £60k+) I didn't say that Scotland would have had more money than England (or the UK) merely that it would (and still does) have enough income in order to support itself.

I simply mean people who hold the view that Scotland is some sort of waste of space that has cunningly attached itself to the UK in order to be feckless and sponge of billions of Treasury money (regardless of their race \ country of origin) 2/3rds of the North Sea! Look at a map! The UK (without Scotland) would have sovereign access to the southern half of the north sea, ie the bit with no oil! All the oil is between Scotland & Norway! The Continental Shelf Act 1964 and the Continental Shelf (Jurisdiction) Order 1968 defines the UK North Sea maritime area to the north of latitude 55 degrees north as being under the jurisdiction of Scots law meaning that 90% of the UK's oil resources were under Scottish jurisdiction How black gold was hijacked: North sea oil and the betrayal of Scotland - This Britain, UK - The Independent

The problem is who exercises this "restraint" not the tanker drivers or any other group who can hold the country to ransom through strike action, not the many high level managers with their sizeable salaries who are able to shop round the world for the best jobs. No the people who are asked to exercise restraint are those on low wages such as most Unison members. At a time when their outgoings are undeniably rising due to higher fuel costs, higher food costs, higher debt costs (including mortgages). These are basic needs that they will not be able to meet. They are the people who should have their pay cut for the next 3 years?

People like you just make me keener on an independent Scotland. I'm sure you would have complained before about how Ireland is drain on the UK's resources and now look at them. An Independent Scotland in the Euro and with North Sea Oil would be much better placed to ride out this storm. The UK still produces more oil than it consumes, the problem is tax not the amount of oil available to the country.

I know the point. I am just not sure that it would be reliable enough to use either internally or to span buildings and hence I would rather have cat6 & fibre used instead all things being equal. I have used some of this kit before and had to deal to network connections that mysteriously stop working.

It does work well, but I would still rather have a building wired with Cat6!

Just say no kids!

2.45%? I think you should hold out for 14% http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44755000/gif/_44755009_pet_fo_hou_466_arrows.gif RPI is 4.3%, I think 4.5% would be fair, 6% is too high

That audio setup is fine there is no need to change it. Obviously it will only do stereo but hey ho. There are 2 choices for audio out to TV/AMP either down HDMI cable or another separate cable (could be digital- optical/coaxial for 5.1, or analogue through phono as you have for stereo). (sorry i see chris has beaten me to it above) VGA can do 1080p, I use this myself with Xbox 360. It really depends on what your TV accepts. Mine will accept 1080p over VGA & DVI but not over component. It will accept 720p over all 3. A good place to ask more questions is http://www.avforums.com/

You can play HD without HDCP, only HD-DVD & Blu-Ray make use of HDCP as far as I know. Any other HD source is fine. For example I can watch BBC HD on Windows Vista & XP. I have also downloaded HD video files and these play fine on Vista. If HDCP is on and you do not have a fully compliant HDCP system you are SOL. HDMI can carry HD audio, if you use DVI to HDMI adaptor it will not carry sound as DVI does not carry audio. If you were going to use HDMI for HD audio you would need to connect the HDMI cable to your Home Cinema AMP not your TV as the TV will not be able to make best use of the audio stream (ie does not have the req amount of speakers). You can use SPDIF / optical out to an AMP to use Dolby Digital / DTS 5.1. This will not sound as good as audio from HDMI. Yes I know they dont make it very straightforward do they!?

Both VGA & DVI can handle HD resolutions. You can buy an adapter to turn DVI into HDMI (and vice versa). The picture quality should be good on both, but best on DVI/HDMI as its digital. Just think of the TV as a big monitor! Make sure you match the native resolution of the TV for the best picture.

The question of whether or not the avi files are copyrighted is irrelevant, let us assume that they are not. I have been down this route before. You can connect your PC to your tv via S-Video / SCART but this will look like s**t. (Cost=£10-20 for cables) You can use an external box as a substitute for your PC ie an old Xbox with XBMC, this will look better but again probably not as good as you would hope. (cost = £50+ for Xbox) You best bet is to get a TV that supports VGA or HDMI (DVI) input then you can hook your PC up to the TV and enjoy proper HDTV. (Cost = £200+ for new TV)

Who predicts the 1st school with no teachers? Only TA's and business managers?

Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000 - Waxy.org Independent filmmakers followed the Mozilla team from March 1998 to April 1999, as they worked to open Netscape Communicator's source code to the world, in a last-ditch effort to save the company. The result is an amazing snapshot of computer history, capturing the people that worked on it, the first internal beta test, the moment Jamie Zawinski uploaded the first builds publicly, the launch party, the all-hands meeting announcing the AOL acquisition, and so much more. It aired on PBS nationally in March 2000, the same month as the beginning of the dot-com collapse.

Thats roughly £180 a day at peak (1600KWh = 11p per KWh?)

Bah you can prove anything with Facts!

Thanks for clearing that up.

The flash point of a liquid is the temperature at which sufficient vapour is released to allow ignition. This is pretty low for petrol (-43 °C) but this obviously does not mean that spontaneous ignition will occur at that temperature. However, it does mean that at any temperature above this, a certain amount of heat applied to even a small amount of the vapour may start the conflagration. The spontaneous ignition temperature of a fuel is much higher than the flash point. For petrol it is somewhere between 200 °C and 300 °C.

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That's true, I wouldn't want to test it!