The news we were waiting for yesterday was not as exciting as one might have expected, as it wasn't really a surprise, was it? Nevertheless it has captured the imagination of many:
- Pat isn't particularly impressed, putting it mildly. Ollie is reserving judgement until we have seen what Mr Todt can come up with. Bootneck is equally not happy about the appointment, whilst Dan takes a look at the challenges that face Jean for his presidency. Don't forget there is a breakout thread full of thoughts about the appointment, and we'd like to hear views.
- We were all sad at the news that Dank was giving up his Red Bull focused blog, but fear not, he is still writing. This time the Motorsport Musings blog is taking a look at a wider range of subjects, starting with Loeb. Yay for blogging!
- Finally, a couple of Sidepodupdates. Last night, we posted the long-awaited breakdown of where some of your very kind donations have gone. It was also good to get the latest Aside with Joe show posted, after a lot of hard work and swearing at software by Mr C.
That should keep you occupied for now, but let us know if you are doing anything more exciting we need to know about. As ever, I will see you in the comments.
If anyone can tell me what Danks blogs head is a picture of, i'll be so impressed!
I am not here.
That is an Audi DTM car I think...
yey! very impressed!!
you may now sleep! ;)
London is awesome... comedy show at midnight!
Hello Nick :)
morning all
I've been sitting here staring at the voting page for the Autosport Rookie of the year. But i don't think any of them deserve it really
Morning amy
morning everyone, esp. Amy. :) just dropping by.
hey there! Afaraid I am not here... I am in piccadilly circus!
Mmmmm alchohol?
I am about to *gasp* leave the house because one fact about me and sunshine is I like to see it so I'm going to go for a big walk into the city and buy some sheets and if its nice enough I might continue on to the beach :D
that sounds positively lovely!
some me time, eh? enjoy yourself. :)
Yeah. You could maybe beat buying bed sheets for glamour though! :P
the problem is when I stayed and mum and dads they had lovely snuggly winter sheets and I've never bothered to buy some over here but now I want some too. And this is possibly the dumbest time of the year to be buying them because I won't need them until next winter now that its lovely and warm again :D
Noooo out of season is the perfect time! Don't get all reactionist and try and buy them after the first cold snap. They'll cost twice as much.
that is true, plus I am going to the new DFO so everything is pretty cheap there anyway.
Do you have habitat in australia?
not that I'm aware of.
Booooooo! I'm sure 'bed bath and table' more than makes up for it :P
that name limits them far more than their international counterpart of 'bed bath and beyond' :D
Initially I was thinking bed-bath. In a kind of sponge bath sense. I was a bit disturbed.
Right, i do need to sleep. Thanks for a good evening :) thought provoking!
Night all
night jon. hi amy, nick, journeyer and alison.
Night Jon :)
I can understand why. I'm not sure such a shop would have much of a market :D
night jon :)
Night Jon
oh yeah? thats how it is is it? i go so you turn up ;) pah :P
night jon. :)
mr c! where did you come from?
A stork delivered him from a happy fluffy cloud!
My guess is Christine fell asleep and he escaped from the home page
hey sir. just having a quite night catching up with programming spc.
am i that transparent?
:P :P :P
spot on, steven! :D
No. Not at all. Definitely not. Never
:D :D
hmmm.
I was thinking this sort of scenario.... I saw this before my film when I was at the cinema. It's adorable :D
am trying to work out why i'm so happy.
the words todt, schumacher and "in power" together should be making me very depressed, but i'm feeling remarkably chipper about life and about f1.
anyone else?
i don't feel TOO bad about the state of affairs. chipper might be stretching it a bit, but it's been a good championship in terms of results. :)
the retired german does not inspire me, but i'll give the men a chance to prove me wrong
or perhaps you've begun to realize you're a closet Todt fan? :D ehehehehe.
I am feeling quite chipper too because its the weekend and its sunny and I'm going to Spa in 10 months and even Ferrari staff being in charge of the FIA won't take that away from me :D
I thought him winning would be depressing but it just isn't. First Max is out and then FOTA is strong and the Concorde Agreement is only for a couple of years. Besides I haven't seen any official announcement of Schumacher yet and I really can't see him in that job. I think he wants to drive again
What about him? Sorry I've been asleep or working over life recently. I see Todt won but what about the other man?
me neither. i'm not looking forward to it at all. but i was expecting to feel the overwhelming desire to jump off a cliff
hey sb, btw.
Maurice Hamilton says Todt might appoint him as the first F1 commissioner.
Tbh he's much easier to ignore in a desk job. At least he's not driving.
hey
maybe because we saw this coming?
agreed on all counts.
tis v.true.
let's just hope that 2012 negotiations are a LOT less messier than this year's negotiations.
i think it just felt futile. now we have something solid to hang on to, even if it's only for a season or two
the picture of manufacturers will probably be different by then. we have yet to see too how many of the new teams will still be standing by then.
Hey everyone. I have a few minutes before I need to leave. I am going to a Microsoft 7 Launch / Halloween party tonight. I am going as Woody Allen.
My question is, will Bernie still be around. I think the man is genuinely loosing it. I think we forget that the man is 79 years old. How good is he going to be in the negotiating table when he is 82 years old?
now there's a man without a succession plan.
i think his successor got booted out of motorsport for life
Depends on CVC really. They have to sell before their loan is due and if they don't sell to Bernie they could cut him out completely
and that sounds like trouble to me. i'm not sure i prefer guys in anonymous suits over Bernie as F1 ringleader.
for the time being, yeah. it's not quite over yet though.
oh yeaaaaah, him.
There's still time.....
That the thing that makes me nervous. With the teams lacking money, CVC or a CVC-type could swoop in.
Assuming CVC agree to him taking over, which I seriously doubt.
I think they already did?
Because of the stupid way Max sold the rights it could take 90 years before the sport has control again
90 years too long, if you ask me. And that'll be Max's legacy.
Sorry, in terms of the renegotiation.
It does make a legitimate case for a breakaway threat creeping back in 2012.
But to threaten it again, it won't be as effective as last time, especially as it was much more recent.
I think they were insane not breakaway when they had the chance
I still want to know why the election was held yesterday, rather than yesterday as claimed throughout the build-up to the election. I now feel completely confused :(
I think, in their heart of hearts, they didn't really want to. Regardless, CVC intervened before they could break away.
Wha?
Mind... Blown...
:D
same here
*pop*
I always want leave on a laugh.
Good night everyone.
night sir.
i think alia meant "tomorrow", but they were always scheduled for friday weren't they?
night Dan
The election was but I have no idea about the result
Oh well. Anyhoo, off to visit our departed loved ones. It's that time of the year again. :)
See you later.
bye sir.
bye Journeyer
Bye Journeyer
Bye Journeyer
JINX
OK, who's fault is it?
Someone wasn't wishing hard enough...!
??
I never thought you could just meet up with some-one who was into S&M but apparently you can..... They're called Physiotherapists and after today, I'm sorry but they're all Ba****ds and then some.
traditionally... steven's.
hey bootneck. tough day?
I guess so.
Did you sort out the software issues?
define "sort". i shut the software and i don't have to deal with it until sunday.
but i didn't actually solve anything, no.
Hmm Thats annoying. I wonder if 10.6.2 might solve things. That's due shortly I think?
Agggghhhhhh and then a bit. does anyone know what your Sacroilliac joint is. Cos that what not right in my body at the mo. and its making my eye's water now an then I can tell ya.
Physio's for your own good though no matter how much it hurts :( It's just trying to give you as much functionality long-term as possible.
it's possible to work around the issues, i'm sure.
i just had a bit of culture shock using such flaky software. like i'd gone back 5 years or something.
Have you done specific damage to it?
Nope
Think base of the spine....
Fair enough.
Was just out looking at the new 27" iMac. It's just lucky I didn't have my credit card with me.
When the nice man drove into the back of my car, I had my right foot on the brake and took all the impact up and into my pelvis.
Oh
Ouch. Is it a fracture? What's the physio trying to achieve?
ouch and then some times infinity.
+10% +2 :)
Yeah. Body parts. Finally something I know all about.....
Anyway went to Bluewater on Tuesday to see the Jenson Button dude. Not a good idea. place was heaving with idiots who just wanted to be... well idiots.
The police and local security were something like the Keystone cops and it was a shambles really.
Mind you I still spent £75 on 2 T-shirts and a hat.
that's a shame, thought it would be more fun than that :(
did you see any of jenson?
At least all that education came in useful
night all, i'm beat.
good night
see ya sir.
Yeah, saw loads of him, heard the press bit that they've now got BBC 1st hhand and the Q&A. Got a really good spot for the driving bit he did and not a bad day at all. I'll post the photo's soon, probably tomorrow.
good man.
we've asked both lou and daniel who also caught a bit of the action on tuesday, if they'd be interested in writing about their day as guest post. if you have any free time, and are up for it, we'd love to hear more detail from your good self too.
Oh and please people have a look at my blog, I've got sod all else to do these days can you at least just have a look and comment....... on anything really. And let me know how to improve, change, etc.. Thanks guys link below.
http://naturalbornracers.blogspot.com/
I'll get something to you V soon..
blimey, you've written two posts since midnight. that's joe saward levels of productivity right there!
that is much appreciated :)
Yeah, but I'm working on gas still here, I've tried the live thingumy but it keeps going wonk, so I stick with this side of things. Oh and I dont really do all that IT stuff, I'm just winging this really.
Oh yeah and you should'nt bring the great man's name down like that. JS is an icon, in a list of people to do with F1 in my book he's no further down the list than 5th maybe 6th.
oh, i agree completely. a proper f1 hero.
i could listen to him all day (and in fact yesterday, due to technical problems, i basically did).
aren't we all ;)
am gonna go to sleep, don't be a stranger sir.
I'd absolutely love to sit down with a few bottles of red and just muse, would'nt care how long it took.
I won't be and remember I have to photo's......!!!
Meeeee?
Epic walk was not as epic as i hoped because my shoes started rubbing so i am going home. Tempted to change footwear and head out again though, its such a nice day.
take pics!
I didnt have my camera and now that i am almost home i think i shall sit in the courtyard and read. Or transcribe if the sun isnt on my screen.
Morning,
Did you buy some sheets?
I did, they are very child like (ie they have stars on them) but they were $20 down from $45 :D
So I've offered to fix my mother-in-law's computer which is older than time itself. I offered to bring round my portable hard drive to back up the data.
Now, she's not too tech-savvy, but she can use the net and she buys stuff online. She suddenly decided this morning that she wants to buy her own disk.
She just called me up and asked if a 1.5TB drive was big enough to back up the data - I almost fell off my chair, because that's at least 6 times larger than her hard disk in the computer :D
Kinda like taking a lorry down to the supermarket to buy your weekly groceries, isn't it? :D
:D
:D
did you find out what kimi said to kovi yet?
I did :D
Goooooooood Morning!!
gosh no one has been here for hours and now you're all arriving at once!
norbert says "no": http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79720
not sure if that comment is aimed at kimi or button though?
quiet morning in spc-land?
i caught up with overnight comments in less than 60 seconds... did we upset everyone?
Hello everyone. :)
I was actually surprised - I thought SPC went down or something. Guess not, then...
Morning everyone :)
I've been having fun with my router.
america?
What did you do?
to me it looks like he's saying "we'd like kimi but we're not going to pay a stupid amount of money for him like he wants us too. oh and look, that button fella looks pretty good!"
vietnam?
uh-oh. have you bought a third one?
:D
very quiet. After I posted my comment at 4.55am SPC time I got home and read for a few hours, had my dinner, then I slept for a few hours and then I came back and there was still no new comments.
I'd say it's about Jenson
i was going for USA, but same difference
Yup.
(but I have unplugged the other two)
Bernie: 'Arrogant' Brawn
Hmmm. What's Bernie trying to get to here? For an unlikely rumor, everyone seems to be riding on it.
dunno. i got quite mad at apple.
I am often the first one in Europe to comment on the weekends, but I haven't had any internet.
Agreed.
thank the lord :)
what did you buy?
And in sympathy I have unplugged my Airport Extreme
i think its about both, but kimi is the one with the money reputation
:D
I got a Netgear DGN2000 Wireless-N Router with Built-in ADSL2/2+ Modem
its just not good enough. I thought something terrible had happened. You must always be here at ungodly hours like 6am!
i wonder if button's manager might regret using mclaren to play hardball with brawn... given the mercedes link, i wonder how much info is being passed back and forth.
I was up at 7 and thought... Right all I'm doing is switching this one to this one. Then I realised I didn't have a copy of my ADSL password anywhere I could find. It would appear to have been tidied into oblivion ;)
Good point!
ah-ha. same as us.
i understand the "N", the rest is giberish to me ;)
Joe has something to confess. :D
Reminds me of what he said on the Aside. Right on the mark he was.
I kinda remembered... But mainly I needed N and the lack of 2+ was a huge problem for me.
On top of the rest of the big problems from before.
what is awesome, is that not only was he the first with the news, but you found it almost straight away.
i would guess his reader circulation is smaller than autosport's, but it made no difference. he was first and we all saw it.
and he plugs his book like a champion!
Crash Bandicoot has been karting
http://twitpic.com/mnjie
this might well be my favourite comment on the whole of the election coverage:
"I for one welcome our new tubby overlords."
:D
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/todt-is-fia-president/#comment-4895
do i risk installing chrome for the mac: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/10/google-chrome-for-mac-developer-preview-now-official.ars
or have i become risk adverse after yesterday?
there is nothing I like more than mixing F1 with modified Simpsons quotes :D
You Tube has suggested i watch this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VZ7KVzLfk&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-HM
oh my days, its aweful
on a slightly worrying note, if you type tubby overlords into you tube, you get the teletubbies.
i knew it!
big hug!
aaaaah ;)
on this evidence, it is clear Lou must be a teletubby.
:D
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Best+Comment+of+the+Year
;)
I think not. I don't know what happened yesterday, but it's not even Beta yet!
Just buy a 27 inch iMac.
Do you have ADSL 2+?
What speeds do you see? I've recently upgraded with a linksys (by cisco) am300 modem and time capsule, getting 8mbps down and almost 1mbps uplink
If I had the money I'd wall mount one of those bad boys!
My biggest problem is backup storage... All of Apples storage solutions only seem to go up to 1Tb. My main desktop's local hard disk is currently using 974Gb... Which makes having Apple solve backup for me a bit of an issue :(
HOW!?!? Thats alot of disk space usage
I have quite a lot of music and video, but a large part of the problem is Katherine's RAW format photographs.
Sorry 2Tb is what I meant for Time capsule not 1. But if I added up the disk space used on my machines it would easily top that out not to mention keeping time stamped versions.
Just one? I told Zoe not 5 minutes ago that we should have two, side by side, and then we can watch seperate things, or the same thing and split it between the two :P
The photos aren't as bad as they could be...
I have 183Gb of Music and iTunes Video
180Gb of video recorded and edited by me
52Gb of Pictures
61Gb of other stuff in Documents which probably contains some more home video and stuff
Well that comes to 476Gb
So... good question... How... I will get back to you shortly.
Hello all. How is Saturday?
Good thanks... Today has been a rarity... Mr C before Mrs C.
almost over, sadly
You don't conform to the marketing on apple.com. It says 2TB is more than enough for anyone!
Hook up another 2TB hard disk to the USB port?
Busy busy :)
As Amy said, it's almost over. But it's my Friday night so I am excellent. All KFC'd up. I'm trying to cut back, but they keep putting discount vouchers in my letterbox.
Awww. I hope you made the most of it :)
I am suddenly so mad that no one ever delivers junk mail to my letterbox.
Well I guess it's better to be busy than bored... I am sitting in a mess of cables. Which makes it somewhat like most Saturdays I guess :)
I bought sheets and did a lot of reading and had a super good nap. Saturday ruled. I hope Sunday is good too :D
I forget who said it but "Happiness is being too busy to be sad."
Nice quote, and true.
Reading on your Kindle?
Good afternoon everyone :) how are you all?
I am going to do some writing this afternoon I think. And I need to work on the CMS for Katherine. And I need to go to the supermarket. Guess I won't be sad!
oh yes. I went overboard downloading samples and now I have a very long list of books I want to buy.
Afternoon lou! Am ok ta! Yourself?
Hi Lou! I'm good. How are things with you?
Excellent!!
I'm good thanks, still tired after my art trip but I've had a lovely relaxing morning catching up with some iplayer things and am now all ready to start sorting through photos! :)
I have discovered that I have a 175Gb Temp folder!
oh
woah!! thats not very temporary!!
Pesky little temp folders. Or in your case pesky enormous temp folder.
I decided to take some an Aside with Joe transcript and test out the 'experimental' pdf conversion support on the Kindle. It does not like spaces.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/aside1-jpg
And it likes to put the logo in the middle of the page.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/aside2-jpg
it's just dawned on me that your temp folder is bigger than my entire hard drive
I've just run Disk Cleanup. It has done a scan... Across all Temp Folders - 406Gb!
oh my.
What causes this? Auto save? Can I use this against Windows users or is it a good thing?
I was just wondering how you Mac fans would try and find a positive in it :D
It means Vista is madness!
:cry:
:mad:
you've got me running mine now, I am intrigued.
Like shooting fish in a barrel :P
I had 8mb of temporary files. Not quite the same amount as Alex :D
268KB; how boring :(
must.try.harder? :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/diskcleanup-jpg
i got 3 GB
wow! I would also like to take this opportunity to complain about disk defrag in Vista, I used to love watching those little boxes change colour in previous Windows versions and they took that away from me :(
3 GB on one side of my partition, 7MB on the other....
I wonder if its rendering of video files?
oh my goodness!!
click the 'view files' button?
already deleted now.
or do they all have temp file type names that are indeciferable?
defrag now...
Hey all. Near disaster and riot at Greggs as the sausage rolls ran out.
Thankfully, I had the patience to wait 5 minutes.
or indecipherable even?
the OS doesn't auto defrag files over 20 MB automatically? Hmmm.
Stupid local KFC have the worst customer service ever. The woman before us was whinging about having to wait for her meals despite her group buying more chicken than I've eaten in my entire life!
http://mozy.com/blog/misc/physical-storage-vs-digital-storage/
#mfc
it does but I've just deleted half of the data on the disk, so it will need to move the data closer to the spindle.
Wow the signal strength from this netgear is a lot lower than the airport extreme. But at least the netgear works!
i've just recieved a really late (as in time of the day) piece of post from the school. They want to nominate me for the people to people leadership summit in the USA in 2010... i've been on the website and i still can't figure out exactly what it is all about. Anyone ever heard of it before? or got any ideas?...
ooooh, sounds interesting. US trip sounds excellent too. :D
never heard of it before, though. can you share the URL with us?
www.peopletopeople.com
Afternoon all. Making more progress in the world of Forza 3. Have started my first paintjob on the Fiesta and moved into the Clio V6 in Season Play.
looks like one of those global exchange student-type programs. i wonder if anyone else here has heard of it, though.
Here's the original:
http://www.automobilesreview.com/gallery/ford-fiesta-rallycross/ford-fiesta-rallycross-01.html
And here's mine so far:
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1197/rcfiestawip1.jpg
Snazzy, I likes it.
yeah.. i'm not sure what to make of it. tis why i asked if anyone knew anything about it :) i'll ring the school on monday and ask for some more info i think.
Pretty accurate too.
you're very lucky to get such an opportunity. take advantage of it. ;)
it's only 2.4 GHz, not 5!
Boo to 'marketing department' spec 802.11N
I want to extend my network using the extreme for Wifi but that's what got me into the mess in the first place.
Boo to Apple's technical department for not including ADSL in their router :(
We are at the barbers for Mr C to get a haircut. The floor is black and white squares like a giant chess board.
You must be one of those people that doesn't use cable or satellite for your internet (like me!)
I love their chairs
Okay my move. Mr C to Barbers Chair 1
Is your Airport Extreme broken?
And most of the UK population.
Barber to Barbers Chair 1, checkmate.
Mr C discovers he has left his wallet in his other pants and has to sweep up hair and fetch cups of tea for an hour to pay?
Not so fast Mr Startled Bunny! Christine is in the same row as the barbers chair you can't move the barber in to that line without putting yourself into check
Hehehe. That's exactly what happened.
Have only been in a barbers once before. There seems to be a distinct lack of hair cutting equipment.
No. Just something to do with the configuration seemed to mean that it often wouldn't give DHCP addresses out correctly. Also because of having the airport between the router and the device it seemed to mean that the router would often give out devices in a haphazard manner. Basically the router would give my laptop an ip address. Then I would close the lid of my laptop. My iphone would connect and would be given the same ip the laptop just had. Then I would open the lid of the laptop and it would say, "ip conflict I was using that ip address".
Basically the Airport Extreme was telling my router that it was using all of these ip addresses, and there didn't seem to be a way of saying to the Extreme "first try and give that device back the last ip address it last used that isn't being used". This is how they normally work.
I'm not impressed with having two devices either. It would be nice if we made different versions of everything.
some Timo news for R.G.
Timo got a special award from the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed for the fastest time of the whole weekend..
no idea why this has just popped up on the website now, but i thought he'd be interested ;)
link
I'm guessing Mrs C would come to the rescue, as always. (as in pay, not as in sweep up etc.) :)
ehehe, gooooo Timo!
what was he driving?
Something to do with DHCP lease times?
Restore the firmware from scratch?
Have you already had these discussions/suggestions?
looks like it was the toyota..
I know nothing about Airport Extreme, but I'm guessing it's a router.
Do they make ADSL standalone modems?
I've never seen 2 routers working together. *mind blown*
If that is the case, then perhaps you need to configure the ADSL router to assign an IP address to the A.E., then set the A.E. to give out IP Addresses to devices from a completely different range,
Does that make sense?
Have I just lost the point?
Sometimes it is easiest just to make the modem router turn into just a modem and let the airport do all the routing
That is what I was thinking, but is it possible to do that with a router?
afternoon all.
it depends what you are calling a router. Most 'modems' are actually modems and routers in one box. You can turn off the NAT and DHCP and they become just modems. then you can use another box that is just a router and it connects and disconnects the PPP connection on the modem.
afternoon Chris
Yeah that may be the option and it does seem more likely with my new bit of kit that I should be able to do that. I had got annoyed enough with what was going on that I just needed to unplug everything and start again.
hi sidepodpeople
hi Guille
Hola all
hi Joe
I need to do the same. I bought my Linksys modem ($70 - equivalent to 35 pounds!) last week while having physical phone line issues and haven't set everything up properly yet.
I want to sort out the Back to My Mac service which will let me wake machines from sleep over the internet without having to get a fixed IP address
In the latest issue of F1 mag Martin Whitmarsh is asked which of the various drivers he would choose in combination and the choice he is given is Senna, Prost, Hakkinen, Raikkonen, Alonso and Hamilton ....
He says Prost/Senna wasn't a good combo and neither was Alfonso/Hamilton... and he picks Kimi and Mika....
Suddenly I really, really like Mr Whitmarsh.....
Good Morning everyone, I have super hangover... everything hurts...
I may also have broken a finger at somepoint, worryingly I have no idea how...
hi nick
that's really worrying (not the finger, the don't remember thing... ;-) )
Thats odd, every time i saw him go up he was doing huge burnouts the whole way up, and i didnt think they timed modern f1 cars?
He should have won 2nd price for his burnouts and donuts though, they were brilliant!
I think she meant his rallying.
the link tells you all i know :) i'm as confused as everyone :)
Yes, itisnt bending properly, i dont remember doing anything to it, im hoping i sprained it in my sleep, or something inoculous
He wasnt as quick as Loeb, he was knocking 2 secs of the stage time every run!
hi Nick, that seems most probable
amy will love this :D
He got the award for 'Most Thrilling Driver'
Thats probably fair.
the nascar guy who literaly left a pile of burning (on fire) rubber on sunday was up there too.
Looks like jake is presenting the FAILball on bbc 2 this afternoon.
I wonder if ted will provide updates on the diving strategies being employed?
EJ to drag a primadonna off the bench to have a live chat?
Martin brundle to delay kickoff to do a field-walk?
Soooo, not a football fan then?
I was until about april last year.
I will happily watch it with some mates down the pub, but i cant follow it anymore, i cant really care about any of the players, and i definatly wont give them any of my money
I am also riled by 'hardcore fans'.
this year even.
I was watching a match and decided there was no point avidlly following a bunch of millionaires do nothing for 80 mins, then the games outcome being decided by who could fall over most convincingly and win a penalty.
Not really looked back since then
#mfc Mozilla introduce Raindrop. (not availble for download yet ;))
http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/2009/10/22/introducing-raindrop/
Right now, can see what you mean.
And the fact there are no likeable players under the age of 25. They haveall known they were going to be very rich footballers from the age of 13
And the fact there are some players who just hack other players for the only reason to injure them. And half the times the ref is blind.
Can you tell my team lost?
Perhaps they have jake presenting because its flav and bernies team playing...
Isn't your team the Tottingenham Hotspurs?
Have they won the World Cup of Football yet?
;)
The new me. scott in italy has left the country.
saw obama yesterday - not a bad day one in the country
hehe loving the new name!
Ingenius, brilliant.
But wouldn't it be better to put Boston Red Scotts?
:D
i wAs thinking it but there is only one me! in the verizon store thinking about setting up the new life....
I asume there is only one of him though, unless they cloned him as part of his visa requirements?
Ask them what Droid Does!
pity they're not in the playoff this season. not liking this keybopard either. HP mini 1151 NR for the record..
are you referring to the ad?
i was thinkiong that but trying to avoid attention for now. i htink my work has some deals with certain places so given i start monday, then we can figure all the specific stuff out
Yes, they have a new phone coming out called the droid.
its made by motorola and runs android
heading off now. see you all once i have a net life again.
I knew about the phone, I was on about this ad. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T4i3TOd1Bg
I really dont think Linux is for me, it just seems to be a reall struggle to do anything, and it keeps telling me i have kernal problems. I want a computer not a popcorn machine.
I guess that puts it down to a chocie between the overpriced windows 7 or the £500 mac mini. the only down side to that is the insanely priced apple peripherals.
either way i need to make some money!
what sort of kernel problems? Have you updated recently?
i havent toched it!
Also whenever i turn on my screen i get moving horizontal lines going up for 5-10 mins. It wont let me change the refresh rate for some reson as it doesnt like my graphics card.
you should run an update: system > admin > update manager (click check and then update). This should solve kernel issues since you get a new one (if you hadn't updated since installing)
:( Don't know how to help with that. Is it the same when you turn off the visual effects?
I still want to know why the election was held yesterday, rather than yesterday as claimed throughout the build-up to the election. {Comment #76}
It would appear that I was even more confused than I thought. I meant to type "yesterday, rather than today..."
It is entirely possible that the FIA did a typo of its own because with hindsight it would take an act of spectacular stupidity to organise an election concerning a bunch of 9-5 Monday-Friday bureaucrats on a Saturday. I could have sworn, however, that they'd been saying all along that the election would be on October 24, which means the election was done 24 hours earlier than indicated (and could explain the higher-than-usual non-voting rate).
yeah, it might be my screen, imnot sure, it seems to be ok after its been running a while
ah thanks, 378 updates!!!
and make sure that kernel updates are included. they're not always included by defect. what linux distribution is it?
sounds nice. will it work with doohickey? ;-)
9.1
what are the kernal updates usualy called?
Love the name
linux header and a number or sth similar (they are included in your normal updates)
that's the version. the name of the distribution should be something like ubuntu, fedora, gentoo, etc.
btw, in what machine are you running it? is a desktop or a notebook?
In the latest issue of F1 mag Martin Whitmarsh is asked which of the various drivers he would choose in combination... {Comment #292}
Is this F1 Racing? Because my copy hasn't turned up yet (though New Internationalist and CILIP Magazine both made it before the strike kicked in - I suspect the NI might have posted its issues early on purpose fr strike avoidance reasons)...
Its a desktop running ubuntu.
I am sure for some people linux is great, but i have found so many little things i cant do because they are not linux compatible.
Online advice is also very hard to follow because it is all written expecting a certain amount of knowledge in the reader. It seems to take a lot of effort to get simple things done which i amused to only being one or 2 clicks in windows.
I dont think it could be called an OS for everyone, from my experience over the last week, you do need quite an advanced knowledge in computing
I will stick with it for now, but might have to seek out a replacement when i come back from dubai
it depends on what do you want to do. it's true that certain things work only on windows (games....) but most of the things work in any OS (sometimes it requires to find a proper replacement, like using openoffice instead of MS office)
yeah, 'simple' is OS dependent ;-)
there is online advice for every level, but sometimes it's hard to find it. the good thing is that you can just ask in some beginner forum and somebody will try to lead you all the way (ubuntu has a nice one)
you may want to wait 5 days for the 9.10 version. the jumps from one to the next (in terms of user-friendliness and stability/compatibility) are usually very big. if you can format the computer and start with a fresh installation, I would recommend that (maybe the first didn't go well). if not, a normal update should work unless the installation you have now is seriously broken.
Very true. There is an odd thing that happens more and more now which is that simple is dependent on how deep you got into the last OS you had.
So if you never used a computer before and were given a mac I think you may well find it easier to learn it than if you had been a windows user for 10 years. It's just not where I expected it to be is a thing I hear a lot.
The problem is not playing games, and i have no problem using replacements such as open office.
However my web experience is somewhat restricted on Linux, spotify for example only works intemitently, i am yet to get it to play more than 3 songs in a row before it crashes.
Chrome does not work properly with flash and Java so i have to use firefox which is much less user friendly.
Also my IPtv provider is not compatible with Linux. so i have cancelled it (but i was probably going to do that anyway) Its lots of little things as well that i cant reallly put my finger on
You don't have to buy the Apple keyboard or Mouse to use with the Mac Mini, that's the whole point of it.
Good evening :)
I found using a mac much easier to get to grips with than this! Apart from the right clicking! which i am sure they just omitted to annoy windows people!
Good evening :)
Oh and here's why you shouldn't be getting Windows 7:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
Here's a secret... Right clicking works on the mac... If you use a PC mouse
I was speaking to somone about this last night and he was saying he har real problems using a pc keyboard, and that it was effectivly a neccecity?
And historically the reason that it isn't included isn't to annoy windows users. Remember the Mac mouse came first.
hehe it was in an office which had very strict rules, i am sure brining your own mouse to work would have caused uproar!
Shouldn't be - you just have to use the Ctrl/Alt/Windows keys slightly differently. Everything else is pretty much the same. Is it possible to remap the keys too.
And on the Apple mouse. You just have to switch it on in System Preferences.
Even on MacBreak Weekly a very Mac centric show all of the panellists said that they hated Apple's mice and preferred the Microsoft Mouse. (I don't mean a generic PC mouse, specifically Microsoft's one).
How's the Magic Mouse Andy?
Why? I would have thought that using your own mouse would be OK, it's just an input device. What would they have done if you had RSI or another issue that required you to use a specific pointing device?
In our office you aren't allowed to connect anything to any computer device that isn't owned by the firm. But the firm would buy you something for RSI etc.
For example even any USB thumb drive needs to be owned by the firm so that it can be encrypted etc.
I use an Intellimouse in preference to the MFKAM (Mouse Formerly Known As Mighty)
Magic mouse is pretty good actually, I like the complete lack of buttons on the top.
I guess you would need a form signed by 4 or 5 people, approval from It to say the device would hurt their precisous system, then an apointment for them to come to your desk and plu it in for you.
That's fair enough, but a mouse?!
I know... But I guess the policy is designed so they don't have to say, "these are okay, these aren't" etc.
Waits for first USB mouse with in built disk ;)
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080238873
Looks like Intel have the patent!
You can get mice with card reader built in
And Asus have made one... After a fashion....
http://every-tech.com/mouse-or-storage-device-asus-ms71-is-both/
That might make it a bit tricky for someone who is learning how to use the OS though?
hehe, thats neat but useless!
#MFC Eddie Izzard is projecting his twitter feed on stage before his gig starts and during the interval
http://twitter.com/eddieizzard/status/5127376899
Sigh.
Perhaps, but it would save you £28 for a keyboard. The apple keyboards are very nice though, very nice indeed.
The IT department were absoloute cretins.
we got them back though, with the old mac keyboards with the 2 usb slots in them we plugged one keyboard into another guys and used it to type into word.
When ever he stopped typing we would write "word is unable to save this file contact IT on extension X"
They were not quite as amused as we were at having to come look at it., or the guy who was made to look a bit silly
A guy I know went to visit Google and Microsoft head offices recently.
When he arrived at the Microsoft office and was waiting in the Lobby he asked the receptionist if there was Wifi. She made him sign a disclaimer which included a separate part which made you agree that you wouldn't ask anyone on reception to help if you couldn't connect.
When he went to visit Google he picked up the free open public wifi on the taxi ride on the way into the office.
Apparently at google there is an office on each floor with brand new monitors, keyboards, mice, computers etc. And you can go and get whatever you need whenever you want as long as you sign for it.
I will have a look at what i can afford when i get back from Dubai. I think a trip to the apple store is needed, and maybe the microsoft store if there is one in london :P
Missed off the end. Google believe that it is cheaper because people don't go and get things as a status symbol if they can get whatever whenever. They just get what they need.
That sounds pretty normal for both companies. We have free wi-fi in all the stores, it wouldn't be feasible to ask every single person coming in to sign anything.
What does this tell you about Microsoft's products? ;)
There aren't any Microsoft stores outside the US yet, you have to put up with PC World.
Ah i can look at the apple and Microsoft stuff at the same time then! ;)
Just make sure you come and buy in the Apple store ;)
and now greetings from the apple store....
can you ask them if i can have a discount? :P
too busy looking after my own interests right now! trying to do all the fun stuff after moving countries like phone plans, new computers... still doubt i will get a mac computer, but there will probably be an iphone by xmas.
i will catch you all later. need to go and continue setting up my life in The New World
I expect an update from dennys :P
Nobles write up of his abu dhabi laps... http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2457
That explains why so many of them have ebeen running around all the tracks!
wow. SPC is very quiet tonight...
i've just been made aware of this book did anyone else know anything about it? Jenson was meant to be releasing a book last year but never did as, i'm assuming, the end of 2008 wouldn't make the happiest of endings... i've heard no official news about this latest book though, and it seems strange for the idea of it to be out so soon. What do you think? it's amazon, so i'm assuming it's not made up....
That is a bit quick... I'd wait for more info
yeah i'm going to :) just struck me as rather odd, it's not been a week yet....
Maybe he asked Jules to write it for him as he raced away from the UK ;)
That reminds me, as Mr C was talking about it on tuesday... do you know yet why Jules is only around Jenson in the UK only this year?
really fast writer? two different endings already written? :-)
erm no sorry. i've not got a clue why she hasn't been travelling with them.
I do wonder if it had anything to do with the fact Jenson was paying for his own air travel at the beginning of the season... maybe Brawn couldn't fund the travel of all of 'team Button' I know at the start of season only Mikey (his physio), His dad and Jessica were travelling to races with him. His manager travelled to some, more in the later part of the season i think so maybe it was decided that as Nicola was Brawn's PR girl they didn't necessarily need Jules at each race? I'm assuming one reason she wasn't in Brazil and his manager was is that she was needed back in the UK for this event on tuesday.....
it's pure speculation, but that's my guess at the moment.
That's a fair shout, mr c's shout was that she is banned from travelling :P
:D
hahaha.
three surely
'Button became world champion in Brazil'
'Button was oh so unlucky not being world champion in Abu Dhabi'
'Button became world champion in Brazil before the FIA decided to be reet annoying by docking him 20 points for speeding in a pitlane, so unlucky not being world champion in Abu Dhabi'
third option is that he has it written since his year at williams, and had it hidden for the last 9 years...
technically he still isn't world champion... not until the Gala dinner... it worries me that this could happen ;)
Hey, everyone. :D
Has Joe's article on the F1 commissioner role been brought up?
Call the commissioner!
And we could have some good news on hand:
What worries me with Button right now is all the catty talk from Button's manager in the press with his contract. It probably stems out of frustration that Ross Brawn has outflanked them position-wise, but Goddard's actions don't help them any.
hey Journeyer :)
Hey Mr J
hi journeyer
our dedicated to formula one, is so obsessive it has taken us until 20:30 to finally move out of our house.
three whole weeks, because that's what the f1 calendar allows. is it the off season yet?
I think the fans should be allowed to apply to be F1 Commisioner and then be given 150 words maximum to explain why they should be commisioner
My statement of intent would be:
Because I want to give Rubens a hug and I suppose the F1 would be nice too
Button's manager, if i remember rightly has been like this in the past with the press and things... it seems to be the way he works... i don't agree with it. but i can't see Button going anywhere other than Brawn. But i certainly think someone should have a word with Goddard and tell him about those times when it's just better to keep your mouth shut :)
not for another week. ;)
that is genius!
#f1commisioner
congratulations
two weeks and you'll be able to use your time as it please you... ;-)
oh my goodness! i can see why you want the off season to come... just one more amazing race though! :) i'm looking forward to this off season more than i usually do... *crosses fingers that mr Bellanca replies in a few weeks* :D
so how are you this evening mr c? :)
Not to burst your bubble. But theres only like 5 drivers been confirmed for next season....
Nobody knows if the three teams will make it next season...
Or Toyota...
And who can forget our good friends at QADBAK
tired, but happy :)
well, at least it's not Essentially Sport running the show for Jenson anymore - that was a total disaster back then. Still a bit sad he didn't stay with the Robertsons, but in retrospect, the decisions they would've made might've not put him in a position to win a title.
...at least until i read rg's comment.
yay! (about you being happy, not being tired) :D
:D
oh yes, but planning your life to be close to the TV at a certain time on certain Sunday will be over
You thought there was bias before? Well you ain't seen nothing until you get me in charge of this. Timo Glock is automatically on pole every race. Qualifying only determins the lower, rubbbishy places. The pole grid spot is now a whole mile in front of second and Glock must be in the quickest car out there.
:D
tis alright mr c :) all that news has several months to gradually surface.. you'll hardly notice it :P it can't be as bad as Honda delaying any sort of plans you have :)
#f1commisioner
Being a commisioner is better than working in a supermarket. Although I hope I get a 10% F1 discount running F1 or there will be trouble
Because I would force drivers to overtake - I'd mandate a point for each successful overtake. :D
Another point, any driver that over takes Timo gets a 10 second stop go penalty. If you do it twice you are disqualified. That includes overtaking him when he retires.
Even if it happens on the first lap?
Oh yeah.
They should have little numbers that appear over the top of their car to indicate they have scored an extra point, like in a video game or something
Perhaps if they do it by cheating they get the Family Fortunes incorrect buzzer
gonna get into trouble for misspelling a hashtag.
#f1commissioner
say nothing!
So that no one scores any points at all. You haven't thought this one through have you?
Such a complicated word. Damn you jean, just call them the F1 Dude
Cunning plan though, you stay behind Timo for 55 laps out of a 56 lap race. Then you overtake him, get a stop go penalty, but don't take it, cross the finish line and every one ends up with a 25 second penalty.
I hope it isnt JYS, he would be good, but it could end up like ferrari used to be with the FIA. I am sure he wouldnt intend to, but his connections to his former team is a little uncomfortable.
Somone who doesnt watch the sport, has no loyalties or preconceptions could be a good idea.
Retagging, so to speak. :D
Uh huh. :P :D
F1 Commish? :D
Continuing on with the Timo theme, good news!
http://www.supersport.com/motorsport/article.aspx?Id=320804
Why would everyone have a penalty? :D
Because they overtook Timo.
That's impressive, he's reading the article he's in
Its not that quick, most sportsmen who are still competing have their books ghost-written. Jenson probably has a 20-40 minute conversation after each race, then the ghost writter can extrapolate it into a chapter. Jenson signs it at the end and his name goes on the cover...
The whole grid overtook Timo with 1 lap to go?
*is crushed that Jenson isn't able to find the time to write an entire book* :)
Im not doing a word count, but i would sack bernie, double the number of races and change the points system to cover the whole top 10. (15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1)
Evening everyone how's tricks?
In Cornwall with Amy to visit her Mum and Dad, but need some *sane time* so using the iPhone for a bit of SPC fun...
He could do if he sat down and took the time to do so at the end of his career, as it used to be done.
Still you cant blame him, everyone seems to be doing it and these quasi-biographies seem to sell quite well
evening Adie
it's been a long day... was wondering for a sec why Amy as in heikki's Amy was in Cornwall...
Amy was walking around melbourne this morning! She got to cornwall quicker than I could from london!
Not our Amy, surely? ;)
Sane time - on SPC? There's a paradox. Hehehe. :D
:D
I'm glad I wasn't the only one :D
Hello everyone!
Haha, oops. This Amy is my gf, *NOT* SPC Amy.
That's how rumors start!!
Hey Christine!! :) how are you this evening?
Hello Christine. Congrats on finishing moving house. :D
Hello! How are you Christine?
Happy to be sitting down at last :)
For a second there, I thought you and SPC Amy were together. Ahahahaha! :D
Too true!
Evening Christine, hope you two are good
:)
:D
Hey Mrs C
Have you considered calling her something else?
Not Amy?
I'm sure she'll love that
Have you unpacked or does that fun still await?
There are a lot of boxes about. Commenting > unpacking.
FakeAmy?
Adie's Amy?
Hmmm....this could be a fun game. not sure how comfy this sofa is though. Don't think I want to try...
isn't that alf?
AdieAmy? :D
Are you emplying he owns her? :P
tim?
Actually, I'll get confused between Tim and Tim if that happens. Argh I confused already!
Easy solution, Tom.
I'll throw Gertrude into the mix, I'll test it out now....
You could ask her to choose one?
There are plenty of names out there that arent taken. Such as: forest, pineapple, Dorothy
:D it's the way it should be ;) you should get a lemur... it may be able to help ;)
(yes i still want a lemur...)
Pineapple.
Brilliant.
Whos Alf?
Just wait until you need to find something!
amy.
Now thats confusing on so many levels!
hi christine
There's needs to be an iPhone/tough app that unpacks for you
tis 'er initials.
This could go well.
Amy, the people of the Internets are confused as you have the same name as thier Amy. Please choose another....Pineapple is the current winner.
Again, I lok at this sofa and think my 6 foot 3 frame may not fit that well....
Have you moved into LCLT? :D
iTough? Must be a new ego-massaging release from Apple. Sounds solid as a rock to me.
:P
In all fairness.... pineapple is a pretty awesome name
This is causing carnage, I cant tell which Amy you are talking to or about, she needs another name quick!
:D :D :D Not good enough to sleep on, then?
I'll give it a whirl. If I stuck with it long enough she may start to answer to it...
If she got annoyed, you could just offer to buy her a new sofa. That way you both win :)
Right, erm, Christine sounds good. All sorted yeah.
Oh.
*Stick. Stoopid iPhone keys!
Brilliant! Thank Pineapple for her cooperation and understanding!
Our sofa's fine...we're at her folks'
Haha. I'm now being given funny looks. I don't think I'll divulge why the name's changed. This is a good sport Pineapplebaiting
:)
The BBC really are useless, they had the bbc2 bit of quali on iplayer for just 2 days...
Awesome. :D
Whoops.
:lol:
Why is there a man dressed as a pantomime dame on have I got news for you?
Ian Hislop can't be that terrfiying
Evening all
He is Grayson Perry or something like that and he won the Turner Art prize and always dresses like that and calls himself Claire.
Ok, looks like I need to go! Thanks for the brief interlude.
See you later
He is an artist.
He isnt funny. He isnt clever, and looking at his painting, he isnt much of an artist...
And thanks for the man-woman info
Another breakout! i feel a little guilty for not taking part. I will have to write some good, well thought out comments tomorrow!
anyone staying up for the live u2/youtube thingy?
What time is it?
debatable, given the clock changes. but we think, 3:30am.
What is it?
I didnt realize Youtube did streaming?
I respect Mr Bono wants to change the world but he can't change time too
http://www.youtube.com/u2official
dabbling.
hehe. i think the government might have intervened. might he has petitioned those a lot.
Interesting, i am not sure that is something whaich increaces in value by being live rather than recorded though?
well. we could live comment it after the fact, but we tried that before and we all went out of sync.
Muse have been supporting U2 on that giant 360 crab stage thing. That is just two doses of serious live awesomeness on one awesome stage.
hehe, thats true, live things are good for live commenting!
I may be up, depends on the time the dinner with a friend ends. That my bandwidth will be enough for it is another matter (welcome back to the world of slow connections... :-( )
Lucikly the awesomeness of my favourite band has yet to be discovered so they only play in front of a hundred people or so when they come to the UK.
WIth arenas so big I am not sure i would trust that their are real people on the stage!
for one awesome price too.
i'm staying up to wait for emily to get to mine after a party... so who knows i may be up for that...
she can't be at yours tomorrow, there's no race?
Are you her excuse for staying out partying all night?
she will be at mine tomorrow too... she's gone to a party where she either the people don't like her (only about 2 people) or don't really know her, she wasn't sure about it, so i offered her the chance to come to mine instead, and it kinda grew to her coming to mine after the party while i sit at home drinking rose and editing photos... i should also add i'm in a really really bad mood following a phone call i've just had. :)
nope. i'm just the home she is going to crash at tonight, and the person she is going to spend the day with tomorrow. tbh she is doing me a huge favour as the electrics company are turning off our electricity tomorrow from 8 - 4pm... so that means no computer, no internet, no lights, no heating (except our log fire)... so she is keeping me company and sane, so i don;t have to spend the entire day with my rents :D
You alright?
all i'm going to say is that i'm not that happy with the head of sixth form (and prefects) atm. she gave me this job to paint this huge huge room and it's adjoining rooms with a friend and 'do something with it' at the beginning of half term, i've spent ages on it, and all of my free time at school, even in some cases sacrificing some of my grades to get it done, but there are only two of us. Now she is thanking another of my friends for 'all the hard work' she has put in... when in reality she has only done a few hours work.. and i'm now all annoyed because she thinks this friend is 'wonderful' and has put so much hard work and effort in, and has completely forgotten about me, and the fact i'm a)in charge of it, and b) have stayed behind multiple evenings till almost 7pm when school finishes at 3:30 to get it all done.. i have paint in my hair that wont come out and everything!
humph
but i'm alright... just annoyed.
Evenin' all.
No internet? Is that legal?
apparently so. stupid electrics company.. on a sunday too!!
Not in Finland!
#letsallmovetokathishouse
Hi pat
heya :)
Well that sucks. Poor you. :(
*shakes fist at stupid head even though im sure this is little consolation for you*
Perhaps you could talk to her about it?Nope, what you need is revenge, cold swift hard revenge. ;)At least it wasn't a race weekend
hey pat!
buy several batteries for laptop. buy 3G based modem. have pizza and coke delivered
Don't ever sacrifice your grades for anything like that. You are leaving the school in a few months time but the grades will be with you for a long time. Don't believe anyone at school who tells you anything like that is as important as your grades.
You own your life. They don't
That does sound exceedingly irritating.
Can someone explain to me what's so illegal about drafting/slipstreaming? Is it considered cheating in motor racing or something?
Go to Emily's house which presumably has electricity
Yup. Don't drop your grades for an unappreciated bit of paint.
i'm going to, but i can't atm cause she is away and it's half term. i've got to wait a whole week, and by then i'll have just given up and will just hand the job over to this friend, just cause i'll have had enough of it by then and will want the problem to go away... plus i know this friend will love taking it on, she's enthusiastic and lovely in that way :)
It's not illegal
i'm going to talk to her... i meant not take revenge lol
It isn't cheating.
Why would you ask a question like that? Slipstreaming or drafting is normal in racing and everyone does it all the time
oh boo! i was going to ask you to take a pic of the effects of pouting a tin of paint over her head :P
I have been investigating why, on Forza 3, all my laptimes are being classed as invalid. Little bit of argy bargy or off track action, OK I can understand, but even when that doesn't happen they get classed as invalid. Turns out the declassifies the laptime because of slipstreaming.
Stupid. I know it's only a game but... stupid.
Unless you want to be a painter, but your not. Sooo my comment is pointless.
Sorry world. Wasting another bit of this internet on a pointless comment. I can rectify it, Timo rules. Discuss...
well here is the thing, she doesn't even think i've been putting this room first on my agenda... so i'm just close to giving up with it. it's not worth it you're right, no one has so much as thanked me for it and it seems like a waste of time and that people would rather my friend do it anyway...
this is true. i've had 15 years at this school and i'm just finding this out :)
I know, that's why I'm confused by this situation
Its dishonerable. Its the non-gentlemanly way to overtake someone.
:D
Maybe it feels you are taking advantage of something which another car does not have?
That is just odd.
Don't you dare give up if you've done the majority of the work so far.
it's not just painting this room it's a whole refurbishment kinda thing. it's been abandoned for a few years and needed tlc... and because i'm pastoral prefect apparently that fell to me.
:D
At least you ae learning before you go to uni. When you get their you put your foot down from day 1 and make it clear you are no-one's servant.
No it's not. I know it used o be banned in triathlons but I have never heard of it being anything other than normal anywhere else.
i'm nearly up to 35 hours on this room...(i know because i'm counting my volunteering hours for my ucas things...) but it feels totally unappreciated. I can't wait until i get to do something that i want to do with my life...
I guess its to endure ll laptimes are set under the same conditions for the leaderboards.
Otherwise you would have people messing about with teams of cars to help them slipstream down all the straights
Nonsense.
How do you slipstream in a triathalon? on bikes?
And if the lecturers don't speak English properly, thus impacting your learning, complain and organise protests. If I can't convince my Zoe to do it, maybe I have a chance with Lou.
What happened to student protests? Everybody has gone soft!
can i recommend a bigger brush?
#sorrylou :(
You could wait until you get your response from the uni's you apply to then, make a big point of resigning your prefecture and pinning it on the teacher for being so unsupportive and taking advantage?
Have you read Huckleberry Finn?
Yes. Because everyone starts the bike part at different times depending how they finished the previous section they decided that to save anyon having an unfair advantage slipstreaming was not allowed so they had to either sit 10 metres or something behind the cyclist ahead or make a serious attempt to pass him. It turned out to be completely unmanageable because everyone had a different idea of 10 metres so they scrapped it
:D Or a roller?
This might seem random, but is it possible that when i type a lot quickly that linux isnt picking up all my keystrokes?
Its normally just my spelling which is bad, but now i al missing out half of some of the words?
i know he could build bloomin' good raft.
How close is it to completion? I'm just wondering if at the end of it they'll suddenly turn around and say they appreciate it..
that does sound very silly. It would make more sense to do the bikes first, run seccond and then the swim last wouldnt it?
Definitely. You behave as if you are the customer and complain about anything you are not happy with. There is an old motor racing saying that used to be applied to Mansell. The squeakiest axle gets the most grease. Moan and you will benefit.
totally agree
I have decided it is an utterly crap slipstreaming ruling in the game. It's cancelling my laptimes for cars slipstreaming me too. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
A spray gun on a rotating base. Spray everything
Some sense :P
okaaaaaay.
Blocking?
you aren't helping.. :(
this room is MASSIVE! each section needed two layers of paint, there were two different colours, 15 doors to sand, a floor to buff and make look pretty, a ceiling to paint, 15 smaller rooms to paint, decorate and make look respectable, and 3 rooms worth of books to move!!! and all this was/is being done mainly by two of us in the free periods we have and the after school time we can spare... we aren't painters or decorators we are A level students :( i even gave up a day of my birthday weekend to paint...
it's not like it's a small room.. that would be easy, i painted my own room in a day...
so you should be, that was mean :(
I think for safety you want the swimming early. You don't want 200 people developing cramp while they are swimming in the sea.
Perhaps you can only set laptimes if you are the only one on track?
Nope... even when they're not even close! You get a little warning arrow flashing next to your time to indicate that you have done something wrong. When you have done nothing wrong.
I may have meant the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the preceding book. Tom Sawyer convinces other's to paint the fence?
Good point
No you can in races. Albeit if you're all a lap apart it seems :P
Very odd.
It seems a bit unfair to leave you to do a job of this size, even Anneka Rice would struggle with that.
I can't believe you would say yes to that!! What a stingy school getting you to paint instead of hiring actual decorators.
Um... I don't mean to be rude... I think you're being taken for a ride
didn't they abolish slave labour already?
that's beyond madness, why would you agree to do that for free? aside from anything else, it's taking the job away from professionals... and you don't want to be a decorator?
is it even legal?
It's your job to get an education at school. It's the school's job to maintain the building. Putting on some paint is one thing but that is a ridiculous amount of work. You are only young once. Don't waste it on nonsense like that
wow... that's really massive...
I really understand why you're so angry. That's a work for a proper decorator, not for students that just 'lend a hand to the school'
well originally they told me they'd get loads of 6th form to help and it would be a massive thing i'd just have to oversee...but then it turned into 'i only want a few people to do it' then they didn't help me get people to help... it's a long and annoying story..
so did mr. miyagi.
I officially hate the circuit de la sarthe. It is stoopid.
Too many heart attacks from people jumping into cold water.
The only bit we need to know is that you are now going to tell them to shove it.
ooh! wax on, wax off!
If I was you I would go in on Monday and say you need to spend all your free time working towards your exams and sorting out a uni place so you don't have time to do the decorating any more.
Even if you are prepared to work on it, you should be prepared for it take a lot longer so that you can free up time for more useful things (like sleeping).
What did it do now?
it's meant to be about the sixth form 'leaving their mark on the school' so stupid.
Its too long, i cant remember the last bit!
And since this is the old version its realy hard to pay attention on the straight!
They'd then turn around and say "you can't leave it half finished".
So Lou then offers to spend one hour a week on it, max, to end when exam prep ramps up.
leave your mark by not finishing it ;)
Only 8 miles?
Ah I see. I don't remember the last bit of the old one. They drivers used to check their dials on the straight.
All they are doing is saving money by getting you to do this. Walk away from it and spend the time doin something you enjoy like e-mailing photographers.
when i get back from 1/2 term i'm going to come back all refreshed and with work up to date and to the best standard i can and i'm just going to turn round if she asks me why it wasn't done in the first 6weeks of term i'll just convey my feelings on the matter in a mature and lovely way and suggest she ask someone else to do it if it's not being done fast enough. she wont give up one of her half term days to let me come in and finish up... so what else can i do.
I swear I never typed that 'y', went very Dorset there..
Excellent. That's what I meant :)
So Lou then say I have spent x hours on it when another ten people have done the same then I will think about doing more.
If lovely doesn't work, try war.
:D
Aye!
It should work though.
Apart from Peter Dumbreck who did some astronomy
I missed this bit. The correct answer here is "neither should you".
when somebody says 'a mark' I would think in a small room, not in the whole building...
anyway, I agree with everybody in that you should do it only for the time (and at the times you're comfortable with). anything else is just wasting your last months at school.
and if i get in to trouble i'll tell them a lady on the internet told me to do it :P
Ooh, just noticed the Daily link, thanks for that and no I'm not impressed!
Blame Christine... on the internet. Fine by me :)
:D
Exactly. Don't volunteer another second of your time and just refuse politely to have anything to do with it again. There is absolutely nothing the school can do to make you and they have no hold over you.
There is a spam link on dropio
she can even say that the lady was 'Christine from Rockall' ;-)
Gone. Thanks.
the good thing about this whole thing, and being able to escape to cambridge for a few days is that i've now basically decided i'm going to through myself into photography for uni rather than doing psychology as i was thinking... i'm just going to go for my dream and see where it will lead me. I don't mind if i don't get paid much to start with or even at all as long as i'm happy and i don't have that 'what if' in my head for the rest of my life.
I think that is a good decision. The good thing about doing something like photography is that you can show people what you can do and use that to open doors. You can send photos to Darren Heath and he can assess your ability. You can't do that with psychology.
that's a very good decision! good luck with that :-)
(although based on your photography skills now you won't need any extra help from luck)
that is true.
okay enough with the moaning and complaining. and thank you all for being so lovely and nice, i love that you advice me in my times of need! :D and thank you for letting me rant. i have a much better picture of what i need to do now :)
thank you
Is that a phtography joke? :D
ahaha it wasn't meant to be... :D
#SPANEWS
Katherine has agreed to come to Spa 2010... Glad I hadn't bought a ticket.
Mr C knew the charm could work! :)
Mind = Blown
yay!!
was it the new router?
Definitely part of it :)
I completly forgot about Spa, I knew my budgeting had a big whole in it.
*puts mac mini back in the 'wishfull' thinking column.
Great news that we have another sidepodder attending though :D
Will you guys be staying in a tent then ;)
Actually it was Joe to a main part. We were watching the amazing caves in Northern Italy / Switzerland on Kevin McLoud's series. And I mentioned that the problem was that TV flattened all of the perspective of how large it was, Katherine agreed. And I mentioned that Joe had mentioned it on the podcast this week about TVs ability to flatten. I mentioned that people who see Formula 1 in real life for the first time, Joe said, talk about it for three weeks afterwards because it is so amazing. Luckily Katherine said, "if you are going to talk about it for three weeks afterwards, then I want to have been there so I can say, 'yeah I know, I was there'".
And while she's not sure about Formula 1, like literally everyone on the planet fast cars making loads of noise is exiting :)
aside from the sessions, how much will it be about f1 anyhow?
clearly it is all about good people.
Excellent!
Are you Amy or Pineapple? ;)
yay!!!!
exactly.
dancer
Right off to bed now... Only dropped in to tell you the exciting news :)
Curios
Night
did your defrag finish yet?
correct. I think I have an affinity with Whitmarsh.