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Does anyone have any contact info (website, email, anything) for Constant watches? Couldn't find anything using Google or Yell.com. Are they part of someone else eg. Timex?
It's the Constant who make the cheap digitals sold in Argos for <£10.
Cheers
John
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I used to have one. I think it's just a brand that Argos use for whatever cheapo watches they buy in. I've never seen them sold anywhere else.
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Could be these people
www.hkexporter.net/watchandclock/watch/constant.ht...l
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IIRC, Argos include a list of phone numbers for the customer service departments of their suppliers in the back of their catalogue.
BTW, you'll also find several of their brands are made by the same maker, so you may not end up contacting Constant Watches, but whoever the parent company is.
- Gromit
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Thanks people. Constant aren't listed in Argos's online helpline numbers, but I'll probably give Argos a ring to see if they can help. That website might be the right one, but I'll try to find something closer to home first.
John
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There are many other suppliers of the same watches if that is what you're after.
I can't help you on the specific manufacturer though.
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I have been out of the country for a while but note that in the last IHAQ there was a statement to the effect that 'expats' were entitled to receive this winter fuel payment
My sister and her husband have lived abroad for a number of years in Gibraltar and Portugal until May of this year and are both of pensionable age and receiving UK pension.
They are currently living with SWMBO and I whilst sister receives long term hospital treatment. Sister was advised a couple of months back that they were entitled to the payment.
Since then her condition has deteriorated to the point where she is fully hospitalised and not truly compus mentis.
BiL is only concerned with looking after her in hospital so I tried to follow up with Newcastle as I have power of attorney over her affairs.
Newcastle now say they are not entitled to the fuel allowance.
Does anyone know the exact rules on payment of this allowance before I take the case any further? I have asked Newcastle for chapter and verse in writing but would like to know how other expats have approached this.
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Look no further than the box in front of you H...
tinyurl.com/bsd4t
tinyurl.com/95vdr
The crux seems to be that if you left UK before 5th January 1998 then you dont qualify.
dvd
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Does anyone know of an mp3 player with an FM tuner and with a timer facility so you can record certain programmes without having to manually start the recording process? I've looked at several Sony, Iriver and Creative products but can't seem to find one. There must be some software about that records the streams from the BBC listen again website and I could then transfer the files onto an mp3 player but it seems an awful faff.
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Not quite - loads of them have an FM tuner built in from which you can record but none seem to have a timer function so you can set them to record at certain times, like a VCR.
I like Mark Radcliffe's Radio 2 show - but I don't normally stay up late enough to listen to all of it. So, if I had an MP3 player with a recording function you could set to compe on at 10:30 pm I could record the show and listen to the MP3 file at my leisure. However, at the moment I can't find one. The BBC podcast service doesn't include that particular show yet.
The ripper software looks good but presumably does the conversion in real time, so I might as well just listen to the show via the web, or I'd have to start the recording going at 10:30 and go to bed leaving the computer on or spend a day ripping a week's worth of shows.
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I like Jonathon Ross's saturday AM show but am rarely in to listen, so instead I record it on to hard disk using the BBC radio 2 channel on Freeview, and then copy it on to my laptop for the long hours I spend waiting for aeroplanes or in the air.
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I use Totalrecorder to record from the web. It has a pretty straighforward timer setting, is utterly reliable and well-supported and you get free upgrades (semmingly forever) once you've bought it.
It's at www.totalrecorder.com/
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I have shares in a PLC that's agreed to be taken over. The bidder is offering cash, with the intention of de-listing the target company. In other words, the target will be a wholly owned subsidiary of a larger company with the shares no longer traded on the stock market.
I've sent off the paperwork accepting the offer for my shares. There doesn't seem to be much option, and the offer is reasonably generous, given that there's no competing bidder.
When can I expect to be paid: when the takeover is complete or sooner than that?. Presumably, in order to complete the takeover, the bidder will already have to own a majority of the shares and will have had to pay for them.
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it should have been specified in the papers that you had. which plc ?
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it should have been specified in the papers that you had. which plc ?
I should have been less coy about which company it is. It's O2. The document runs to nearly 200 pages. I've skimmed it as thoroughly as it's sensible to do but I'll take another look.
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The document runs to nearly 200 pages
i believe you will find the info on page 25, par 16
16. Settlement
Subject to the Offer becoming or being declared unconditional in all respects (except as provided in ...
etc.etc.
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i believe you will find the info on page 25, par 16
Thanks for that. You've obviously been more thorough than I have!
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What number does one dial on a UK mobile phone to reach the emergency services ? Is it 999 or 911 or something else.
Assuming it is 999, would that still be the case if I was roaming in another country or would I have to know the emergency number for that country ?
Wasn't there something which said that all european mobile phones had to work on 911, or something similar ?
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From a UK police web site
For Police, Fire or Ambulance, dial 999
You can also dial 112 anywhere in the European Community to contact the emergency services.
I have used 999 several times from a mobile phone.
There was recent publicity that 112 also works in the UK.
e.g.
www.gloucestershire.police.uk/contact/1.html
"In an emergency dial 999 or 112"
Not all police web sites have this information.
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999 in the UK, 911 in the US, 112 across Europe for some years now.
IIRC when you are on a local GSM netwoork you simply dial the applicable local emergency number.
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Wasn't there something which said that all european mobile phones had to work on 911, or something similar ?
I've just tried 911 on my Nokia 5110 with the sim card out and it wouldn't let me call the number, only 999 or 112.
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On any European phone, the local emergency number (999 in the UK) works once the phone isn't locked.
The manual for my Nokia says that, even if the phone is locked with a PIN number, you can still make an emergency call by entering 112 and pressing send.
The call is carried by whatever network is available, irrespective of whether you are a customer, have call credit or whatever.
- Gromit
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The call is carried by whatever network is available, irrespective of whether you are a customer, have call credit or whatever.
This doesn't apply if it's a UK phone used in the UK. Mildly scandalous but true.
www.freedom-mobiles.co.uk/utmfaq.htm#6.7
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A colleague recently bought a digital video recorder with high resolution capability, believing it would enable him to make high resoultion videos eg. suitable for display on an HDTV.
However, he has now been told that the mini DV tapes the camera uses only hold recordings at the standard resolution, and that the high resolution can only be used for stills capture.
Can anyone confirm this?
Cheers
John
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Most normal record recorders ony have an Hi Res still Mpeg encoder and there is a big jump to have the whole system £2,500 and up for the JCV or Sony product. The normal camera oprical sensor resolution is not up to the job either on the high street models. Regards Peter
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A mini-DV camera with a 1MB or 1MB+ sensor is quite rare - usual maximum is around 800k - and as John M {P} states is intended to mainly boost stills capture quality.
Even then it's not a remarkable figure although the basic video side serves the intended purpose.
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(doh!) ... and Stuartli.
I'm surprised- I though 'hi res' video cameras would get you better quality videos, assuming you have an approriate display where you can tell the difference. As did my colleague, who is now annoyed that he paid an extra ~£100 for his camera over the standard res model.
I'm really surprised (not) this wasn't pointed out to him in the shop.
John
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With regards to the digital video recorder, was he sold it at retail, under the impression its capable of recording hdtv video?
A friend around a year ago brought a Sony laptop with integrated graphics. Wondered why he couldny play games. A month later, he returned it to PCWorld in good condition just saying 'I was told I could play games well and I cant'. Full refund.
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With regards to the digital video recorder, was he sold it at retail, under the impression its capable of recording hdtv video?
Good point- I'll ask. It's possible he just assumed, like I did; I doubt anyone actually told him it *would* record hdtv.
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He bought it online - product description didn't state limitations (buyer beware I suppose).
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This is a typical mini-DV camcorder spec:
tinyurl.com/7qjkd
a bit better (scroll down for spec):
tinyurl.com/agvee or tinyurl.com/83kk2
and this is one with a 5.1MP still camera facility:
tinyurl.com/bqbkh
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Please help settle an argument over central heating in our shared house. What temperature do you keep your houses at? Right now the thermometer in my room says it's 21C, and my room is several degrees colder than other rooms.
I think we have the central heating too high (the others have set the modern gas boiler to run for 14 hours a day at full blast).
I think we should be OK down to about 19C, but the others want to walk around in bare feet and t-shirts.
It surprises me just how careless they are with energy usage; lights are on all the time, and they seem to have those portable electric heaters running most of the day in their rooms.
That'll teach me to pick a house full of full of history and sociology students...
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Turning a boiler on to "full blast" will just burn more gas than is needed, as the more you turn it up the less effective the boiler will become, as it can't transfer as much of the heat at higher settings/temperatures. It used to annoy me immensely in student accomodation when people would turn the boiler up to max when the radiators got hot at a quarter that.
20C is plenty. Has the house got a room thermostat or just arbitrary markings on a dial on the boiler?
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Hi Mike,
The temperature I'm going from is a thermometer "borrowed" from the physics lab. It lives in my room most of the time.
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I realise that, but how does the heating system know the temperature? House I was in didn't have a room thermostat so heating was on all the time in accordance with the dial and timer on the front of the boiler.
If you haven't got a room thermostat and really want one, try badgering the landlord for one. Much more useful as you can just set the boiler to a sensible level and turn the thermostat up/down when you leave/come in.
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Turning a boiler on to "full blast" will just burn more gas than is needed, as the more you turn it up the less effective the boiler will become, as it can't transfer as much of the heat at higher settings/temperatures. It used to annoy me immensely in student accomodation when people would turn the boiler up to max when the radiators got hot at a quarter that. 20C is plenty. Has the house got a room thermostat or just arbitrary markings on a dial on the boiler? -------------- Mike Farrow
These are also the people who boil 2 pints of water for a cup of tea. 99% of people I know do this from the dumb to the highly intelligent.....What a waste.
vbr........m.
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I am afraid that this is quite common now. So many people have no concept of conserving energy. The problem is that the full cost of this excessive energy consumption is never realised, the true environmental impact ignored.
Our house is frequently around the 13C mark, more than adequate for young healthy people. If people are cold, why not put a woollen jersey on?
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The RF household is at 20c, hot water is at 58c. Heat is on from 06:30 to 09:30 and 15:30 to 23:00
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That'll teach me to pick a house full of full of history and sociology students...
I had the same issue last year with language students. I'm not generalising, although they really do have no concept of 'conserving energy'. I wonder if it had something to do with their parents pocketing their living costs.
Doesnt help the landlord's totally incompetent but thats another matter.
Anyway, if you feel they're being wasteful, try do something about it, reinforcing it'll save them money.
I was at Netto the other day, admittedly a lot of stuff they sell in there is crap, but there's some good bargains to be had like the 20w energy saving bulbs that give out a lovely warm white. £1 each.
Gas, electricity, water, visit www.moneysavingexpert.com for advice on best deals.
They shouldnt need portable electric heaters, they hugely hike up the bill.
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I think its pretty wasteful.
We have thermostats on most radiators, all but 1 of which are set below 2. Our room thermostat is set at about 15c.
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I'd like to know what is the cause of this......
( 8< SNIP 8< - Link removed as the page also contained adult and pornographic material, which is not the sort of thing that we want to promote on here. DD}
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is that not breaking the sound barrier?
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That's what it looks like to me too RF.
I think the plane is speeding up, and the mach cone is being made visible by moisture condensing out of the air just after the passing of the shock wave. The cone shape is most easily seen towards the last few seconds of the film, as the plane passes by.
The other place where I've seen something similar on video/telly was during the speed runs of thrust 2. The areas of the shock wave which were denser refracted the light, again, making the mach cone visible.
In the lab, techniques like Schlieren photography are used to make the shock wave visible. Obtaining beyond supersonic flow in a lab wind tunnel is not easy or cheap, because fans can't compress supersonic air.
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The plane is indeed breaking the sound barrier. In fact, it happens twice, which suggests the pilot is doing it deliberately. It's actually quite easy at low altitude.
We were actually shown this video during one of my physics lectures last year.
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Site sparked my interest - can't think why!
Found this clip, the Saab precision drivers - quite impressive.
Mods - Due to the site adult content I removed the http part so hopefully it's a cut and paste, rather than clickable link. Hope this is OK, though I'm sure you'll remove it if not!
{ 8< SNIP 8< Link removed as per same reason as above. DD}
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Sorry DD,
I should have moved the video somewhere else.
Thanks for your explanations, and with a little google I came up with this
www.wilk4.com/misc/soundbreak.htm#video
which shows clips from the video I linked to, and if anyone wants to see the video I'm sure google will find it for you.
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Definitely not motoring!
Lots of fuss about public service pensions at the moment and the fact that they will be a huge burden on future taxpayers and therefore people might have to work longer. But, surely most of these are contributary schemes to which employees (and employers) have contributed during the 40 years of their working life? (or not?) So, why must they be a HUGE burden to future taxpayers? What have past and present governments done with all the money paid into these schemes - is it really put into a pension fund or has it just been put into the "government income fund" and used for current spending? Is there such a thing as (say) Teachers' (or Police, or Civil service or NHS) Pension Fund which was invested for fure pensions payments or was the money just spent so that pensions are paid out of current income from contributors and taxpayers?
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>>is it really put into a pension fund or has it just been put into the "government income fund" and used for current spending? >>
Gordon Brown has been robbing yours and my pension funds to the tune of £5bn annually every year since 1997.
In other words he has robbed us of money we have put aside for our pension in order to cater for those who can't be bothered to undertake such simple forward planning.
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Speaking of which - I'm still at uni and haven't really considered pensions, given I'm probably going to have a 60,000 pound investment in flight training right after uni anyway...
So, say I pay full nat. insurance contributions and have a private pension when I retire. I get taxed on the income from the private pension, and get practically no support from the government.
Alternatively, I take out no private pension and retire on the standard state pension with minimal savings, having lived a full and gratuitous life. State gives me extra on top of standard pension + max fuel allowances etc.
What's stopping the current generation from doing this?
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Alternatively, I take out no private pension and retire on the standard state pension with minimal savings, having lived a full and gratuitous life. State gives me extra on top of standard pension + max fuel allowances etc. What's stopping the current generation from doing this?
You try living on approx £109 per week!
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The state sector pension funds are not contribution based in the sense that private ones are. The superannuation payments paid by todays civil servants et al basically pay for current pensioners, and so on into the future. Because they are defined benefit schemes the pension received is based only on the number of years you are a member of the scheme and your final salary.
I personally don't see why civil servants of today should still be able to retire at 60 when I will have to work til I'm 70 to make ends meet (though I will get a small civil service pension at 60, actually)
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Bear in mind that public sector workers generally earn less than their private sector equivalents and that they have less potential to earn a lot more (no bonuses for instance). Part of the attraction to these public sector jobs is the security and the pension. Take them away and the pay, or the potential pay, will have to rise and that will cost us more.
Professional grade jobs in the private sector include the potential to earn enough to retire early. And while many don't realise that potential, it's simply the market at work; they chose higher potential earnings over security and the gamble doesn't always pay off. For example my father retired at 55 from a private sector job on a decent pension. His teachers' pension didn't kick in until he was 60 so if he'd stayed in that job he would have had no choice--the pay wasn't good enough to invest in private pensions--instead he gambled and won.
(I'm a freelancer by the way--no safety net at all other than the one I provide)
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Any Pension Contributions paid by Civil Servants do not go in to a self funded pension fund (so the money can be invested and pensions to the retired paid out), they go in to the treasury general taxation pot. Any pensioners who receive civil service pensions receive money from the central taxation pot, so this has to be funded year on year. As Mr Blair has created who knows how many extra thousands Civil Servant posts since being in office all these pensions will need to be paid out of central taxation. National Insurance should be money invested in a pension fund pot (it was never meant for the Health Service as many people assume), but this now also goes in to the Central Pot, so HM Govt advisor has suggested a new pension pot (NI Mk2) which we should all be forced to contribute to.
Local Government pensions are different. Money is invested in to the local pension scheme and Local Autorities emply risk analysts, investment managers etc to invest this money in stocks and shares, the receipts from which are used to pay out pensions.
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It surprises me that despite being about the fourth richest country in the world, we can allegedly ill afford to finance a decent pension system.
Maybe priorities need to change.
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>>we can allegedly ill afford to finance a decent pension system.>>
The UK had probably the best pension scheme in Europe until 1997 when Gordon Brown's very first financial decision was to take £5bn a year out of pension funds and has done so annually to date.
What that means is that the money we have contributed to our pension funds for our retirement has, quite literally, been stolen from you and me and which is why pensions are in such a mess.
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As others have said there is no simple across the public sector answer. The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme is unfunded, participants pay 1.5% or 3% for "Widows and Orphans" but that simply goes into a general pot. Other schemes such as the teachers are funded, but presently in deficit.
On the wider question I frankly despair of informed debate when the head of the CBI appears unable to differentiate between occupational and state provision. The Turner proposal does not equate to a retirement age of 60 for the Public Sector and 67/8 for the private. A civil service clerk entitled to pension of half her £11,000 salary at 60 may well need to go on working as well.
The idea that the current situation was entirely precipitated by the big bad wolf Brown “raiding” pension funds is risible. It's easy to forget that barely 10 years ago the hue and cry was about schemes being in surplus. The government of the day set funding targets of a little over 100% of liabilities (on what now look laughable assumptions about longevity) and threatened a windfall tax on the surplus. Cue an unseemly rush to contribution holidays for employers and a perception that they were being funded in part by tax relief on the investment income of the funds. We’ve now hit the other side of the curve with a realisation that we’re all going to live for longer co-inciding with a long-term slack in stock market values and the imposition of tighter accounting standards.
It’ll look different again by 2015.
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The thing that bugs me is that Inland Revenue limits on the occupational pension you can receive seems to vary, depending on whether you work in the private sector or the public sector or whether you are an MP.
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I am sure I was not the only one on here who watched George Best's funeral this morning with great emotion.
In addition to the great tributes I was particularly touched by the choice of music, the songs sung so beautifully by Peter Corry and Brian Kennedy, the relevance of the lyrics, however I cannot remember the name of the opening song sung by Peter Corry, does any know?
Thanks.
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"Bring Him Home" - Les Miserables
Went to see it last week.
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Many thanks Pugugly, I have been humming the tune all day though could not remember where it was from.
Regards.
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I've been humming it all week as well looking for the soundtrack for SWMBO as we speak.
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I've been humming it all week as well looking for the soundtrack for SWMBO as we speak.
Got it (though on an old MC tape), just could not remember where I had heard it when Peter Corry sang it.
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I missed Peter Corry's first contribution but thought his rendering of The Long and Winding Road was both moving and exceptional.
Previously I had felt that Barbara Dickson's version was the outstanding cover.
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Watched the first bit via BBC News 24, then moved to the kitchen for a brew, turned the terrestial portable on (leaving the main telly on in the lounge) - I was surprised to find that there was almost no "lag" between the systems, normally there is a 2 second lag....any views ?
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I was surprised to find that there was almost no "lag" between the systems, normally there is a 2 second lag....any views ?
Channel 4 used to manage without the lag, or almost - if we had analogue on in the kitchen and digital in the lounge, there was an interesting reverb effect, as opposed to the annoying 2 (4?) second delay of the other channels.
I guess (correct me if I'm wrong) it's due to the digital encoding scheme being used - typically data bits are not transmitted in order to improve resistance to burst errors (interleaving). The receiver has to wait until all the bits have arrived and recombined into the correct order before they can be released. Perhaps this had been turned off.
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>>>> normally there is a 2 second lag....any views? >>>>
The reason is because, unless you have a digital TV, your set top box receives the digital transmissions and then has to convert them to analogue.
Otherwise your analogue television wouldn't be able to display pictures.
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PU's point is that he normally has lag, analogue to digital though on Sat it was less than normal, perhaps it could be the analogue to digital decoding pre transmission.
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We had lag, must be the transmitter I guess.
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Does anyone know where I can get the "awww yes" catchphrase from the insurance advert? Either in mp3 or wav format will do. I've done the usual trawl of loads of sites that google threw up but too no avail.
As sad as it seems I want to put it on my mobile to wind someone up.
The only thing left to do would be to try and capture the advert on my puter's tv card, and convert it later, but even I'm not quite that sad yet to want to try that method.
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>>Does anyone know where I can get the "awww yes" catchphrase>>
Should be here:
www.nutski.co.uk/ross/SoundPak16.pak
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Seems that passed you by.
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>>Seems that passed you by.>>
Well Dynamic Dave at least...:-)
It was on a Chris Moyles (radio DJ) website, but he appears to have switched to a new site which carries quite a number of Soundtraks of wide interest.
The blurb stated that it carried the Churchill nodding dog phrases and was dated from less than two years ago...:-(
I did try several websites specialising in ads, but with no joy, including the Channel4 offering.
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Does anyone know where I can get the "awww yes" catchphrase
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try the three churchill ads (real media format) at
www.tvwhirl.co.uk/advertsag.html
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try the three churchill ads
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and some more official ad downloads at
www.churchill.com/general/press_office/picture.htm...0
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Excellent. The tv whirl site had what I was after.
TVM.
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Good one this, been wondering for years.
Why are number pads on phones 123 456 789 *0#, and number pads on computers and calculators 789 456 123 0?
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Excellent thanks, although slightly bemused and disappointed at the answer.
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The only answer is that there is no answer.
I don't know about anybody else, but I can type at 80wpm. I can operate the numeric keypad on a computer at a similar speed. I can dial a telephone keypad at a similar speed. I never get confused between the two... until...
I have to type a telephone number into the computer - in a letter, for instance. At that point everything goes wrong.
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>>At that point everything goes wrong.>>
I'm also a touch typist - the earliest typewriters I used were literally built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...:-)
However, I've never used the numeric pad on a computer keyboard as I automatically use the main keyboard's lineup.
I'm all fingers and thumbs whenever I have attempted the numeric pad even though I know it can perform different tasks/must be used in certain circumstances...:-(
Incidentally I wonder if you find a computer keyboard too flat even with the tiny front legs extended? It's even worse with a laptop, especially those that have certain key functions such as Delete in different positions.
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Ah well I was born to a computer, so find a computer keyboard 'normal'. I've always though learning to touch type was the most useful thing I ever learned at school.
Cannot type on a laptop though. And those ones with touch-pad mouse pad things are the worst as I hit it and then the cursor is no longer where it used to be...
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Defender you were kind enough to offer advice on my AGA problem in the last Vol of IHAQ. I found a site called diyagaservice.co.uk, where you can download servicing instructions for a payment of £30 (free wick thrown in). It involves servicing the burner rather than trickery with the regulator but I followed the instructions and it's sorted - it was oil crud which had solidified in the feeder pipe and restricted the flow.
Not rocket science but £30 to know how to DIY is good value over an AGA call-out charge.
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nsar ,happy that you got a result and saved yourself a few notes as our local heating guy now takes £70 to come out and another £70 per hour so £30 including wick is excellent value
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I found a site called diyagaservice.co.uk,
did you mean www.agadiyservice.co.uk/
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Does anyone know roughly how much a black cab fare would be from Waterloo to the Barbican midweek lunchtime?
And how long it should take?
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Guess - £6 or £7, 10 to 15 mins.
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2 miles, £6.20 to £8.80, 8 to 15 minutes.
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L\'escargot.
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>>2 miles, £6.20 to £8.80>>
Makes petrol almost seem cheap....
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Thanks all.
I will be taking the kids to London for a matinee. They've done the Underground a few times, but have never been in a 'proper' taxi. I think we'll give it a go. One way ought to do it!
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Hi
Is it possible to insure your car for use throughout Europe so that you could decide to pop over to e.g. France on a whim without having to go through all the green card rigmarole or phoning the insurance company to give exact details of when you will be going and when you'll be coming back?
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Many (comprehensive)insurance policies allow some European travel without extra payment/green card etc. Seem to think that my wife's insurance allows her 15 days continental travel - have you checked your policy?
Phil
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See:
www.cobx.org/public/EPAhome.htm
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I always thought that you could just go as the spirit moved you. Phoned them to add a driver last summer for a quick business blast to Belgium, tuns out that despite having a green card printed on the certificate you still need to tell them.....
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