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That was the day they elected GWB, you fool.

It's better not to ask, LiamC. Trust me on this.

Interesting choice of lens, that, E_Dawg. Rather brave, actually, to use a prime in a P&S. I take it that is a 28mm 28mm lens, as against one of those silly "35mm equivalent" measurements? (I've doubtless read this somewhere, and forgotten already. An actual 28mm would make the most sense.) But...

Keep dreaming, old son. The idea is good (thogh you'd need to work a little on the detail) but the chances of any manufacturer doing it anytime soon are probably zero. They are all megapixel mad. Totally off the planet. The D3, however, has huge pixel sites - biggest of any camera on the market...

We have a small domestic problem just at the moment which seems to be preventing the normal routine. Nevertheless, thankyou all for your help and I'm investigating a couple of possibilities. Beyond Compare doesn't seem to do what I need, though I need to check a bit more carefully to be sure...

You'd be surprised what imaginary people ca

Right. Let's put it to the test then. Let's swap bodies. Right now.

Bahh, that's just nonsense.

So, according to you, if you and I were tpo magically swap bodies, I'd be the boring one and you'd suddenly be a fun-loving people person that everybody likes to talk to?

Are you trying to say something, Tannin? Do I detect a subtext of "humans are superior to apes" or possibly "men are better than ... " ... er ... better than whatever I am? A subtle sneer there?

You were. That's why you are so boring.

No I didn't, you did. Anyway, it's got nothing to do with age. It's just heredity. I was born a fun-loving people sort of ape that everybody loves to talk to, where you were born a grumpy old bore.

Now now. No need to bring species into it.

Nope. Nothing to do with your age and decreptitude. You're just boring.

You're boring.

Sigh. Friday afternoon. There is never anybody interesting here on Friday afternoons.

Access timez rulEz! When speaking of hard drive performance, access time is the One Thing. For did not the Great Prophet Tannin say "One thing to rule them all, one thing to find them, one thing to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them!"?

woops - double pozt

Tannin, there is a typo in your post.

Tannin's view on this, Dave, is that no-one is holding a gun to his head, so why should he? He gets cynical, recalcitrant, and very stubborn when people try to tell him what to do. Always has - since shortly after birth according to his mother (who is a nice lady and probably deserved a more...

Tannin's view on this, Dave, is that no-one is holding a gun to his head, so why should he? He gets cynical, recalcitrant, and very stubborn when people try to tell him what to do. Always has - since shortly after birth according to his mother (who is a nice lady and probably deserved a more...

Not that i give a rat's arumerbottom either way. They can put out Vista SP 17 on Tuesday and it will will still be a pile of steaming fonkey turerumstuff. Interest level zero. Why woiuld I ever want to run it?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/vista_sp1_security_products/

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/22/vista-sp1-kills-third-party

Errr .... Vista SP 1 is officially NOT out - it's been delayed. (Again.) Apparently, it breaks a number of applications, including Trend Micro 2007, Zonealarm, and some stuff from Novell. Well, it does't "break" them, according to Microsoft customers will experience some 'loss of...

Oh lordy no. I don't mind the CPUs, it's just the Intel chipsets I don't want to dirty up my nice clean workshop with. Errk - next thing you will be wanting me to hold my nose and close my eyes and use something with a SiS badge!

Wot? Use an Intel motherboard? Are you nuts?

I have a Celeron 2800 in the workshop that seems to be putting out about 1500W right now! A cruddy little Acer. We tried swapping the CPU but it doesn't make any difference, not to speak of; I think the motherboard must be putting way too much voltage through it. After a couple more CPU swaps...

Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring. A full 12 minutes since I was last here, and still nobody has posted anything! I'm so bored that I actually wrote out "the boring, boring, boring, boring, boring" in this post because it would take longer than cut and pating it and maybe someone would...

Thankyou

I believe "ignorant bloodthirsty self-destructive barbarian savages" was the usual term, Tannin, although that was probably just my mother being polite on account of my tender years.

Technically, I am a monkey. But then, in the exact same technical sense, so are you. Back in the jungles of Borneo when I was little (OK, littler), my mother taught me that all apes are, in fact, monkeys, but that one should not normally mention that in polite society. Seeing as I'm amongst...

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I think that's a "no".

Did it ever occur to you, Tannin, that the other person in these non-conversations of yours might very well be just going through the socially-required motions without ever noticing that you exist? That this other person is, in their own way, just like you - oblivious to anything that doesn't...

1: guitar 2: rockclimbing (you were a serious climbing geek, according to my sources - hell, you wrote books about it!) 3: recording

But you did lots of things you wasn't any good at.

Ahh, thankyou my friend. That explains everything. Tannin, it seems, is a serial geek. (Sort of like serial monogamy only not so friendly.) Doubtless there are periods in his past that he hasn't bothered to inform me of, so the list is incomplete, but to my knowledge he has, at various times...

We all know a geek, right? Heck, most of us here probably are one. Geeks are everywhere. Geeks are born every minute of the day. Geeks (so far as I can tell) might as well have the word "geek" tattoed on their foreheads just after the midwife says "it's a boy, Mrs Jones". Except that would...

Sometimes, Dave, it's the only thing to do. If Tannin hadn't already existed when I started out here, I would have had to invent him. Although, come to think of it, if I had invented him instead of picking him up ready-made, I like to think I'd have made a better job of it. On the other...

Also because the places where grain fed beef is popuar also happen to be places where the land and climate is ill-suited to raising grazing animals. Whether you are talking Europe or the northern USA, the winters are long and hard, but the growing season is short and yet very productive (because...

I've never noticed. But then, I suppose I wouldn't, seeing my eyes are at the other end of me. Sort of difficult to .... Tannin, you are winding me up, you bugger. Of course the sun doesn't shine out of my ... er ... what you said. But apart from that, you would have to admit that I'm...

Oh? Full of what, precisely? Good cheer? Intelligent conversation? Intelectual brilliance?

mmmm?

Sometimes my own intelligence scares me.

I think we scared them all off, Tannin. Must have been that heavy intellectual stuff I wrote in the politics thread.

Hmmm .... Tony Ben? Margaret Thatcher?

Well, it would seem to stand to reason that where you have a political system which is deliberately designed to disenfranchise minorities and moderates, and see to it that only two points of view out of the entire political constelation are represented, would naturally tend to produce...

Tannin, did it ever occur to you that the crazy all-or-nothing first-past-the-post voting system they use in the States and the marked propensity that nation has for excesses of public mood and public policy may be linked?

The problem, Tannin, is that you are pushing your luck. What's with the monkey jokes?