Posts by Steve Foster

Re: What the fu..

The national minimum wage (NMW) for a 19-year old is £4.98 per hour. So doing 30-35 hours per week would indicate a minimum weekly wage of somewhere between £149.40 and £174.30.

Assuming she was working an average of 32.5 hours, and receiving £180 per week, that puts the rate at roughly £5.50ph, or about 10% higher than NMW.

Of course, if she were a little older, and entitled to the full "adult" rate of £6.08 per hour, then £180pw for 30-35 hours would indeed be below NMW.

(the NMW rates are being revised very slightly on October 1)

Re: The tip of the iceberg

Eli Lilly is a large US pharmaceutical company.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=eli+lilly

Re: Certainly the first of its kind.

But aren't the reflective targets man-made, and positioned on the moon by us? (ergo, although they're off-earth, they're not strictly speaking "off-earth" objects).

@Testy McTester

Same here; Opera makes it very easy to have the Referrer disabled on a global basis, and then if I do hit a site that needs it, I can enable it just for that site if I care enough to do so.

@Kool-Aid drinker

Apparently it might depend on which bit of rural Lincs.

I'm in urban Surrey, and can't have FTTx, but my mother, in rural Lincs, can allegedly have FTTC now (having just gone 21CN earlier this year, which doubled her broadband speed from 0.5Mb to 1Mb).

I guess I should console myself that I do at least get 8Mb ADSL2+ here, and have previously had 6Mb or so on ADSLMax (and 2Mb on ADSL1 before that).

Re: HP server SSDs...

http://www.eshopbrokers.co.uk/m4n?seid=etailer-products&viewMode=3&ecom-query=632492-B21

is a bit less ridiculous. And that's about the same price as my distie is quoting too.

@HH

The 4 hardcoded domains are for the C&C servers, not the target(s). Dear Runcie is wondering which banking institutions are targetted (presumably to consider avoiding them).

@AC

I get these as well, addressed to my company. I found a use for them - testing that my shredder is functioning correctly.

Another very helpful organisation in that regard are "TV Licensing".

Re: Maybe I'm being thick

The chart shows annual sales. The first quarter figures for 2012 (which are not in the chart) are where virtual sales have outstripped physical sales for the first time (note the nod to "it's all digital" post).

@spencer

For 13" screens, anything less than 900 vertical pixels is a T-r-U screen.

At 15", 900vp is marginal, 1050vp/1080vp is acceptable, 1200vp is good.

Re: Butterfly marks are going to play hell with those silk sheets.

I suspect from the context that they're what are referred to on CSI as "biologicals".

Re: hang on there

Indeed, that's what the article says.

Finally, a 15" laptop that might actually offer me a replacement for my Acer Ferrari 4005 (which is only about 5/6 years old now) at a reasonable price point.

Re: Funny isn't it ...

Odd, when I was rear-ended late last year, the other side paid for a hire car (comparable to boot) for the time my car was off the road. No quibbles.

Re: I hope their marketing department gets fired. Out of a cannon.

You're receiving this because it's not "posted" (no stamp/frank), and therefore not covered by the MPS. It's leafletting carried out by Royal Mail (also called "unaddressed mail").

If you want to stop this, you have to opt-out with the Royal Mail:

http://www.royalmail.com/you-home/controlling-your-mail

I have grid-based solar panels, and they've made no discernable difference to my powerline network.

Re: Connections

Conveniently available on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g&list=PL79184D14F872B80D

Re: But

Let me hold that piece of paper to my ear would you? 'Ere. This piece of paper ain't goin'

It's called Planning...

Any time I expect to be driving a significant distance in one go, I tend to look up prices at either end of my route and sometimes along it as well. Then if I find a substantial difference, I can plan to fill up where it's cheapest.

Re: Cue...

Frankly, IMHO, 1600x900 is just about acceptable at 11"-13", but at 17", it's pathetic.

One of the reasons I am still using my (now-ancient) Acer Ferrari 4005 (A64, 15" 1680x1050 matt display) is that I can't find a decent replacement (ie resolution as good or better, with a modern quad-core CPU and sensible RAM) at a sane price.

About the only laptop that actually moves the spec forward over my Ferrari would be a high-end MacBook Pro, but those are stupid money.

Re: Hate it - I have a 24" monitor not a 10" tablet!

Well, I have both. I'm downloading the preview as I write, and will be throwing that onto a VM (displayed on the big monitor), but I would also be interested in trying W8 on my 10" tablet (currently running Froyo) - only I don't see an ARM download.

Re: Re: You use verified by VISA???

The initial Cancel may have disappeared, but the sign-up process for FbV (no, that's not a typo!) requires you to "I agree..." (or something like that), so you can still escape from it without botching the purchase you're in the middle of making.

Re: Re: I miss my panasonic kx-p4400

Um, no, none of the printers in the review are uprights. Fold-out trays do not an upright make; an upright has H being the largest dimension of WxDxH (and such dimensions are usually broadly similar to that of a Mini-Tower PC).

Sections of the M1 in the midlands had this years ago, but it all seems to have gradually disappeared.

It does need to be installed the right way around (that is, as you've "drawn" it) or the effect doesn't work.