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by Steve44 9y ago
Yes, very much so. Eating a curry and saying it's "hot" can equally mean it's very spicy ( phall etc ) or it is physically too hot to eat yet. We tend to say "it's hot-hot" for physically too hot or some
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by Steve44 9y ago
One of my siblings, the best educated in our family, had what we'd generally call a good career from university until kids arrived. She then went through a couple of jobs at the schools and once our parents started getting old she mov
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by Steve44 9y ago
That stopped some time and and it's now extremely frustrating as the main article describes. I'm sure I read that putting the search in quotes is like the old + but it doesn't seem to be, rather just priority to that search.
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by Steve44 9y ago
In the 1980s when games were on cassette tape we used to go to either a recording studio or directly to the duplication plant. We'd take the computer with the mastering software and plug that into their reel to reel 'recorder&#x2
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by Steve44 9y ago
I still use my Blackberry 9900 as my main phone and for work emails. They keyboard is fantastic and given the comparatively small size of the phone nothing comes close. I'm aware I'm on the losing team though as so many family &
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by Steve44 9y ago
> It is all a matter of teaching I think there is more to it than that. I started in the early 1980s when every computer booted straight into a programming environment. The manuals which came with them described their languages with ex
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by Steve44 9y ago
I bought an Aeron chair a few years ago and although it's fantastically comfortable I feel a downside is sometimes I don't move for several hours if I get engrossed in work. Once they are set up right I've not sat in any wor
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by Steve44 9y ago
I read recently that figure was done by extrapolating the cameras visible in one section of a street in London to the UK as a whole. I've had a look and can't find that particular link. > http://www.telegraph.co.uk&
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by Steve44 9y ago
I used to cycle quite a lot around the West London parks and an used to seeing plenty of joggers. A few years ago, around the time of the London Olympics, I saw this woman running. I've never seen anyone run so fast and she just kept
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by Steve44 9y ago
I saw a TV programme about this last week, it was named after Charles Darwin’s ship - H.M.S. Beagle. A bit of interesting reading here http://www.beagle2.com/author/beagle2/
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by Steve44 9y ago
Over the years I've been to several opticians and they all measure the PD with a special looking ruler as part of the frame fitting measurements. I don't doubt that it could be measured as part of the optical prescription process
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by Steve44 9y ago
> Opticians will often refuse to disclose pupillary distance, as a way to prevent their customer from purchasing elsewhere As I understand their logic is that the PD is part of the fitting process for the glasses and not the optical pre
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by Steve44 9y ago
> McDonalds isn't ever a good choice. One big factor they have is consistency and availability. I'm UK based and probably go there 5-10 times a year usually when I have very little time and am travelling. I know exactly what
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by Steve44 9y ago
> original meaning was thick soup Interesting, I know the word from early aircraft where dope was used on the fabric skin to tighten and strengthen it. The dope used was a thick gloopy soup.
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by Steve44 9y ago
When I was contracting in IT I liked that I wasn't looking for promotion, I could just get on with doing what I was good at. I haven't got the skills to be a project manager, head of department, CTO etc. Many of the permanent st
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by Steve44 9y ago
> This bit of randomly swapping freeway colors between brown and white seems to be a common theme. It looks to me that it's to do with contrast against the surroundings. The build up areas are brown and the roads through them are w
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by Steve44 9y ago
I think that people these days are not as comfortable with being on their own as they were years ago. I grew up in the 1970s and 80s and as we weren't continually interconnected with everyone else we spent a fair amount on time on our
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by Steve44 9y ago
> That's what I actually like on the more "expensive" camera's, the ability to control everything just with single click/rotation I use Nikon and have gone from D200, D300, and now a D700 because I love the quick
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by Steve44 9y ago
Interesting looking article, thank you & I'll read that later. An example of a different shutter mechanism producing an odd effect, this picture https://www.flickr.com/photos/sorenragsdale/3192314056/
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by Steve44 9y ago
It's not camera shake creating blurry images I'm talking about, it's the cameraman 'wobbling' about so the image isn't steady. The images will still be sharp, just the camera moving about a bit.
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by Steve44 9y ago
I think a lot of the problems relate to the experience of the person behind the camera. Often you can see the choppiness when things are moving. That to me looks like they are using a high shutter speed which is inappropriate for cine work
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by Steve44 9y ago
It's a very clean and easy to read site. The navigation is logical and visible and the text is easy to read. I'm very happy that is hasn't followed the current horrendous trend of large text, infinite scrolling, and no logi
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by Steve44 9y ago
Interesting thank you. I'm still not sure I'd go for one but it's not as bad as I'd thought providing they know what they are dealing with.
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by Steve44 9y ago
If you're interested then have a read about the development of Chobham and Dorchester armour. There is very little detail out there but fascinating to see how some of the military kit is made and what it can stand up to.
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by Steve44 9y ago
> It takes me 5-15min to fall asleep at night, let alone during the day I'm very similar but have found that using Beats Brainwave Entrainment I can get a solid 15 minutes deep relaxation. Just get in a comfy chair where you won&#x
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by Steve44 9y ago
That's an unusual material for a ring, I just hope you don't get into the situation where it needs to be cut off. That would put me off using such a hard metal for rings and jewellery chains.
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by Steve44 9y ago
I saw a TV programme a year or two ago which was discussing the increase in hurricanes etc in the Gulf of Mexico area. They were saying that the storms aren't increasing due to global warming but are actually regressing back to their n
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by Steve44 9y ago
> It has nothing to do with the 24/192 values themselves, but rather the treatment given to the recording during the mastering I noticed a similar thing with TV a few years ago. Despite watching a standard def. channel on a SD TV s
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by Steve44 9y ago
I don't know if that is being done or not but would immediately question if this is just a coincidence. How many different things have been talked about over the years and how many adverts have been served. Was this just a case of a r
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by Steve44 9y ago
You're still not guaranteed that by spending $400 per hour on one person with excellent credentials you will have a better outcome than with 4 x $100. There is also a balance of risk especially on longer term projects, with the 1 x $4

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