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by andyking 13y ago
I don't think this is practical - even if the Malaysians allowed it, Johor Bahru is north of Singapore and the main population centre and business district of the island is along the south coast. Signals at such high frequencies simply woul
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The BBC unveils an experimental ‘Perceptive Radio’ - offers personalized content(thenextweb.com)
1 points by andyking 13y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 13y ago
I don't think the voting blocks are political - they're cultural. A song that gets played on the radio in Britain is likely to get a lot of airplay in Ireland, and the Irish vote will go to the familiar British artist. If someone's on Europ
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by andyking 13y ago
I forgot I even had a Tumblr account (and can't remember why in the world I signed-up for one) but I got an email from them the other day whose subject line was just "Brilliant." There was no meaningful body text, just a one-liner about "di
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by andyking 13y ago
I have a spare mobile that I bought from a popular British retailer, Carphone Warehouse, for 99p. That was a special offer, but it's still on sale for £4.99. There's no contract attached to it, and you can swap out the SIM card for any one
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by andyking 13y ago
To "catch" a woman? Stick to fishing... it's not 1973 anymore!
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by andyking 13y ago
Distrowatch only counts distros that Distrowatch users click on, rather than actual popularity. I wouldn't go on there and click Ubuntu or FreeBSD, because I know what they are and have no real need to view their Distrowatch pages. But my c
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by andyking 13y ago
This is how it is for me, too. I buy fresh vegetables, fresh meat, milk, eggs, bread at a local farm shop and pay cash. I buy other things like pizza, coffee, processed foods at a supermarket and pay with card - and also scan my loyalty car
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by andyking 13y ago
You have to hang-dry your clothes; you get used to that stuff. I do that, and I live in Britain, which I believe is a lot better-off than Hungary. I don't know anyone who doesn't!
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by andyking 13y ago
If they are getting into the habit of buying failing public-sector fibre networks, can they come and take over Digital Region South Yorkshire too? It works reasonably well, but is incredibly ineptly run, has a tiny number of users and has b
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by andyking 13y ago
Call me a prude, but I saw the F-word and hit the back button.
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by andyking 13y ago
There was a reality show along these lines a few years ago - how I remember this, goodness only knows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets_(TV_series)
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by andyking 13y ago
In Britain these days, the deposit is held by an independent agency, not the landlord or letting agent. They have to give a good reason to have money deducted - and you can then dispute this if it is spurious. I recently moved, and the land
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by andyking 13y ago
> This is why I am trying to build a non-profit news site with no adverts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
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by andyking 13y ago
I wanted to know the same, so I looked it up on Wikipedia: Formerly known as Sylpheed-Claws, it [Claws] started in April 2001 as the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged, but evolved enough to no
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by andyking 13y ago
I live in Penistone. After a few giggles when I first moved there, you just stop noticing after a while.
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by andyking 13y ago
I really enjoyed my time with my ex-partner in rural Indiana. Perhaps because it's just so different to anything we have here in Britain. Cities are largely the same wherever you go - London, Chicago, Sydney - they are all big towers, shops
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by andyking 13y ago
Comment sections on high-traffic news sites such as the BBC perplex me. I go to the BBC to read the BBC news, not people's rants. The sheer volume of comments (hundreds or even thousands) on popular articles there makes the facility next to
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Is modern life making us lonely?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by andyking 14y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 14y ago
One has to wonder what counts as a "country," and when you can say you've done them all: As for least favorite, well, I was served goat in Somaliland in a situation where it was difficult to decline. As far as I know, Somaliland is
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by andyking 14y ago
I was working as a radio presenter at the time this song was around, and I remember it getting on our playlist - I played it a few times. I remember it being trailed as a "YouTube sensation" on the little cheat sheet of artist notes that ac
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How 123-reg almost crippled my business(webdesignfromscratch.com)
1 points by andyking 14y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 14y ago
With any luck, a speedy demise. It doesn't make any sense to have in one corner, an out-of-date desktop environment in MATE, and in the other corner, Cinnamon fragmenting things yet further. I want a "traditional" DE in the GNOME 2 style, I
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by andyking 14y ago
Isn't this just because there were fewer people online back then, and those who were online were more likely to be intelligent early-adopters with reasonable manners and a good job (to be able to afford a £1,000+ computer and expensive inte
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by andyking 14y ago
I don't earn huge amounts, but I live in a really nice little cottage in a small rural village surrounded by amazing countryside, I eat well, own a car and a good computer, I have all the amenities of modern life, disposable leisure income,
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by andyking 14y ago
But.. but.. then there'd be a gap in your CV! Shock, horror.
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by andyking 14y ago
I live in a rural valley with no mobile phone reception. If people call me when I'm home, they get my voicemail. I do have an internet connection at home, but it's not fast and I rarely use it. I'm on a computer all day at work, and work
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by andyking 14y ago
I have a really common name - it was taken in all permutations of domains for years. So I jumped on it when the .eu domain names came out, and I've happily used that for a long time now. See what you can find in a more "obscure" TLD.
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by andyking 14y ago
"We won't ever spam you, but we will send you a pointless email about a minor change in our TOS or a new feature in 6-9 months' time, once you've completely forgotten who we are and that you ever signed up for us. This email will ding your
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by andyking 14y ago
I'm moving house next week and won't have a connection to the internet for a little while. I'd rather pass the time playing SimCity than watch crap TV after work for a week or so.

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