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by andyking 14y ago
In a similar vein: http://www.jonathancresswell.co.uk/2013/03/review-simcity/
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by andyking 14y ago
Not free, but I saw SimCity 4 for sale on Steam for a small sum of about £3.99 the other week. I nearly bought it, if only to end the requirement to have the CD in to play it!
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by andyking 14y ago
Meanwhile, Microsoft, the original f. you, f. everybody aoftware company is shipping an OS with advertising and junkware baked into it. Who else is doing that? Canonical.
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by andyking 14y ago
I thought #11 was Amazon (it looks just like the buttons on Kindle) but this could have been because I was reading my Kindle on the tram home, and it was the last example of such buttons that I saw. And I've never heard of Svbtle .
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by andyking 14y ago
I am not overly familiar with the United States, but rural life holds far more appeal to me than urban life. I don't know Odessa, Texas - but if you gave me a choice between working in Central London or (say) Taunton, Somerset, I know which
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by andyking 14y ago
I concur. The trains and trams in and out of Sheffield are very much Android territory. Not even new Android devices (Galaxy SIII, Nexus 4 etc) - they are generally devices a generation or two behind. Mind you, there is That Guy who sits
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Nokia aims for mass market with upgrade to music streaming service(guardian.co.uk)
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by andyking 14y ago
The current modus operandi of most pirate radio operators is to run as a legitimate internet radio station - remove all reference to the FM broadcast frequency from the website and promotional materials, promote yourself as "the internet's
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by andyking 14y ago
In the UK, Ofcom provide quite a good overview of spectrum allocation here: http://spectruminfo.ofcom.org.uk/ This rather psychedelic PDF is linked from the above page: http://www.roke.co.uk/resources/datasheets/uk-frequency-allo... It
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by andyking 14y ago
This isn't true - I'm in the radio industry. High-level discussions have been taking place on the future of DAB digital radio, but there are no plans to switch off FM radio. It's FUD that's been spread over the past few years. At the very m
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by andyking 14y ago
I don't suppose it's any more than a few mW - Ofcom don't seem to be interested in / able to remove the many high-power pirate radio stations, often with awful dirty signals, dotted around the UK (particularly London) so this would be a lon
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by andyking 14y ago
I got rid of my TV licence when it came up for renewal at Christmas, and just watch on-demand content via iPlayer now. (Well, that was all I did before, but I've removed the little-used TV receiver from my house now.) I can see them chargin
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by andyking 14y ago
I didn't own a car for the first nine months living here. I live opposite a railway station, and work opposite another. Why have a car? What followed was a period, after about six months of this, of abject depression. I turned up at the sta
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by andyking 14y ago
Saltaire near Bradford, Yorkshire is a world heritage site: http://www.saltairevillage.info/ It was built around a textiles mill and was designed and planned according to the wishes of the mill owner, one Titus Salt. One of his stipulatio
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by andyking 14y ago
I agree with this. I live in the UK, and work in the centre of a major city - and it's nothing other than a pain. Driving is hard. You are always starting and stopping for endless traffic lights, and when it's not the lights, you're stoppin
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by andyking 14y ago
It was also on in the UK as "Blind Date," with Cilla Black. "We're gonna have a lorra lorra laughs!"
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The BBC Radio-4-Matic - hacking radio for good(mediauk.com)
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by andyking 14y ago
There is no browser for the Lumia phones other than Internet Explorer - they don't allow alternative browsers in the WP marketplace.
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by andyking 14y ago
I only watch iPlayer on-demand, once the programmes have been uploaded.
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by andyking 14y ago
I was always under the impression that the licence was for the tuner , rather than the actual TV screen. I know that you used to have to get a colour licence if you owned a VCR, because it had a tuner capable of receiving and recording pic
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by andyking 14y ago
My Windows phone has access to Live Messenger baked-in. I never use it (I use Skype IM on the computer) but it's there, showing my status as "available," allowing me to publish a custom status message, check-in to places, and all the usual
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by andyking 14y ago
This system is fairly poor in the UK. It has an ostensibly useful feature whereby local radio stations transmit a flag to say they're currently broadcasting traffic information. This then instructs car radios to interrupt what the listener
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by andyking 14y ago
This sort of thing is relatively common in Britain. After the riots in 2011, several people were arrested and jailed, some for fairly lengthy periods (years) for posting that they were going to start rioting in various towns. Most didn't ac
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by andyking 14y ago
How will I prevent it from showing me messages that I have no intention of replying to? For instance, SMS spam, or advertising and informational messages from my network provider ("your latest bill is ready to view"). I don't reply to these
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by andyking 14y ago
In the UK, they don't do this - they send it on to the recipient, but hold the mail at the office until the recipient travels down there and pays postage plus a £1 fee.
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by andyking 14y ago
Are there any nice Linux distributions that are primarily based around KDE that I might have missed? I use Kubuntu right now, but it always feels a little like a second-class citizen compared to the mainstream Ubuntu. Does anyone have any r
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by andyking 14y ago
This isn't even a link to an article. It's a link to a category on Lifehacker, which then links through to an article, which then links through to another article at: http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-ra...
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by andyking 14y ago
Years ago, when my SO and I calculated our compatibility using OKCupid, there was a way to run a report on items that decreased compatibility. We didn't have many, but it was helpful to talk about the few things we did disagree on. I wonde
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by andyking 14y ago
Not in "my location." And they wonder why people use the Pirate Bay...
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by andyking 14y ago
$250 in the US, £249.99 from PC World in the UK. That's just over $400. Even if you take off 20% UK sales tax, that's still $320. Last time I checked, the exchange rate wasn't £1=$1!

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