Muel

Reply, yes. Answer the question, errm no I don't think so. "Excuse me, can you direct me to the bus station?" "If you have to ask you'll never know". "Excuse me, do you think my bum looks big in this?" "If you have to ask you'll never know". At best it's a statement which implies and answer, but an answer is it actually exactly 100% what it isn't. A question requests information, and answer provides it. He's none the wiser, therefore it's not really an answer to the question. It's about as useful as: "Fancy a pint?" "I feel really pretty today." Thus, and in conclusion, bollocks. The explanation you provided afterwards, that's a partial answer. It doesn't offer any enlightenment, but it does tell the reader what they need to do to find it. (In this case, go and try it).

That bike in your avatar, that's my old Simtra. Did I sell it to you?

You've tried ringing them right?

People keep going on about how Facebook has changed this week (seen a few statuses), but mine hasn't changed at all? Wierd.

Nah text them, it's free.

I was being slightly ironic.... If you think that's geeky though, you ain't seen nothing.

Bollocks. Saying "if you have to ask you'll never know" is not a reply, it's just you saying you're not going to even try and explain it. If you'd said, "It's different, you have to try it to understand really", that would be an answer. Refusing to answer doesn't tell anyone anything.

Get gmail yo. I've been using and proud since 2006, was one of the first beta invites.

I've not said anything about these threads before, and I probably won't again, but IMO it takes the piss to ask people for votes on these things. Why should I vote for your mates t-shirt, when there are other one's in the competition that are much better?

In about 2 weeks time, I'm going to want to start freelance work again. Anyone know of anything going spare? Ideally looking for quick turn around stuff, need moneys fast.

Looks like O2 offer the cheapest deal for me. Broadband I'd be happy with and the line rental for £25 a month. Anyone with them? Ever been cobbled for downloading Top Gear?

Feck, lots to read lol. BT reckon the max my line can yield is 17mbps, with the estimated average being 13mbps. No point getting anything more than a 10mbps package then I guess? The other thing is that I can't sign a contract longer than 12 months, because I don't know how long I'll be in the flat, so Virgin is out because they only offer 18 months minimum on the packages I can afford. If I do go with BT, do I have to use their home hub thing? I've got a posh router of my own that I'd rather stick with really.

My Dad and Aunty are on TalkTalk. They're fine when it works, but if something goes wrong they're the most useless company I've ever dealt with. My Dad rang them 3 times to get them to cancel his account, in the end he just stopped the direct debit. At my Dad's on his connection with them, he get's 5.3mbps down, 0.2mbps up and 45ms ping. I could live with that but really I want more than that. I think TalkTalk are my backup though if all else fails. Anyone use ADSL24 or Xilo? They seem to get rated pretty highly on my nerdy forums.

Howdo. I need some internets, when I say need, I mean that if I get it wrong and buy shite, I can't get extra freelance Web work in, so I will carry on barely having enough money to live on, so it's fairly important. I want decent speeds (5mbps download, 0.5mbps upload. Minimum, not maximum), but more importantly it needs to be stable (none of this capping in the evenings bollocks, that's when I'll be working). I couldn't give a shit if it's "up to 50mbps" if I actually get 3mbps with a 300ms ping. Also, if I could not be shouted at for stealing telly and softwares that'd be nice. What I'm looking for is real life accounts from you lot, I.E: computer literate young men that I know and trust. EDIT: I also need phone and line rental, as it's not connected at the moment.

No internet, no telly.

Complain against him. No need to lose your job over it really, but you could get him in trouble for it.

So your 16, your parents let you go out and get pissed up, you've got into college, you've got the summer off to earn some money and ride your bike and you knocked 5 points off because you have to wash your own clothes? Prepare for a reality slap kid, before long you'll never have any time off, will be working 40+ hours a week and will have to do all the chores. It's not karma, it's life and it's incredibly easy.

Bout 9 these days. Just moved into a nice flat, got a job I really enjoy, steady lass who is amazing. Would be higher but I'm struggling a bit money wise.

Could just get a cheaper server, stick ubuntu server on it and stream everything across the network. If you then got a static IP on your internets you could set up a VPN and then you could connect to the server from outside the network. Or you could just use a USB HDD like I do and carry it with you wherever you go, and when you add new music just copy it to the desktop. If I add 5 albums, then just copy and paste the 140gb ish of music I have, then it only copies the 5 new albums so takes a couple of minutes at the most. In the past I used a 500gb LAN HDD, which worked fine but it was bloody slow. Think 4mbps write speeds. The USB HDD I have now is USB3, so I get about 80mbps write and 100mbps read.

Wipe it off with a rag soaked in petrol.

Not a comedy one either apparantly... I was just interested to see how many 16-20 year olds are out of work, as I heard something on the news about it the other day.

20 - Technically 2 jobs, freelance web design & development, and also full time web design. This poll is a bit bollocks IMO though, you could have correlated the age and work type to get far more meaningful data. (20 - full time, 18 - part time etc).

I saved the evidence for a while for bargaining rights, then realised how gay it was to have it saved, so I deleted it.