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Nick Garland

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  1. I did a couple of deals with Oli in the past, he was a really sound guy also gave me some top advice back in the days. Such a loss to the community as he was always wise and helpful, shame its so near to christmas.

    Thoughts go out to his family and close friends. RIP.

  2. I think we should all run cars on methane, I mean if you drive socially the amount of methane you produce whilst farting in a week would probaboly be fine to run a car :P

    Nah petrol is a bit expensive at the moment, over the christmas period I am riding my trials bike about 3 miles to and from work just to save money on petrol, and due to our small sized car park were not allowed to park there over christmas. I think the price should come down, I dont want to be on to moan but the government wastes so much money on shit its unreal.

    Wellfare/benefits need to be cut, the UK is too generous, if people are disabled, yeah give them some support, if people are just being plain lazy then screw them (ovbiously with a few more rules here and there). If they didnt spend so much on useless tasks as well such as re-surfacing roads and "road enhancements", we had parts of our roads painted red because they had some spare cash to spend. Cut back on all this they dont need to tax as much. Also car taxing, should pay more tax the further you drive, the more your car pollutes etc, so if you drive say 50,000 miles a year with a 5l engine you should pay a hell of a lot more tax than someone who drives 5,000 miles on a 2l engine.

    So many problems with the government at the moment its unreal. Also does anyone remember a few years back when Gordon Brown had a large black hole were about £7billion dissapeared (I think) and also releasing so much money on the pensions.

    *rant over*

    I am all for the petrol strike.

  3. WinAMP supports it as standard on 5.5 onwards, but there is a plugin for winamp which has many more options such as organising your play list on a shuffle, for those of us with them. Also allows you to connect as many iPods to as many computers so long as they use WinAMP and I am pretty sure you can take music off the iPod using winamp as well.

  4. Not bad editing, however the end bit of fading the coming soon, could have done so much more with that piece of music. The music you used is fantastic but the editing was not quite there, in a lot of the "epic" areas where the music is building there was not much going on, and where you had faded the coming soon at the end could have just blated through a load of pics which would have made it better.

  5. I would prefer blu-ray to be the winner as it does hold more data and is more technologically advanced, however its just sooo expensive. £500 for a writer for the pc and the stand alone players (baring ps3) are also very expensive. However I have watched films on both Blu-ray and HD-DVD and I would say that HD-DVD is actually better quality as it does use a different codec, and the films actually come out at the same size eg 15gb, the extra space is used for extras which I personally do not have much use for so I do not see much benefit of Blu-ray over HD-DVD for films and media as such.

    Its advantage is in the computing industry where its larger layer size allows more to be backed up to discs, however with the prices of flash memory falling I dont think it will be long before we see software distributed via flash drives or similar as it has a quicker read rate than an optical disc, also with the size of hard drives available and some big companies distributing via direct downloads you dont need to store so much on optical formats, so soon its advantage in the compuing industry will be worth nothing, in my opinion.

    There are a lot of good points about both however I dont see why they cannot just agree, mainly because the two opposing teams want a monopoly so they get all the cash, however what harm has ever come from competition, games consoles for example, they only get better because of the competition, intel and amd also push each other to try and be the best. If these formats co-exist its just like choosing and intel based computer over an amd based computer or the xbox 360 over a ps3, everyone has their own reasons for it.

    Im not too fussed which wins, so long as prices drop a bit and more films come out :P

  6. Why do you people have all these contacts? Surely you dont talk to all of them, I have about 45, and I talk to all of them at least once a week, 20 of them very often. I could never manage to have over 1000 contacts.

  7. Hey, was bored in a lecture today so popped onto urban dictionary and searched my name, came up with some amusing results.

    Nick means the following.

    To sleep with any girl that comes your way, regardless of looks...cause hey, you wanna f**k, she's there, and you're drunk enough to do it.

    A common misunderstood person, that doesnt give a second thought to just about anything and acts on impulse 98% of the time.

    Slient, self-righteously cynical, and otherwise devoid of emotion with notably poor taste in music. Pretty Hopkins-based and prone to sleeping on the couch.

    Those are the 3 best, linky here, pop on, type in your name and lets see what people get, I have done a few and you get some rather amusing results, but I shall you do your own names.

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