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I think gross misconduct is far tighter than that. As far as I know it is more along the lines of gross criminal negligence, physical assault, outright fraud, ie criminal behaviour rather than bad behaviour. I'm sure you're right - I was just trying to think of examples. Breach of NDA can definitel...

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Maybe I'm deluded, but I'm pretty sure that companies in the UK couldn't pull this kind of stunt. Over here, as far as I know, summary dismissal (i.e. firing) can only happen if you've committed gross misconduct - leaking confidential information, persistently coming in late, sabotage or something. ...

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I don't know about that exact behaviour, but a very similar trick that I use a lot is reverse history search. At the bash prompt, hit Ctrl-R, then type 'man'. As you type, bash will search backwards through your command history for what you have typed, displaying its current match on the command lin...

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Only thing I can see persuading me to run Vista would be a game I really want to play being significantly prettier under DX10 (I am a sucker for nice graphics), or worse, requiring Vista. Hopefully Supreme Commander will not fall into the former category... (Though I don't know if I can bear to buy ...

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no it's not me email i just opened the same windows on my laptop with an older firefox, its either a setting or the new version. When i have 2 tabs open on the same pane, it does this rotating window thing. so I'll keep trying, how do i go back to an older firefox thanks Not clear what you mean by ...

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Wait, I just downloaded the new Firefox after reading this and I don't see any difference. What are you doing exactly? Turns out it's not Firefox he's complaining about, it's the web app he uses for email. Either the web app has had a new feature added, or it had it all along but was suppressing th...

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Ah k. What was the last version of Firefox you had - 1.0.x, 1.5.x or 2.0.x? If you went from 2.0.x to 2.0.y (y > x) I'd be surprised if that changed anything; otherwise maybe there's a new capability in 2.0 that the web app is taking advantage of that wasn't there in 1.5. Are you sure the AJAX app i...

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I'm curious as to what you mean by "the new Mozilla", since pedantically there is no longer any software called "Mozilla". Are you referring to the recently-released version 1.1 of the Seamonkey Suite? I didn't know that the mail app in that had tabs, or that they'd added any kind of graphical bling...

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I'm posher on the phone because it's hard to understand someone on the other end if they're talking through their nose. That's an interesting point - I know a lot of people whose accent sounds distinctly different, or at least distinctly more pronounced, on the phone than face to face. I also often...

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I can stretch to agree that the "o" in horrible and hot respectively probably should sound slightly different. [snip] But... what's correct anyway.. :lol: Well, that is the whole point of the exercise... different dialects have different answers to the questions, so nothing is correct. In mine (som...

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Your Result: The Inland North I guess people that speak proper english come from the Inland North. People all of those words have different sounds, you should pronounce them a different. Please practice your elocution. Interesting... I got The Northeast, and I said they were all different, except "...

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Ryu Connor wrote:
I added a spoiler tag

New subject wrote:
Bladerunner; Is Deckard a Replicant? (Spoilers)

That reminds me of the Itchy and Scratchy post-disclaimer:

The Simpsons wrote:
The preceding program contained scenes of extreme violence and should not have been viewed by young children.

BigMadDrongo

Assuming there still exist people who haven't seen Blade Runner, isn't it a bit unkind to them to have a major plot spoiler in the thread title (and on the front page of TR)?

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thecoldanddarkone wrote:
Why don't you try fear or something demanding like that

Why do you think I want a better graphics card?

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and for the second guy, umm ya upgrade, it is a 700 dollar monitor even on sale. I've got the monitor already :P On the desktop it's gorgeous. I don't maximise windows any more and I can read PDFs at full size. I just want my games at 1920x1200 too :) (Amazingly, even with my GF6800GT, Half-Life 2 ...

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Yeesh, I can't stand to look at an LCD that's running below native res. Sure, being at the same aspect ratio means it won't distort shapes when stretching, but it'll still look like you're viewing the image through frosted glass. What I need is an AGP graphics card that will serve my monitor at 1920...

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Battle Royale is excellent. Sounds like violence simply for the sake of violence if you ask me. Which is sick and disturbing. The movie isn't coy about its violence, but it's really more about the way the characters (who are, after all, just schoolkids) deal with the situation, and the way their va...

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RABIT wrote:
DSL requires credentials to use it, (you have to log-in when you use it) among other annoyances.

Surely logging in is your router's job? And is done once, when the router boots up (i.e. about once per firmware upgrade or power outage)?

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EDIT: It's come to my attention that the W800 series might not be using Symbian (the W950 is touted as Sony's first SymbianOS phone). Which might have implications on the available software for the phone if true... The W800 series doesn't run Symbian. Nor is the W950 Sony Ericsson's first Symbian p...

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Cool. I haven't been following the Hyperthreading/dual core developments much recently, so I wasn't very clear on the details (though I know the basic distinctions). Thanks!

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A friend of mine is looking for a new laptop. She's found a pretty good deal from Dell and wanted me to take a look at the specs for her. I gave it the once-over and nodded approvingly when I saw it had a Core Duo. Creamy smoothness all round. Then I noticed the machine shipped with Windows XP Home....

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Resurrecting month-old thread... The Nokia E70 might be of interest. Similar features to the E61, but instead of the Blackberry form factor, it's like a normal candybar phone - except that you can flip the standard phone keypad up and there's a QWERTY keyboard on the "inside" of the flip. (That's a ...

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A collection of clips from "The String Quartet Tribute To" series (sample album title: The String Quartet Tribute To Radiohead). Clips available here . String quartet covers of popular music, from Nine Inch Nails to Jessica Simpson. Don't think it's good enough to buy, but the sample clips are quite...

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Edit : For best results on the auto-adjust, temporarily bring up a large window with lots of text in it. The auto-adjust logic typically looks for sharp edges in the image to lock onto; if you use your desktop wallpaper (which typically doesn't have a lot of sharp edges) to do the auto-adjust, it c...

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Thats awesome ! Did they bring HDR effects to the entire HL2 game ? Some sort of patch to make HL2 look just like Lost Coast? Whoa, did I miss something? I knew they released Lost Coast, a separate level with HDR effects, but are you saying they added these new effects to the "original" HL2 as well...

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Well, Lost Coast was a map specifically designed to show off HDR, so it's not surprising they used a lot of HDR effects in it... I don't think it indicates a general trend in the weather or diurnal rhythms of Valve games.

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My last post seems to have got utterly ignored, so this one will be shorter. The Dell 2405FPW is known to have unusually high brightness, whether by LCD standards or CRT standards. Since your main complaint with this monitor seems to be that it was too bright, this suggests that your problem was wit...

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This one is brilliant: SQL on Rails . (Watch the screencast! It's possibly only funny if you're a coder, and it will be funnier if you've seen the Ruby on Rails video it's a spoof of.) Rails is a short-stack framework for developing database-contained web applications according to the Model-Model-Mo...

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Interesting. I have a 2405 and haven't noticed any of the things you complain about. (Not saying you're imagining them, just that I haven't noticed them.) I can see a small variation in colour saturation between viewing angles: if I fill the screen with red, there's a minor gradient between the cent...

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The 2405FPW is lovely (and cheap if you get a good deal). No issues for gaming or otherwise, give or take a little banding problem . The colours are a bit freakishly vivid for video playback, but it's only noticeable when you have the 2405 right next to another one showing the same image, and you co...

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Core Duo on XP Home?