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I get more than that from my Santander 1-2-3 because as well as all the cash backs (1%, 2% or 3% depending on type*) the 1.5% interest is on balances up to £20k.
*1% on water and council tax bills, 2% on gas and electricity bills, 3% on mobile and home phone bills, broadband and paid for TV packages.
Not the slightest bit worried about it being owned by a Spanish company, or the water and electricity being owned by the French, or that a French company deliver most of my parcels (DPD was originally Deutscher Paketdienst until 2008, now owned by Geopost a subsidiary of La Poste).
What we need to be worried about are supply chain businesses where parts fly around the EU and get assembled somewhere It’s not just the tariffs but all the paperwork. Airbus are very big locally and have already said, no customs union and / or WTO, no work on new aircraft. They cannot afford the hit on increased costs in a competitive market vs Boeing. I believe the (all foreign owned) car industry is making the same noises.
My Brexit voting mate thought Airbus were a British company part owned by BAE and kept telling me that these things would never happen, the shareholders would never let manufacturing leave Britain. Now he’s actually read the plate on the gate he’s realised just what a misconception he’s been under. I don’t think he is alone. People just don’t grasp just how much of what we thought of as British isn’t and how intertwined we are with Europe.
Default passwords again.
It’s hugely powerful. Like Linux I copy and paste scripts in from elsewhere and there’s no way I have the time or inclination to learn what is a language.
I just don’t need to do the things I did when a sysadmin.
No, I’m honestly not offended by anything you’ve said. You have nothing to apologize for. I respect your view even if you are wrong ?
But you’re echoing what I’m hearing a lot from the Brexiteers who get on TV. As far as I am concerned it’s the hard liners who have hijacked the whole process and are now using any means to justify their continuing crusade even if it means beggaring the country in their experiment. Note that I don’t think that this is what you are doing.
I just find this whole “buccaneering Britain” mantra totally unrealistic in today’s world. It seems we will have an impossible struggle just to get where we were, the savings from not paying our subs will be dwarfed by the shrinkage of the economy and immigration won’t reduce because the people are needed. There have already been warnings from agriculture (personally I don’t give a sh1t for Starbucks baristas) and the NHS.
I saw some BBC figures that the number of migrants needed in West Country agriculture alone would top the 100,000 target for the whole country. The days of the good old cockneys spending their holidays hop picking are as long gone as the hops are. I was watching a River Cottage from 1997 and all the Dorset fruit pickers came from Eastern Europe back then. The locals see these jobs as well beneath them and unemployment is low any way. The Tories must know this, so why do they persist in saying it’s achievable?
I heard an amazing fact on the last leg last night. 9 out of 10 of the poorest areas in northern Europe are in the UK. Having traveled in the low countries in the last 2 years I can well believe it. I don’t see any Brexit plan that’s doing a damn thing about it. The amount of money the EU has poured into Cornwall has been amazing, but those turkeys did vote for Christmas. Mind you the Cornish see Janners from Plymouth as foreigners. My aunt is scared stiff of Muslim terrorists but I don’t think she’s ever even seen a Muslim of any description. The DPD driver is Rumanian though. Thin end of the wedge.
Yes you did and I can understand why even though I disagree with it (I think you’re blaming the wrong people). But you cannot transfer your wishes automatically to all the other leavers, in the same way that I cannot say all remainers would be happy with EFTA. My mate voted leave but he is quite happy with EU migrants (but not non EU).
There needs to be a gown up debate but the more idiotic side of the Tory party is holding sway. Maybe that should be were but the death throes are causing harm. TM asked for a mandate, she didn’t get one. That surely is democracy too? We are leaving but the direction we are leaving in has not been endorsed. I find it ironic that Redmond, Cash and Lord Snooty are claiming that Labour voters are on their side en masse too. FFS.
As I’ve said before Democracy is a farce any way when it’s first past the post. We also live in a Representative democracy, at least as far as the House of Commons is concerned. The House of Lords is another matter… That means we should not be having referendums at all. We have elected MPs to do that job for us, which is what they should have done this time. However as I’ve said, this was actually about trying to resolve the long standing Tory infighting on Europe, as was the last election, using us as the pawns in the game. Now the pawns have not done what was expected of them the White Queen is trying to hide the chess board from the Black King whilst her Bishops claim that black and white are actually on the same side even if they face different directions.
Since the result have you heard me say we shouldn’t leave? I’ll tell you know you haven’t. That was the democratic vote. You’ll have heard me regret the result, but not deny it.
It’s now about how we leave. You may view EFTA as not leaving, but by the terms of the vote it is leaving as we will not be in the EU. So a range of options meets that democratic decision so it is not simple, not simple at all.
If only the hardline Brexiteers could compromise they could have an awful lot of their cake and eat it. But no it seems they are determined to continue the divisions in the nation until their own view is met.
Yes the question was spectacularly simple. But tell me, are Norway and Switzerland members of the EU? They are not but they are members of EFTA. Leaving the EU does not necessarily mean throwing the baby out with the bath water.
And before we have anything about free movement, EU courts etc. lets remember the question was spectacularly simple and that is the problem. The vote did not ask if you wanted to end free movement or bring back UK sovereignty (which was never lost) or any of the other things that are being touted, those views are being cited as what the country voted for with no proof whatsoever. Every one of these “promises” was denied by one of the leave factions within days because they personally hadn’t made them.
Boris Johnson: UK will ‘still have access to single market’ despite Brexit 26/6/2016
Nigel Farage backtracks on Leave campaign’s ‘£350m for the NHS’ pledge hours after result 24/6/2016
Tory Brexiter Daniel Hannan: Leave campaign never promised “radical decline” in immigration 25/6/2016
What would you call a comparable non EU country?
There are none I know of that make a great deal of their wealth by processing the financial transactions of the EU, which we won’t be able to do.
There are none involved in the EU wide supply chain businesses like Airbus or the car manufacturers.
These other countries do have baggage when dealing with the EU. They are called customs paperwork, tariffs and visas.
We already have trading deals with all the major nations through the EU. How will negotiating our own as a much smaller player be better?
It’s all a fantasy world in the heads of the like of Liam Fox. FFS they can’t even negotiate a deal with the DUP. TM hasn’t worked out that she has to negotiate with the negotiator and not a bunch of people over dinner!
I was just looking at what they do at Bath.
“The University has a lecture capture service called Re:View. Content that has been recorded using this system can be viewed at the website xxx (you need to log in). Lecture capture technology allows the simultaneous recording of audio, video, powerpoint and screen capture, and allows that content to be viewed on the web, and mobile devices. Any lectures related to a Moodle course can be automatically added to the module and the presentations are restricted to the students registered to it.”
It’s quite an involved process http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/services/audiovisual/lecturecapture/ and there are copyright issues. It seems both in the copyright of something you may include (text from books?) and especially if it’s for public consumption. I guess Bath Uni themselves may have some sort of copyright over the whole thing too?
But the point is the student is the consumer of an online resource and that doesn’t need an expensive bit of kit.
I give up. Clearly my children have gone through University woefully under equipped, as have their peers.
But let’s go back to the last line of the original post “budget will be tight as ever”. A Microsoft Surface Pro 4 – 1TB / Intel Core i7 for £1869 http://tinyurl.com/y8ywl4k9 just isn’t going to happen.
Here’s a list of laptops under £300 at saveonlaptops http://tinyurl.com/ydypssck
How will they be recording these lectures / practical sessions?
BTW there were no videos made of chemistry practicals. Largely because the students were doing the practicals that being the point of a practical.
If you look at a typical prospectus, say this one from Nottingham Trent:
This course will build upon and develop the skills and knowledge that you will require for management roles in the food and drink sector. The course is delivered on a one day a week basis and for some of the rest of the week you will be expected to work within the food industry and undertake independent studies, including working on your coursework. This final year top-up course has been designed to provide you with a progression route from the foundation degree in Food Science and Technology. This course will give you the opportunity to work with your industry peers. You will gain an understanding and knowledge from other food businesses by sharing your work and study experiences together. It is accredited by the Institute of Food Science and Technology. You will enhance your skills and knowledge, helping to equip you for a management role in the food sector. Successful completion of the BSc (Hons) Food Science and Technology top-up degree will assist your career progression to management levels in an industry that has a real need for food science and technology graduates.
It’s only 1 day a week, the key seems to me to be “you will be expected to work within the food industry”. That’s where you see the practical end of the business, not the classroom. That’s all about theory.
I think you’re over thinking this Ed.
Yes I’m a big fan of pen and paper. All my site surveys are done that way.
Use the PC for research, do the costing in a spreadsheet and the quote in a word processor.
My son did a Chemistry MSc and now a PhD and all he had was a 13″ HP laptop based on the 1.6Ghz E350 with a SSHD. He bought a drawing tablet thinking it may help with formulas and hardly used it. He’ll be writing the PhD up soon but he now has a gaming PC (sponsored by the parental units for getting a first) so I guess that’ll be used this time. AFAIK he still doesn’t own a printer, that’s what the library is for.
I have a new Lenovo V110 with a 128GB SSD. I have heaps of crap brought over from the T420 on there including a VM or two and numerous ISOs etc.
There is 44GB free. Just looked at the saved video folder on the server and my collection of the 52 Red Dwarf and 32 Thunderbirds episodes would fit in there with 20GB to spare.
I don’t think storage is going to be an issue.
Just go straight for Windows 10, it will magically reactivate itself. I say magically as I have no idea how it works out even after a HDD swap, but it does.
On your PC download the tool from here then run it. It will assume you want to create the same version as is on your PC, but you can tell it exactly the version you want. You can create a USB (the best plan) or burn an ISO to a DVD. Boot from what you’ve created and when asked for a code just say you don’t have one. W10 will then install.
On first boot you may be offered the chance to do a 4GB upgrade straight away (to the latest Creators edition). I recommend you do it as it’ll only happen within days anyway.
Get on with installing drivers (windows is very good at doing this itself now) and whatever software you want. By the time you’ve finished it will have activated.
Tight budget = not surface.
If it’s just for taking notes (and I agree One Note is great for organizing disparate bits and pieces) then almost anything will do.
The thing to watch out for with cheaper kit is 32GB hard drives and 2GB of ram. Neither are enough.
I would have a look at the £269 Lenovo B50-10 Intel Pentium Quad Core N3540 Processor, 15.6″ HD Screen, Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 128GB SSD, DVD Rewriter, USB3 | HDMI | Bluetooth, card reader
People here have Lenovo B50’s of various specs and I’ve sold a fair few. The build quality is good and the Pentium Quad + 4GB ram will be absolutely fine for office type work. The SSD means it’ll fire up quickly.
If they can get an official uni email then MS will give them Office for free, if not go to Ebay and get O2016+ for a fiver, I’ve been getting them from here
10GB? Not a problem. If you can wait a couple of weeks I’ll have a 1TB Synology spare that you can have a chunk of. 100s of GB if you want.
I’ve got the Synology course in Manchester on 3rd of July after which I get a new chassis that will take over the duties for my business.
Temporarily I could set up an FTP target for you, there’s >500GB spare, and we can use the next few weeks to tweak things and look at any possibilities. Then when I have the new chassis up and running will reformat the old server with what we have learned in mind.
You have my email address somewhere, let me know.
Yes you must go through the online process. You can then print a shipping label with everything on it.
Don’t seal up the package first as they ask you to put one inside. They also ask you to write the RMA number on 3 sides of the package as well.
I sent mine to the address above but the replacement came from Poland.
Here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer.aspx
“Boris Johnson said in 2009 that safety fears were making the UK safe for ‘extremely stupid people”
“Tory figures congratulated themselves for slashing fire checks for businesses from six hours to just 45 minutes.”
Metro: http://tinyurl.com/ybse44ek
Looking at the sort of manual it saves in 5 minutes segments. Something to do with files sizes maybe? There’s lots of people out there who are having the same trouble.
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