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    Swine Flu - another reason not to shop??

    At the first company where I had my first full-time job after university, in 1982, the free-vend aspect of the vending (coffee only) machine was used to great strategic effect. To encourage staff to get into the office early and to work late (and we did need encouragement, we were mostly recent...
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    Swine Flu - another reason not to shop??

    I might be interested in the vending machines. How many will I need in order to supply me with enough food and water to survive in my flu bunker for at least 6 months of isolation and how many 50p pieces will I need to stockpile so that I can get the contents out? - Julian
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    Swine Flu - another reason not to shop??

    What????!!!! Pigs .... birds ..... Are you saying that there are monkeys involved now? - Julian
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    Swine Flu - another reason not to shop??

    Here's a good article to put this into perspective: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/regular.flu/index.html The last time I checked there had been 1 death in the US due to Swine Flu (maybe; it's debatable as to whether that death really counts as a US statistic). Regular seasonal flu has...
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    Swine Flu - another reason not to shop??

    For goodness sake! The total number of deaths was never huge anyway and Mexico just revised those numbers down to 101 people and that is in a country that has about an 80% greater population than the UK (i.e. not far off double the population). If a wave that weak hits us then, if it wasn't for...
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    Mailing Address Needed - 5 key criteria

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    Swine Flu - another reason not to shop??

    The level of complacency here is alarming. My bio-hazard suit should arrive tomorrow at which point it should be safe for me to go out to the supermarket to stock up on emergency supplies. I'll also be visiting my local DIY store but I'm unsure at this time as to whether plywood or blockboard...
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    Grammar Help

    I concur with Steve. The same principle also underlies the debate regarding "a hotel" or "an hotel". People are often taught that the correct form is to treat "h" like a vowel and always use "an" but I looked this up a while ago and found an article on some university web site that said that the...
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    How to find a web-design partner?

    Oops. I really must get into the habit of checking these things before posting :redface:. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm learning! - Julian
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    How to find a web-design partner?

    Can I just add another perspective to this. Let's look at what you're really asking for. Assuming that you want a good developer to partner with then they probably have a full order book so if the web site would cost <x> thousand pounds at commercial rates to develop then you really are asking...
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    VPS Hosting

    How onerous is that for someone just running a basic LAMP setup where everything is pretty well-known open source stuff? Do web providers really provide no admin services with their basic packages? I'd always assumed that at least the key daemons (e.g. Apache, MySQL, etc) would be included in...
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    Intel Vs AMD

    These do get done on occasion but the problem is that AMD and Intel change their prices so often (where change pretty much invariably means drop) that any such comparison can go out of date very quickly. Both AMD and Intel are rumoured to have new processors launching next month so there's a...
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    How many emails in your business inbox?

    That looks like a useful plugin. Thanks for the tip. - Julian
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    How many emails in your business inbox?

    In the old days (the mid 1990s) I used to work for a major computer company and it was a nightmare. I used to get about 350 emails a day. After coming back from my two week summer holiday I still remember the horror of that first logon on my first morning back to be greeted by a message saying...
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    Intel Vs AMD

    That's a hugely complicated question because it depends on what you mean by "same specs". The real issue is what you need to do with your PC. For certain types of workload (e.g. video encoding where the particular encoder is optimised to use SSE4.x instructions) then the latest Intel i7...
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