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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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Whisky Priestess

16:03 / 07.02.08

And ... back to the laptops. I bought a Sony Vaio N series in the end because they're solid and I needed SOMETHING, but it's a lot heavier than it looks - didn't realise that the weight was sans battery, as though there's any point to heaving the bloody thing around without its battery

As I understand it I have two weeks to change my mind (I haven't registered the new one yet) and take it back to Sony Centre. Or does there need to be something wrong with it?

Thing is, I've just seen this little beauty for only £50 more than the Sony ... it's half the weight and the spec seems to be similar, as far as I can tell, but I'm not buying the sexy little thing if it's only going to up and die on me come 2010. So can anyone who's used Phillips laptops in the past (ideally for three or more years) comment on their reliability and durability?

pony

09:49 / 10.02.08

i'm sure this is a really, really stupid question:

In the southern hemisphere, are the times for seasons reversed, i.e. summer in january? I understand that it's warm, but always just thought that australians had a hot winter and a cold summer, but I'm starting to suspect I'm wrong.

Lama glama

12:14 / 10.02.08

Okay, here's an obscure-ish question that I need to know for a piece of fiction of I'm writing.

What was the name of the magician/escape artist that televised himself escaping from the tracks of a roller-coaster before it smooshed him?

Olulabelle

12:18 / 10.02.08

Cornelius Magillicudy.

No it's not, I made that up because it sounds like it should be magician's name.

I've got the N95 Nokia phone and even though people are listed in my directory, when they call me I only see the number. It's not recognising them as my contacts. I've tried adding +44 to the numbers, but that doesn't work. What's up with it?

Lama glama

12:30 / 10.02.08

You know, that's such a fantastic magician's name I'm just going to use it anyway. Thanks for the help, Olula.

Tsuga

12:41 / 10.02.08

Palace politics: it is now the dead of summer in the southern hemisphere.

Lama glama

12:43 / 10.02.08

And I just found out it was Lance Burton.
Hardly as great a name as Cornelius Magillicudy.

Olulabelle

13:56 / 10.02.08

Yay!

How do I find out what things are in Second Life without initially having to download it? I'm learning CAD as part of my jewellery design and making HND and I thought it might be fun to try out virtual designs in Second Life.

But first I want to find out if there are lots of other designers, and whether they are actual designers in real life, like me, or just people with a bit of flair for design in the game.

Mysterious Transfer Student

15:19 / 10.02.08

Lula, my ex-girlfriend designs and sells furniture and textiles in SL, so I passed on this question and she provided me with some relevant links:-

Lindenlifestyles.com - fashion and shopping blog
Shop.onrez.com and SLExchange.com - marketplaces
Miriel Enfield - jewellery designer
Appearance Mode - another fashion blog.

These are all places where people show off their wares for other users to buy in-game and get rated. I was advised to warn you to expect a high snark level, but I'm sure it'll be well within your comfort rating.

Hope this comes in useful.

All Acting Regiment

14:00 / 11.02.08

Those blogs would look nice in the fashion blogs thread btway.

I have a question:

(V. Putin)

Can the thing dolphins do where they save people's lives in the water be reversed just once?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:33 / 11.02.08

I didn't know Putin was Aquaman.

14:47 / 11.02.08

AAR, there's precedent; a handful of people have been drowned by dolphins. Some while also being fucked to death.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:56 / 11.02.08

*!*

Saint Keggers

15:14 / 11.02.08

DOes anyone have a good wonton soup recipe?

All Acting Regiment

15:53 / 11.02.08

Ask the dolphins, that sounds like a real wanton soup they were cooking up!

Phex: Dorset Doom

21:25 / 11.02.08

Would somebody be so kind as to translate this bit of Sartre back into French for me: "Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea"

Cheery, non?

Phex: Dorset Doom

21:30 / 11.02.08

And this, by Stendhal: "A very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love"

18:32 / 14.02.08

Amurrikan munkey need help with yur British talk.

In the context of this article, what does this mean:

You have to be jolly careful that you don't end up on Queer Street.

I get that "jolly" is just an intensifier, thanks, but where is Queer Street and is it a route to the mythical Homolandia?

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:39 / 14.02.08

"On Queer Street" is probably a corruption of Carey Street, which is in Covent Garden in Central London - it's where the bankruptcy courts used to be, and to be "on Queer Street" meant to be in shtuck, in financial trouble. So, by extension, to be in trouble.

Alternatively, these are two different phrases - "On Queer"and "On Carey". But the phrase far predates queer meaning GLBTKinkyetc.

Whisky Priestess

11:43 / 20.02.08

I've just uploaded four new songs to the MySpace, and they are not being displayed on the front page, nor can I work out how to access them.

It's not just my page - I tried a friend's and couldn't see her songs either, and I KNOW they are up there.

Anyone know what's going on with MySpace layout/music accessibility?

grant

15:12 / 21.02.08

Other than Rupert Murdoch being Satan and the admins being rhesus monkeys, no, I'm afraid not.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

12:55 / 23.02.08

...I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 2 in order to avoid continuing researching a dissertation on Peake, and I've got a small problem. My copy is somewhat less than kosher, and while I've worked out what the insane keyboard mappings do, I've no idea how to use the save system. It's clear there is one, I've just not worked out how to use it. What button(s) do I press to avoid having to go through the first hour of Tanker over and over again?

Blake Head

13:41 / 23.02.08

I've never played Metal Gear Solid 2. Sorry. But this being the Questions thread...

You're doing your dissertation on Peake?
Care to tell us about it?
What are you focusing on?
Am I being nosy?
Want to start a thread on it?

Blake Head

13:50 / 23.02.08

Sorry, that really is a bit nosy isn't it? I was talking about my own (ghastly, ghastly) essay on Peake the other day so it was just near the top of my thoughts. Feel free to ignore.

petunia

17:03 / 23.02.08

Phex:

A bit late, but,

Sartre:

Ça ne va pas! ça ne va pas du tout: je l’ai, la saleté, la Nausée.

Stendhal:

Il suffit d'un très petit degré d'espérance pour causer la naissance de l'amour.

(not translated, but the original text. Or so the internet tells me...)

Whisky Priestess

23:31 / 23.02.08

Withiel, Blake - tell me more about your essays on Peake - I love Peake and did my own way back when ... subject being "Evil and Madness in the works of ..." Plenty of meat there.

May start a Peake thread in Books, etc. forum, if there isn't one already.

Mmm, Gormenghasty ...

Whisky Priestess

13:16 / 26.02.08

Can anyone recommend a nice hotel or B&B in Cambridge, UK (or a comfy spare bed, but I'm not holding my breath).

I have an interview at Jesus College in a couple of weeks and whereas normally I'd sofa-surf, as far as I'm aware I know absolutely nobody in the city, so I might as well stay somewhere nice if I'm going to have to pay anyway.

Pingle!Pop

13:21 / 26.02.08

Have you tried asking the college itself? They're quite likely to have a spare dorm room available, and I think charge about £10-15 a night, which is much cheaper than any hotel. Other than that, I think the only hotel which isn't too expensive is Sleeperz (although I think they may have changed their name in the last year or two) next to the station, which isn't flashy but is nice and clean and gives you croissants and baguettes-with-brie in the morning. I don't know about B&Bs, but there is a YHA.

Whisky Priestess

16:12 / 26.02.08

I was wondering about that but I assumed all the rooms would be full of students, it being term time. I'll give them a ring - I'd certainly rather stay here than here.

Although here looks very swish ... for when I win the Lottery.

Can I just say, HEATED CIGAR SHACK?!

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:49 / 26.02.08

Olulabelle - do you have duplicate numbers in your address book? Being unable to speak whereof the call comes with confidence, the N95 chooses, apparently, instead to be silent.

Blake Head

23:57 / 26.02.08

My essay was "Ritual, Transgression and Solitude in the Gormenghast novels..." but having a look at it again, what I really seemed to be on about, in a fairly garbled way, was the way in which Peake's characters are both entirely fixed and defined through their place in the symbolic structure and yet possess what Peake called "some inexhaustible quality which defies the very convention that gives it form".

I'm sure we could throw some further ideas around in a Peake thread if someone's up for starting one.

Lama glama

15:31 / 27.02.08

Here's a really stupid question. I've been trying to calculate the percentage increase in biomass of one plant so I can plot this on a chart.

The starting biomass was 17.25g and the finishing biomass was 91.94g. Am I right in my calculation that the percentage increase is 7469%? Basic maths hurt my head.

Pingle!Pop

15:36 / 27.02.08

Unless there's something special about biomass, it's just ((91.94 / 17.25) - 1) x 100, which is a 433% increase.

Mistoffelees

15:38 / 27.02.08

No, that can´t be right, since it´s just a couple of times more. How about 533%?

edit: I didn´t substract the original 100%. Pingles is right.

Lama glama

15:39 / 27.02.08

Nah, there's nothing special about the biomass, or my maths skills apparently. I was doing it an entirely wrong way.

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