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An older PC or laptop will function quite happily as an iPlayer interface. For a much slicker setup use Vista or Windows 7 Media Center with TunerFree MCE: http://www.milliesoft.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=11 I would agree with the posters above though...

Pure Maths at A-Level is entirely relevant to pretty much any Engineering, Physics or more mathematically based Economics course at University. All what I would call real-world subjects! Infact, what is defined as "Pure Mathematics" at A-Level is really the bedrock of all the applied...

Perhaps its the sharpening postprocess filter that is using all your CPU? Try turning it off, you really don't want it for 1080p content.

A quick plug of numbers shows that a single person in full time employment earning only minimum wage is not entitled to any housing benefit. Obviously there are circumstances for those who are disabled, have many dependents that might allow them to claim housing benefit, but for a couple...

I'm almost certain you would be unable to apply for any benefits. Your girlfriend is in full time education and therefore unable to claim benefits. You are in full time work and are therefore also unable to claim benefits. The £13200 is tax free remember, so thats the equivalent of an income...

Advice: unless your super-social and can make friends whatever the weather, make sure that the demographics of your new work colleagues are appealing to you. There's no point joining a company full of 40-50 year old men who have families if your a 23 year old grad who likes to go out on...

I see what your getting at, it allows people to keyword scan, but really people don't like to admit that they do it (even though they do). Personally, I don't like it, but then CVs are a personal thing.

Perhaps try PyQt? These are Python bindings for the Qt GUI framework, generally regarded as the best cross platform GUI framework available. Working with a nice scripting language is much more fun for the hobbyist than going with a compiled language like C in my opinion...

Yes! I run a media center PC with an Nvidia 6200 AGP card, and I've experienced problems suspend/resume, graphical corruption and tearing. As well as this, only video playback programs that can use EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer) work without screen tearing (MPC-HC, Windows Media Player). Also...

What do you want to cook in them and how much do you want to spend? General cooking: high quality stainless steel pans with thick bottoms Stews, casseroles, sauces, dishes: Le Crueset cast iron pans, very expensive, but can last a lifetime if you look after them Frying: fish, breakfasts etc...

Good choice, every time I think that driving into London will be more convenient, cheaper, or quicker, I'm proved wrong. But I always go and do it again. I guess I'll never learn!

Indeed, I'm going more for the theoretical side too, better than fighting over lab and technician time! At least you only have your own stupidity to blame when you can't get something done :D I'll be looking into the Boundary Element Method for structural problems in plates and shells with...

Macroscopic kinetic energy (a car moving) can be converted into microscopic kinetic energy (temperature!). Remember that temperature is actually a macroscopic representation of a microscopic quantity (the kinetic energy of the molecules). For a gas...

Your wrong, plastic deformation of the metal will convert kinetic energy in the collision into heat. The plastic deformation is a thermodynamically non-reversible process, the momentum doesn't somehow go back in to accelerating the car. Of course, you can say that it is insignificant, but the...

So what was the speed limit in the area? We can probably assume the girl was doing at most +10 above the limit. Would be interesting to see who came closest :p

This is an incredibly difficult question! Problem 1: If we were talking about two objects colliding in a perfectly elastic manner, ie. kinetic energy being conserved, this would a pretty easy calculation. But the plastic deformation of all that crunching metal means that we have no idea how...

Try plex Plex massively increased the franerate of 720p mkv files on my blackbook. Highly recommeded. This is in comparison to vlc and perian.

For MOST consumer level applications, essentially the HDMI video standard is almost identical to DVI. However, HDMI connections support content encryption and this may be required by the movie studios in the future to view HD movies. As other posters have mentioned HDMI can also carry audio...

I feel your pain, 1st class masters in mechanical engineering from a Russell group uni, 340 UCAS points. No job so far :( Back to uni to do a PhD for me, hopefully the job market will be re-started by the time I finish.

Same experience here.