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Few bob extra and you could getone of these to keep and do it yourself.... http://www.amazon.co.uk/AverMedia-Crystal-External-Capture-Station/dp/B004323ZFS/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_1_1 I assume the composite in would allow you to plug in a camcorder, console, set top box, dvd player or any other device that outputs video.

"We are here to create, inspire, to fulfil people's dreams.That's what I am about. I am a creative person. My mind doesn't think about boring logistics. I want to do something different." Big Sam on bringing sexy back in March 2012.

According to CNET.... Even if you do own other apple devices, they must be models made since 2011 as airplay won't work on anything prior to Ipad 2, Iphone 4s or a Mac from 2010 or earlier.

Why do my cousins all want to get hold of older models of Apple TV then...which they can then jailbreak in order to watch streamed football? Doesn't sound as simple as you suggest.

If we need to compare the cost of Owens Goals with other strikers then i still don't think he fairs too badly. 05/06 Shearers deal entitled him to parity with whoever was highest paid at the club didn't it? So his 1 goal (around) every 3 games cost just as much as Owens 3 times as prolific goal per game (approx). 06/07 out all year 07/08 Owen - Played 33 scored 13 on £100k Martins - Played 33 scored 10 on £75k Owens goals cost an extra third of Martins....but he scored more goals and more goals per game and Martins isn't even considered for lists like this. 08/09 Owen - Played 32 scored 10 on £100k Martins - Played 25 scored 8 on £75k So he still got slightly more money but he played more, scored more and has an almost identical goals per game ratio.

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Do you not have the camcorder the films were made on? It should have a vdeo out on it. Then you just need to plug that cable into something capable of recording the video signal to a data file.

Aye them two. I didn't say "the most popular", just among the most popular. Not sure what you mean by saying the device isn't used as a personal organiser. Google calender is just about my most used feature, it's class. But that's not the existing app i was thinking of. It reads to me like an improvement on SMS popup, an app which allows you to read, reply, close or delete texts without navigating to the message app. Being able to do that and other tasks from the notification bar is a logical and timesaving improvement. I thought Apple TV was just a device that lets you play what you have on Itunes (or the cloud) through your telly? The Android feature as descibed sounds to me like it will instantly display your phone screen on your TV. So you can have a big screen look at your calender, doccos or whatever, as well as playing video from any source (youtube/iplayer etc.) not just Itunes. The multiple user feature is undoubtedly useful irrespective of usage in your house. Me and the Mrs have our own tablets too, but my nephew loves getting his mitts on mine when he comes around. I was laughing at the windows 8 solution yesterday which is apparently just a swipe left to access the "kids area". Limited access to apps the parent pre-defines from there....but to go back to the main unit with full access you just need to hit the power button. The iphone will allow panoramic pictures to be taken....then viewed flat on a screen...as does android....the new feature is 360 degree pictures that are viewed as such too. whether you do so in Google Maps, Google+ or any of the other programs listed, you can swivel around the entire view the picture taker had.

I used to have an Archos 605 which you could plug video cables into and record to a data file. It was mint for that. Got all my old home vids done before it gave up on me. Dunno if the current models still allow it. Might be an expensive and outdated solution to a problem I don't need to resolve in this more modern age of WIFI TV's that record to internal hard discs.

In terms of quantity of apps on their respective App stores Apple can boast more, but in terms of quality I don't know of any app on Itunes that i wish I could get on Android. My impression is that it's all the shitty little self developed games or wallpaper packs that no-one keeps on their phone for more than a few days that make up the numbers. Which apps are android sorely missing? Contentwise, on the devices themselves, 3 of the features above are brand new and very interesting/desireable features I've not seen anywhere else, 2 of them standardise what were among the most popular functions only previously available in 3rd party apps on android. Did IOS6 include any comparable functionality improvement? I don't think replacing the map function with a poorer one, improving the existing voice control or improving the camera can be classed in the same league as the innovation the android announcement promises.

Only downside is they aren't gonna be 4G compatible. Initially that put me off, but looking at the packages available it seems they've totally ballsed up 4g anyway, whichever phone you have, because there is no unlimited data package. 500mb of data is £36 a month, so the massive benefit of being able to stream high quality uninterrupted video to your phone will be strangled once you've watched 2 episodes of a tv show. Packages then range up to £56 for a maximum of 8Gb, so CT would get one series of Breaking bad out of that.

As little time as I have for Owen and the effort/passion he displayed at Newcastle, I still think some fans need to reconsider his legacy. He deserves stick for a lot of things, especially in the relegation season, but overall, his return when fit was not as bad as portrayed. You say he did nothing to benefit Newcastle, but he scored 7 goals in 9 games at the back end of 07/08. He finished our top scorer on 13 goals that year (ahead of Martins and Viduka who played similar numbers of games). Before that run we had not won a single game in 12. Losing 9 of them. He got back to scoring form and we went on a 7 game unbeaten run to avoid the threat of relegation which was looming. That in itself benefitted the club to the tune of £20m+. You could argue this was Keegans effect on the whole team taking hold, but Martinsd and Viduka only managed 2 apiece in the same period so you have to say his goals were the difference. As has been mentioned the insurance paid out £10m on his worst injury while he was with us. So his most injury hit seasons didn't cost the club what the OP suggests. Even taking that into account, in 05/06 he was third top scorer with 7 goals in only 11 appearances. Shearer was top, but he took 4 times as many games to score only twice as many goals (14 in 41). Ameobi was second with only 2 more goals in 3 times as many appearances (9 in 34). He only played 3 games in 06/07. Can't hold that season against him. Even in the relegation season where i think he gave his most gutless performances, he was still our top scorer. The only player to reach double figures in a season where events off the field did more damage than any of the players on the field could.

Geoengineering: Testing the Waters By Naomi Klein - October 29th, 2012 Published in The New York Times For almost 20 years, I’ve been spending time on a craggy stretch of British Columbia’s shoreline called the Sunshine Coast. This summer, I had an experience that reminded me why I love this place, and why I chose to have a child in this sparsely populated part of the world. It was 5 a.m. and my husband and I were up with our 3-week-old son. Looking out at the ocean, we spotted two towering, black dorsal fins: orcas, or killer whales. Then two more. We had never seen an orca on the coast, and never heard of their coming so close to shore. In our sleep-deprived state, it felt like a miracle, as if the baby had wakened us to make sure we didn’t miss this rare visit. The possibility that the sighting may have resulted from something less serendipitous did not occur to me until two weeks ago, when I read reports of a bizarre ocean experiment off the islands of Haida Gwaii, several hundred miles from where we spotted the orcas swimming. There, an American entrepreneur named Russ George dumped 120 tons of iron dust off the hull of a rented fishing boat; the plan was to create an algae bloom that would sequester carbon and thereby combat climate change. Mr. George is one of a growing number of would-be geoengineers who advocate high-risk, large-scale technical interventions that would fundamentally change the oceans and skies in order to reduce the effects of global warming. In addition to Mr. George’s scheme to fertilize the ocean with iron, other geoengineering strategies under consideration include pumping sulfate aerosols into the upper atmosphere to imitate the cooling effects of a major volcanic eruption and “brightening” clouds so they reflect more of the sun’s rays back to space. The risks are huge. Ocean fertilization could trigger dead zones and toxic tides. And multiple simulations have predicted that mimicking the effects of a volcano would interfere with monsoons in Asia and Africa, potentially threatening water and food security for billions of people. So far, these proposals have mostly served as fodder for computer models and scientific papers. But with Mr. George’s ocean adventure, geoengineering has decisively escaped the laboratory. If Mr. George’s account of the mission is to be believed, his actions created an algae bloom in an area half of the size of Massachusetts that attracted a huge array of aquatic life, including whales that could be “counted by the score.” When I read about the whales, I began to wonder: could it be that the orcas I saw were on their way to the all-you-can-eat seafood buffet that had descended on Mr. George’s bloom? The possibility, unlikely though it is, provides a glimpse into one of the disturbing repercussions of geoengineering: once we start deliberately interfering with the earth’s climate systems —whether by dimming the sun or fertilizing the seas —all natural events can begin to take on an unnatural tinge. An absence that might have seemed a cyclical change in migration patterns or a presence that felt like a miraculous gift suddenly feels sinister, as if all of nature were being manipulated behind the scenes. Most news reports characterize Mr. George as a “rogue” geoengineer. But what concerns me, after researching the subject for two years for a forthcoming book on climate change, is that far more serious scientists, backed by far deeper pockets, appear poised to actively tamper with the complex and unpredictable natural systems that sustain life on earth —with huge potential for unintended consequences. In 2010, the chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology recommended more research into geoengineering; the British government has begun to spend public money in the field. Bill Gates has funneled millions of dollars into geoengineering research. And he has invested in a company, Intellectual Ventures, that is developing at least two geoengineering tools: the “StratoShield,” a 19-mile-long hose suspended by helium balloons that would spew sun-blocking sulfur dioxide particles into the sky and a tool that can supposedly blunt the force of hurricanes. The appeal is easy to understand. Geoengineering offers the tantalizing promise of a climate change fix that would allow us to continue our resource-exhausting way of life, indefinitely. And then there is the fear. Every week seems to bring more terrifying climate news, from reports of ice sheets melting ahead of schedule to oceans acidifying far faster than expected. At the same time, climate change has fallen so far off the political agenda that it wasn’t mentioned once during any of the three debates between the presidential candidates. Is it any wonder that many are pinning their hopes on a break-the-glass-in-case-of-emergency option that scientists have been cooking up in their labs? But with rogue geoengineers on the loose, it is a good time to pause and ask, collectively, whether we want to go down the geoengineering road. Because the truth is that geoengineering is itself a rogue proposition. By definition, technologies that tamper with ocean and atmospheric chemistry affect everyone. Yet it is impossible to get anything like unanimous consent for these interventions. Nor could any such consent possibly be informed since we don’t —and can’t —know the full risks involved until these planet-altering technologies are actually deployed. While the United Nations’ climate negotiations proceed from the premise that countries must agree to a joint response to an inherently communal problem, geoengineering raises a very different prospect. For well under a billion dollars, a “coalition of the willing,” a single country or even a wealthy individual could decide to take the climate into its own hands. Jim Thomas of the ETC Group, an environmental watchdog group, puts the problem like this: “Geoengineering says, ‘we’ll just do it, and you’ll live with the effects.’ ” The scariest thing about this proposition is that models suggest that many of the people who could well be most harmed by these technologies are already disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Imagine this: North America decides to send sulfur into the stratosphere to reduce the intensity of the sun, in the hopes of saving its corn crops —despite the real possibility of triggering droughts in Asia and Africa. In short, geoengineering would give us (or some of us) the power to exile huge swaths of humanity to sacrifice zones with a virtual flip of the switch. The geopolitical ramifications are chilling. Climate change is already making it hard to know whether events previously understood as “acts of God” (a freak heat wave in March or a Frankenstorm on Halloween) still belong in that category. But if we start tinkering with the earth’s thermostat —deliberately turning our oceans murky green to soak up carbon and bleaching the skies hazy white to deflect the sun —we take our influence to a new level. A drought in India will come to be seen —accurately or not —as a result of a conscious decision by engineers on the other side of the planet. What was once bad luck could come to be seen as a malevolent plot or an imperialist attack. There will be other visceral, life-changing consequences. A study published this spring in Geophysical Research Letters found that if we inject sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere in order to dial down the sun, the sky would not only become whiter and significantly brighter, but we would also be treated to more intense, “volcanic” sunsets. But what kind of relationships can we expect to have with those hyper-real skies? Would they fill us with awe —or with vague unease? Would we feel the same when beautiful wild creatures cross our paths unexpectedly, as happened to my family this summer? In a popular book on climate change, Bill McKibben warned that we face “The End of Nature.” In the age of geoengineering, we might find ourselves confronting the end of miracles, too. Mr. George and his ocean-altering experiment provides an opportunity for public debate about an issue essentially absent during the election cycle: What are the real solutions to climate change? Wouldn’t it be better to change our behavior —to reduce our use of fossil fuels —before we begin fiddling with the planet’s basic life-support systems? Unless we change course, we can expect to hear many more reports about sun-shielders and ocean fiddlers like Mr. George, whose iron dumping exploit did more than test a thesis about ocean fertilization: it also tested the waters for future geoengineering experiments. And judging by the muted response so far, the results of Mr. George’s test are clear: geoengineers proceed, caution be damned.

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The latest edition of Google's mobile operating system is officially Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, and it's arriving with a slew of tricks up its sleeves. Multiple users Ideal if you own an Android tablet -- Android 4.2 introduces multiple users, so you can have different profiles, homescreens, backgrounds and app selections for different people. You can switch between user profiles without having to log out and back in. This feature is something iPad owners have been crying out for, so it's interesting to see Android get the jump on Apple. It's only going to be available on tablets for now. Wireless display You can now share your smart phone's screen with that of an HD telly over Wi-Fi, so long as you've got a wireless display adaptor to plug into your gogglebox. Anything that's on your screen will be displayed, so this could come in handy for big-screen gaming, or more everyday things like watching movies. Photo Sphere camera Android 4.2 comes with a new camera feature, called Photo Sphere, which is designed for taking 360-degree photos. If you're having trouble imagining that, it's basically a photo mode that turns you into a human Google Street view camera. The big G has set up a site where you can check out other people's panoramic efforts -- expect to see Android fans rotating slowly on the spot very soon. The panoramas you create can be navigated by dragging around on the screen, and can be uploaded to Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Search and Google+ Local. Gesture Typing Those familiar with SwiftKey will already know how this feature works -- you drag your digit along the Android keyboard, moving your finger from one key to the next without letting it leave the screen. Using evil magic algorithms, the keyboard figures out what you're trying to say, meaning you don't even have to input spaces. I'm looking forward to testing out this new feature. Expandable notifications With Android 4.2, when you tap on a notification in the notification bar, it'll expand slightly and give you some options. For example, if the notification is for an event in the calendar, you can send an email to everyone who's down to attend. Those are the most intriguing new features -- also look out for weather reports, movie times and train schedules in Google Now. The first Jelly Bean 4.2 devices will be the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10, which are both due to launch in the UK on 13 November. I might go for a nexus 4 280 notes, sim free....less than half the equivalent iPhone which is 600.

Avengers mintaz

Just listening to this which the Beasties sampled - courtesy of Love the Bobby in the recommend summat to watch thread. Seemed apt. You are THE man LTB.

For Wolfy NASA have taken the time to generate an unremarkable 30 second cartoon showing an artists impression of what the formation might have looked like as it approaches land. For everyone else an incridible stop motion of actual pictures from space showing the movement... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20121811

ITN said 1000 miles.

I'd love some of that action if you could include me please.

Apple bans Blu-ray from Macs: Discs are 'holding us back' http://crave.cnet.co.uk/homecinema/apple-bans-blu-ray-from-macs-discs-are-holding-us-back-50009616/

Not yet Kermode rated it though.

Just saw the pic of a crane blown from a skyscraper. Worried for walt, Bryan, Ming and the other tell em steve Dave folk in New Jersey. Fingers crossed.

Conceded more than twice as many goals as in the the first 9 last year though. One clean sheet compared with 4 in the same period. Conceded an average of 1.44 per game this season. The average was 1.34 per game over the whole of last season.

I'm not a stastician. But I know anomolies can occur. The view of our performances last season gets rosier as time goes by. We rarely looked comfortable winners. Especially in the first quarter of the season....to quote myself from the time...