DaleCooper
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You're meant to look forward to......avoid bumping into things.
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You're meant to look forward to......avoid bumping into things.
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I won't be bumping into things if there's no beer.
DaleCooper
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This would probably be better in the 'Now Listening' thread, but it's here anyway.
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I listened to the most recent one today after downloading it last night
This one (presumably the one you refer to) is better in my opinion and I'm now listening to it. Particularly (not to give too much away) the bit about Siri.
dcsprior
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I'm less sure, I reckon it depends on the protocol at the application layer - for instance consider one which should work as follows:
1 - Sender sends bunch of data
2 - Receiver receives #1 and sends acknowledgement
3 - Sender receives #2
[repeat]
Now imagine the connection is really slow, and it instead goes:
1 - Sender sends bunch of data
2 - Sender doesn't receive an acknowledgement in time
3 - Receiver receives #1 and sends acknowledgement
4 - Sender resends #1
5 - Sender receives #3
6 - Receiver receives #4 and sends acknowledgement (which sender isn't waiting for anyway since #5)
[repeat]
In this case, the data sent across the metered connection is double what it needs to be.
I doubt that any common protocol used for internet radio would use this design but it is the case that a connection issue can cause more data to be sent (and successfully received) than a good connection
Fairly sure, but need to look into it to confirm, that LTE does error correction at the data-link layer (meaning any retransmission won't be accounted for at the network layer). And most streaming media uses connectionless protocols so there won't be much retransmission happening at the transport layer.
Could we have another thread on that?
This one time, in the woods, with Margaret...
krus_aragon
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Don't forget the lace.
DaleCooper
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Nice tablecloth.
I released him off the river bridge over the road and he did a sort of slow languid spiral before nearly crashing into my head (at which point I started to think I may have made a mistake), then he turned and headed off up the river to who knows where.
They get a bad press Hornets but he was very impressive. Docile too.
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DaleCooper
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It's a childs plate
I didn't know there were special plates for children, I use the same plate whatever I eat.
It's a childs plate
Wait, you were trying to feed a hornet to a child?!?
Better than feeding the child to the hornet.
Which is what I was thinking about doing.
RichmondCommu
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Does anyone know how to cook pigeon? Whilst eating my breakfast I've just seen our three year old cat kill his breakfast. It will be interesting to see how much of the blinking nuisance is left when I return home this evening. There will be no tears shed in our house hold given that it woke me up at 04.30 this morning.
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DaleCooper
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Cooking is the easy bit compared with plucking and eviscerating the cadaver.
DaleCooper
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I was going to put the following in the "Now Playing" thread but decided this was the more appropriate place:
The Fabulous Bingo Brothers - Once We Had a Donkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjdpnD4CQ_I
The Fabulous Bingo Brothers - Once We Had a Donkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjdpnD4CQ_I
DaleCooper
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A few minutes ago I was standing in the garden drinking a cuppa and listening to Albatross (Fleetwood Mac) when a couple of seagulls flew overhead. I suppose that would have been a better story if I'd been listening to A Flock of Seagulls.
Seagulls can be very romantic sometimes.
They can also be a bunch of vicious gits of course.
deltic1989
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When I went through my basic training at HMS Raleigh the sky was pretty much always full of Seagulls.
We had a highly unofficial (and illegal
) book going on who was going to be the next person 'christened' by them whilst square bashing. I seem to remember winning a considerable sum, betting on the class PO
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Tetchytyke
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At my old workplace there was one who someone made the mistake of feeding a few times. Got to the point that they couldn't leave any windows open or he'd come in and steal food off people's desks.Can they? I think they're all vicious little *******s
He got the nickname Steven Seagull.
Tetchytyke
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One of our senior managers did that, left their window open and went off on two weeks' holiday. It was...interesting...when they got back
I heard a story read out on the radio (Radio X Johnny Vaughan show I think) a few months ago that may be worth mentioning. I make no judgement on this other than to say that some may find it amusing and some may find it appalling.
It was told by a guy who was waiting to pick someone up from a train at a station up north somewhere.
On the platform a guy had turned up with a bag of chips, he opened the packet and ate some but seemed more interested in the seagulls that had started to appear near him.
Very occasionally he'd throw a chip towards them and there'd be a punch up between the birds as they tried to get to it, the way that seagulls do.
This went on for a while, him throwing just the occasional chip at the birds as they started to get more and more aggressive and agitated and the group of gulls bit by bit got larger and larger.
Eventually the train arrived and the guy got up still with the half eaten bag of chips and took a step towards the doors, the gulls followed him eying the bag of chips intently at which point the observer heard the beeping sound of the doors about to close and looked on in astonishment as the chip guy hurled the remains of the chips through the door where most of the seagulls followed it just as the doors closed and the train left the station. As did the chip guy.
It was told by a guy who was waiting to pick someone up from a train at a station up north somewhere.
On the platform a guy had turned up with a bag of chips, he opened the packet and ate some but seemed more interested in the seagulls that had started to appear near him.
Very occasionally he'd throw a chip towards them and there'd be a punch up between the birds as they tried to get to it, the way that seagulls do.
This went on for a while, him throwing just the occasional chip at the birds as they started to get more and more aggressive and agitated and the group of gulls bit by bit got larger and larger.
Eventually the train arrived and the guy got up still with the half eaten bag of chips and took a step towards the doors, the gulls followed him eying the bag of chips intently at which point the observer heard the beeping sound of the doors about to close and looked on in astonishment as the chip guy hurled the remains of the chips through the door where most of the seagulls followed it just as the doors closed and the train left the station. As did the chip guy.
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