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Please elaborate? The Adobe master suite is available on Windows too and Macs now run on Intel hardware, for Web Design there is no real difference. When you doing graphic design from screen to print though, the Mac wins hands down due to its better handling of fonts, colours, tools ect...

Mainly for the graphical end, that I'm making the jump.

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But there is nothing you have mentioned that you can't do with a PC, including all the graphical stuff you perceive you will be doing. One recommendation, I would not go out and purchase the full Adobe Master Suite, its a hell of a lot of money for shelve-ware. I would buy one or 2 of the product first I and master them (or just download the trials and get a dodgy license key).

RBS got the biggest subprime mountain when they bought ABN AMRO two years ago, although noone knew at the time.
Barclays were sniffing after the Dutch bank then too.

No one knows still .... The business still hasn't been legally been broken up yet. From what I can remember Barclays subprime debt is more than ABN and RBS put together.

 

I've Windows XP Professional, which should allow ASP.net to run on it. It won't work. Have all the settings correct.

Can you even develop ASP.net on the Mac?

Anyway, iMac is better for graphics and such, so I was going to move over eventually. This has just sped it up a bit.

Please elaborate? The Adobe master suite is available on Windows too and Macs now run on Intel hardware, for Web Design there is no real difference. When you doing graphic design from screen to print though, the Mac wins hands down due to its better handling of fonts, colours, tools ect...

There's a Gamestation in the Quays and a Game in ButterCrane.

Reading the book about Ian Curtis written by his wife.  I don't think I would have liked him.

I saw 'Control' recently, which was based on her book/writings, and its main premise is that he was a man with pretty severe (though not unusual) psychiatric problems.

Read the book, still quite undecided about it. While I have no doubt Ian Curtis was a bit of a nightmare and a man with pretty severe issues; I felt it was a little bit one sided and she come across very bitter towards the other members of the band. Still definitely worth a read.

Get yourself one of the suites in the Radisson on the Royal Mile. Its one of the nicest four star hotels I've stayed in.

[best pubs/clubs/restaurants are in round west or north London]

Greenwich is ok but the best pubs/clubs/restaurants are in round west or north London. Clapham has quite good nightlife too. Unless you get the last DLR or train back around 12 it will cost a fortune in taxis.

If your budget is quite tight but you want somewhere good in between the city and the O2, try Canary Wharf. Its very quiet at the weekend and hotels never heavily booked, unlike during the week. You could probably find a good deal.

Where would you recommend BF?

What for drinking and partying? Islington and Camden for pub crawls, although Canden can be a little pretentious at times. King Cross has a couple of good clubs, Egg being my personal favourite. Arrive before 3am Sunday morning and you can party on to lunchtime Sunday plus its not full of wannabes.

If your talking about hotels in Canary Wharf, I'd say you can't go wrong with the Hilton. Stayed there quite a few times during the week and its very nice and its on the right side of the river till get at all the best nightlife. As for other hotels its depends on budgets and where you plan to do while your there.

Greenwich is ok but the best pubs/clubs/restaurants are in round west or north london. Clapham has quite good nightlife too. Unless you get the last DLR or train back around 12 it will cost a fortune in taxis.

If your budget is quite tight but you want somewhere good in between the city and the O2, try Canary Wharf. Its very quiet at the weekend and hotels never heavily booked, unlike during the week. You could probably find a good deal.

He has excellent perception when it comes to those who are susceptible to mild hypnosis. I remember a girl saying he convinced her her favourite jumper was green when it was blue whilst on stage, through speed of questioning and controlling her responses.

I bet the dirty fecker uses the old trickery to convince girls to do more than think their favourite jumper is green  

thanks for that unfortunately i have no choice but to fly into the 3 named Airports as they are the airports that connect to Knock . Is the Docklands hilton close to the city yet assesible to The o2 Arena ?   

The Hilton right next to the Jubilee Line 5-10 mins away on the tube. I would only fly to Stanstead as transport from the other 2 airports are a complete pain. 17 quid one way on the Stanstead express and takes around 45 mins.

If you plan on doing touristy stuff also, you probably be better off staying in closer. I wouldn't reccommend staying around Liverpool street or the city area. Its absolutely dead round there at the weekends and nothing is open. Best places to stay for doing all the touristy stuff are probably around Kensington, Hyde Park, Piccadillly Circus or Westminster.

Don't fly to any of them, London City airport is alot easier, especially as you intend to stay round that area. Personally I think there is not much to do close to the O2 arena and I would look for a hotel closer to the city. The Docklands Hilton is very good and not that far away.   

Yeah I've had a few issues with mine, I'm on my 3rd PS3 having had 2 hard drive failures so far. Complete pain as the drives failed completely and I couldn't recover the the data from the drive. Sony will send out a replacement in 24hours if its under warranty though.

I walked the Brackaville/Coalisland ghost across the road the other day. She didn't say much, not even a thank you 

Jaysis, the last time I was in Tomney's, it should have been condemned. Hopefully they've gave it a lick of paint or something since that. Bishops is hard to beat for an auld game of domino's.

Was in it a while back. Still a dirty hole. Although it does have proper bogs now instead not a dodgy bathroom. Funny enough the last time I was in Bishops the domino's were on the go.

Also when mobile companies haven't managed to take advantage of the 3rd generation technology or role out decent coverage yet, I would see them reluctant to spend the huge amount require to offer these faster services.

Huge amounts of telecom operators all over the world have already decided to skip on the 3G standard and are going to move straight to 4G - LTE. That i reckon will bring true global broadband.

The 4G - LTE standards have not even be ratified as far as I'm aware. Could be wrong but I believe the 3GPP Release 8 set of standards (supposed to be the final before ratification) are not due to March.

Also while I don't dispute that some telecoms operators will move straight to 4G - LTE or possibly Wi-Max, there has been a large amount of investment made in HSPA (3G) in the UK and Ireland alone. With the current roadmap for HSPA taking it up too speeds up to 42Mbps, with feasibility studies showing 80Mbps could be possible, its hard to see the business case or ROI for rolling out upgraded infrastructure anytime soon.

I don't think just adopting 4G - LTE will bring true global broadband. That requires the global rollout of the infrastructure required and as we have learned from 3G, mobile operators will not do this if there is no ROI. If HSPA was rolled out globally then we would still have true global broadband (depends on how you define what minimum broadband speed is, but it used to be anything above half a Mbps)?