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macika123 wrote: Good to know it's alive...
Didn't do much good for me... 
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Ok, thanks for that, I just realized my tv didn't suck as much as previously thought.
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That's a 'feature'.
Way back in the early tube tv days, your TV would be adjusted so the edges of the image went behind the bezel so you'd be using all the available space.
Later when they needed a place to hide metadata for close captioning, they picked some of the scan lines that were always hidden by the bezel anyway.
Later still, because of the use of the edge scanlines for meta data, early analog flatscreen TVs needed to do the same thing or you'd have garbage on the edge of your screen.
While there's no technical need for it any more, it's still done for two reasons. The first is that when Joe Moron is at Worstbuy comparing a cut rate pieces of crap - that are only being offered as loss leaders for the sale of expensive cables and extended warranties - and an actual quality TV the single factor that has the biggest impact in him going "that one is better" is the size of stuff in the middle of the picture. This effect is enough that if the good TV doesn't play the same shenanegans most people will say the crappanel looks better no matter how objectively awful it is.    As a result virtually all TVs have the option on by default. This leads to the second reason, knowing that 99% of viewers won't see it; the people who encode video for broadcast deliberately don't put anything of value in the 20-30 pixels closest to the edge; so there remains no benefit to most consumers to turn it off on their own. As a result there are no eggs to hatch chickens to lay eggs. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yeah, I read it somewhere.
Turned it off and checked if all my channels were still displaying alright.
They did 
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Yeah, unless you've got analog tv signals from somewhere (bottom tier cable???) the functional issue that required maintaining the behavior in digital TVs is gone. Unfortunately that leaves the psychological ones that keep the default locked in where it is.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: analog tv signals
You can receive that with stone cables, right? 
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They look really nice on bearskin displays. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Just been out for a two hour cycle in the Luberon foothills, all off road tracks, gravel roads and steep climbs. But the weather though, absoloute amazing for January, its 16 degrees, blue sky and no wind, like an English sumer. Even had to put the sunglasses on!
Sometimes living here has its rewards! 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: like an English summer
Wot - p1ssing with rain? 
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So, how many decades has it been since you were in England in the summer?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I was back two years ago and had a glorious few days of cloud free sun in Devon. Very rare, especially for Devon.
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yup, lovely area - know & love it, plus all the way up to Ventoux, west to Nimes/Arles
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I think I prefer it in winter you know. The summer is so hot, all you can do is sleep and drink rosé by the pool. Physical activity after 10 am is almost impossible, and the nights spent in the garden in the only cool part of the day (its often too hot to sleep indoors).
In the winter the air is clear and sharp though, like the alps proper. You can take the physical exercise, and enjoy the more substantial winter food; the roast duck, the foie gras, fondues and tartiflettes. For a northerner like me, its a more suitable climate. 
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Going well. Boy about to finish Pint 6 and he is not a beer drinker, preferring Vodka and/or Cider.
Few more hours left before the train ride home.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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If your boy is on his sixth pint of vodka, I am seriously impressed.
Can I suggest that instead of a train, you get an ambulance? I suspect he may need it... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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He's drinking real beer now.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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He´s in Belgium? 
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V. wrote: He´s in Belgium?
Nope. We were at The Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel[^] where German and English style beers are brewed and served.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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What good would an ambulance do?
I don't know how large a 'pint' is, but an ambulance will not help much against being drunk.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One pint is 0.568 liters, so 6 pints of vodka is about 3 1/2 liters @ 37%, so that's approximately 1 1/4 litres of alcohol over 6 hours.
A hospital may be able to save him, but it's not likely... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Weird.
Usually the body has a good defense-mechanism and very capable of dealing with a good flood of toxins. If the puking doesn't help a blackout often follows, with the body shutting down everything but the essentials. If that far gone, then it may be helpfull to dilute it with water, lotsa water.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Waiting for a train to turn up.
Probably won't hit the Lord Nelson till 16:00. Hope to post again before I'm too pissed to handle the phone.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: hit the Lord Nelson
Is that what you call it?
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