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please sacrifice for him by leaving that as unanswered. I'll too. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Actually you're back to around 35K.
I should have kept my mouth shut. 
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Due to my previous computer crash I got someone else's computer (at work).
Perusing trhough th disk I saw a video, double clicked, it started....
hang in there!
The trial version of Nero media viewer (with a buy link!)
What the f***, how dare they!
No thank you I will keep using my free windows media player (or VLC or quicktime, whatever!)
Anyway, I hate them!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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They are offering a product with an option to buy. I'm not sure why you would label them crooks?
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Well, no one installed "Nero media player" we just installed Nero CD Buring software.
Further I can see how it can trick the average user, who is toldd it needs a CD Burning software (install) nero and then get tricked in paying for a not needed Media player (as there are heaps of free one including build Windows Media Player which looks better)(plus wether it's better or not is a moot point, the problem is the average user install a needed CD buring software and then get tricked into paying for another product)
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Plus the fact they get tricked into paying for this software, that's what angers me!
I have nothing against paying software, don't get me worng, but make a sneaky install and then break existing functionality, unless the user pay, that's robbery!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Ahh fair enough. I'm guessing the option to set Nero as the dafault media player during the installation was overlooked though. Well at least I hope it provided that option.
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Nero 8 and 9 were great. Efficient, easy to use. I just downloaded Nero 10 HD to try it out. 1.5 GB!!!! What a bloated, steaming pile of crap! Never again, not with excellent free burners like CDBurnerXP and ImgBurn and the free media player VLC.
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It's the old "You've chosen to install our software, so you obviously want us to make all your decisions for you" syndrome, most prevalent in regions of arrogant ****ers.
Me, I suffer from the "Thanks for making unrequested changes to my system; I will never install your pile of cr@p on another machine" reactions.
I wish that companies who pull this kind of sh1t would realise that such things instantly transform their software from "an app that I haven't tried" to "an absolute pile of donkey bollocks!"
It doesn't matter how good or how well made the app is, it instantly becomes annoying crap in the customer's mind, and they will be extremely hard pressed to get the customer to replace that definition with a less negative one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't know if this does justice to the scale of the disaster, but these interactive before and after images are interesting:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm[^]
Peter
"Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
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Up until now I would never associate the two words "Australia" and "flooding". Has this ever happened before?
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Hans Dietrich wrote: Has this ever happened before?
Yes it has, last time for Brisbane was 1974 after which Wivenhoe dam was built as a part of flood mitigation measures unfortunately it was full due to previous rain falls.
Wivenhoe Dam[^]
I love a sunburned country
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of drought and flooding rain
I love her far horizons
I love her jewel-sea
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me
From My Country by Dorothea Mackellar
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
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From the web site:
"During a flood situation, Wivenhoe Dam is designed to hold back a further 1.45 million megalitres as well as its normal storage capacity of 1.15 million megalitres. Floods may still occur in the Ipswich and Brisbane areas but they will be rarer in occurrence. Wivenhoe’s flood control facility, together with the existing flood mitigation effect of Somerset Dam, will substantially reduce the heights of relatively small floods.
It is anticipated that during a large flood similar in magnitude to that experienced in 1974, by using mitigation facility within Wivenhoe Dam, flood levels will be reduced downstream by an estimated 2 metres."
Did the dam actually overflow, or fail in some way?
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Hans Dietrich wrote: Did the dam actually overflow, or fail in some way?
It was full, due to previous rain fall, at 120% capacity so the excess water during the latest down pour had to be released to avoid spill over.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
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Rod Kemp wrote: It was full, due to previous rain fall, at 120% capacity so the excess water during the latest down pour had to be released to avoid spill over.
Then I don't understand why people in the Brisbane area were caught unprepared. Didn't they know about the water release?
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It wasn't just the water release.
Before the rain Wivenhoe was almost empty, due to the 10 year drought we have just been through, so the rain has filled it to the point water had to be released then the rain just kept coming.
I did read that the area affected was the size of France and Germany combined so think about the amount of water that had to fall to accomplish that.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
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They had a few days warning and saved a lot of stuff. A lot of places went under several metres though, and are now filled with mud.
The deaths and destruction was a bit further west where some really heavy rain fell and rivers rose 5-10 metres in an hour. These were the flash floods where people looked out and saw the river rising, made a few phone calls or started packing and the next thing they knew is that they were trapped. Most of these were in places that were not known for flooding, see one brief account here Toowoomba floods a joke no more
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All this water then went on to contribute to the floods in Brisbane.
The dam peaked at 188% and is already back to 120% in case of further rain. Also, quite a few of the tributaries come in below the dam so are not controlled (I think about 1/3 of the catchment feeds downstream).
Peter
"Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
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‘‘The fate of the inflatable dolls is unknown,’’ said Senior Constable Wilson.
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Amusingly, they lost their grip at the "Pound Bend".
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Unusually, the girl came off before the guy.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
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That's not unusual. I like to look on it as being due courtesy to the lady.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: due courtesy to the lady.
In fairness, he did come off himself immediately after and went to give her a cuddle.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
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