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I bought one last Friday, I didnt really need one so I suppose that says something about the pricing of it. I find it OK, it streams films very well in Plex and as I dont have Netflix at the moment the only other streaming I have tried is Youtube which again worked fine. The addition of Iplayer and BTsport will help its cause too. My daughter has one of the cheap Chinese android boxes which I bought her last year for £50.00 and in comparison to that is where the Chromecast suffers because it can stream Plex, Youtube, Iplayer, Demand 5, ITV Player and she can play games on there as well. Since you can buy these TV sticks on ebay for less than £30.00 and a cheap air mouse if I had nothing it would be an interesting decision to make.

Saw one in Merry Hill on Saturday, beautiful looking phone, the camera does appear to be the one area it does fall down.

Its interesting to see what Martinez has done this season at Everton with very little money, playing decent football along the way. Yes he started with a stronger squad than Lambert but I do feel Lambert has spent the money without a major plan of how to improve the squad, nearly 2 years in and the spine of the team is not that much better than when he came.

But centerparcs is rammed outside term time and dead inside it. Why should they lower the prices that people seem perfectly happy to pay? If the terms were staggered more, the whole idea of competition between travels companies ensures prices will be as low as they can be. It's not like it's one entity that can decide arbitrarily how much they're going to charge. If first choice keep prices high, then Thomson will undercut them and so on. But being as terms need to be a certain size and having to coincide with Xmas, Easter and summer exams where are you going to get the flexibility to have these holidays. It could actually make it worse. Spread the holidays out more evenly and you could end up with the summer holidays being only 4 weeks long, how much of a premium will the holiday companies charge for those?

The staggered holidays thing - how much flexiblity would you have. You could go to 4 terms rather than 3 I suppose but you have to factor in Xmas and Easter, and then all the schools in the local area have to sit the same exam on the same day at the same time. I dont think you could build in enough flexiblity into it, all that would happen is the holiday peak periods would become bigger and demand would still remain high. The irony of parents doing their utmost to get their children into good schools because education is important and then saying bugger that I want to go on a cheaper holiday so your going to have to miss school is just superb. I think it is time we looked at how we educate our children and especially look at schools term times as they are a throwback to victorian times and in all honesty maybe not fit for purpose in the 21st century.

Alpha Alert - I only watched it as it has Jennifer Morrison in it but bloody hell it was crap, dont waste your time. The only thing that sticks in my mind is that she has on a T-shirt which has the arms tucked inside which the becomes a vest top which then goes back to a t-shirt and back again, I mean how difficult is it to get the continuity right when you basically have three main characters who are trapped in a lift.

Where do you draw the line. What happens if parents looked and worked out they could have two fortnight holidays in a year if they did it term time instead of during holidays, is that allowed?

and how many parents spend time with their child helping them read a book when at home? or is that solely the responsiblity of the school?

So presumably those of us on here with kids looked at the league tables and read the Ofsted reports before sending our kids to a school we thought gave them the best chance of a good education, and as a school can go from being Outstanding to Good on a poor attendance against the national average then you will understand why the schools are against unauthorised absences. The point I was trying to show was that children are in school for around 180 days of the year, You cannot guarantee that your child would have perfect attendance for the rest of the school year should you take them out of school for a holiday which these days is going to be a fortnight. So you have got your child into the best school you can so they will have a fighting chance of a reasonable education but then you want to jeopardize that by taking them to Magaluf for a fortnight - slightly ironic.

Or take of him of to Barbados for a week and then he is off for a week sick and that is over 5% of his academic year missed.

Or during peak times holiday firms charge the full price for holidays and reduce prices to stimulate demand when there is less. Not sure many holiday firms are actually making huge profits.

So its £30.00 and from the pic on PC World the rumour of them being Blue for the UK and Green for Ireland was bollocks.

If you stood 100 people in a row and asked them to distinguish between the 2 how many would get it right.?

Moto360 looks gorgeous, LG G Watch also looks good. Google has just given any manufacturers who are looking to make a smartwatch the software to make it easy and cheap.

Residents on the Maldives claiming that they saw a very large jet flying very low (5000ft) hours after the missing plane took off. Now if you look at the direction the plane was thought to be flying when it lost contact !!

The trouble is in my opinion the writers have had to pad out this series far too much to fit in with the mid season break cliff hanger and then the end of season cliffhanger which we can all guess will be on the survivors reaching Terminus. Consequently apart from the 1st episode after the break they had tried to eek the story out and the quality has suffered accordingly.

Well the word I would use to describe tonights Walking Dead is uncomfortable.

For those of us who dont yet have Chromecast apparently Wednesday is the day it goes on sale with a price rumored to be between £30 & £35. Apparently there is also a rumour that the UK edition will be Blue not Black which doesnt ring true but you never know.

Uninstalled Skype and rebooted the phone and all seems well again. Changed a few settings on my battery guru too allowing my apps to refresh only when used or opened. Will keep you posted to see if it makes much difference. Cheers for the tips Apparently Google is aware of a bug which afflicts Skype and similar which basically runs the camera app in the background and drains the battery and are working on a bugfix.

TWD ramped it up a bit last night which I expect to continue through the last three episodes.

Our business site is hosted by heart internet who offer both Wordpress and Joomla hosting, I dont think it is hugely expensive from memory.

Seems like an interesting idea that will appeal to a pretty small market I would have thought.

When you have watched it from the very first episode its not easy to just switch off with only 4 episodes to go. Going by the reactions on other forums it seems that the audience is split between the good and the awful. I understand the comments about character development but the trouble was from last nights episode what new did we actually learn about Daryl or Both, we knew Daryl was emotionally closed and Beth had had a closeted upbringing way before now. I fully expect it to ramp up over the next few weeks and I don't mean in violence or action just more of an interesting storyline with the main characters coming together. One last point I cannot believe that they wouldn't have arranged some kind of meeting point should something happen........

TWD has done absolutely **** all since it came back from the mid season break apart from fill airtime so the story builds to the end of season cliffhanger and last nights was probably the worst episode by far. With so many other alternatives on TV at the moment they better start improving and quick

Financial mismanagement on a huge frickin level.