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Quite often US remakes 'miss the point' of the original shows (Sanford and Son was a US version of Steptoe and Son that really missed the rawness of the original)

Can a person who is convinced there is no god be 'spiritual', or is that quality restricted to believers?

(Well actually since I got it) and this is it: There is a persistent 'echo' on any sound that I would prefer wasn't there.... To give more details, I have an Acer Aspire 5332 (Windows 7) with a pair of external speakers (Logitech). I would appreciate any suggestions as to how a 'neutral' (non-echo) sound could be obtained...

Did anybody feel 'let down' by the apparent (?) failure of the 'ancient Mayan prophecy' of that particular date?

If our eyes are intelligently designed, why is it that they all have a 'blind spot'? This is not a necessity in the construction of the optics of natural eyes - cephalopods (squid, octopuses and so on) have eyes which don't have a blind spot, so they have better vision than we do - couldn't the Designer have given us eyes that worked in the same way as these 'inferior designs' - Is it time for the Designer to go back to his workbench and come up with a better design - in fact, now that this has been pointed out, couldn't the Designer 'retrofit' us with version 2.0?

....which appears to believe that it is the only zip/unzip program that is on the machine, and my 'free use' seems to have lapsed (I thought that WinZip was free for non-commercial use anyway) Could it be a problem associated with 64-bit Windows 7? (My previous computer was an 32 bit XP model) I do have a copy of 7-Zip on my machine, which is a 'free-use' program, but the machine goes straight to WinZip when I have a zip file to deal with.... Any suggestions would be gratefully received....

.... that is responsible for the timing of TV shows appears to be unable to start programmes at the advertised times? This is particularly noticeable with shows that start between 7pm and 8pm.... Shows frequently start up to 2 minutes before the advertised times... resulting in the 'beheading' of shows that start at that time...

... is there any possible logic to describing midday as 12pm? I mean the sequence seems to go something like ....10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm Would it not be better to adopt the 24 hour clock, which eliminates ambiguity?

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When I download a file that is in ZIPped form, my laptop tries to open an UNZIP program that needs paid for - but I'm sure there is at least one freeware unzipper on board - how do I make it the default?

...to remove references to deleted questions from the list of those that you might be interested in answering?

I sometimes think that the news media have to make a really big deal out of everythng just to fill their bulletins/pages... (Cynical? Me?)

for the onscreen keyboard starting during every reboot. At the moment I just deny it access to the system, but I would like to see the last of it. Any ideas gratefully considered....

It usually gives up asking after it has been denied about 40 times, but I would like it to take the hint earlier....

It is said sometimes that people are infringing copyright by singing it....

It's like car manufacturers saying 'We're only going to build really fast, overpowered cars' - silly really...

The ones that have pictures of teeth (you know the ones I mean...). I don't mind most ads, but these ones just turn my stomach... so, how do I indicate to the automated ad servers that I am just not interested in these ones (it's counterproductive really)

And could I have a dual boot with Windows, without losing any of my existing Windows software - I have a USB hard disk for backup purposes, could I partition it and have one partition for the backup and the rest for a Linux variety for instance?

No more detail needed, I think...

and why wasn't it more successful, given its USP?

When I play anything with an audio content on my laptop, it always sounds as if it's been recorded in somebody's bathroom. How do I make audio stuff sound more 'neutral'?

where a bit.ly shortened url is going to take you without actually doing it? It could take you anywhere... (this could go for any of the other abbreviated url sites as well). You do gain speed using these methods but it strikes me that you could end up somewhere you really don't want to go...