Posts by NightFox

Well I had access to a Commodore PET 2001 way back in 1977.

Re: Eh?

In the UK, MMS is one of the services that typically still doesn't fall within allowances - networks typically charging about 50p/MMS. This can get quite annoying if your phone OS's messaging system is set up to fail back to SMS/MMS if it can't send a message using 3G data/WiFi as you don't know until after it's sent, by which time that picture of cat you just sent for a laugh has just cost you.

Re: Rental vs privately owned

Agree, dual carriageway or not, no way should planes be using the A6.

Re: Clearly I've missed something but

"It's a bit like when a library moves the Crime and the Thriller sections of books into one called Crime and Thriller- on the same bookcase. (Or the opposite for that matter)."

Or when they put several Crime and Thriller sections in different parts of the library and randomly put the crime and thriller books into any one of those sections. Or maybe have the Hound of the Baskervilles in two different sections, but each one being a different version of the same story.

I'm guessing you're not a fan of Eccles Cakes then

Re: Storm in a teacup?

I'd guess that WD's decision making process was slightly more technical than some bloke quickly testing it with RAID1 in his lunch break

Re: One song is too much

It's like these people who share their music turned all the way up to 11 with everyone else on the beach/in the park/on the bus/wherever because they like it, so everyone else will, right?

Also reminded me of Bing Gordyn: https://youtu.be/7qeIUaer7ts

Re: I expect I'll get a ton of downvotes BUT

@AC "I don't believe that if printers' price reflected their true cost, the price of ink would be reasonable I believe, if printers were more expensive (re. true cost), the price of ink cartridges would STILL be as high"

For a "true up-front cost" Epson EcoTank consumer printer:

Genuine Epson T6641 70ml black ink - £8.65

For a subsidized cartridge-based Epson consumer printer:

Genuine Epson T0711 7.4ml black ink - £10.49

I'm afraid the evidence somewhat contradicts your beliefs! (and yes, that is 70ml v 7.4ml)

Re: OMG

From what I understand there's a bit more to this than the tabloids are reporting (shock, horror).

Apparently the submarine's commander had proposed the BBQ party to his superiors, but worried that it might be viewed as being inappropriate and could have been picked up by the ever-fickle media ("NAVY PARTIES AND IGNORES SOCIAL DISTANCING WHILE UK DEATHS SOAR" etc), they had said it shouldn't go ahead. However, it seems that the commander went against that and held it anyway, and hence now is getting hauled over the coals.

Still, what good is that version for stirring up apoplectic outrage amongst the red-top readers?

That would explain why I was the only one there in top hat and tails

Re: Sad to see it go

Happy memories, filling in and sending off a form in the back of a book to set up my demon account, waiting to get the account details through the post, excitedly typing them in to my Windows 95 PC with my USR modem connected to the phone line, then... nothing.

Then finding out that I also needed a "web browser", so going out and spending £50 to buy Internet Explorer (as part of the W95 Plus! pack)

Re: The usual solution...

Which would prove what, if you were planning on making something that wouldn't be public, public?

It's also interesting to compare the NHS with Just Eat. While the NHS wobbles under the increased load, Just Eat is as snappy as ever, despite almost certainly seeing a huge increase in demand.

ergo...?

Re: Homework

Schools are damned if they do, damned if they don't. They have a remit to try to continue education to the highest standard they can, given the circumstances. If some home environments can't (or won't) accommodate that, then so be it, those families should do what they can.

People need to accept that there's no perfect solution to any of the challenges thrown up by Covid-19, everything's a balanced compromise. So pointing out and moaning about the obvious downsides in any solution doesn't really help at all (not a dig, just a general observation).

Re: Will someone...

Green snot? Amateur. I managed to pick up H1N1 swine flu during the 2009 pandemic and generated a constant stream of orange snot for maybe two weeks. However, I'm still unsure which of the unpleasant symptoms were down to the virus and which were down to the medication it was being treated with (Tamiflu). I'm certainly putting the crippling headaches and the appearance of ducks waddling around on my landing and Angelina Ballerina in my bathroom down to the Tamiflu.

You should consider a class action against them for that, maybe double your money!!

Re: We should just all use SCART

My sister's still got her Sky HD box connected to her 42" 1080p LCD TV via SCART. One day I'll remember to take an HDMI cable with me when I go visit.

Just guessing, but do you drink real ale and have an old MGB that you spend most of your weekends working on?

Re: About the same time that ...

... schools stopped teaching kids how to spell "dike".

I guess that was before Offa's schooldays then.

Re that 6 minutes of transcript apparently "Voiced by Amazon Polly" - I presume that noise before each paragraph normally associated with the SFX hydraulic hiss of chrome and glass canisters of glowing green liquids being opened is meant to represent a human intake of breath? It's nearly as bad as Zoe Ball.

Re: Been there, did something slightly different...

If it were your salary details that had been left on the printer, would you have been OK with that being put on the notice board?

Re: No one has mentioned Elite?

Was so excited when Elite finally made it to the C64 and also played for hours - till I got totally overrun by Trumbles, something I don't think the BBC version had.

Re: Makes it easier to recognise idiots at first sighting

I'd say your life- and social-skills are pretty underdeveloped if you form your opinions of other people based entirely on the type of phone or computer they choose to own. IMHO.

Do you have any details of this QC-35 recall? I can't see anything online (just hundreds of complaint threads) - I'm not being snarky, just interested as a 'victim'

Re: Your list

Few things make me laugh on the outside, but this did. Thank you AC, whoever you are :-)

Re: Mr. Bezos's Neighbourhood

Oooo, thank you. The only one I'm left missing from my Internet Forum Bingo Card for today is "If you're not paying for it, then you're the product"

Re: I continue to be baffled...

I really don't give two hoots about the opinion of me (good or bad) held by people who form their opinions based on what earphones I use.

Re: Complete and utter waste of money unless you want to spy on people

Take a look at Octopus Energy's Go tariff.

I pay 14.63p/kWh throughout the day, then 5p/kWh for the four hours between 00:30-04:30. Perfect for the car/dishwasher/washing machine - not chancing it with the tumble drier though.

They're a significantly sized provider too, so not likely to collapse any minute like some of the smaller ones that offer decent demand-driven tariffs. Plus, look at the ratings on impartial comparison sites and they wipe the floor with the others. They're far from perfect, but still market-leading when it comes to CS.

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Re: Do you use one of these popular passwords?

"The sooner we go towards using retina scan / fingerprint / decent sso solutions / sperm samples to login, the better in my opinion.

I do not want to have to explain to another aged parent why they have different accounts for different sites - nevermind passwords."

I'd be happier doing that than having to explain to them how to provide a sperm sample.

There's been an Oracle there in Reading since the 1640's - when I think most people were still on dBase II

FFS, it's really simple:

Green = Go

Amber = Go faster

Red = Go if you don't reckon the other light will have changed to green yet

I've still not got my head round how one day about 20 years ago I popped a 35mm film in a Truprint (or similar) envelope and stuck it in the postbox before I went to work. I came home that same evening and found the developed photos delivered through my letter box. To this day I don't understand how that was possible, and even RM people I've spoken to raise an eyebrow and say it isn't.