Posts by moonface

Re: I have a list of people I would send - Top 5

By the look of him, David Guest is a space tourist that comes to Earth for his holidays.

Re: In Royal News Today!

Sorry my mistake as forgot about Charles.

Re: Why is my money being spent on this?

Fair play for the comment.

I have loved this Olympics but I am feeling a little uneasy about this and wonder where the future lies. The reason that your (tax) money is spent on this, is for the glory of the State / Establishment and because the government now believes it is responsible for the 'happiness' of it's populace. For some strange reason the majority identify with 'physical strangers \ virtual friends via the media' who accomplish victories and success, as we derive positive emotions from their actions.

Will the future be some Gattaca dystopia where a small 'tall' percentage of the world, are selected as 'valids' for sports education, to be used for the the glory of their states? Will there be a backlash eventually by the grass roots populace, when they feel, they no longer identify with their chosen lanky athletic heroes? Who knows!

Re: Serious Suggestion

Well sorry about that! You are not my old manager are you? I'll try better with my writing ,if you promise to go to charm school.

Re: Well, as a fatty...

I would say perceptionally you are deemed skinny, if you are around your perfect BMI. Under it and you would look positively anorexic. Also people who don't believe that someone is over 9 stones overweight, probably need to go to spec savers.

Re: My experience

As it stands I can see Office 365 being fine for small businesses where you just need to buy a few workstations but can't justify purchasing file, web and mail servers. For large corporation or even Government Dept's I would imagine it would be a nightmare, especially, if you ever need to migrate off it again.

Issues I have had.

Setting up shared mail boxes then have have to use powershell.

Trying to copy bulk mail from one User to another involves Exporting mail to a local Outlook client as a *.pst and then importing it back.

No easy fix for my initial noob mistake, where my mail was being sent out with the default me@mydomain.onmicrosoft.com. I ended up having to set up all my users again, as it was easier than using powershell to define my own senders address.

Also some of the tutorials and help are terrible, often with out of date instructions. e.g. listing Host servers that will not be relevent to your account, etc.

Re: 100 "stunned" peopled attended the nuptials

I am wondering whether Zuckerberg also thought he was going home to celebrate Chan's medical school graduation, only to end up being pounced upon Cato Fong style, by his good lady dressed in her wdding dress.

Surely, if he had known he was going to his own wedding, he would have hired a better suit down Mosss Brothers or something.

Re: Those aren't banned words

gorgeous, stunning, leggy, busty, teen, offered up, huge, massive, red-faced, slammed,impact.

Shame the newspaper CHIEFS banned them, as they convey such positive connotations.

Re: In other news...

Can't wait for pubs to get lots of these. It will sure beat peering over lots of heads, squinting at a small screen. Not sure how big that market is, as far too big for the normal U.K. home, though.

Dennis Potter

I will always remember the Dennis Potter interview.

"I call my cancer Rupert," he told Bragg. "Because that man Murdoch is the one who, if I had the time (I've got too much writing to do)... I would shoot the bugger if I could."

Lets face it 'Cold Lazarus' was pretty poor, he could have spent his time more wisely.

Re: What no MSX?

I remember MSX but the Japanese invasion never happened.

They were too late to the party and there was too much confusing choice. I don't remember any kids in the playground with MSX games ready to swap.

Just had a look at the manufacturers on wiki.

Spectravideo, Philips, Al Alamia, Sony, Sanyo, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Hitachi, National, Panasonic, Canon, Casio, Pioneer, Fujitsu General, Yamaha, JVC, Yashica-Kyocera, GoldStar, Samsung/Fenner, Daewoo/Yeno, Gradiente, Sharp/Epcom, Talent.

Elite: 6 colors

@Thorkin

You are probably a lot younger than us oldies, who have seen the developments over time. If you are interested in this, then the BBC graphic modes illustrate the compromise between colour and resolution that they had back then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#Display_modes

I had an Acorn Electron and it only had 2 colours for Elite. I just looked it up and was surprised to see the BBC actually used two Modes at the same time. I never knew, that this could be done until now.

from Wiki

The BBC version used a split screen to show four colours; the upper two thirds of the screen were displayed in Mode 4 while the lower part was in Mode 5. The Electron version ran entirely in Mode 4, and therefore displayed only black and white.