Re: H2G2 style
Say what you like about pod racing, it made for an actually playable LucasArts Star Wars game. As opposed to all the shit ones that only sold because they had lightwangs in.
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"Prior to Update 1, powering down your machine required you to move the mouse to the lower left-hand corner of your screen, slowly hovering over that corner, right-clicking the Start button or pressing Windows key and X on your keyboard, then clicking on "Shut down" or "Sign out"."
Or, y'know, clicking on the desktop and hitting ALT+F4.
Rocket Science! Waaaaaaay too hard for support desk, right?
It's pretty simple. I don't want a new car right now so I don't read the occasional reviews and tell everyone that I neither want nor need one because clearly, some people do.
This is called "not judging everyone else's needs by your own" and it's a thing that most people who aren't hopelessly autistic pick up pretty quickly. Usually before they can type. I don't know what went wrong with you.
"May further defended the plans by barking the new government slogan ‘Paedo 9/11′ in response to questions and has commissioned a children’s cartoon where ‘Blinky’ the security eye helps people find lost car keys in a bid to make it less terrifying,
May added: “It’s a well known fact that anybody planning to do something unspeakable, either with a bomb or their own penis, will chat about it at length with lots of other people using their own home computer and phone.
“Paedo 9/11.”
> The anti-vapour people just hate the fact that most of their arguments have been nullified.
> I am sure they would do the same if there was a safer alcohol as well.
That's because they can't sneer at you so easily. I think the Daily Mash sums this one up nicely.
Possibly, but...
What if you've got £1300 now but you have absolutely no idea whether you're going to continue to have £SUM to pay a gardener for the five-ten year life of the mower?
It's also smaller than a big-ass petrol mower so easier to move around and will not become redundant with a smaller lawn. Electric charging means it's way more convenient, too.
Is it just me or is anyone else finding FF30.0 utterly unusable? Since the "upgrade", I can open exactly one page. Any attempt to do anything on the page - click, scroll, anything at all - or open a second page results in the browser hanging and then (eventually) a full CTD.
OS Win7 32bit at work. At home on Win8.1.1 64bit and on debian it's fine.
It does indicate that you would no longer have to upgrade crappy old applications for, for example, supported operated systems.
Need to run something that was coded for IE6/ActiveX ?
You have these choices:
1. Kill yourself.
2. Upgrade it at [X] cost.
3. Stick with XP because of this one application, with all that entails.
4. Use Citrix and pay 24/7 static costs or host it yourself.
5. Have MS deliver it as a service.
On 4 or 5, your managers can even use the horrible MacBook Airs that they demanded because of shiny without worrying about the platform.
That could actually be worth it for Powerpoint and Visio.
Only Project Managers and architects need them all the time - for the vast majority of developers they're "once in a blue moon oh crap do I have to do a presentation?" thing or something to do pretty diagrams for a proof-of-concept/business case.
With the exception of (probably) Outlook, you could maybe say the same for all of Office. I wonder what the billing/licensing options are?
Also, on Tesco, Wikipedia claims -
Tesco Bank is a retail bank in the United Kingdom which was formed in 1997, and which has been wholly owned by Tesco PLC since 2008. The Bank was originally formed as part of a 50:50 joint venture between The Royal Bank of Scotland and Tesco
So I guess they're actually running an actual bank. Unlike M&S.
The issue I see is that unless you've got billions deposited with the BoE, the interest is (as you mentioned) negligible. Therefore, your only way to pay operating costs is via transaction charges.
Now, private punters don't like transaction charges and can get an account without them from one of the big rip-off artists (who make their money back on selling debt and outrageous "whoops" charges) so they can get a deal which, on the surface, looks better by staying right where they are.
Commercial interests are totally used to transaction charges, of course, but they're not going to deal with you either because... they operate in overdraft because of liquidity measures and tax mitigation. And you can't offer overdrafts if you're operating on a 100% reserve.
The only potential buyer would be the long-term savings market except you can't pay interest because what you earn is effectively nothing.
Shame, but there it is.
Which you can look at because you're downloading it and verify for yourself.
The back-end systems are a different matter, of course, but this bit literally cannot be other than legit without everyone knowing about it inside about a day.
--off topic
You know, I don't really like MS very much. Not much at all, in fact. The only thing they do for me is (indirectly) keep me in work. If they went bust I'd still have work, albeit using different tools but for now they keep me in work. No, I do not work for them. I really am not all that keen on any giant multinational money machine, to be honest. None of them are my friend and none of them want to be.
I am aware that here on the Register, it can seem that I am pro-Microsoft. I am not. It only looks that way because the commentards here are so anti-Microsoft that they are, in large numbers, utterly irrational on the subject. It's an odd situation. To autoGodwinize, it's a bit like accusing Oskar Schindler of being an Elder of Zion instead of just anti-murder.
If only it had AdBlock.