Posts by Bonce
78 posts • joined Wednesday 17th March 2010 15:47 GMT
Posted in BT engineers - missed appointments
Maybe they're measuring the wrong metrics?
I had a no-show for an appointment to install my BT Infinity in January this year. When I phoned to complain I was told that it was "a problem in their workflow system" which meant that although my appointment showed on BT systems and I'd received regular emails and texts counting down the days until my installation and urging me to make sure I was at home and ready for it, no appointment had been booked on the OpenReach system. So I then had to wait another 15 days for a new appointment.
Not off to a good start. Managed to get a measly £10 compensation for my wasted day, and had to fight hard for that.
Posted in SimCity 3000
Re: Don's cynical hat
If you don't like it, don't read it.
Can Don have his hat back now please?
Safety tip
"Always keep your gun pointed in a safe direction" isn't all that clear a message as safety tips go.
As long as it's pointing away from ME, that's OK, right?
Impressive
I'm having trouble getting my head round the numbers though. How many olympic sized swimming pools worth of matter is 740 suns?
Posted in Three punters' data use doubles
Re: pr0n on Three
Alan Partridge voice: "Can you make porn come on my mobile?"
Re: Which joyless wankers
Lawyers
Battle Apple Air?
Not a hope. I'm no fan of Apple, but this thing looks like a Tonka toy in comparison to an Air.
Good nostalgia, thanks
For some reason, the name "486DX" still makes my pulse quicken. :-\
Re: bcc?
[Citation needed]
Both my hands are currently occupied, but yes.
Amount of data in the world doubling every 15 minutes
Really? ... REALLY? Come on Stephen, do the sums and think about how utterly implausible that is. The globe would be overrun by power stations and hard disk drives by the end of the first day of that.
IT Shambles
Some interesting views on what can go wrong here: http://itshambles.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/some-history-half-a-century-of-failure/ - admittedly related to software projects but still relevant.
A very funny blog (not my own), check it out.
Posted in So what's the worst movie NEVER made?
"Mayor! : Boris Johnson and Chums"
I'm thinking a sort of riches to riches rom-com biopic detailing the trials of a young Boris at Eton and his rise to power
Analysts
What the hell differentiates an analyst from a bloke down the pub talking to his mates on the same subject? Serious question! Do people get paid for their "analysis"? By whom?
Posted in Microsoft: No next-gen Xbox in 2012
Re: Good
^ This! Not once have I played on my Xbox and thought "I wish the graphics could be higher res/faster/whatever". On a 50" plasma at sofa distance, it's all fine.
I'm happy for my investment to run for another year or two. The only thing I don't like currently is the abominable Metro UI that they foisted onto us recently but I got 4OD as compensation so I'll live.
Posted in TV market stalls as LCD sales slow
Hardly surprising...
...given the economic climate and the fact the demand to replace bulky CRT sets and those without digital tuners has tailed off. Now I've got my 50" plasma I don't intend to replace it until it breaks and I'm sure I'm not alone.
The manufacturers have been kidding themselves that 3D is the magic bullet to keep sales going but I'm sorry, it's just not for me!
Genius
I'd watch this version!
Re: Missing info
And how is it cured?
Posted in Cineworld flaunts '4D' movies
Spillages
Anybody else have the old Jim'll Fix It footage of the boy scouts on the rollercoaster brought to mind?
Class Action Lawsuit
Against all these companies for being such arses with their bloody patents.
Who's with me?
Posted in Archos 35 Home Connect
Re: I would call it butt-ugly
Tandy called, they want their "clock radio of the future" designs back.
Newsflash
The earth isn't a perfect sphere. It bulges around the equator.
Light blue touch-paper
Stand well back.
I read jabuzz's comment in a nasal tone of voice, it sounded excellent.
So I upload and then download my music library instead of transferring via USB. Super!
I don't get it
What a hopelessly inefficient way of playing music on your mobile! Instead of using a few Watt/hours of energy for playing a track straight from your memory card, you're going to use countless servers, disks, routers and transmitters to listen to the same track, but with a few pauses for buffering.
Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should be. What point am I missing?
Posted in It's time to end the Windows Wait
I'm curious to know
How paper tape and punch cards made it into the "magnetic media afterlife"
/pedant
Ding ding!
All aboard the Failbus
Reg Units
A bite strength of 10 pounds is hard for me to visualise. What's that in Mouse Button Clicks? I know how hard I need to push a button on a Microsoft Mouse.
Light blue touch-paper
...stand well back!
Protests of the future
Instead of placard-waving and chanting, will we see whole groups of people milling around and tapping away at their smartphone screens?
And this benefits consumers... how?
It doesn't does it.
I don't get it
Is this because cash is bad because it can't be traced?
But you can only use it
If you've got 2.5 meters of clear floorspace between your TV and your sofa.
The Player Of Games
by Iain M Banks. I think that would translate into a good movie.
Can't think of anything I'd like to see less
I bet Simon Pegg bit his fist on hearing of this 3D rehash.
send messages to the past or future
Any fool can send messages to the future. The time capsule I created in my childhood, encouraged by Blue Peter should still be under the pond in the garden of my parents old house, awaiting discovery.
Sending messages back in time though... good skills. Lottery numbers please, future me!
Maybe I'm lazy
But my eyes feel tired just thinking about this!
"Vocabulary"
I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down. :)
"word bank" was a subtle reference to another bootnotes story from the last couple of weeks.
Terpsichorean
I added a new word to my "word bank" today. Thanks, bootnotes!
Posted in IT grad claims £5m for crap degree
Awesome!
He's also just f*cked all his future employment prospects.
Posted in Detroit citizens demand RoboCop statue
Call my cynical
But how long before it gets nicked?
LOL
I just looked up http://www.46dcead317fe45d80923eb97e4956410d4cdb2c2.com
See where it takes you
Posted in PSP playing boy plunges onto railway
"Learning better"
And what better way to learn better?
Ooh! A present from Auntie Stacey
How exciting!
*unwraps*
Hmmm, a dead puppy with ten dollars stuffed in its collar. Thanks Auntie Stacey.
Posted in Ten... wireless keyboards
And the other MAJOR problem with Microsoft keyboards
There are no gaps between F4-F5 and F8-F9 so if like me you regularly need to find a function key without looking, you're... well, fooked.
Posted in Halfords.com crashes off the internet
err
why didn't you look it up on their website?
(sorry)
