Is everyone in Korea called "Kim"?
Another hit on Nokia.
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Many premises will not let you use a plug to recharge your laptop therefore limiting the working/drinking day to the length of time your battery lasts.
Er... All my locals will let you plug in. Most've even got phone chargers if your phone battery dies.
All will give you access to their WiFi, but we have panoulu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanOULU) if there's a problem.
I thought it was about attracting customers.
Ah. OK, got it. Thank God and king George I got out to Finland, never to return.
...Unless we place Nokia in the OEM category.
This is gonna pan out so fuc*king bad for Finland and Nokia, Elop/Wallop/Whatever should be strung up for High Treason. Can't see Elop at the President's Independence Day dance somehow.
Think I'll change my nickname to Sendo. Prophetic, I reckon.
It's the method I remember from years ago of communicating by over-the-horizon microwave to offshore oil rigs. In their case, chuck shedloads of RF in their general direction, there'll be enough particles floating about to establish a connection.
Remember building a specialised noise measuring tool to test the connnection for this when I was at BT.
As my grandfather who raised me, taught me that respect is very hard to earn. He was a Gentleman, and I believe he brought me up correctly..I've tried to emulate him, while sometimes failing miserably.
Respect for Police? Unequivocal. Absolute.
But, I agree with you somewhat, "some poor sod in a dodgy area of That London with no job, no hope of a job, and even the job centres closing around me I imagine the answer might be less equivocal....".
It's the hopelessness that gets you. In their case, they've maybe burned the shops down that might have given them a job.
In my case it's being 55, and 'foreign'. However, I don't feel a desire to burn a shop down, or throw bricks at police.
Mad, mad world nowadays...
Gordon Bennett, when I once went to 'Frisco to be trained at Nicolet Paratronics, I didn't want to drive. Busy city, and I was barely out of my nappies (driving-experience-wise).
People in the office said "Use Bart". They didn't explain further.
I somehow got it in my mind "Bart" was an old git living in a shed, who'd give me a lift in his pickup in exchange for a bottle of whisky... Well, I was a kid then...
"..got used to Android.."
That's what Elop seriously missed when he shut the door in Symbian^3. You are comfortable with what you're familiar with. If you bought an Android thingy because a W7 isn't available yet, what's your next phone gonna be?
Oh yeah. I bitched sometime earlier about no apps. on websites (e.g.BBC, Guardian, etc) for any phones other than iPhone and Android. None for Symbian.
Seen any for W7?. Right. Tata, Nokia.
See my post above "Thought Gordon Ramsay was broke..."
I'm with you on that. Someone's going to give him a 'Stiff Upper Lip' if he doesn't tone down his rhetoric soon. I don't understand these 'primadonnas'
But, as I said before, he's an excellent chef. I've made loads of the recipes he's created. Maybe it's just playing for the cameras?
But if I worked in his "Hell's Kitchen" and he started yelling and swearing the bollox off me, I might suggest quietly he doesn't do it while I'm holding a fuc*king sharp meat cleaver.
(But, he's a bloody good chef. I've learnet a lot from him. bbcgoodfood.com is a daily visit.)
10 year old lass?? She must be as bright as a button. If she thinks like that, she's a good future ahead of her, especially as the BOFH will be retiring about the time she graduates ;-)
Yep, certainly made me feel old and withered. Think another glass of tramp-juice is in order. Or two.
...But as my grandparents sent me, would that be a "grannie" school? ;-) Leamington College for Boys (Now Binswood Hall), which I really want to refer to on a CV as "Bugger Hall" and see who reads the thing.
Did a report once, where I said...we used a CMD57 (Rohde and Swarz measuring tool) , and a P2C2E....
In the vocabulary of the report, I had to explain all the abbreviations I used. Then the document was reviewed. Nokia way.
P2C2E? "Process Too Complex To Explain"*
From the reviewers (20 or so) only one person picked it up..Review process practically worthless.
*(Salman Rushdie - "Haroun and the Sea of Stories". One for your kids, it's well written, good reading, and damn funny)
Please, get it right. My grandparents afforded me a place at a "Grammar" school. Therefore, I worked hard at my English, as I now am doing with my Finnish.
I know people have trouble with "their", "there" and "the're".
But getting it wrong is like being interviewed for a senior position wearing a baseball cap pointing backwards. It just says "Numpty"
-sprang to mind. However, when I flew microlights years ago, you wouldn't start the thing if spectators were in direct line (i,e. 90 degrees) from the prop, which was wooden (I kid you not!). There was always the risk one of the two bades would shear, or throw some stones at the onlookers.
I'm just a bit confused how the blade came forward, and not out of the side.
Happened to me once. Not a Toyota, but an Opel Astra automatic here in Finland, I was taking my girlfriend's brother and wife to the airport. I switched on the cruise control to maintain 80Km/h. I came to a junction, tapped the brake to turn it off. Nothing. OK, press button on the steering wheel. Nothing. Fortunately, no traffic. Howling along at 80Km/h
I thought "This is going to be an interesting day!". OK direct road to the airport, let's keep going - and more importantly, don't panic the passengers.
Solution was simple. Switch the bugger off, without activating the steering lock. Coasted to the car park, passengers none the wiser.
When they were checking in, I discovered the problem. Autospeed relied on a small servo to pull a cable attached to the throttle by a cable. On the last service, cable had got trapped between engine and bulkhead.
What I can't understand is the family of 4 who died in a full-speed Toyota crash in US didn't just do what I did, and turn the ignition key.
If you worked for a company in Camberley, travelling back by train home to Leamington Spa every day, arriving at about 8 in the evening, then study 3-4 hours for your Open University MBA, get some sleep (forget 'horizontal jogging' with your wife - too knackered) then get the 05:45 back to Camberley, you'll know the letters MBA were worth the "blood, sweat and tears" that 4 years took out of my soul.
Yet, I'm still on the dole. Why, why, why.
The 4-ton Juno rose heavenwards at 16:25 GMT atop a bloody big United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket, boasting a quintet of solid booster strap-ons. Despite this extra lifting grunt,...
Thanks Lester. Another couple of cracked ribs....;-)
Good folks.
I see it here. Finns are supossed to be reticent, but they've always got a phone stuck to their ear. But, they can't multitask. Get hit by traffic. Distressing.
(OK, it was a "Microsoft man". S'ppose if id have been a Linux man he'd just waddled over.. Nah, Andus - stoppit)