Posts by Terry 6

Re: From my cold, dead hands!

I've worked in an office with some kind of carpet stuff. Stuff that generated significant static in just a couple of steps.Moving across the room and passing a radiator was sufficient to give the kind of jolt that was painful enough to discourage people from moving.

Re: Last-decade ?

Yes, but will they still sharpen razor blades?

Re: Torn to Ribbons...

In the pre-ribbon days I could readily adjust the menus to fit my working tasks. Stuff that I'd never use between then and the heat death of the universe was taken out of the menus. Stuff that I'd use in conjunction with items in a different menu, or that seemed to me to be more appropriate ( i.e. where I'd expect them to be) would be put there.

The Ribbon pile of excrement makes customising the menus far far more difficult. Oh, and they may call it a ribbon, but it's really just a posh name for a particularly annoying way to organise menus, IMO.

Re: Horlicks

One of my favourite is that Office "Home" editions excluded Publisher.

Now Publisher is an OK DTP product, great for the Church hymn list, Girl Guides programme, auntie Bessie's birthday card and so on. Home and small office use.

It isn't really a pro product.

So they don't f+++ing include it for home use.

Tossers.

Re: LOL

I kind of wonder, btw, how much of 1TB of storage would get used by the majority of users.

And also, if it's a corporate use, how you manage when you can't/don't replace a staff member, so don't need that subscription, if it is holding all that data.

One word?

Re: What about scan to email?

Yes. Just yes.

Re: What a bunch of technical snobs

You're going to have to do a lot better to explain to Joe Bloggs why Facebook slurping their data is any worse than Google, Amazon, Microsoft, GCHQ, NSA, local council et al. doing the same

God yes. Just explaining to a friend of my Mrs. why I don't want one of those sodding Amazon spy boxes in the house was difficult enough.

"But you use Amazon all the time, so they know what you buy"

"Yes but I don't want them listening to everything I say or do......" etc etc.

Re: Damn

As opposed to facebook messenger or compared to other IM software, like the aforementioned Signal. Figures (in the context of instant messaging software, not all devices on entire planet including those who never IM) please. And source. And excluding countries that use their own govt approved service btw..

Or was that just a random vague claim, unsupported or out of context?

Re: Signal

Sometimes when using SMS people want to send a picture, or a sound even. or include more than one person.Or have a regular group to communicate with.

And for most people the "included minutes" they get with their mobile phone contract excludes that and instead charges them. I've been caught that way myself and got charged. So they use Wattsapp.

And I switch to Watsapp as required.

And out in the real world people have Watsapp on their phones and so they use it. They just do. They never remove unwanted preinstalled apps, or delete old messages or use secure passwords. Why would they avoid Watsapp? Not why should , but why would they.

Re: Arrested development?

Agree, except some of the worst offenders in the dishwasher/leaving pots and packaging lying around dept have been 20 something girls, who, mostly still live at home.

Re: Inquiring minds want to know...

But you'd have to share with more people. That being said, it's no less rational than people who buy (more) on a rollover. As if they think that winning far more money than they need isn't enough to squander a couple of quid, but winning far far more money than they need is.

Re: Yes, I have been to places like the one described

From Dabbsy's story my first thought was to the rest of the work they do there. (Undefined).

Would I want to be a customer? No.

Re: Inquiring minds want to know...

Users ( the public) still aren't really aware of how many other people there are just like themselves. On the interwebs. Each thinks they are pretty unique individuals and no one else will have thunk of their clever little phrase.

Re: Whilst the UK has stabbings virtually every (other) day and acid attacks.

Also the temptation, or dare I say it, the convenience. Most people don't have ready access to acid, you have to actually go and get the stuff with intent. And kitchen knives are pretty lethal but most people don't routinely carry them (though it seems as if too many do - the police have had knife arches at Finchley Central station) and you have to get up close to use them on someone.

Re: A lesson

There you are then. It's come to this. Even paid murderers have a work-life balance problem.

Re: Hi-viz bike

And www.hitman-for-hire.co.uk printed on a little flag attached to the handle bars.

Re: I can believe it!

There was a time, in some schools, where all printing had to be done by the admin. Who was part time. And in one I knew, the printer was in a locked room.

It was less about cost*, more about suspicion.

*Even these days some organisations make assumptions about cost instead of looking at TCO. e.g. assuming that the precious coloured toner can't be used by ordinary staff member- but the costings show it's not much more expensive for them than the black.

SO...why did he have a computer - with a keyboard??

Re: Yiddish?

Yes, but, note my comment about Gaelic. It's the stereotyping that's the worry.For example, your name is Irish in origin. (After I'd posted the above I saw this and decided to check its origin). You'd probably be pretty pissed off if anyone who saw your name assumed that your main spoken language was Gaelic ( maybe it is, I'm a great fan of minority languages and want to learn Yiddish).

Re: Yiddish?

No. It's not racist to say Yiddish speakers speak Yiddish. I'm planning to learn it myself. But thinking that Israelis speak a middle-European dialect of German- that's different. As I've posted above, like assuming that all Irish Americans speak Gaelic and carry a pig under their arms.

Re: Yiddish?

Yes. Associated with a tiny subset of Middle-European fundamentalist Jews of the kind who wear long black coats in places like Stamford Hill ( and a noble literary tradition that died with the Shoah). Not Israel. Racist because of this stereotype which was never relevant to either Israel or the wider Jewish population.

It's no different to assuming that all of New York's Irish-Americans speak Gaelic and carry a pig under their arm.

Re: 'On a point of order, Mr Speaker'

Sorry. It's used. It might not be elegant, but it's quick and easy to say, so people do. Rarely, but definitely I've even said it myself.

People do tend to use the shortest terms with the shortest sound transitions possible. Lappy has 1 and a half syllables compared to lap tops's full two. And the p-t-p transition isn't a good one; lip-roof of mouth-lip. It's similar to how people say "probly" or "proberly" instead of probably to shorten the utterance and remove the o to a vowel transition and one of the plosive b sounds.

Re: (KB4480970) Also hoses Windows 7 32 bit on Tosh Lappy

It's why I keep two images of the C: partition on a second internal drive and another one on an external drive. And have a boot disc that can run the restore if needed too.