Posts by Martin-73

Re: Manual is optional,

Yes, also please don't assume that we all run windows Vista

Re: Why?

To be fair, speeding isn't my issue here, in that case, the idiot deserves the fine, the issue is the UK habit of having ANPR on private car parks with obfuscated rules, combined with the DVLA handing out details to any scammer who asks

interesting, thank you for the insight :)

or a normal license plate with a means to attach to the trailer, but i see where you're coming from and some of them could do with a marker pen in their Christmas stocking

yes, always seemed odd to me as a brit, having trailers with a separate license plate number, it's not a vehicle, it's part of the towing unit

Re: Why?

Would be handy for those annoying car parks with ANPR enforced nazism

this is 100% normal in most of the civilized world

Never understood places with no front plate requirement, how does that work visiting a place where front plates are required?

to be fair, that's ONE bit of 1984 i am ok with, all it's doing is checking if the person is licensed, taxed and insured.

Re: "You own, at most, a serial number"

You sir, need to fight that. Mold is an incorrect spelling

Re: Upside down 3.5" floppies

Indeed, when you can't lose, you can take more chances and go further into the system than otherwise. Fixed a 700 pound (value, not weight) multifunction electrical tester for that reason, Megger wanted over the value of it to fix the issue. Turned out to be cracked solder joints at the 4mm sockets, but to get to them involved about 2 hrs of disassembly

Re: Upside down 3.5" floppies

Programme was definitely the computer spelling in the 8 bit era, the BBC even played on it with 'the computer programme'. But Yes, it's shifted in the short time since then ;)

Re: Mac Problems are easily dealt with

I've found apple devices extremely difficult to use, especially iOS, but even macbooks and imacs are .... quirky as all hell, swapping control for cmd, for example, refusing to learn words in autocorrect, refusing to talk to each other , the list goes on

Re: Helium-3 vs. Helium-4

If your shower is at 1.2K, twist the knob slightly, which will turn it to somewhat hotter than the surface of the sun.

Re: Curly -- or Straight?

I thought the anti-pasty was made by Ginsters

Re: Sugary soft drinks ...

Yep, i only drink diet drinks around my pc, and indeed in the works van. Spills can be cleaned up easily

Yes it was, and interesting, i had to buy oil the other day and was also surprised at the lack of email address demand. Maybe the message DID get thru despite the paltry fine (bad publicity?)

Re: One of those places

oof, that's a bit rich

Re: One of those places

Halfords are the only retailer that routinely asks for your email address in face to face sales, that i regularly encounter. Sure, there are others... but halfords always sticks in my memory, i suspect because they're agressive about asking

Re: One of those places

Indeed.... they ask for mine, i tell them no, if they push, and say 'it's just for the email receipt' they get fukoff@die.com ... because i once gave them my address, took a stern email to a supposedly private address within their corporate monolith to get my address removed (simply marking it do not send spam' wasn't acceptable to me)

On a minor personal note, Waze is also good at doing this as an individual satellite navigation app... 'my AI says this route is equally fast'

The AI doesn't note that one route is a dual carriageway (2 lanes in each direction, with a central barrier/median) and the other is a 5'6" wide farm track with tractors coming the other way....

Re: "I'll let my badly-insulated apartment reach 82ºF (28ºC) but there are no people"

of course i can't, anything about 14C is unhealthily hot

Re: Wait, what?

Also from the UK, which is WHERE THE REGISTER IS FROM. Why they use antiquated units is beyond me, doesn't the reg have its own unit system? May i suggest 'deci-texashouseholds' ?

Nooo, it's me who has an obsessive hatred of the sociopath :)