Posts by Dabooka 1200 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2007
I rarely get cold calls, but when I do by heck I put them through the mill!
And I always ask questions back when it is a legitimate call, it's always nice asking them where, when and value of my last transaction, or when my account was opened.
Co-Op bank and Amex always seem to enjoy playing along, the others not so much (especially EE)
How many have actually read the book as opposed to basing their knowledge on the movie and / or mini series? And of course when I say book I appreciate the plethora of sequels, but for the purposes of this we're talking Dune.
I agree that one movie wouldn't be able to impart all of the book so they have a choice; cut loads out and make a movie with just the main elements in it, or span it out over a trilogy. Personally I'd go the former, I'm sick of dire films made from excellent starting concepts (books, comics etc) and I'd rather appreciate a good film with bits hacked out from the book. It'd be more likely made into a trilogy anyway and there's loads of material to continue forward, and some excellent films don't follow the book accurately but are still watchable.
Finally although it was along time ago when I read it , and I was a lot younger, I know I had to frequently refer back and reread bits when I'd lost the plot. Doesn't quite work out the same if you have to do that with a film.
Anyway we all know why Dune failed, it lacked Ewoks or a Jar-Jar character for fans to attach too....
Quite.
My switch, bought on by a house move, from Plusnet fibre to VM has cost me about £10 a month more, but I get the TV into that and I now get 100mbit. Worth it but not allowed for in these reports.
Obviously when they hike the prices up I'll probably be off but until then it's a no brainer
When in the market I was tempted by one of these. The modular thing was clearly a gimmick (but I love a gimmick), but the overall cost was what put me off. Yes it was cheaper than Samsung handsets or an iThing, which I'd never have, but ever since having to use a Doogee X5 Pro I'm more than happy buying a far cheaper handset outright. Wileyfox Swift 2+ as it is.
Flagships. Too expensive with not enough to warrant the layout, or the option of taking a ridiculously expensive contract even the brain-dead balk at.
@Charlie
Maybe your right, but the article earlier suggests it was the way the batteries were constructed that caused the problems, and I'd have thought other testing would have identified some of the problems. Even simply deconstructing random samples might have shown the poor processes, such as lack of insulation tape or poorly executed electrode terminals etc., and that's before live testing in the device itself.
Mind that's all assuming the reports true.
Although somewhat simplified, I think you're right; you can see the direction this is going to go in, and if anyone actually thinks they can't put the genie back in the bottle, they're very much mistaken.
I have no problem with protecting commercial interests online, but sucking my email and browsing habits in the process? Get bent. And all those Kodi lovers are playing right into the hands of folks like this.
When I see Freedom of Information requests like this, what's the argument for those that don't respond? Is it just by 'the time of going to press' only x from y replied, or is it down to interpretation of some rule or other?
My place is terrified and respond to everything, even when I think we could argue based on commercial sensitivity
I agree there's something afoot.
However for me it's how they still have the $34 million to refund. Surely the process is to raise funds, burn through it, apologise via email and start again. To have the money to return is in itself impressive and makes a change.
What exactly have they been spending these last couple of years?
I was just about to post this myself.
I mean I can isolate my shed from the mains feed, so it shouldn't be that difficult
Although in this instance it wasn't discovered through of audit of data accessed or intrusion detection, things that might suggest ability and / or common sense. Their 'ability' to detect was more a case of someone shouting "Anyone seen that usb drive?" which was sprobably nicked by someone who uses it to transport their .mkvs around.
Still in woefully inadequate fine though
but they did 'invent' a touch screen iPod that could make a receive calls.
It was the obvious transition from their iPods, so they already had a fan base waiting in the wings. I've said in here at the time that I used both an iPhone 2g and a Nokia N95 and much preferred the N95 for day to day living (I got down voted for it, but it's how I felt), but the iPhone was perfect for Apple and perfect for those that had bought into the Apple ecosystem. ITunes has as much responsibility for their success as do the incumbent phone manufacturers, who at the time let Apple stride in and pull the carpet out from underneath them.
Don't forget just how cool and must have anything iApple were back then. I also agree with the comments about how the iPhone profits helped them enormously, as after the iPod they started being more an computer company to one that moved CE instead.
Just how much is it worth?
Thinking about it they'd need quite a lot of return as a business to think £400k on data is worthwhile. Even if the data source is an extremely rich one, the conversion rate via cold calling leading onto a sale (i.e. claim) would need to be very high to leave enough after costs to warrant such a spend.
And yes, I appreciate No Win No Fee is big business but £400,000 still seems on the high side for purchasing the knock off data
@Egghead
You're right of course, but even if I knew there were there it isn't a deal breaker. School location etc is somewhat more meaningful in reality, and knocking the house back because of this (when we'll all end up at some point anyway) would have probably got me a divorce for free too.
Anyway I think it's early one as it's branded EON so assume it's incompatible with everything anyway!
"Because the Trojans are remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets, they hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system. Lucy, like the human fossil for which it is named, will revolutionize the understanding of our origins."
And she was called Lucy due to some ditty by a popular-at-the-time four piece called The Beatles.
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