exporting gas
I dont know why any country would export fossil fuel.
Its shortsighted . And by shortsighted I mean not looking 100 years ahead .
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"Me neither, but also mainly not all of us have disposable income enough for such mostly useless frivolities."
I have , surprisingly ,given the state of my career , but whats the effing point?
I dont dim the lights or add a jar of coffee to my shopping list nearly enough to enroll the help of a robot with the comprehension ablilities of Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
Remember: Home taping kills music
Probably explains why we don't have music today
My god you're right. We killed music. Now the only music we get is produced by those TV appeals aired on a Saturday night where they use phone in donations to bully halfwits into singing for our amusement.
"The worst case is coming across something you know you will soon need. You move it to a "safe" place. Then afterwards you find you can only remember where it was originally - and the "safe" place eludes you."
I always think "where would i expect to find this later on" , and have to put it in that spot, even if thats not where i want to keep it!
I must get round to ditching all of the <1GB drives sometime
Newsflash!
its not just the 1gb...
its all the IDE ones ...
and most of the Satas too.
if you've got a lot of 160gb sata discs lying around you cant pile them all together to make a decent storage area - there arnt enough sata ports/controllers .
On this logic I declare any Hard disc smaller than 1tb redundant.
Its a balancing act.
I'm on the lean side , due to lack of space . 2 boxes of cables (scarts and other older ones have been chucked) 1 box vinyl . one shed containing a dismantled car that is the same model as the one i drive .
1 box misc pci cards etc
You have to weigh up the odds of someone wanting to pay you money to show up with a parallel floppy drive that only works in xp against the cubic inches it takes up.
We all wish we had a magic shed like the Tardis... but most dont.
Software ans files on the other hand.... hoard as much as you want! Hard drive storage is massive and so cheap you can keep anything! (within reason)(a 100 disc blu ray collection is not "within reason" - keep that on tye discs it came on)
While this bounty program is in place I would be worried that any internal staff of questionable morals coming across a bug would, rather than fixing said bug would look to strike a deal with an external pen tester to share a bounty.
maybe the bounty comes from whichever programming team is reponsible's wages!
I authored an error message in a system for retrieving info from remoter PCs that went:
"Cannot proceed because the machine we have connected to is not XXXXXXXX , its YYYYYYYY , this is because of a DNS error AGAIN!!!, please get zzzzzz to fix it".
and that was rev2 , with the swearing taken out.
@define Infinity
It would take me quite a while to unpick that paragraph , even if I had some idea what the hell you're talking about in the first place, as it stands i dont. I've checked the comments above for people dissing Newton , and been back to read the Newton part of the article (too much time on my hands) and I still dont know what prompted your outburst.
maybe its just me. can anyone elaborate?
"but wanted to charge me £2 for two broken slats from a garden fence."
It never ceases to amaze me what will come out of the mouths of the cavemen working there based on there interpretation of the batshit crazy rules the council have written down for them.
wtf is trade waste? if i get a builder in to fit a new sink , and he takes it away - he will have to pay
If i fit my own new sink and take old one to tip - will i have to pay?
What about if the builder fits the sink , but asks me to dispose of my own old sink?
And why are they charging to receive all this valuable hardcore anyway?
I agree re music and films. it was a bad and not relevent example.
I think possibly the film and music industry is through the worst of it , now that not many people keep physical copies either on disc or as computer files.
Its just easier to sign up for netflix and spotify etc than pirate stuff , for a lot of people - not all obviously.
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by "stone dead" do you mean terminally contaminated by a never ending stream of moronic comic book superhero films - at the cost of anything good?
If so i'd have to agree
Can you help me program my VCR? Nevermind, I'll just let it blink until someone holds my hand, i mean if the manual wasn't like 2 full pages...
Theres no point you programming your VCR because you chose Betamax and you cant get any tapes for it.
The mainstream are using VHS. Yes , i know it is technically inferior picture quality, but theres lots of Prerecorded films to rent , blank tapes are plentifully available , theres a wide range of models to choose from and Head cleaning tapes are available.
I guess the majority of commentards here would be skilled enough to hatch a BOFH like plan to remotely silence the machines, or failing that - the user.
I recently remotely shutted up a guy playing a youtube music list in the office, not by pskill.exe ing his browser as he'd lose work, i think it was by shutting an audio related service off
And our office actually has a dot matrix printer, for filling out one particular form in carbonless triplicate.
but why? someone has to break the cycle!
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Did you know theres an NHS office in wales that digital pictures through the post on a floppy disk?
...to my nhs trust, where I had to find a machine that would run W7, And have a floppy drive! That machine will now be running w10, hopefull w10 knows what a floppy is.
The number of missed calls outweighs the number I hear by a factor of 3.
As a phone its terrible at making at notifying you that there is a call.
Me too, I've not seen a handy notification LED on any my phones since the samsung A500 (holds 10 texts , to give you a timescale)
My last was a windows phone that was impossible to have it repeat beep every minute , in case you missed first beep , even if u prepared to write your own app. No led either.
Now have Iphone 5 that seems to do what the fuck it wants ring tone / sms vibrate / volume wise. its different every time!