Posts by Andrew Moore 1720 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Mar 2007
For providing a correct pound to euro exchange rate and not have instances like thecrookpeople.co.uk who allow you to purchase in sterling but charge you in euros adding nearly 60% to the total without warning.
Unfortunately it looks like play.com are going the same way. I say 'unfortunately' for play.com- they are not the only ones selling CDs online....
>Secondly, I find it incredibly insulting that anyone outside the US would dare think
>that we aren't aware of the rest of the world. D-Day should have proved that.
>Otherwise, the UK might still be a heap of rubble
Sorry mate, the Battle of Britain was won long before you septics were drop kicked into WWII by the nips.
[Mines the one that says "No USA, you did not single handedly win WWII"]
"Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while it is only 6 per cent of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60bn in annual revenues to software companies."
As a regular contributor to various open source initiatives this makes me feel very proud.
My boss just brought back one of these pieces of garbage from the states- Of course it was dumped on my desk to get it working. After two days of working with it and it's "GUI for cretins" I've renamed it the "Fucking Twat Phone" as in "If a fucking twat needed a phone, which one would it use".
Got to go, the boss has just rung down. Apparently the fucking twat phone doesn't like spaces in file names....
How about dropping the gender terms such as 'male/female', 'he/she' etc and just talk about the whole thing in chromosomic terms. In which case an XX, who was born XX with the organs peculiar to XX, got married to a second XX. The second XX is unable to conceive so the first XX has conceived in its place.
See- a lot simplier and no need for gender bias, bigotry or the such.
...I coded my first "sideband" application in the late 80s. It was a basic pre-fetch that added detail to a table when you clicked on it- My app just used the time that the user was reading the table to get the extra data they would want when they clicked on a row. It was based on modem comms and the fact that you paid for time on the line rather than data thruput. The whole idea was to be to use the modems bandwidth while you were dialed in, rather than have idle periods followed vy slow downloads when you finally "clicked" (hit Return) on something.
Now- how much should I be paid???
After all, since my Anti-Tiger Stick was brought into service, neither I or the people around me have been attacked by tigers. My estimate would be at least over a million people have been protected by my Anti-Tiger Stick. That's why the deterrent value of this Stick is just staggering.
"First they came for the smokers and I did not speak out because I was not a smoker
Then they came for the drinkers and I did not speak out because I was not a drinker
Then they came for the boring, self-righteous pricks and there was no one left to speak out for me"
1. When I receive a home delivery I'm asked to verify the contents of the crates and sign off that I have received my shopping. Unless the scammers are receiving details about my order they are not going to get that right.
2. I would be alerted to the scam the moment the real delivery arrives.
On the plus side I would have 2 loads of shopping for the price of 1!!! Sounds like a win for the consumer to me.
Isn't the Sunday Times owned by News Corp who also own that delightful propaganda engine Fox/Sky News??? They seem to have default settings for all their stories:
"Foreign national detained" = "Terrorist Bomber detained"
"Suspect questioned in child abduction case" = "Paedophile questioned in child abduction case"
oh and anything qualifies for "Breaking News" even if it happened yesterday.
"Odd that America also produces some of the most fierce porn in the world, as well as being some of the world's most reactionary anti-wardrobe-malfunctioners."
I'm presuming that "fierce" here means "boring, generic and repetitive". And as for the wardrobe malfunction I think The Onion speared that one better than anyone:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30883
I would like to see the return of patronage (obviously on a multi-consumer basis) that allows me to download anything my beneficiaries produce without hindrance, for a fee per year (say the price of a standard CD). This would have the effect of driving the revenue directly to the artists and will weed out the less popular as they will no be economically viable. This could work for theatre, film, music, literature, art- the works. It would also mean that self appointed "guardians" like the RIAA and MPAA would become unneeded.
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