Re: sheilas wheels
My theory is that those adverts were so irritating the European Court of Justice had to step because they contravened some WHO mandate or another.
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Nice, but following looked more proactive....
"I'm going to take a poo on your doorstep you inbred mugs. If I don't get my money in my account within 24 hours I'm going to chain myself to your qc naked and play with my todger. I think your employes should work naked for compensation #SayNoMore
by I hate natwest from Hmp Bristol on June 22, 2012 at 11:12 pm 0 comments "
(also have screenshot :-)
"My father's family (Scandinavian roots) would use "What are you yammering on about?" as an approximate equivalent of "What are you wittering on about?""
Used all the time by my family since forever, (English/Italian). So I'm fairly sure the phrase is fairly wide spread in the English speaking world, (and probably has a Germanic/Nordic invader type derivation, which makes a change from nicking Latin and French words).
1) Really?
2) Good point
3) Perks of being the victor, (you have too give the grunts something to do)
4) Most of the UN sanctioned war's since the late 1940's have been done because one country or another has abstained.
5) Not sure about that, (links? etc)
6) Yep according to the US, Cyber attacks are an act of war. However they don't seem to realize that it's exactly the same as the old MAD based stuff, when they commit the offense. (dumb arsed art's student type politicians).
Eeek, touched a nerve (sorry).
"Professionals would be able to remember what to type and where to click"
Quite, but explaining that over mobile phone connection can be somewhat fraught. But as they say you should try everything in life except Morris Dancing and Incest.
"They would also know how to use remote support requests so they didn't need to tell the user anything at all..."
Depends if the actual problem was actually related to the network, (i.e. wireless/dubious hotel setup/Windows 7 weird unknown network type problem for instance), otherwise Logmein is fab.
Being a general old school sort of A/P doing random user support on my down time, (it's the economy don't you know) :-(
Trying to do remote admin on people with current Windows 7 is actually quite bad. i.e.
(after general obvious stuff),
'press the start button, yep the round thing in the left bottom corner', now type 'cmd' return. Oh so it didn't come up with anything, umm, type local security policy. Oh so that hasn't come back with anything. Try 'local group policy'. umm nothing either. Read me down what you have on the screen. Oh, not there, goes on, (until randomly find the appropriate app - not actually listed in any o/s search for end user to find easily).
Not entirely sure Win8 duel interface is going to make this procedure more elegant.
(*) Yep, and before you point it out, a default windows install would pop up the things requested. An off the shelf consumer build, (i.e. Dell I'm looking at you), apparently might not.
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Maybe, but they did cut out a lot of useful stuff to get the improvement. For instance, you can't say that Windows 7 file explorer is better the the one in XP - well you can but you'd be wrong. (Speaking who someone who does use lots of files rather than using than the 'puter as an interface to the TV).
Indeed. Basically the bedtime version of snow-angels, (in lubricated form). However it's an interesting point that Gordon10 brought up. Was a commonly know expression, but no actual reference on the internet, (well google anyways). Fountain of all knowledge my foot.
Well I do like 7, however the file explorer doesn't do what I want and removed functionality provided by XP, - i.e. ability to turn auto-sort off and ability to rearrange icons in any order in icon mode). Maybe not a problem for some, but it is a personal preference and something that was removed for no real reason other than the 'undocumented' control now being used in Win7's file explorer doesn't do it. Does remind me of the time they removed the 'block' copy ability from Word for no reason. Thank god for Textpad.
"I used Protext/Amstrad CPC a year later and handed in a bunch of dot matrix It was spit in 2 because of memory constraints or something."
Yeh!, not just me then :-). Horrible late night experiences late at night running out of space and having to start a new file to continue my ramblings.
Mind I did make a very sizeable profit selling off my Arnor CPC ROMS a couple of years back. (must of been rare).
Well dah, in the same way that whichever advertising regulatory body whose job it is, is ignoring those "Freeview" adverts which states everything is free, (slightly ignoring the fact that you need a TV licence which isn't free).
Anyway I miss the days when you could tell an American production by it's orange hue.