Re: A new landscape
Wow that will be amazing won't it! It almost sounds too good to be true!
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Yeah I think I dumped the contract route many many years ago.
Phone contracts are a mugs game.
My current Mate 10 Pro that I picked up in September last year cost me £360 new from Amazon. That was about 9 months after launch. I wouldn't have bought it if my 3 year old LG G4 had not given in suddenly to bootloop...
Also happy to report after just over a year the battery health is at 93%. I took note of the YouTube vids and stopped leaving it charging over night or at 100%. I now just charge it to 90% and then unplug.
Seems to work.
Yeah this was served too hot. They had been warned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAzMMKIspPQ
Plenty of other stuff on this.
Basically this case is twisted by corporations to try to push for tighter tort reform so ordinary folks cannot take any corporation to court for anything.
Usually AMD laptops have been hamstrung (mainly by HP for some reason) with single channel RAM, 500GB HDDs and 13x7 screens for as long as I can remember.
Hobbling the dual channel RAM was a good way of keep the performance down compared to competing machines.
However, AMD shot themselves in the foot once or twice...(E1 CPUs cough cough) without anyone else's help.
Good to see them pushing a competitive range again.
Exactly.
If (more likely when) Brexit is cancelled the FTSE will go through the roof. If all those with money have been buying low (the past 18 months) then they are set to make a killing.
They can then display faux outrage and put out a book but still walk away a few hundred million richer.
Mission accomplished.
I worked there and I can remember we used to pay a fortune for all our IT. We were a FTSE 100 firm and yet for some reason got the worst deal imaginable for our IT. Our buying power was massive but didn't seem to count for anything.
If we wanted 64MB of ram we would be charged say £100 for it with 4 weeks delivery when Crucial could do it for £20 with free next day delivery.
I went and challenged this several times to the IT procurement folks and got the brush off. I felt something wasn't right. I then challenged the head guy about it and he blew his top, especially when I mentioned if brown envelopes/kick backs were involved. "Shut the fuck up!" I remember.
I guess they were.
Cameron should be taken to court over all this. He got scared, caved in to the likes of Paper tiger Farage and a few bitchy Tories and in doing so split a nation in two and led it on a path of irreparable damage and social upheaval.
It was massively stupid and irresponsible. Once Brexit has been dropped there needs to be a full criminal inquiry. However, I can imagine a lot of folks flying out to non-extradition countries with their hidden off-shore accounts once Article 50 is cancelled.
I've asked a lot of folks that voted Leave why they did it. 7 times out of 10 the response is -
"Well I'm not bothered about the EU or all that. I just wanted to give Cameron and the Govt a punch on the nose. Didn't expect Leave to win!"
Yeah the delusion is so strong in the Pro Brexit camp. I said to a very pro Brexit person I know "Oh Brexit won't happen by the 31st!"
He turned and said most assuredly "Oh it HAS to happen by the 31st! No question!"
I said "Okay £10 I say it won't happen on the 31st! There will be another extension. Easy £10 for you!"
He looked concerned, his eye twitched and wouldn't take the bet.
They know damn well deep down it's all a crock. It's only some stupid miss-placed pride that keeps this shit show aloft.
I even texted him a week ago to up it to £20. Still won't take it.
Holding all the cards eh?
Well when the alternatives on the menu are -
Dog Shit
Cat Shit
Monkey Shit
I'll take an order of Lib Dem thanks. Cancel Brexit (and see the biggest surge to the UK economy in decades, so the likes of Rees Moog/Banks etc. will still make a pile of cash as was their plan all along) and then worry about where we go from there. At least we won't be carrying on our current course for the plughole.
Yeah I get this from customers. They ask I spend time coming up with the best bang for the buck and tell them.
Then one of two things happen -
They buy some other random piece of shit cos it 'was in pink'.
or
"We lost the list you sent us!"
F*ck off!
Bully China?
Not looked much into the USA's history of 'making friends and influencing people' around the world for the past 40 years?
I'd say the 'poor old' USA has killed more innocent people and children on foreign soil than China in that time. The USA is a far bigger bully to others and bullys don't like it when a bigger bully appears.
You (and China) are not the good guys in all this. Just two idiots the rest of the world is sitting back waiting for the chairs to really start flying.
How does that stack up? But from the wording of your post...deep thought isn't a thing.
Unless I missed the sarcasm?
Well the US made this situation by taking Wall St's mandate of "Cut costs! Increase profit!" every single day for the past 50 years.
So tough.
And so stupid.
The irony is the corporations' desire to pander to Wall St. will ultimately be its complete downfall.
If the 99% have no more money, who buys the product? Does Jeff Bezos buy that many Ford F-150s?
When did you last see Warren Buffett in a pair of slim fit 501s?
The US got greedy and now there is a bigger boy in the playground.
It was actually in a near urban environment in Whistler. Been out in the woods, smelt bear. Didn't see any.
Get back to the village, we walk round a corner, with bushes etc. and there 30 feet away is a bear. Okay it's a black one (if it was a grizzly...I wouldn't be typing this) but it's a large adult. It's out looking for scraps.
It sees me and the Gf. We see it.."Shittttt BEAR!!!!" we both say together.
I straight away stand still, tell my Gf to get behind me and walk back calmly to the cycle hire place across the bridge. She does so and I look at the bear and it looks at me.
Bear starts walking towards me. I start backing up. I go a little faster...it goes a little faster. I keep looking over my shoulder to see where GF is and she is getting away. I get to the bridge and by now the bear is ambling after me quite fast, I don't think it's enraged but curious. Still I don't want to make friends. It keeps on after me more and more enthusiastically. I'm not scared, just fascinated how it will turn out. I might get a sexy scar? Who knows?
Anyway bear is now quite fast, my heart is pounding..."What a great holiday!" I'm thinking.
I get across the bridge and shout to the guy at the cycle hire "BEARRRRR!!!"
He just gets his phone out and uses the 'Nuisance Bear' app and then a little old lady turns up with her little yappy dog. It sees the bear, it goes nuts at the bear and the bear just runs like crazy into the woods. Awwww!
Gf and I just stand there laughing, knowing we have a great story to tell folks back home.
At the end of the day, when shit like that happens, there are no rules or wise moves, especially if it's a grizzly. You either get lucky or you don't. So yeah I'd still take Grizzly Adam's advice with a pinch of salt.
But you know...make a noise like a yappy dog might work. At least I've been able to test some of the advice in a way.
Speaking as someone who has in fact been chased by a bear, I can say it's an exhilarating experience.
Plus now when I go to such places as the wilds of Canada etc. and some bearded Grizzly Adams type starts to tell 'us tourists' about what to do if a bear attacks I quickly tell them and brush it off. You should see their faces!
...to my other half that does web development.
She just laughed. She said that it didn't surprise her and that TSO were always going to get burnt by having a bulk email facility openly available.
Long time coming apparently. Plus she says they are really crap as hosts.
They all start out good and then just get packed and don't bother to upgrade.
Well years ago I was almost part of the sick puppy brigade. Spending a huge chunk of my salary on Meridian gear and CDs back in the 90's.
I used to be on a lot of the hi-fi forums and so often I'd see some poor guy who was so proud to declare he's bought a new NAIM CD player or amp only to be beaten into submission by 'NAIM fanboys' telling him it wouldn't sound good/right till he added the optional power supply etc. etc. Yeah not so much NAIM but the fanboys.
It was behaviour like that (plus the start of stock computer/PC products starting to be used in hi-fi and having the hi-fi voodoo BS and price tag applied to them) that made me move away from all that and get a life basically.
Remember no female has ever said "Oh god you are so sexy talking about your Hi-Fi!"