Posts by Eradicate all BB entrants 481 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2009
Then you wouldn't need to pay the big boxen builders more money to replace or repair.
Build your own then you can spec a motherboard with dual bios (yes, it's that old but by god it's a fantastic bastard and is AM3+ thanks to a bios update :D) and a cmos reset switch. Costs a few extra pounds but it reduces my need to worry about borked bios updates and psychotic memory dimms ruining my rig. No use for laptop users but they have been limited devices for a long time now.
Despite being an avid user on Firefox on desktop I won't use it on my phone as no matter how much memory you have it crashes. I find Dolphin runs better.
I am quite lucky that my son isn't a stuck up little shit, so he is happy with phones at this level. He currently uses my old Xperia Arc, and will get my Z when I upgrade. For parents in a similar position to myself these devices are great for kids as if they do lose/break them its not a major drain on this months pay to replace them.
Trolls have existed many a year. I remember my uncle trying to troll me by asking me to go get a bubble for a spirit level. He was chuckling on my return until I handed him a bubble for a spirit level (Thanks Stanley for making em replaceable). Trolling is just carrying out a practical joke.
Griefers on the other hand carry out acts of a cruel nature just to upset, embarrass or cause emotional pain to the other party.
So every time time I see a journalist use the 'troll' monicker when reporting about griefers it makes me wonder if they all would like to be referred to as phone hacking scum.
...... me. Santander had an issue yesterday with card payments, got me locked out of some services. I called them and the rep was a dick, so muttered under my breath that it would be fixed by moving my account to Nationwide.
At least Nationwide put something up on their page, unlike Santwatder.
The UK opted out of the enforced 2 year manufacturer warranty as we have the Sale of Goods act which as stated above can protect an item for up to six years. This is honoured through the retailer though so pick who you purchase from wisely.
For devices such as premium phones and tablets I think that you should be good for at least 3 years.
..... do the indies step back and think about doing something similar for themselves. The independent scene is blooming again after wilting under the barrage of crappy television karaoke shows so why not service your own sector? Their own streaming/video service would open up a whole new world of advertisers for the labels that would be more relevant.
Stop thinking about what Youtube/Spotify can offer your fans, look at what you can offer instead, a bespoke streaming\video service for people who love what you create.
At what point did I say that the fact there are some industries that have females on higher wages than males negated the issue of wage discrepancy? My statement, which you have so conveniently avoided in order to take a sentence out of context, was that equality should be about equality. If you want to balance the wage differential between males and females it has to be carried out across the entirety of industry.
I never downvote so you don't have to worry, as nothing in my previous post or this one was classed as smug. In fact the only person on this thread being smug is yourself, seeing as you think that any downvotes of your rather poor attempt at a rebuttal will cement your belief that all white males are racist/sexist/misogynistic.
.... apoplectic is gender/race quotas. It shouldn't matter if you are male, female, white, black or a rabbit with a pogo stick shoved up it's ass. The person who is the best for the position should be employed. Positive discrimination is still discrimination.
At the same time you see complaints, for example, about the difference in salary between men and women, and that it needs to be adjusted, but they never refer to the porn industry where females are paid quite a lot more than males. Same with feminism and page 3, they say that pictures of topless women are exploitative but not a fricking peep about the topless diet coke fella. It's usually those crying out for equality that don't have a clue what the word means.
Nope, tis a desktop. The need to do a fresh install was done away with Win 7, day 1 release install and still performs very well, just the spinning rust that's holding it back.
As for the transfer, a nice case and mobo means I have plenty of SATA connections and drive bays to keep it all neat and tidy :)
For laptops I use Ghost as over the years it has saved me a lot of work, boot from USB, throw the image onto the NAS and its ready to go with the new drive. Found it handy for drives on the verge of dying too.
Had to wait until the end of the thread but here they are, ladies and gentleman I proudly present people who have no idea of what gaming is at all. And guys, when it comes to home video gaming the console really did get there first with items such as the Grandstand.
I have a gaming pc, I also have consoles, including the Xbox One (and no, he doesn't, only I can turn my xbox on ..... but then it auto signs in the girlfriend), I carry out some light gaming on my phone and sometimes I am happy with a few games of solitaire.
I quite like the kinect, it is handy for when I get in from work, throw my bag down, mutter to myself about the amount of Virgin flyers stuck in the front door, realise I need to iron a shirt for the day after before I forget. During all of this I can have Modern Family ready to play on Netflix without once looking for the controller.
As for the walk, I will happily go for that walk if you survive the free Insanity workout on that little mentioned free app, Xbox Fitness or as I call it, Xbox de Torquemada.
..... in Mass Effect and Saints Row. Shepard can be male or female, The Saints leader can be male or female (with different accents too). Burt 'Motherf***ing' Reynolds can't be anything other than himself though.
Never bothered with AC after playing the first one. Sat down expecting to be an assassin from the middle ages and found out that it's a fecking time travel dream. Bunch of arse.
..... follow the sun 24/7 statement. Was the shift allowance for night and weekend workers having an affect on senior management bonuses?
I know of many companies that require 24/7 cover that use the 4 on/4 off 12 hour shift system and they have no issues with service at all, and all from one site in one country.
I don't have disdain for programmers, just for bad programmers. Having seen what ass kissing and nepotism can do to a well oiled programming team the quality of code is important.
Using aircraft as a comparison is about as dumb as Microsoft's inept car comparison. As mentioned above, or below, commercial airliners have whole teams of people and systems to make sure their journey through relatively clear spaces is trouble free. If I thought for a minute that there was a chance that some oik in his Boeing Saxo GTR could be trying to impress his girlfriend by pulling stupid stunts in close proximity to other craft I would never get on one.
...... that it isn't a taxi meter at all. It's just a booking app with a calculator. It records the distance traveled then gives the price for that. It is merely the software version of the minicab driver looking at his trip odometer then lowering the sun visor and checking the distance against the charging table.
The other way to prove it isn't a taxi meter is that there isn't a £3.50+ charge on it for putting the taxi in first gear.
........ regardless of everything else in the story and the actions taken I have just seen something that beggars belief 'inventing the iBooks store'. How the f*** can you call that an invention? I don't care who's tech you prefer but that statement there is showing utter contempt for everyone on the planet whoever created anything of use.
Lets join in ..... I took a beer into the toilets at the club so it wouldn't get lifted and inadvertently invented a self contained mobile beer recycling method.
...... one application we all need. A heart monitor that is connected to your mobile device, if your heart stops beating it sends out a signal to remote wipe your browsing history.
Won't someone think of the children who have to sort through expired parents computers?
.... outside the polling station I use as it isn't a primary school that can provide a photo opportunity. For many years I have wanted to give them a glare as I walked in but they have yet to fulfil this voters needs. That said in ten years of living where I do not one of them has ever doorstepped me, years of witty one liners and put downs gone to waste.
I also found little need in the front camera until the other week. Some pesky little insect decided to crash land into my eyeball, with no mirrors around the front camera worked a treat at helping remove it.
As it saved me from walking around the high street acting like I had a hyperactive tic I for one will never get a phone without a front camera again.
Ok, it's time for me to single myself out. Jar Jar was not the most annoying thing about episode one. It was Anakin. The constant 'I'm the best pod racer' and 'I'm going to be a Jedi' whiny obnoxious little shit statements all the way through drove me insane. At least they replaced him with a wooden chair in episode 2.
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