Posts by lawl

El Reg encounters mObi: R2-D2 for retailers

Sex Panther

" (always empty almost all the time) "

60% of the time, it works every time.

Can Microsoft's U-turn stop the Xbox 360 becoming another XP?

I think you missed the point.

The point the headline is making is that so many people are still using XP even after Vista, 7 & 8. It's suggesting that the XBone will be a flop and everyone will stick with the 360.

PM Cameron calls for modern, programmable computers! (We think)

Re: Just asked someone who did GCSE IT last year

He got to use the command console in class?! Wow... that's way more than I got to do (3/4 years ago) We did nothing but use the graphical interface of dreamweaver (I was actually told off for trying to learn some html and code it myself) to create awful "websites" about healthy eating and the like.

What I'd have given to use the command console!

Short-staffed website swaps DOGS for DEVELOPERS

d'ya like dags?

Curse you, old person, for inventing computers!

Re: Yup - Me too!

"And to even suggest someone is shouting at a machine for doing what they want it to do is beyond further comment."

So someone is trying to put a coupon in the 'notes' hole and that's the machine's fault?

Re: Yup - Me too!

And sometimes they definitely need a stern talking to!

My point is, I came across so many people who refused to believe they were in the wrong, or took it upon themselves to, similar to the original post I replied to, blast me with questions like "why can't you just have normal tills?!" or "Can you just do it for me?" If they're so bothered about it, queue up for longer at a manned till, or take the time to ask for help and learn how to make them work properly

Re: Yup - Me too!

1 human can cover a lot of self scan tills. Or 1 human can cover 1 normal till. You do the maths.

I used to work in a supermarket and often had to cover these tills and there is nothing worse than an ignorant middle aged person who thinks they're too good to have to do it themselves. Younger people somehow instinctively know how to use them. Older people accept that they don't know how to use them and so ask for help. And then there's that generation in between who like to take it upon themselves to shout at the machine for not doing exactly what they want them to, when most of the time it's them misusing the machine!

Malware-flingers target gullible corporate bods with office printer spam

Re: Been getting these for ages

Same here, scanner models seem to vary month by month!

Help-desk hell

Stupid Word!

User: "Come and sort this stupid thing out, Microsoft word's stopped working properly and is going crazy"

I humbly obliged and trotted over.

Me:" That's Excel."