Posts by d3vy 1633 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Mar 2014
ARRRG - Shops that put the security tag on the inside of the waist of their jeans!
How the fuck they expect you to try something on with a pointy lump of plastic digging into your hip bone is beyond me.
Also unrelated to shoes, I can totally sympathise with you all... After spending years trying to find 28" waist 34" leg jeans... I gave up and just ate more until I could fit in a 32x34...
YES!
This is what we need - glorified showrooms, however they can backfire!
Most of my purchases are online anyway, its only expensive stuff that I want to hold and play with first that I actually go out to shops to have a look at... I generally end up buying online even after that.
A recent trip to PC world (I know, I know...) was one of the occasions that this backfired - basically it was friday 5pm and I got a PO for some urgent work that needed done that weekend to do this I needed a replacement desktop PC *. I went in with the intention of spending around £500 on something with at least an i5 in it.
After looking over the PCs on display and making my selection I was told that they don't keep them in stock and I'd have to order on line for delivery on monday. The same was true of any decent spec/moderately expensive machine because they just don't shift in numbers that warrant having them in stock.
A friend had a similar experience when trying to buy a surface 4 pro.
Too expensive to stock, order it on line.
In both cases above they lost sales to other suppliers, I needed mine there and then so went on eBay and bought the first thing within 10 miles that was buy it now that met my needs (It was out of business hours by this point) and collected it that night. my friend decided to hold out for a SB instead.
* Why I needed a replacement PC is a long story...
OK, I get it people don't want facebook listening to them, however I don't see the issue with targeted advertising.
If I am talking about going on holiday to florida I'd rather see adverts for holidays popping up on my news feed than some randomly selected crap that I have no interest in.
Its very unlikely that I would click on an advert even if relevant as I am capable of searching for things that I want on my own.
Oh for fuck sake, are we having another "my OS is better than your OS" cock waving contest?
Does it matter what os you use? Does my use of windows have a terrible server on your life? If so you need help. When I pull out my iPad to send an email on the train does it cause you mental anguish? What about when I take a call on my android phone? Does that make your eyelid twitch?
Get a fucking grip.
"We'd need a bit of enforcement ... if anyone set up a site that wanted to serve Flash and just returned an HTML page saying "This site requires Flash" would have to have a pretty good reason for doing so or be liable to some punishment too horrible to countenance -- including but not limited to the confiscation of the domain name."
That's one of the daftest things I've ever heard.
Oh god you're one of those?
"The components alone cost x, how can they justify it costing y?"
Because youre not just paying for a pile of components you are also paying for the assembly, software probably some form of support...
Little anecdote about my experience last week that is quite fitting.. I was out and about and a little peckish so nipped into a shop and bought some crisps.
It was only later I realised that crisps are just sliced up cooked potatoes! They cost pennies... yet I was charged £1 for a bag which couldn't have contained more than two mid sized potatoes. How are they getting away with this??
It's a fucking scam, and Gary linniker is behind all of it.
It says it's found 4 threats.
Seeing as the new super short article doesn't take the time to list what those might be could we assume that it MIGHT not be the site itself but something it is serving that it's not meant to?
It's not beyond the realms of reason to think that someone might have fucked about hand have some page on the site spewing malware?
I mean it's probably not, Norton is a bag of wank... but my point is it COULD BE, the should have elaborated on the reasons.
The cheapest model is a clip on the belt pedometer... which are not as susceptible to rapid wrist movements as the other. Did they give you a flex (cheapest wrist band)?
Side note, I ran a mile an a half in the shower once.
I sold it on eBay because it lost its appeal, thing is I know how active I am during the day, don't need a wrist band to tell me that I didn't walk as far when I've driven to work instead of walking... I can figure that out on my own.
If you're going to count all iOS tablets then you must also include all windows tablets... and that changes things a bit.
As for your point.. the article was about both companies PRO tablets. So yes one specific model vs another. Which is why surface book sales were not included despite the fact it's basically a surface pro 4.
"Thank you sir, I note that your engine is still running therefore here is a ticket for using your phone whilst driving!"
Oh don't be a tool.
For a start the first thing that the police do after pulling you over (and after a greeting of some description) is ask you to stop the engine.
Secondly - you would be carrying that device anyway whether it had your licence on it or not.
Thirdly - there is no (enforced) requirement for you to have your licence on you while you are driving, if they pull you and trust you to produce it you will be given a period of time to take it into a station.
Now, I think its important to note at this point that I disagree with the digital licence... I dont see a point to it but to start making out that its going to cause additional fines for using a phone whilst driving is ridiculous.
"Great idea, our friends in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries will be really happy with us for that! They've been loosing loads of money thanks to these devices"
Knew I wouldn't have to wait long for that to come up. Its the same argument with homeopathy and "big pharma"
My response - do you really think that if Brittish Tobbaco was that worried about loss of sales that they would just sit back and say... "Ah well fuck it, we had our day." No You'd see Marlborough, Silk Cut and B&H branded liquids and vaping machines on the counters in minutes and all off the smaller manufacturers out on their arses.
Same with homeopathy - You can knock "big pharma" all you want and say that they are suppressing evidence that it works, but really it would be in their interests to prove sugar pills cure cancer because
a. They are cheap to produce and
b. The markup is ridiculous.
As for B&T vaping would make them MORE money if they got into it because production costs would be much lower.
Realistically all that is happening here is that the rules for vaping are being brought inline with normal cigarettes.
James51.
I dont know if your intention was to validate or discredit the comments about printers... but the cheapest one of those printers that I could find was £200 and the cheapest epson inkjet that I could find was £30... So if you were aiming to discredit the previous comments you have not swayed me.
NomNom
I started typing up an explanation of how wrong you are and how meta studies actually work but I realised that someone who puts the word science in quotation marks would likely not listen or simply not understand.
I implore you, type the phrase "What is a meta study" into google and do some reading, I know you wont.. instead you will laugh at this comment and wrap yourself a little tighter in your blanket of ignorance,
"MO's are sterile, quite silly as farmers have to buy new crops every year. They have to be, because
it is not wise to import "foreign" plants because they can spread like mad if no living thing can attack them.
The other problem is cross-field contamination, where seeds a blown by all winds to neighboring fields, contaminating those cultures."
Did you read that as you were typing of were you rabidly frothing at the mouth too much to notice your two statements completely contradict each other?
There are two other options.
1. you dont know what sterile means,
2. You dont know how plants reproduce (If you like I can have the birds and the bees talk with you - Quite literally!)
"next year it won't grow again from the seeds you harvested because we genetically modified the plant not to produce viable seeds"
Look at it another way - that stops the uncontrolled propagation of GM crops that the daily mail gets all frothy mouthed about.
And as I have pointed out above - the companies need to re-coup their investment in the R&D to create the seeds in the first place.
If you ran a company and sold a product that was capable of replicating itself don't you think you might want to disable that so that you could sell more than one?
"and the owner of the next field across suddenly no longer owning their previously non-GM crop either due to the inevitable nature of nature to ignore such barriers as hedges and fences"
Couldn't that also be an argument FOR the selling of sterile crops that will not produce crop bearing seeds... which means that the farmer would then need to re-purchase the patented seeds again for the next harvest.
Original :" I can't see this working as advertised."
ENG -> German : "Ich kann mich nicht um diese Funktion zu sehen wie in der Werbung."
And back again : "I can not to see this function as advertised."
And that's one simple sentence.. Yeah - you can just about figure out what it means, but that's with it written and reading it over once for context then the second time to understand it - if its shouted into your lughole by a robotic voice how likely are you to get it? (Just the robotic voice alone will make it hard enough).
There is the second issue of course that you will be hearing two streams, One language in one ear and translated English in the other off set by a few seconds - I can see that getting really confusing.
They've still not finished fixing the VPS fuck up.
Their support page says they are working directly with affected clients now however Ive heard nothing from them *AT ALL* Ive restored my own backups to new machines but as far as they know both of my servers are still awaiting recovery.... Im torn between waiting to see how long it takes them to notice that they have missed some one and trying to get my refund....
As was pointed out above you are tried and convicted for the intent not the act.
In the situation that you outlined above the first scenario would be very hard to defend as an accident.
The second not so much.
So if someone is killed by a driver and it can be demonstrated that it was not the drivers intention (Basically it was an accident) then the driver is likely to not be convicted, If it can be demonstrated that it was not the drivers intent, but their driving itself was to blame for the accident then there is a specific charge of causing death by dangerous driving, to be convicted of this you do not need to demonstrate intent but simply that the driver is sufficiently to blame and that their actions were obviously dangerous (ie, going the wrong way down the m6... driving along pavements at 60 etc)
The intent of this group was clearly to cause distress to the public and cause a disruption in order to film it and (I suspect) monetize that film by placing it on you tube.
"Right now, in the U.K., an I.T. worker can be replaced by an Indian onshorer..."
Example?
I've worked in several large UK based companies for the last 14 years and have not heard of this happening.. (Whole departments being made redundant and outsourced yes but not the way that you describe) the whole trend for outsourcing seems to be turning round now anyway as companies see that it's not good business sense.
The point I made was that in the UK there are better protections, you cannot simply be replaced by someone doing the same role for less money, if you are you can go to tribuneral and would likley win.
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