Posts by TeeCee 9436 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
Do they debit your card at order time or when they ship?
Since the latter date appears to be "never"*, the price isn't important then.
*Eight months and counting. I'm lucky though as mine only went west eight months ago, others here have been waiting rather longer than that.
"...if I've paid for it I want it, and I want it to look at again..."
Since it's quite clearly stated in the article (you did read it, right?) that they are not going to allow the "copy never" flag to be set, you'll always be able to take one copy to view as often as you like. What you won't be able to do is run off multiple copies for your mates.
Well, allegedly. Presumably once you've copied off the thing to the medium of your choice, duplicating that rather than copying from the box itself should be a trivial exercise.
"BT also scheduled a three-month change embargo in the run up to the 2012 Olympics...."
Yes, because everything required for that will be in place and working at least three months before it all kicks off.
Yeah........right.......
Presumably what they've really scheduled is an embargo on all changes not specifically related to the Olympics. Not because of the load on the network, but because all their engineers will be occupied full time running around like blue-arsed flies trying to get all the glitches sorted before the opening ceremony ends.
Slash the council budget.
Then the army of shitwitted tinpot nazi wannabees who serve no purpose other than to make the organisation employing them look like a bunch of twunts will start to look like an unaffordable luxury.
All we need is a government committed to wielding the axe. By happy coincidence we seem to have aquired one of those so:
"Come in number 8, your time is up!"
"Receivers Zolfo Cooper say they're increasing security on the premises."
Yes of course. Because if it deteriorated to the extent that became condemned or went on fire they could get it delisted and demolished and the site could be then easily be flogged off for development.
That would be a bad thing from their perspective how exactly?
All down to the old chestnut of there being no VAT on new build but there being so on repair, rebuild, refurbishment, conversion et. al. Thus the tax system ensures that existing buildings are a liability as regards selling the site and listed ones doubly so. These days of course it's even worse.
And that's before you factor in the ecofiddling taxes courtesy of the CO2 nazis which render listed building conversions even more uneconomic / unsaleable.
Taking: ".....has traced the IP addresses used to post the messages to Charter."
and: ".....it's an open website that allows people to post information anonymously..."
together leads me to one conclusion. Now the latter's public knowledge, the former won't be true much longer. This afternoon could well be International Snap Your Goolies For Major League Baseball Day.
Take one shiny new DEC 20 (IIRC) still in its commissioning period at a bastion of academia. Add 20 fresh-faced lads with some spare time clutching moody login credentials and a set of handwritten instructions on where to find DECwars on said box.
A couple of hours later.
<overheat>
<thermal trip>
<emergency power trip>
<disk crash>
No harm to the machine itself, but the good old-fashioned head crash on the disks cost someone the thick end of 25 grand apparently. In the early 80's when 25 grand was a decidedly non-trivial sum too.
There was a witch hunt but no witches were found.....
"If it's over Wi-Fi, there won't be a charge...."
Of course you'll be able to connect directly to the other iPhone* of your choice. If this turns out not to be the case and there's an iChat service in the middle, Apple will of course give this away for free.
I admire your confidence........
*New Apple "standard" for video chat remember? What did you think you'd be connecting to?
They are good at marketing.
Downside: pisses off a few techies.
Upside: gets great unwashed to click "Download Safari" button en masse.
It's the great unwashed they're after. They know damned well that those with enough savvy to spot the con aren't their target customer base anyway. The likes of us don't need "just works", aren't prepared to pay extra for it or put up with the straightjacketing. We're quite happy to save a few quid and go with "will work perfectly well if treated with a bit of common sense".
".... even the N1's engine has turned out to be a star on the Atlas V."
Difficult not to be. As it's not only a closed cycle unit, but an oxygen rich one to boot, its efficiency is off the scale compared to anything NASA have produced.
They built it the old way: Take plans, build engine, test engine, BANG, fix bit that went bang, test engine, BANG, repeat until working engine achieved, redraw plans from result. NASA's "ticks in boxes" style involves going back to redesign / planning whenever anything (including BANG) goes wrong. They reckon it would have taken them at least 30 years to go through the number of design iterations the Russians did in two.
But NASA and their contractors have a process and a focus on safety, which makes it all ok....
"Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh, all the enemy's planes are invisible to our missile systems, what are we going to do?"
"Well, if we had lots of blokes in small, fast aeroplanes they could look out of the windows and shoot down the opposition using visual targetting. We could call them 'fighter squadrons' and give them machine guns or small calibre cannon......"
"....the air had time to sneakily escape between the ground glass plunger and the syringe interior wall."
What happened to the placcy one? Those usually have a ridged rubber thingy* on the end of the plunger which should give a better seal. You might want to apply a smear of silicone grease to the thing first (you want the plunger to move smoothly and contamination of the syringe contents isn't an issue).
I'm impressed with the chamber though. 8,000 to 65,000 feet in 0.1 seconds? Makes my ears hurt just thinking about it.
*Stop laughing at the back there.
See US vs. Antigua at the WTO.
If the EU (allegedly a "single market".....yeah.....right...) can't get its bleedin' act together here, why the hell does anyone expect this sort of thing to work cross-border anywhere else?
Ladbrokes ought to lobby the British government to take this to the WTO. It'd be dead funny to watch the bright light of WTO trade rules being shone into the murky corners of European pork politics.
I have to admit though that the whole idea of NL being concerned about Internet scams strikes me as cripplingly funny as they have a bit of a dodgy reputation in this area...
I think that one's already in general use to describe the National Lottery.
Of course, if she'd used her 30 quid to buy 30 lines on the lottery, she'd have stood a slim chance of getting her money back and an outside chance of making quite a bit more.
So it's targetted at people who are too stupid to fall within the remit of a standard stupidity tax..........Fuckwit tax?........Knuckle-dragging-moron tax?........
Not bothered about coffee, never have been. Decent tea however.....
I do drink coffee, loads of it. The only reason for this is that most offices will provide something that tastes fairly coffee-like and while I can tell the difference between decent coffee and crap, I'm not too bothered as I don't actually like it anyway.
Office tea on the other hand tastes like someone's boiled up the contents of the nearest hoover bag and pissed in the end result to add colour.
"...designed purely for high level web and graphics performance..........as well as 1080p HD video encode/decode...."
Given the recent heated debate on the subject, for which codec would that hardware support be?
Off now to hide in a bunker while the flames die down in true troll stylie....
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