Posts by TeeCee

Yes, but.

I thought that, but it does specifically say that they've done it for email and most of such print on one page (or more usually the top 10 or fewer lines of one page) in any font at around the 10/12 point size. So this argument's moot, bar for the trivial case of the odd very log one that happens to be exactly the right length to throw a second page when printed in CG that would not have been thrown in Arial.

I'm more interested in how they (or whoever) found this. Presumably someone, somewhere printed off the same several thousand pages of text in umpteen different fonts, carefully measuring the ink use for each run. I guess that to save the planet you have to kill it a bit first....

I'm also a shade ticked off that the winner didn't turn out to be Comic Sans. The indignant flamefest around here at the serendipitous confluence of two pet hates prevelant amongst the assembled El Reg commentards (ecofiddling and Comic Sans) would have been a joy to behold.

"we have a shite BT now"

Short memory have we?

It may be shite now, but that's nothing compared to the enormous rancid cesspool of decaying faeces it used to be when it was a Nationalised Monopoly.

They were so god-awfully bad that when competition finally turned up in the shape of Mercury, they picked up market share simply by being useless rather than completely and utterly fucking useless.

I wonder how much rural fibre* would exist were BT still a monopoly and there was no threat of WISPs picking up a market. Remember when considering your answer that there's a world of difference between the government saying they want fibre and them actually providing the investment capital** to pay for it.

*Or any bloody fibre at all for that matter.

**Decent comms for the Wurzels, a load of new hospitals or a fat tax cut. Which of these options do you think is the vote-loser?

You forgot:

8) Jack up price charged to eye-watering levels by applying usurious T&M rates to the effort charged.

This is how the outsource model makes its money, bleeding its customers white for any service not specifically and contractually agreed up front.

Ohshitohshitohshit.

Some years back I had the dubious pleasure of fixing some POS written by a helpful chap who'd called the first variable he'd used "ONE", the second "TWO", etc.

If that sort of thing's supposed to be the way forward I think I'll give this shit up and take up something easy and safe. Like naked alligator wrestling.

Re: How can we deal with these people

"There must be a third way..."

Your are Nick Clegg and ICMFP!

Re: Brain dead.

"...not the brightest bulb in the box...."

You mean the sort of person that you can shove a 14" knife right through their head and miss their brain completely?

That explains a lot......

broadleaf?

Isn't that the stuff they make Thionite out of?

Mine's the one with the pockets full of sugarlumps to bribe the Flats with.

"with a live feed to YouTube"

Ah, the Alimentary Channel!

Shame?

A bloody catastrophe more like.

I've stuck with WinMo through a series of devices for several years now. Allows me to do WTF I want with it and I've accumulated a useful application base over time, some free, some not.

Since I'll apparently have to change everything anyway, I'll almost certainly be going with an Android device once this one turns its toes.

"Sales in freefall? I know, let's fuck over what remains of our customer base.". What planet are they on? Back-compatibility is what keeps them in the game for the OS and browser side of things, so dumping it for the phone side in favour of playing "me too" with the established iPhone and Android products makes as much sense as stuffing their heads in a gas oven and turning it on.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they've fucked themselves good 'n proper here.

Very clever, I'm sure.

Anyone know of any other Operating Systems that might be available in a medium other than an original disk set?

Ah! So we're into "one law for us, one for them" territory are we?

Unless, of course, this problem is nothing to do with MS, Apple, Canonical et. al. and everything to do with greedy OEMs saving 50p on a sale.......

Call that a reference?

So the "right on" Grauniad is "right on" message about the "right on" topic du jour?

Try telling us something that couldn't have been guessed with 100% accuracy by any halfwit.

Entertaining from the other side?

Now that's what I call Soul music.

"minimum 1510 MB/s throughput"

Two of these:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid_state_drives/ocz_z_drive_e84_pci_express_ssd

RAID zero'd together in software could do that for you on a suitable mobo. Hmm, what is the correct term for something faster than fuck?

Imperial sizes?

Don't be daft, it would have been Whitworth back then.

....and there's the real problem.

For some reason, if someone chooses to do something dangerous of their own volition and while aware of the risks involved, there are small-minded arsehats who go out of their way to say "you can't do that, it's dangerous".

What did you have in mind? Some kind of Government issued "allowed to do dangerous things" license?

Six pack abs fish?

If we anthropomorphise a bit, the regular trout will look at the ripped version, say something like "poncey git" and order more lager.

"Jesus himself was a first-class punster..."

I've heard that live his act is much "bluer" than the recorded versions. Goes down a storm on the Northern club circuit.

Re: So What?

On the alcohol consumption scale generally in use, "no idea what year it is" is considerably higher than "can't remember where I live".

There's an idiot here all right.

Non-mandatory insurance has to keep premium levels down to where the service provided is well worth spending the money for.

Mandatory insurance = "we can charge WTF we like for this"

Why do you think it is that whenever the Insurance industry takes a bath (e.g. 'cos they fucked up the odds of a hurricane in Florida or some arsehat drove a planeload of litiginous septics into a mountain) your car insurance premium in Blighty heads rapidly northwards? It's one of the few things they sell where the only answer we have to a stonking price hike is to grin and bear it.

Oopsie!

Those countries you want to use it in: "If my wallet gets nicked, they will get my ID card instead of my driving licence..."

Most places, not carrying said Driving License whilst driving is an instant nick and fine (often on the spot). So where do you carry a Driving License to ensure it's always with you, rather than "in the non-wallet pocket of my other jacket"......?

NB: Nowhere I've found do they mandate that you carry the paper bit**, which is the bit that has your address on. Is that double FAIL or FAIL squared?

**In fact the only place I've found that gives a flying f*** whether you have such is the UK. Everywhere else is happy that the picture says it's you and the codes say that you're entitled to drive what you're sat in or on. Let's hear it for common sense.

Probably correct, but.

Given what was almost certainly one of the hot topics in any England squad discussions at the time, that paper's long established unofficial name: "The News of the Screws" may be more appropriate in this context.