Re: They do this everywhere
Of course, some time they do this through incompetence rather than to make you leave.
I wonder which reason is worse.
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Having just bought a screen mounted holder for my phone, I'd like to know why car manufacturers don't leave a "bald spot" on the top of the dashboard so that suckers can fix there rather leaving it in an all over wrinkled finish.
Or a couple of captive nuts on the dash that I could screw the holder to. Is that too much to ask?
"Given the vigour with which “a senior editor and a Guardian computer expert” clearly applied themselves to the destruction of the devices "
I've had kit that's been a bugger to get into too.....
I've a theory that these are indeed pictures of some random bits used to "illustrate the story" and knowing newspapers these days, lifted off the internet. I suspect that when they flipped the computer over to dismantle it, they found they didn't have the right screwdriver set and instead cut the thing open with the grinder before pushing the resulting chunks through the office shredder. (that's one advantage of a superslim Mac they don't mention in the brochure)
I see that Cadbury Dairy Milk bar (introduced 1905) has a trapezoidal profile to make it breakable, I suspect many other brands used a similar profile and that is why when Rowntree's brought out the Kit Kat in the 1930s they also used the same profile - but needed to make it taller to accommodate the crisp wafer.
I think we all know a KitKat imitation bar when we see it, customers are more sophisticated than the Penguin / Puffin altercation between McVities (United Biscuits) and Asda suggested.
I wonder how much of the Quaker influence/ethos of Rowntree's history carried forward into Rowntree-Mackintosh and thence to Nestle. Or was it all lost along the way.
(PS I still remember the smell of Rowntree's factory when in Norwich city centre)
eg if I deliberately misspell or add random letters in my message does this make it harder for machines to identify the text. ie the opposite of Enigma operators using standard texts in their messages?
"meet me at nine at the station below the clock"
becomes
"meet me 9 at stn below t'clok"
All certification is "They look like they know what they are doing".
Even to some extent is accreditation - it's just a question of how much paperwork/evidence you can stack up to show that you do meet the specification.
even then accrediting bodies are at pains to point out that there may be faults with your (eg) quality system in areas that they haven't assessed.
Was in 2008, so looks like one of those drawn out arguments. Or perhaps she saw an advert on TV for Lawyers4U or some such.
Some interesting lines in the news article.
"She was working in the day as a nurse (and) from midnight to 4am trading online,"
"She made a lot of cash from this internet trading (but) found cheques and money orders extremely inconvenient ... she would ask for cash through the mail."
"in March 2008, Ms Fincham took a week-long trip to Queensland with a man she had met through the internet. While they were away, her house was robbed three times and all her possessions were taken - including the wall safe containing the gold bars"
""Her customers were frightened away because they were being chased by insurance investigators and her business has failed,"
The one volume fits all was a surprise to me when I got a 620. ( I was using an iphone 3G before)
As a general thing, there seem to be some aspects where you get less customization than the iPhone. On the one hand that's fewer things to accidentally muck up, on the other a residual feeling that the phone isn't quite set to one's personal taste.
My only two gripes at the moment are 1) the phone freeing up unusued memory - there seems to be a quirk whereby you upload images to the Service-soon-to-be-formerly-known-as-SkyDrive to get them off the phone and the phone then stores a local copy just incase you haven't got a signal when you want to look at them.
1.5) Just thought of this one - location search in the maps app is set to online, you can manually set it to offline when you don't have a signal, but it doesn't do it automatically.
2) Bluetooth - tried handsfree setup with a 2013 Honda. Pairs but then cycles connected-disconnected-connected-disconnected. Might be this particular phone, but it's not a fault with the Honda per se, as I tried it with another Honda. Compatability list says it ought to work.
a principle as old as the hills in physical form - old style headphone sockets with the inbuilt contact to break the connection to the speakers, or the long pin RCA plug that was used to differentiate between mono and stereo connections twixt source and amplifier.
so why is a version using resistance etc patented?
I thought in the past that US involvement in South Korea was partly based on two principles.
1 - that it was a buffer zone between North Korea and Japan and other US interests in Asia/Pacific.
2 - Not to give up ground that US servicemen had died fighting for.
now if the US did pull out of Korea what would they do with those troops, warships etc? Disband and cut the budget? Would it parallels the British "east of Suez" withdrawal?
random thoughts mostly while stuck at a car boot.
for those who don't get any adequate broadband or speeds above 4Mb, this "gap" sounds as relevant as describing a housing gap between availability of 5-bedroom houses and 10-bedroom (with pool) houses.
Shouldn't they be worrying about a minimum available speed for all and accept that some areas will get higher due to geographic, financial and other reasons.
Surely the one single requirement for style of coding is:
that you can read and understand it, that your colleagues can do too, and when you've gone to another job the person who replaced you can read and understand it.
(with proviso that a certain skill level may be required - Jane & John books bs Milton etc)
Tesco has an app that tells you where along which shelf on which aisle you could find products.
eg own brand spaghetti - aisle 8 bottom shell 10 units along.
and then give you a shopping list of items by aisle order and a total price. In theory you can add items by barcode but the phone was never any good at reading them.
When any of channels stuck down the arse end of the epg can get audience levels like ITV and BBC, that's when the authorities should start to ponder whether the rules need changing.
TV shopping channels get low audiences and it's not because they haven't got an epg slot in the first 10 numbers.
Being a white Briton, its hard for me to understand the level of offence in some names, and the media sometimes over-reports the issue (Daily Fail?).
Can we have a scale, with Register units, so that can see how for instance "dago" in the US lies with respect to UK "Eyetie" or "spaghetti muncher"?
Ofcom would also like to switch off FM radio, but can't until it knows that DAB is reaching everyone"
That'll be never then at the rate that goes. But shouldn't it be government policy that FM is switched off, and then for Ofcom to carry out the policy? I'm probably not paying attention but it comes across as ofcom has these ideas itself and then looks to carry them out without much ministerial input.
were the APNR a result of Royston lying on a convergence of convenient east west routes between the A11 and M11 and the A1M and Luton and the north south route from Huntingdon to Hertford?
(I remember before the bypass when the traffic went through Royston)
@McGoole
One of the points in the drama is that no-one must know what the contents are.
But also that if the PM doesn't order the retaliation strike, no matter that it makes not a scrap of difference to the burning British cities and condemns another nation's population (but not its leadership) to annihilation, then it is not a deterrent.