Posts by David Nash 1434 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2008
The problem is a lack of basic computer literacy like the whole concept of files, folders, saving, applications, desktops, icons and so on.
In the early days when only experts used PCs, everything had real manuals, but it seems that the more everyone else has to use them and the corresponding need for more manuals, the fewer we get, if any.
And there seems to be an assumption of basic understanding that users don't have.
Despite you putting quotes around it, that is not a correct quote from the article.
Here is the actual quote, pasted from the article:
"a suspicious large plastic tote bag"
ie. it wasn't that having a bag was in itself suspicious. But it was "suspiciously large"
I don't know what the size limit is for a bag not being suspicious!
I don't think that the Earth's magnetic field counts as *electro*magnetic, does it?
Maybe it does, seeing as E and M forces are aspects of the same EM force,
But I think the MPs are concerned about RF not EM in general.
And they are still wrong.
When the term "flat-screen" first started appearing it was referring to the front of the tube being less curved.
Then when actual flat screens came out, it began to be used in that sense.
Now all TVs are "flat-screen" unless you are talking about an ancient CRT.
But still various media use the term as a prefix, usually and bizarrely to denote some form of luxury, eg. when complaining that prisoners have "flat-screen TVs".
Hmm, actually I think I've seen new curved screens in the shops now, so maybe "flat-screens" is coming to mean "old-fashioned"?
Being sick is not "time off" in the usual sense. You can't help being sick and limiting sick time and counting it like holiday is immoral. By all means require doctor's notes and the like for more than a couple of days but to have an allocation of days when you are allowed to be sick makes no sense.
Also encourages people to pull fake sickies because they think they're entitled to them.
Why quote the actual truth when some made-up anti-BBC half-truth will serve your presumed purpose better?
What the BBC defended was the right to make provocative jokes about battery acid and indeed stated explicitly that they were "not intended to be taken seriously"
They did not defend a battery acid attack as your comment suggests.
How is a movie review "news", fake or otherwise?
If a reviewer is wrong about the origin of a term, then they could be genuinely mistaken or perhaps a bit dim (I don't know who wrote the review you mentioned, so no accusations).
In any case a review is opinion and I don't see much scope for being fake unless it outright lies about what the movie depicts.
I used to get contract phones and had some good deals from time to time. But haven't done so for a while, especially as lower-tier phones are now more than adequate.
Not sure about the others but I am pretty sure that O2 at least separate out the cost of the phone loan and the service charges. Therefore they don't continue taking payments for the loan after it's paid off. I bet they try their hardest to get you to upgrade and thereby take out a new loan though.
On the back of a van today I saw they had a website address with a proper descriptive name of the business and below, the next line read "Email: Joe.Bloggs156@aol.com"
I have seen that kind of thing a few times.
It always amazes me that they think such generic email addresses look in any way profesional.
"I remember being on a scuba diving site once looking to book a holiday, and seeing ads being presented for kitchen white goods."
Well, (1) the site you are on is no longer of relevance to the ads that you see. The whole point of this discussion is that the ads are determined by information they have about you, rather than which site they are shown on; and (2) perhaps you are blocking tracking as far as possible, therefore they don't actually have much accurate information about you.
You didn't actually say that you weren't interested in kitchen white goods by the way.
Exactly.
There seems to be an increasing tendency for users/inventors of new techniques to employ reasoning like "If we do X, it will be illegal, so the law must be changed" rather than "we can't do X because it's illegal".
See also Uber vs. taxi registration and employment laws; AirB&B vs hotel regulations, etc. etc.
Presumably (although IANAL either) if they told the guy they were going to publish and that was that, it's not blackmail even if he then proposes some deal and they agree not to publish.
Whereas if *they* propose a deal not to publish it is indistinguishable from blackmail.
Way to go with the sweeping generalisation!
I am a cyclist *and* a driver, they are not mutually exclusive, and I follow the highway code, rules of the road etc when in both roles. There are good and bad drivers and cyclists, so let's have less of that please.
How did we get from self-driving cars to slagging off cyclists?
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