Posts by BristolBachelor

Re: Changing ISP

I agree with what Lee and AC said, but:

My parents have changed to teleworst for phone, 'net and TV. If teleworst suddenly decide to de-prioritise VOIP packets, then my Dad has a right to cancel, right? But then does he cancel the whole lot (it's a special package)? Does he get a refund for the installation charge? If it was Sky, would he get a refund on the cost of his dish?

Then who does he go to? What if BT decide that they don't like the way that VOIP eats into revenue? What if the other ISPs take money from Skype and drop SIP VOIP? What choice does he have then?

Also from what I've read, people who change ISP loose the net for anything upto a couple of weeks. Very customer friendly.

realistic cost for their education

Perhaps T.T. will be happy for us to abolish the NHS system whereby your treatments are paid on your behalf by the NHS. Instead, they should just force everyone to pay for their own treatment?

Of course this will make no difference to T.T. who paid for his or her own education directly, and only uses private medical cover anyway.

I'm not saying that they had a right to act like a mob, but they had every right indeed to protest.

HTML in emails

Simple, just remove all the "<" from the email and send it back to the sender asking if they can send the email in English.

What gets me is the number of emails that contain a text version of the HTML including things like "Click here to see this email in your web browser", but that don't include the link in the email text so nothing happens!!

I also hate the fact that it means that my phone will try to roam to download all the images in the email, costing me a fortune if I don't stop it.

Rule 2

Don't put something on a computer that you don't want others to see....

Already thought of

They have already proposed this. LU was going to set up it's own network to do it. Problem with the idea was that it was too hard for them.

Meanwhile here in Madrid, all networks work in all of the Metro (platforms and tunnels) and also work in the tunnels of the Cercanias (local trains), and there is no extra charge (just the normal rip-off network charge).

Only 1

...but they did catch him a number of times.

However it was a total success; there were no terrorist bombings in Chatham, so it must work!

@lglethal

I'd have to say yes and no. I use a specialist currency transfer company (and sometimes paypal!) to transfer money.

Where I work in Spain, you have to pay to transfer money from one Spanish bank to another, and my bank card does not work in the machines of all banks, and the other banks that it does work in charge me 1.75€ for a withdrawl! This is like banking in the UK 20 years ago...

What gets me more is how cheap it is to post something to someone in Spain near the border, but if it is to someone 1 mile the other side of the border... You wouldn't believe it!

No excuse

Ok, so all our photos and videos are backed-up. Some are still on slide, even though they have been digitised. Almost all are backed-up to DVD (the older ones also to DAT but I can't use the DAT drive easily anymore). DVD has the advantage that any disc can be read, and all the discs can be stored away from the house. Adding to the backup does not involve moving the existing backup media around (as a couple of external HDDs would).

But if you are suggesting that it is ok for software to trample all over my system, because I can always restore everything from ~300 DVDs, I think that you can do the restore!

Lets try Win 7 64-bit

..Core App one...No, not under Win 7

..Core App Two..Nope..not with 64-bit

Core App Three...yes, well kinda, in a fashion.

..Core App four. Nope.

..Core App Five YES!

..Core App Six..Nope

Oh well. XP it is :)

Yes, much simpler

Yes, it is in fact much easier. You see, in your 2-dimensional word, you only have to fail to control things properly for maybe 100ms and you have crashed. You are also maybe 2.5M wide, but the lane you are travelling in is only 3M wide, with objects just outside this space.

Now in 3-D (apart from landing), you have several hundreds (thousands) of meters in each direction, precision is not really required, fast response neither (unless your aircraft is unstable), and the closest objects are a very very long way away.

Once everyone and their dog has a flying car, and there are hundreds all travelling in different directions between lots of high buildings; then it will be harder. (Although probably before then there will be an agreement that all of them have a common type of control system with co-operating control)

Coolaid is not required (unless you want to see practical flying cars now)

Re: A really expensive way of charging batteries

In fairness to Harry the snot gobbler, he didn't say specifically Apple types, he said fanbouy, and I would say that anyone who spends £50 on a mat instead of a charging cable, that also stops you using the device in your car, or using the video out on your telly, is indeed a fanbouy with more money than sense.

The only time inductive charging makes sense is in an environment where you don't want bare connectors, for example on electric toothbrushes; but then your iPod would fail the moisure markers test and be out of warrantee.

@AC

Yeah, that's true, and is probably why I suspect that dear old Lester has moved to Spain. The lunatics here are not as bad...

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"I bet he wouldn't dream of saying anything face to face."

From reading what he did, (and knowing people with similar mental faculties) say that he probably would.

In fact if he carries on that way, he may not be that safe in prison!

China (& Malaysia)

Tempest, I agree with you on most things, but the people I spoke to said that people would come in from the countryside and work for maybe 5 years, spending nothing, and then move back to their village with enough money to buy the land so that the family is then totally self-sufficient. So yes, the family is broken up a bit during the working time, but is then much better off afterwards.

I think that the Chinese factories get a bad rep. The Chinese do clamp down on illegal working, wages below the minimum and health & safety violations (Ask Panasonic who were forced to permanantly shut one of their battery plants because of cadmium poisoning. Also the minimum wage in Shenzen increased quite a bit a few years ago. From what I've seen working conditions are no worse than in some western factories.

I also worked with someone who used to work for Foxconn, before working for my last (Bristish) employer with a manufacturing base in Malaysia. Foxconn was a better employer, who actually paid overtime, and it was not forced, unlike the British company. Also most of the employees in Malaysia were from the Philipines and were given something like 2 year work permits. If there was any trouble with them at all (complaints about working conditions, strikes, etc.), they lost their work visa and could not re-apply for a time period. There were no minimum working conditions, because they were not Malaysians.

properly run business

Obviously, my last company was not a properly run business then, with all field-based staff, and ALL overseas offices run on thin-clients from Citrix servers in the head office in Wiltshire. We lost connectivity for a few days. Everything went, including all phones, mobiles, internet, call-centre...

Even those with real PCs in overseas offices couldn't do anything, not even print to the printer in their own office!