Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: What's the alternative?

Conspiracy theories are nowt new. There is one that said that Jack the Ripper was the Prince of Wales.

Some theories have a grain of truth. Many are blown out of all proportion just to sell Red Top Comics.

Re: Pregnant women + very drunk

Or Channel 5 Reality Shows....

Re: So what happened to Aero?

Why?

Because they can and we bend over and let them mess us around with every release.

Not that the head honchos in Redmond care even one little bit about their customers.

Re: I can see the mayhem now...

The restriction most likely to make them fail is the [sudden] introduction of the need for a CPL + 500hours flying time before you are allowed to buy one.

That would stop most of the idiots but not all.

Those who 'pimp' their Fiesta's will still find a way to get airborne. Just a fact of life.

Second thought, make it easy for them to get flying. They'll soon become extinct.#

The solution is...

To start your own Political Party. Then you can stand for election and vote for yourself.

A winner all round then?

Re: Welcome to the Colonies, Lester...

Don't forget to go arse about faced when entering dates.

Re: Surely the headline should be

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3) It would make a lot more sense if the parties worked together;

you mean like a coalition?

Oh wait...

you never know

when you might need a gift like that in order to live.

What will you say then? no, sorry, I don't like having someone else's spare part?

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Re: The last straw

at least they don't move very fast. A slow moving camo chameleon shouldn't be too hard to spot.

I saw one of Madagascar's smallest Chameleon's change colour from a dull brown to dark green in just a few seconds as it moved from a path onto grass. The little beast was just about 2in long. Pure magic.

Re: Your relationship with your Doctor is based on trust

The easy way to stop that is to 'gently' reming the politicians that even going to their doctor to get treated for a mild STD will become common knowledge in a few hours.

"My dear chap, we can't have the PM being treated for mild dose of the clap appearing on the front page of the Sun/Mirror now can we?"

"I take it that we should put a stop to this bill then?"

"Yes Minister!"

Re: Why is iWatch battery so bad?

Remember that this is V1 of the product.

The first leccy cars were also shite. (G-Whizz....)

Now that the battery tech has improved then the cars are getting better. I went for a test drive in a PHEV on Saturday. You hardly knew when the petrol engine cut in to charge the battery. In a traffic jam on the M3 it was on leccy. No pollution perfect. When we got going again, the petrol engine started up to charge the battery.

The first jet engines were horribly polluting and innefficient. Now?....

I forsee that in 5 years these devices will last for around a week between charges as battery tech improves.

There is nothing like a behmoth (As Apple is) entering the market to stimulate the boffins to improve its obvious weak points. That generally benefits all the other players in the market.

Will I buy one? No chance. I hate anything on my wrist. If someone were to come out with a pocket watch then I might consider it.

So all you fanbois, hipsters and medallion men please go out and but these things. Then the rest of us can benefit from the advances in this sort fo tech in years to come.

Re: shhhhh...

And we didn't have the Internet. Networks didn't exist before the age of the Internet. SNA and all that LU6.2 stuff was just a dream.

Beat you!

My Patent application reads

Making things fall down using gravity using a Computer and or other internet connected device

Re: I think you'll find this is actually...

a.k.a The Hollywood Rules of Corporate Accounting.

For example, none of the Harry Potter films made even $1 in profit.

Re: US International layout (Windows)

This advice is all well and good BUT

(the following mostly applies to Windows)

1) Many corporate devices are so locked down that you can't change the keyboard from US English. This applies to devices in used all over the world.

2) Plugging in even an international English Keyboard is a possible sacking offence even in non financial/medical/defence companies.

Even worse the keyboard needs a driver that you can't install because... you can guess the rest.

3) These corporate devices sometimes won't let you even change the handiness on a mouse.

4) Most US based support desks don't have a clue when you mention things like a 'cedilla' and think this this # is a pound sign and can't understand that this '£' is.

Currency signs other than $$$$$ are just not in their Vocabulary.

Ah, the wonder of woolies

sorry windows.

I just did a Server 2008 R2 Update. 66Mb download and somehow more than 1Gb of disk space disappeared.

The mysteries seem to keep right on coming like a Soap Opera plotline.

Re: The Size of My Package...

At least when your train is stuck inside Gasworks Tunnel waiting for Platform 0 to become free the Twitterarti can't complain about it to the outside world.

So unlike what happens outside Waterloo. I've seen people tweet when we have been held at signals for 30 secs and we are still early and ontime when we pull into the platform.

Don't forget

all those lovely sub-prime mortgages that were sold to millions of Americans.

They had a big impact as well.

Re: Just a beginning?

Police? Oh, I seem to remember seeing one around here once upon a time.

They've closed all the local Plod Stations so I'd have to trek into Blazingspoke some 20+ miles away (After making an appointment) to get my bike frame etched. How many people who got a bike for Christmas will be getting their marked? Not many is my guess.