Posts by IsJustabloke 881 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2010
@Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
I guess you do think a printer *really* costs 35 quid.
Printers are sold at a loss because consumers won't pay 100's for them. If they then buy the ink at the actual cost how is that company supposed to make money and survive?
I don't understand why *you* find that such a difficult concept to understand.
When you buy a printer at something approaching the true cost of the printer then inks are much more reasonable in price. It really is that simple.
consumers only have themselves to blame for this situation. If they were more willing to pay the true cost of a printer then ink would be commensurately cheaper. It really is that simple.
Does "Florida man" or indeed anyone else really believe that the printer cost 35 quid?
I carry no torch for HP or their behaviour but they can't give away a printer and then giveaway the ink it's just not feasible and while I do agree that to deliberately break something a consumer has paid for is utterly wrong, I understand why they would try.
I have two canon printers, one was several hundred pounds, the other just 200 , the ink costs for both are pretty reasonable by that standard.
sorry but that's the truth of it.
"Ahh, but the problem is that without fail there will be only 7 out of 8 bolts, or screws, or whatnot."
This has never been the case with anything I've ever bought from IKEA (and I have lots!) in fact the exact opposite is usually true.
Honestly, anyone who struggles with Ikea stuff must be a numpty of the highest order.
"What Apple, Amazon, Google, etc should be doing is talking to the architectural / electrical / house building / government regulators"
I'll pass thanks. if I want to fully cable my house I will but I certainly don't want any of those 3 having any input whatsoever into Building standards.
"A rather underrated Clarke"
Only the first was by ACC, the rest ( and vastly inferior) books were mainly the work of Gentry Lee, with Clarkes name added to show they were "official" but he had no hand in the writing of them.
Gentry Lee was / is an appallingly bad writer. Every single book is in essence the same, shockingly bad "Romance novel" set in a Sci Fi universe.
ha ha ha ha ha ha...
You think Vodafone is an upgrade in customer service!
Hilarious.
I have to say, I moved from Vodafone to Three (mainly for the free roaming I travel a lot) and I've never really had a problem. I've been with them 4 years now.
My one experience with customer service was relatively pain free too.
"Take your stuff to the tip. Do 'green'. That's the public message. What they don't tell you, is how big a business it is."
My local tip has a corner reserved for stuff that could be reused. Twice a day a van and trailer rock up and load all the stuff from the corner. It's all taken to the HUGE recycling center down the road and sold on to whoever wants it from a "re-use" shop. The money raised is used to refurbish bicycles which are in turn sold to needy locals at a nominal cost plus £5. Works really well and everyone wins. The nominal fiver is used to run the van and trailer.
The scheme was put in place by workers at the tips who got fed up with "What can I do with this? seems a shame to dump it" they all take turns running the "shop" and the local authority turn a blind eye to the whole thing because the only response they have is to stop it but didn't want to .
How every progressive :)
I have a P20 Pro and because I often have it in places I wouldn't be allowed to take my DSLR (such as gigs) I'm often reduced to using it for pictures. I tend to shoot in manual mode with it, which gives me a RAW file and then process using LR. The results are pretty good and plenty good enough for Instagram or web use. It also gives reasonable 6*4 prints. Obviously, it can't compete with my Canon but then I wouldn't expect it to.
I have played with the "night mode" which is essentially a multi exposure and I agree it does tend to overexpose (although less so if there's no bright light source) but have found if you back the exposure off in LR the results are excellent.
I can't see a compelling reason for buying a P30 though.
The problem with looking at pictures taken using different cameras is that it's all very subjective. I often look at the pictures my mate's Apple produces and I find them oversaturated whereas he loves them and finds mine a bit washed out.
For me all the software I use regularly exists as shortcut on the taskbar. I group them into functionally similar folders . I never/ rarely go near the start menu.
I know it's unfashionable but I like Win 10. My work laptop is still a win 7 machine and I'm looking forward to it being upgraded in the near future.
I tried Mint on an old laptop and really didn't like it.
@AC
"This could be used to make Americans speak proper English again"
The dialect of English they speak is less "evolved" than our own version so in some respects it could be said they speak a purer form of the language than we ourselves do.
While we're on the subject "-ize" versus "-ise" both are correct / acceptable and in actual fact we were using the "-ize" construct long before it became associated as being "American Spelling".
language, great init?
@werdsmith
I also travel to the Us to see [British] friends who live there and while I've never had a problem, my luggage has been searched entering and leaving on each and every occasion.
last year it was searched when I changed 'planes at San Francisco on my way to New Zealand and at Miami on my way back.
TBF, My luggage was also searched by NZ border on teh same trip and I've been searched *every single* European trip I've ever made.
I must look like some kind of major crim
"In fact, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary."
So does that mean we shouldn't worry about it?
Or perhaps we should get vocal about it now *before* it becomes usable because there's no way they'll give it up once it is.
And you can be sure it will get better because all technology does.
"but so cheeky you have to admire it a bit."
Nothing that is pikey related is in any way shape or form "admirable" , I live in a town that is like fucking catnip to them and they are without fear of contradiction the most unpleasant people it's been my misfortune to stumble across. They are a crime wave, they are violent, they intimidate normal people just trying to go about their business. The women are as bad as the men and when they arrive in any pub en mass pretty much everyone else leaves (generally for their own safety) and more often than not the night will end with the publican having no choice but to call the police.
I was once followed into a pub by several pikeys , when the barman asked me what I wanted to drink the pikeys immediately kicked off because they wanted to be served first, threatening all and sundry and me in particular.
In short they are a scourge.
The P20 Pro doesn't have expandable memory, 128gig on board and that's your lot. I don't really consider the ability to access a USB stick as "expandable memory" in the same sense that sticking a card in the phone is.
I really don't understand why people get so upset about lack of a headphone port. There's an adapter in the box and it works very well; recharging isn't an issue because the bloody thing barely seems to use any power
1) I don't consider 2 days between charges in anyway "absymal" and no app on my phone (p20 pro) has been broken by "power management"... I'd look to your apps if I were you.
2) The UI is a bit clunky but can be changed. I have a few icons and then a bunch of icons in folders *exactly* like I had on my Xperia Z1 - As well as an alphabetized list on a single screen - so I think you're talking more bollocks
3) The majority of people don't give a flying hairy monkey fart about this.
have a nice day!
"You get the government you deserve."
I don't necessarily disagree however... until we have a "none of the above, please think about your offer again" box to tick; we simply get the government we have to vote for.
Since I take my franchise quite seriously my vote is more often than not a "least objectionable" rather than an "actively like" because to not vote leaves me without any kind of voice or right to complain.
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