on 3... they block access to b3ta... but in doing so, they push you to the landing page for their own adult content... so in looking for b3ta, one gets pushed towards the porn. Well done. Even when you have the filter allegedly switched off, it still pushes you to their own porn...
>> In a statement Robin Christopherson of AbilityNet said: "Like everyone else in these hard times the country’s 12 million disabled people ...
Taking the country's population to be 60 million - that's a fifth of the population! There's either some hyperbole going on there or there needs to be some reappraisal of what constitutes "disabled".
... in the guise of fining the companies from whom I'm more or less obliged to buy. Jail the directors responsible (at their own personal expense) instead.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Frost-DVD-Michael-Keaton/dp/B00004CZXV for the avoidance of doubt. It represents the one time I have ever had to give a film more out of 10 than I wanted to. I wanted to give it -5, the site I was reviewing for only allowed 1-10...
As further support of how crappy it is - I gave it to my parents when they got a DVD player... they gave it back to me as a "gift" for my birthday. I gave it to them for their wedding anniversary. They returned it as a Christmas "gift". Even charity shops reject it!
In 2007 there were 2.17 TVs per house, now 2.34 - an increase of 0.17 (normal to take the datum as the original value is it not, rather than the final value?) an 8% increase not 7%
Look at the smartphone - was 0.28, now 0.77 - an increase of 0.49 (from a start point of 0.28) - I make that 175% increase... not 64%
Similarly tablet 0.18 to 0.33 - that would be an 83% increase not 45% & Laptop 0.95 to 1.51 - (59% not 37%)
The major suck-factor is Royal Mail's £8 "handling charge" on collecting it - I'd much prefer to remit the VAT on my imports direct to HMRC. So import a DVD that is declared as £16, and it's £3.20 VAT and £8 on top to pay the RM's fee.
Getting caught in errors where RM's "finest" assess the charges on the wrong sort of dollars is purely for entertainment purposes though. Lost count of the number of times over the last 10 years that I've been charged VAT based on US dollars when the declared value is in HK$... yes, you can appeal and get it back but it's all an unnecessary pain in the posterior (obviously it costs them money to process this appeal, probably wiping out the VAT collected).
Re: As someone who runs a video production company.....
>>they won't have to worry about kit that depreciates at a terrifying rate or keeping up with the latest edit software.
So the kit depreciates - doesn't *usually* stop it working though. Likewise the latest and greatest edit software might be nice to have but it rarely stops the previous 15 versions working. We're talking about a small budget council production (most likely for internal consumption here), not a 3D, HD widescreen epic with a cast of thousands and and Oscar-winning score.
I can tell you that my lad quickly worked out that he didn't need to jump around with any Wii title - he just needed to be able to do an action that the Wii interpreted as the right one... often far more accurately than when doing the "proper" action.
... as your NFC-enabled "wallet" is on there, the payment thing that was big in the news the other day... not only a several hundred quid device to lose but the contents of your bank account too.
... before someone crafts malware to mess with the revoked certificate list locally to whitelist their nefarious certificate for www.almost_but_not_quite_the_real_domain_for_a_bank.com
... that want to register a different email address with each place they register so they can figure out who sold the email address (or was hacked)...
example: my Amazon account is amazonuk.<hexdigits>@<mydomain name here>, my PSN account is PSN.<hexdigits>@<mydomain name here> where digits is a CRC16 of the domain name I'm registering on...
If any of them starts attracting spam, then I have a go at the company that managed to lose my email address...
Presumably one would lose that with BrowserID (as one typically does with OpenID).
I was out with my son (who was eager to spend some of his Christmas cash on a new console game) - before we left I had a peep online and found it quickly around £15-16... - HMV price £41.99
Across the retail park (120 yards) - there it was - same game, same packaging - £19 - guess where it was bought...
... have all the buyers not already foxtrot oscared to other non-HN etailers abroad?
As for the whinging pom (cupperty) - there's a whole world out there outside Englandshire - that's why Englandshire's in such a bloody state, there seems to be some belief that overseas of any description is automatically bad.
Where my mother's old curtains went. That bloke talking to Prince Andrew seems to have rescued them from the tip and had a jacket (of sorts) made from them.
Had 2 on pre-order (one for me, one for the boy). Cancelled them both now. First the PSN restriction then this creeping unnecessary differentiation... end of the line.
that's closed the Channel Isles, but places like Hong Kong are still open - where say CDWow are... typically with slightly better prices than the CI-based places (for now at least)
Why would I not get a Sony PS3? - even if I never use it for games, it's a well-supported well-featured BD player that happens to play games too. And considerably cheaper than a number of the models reviewed here.
My parental unit has a PS3 for exactly this reason - side benefit when I (or the kids) go round there's a PS3 there to play with too.
... to the sales & marketing bodies that used to lose stupid volumes of hardware (typically after a rash of moaning "my PC is too slow" calls to the helpdesk coincidentally when their mate in the office next door had just got a better/bigger/faster/lighter one)
No problem - you lost your PC, hand me your chargecode & a brief outline of where it was lost/stolen (together with the crime reference number if stolen), I'll confirm it with your department finance contact and then I'll process that immediately.
Amazing how many of them were found suddenly - including stolen ones.
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It all makes me laugh...
on 3... they block access to b3ta... but in doing so, they push you to the landing page for their own adult content... so in looking for b3ta, one gets pushed towards the porn. Well done. Even when you have the filter allegedly switched off, it still pushes you to their own porn...
What???!!!
>> In a statement Robin Christopherson of AbilityNet said: "Like everyone else in these hard times the country’s 12 million disabled people ...
Taking the country's population to be 60 million - that's a fifth of the population! There's either some hyperbole going on there or there needs to be some reappraisal of what constitutes "disabled".
Another NFC solution...
... to a non-problem?
Stop fining me...
... in the guise of fining the companies from whom I'm more or less obliged to buy. Jail the directors responsible (at their own personal expense) instead.
Jack Frost.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Frost-DVD-Michael-Keaton/dp/B00004CZXV for the avoidance of doubt. It represents the one time I have ever had to give a film more out of 10 than I wanted to. I wanted to give it -5, the site I was reviewing for only allowed 1-10...
As further support of how crappy it is - I gave it to my parents when they got a DVD player... they gave it back to me as a "gift" for my birthday. I gave it to them for their wedding anniversary. They returned it as a Christmas "gift". Even charity shops reject it!
Surely the answer to his question is...
"A quiet one where nobody speaks".
Those statistics are backwards surely?
In 2007 there were 2.17 TVs per house, now 2.34 - an increase of 0.17 (normal to take the datum as the original value is it not, rather than the final value?) an 8% increase not 7%
Look at the smartphone - was 0.28, now 0.77 - an increase of 0.49 (from a start point of 0.28) - I make that 175% increase... not 64%
Similarly tablet 0.18 to 0.33 - that would be an 83% increase not 45% & Laptop 0.95 to 1.51 - (59% not 37%)
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The big problem here...
... isn't the VAT - sucks to have it but we have.
The major suck-factor is Royal Mail's £8 "handling charge" on collecting it - I'd much prefer to remit the VAT on my imports direct to HMRC. So import a DVD that is declared as £16, and it's £3.20 VAT and £8 on top to pay the RM's fee.
Getting caught in errors where RM's "finest" assess the charges on the wrong sort of dollars is purely for entertainment purposes though. Lost count of the number of times over the last 10 years that I've been charged VAT based on US dollars when the declared value is in HK$... yes, you can appeal and get it back but it's all an unnecessary pain in the posterior (obviously it costs them money to process this appeal, probably wiping out the VAT collected).
Re: As someone who runs a video production company.....
>>they won't have to worry about kit that depreciates at a terrifying rate or keeping up with the latest edit software.
So the kit depreciates - doesn't *usually* stop it working though. Likewise the latest and greatest edit software might be nice to have but it rarely stops the previous 15 versions working. We're talking about a small budget council production (most likely for internal consumption here), not a 3D, HD widescreen epic with a cast of thousands and and Oscar-winning score.
Even in the photo, unless the kicker hops back it looks like the tailgate will hit her as it opens...
Re: Phew!
Its exactly the same palaver in the UK (and as far as I have experienced - wider Europe)...
Obviously....
.... he's the prime candidate for the donkey work.
On a sample of 1
I can tell you that my lad quickly worked out that he didn't need to jump around with any Wii title - he just needed to be able to do an action that the Wii interpreted as the right one... often far more accurately than when doing the "proper" action.
Good to see OFCOM....
... really sticking it to them.
OFCOM *hopes*.
I do too, but I suspect in vain.
And it will only get worse...
... as your NFC-enabled "wallet" is on there, the payment thing that was big in the news the other day... not only a several hundred quid device to lose but the contents of your bank account too.
Fab.
7c per day?
7c per 10 seconds and I might think about it...
If they can sign one in a M-i-t-m attack...
... then they can spew it widely making it harder to eradicate.
Just how long...
... before someone crafts malware to mess with the revoked certificate list locally to whitelist their nefarious certificate for www.almost_but_not_quite_the_real_domain_for_a_bank.com
No support for those...
... that want to register a different email address with each place they register so they can figure out who sold the email address (or was hacked)...
example: my Amazon account is amazonuk.<hexdigits>@<mydomain name here>, my PSN account is PSN.<hexdigits>@<mydomain name here> where digits is a CRC16 of the domain name I'm registering on...
If any of them starts attracting spam, then I have a go at the company that managed to lose my email address...
Presumably one would lose that with BrowserID (as one typically does with OpenID).
Wikipedia is working here just fine....
... in English. However when I let it run the scripts from wikimedia.org, it stops.
NoScript wins again :)
Isn't the Capitol a building?
Rather than the city - the city which contains the Capitol being the Capital.
In fact if Wikipedia is to be taken at face value - they're often confused :)
Well....
Of course he paid HMV 100% over the local alternative. Oh wait. No - it was the other not-HMV place :)
Exactly...
I was out with my son (who was eager to spend some of his Christmas cash on a new console game) - before we left I had a peep online and found it quickly around £15-16... - HMV price £41.99
Across the retail park (120 yards) - there it was - same game, same packaging - £19 - guess where it was bought...
Now that Hardly Normal has caught up...
... have all the buyers not already foxtrot oscared to other non-HN etailers abroad?
As for the whinging pom (cupperty) - there's a whole world out there outside Englandshire - that's why Englandshire's in such a bloody state, there seems to be some belief that overseas of any description is automatically bad.
It's not clear from the title that you're selling it for actual money though.
Now I know...
Where my mother's old curtains went. That bloke talking to Prince Andrew seems to have rescued them from the tip and had a jacket (of sorts) made from them.
Two lost sales here
Had 2 on pre-order (one for me, one for the boy). Cancelled them both now. First the PSN restriction then this creeping unnecessary differentiation... end of the line.
Lucky...
she doesn't have friends from Muff, Co. Donegal or Nobber, Co. Meath.
Obviously the deceased avian...
... might have been carrying data compliant with RFC1149, RFC 2549 or RFC6214...
If it was someone here might now have an explanation for the excessive packet loss.
Right... so...
that's closed the Channel Isles, but places like Hong Kong are still open - where say CDWow are... typically with slightly better prices than the CI-based places (for now at least)
Wonder why...
... they need to develop software?
According to http://revk.www.me.uk/2011/11/secret-to-accessing-newzbin2-from-bt.html no software is required.
OK... but there's an elephant in this room
Why would I not get a Sony PS3? - even if I never use it for games, it's a well-supported well-featured BD player that happens to play games too. And considerably cheaper than a number of the models reviewed here.
My parental unit has a PS3 for exactly this reason - side benefit when I (or the kids) go round there's a PS3 there to play with too.
Exactly what we did...
... to the sales & marketing bodies that used to lose stupid volumes of hardware (typically after a rash of moaning "my PC is too slow" calls to the helpdesk coincidentally when their mate in the office next door had just got a better/bigger/faster/lighter one)
No problem - you lost your PC, hand me your chargecode & a brief outline of where it was lost/stolen (together with the crime reference number if stolen), I'll confirm it with your department finance contact and then I'll process that immediately.
Amazing how many of them were found suddenly - including stolen ones.