I work hardest with music playing, to cover the hum of the servers behind me in my office. I work most enjoyably from the summerhouse, cool breeze between my knees and ducks quacking before me. I work the most fanatically after several shots of bourbon on a laptop from the sofa.
RIP university computer labs. I had my own PC back in 1991 but the lab machines were faster, better, more colours (more than green) and had a mouse. I don't think any actual coursework was done on them though.
I did a UK computing-related degree back in 1990-93 and was fully aware that anything I wrote on university machines was their property. I bought a PC and worked from my own place instead.
If they insist on dipping into the Asimov bank of stories, they can't take the Foundation series all the way to the end without some background story about Baileyworld and R.Daneel, unless they cut vast swathes of content from the storyline.
When I first had broadband, it was 512kb/s. When I moved house I got 2Mb/s at no extra charge, and would probably have been given it previously had I asked! When I moved house again we got 8Mb/s, so it's probably more to do with asking for a higher speed or accepting the speed they used to offer you when you last subscribed. They don't actively advertise higher speeds to existing customers because they're not trying to win you. I suspect most people on 512kb/s now are fully able to go faster if they tried.
Excellent. Whenever I need to shift large files (1GB+) between my laptop and network storage I usually have to disappear to a switch and wire myself in.
As long as it doesn't have interference with neighbours I'm sorted.
I used an automated ordering system at Burger King yesterday. It could have been delivered through a slot too in an ideal world. Except the coffee machine was broken, so staff called next door (KFC) for one. There will always be a job for a human, if only to wait for a problem.
I detest touch screens. I have one on my phone and use the stylus all the time. If someone presses a greasy finger on my computer monitor I am really upset!
Long live the mouse, especially wireless ones.
Ah I remember playing MUDs. My very first dabbles of this internet thing were accessing StarWars MUD in Amsterdam from the library at my uni. halls of residence. The best thibgs about this is, it looked like you were studying!
I work on the machine all day, and the most important things in a keyboard are:
Is there a £ sign,
Is it coffee-proof,
Is it wireless (so I can move it to eat from the same desk).
When my keyboard gets too dirty, I take a digital photo of the keys, pop them all off and chuck them in a bowl of soapy water. Good as new in half an hour. The photo is so I can work out where they all go back, even the obscure keys.
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Vindaloo?
I work hardest with music playing, to cover the hum of the servers behind me in my office. I work most enjoyably from the summerhouse, cool breeze between my knees and ducks quacking before me. I work the most fanatically after several shots of bourbon on a laptop from the sofa.
RIP university computer labs. I had my own PC back in 1991 but the lab machines were faster, better, more colours (more than green) and had a mouse. I don't think any actual coursework was done on them though.
*halts crystal ball production
I did a UK computing-related degree back in 1990-93 and was fully aware that anything I wrote on university machines was their property. I bought a PC and worked from my own place instead.
If they insist on dipping into the Asimov bank of stories, they can't take the Foundation series all the way to the end without some background story about Baileyworld and R.Daneel, unless they cut vast swathes of content from the storyline.
What good is an internet if no one can spell or use correct grammar? Oh...
When I first had broadband, it was 512kb/s. When I moved house I got 2Mb/s at no extra charge, and would probably have been given it previously had I asked! When I moved house again we got 8Mb/s, so it's probably more to do with asking for a higher speed or accepting the speed they used to offer you when you last subscribed. They don't actively advertise higher speeds to existing customers because they're not trying to win you. I suspect most people on 512kb/s now are fully able to go faster if they tried.
How do you catalogue the topics? I mean "Clown" and "Monkey" are so different, but something with both elements could be difficult to sort.
Now they'll have to change MC360 for XBMC...
Morons don't understand nerd's work enough to steal it.
Excellent. Whenever I need to shift large files (1GB+) between my laptop and network storage I usually have to disappear to a switch and wire myself in. As long as it doesn't have interference with neighbours I'm sorted.
Guilty of releasing some awful albums too, if I remember correctly.
I'm going to find out what this infamous affair is and download it now. No, wait!
If there's any black holes in orbit, we have more important problems than a little debris.
A lot of the ideas Google have listed in the cartoon make a lot of sense. I'm looking forward to this.
What about queues? Who's going to let a man wearing metal trousers push to the front?
Perhaps it should also distinguish between friendly troops and enemy troops. It would be one-up on US military solutions.
I used an automated ordering system at Burger King yesterday. It could have been delivered through a slot too in an ideal world. Except the coffee machine was broken, so staff called next door (KFC) for one. There will always be a job for a human, if only to wait for a problem.
Sorry, they're removing your frequencies... (probably) They'd be better off just making the driving test harder.
I detest touch screens. I have one on my phone and use the stylus all the time. If someone presses a greasy finger on my computer monitor I am really upset! Long live the mouse, especially wireless ones.
Ah I remember playing MUDs. My very first dabbles of this internet thing were accessing StarWars MUD in Amsterdam from the library at my uni. halls of residence. The best thibgs about this is, it looked like you were studying!
The Tube isn't reliable enough to make it home in time for tea.
I work on the machine all day, and the most important things in a keyboard are: Is there a £ sign, Is it coffee-proof, Is it wireless (so I can move it to eat from the same desk).
When my keyboard gets too dirty, I take a digital photo of the keys, pop them all off and chuck them in a bowl of soapy water. Good as new in half an hour. The photo is so I can work out where they all go back, even the obscure keys.