BT did have cable TV operations back in the day (we're talking mid-90s at least). Whether they were subsumed into the Virgin Media behemoth I don't know.
There is one holdout IIRC, that being WightCable, who serve the shithole that is the Isle of Wight. However you are correct to exclude them, as much like everything else on the IoW they don't matter.
A friend of mine had some twat post a blog on Google's Blogger, using their name and photo, impersonating them, claiming that they are the "number one pedophile rights activist" and other such things in that vein. He has been hounded by social services and questioned about it by his son's school (a picture of his son also features on the blog). If you Google his name, that blog is the first result.
This friend has now spent over a year trying to get Google to remove this blog. Despite being a clear victim of vindictive impersonation, and despite him REPEATEDLY faxing in copies of his driver's license and such as per Google's impersonation policy, it's still up there. And as previously noted, it has affected his wife and kid before, to the point of nearly getting his son taken away. And Google won't do anything.
Funny how when they're trying to launch a whole new social network, they suddenly spring into action.
You've posted the same comment more or less in virtually every GNOME 3 thread. While it was amusing the first time, after the fifth or six time it's just sad. Please, stop.
Not to mention the Soviets were also imperialistic fucks. Albeit not on the scale of the US, whose imperialist, expansionist "interventions" were an issue from the moment white people set foot on the damned continent.
Speaking as someone who is neither Soviet/Russian or USian, I'd rather have neither and have countries not "intervene" in shit that doesn't concern them.
Apple's target market isn't entirely accurate. After all, OS X actually works, it works consistently and it has an absolute fuckton of investment behind it in terms of UI testing, working out what is actually intuitive, refinement etc.
What Shuttleworth is doing is trying to do all of the above on the cheap (i.e. through the community), and if not on the cheap then not at all. Unity, GNOME Shell and KDE4 have all been pushed through onto users with what seems like an absolute minimum of user testing. They started from the presumption that an extremely bad UI paradigm that doesn't correlate to what users expect or will find intuitive is better than none at all, and slavishly enforced it. Compare this to Apple, or even Microsoft, where at least a modicum of thought is given to what a given user might think of a certain mode of action. The lack of thought given to what actual users actually think is absolutely glaring, especially considering the widespread revulsion at Unity and GNOME Shell.
The sooner GNOME/Ubuntu/KDE devs start seriously seeking user feedback through genuine usability studies on their software and through iterated testing, the better for the Linux desktop.
Yes, innocent people are killed at the hands of the US and other professional militaries, but they aren't *trying* to do that.
Shutthefuckup. The United States is a country with a brutal history of massacres and murder run by a government that will gleefully kill innocents - abroad or otherwise - to sustain its own expansion, its powerful business interests or its insane military-industrial complex. This is not my conjecture, this is an evidenced and well-proven fact.
I admit I haven't tracked Blackberry much, but I remember many of us at worked had smartphones that implemented general standards (e.g. becoming a usb mass storage for getting files on and off via usb cable)
Derp. My Curve and Bold both used mass storage just fine.
I actually sent in a complaint email about this very practise. If I go to Amazon it's because I want to buy from Amazon (who, otherwise, I've had nothing but good experiences with) not some random e-tailer who Amazon for some reason wants to redirect me to.
When I got my MacBook three years ago Amazon was the first place I looked. Saw the crappy seller I'd never heard of selling something I couldn't afford to fuck around with, thought "fuck this" and bought it from John Lewis instead. I trust JL a lot more than I do some fly-by-night, even if they are recommended by Amazon.
You do realise that when the banks are sold again by UKFI, the Treasury (and by extension the "public purse") stands to make a huge profit by the simple act of buying the shares low and selling them high, right?
You also do realise that most banks are private institutions who have received no government support (and so can spend their "stolen" bonus money however they damn well like it), don't you? And that at the end of the day their money has been legitimately earned through perfectly legal business activities? You think they charge too much - fine, but they have every right to do so.
The "bankers" didn't "bankrupt the public purse". That's a facile (and depressingly common) point of view, and one that happens to be almost entirely incorrect.
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I joined them in April this year. I say "joined" - the actual service didn't work until June.
Posted this link already: my funtimes with BT.
Needless to say, not happy.
BT did have cable TV operations back in the day (we're talking mid-90s at least). Whether they were subsumed into the Virgin Media behemoth I don't know.
There is one holdout IIRC, that being WightCable, who serve the shithole that is the Isle of Wight. However you are correct to exclude them, as much like everything else on the IoW they don't matter.
I must be in the minority, since I'd rather snap my cock in two then rub it in broken glass than deal with BT customer service ever again.
The actual ADSL service from BT has been alright. The customer service is fucking terrible. I don't care how shit Virgin can get, BT are worse.
Meanwhile, BT are not very good either. I have elaborated why here.
You may notice a lot of, shall we say, "psychotic rage". This is not an accident.
OS/2 is still in use today among many many companies.
He has contacted solicitors, and apparently none were interested in his case.
That's a brilliant suggestion, which I'll put to him immediately... cheers man.
A friend of mine had some twat post a blog on Google's Blogger, using their name and photo, impersonating them, claiming that they are the "number one pedophile rights activist" and other such things in that vein. He has been hounded by social services and questioned about it by his son's school (a picture of his son also features on the blog). If you Google his name, that blog is the first result.
This friend has now spent over a year trying to get Google to remove this blog. Despite being a clear victim of vindictive impersonation, and despite him REPEATEDLY faxing in copies of his driver's license and such as per Google's impersonation policy, it's still up there. And as previously noted, it has affected his wife and kid before, to the point of nearly getting his son taken away. And Google won't do anything.
Funny how when they're trying to launch a whole new social network, they suddenly spring into action.
My favourite one was when it suggested I make a photo album about muffdiving, which is frankly the best suggestion I've ever received.
Best thing ever: go to the WDYL thing and put in "sex" for double-entendre fun.
"Have a debate about sex!" "Find sex nearby!" "Watch videos of sex!"
Bonus points for doing it with "goatse".
Huh? I might be remembering wrongly, but I'm fairly sure my Kinect has a big green light on it.
Yes they should be horrified that the impractical toy guitar that was designed to fit inside their logo is impossible to play complex songs on.
I have to say, that is probably the most retarded website I have ever seen in my life.
With all due respect, I strongly doubt that the US Government are installing consumer grade OSes on nuclear plant machinery.
I doubt they're installing Windows in general on it. QNX or similar is more likely.
Something about transportation wants to be free.
You've posted the same comment more or less in virtually every GNOME 3 thread. While it was amusing the first time, after the fifth or six time it's just sad. Please, stop.
Not to mention the Soviets were also imperialistic fucks. Albeit not on the scale of the US, whose imperialist, expansionist "interventions" were an issue from the moment white people set foot on the damned continent.
Speaking as someone who is neither Soviet/Russian or USian, I'd rather have neither and have countries not "intervene" in shit that doesn't concern them.
Apple's target market isn't entirely accurate. After all, OS X actually works, it works consistently and it has an absolute fuckton of investment behind it in terms of UI testing, working out what is actually intuitive, refinement etc.
What Shuttleworth is doing is trying to do all of the above on the cheap (i.e. through the community), and if not on the cheap then not at all. Unity, GNOME Shell and KDE4 have all been pushed through onto users with what seems like an absolute minimum of user testing. They started from the presumption that an extremely bad UI paradigm that doesn't correlate to what users expect or will find intuitive is better than none at all, and slavishly enforced it. Compare this to Apple, or even Microsoft, where at least a modicum of thought is given to what a given user might think of a certain mode of action. The lack of thought given to what actual users actually think is absolutely glaring, especially considering the widespread revulsion at Unity and GNOME Shell.
The sooner GNOME/Ubuntu/KDE devs start seriously seeking user feedback through genuine usability studies on their software and through iterated testing, the better for the Linux desktop.
Shut the fuck up. The United States is a country with a brutal history of massacres and murder run by a government that will gleefully kill innocents - abroad or otherwise - to sustain its own expansion, its powerful business interests or its insane military-industrial complex. This is not my conjecture, this is an evidenced and well-proven fact.
Netcraft confirms that RIM.jobs is perfectly safe!
I admit I haven't tracked Blackberry much, but I remember many of us at worked had smartphones that implemented general standards (e.g. becoming a usb mass storage for getting files on and off via usb cable)
Derp. My Curve and Bold both used mass storage just fine.
To be honest my time with Virgin Media's cable service was excellent. 50MB did what it said it would, all the time. Full stop.
Now Virgin Media National, their ADSL arm, is a completely different and infinitely more frustrating matter.
I actually sent in a complaint email about this very practise. If I go to Amazon it's because I want to buy from Amazon (who, otherwise, I've had nothing but good experiences with) not some random e-tailer who Amazon for some reason wants to redirect me to.
When I got my MacBook three years ago Amazon was the first place I looked. Saw the crappy seller I'd never heard of selling something I couldn't afford to fuck around with, thought "fuck this" and bought it from John Lewis instead. I trust JL a lot more than I do some fly-by-night, even if they are recommended by Amazon.
You do realise that when the banks are sold again by UKFI, the Treasury (and by extension the "public purse") stands to make a huge profit by the simple act of buying the shares low and selling them high, right?
You also do realise that most banks are private institutions who have received no government support (and so can spend their "stolen" bonus money however they damn well like it), don't you? And that at the end of the day their money has been legitimately earned through perfectly legal business activities? You think they charge too much - fine, but they have every right to do so.
The "bankers" didn't "bankrupt the public purse". That's a facile (and depressingly common) point of view, and one that happens to be almost entirely incorrect.