When I started out in the 70's it was the command line, and it really was just a line:-) Punch-cards & paper tape, an acoustic coupler the size of a Mini (car that is)
Fast forward 30 years....................... It's a bloody command line again.
One consolation though, my right shoulder doesn't hurt any more:^D
I was listening to an interview with Peter Gabriel on 5live http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/ Simon Mayo (worth the fee on his own - grab the podcast) was doing the interview.
Peter said, essentially, that the music companies had lost the plot.
Loose? lose? - please look them up. This grates my poor old mind, much like "should of", instead of "should have", or "I could give a damn, instead of "I couldn't give a damn" - Bah.
USAGE The word loose is sometimes confused with lose; as a verb loose means unfasten or set free, while lose means cease to have or become unable to find. It is therefore incorrect to say this would cause them to loose 20 percent, the correct version being to lose 20 per cent.
As my old grandma used to say: "You can only reap what you have sown". This is of course, rubbish; I just nip over the fence & reap what other people have sown:-)
The expression is "I Couldn't care less" i. bloody e. You are expressing utter contempt, there is nothing below whatever you are professing not to care about.
"I could care less": Yes this is almost, maybe 30%, possibly 73.2%, up my list of hates, apart from purple feathers though, but then I'm a bit airy-fairy anyway.
PS
With Windows, you are always having to reboot the system due to everything from software installs to changing a network connection.
Only if you don't know what you are doing, I'm actually posting from a winXP machine, which has been up since April 2004, because updates are turned off, all paths to Microsoft are blocked by my firewall, I don't install stuff I don't need & use Opera & Eudora.
Have problems/bugs of some kind or other, but none quite as spectacularly "shoot yourself in the foot, with a 12 bore" headlines-wise as this little episode.:-)
Yes it's thier(sic) website & they can allow/disallow anything they bleeding want, however they must make that clear in the T&C's
What they are guilty of, actually, is that they encouraged Everyone to join, no strings, in order to gain members/traction, then surreptitiously change(d) the T&C's to specifically exclude all this stuff that people have been posting for years.
Disclaimer: I would rather gnaw my own ear off, with a pencil stuck in my eye, than have a myfacebeplace page.
It'll never happen, but I'd like to see one of those guys try to sue microsoft for violating their EULA -would microsoft try to claim that the EULA was invalid?....
Is the wrong question I think. The size of the "computer" is really dictated by the interface. It would be great to have a computer the size of a halfpenny, but how would you access it?
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I do though, because I really am "English". No conflict for me :-)
Wrong forum mush, tell it to someone that gives a shit
When I started out in the 70's it was the command line, and it really was just a line :-) Punch-cards & paper tape, an acoustic coupler the size of a Mini (car that is)
:^D
Fast forward 30 years....................... It's a bloody command line again.
One consolation though, my right shoulder doesn't hurt any more
I was listening to an interview with Peter Gabriel on 5live http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/ Simon Mayo (worth the fee on his own - grab the podcast) was doing the interview.
Peter said, essentially, that the music companies had lost the plot.
Nuff said
Heh, sorry, not one of those, one of these.
Gets my vote :-)
Loose? lose? - please look them up. This grates my poor old mind, much like "should of", instead of "should have", or "I could give a damn, instead of "I couldn't give a damn" - Bah.
Sorry :-/
You must be new around here!!
Or, just a callow youth.
She had paid the "Microsoft tax" already, on the purchase of the PC.
Why should she have to pay another "Tax" to [downgrade to] something that works???
A pox on Microsoft...
to refute this libel claim, is a lie detector test :-)
Oh wait...
Excellently summarised :-)
Is his track record so far.
What can we now expect?
I, for one, won't be buying it.
Check it out, you will all be surprised what it will find:
http://www.pipl.com/
OK, here's an independent view:
:-)
They deserve what they get. Full stop.
As my old grandma used to say: "You can only reap what you have sown". This is of course, rubbish; I just nip over the fence & reap what other people have sown
The expression is "I Couldn't care less" i. bloody e. You are expressing utter contempt, there is nothing below whatever you are professing not to care about.
"I could care less": Yes this is almost, maybe 30%, possibly 73.2%, up my list of hates, apart from purple feathers though, but then I'm a bit airy-fairy anyway.
PS
Only if you don't know what you are doing, I'm actually posting from a winXP machine, which has been up since April 2004, because updates are turned off, all paths to Microsoft are blocked by my firewall, I don't install stuff I don't need & use Opera & Eudora.
Have problems/bugs of some kind or other, but none quite as spectacularly "shoot yourself in the foot, with a 12 bore" headlines-wise as this little episode. :-)
They are not, it's Facebook trying to retrospectively "clean up their act"
And they are tw@s for doing it.
Yes it's thier(sic) website & they can allow/disallow anything they bleeding want, however they must make that clear in the T&C's
What they are guilty of, actually, is that they encouraged Everyone to join, no strings, in order to gain members/traction, then surreptitiously change(d) the T&C's to specifically exclude all this stuff that people have been posting for years.
Disclaimer: I would rather gnaw my own ear off, with a pencil stuck in my eye, than have a myfacebeplace page.
To take into 2009 :-)
Yup, I've removed it from 14 Windows PC's belonging to neighbours & friends. Malwarebytes was a handy tool.
The annoying thing though, most of them installed it themselves, deliberately, thinking they were doing "good".
Bah. Hang the authors of "Antivirus 2009" up by their nadgers.
Or maybe ban the losers who constantly spell lose as loose.
You'd still need a USB port, last I looked even a micro-B receptacle wouldn't fit in my ha'penny....:-)
Is the wrong question I think. The size of the "computer" is really dictated by the interface. It would be great to have a computer the size of a halfpenny, but how would you access it?
Sorry Phelan, it's been restarted & rebooted a couple of dozen times. All I get is the Apple logo twice then blankety-blank.