I gave Virgin £150 last month. That's a high month because I made a few non-free phone calls. Normally it's about £130.
I have their 20mbit connection. Not used too much these days. 5gb a month, 2gb tonight, none for the remainder of the month.
Cable TV with extra packages. Sky Sports for football. V+ downstairs. Spare box upstairs. Have paid for a couple of movies in the past "on demand". The daughter has also bought music on there before I set the PIN.
Land line phone with package that makes the majority of calls free.
Mobile phone that doesn't get used much.
I think you can safely say I'm a good customer. 15 years I've been with them now. Taken everything they've thrown. I was a happy customer until I found them limited bandwidth a couple of months back, Usenet hasn't worked in ages (not that it was much cop), impending Phorm...
This is what I miss most about online gaming. I didn't do many FPS or RTS games; turn based strategy was my forte. This gave everyone enough time for some serious chatting (and arguing).
"ur mom is a fag"
That was my favourite. If I could get some snotty little 13-year-old to type those words, I knew I'd won.
Ah the truth. Shame you posted late in the game and not many will see it.
I hate Phorm with every bone in my body - I've complained to my ISP (Virgin) already - but they are not going to steal your ad revenue from your site. You will buy ads from them just like you buy adsence from Google now. The difference is Google knows what text is on the page you're reading and maybe a little more, Phorm will know your left nut size.
If anyone really thinks Phorm is going to out and out steal from you, you need to think again (and take the tinfoil hat off).
It's a beta/RC. You're supposed to be testing it, not using it for mission critical eBay auctions and suchlike.
I don't know about the rest of you but I kept FF2 installed alongside FF3b3-RC2. I do not jump through hoops when browsing, I go back to FF2. Yes, I miss some extensions but they are there if I feel the need to hack them about (I don't). Yes, it can be a pain when my bank doesn't support FF3rc2 but they've said they'll support FF3 final, so all is good.
I hate "me too" posts as much as the next person but... Me too!
My mother, who's never played a consol game in her 60-year life, managed a first place on her first go using the wheel. Me, with my 25 years of game experience, struggled with the wheel and have returned to the nunchuck.
One set of races away from getting 2 stars on all levels now! I've seen people with 3 but god knows how they managed that.
My boss asked me to scan his signature a few months back. A boss with the ability to sign off £10m in any one instance I might add. 1200dpi PNG with transparent alpha channel I produced. After a little clean up, it looks better than his original signature. You can see the way the ball on his ballpoint pen lifted slightly in places. Even the slight ink bleed in the paper is shown.
Signatures are obsolete unless witnessed by someone else.
This is same for most fruits; the ones I grow at home, anyway.
If anyone has tried to grow an apple tree from a seed, they will know that the tree will not produce the same fruit that the seed came from. My apple trees are actually grafted on to quince root stocks. They are self-pollinating and disease resistant. I see no problems in monoculture - the breeders will adapt.
In the UK, I wish more cyclists would wear yellow vests. Yes, they make you look a twat but it's the first thing I see when driving my car in the dark....proper hand singles would be good too. Don't half heartily point to the direction you want to move in and look over your bloody shoulder before turning right too....AND don't weave in and out of traffic. I couldn't give a shit if you are going to get home ten minutes before me - in fact, fair play to you. But, you're an accident waiting to happen. You cannot see over the bigger cars, you cannot see people turning, and, whilst I'm enjoying this rant, you can't fucking well stop as quick as me if you see something. You only have tiny brakes and a tiny bit of rubber touching the road....AND wear a bloody helmet....AND don't undertake. Don't do a superman over the front of my bonnet again. In fact, if you live in the west country, don't ride your bike on the road when I'm on it too.
Same as that. I was made redundant, given 3 months to wind everything up and then given the equivalent of 10 months wages (tax free). Those 4 months were boring and depressing. I took some holiday leave and some 'sickness' leave. I was also given the opportunity to take time off for interviews but I didn't bother. None of my privileges were revoked; I could have done some damage but that would have been pointless.
12 months after leaving I received an email from an old colleague, who'd just been promoted, asking me if I wanted a job. I returned as a contractor on similar money and 2 years after that I was given a staff job on more money than I was on originally. Being taken on would have been quicker but there would have been tax implications that neither I nor my employer wanted.
This all happened in the UK and is pretty standard stuff.
I bought a P3 450mhz back when they first came out. Must have been 1998 at a guess.
It's still running. I can hear the original fan and it's knackered bearings screaming away in the other room as I type this (I slowly learned to ignore it). I've only turned off during holidays.
It has 3 hard drives, 2 graphics cards (one 64mb and one 32mb!), a sound card and a network card. I will admit to putting it in a nice new case a few years back but everything else is original.
I keep telling myself that I'll replace it when it dies but it never does. I've been through 2 laptops since I made that decision.
"the police even went so far as to issue a summons"
This must be a new role for the police. They have never issued summons before. Cautions, yes. Charging you, yes. Summons, no - that is a job for the courts.
I couldn't work out why my download meter was active one day - I had nothing running. It showed I was flat out downloading something on my 2mbit connection.
After hunting around I found it was Norton AV doing it's daily update. Nothing strange about that......apart from I'd uninstalled it months earlier! Everything got unistalled apart from the updater than was pulling nearly 50mb of files a day.
It's not random though. Either the user account is trying to install something, play with system files, use folders they don't have access to, etc or the administrator is. The administrator should know best; at the end of the day, it's his PC to fuck up.
Giving users the wrong account types is the issue.
The user accounts and UAC are great. My laptop finally feels like it's mine. I can let the wife and daughter have accounts and no longer worry about them breaking anything.
>>Its only an improvement if the features work and are reliable and do not cause any other problems or side-effects.
Had tears from my youngest not so long back... Firefox updated and wouldn't restart without my admin password. She had to wait until I came home from work. I was not popular...
The ants in my ant farm do not cross the barrier of vaseline I smear round the top.
Fill your PCs and servers with vaseline. Or don't. Or do, but don't complain to me afterwards.
Joking aside, these ant farms look great on a desk. They don't require much feeding and they do all their own cleaning; they way they remove their dead to a specific area is a joy to watch. Catching them from the garden is simply a case of leaving a blob of jam in a container.
No, my whites really are whiter than they were ten years ago. The patented new formulas are better, newly better, newly improved.
My wife's legs are much smoother than they were. She is one of the 9 out of 10 women who said so (compared to using the leading brand of hedge-clippers).
And if I see another YouTube spinoff advert I'm going to puke. I saw it 10 years ago!!!
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I gave Virgin £150 last month. That's a high month because I made a few non-free phone calls. Normally it's about £130.
I think you can safely say I'm a good customer. 15 years I've been with them now. Taken everything they've thrown. I was a happy customer until I found them limited bandwidth a couple of months back, Usenet hasn't worked in ages (not that it was much cop), impending Phorm...
BT and Sky are always asking for my money.
This is what I miss most about online gaming. I didn't do many FPS or RTS games; turn based strategy was my forte. This gave everyone enough time for some serious chatting (and arguing).
"ur mom is a fag"
That was my favourite. If I could get some snotty little 13-year-old to type those words, I knew I'd won.
Happy days.
Ah the truth. Shame you posted late in the game and not many will see it.
I hate Phorm with every bone in my body - I've complained to my ISP (Virgin) already - but they are not going to steal your ad revenue from your site. You will buy ads from them just like you buy adsence from Google now. The difference is Google knows what text is on the page you're reading and maybe a little more, Phorm will know your left nut size.
If anyone really thinks Phorm is going to out and out steal from you, you need to think again (and take the tinfoil hat off).
Who modded this up? What are you, 12?
It's a beta/RC. You're supposed to be testing it, not using it for mission critical eBay auctions and suchlike.
I don't know about the rest of you but I kept FF2 installed alongside FF3b3-RC2. I do not jump through hoops when browsing, I go back to FF2. Yes, I miss some extensions but they are there if I feel the need to hack them about (I don't). Yes, it can be a pain when my bank doesn't support FF3rc2 but they've said they'll support FF3 final, so all is good.
Moaning fuckers.
I hate "me too" posts as much as the next person but... Me too!
My mother, who's never played a consol game in her 60-year life, managed a first place on her first go using the wheel. Me, with my 25 years of game experience, struggled with the wheel and have returned to the nunchuck.
One set of races away from getting 2 stars on all levels now! I've seen people with 3 but god knows how they managed that.
My boss asked me to scan his signature a few months back. A boss with the ability to sign off £10m in any one instance I might add. 1200dpi PNG with transparent alpha channel I produced. After a little clean up, it looks better than his original signature. You can see the way the ball on his ballpoint pen lifted slightly in places. Even the slight ink bleed in the paper is shown.
Signatures are obsolete unless witnessed by someone else.
This is same for most fruits; the ones I grow at home, anyway.
If anyone has tried to grow an apple tree from a seed, they will know that the tree will not produce the same fruit that the seed came from. My apple trees are actually grafted on to quince root stocks. They are self-pollinating and disease resistant. I see no problems in monoculture - the breeders will adapt.
In the UK, I wish more cyclists would wear yellow vests. Yes, they make you look a twat but it's the first thing I see when driving my car in the dark. ...proper hand singles would be good too. Don't half heartily point to the direction you want to move in and look over your bloody shoulder before turning right too. ...AND don't weave in and out of traffic. I couldn't give a shit if you are going to get home ten minutes before me - in fact, fair play to you. But, you're an accident waiting to happen. You cannot see over the bigger cars, you cannot see people turning, and, whilst I'm enjoying this rant, you can't fucking well stop as quick as me if you see something. You only have tiny brakes and a tiny bit of rubber touching the road. ...AND wear a bloody helmet. ...AND don't undertake. Don't do a superman over the front of my bonnet again. In fact, if you live in the west country, don't ride your bike on the road when I'm on it too.
How many more times..? It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement.
Same as that. I was made redundant, given 3 months to wind everything up and then given the equivalent of 10 months wages (tax free). Those 4 months were boring and depressing. I took some holiday leave and some 'sickness' leave. I was also given the opportunity to take time off for interviews but I didn't bother. None of my privileges were revoked; I could have done some damage but that would have been pointless.
12 months after leaving I received an email from an old colleague, who'd just been promoted, asking me if I wanted a job. I returned as a contractor on similar money and 2 years after that I was given a staff job on more money than I was on originally. Being taken on would have been quicker but there would have been tax implications that neither I nor my employer wanted.
This all happened in the UK and is pretty standard stuff.
"Don't burn bridges" - spot on advice.
You call it a slashvertisement, it's been tagged 'slashvertisement', but I can't see a price on there.
I thought it was neat and wondered 'how much?'
I bought a P3 450mhz back when they first came out. Must have been 1998 at a guess.
It's still running. I can hear the original fan and it's knackered bearings screaming away in the other room as I type this (I slowly learned to ignore it). I've only turned off during holidays.
It has 3 hard drives, 2 graphics cards (one 64mb and one 32mb!), a sound card and a network card. I will admit to putting it in a nice new case a few years back but everything else is original.
I keep telling myself that I'll replace it when it dies but it never does. I've been through 2 laptops since I made that decision.
"the police even went so far as to issue a summons"
This must be a new role for the police. They have never issued summons before. Cautions, yes. Charging you, yes. Summons, no - that is a job for the courts.
But the Guardian says different. The Guardian.
Neat. What more can I say? :)
We have the exact same service in the UK. It's been a lifesaver for me and the family.
I couldn't work out why my download meter was active one day - I had nothing running. It showed I was flat out downloading something on my 2mbit connection.
...apart from I'd uninstalled it months earlier! Everything got unistalled apart from the updater than was pulling nearly 50mb of files a day.
After hunting around I found it was Norton AV doing it's daily update. Nothing strange about that...
It is and my RSS issues are fixed!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7407934.stm
Longer, faster, no adverts, etc, etc
The magic marker ink will not hide the printer ink. It will show up on the scan.
Better luck next time. Thanks for playing.
It's not random though. Either the user account is trying to install something, play with system files, use folders they don't have access to, etc or the administrator is. The administrator should know best; at the end of the day, it's his PC to fuck up.
Giving users the wrong account types is the issue.
The user accounts and UAC are great. My laptop finally feels like it's mine. I can let the wife and daughter have accounts and no longer worry about them breaking anything.
>>Its only an improvement if the features work and are reliable and do not cause any other problems or side-effects.
Had tears from my youngest not so long back... Firefox updated and wouldn't restart without my admin password. She had to wait until I came home from work. I was not popular...
Great!!!
I was going to say exactly the same. Please mod the parent post up.
To my siblings: Do people still reply to trolls?
Oh wait...
The ants in my ant farm do not cross the barrier of vaseline I smear round the top.
Fill your PCs and servers with vaseline. Or don't. Or do, but don't complain to me afterwards.
Joking aside, these ant farms look great on a desk. They don't require much feeding and they do all their own cleaning; they way they remove their dead to a specific area is a joy to watch. Catching them from the garden is simply a case of leaving a blob of jam in a container.
No, my whites really are whiter than they were ten years ago. The patented new formulas are better, newly better, newly improved.
My wife's legs are much smoother than they were. She is one of the 9 out of 10 women who said so (compared to using the leading brand of hedge-clippers).
And if I see another YouTube spinoff advert I'm going to puke. I saw it 10 years ago!!!