We had the same thing happen with Argos and TVs some time last year. Argos never honoured their commitment to sell cheap TVs though. They are the ones who have the final say in the matter; there is nothing to say that they must sell anything.
I feel for you. I'm in the same situation far too often; only I am normally forced to get up out of my chair and walk over to their desk to look at something on their screen because they still forget about 'Print Screen' after I've shown them umpteen times.
The "I am far, far too stupid to respond to this in writing" part is true apart from I think that laziness has more to do with it. Most people, except me, have university degrees - it is not stupidity.
"I am far, far too lazy to actually think about constructing sentences. I am also far too lazy to actually read all of your email even though it looks like it might of taken you five to ten minutes to write. I will send a fresh email, without your previous email threaded or attached, because I'm too lazy to change the options. I think I'll leave the subject header blank too and email you an attachment of a Word document that I haven't read either." - sums it up better for me.
I work for a UK power generator in a department that deals with burning fuels. I am no chemical scientist (I do the PC work) but I read about this sort of thing a lot. It's amazing what we try and burn at times.
Even since the UK Mad-Cow BSE scandal we have been experimenting with burning cows. Yes, whole cows, not just their manure. They are rendered first and I believe that the tallow is the most useful fuel we get from a cow. Everything is burnt though, nothing goes to waste.
I believe, although don't quote me on this, that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) funds a lot of these projects in the UK... - If you wanted to know more.
I too have had a hotmail address for a number of years. I only have it for instant messaging......I get no spam on this address apart from the monthly MS offers.
You Yanks no nothing. Trying living on an island with the Atlantic one side, the North Sea the other and France below. You'll understand changable weather then.
I would like a Password key. A BIG password key that sits on the top of the keyboard, much like the spacebar sits at the bottom now.
I believe this would save me the most time in my working day. No longer would I have to waste 8 key strokes each time I walk away from my computer for more than 180 seconds. No longer would I have to scribble it down on a post-it note that is hidden under my phone. I could even let other people on my PC if they need important files.
It makes me feel better. I didn't ask you to read it. I didn't ask anyone to mod it up either. I sort of thought that this is the place to post my opinions, forgive me, I will not do it again.
True, it doesn't affect me at the moment but I did say that too.
The point is that I'm getting less for the same money. I'm getting less and I'm not one of the users that is hogging bandwidth. I'm getting less; not more.
Inda thinks that the "UK ISP [that] Imposes Download Limits" is an unfair ISP.
I've been with them for 5 years. Never been uphappy with the services they offer until now. I've even praised them up on here before. Apart from them closing down all their shops, reducing staffing numbers on the call desks, digging up the roads in my town for 3 years and forcing me to pay them three separate bills each month they are not bad.
The thing that makes me annoyed is that I first found out about them closing down alt.binaries through a friend. I knew they were on about upgrading their servers at some stage, I knew that they were thinking about charging extra for Usenet access - I filled in an online poll telling them I would consider paying extra. I would of paid if they had given me the option. I will now have to pay for another Usenet service which will only make bandwidth issues worse for them.
I found out about the 1Gb limit from Slashdot. Why have I not had a letter, a phone call, a god-damn-simple-email from them explaining this?
Now I'm one of these people that is connected to a P2P server 24/7. I'm not a leech, I don't download flat out at 600k all the time (impossible on most P2P networks). I am an average user. I get a 1 to 2 films each week and I like to evaluate some new software once or twice a month.
I pay a substantial part of my wages (7% of my gross income) to NTL for ALL my communication and entertainment needs. NTL is in the business of providing me with my needs - they don't do much else. What am I going to do now? Can they afford for me, as an average user, to switch to another provider? Another provider who would be cheaper and offer a higher upload speed as all ADSL providers seem to be doing at the moment. I am not getting the service I was getting last week, I am not getting the service I was getting when Usenet was functioning properly... and I'm still paying the same for it. I sorry but there are some simple sums for me to do as well now, even if I'm unlikely to go over the 1Gb per day limit. You get what you pay for, as the saying goes - or not in the case of NTL.
God damit, they even advertise on billboards about offering rich streaming media. More like poor steaming shit now.
We trialed Mondex in my home town many years ago. To coin a gaming phrase: It sucked.
I was given a card with £10 on it, a key-fob for reading it, and a residential phone that worked much like an ATM - you could credit your card by inserting it into a slot on the side and phoning the bank with a special button.
It took me 6 months to spend the money. The machines didn't always work, staff were not trained properly, IT WASN'T CASH and we all hated it.
6 months after that. They wanted to check the card for damage etc. They gave me another £10 to spend on it - I managed to turn this back into cash buy returning a previous purchase...
I understand what you are saying but instead of special forces painting buildings with lasers for bomb targets they could just as easily plugin some wireless hardware...
With all that wanking I'm supprised you have the strength to type such a long post.
Being a gay virgin is nothing to be ashamed of though. I'm glad you found the 'inner' strength to post your deepest feelings on Slashdot. Keep up the good work.
The only people I know that are still on 56k dial-up are the casual weekend users. The ones who check their emails on a Saturday morning and visit a handful of websites - like my Dad for example.
NTL also do a 128/128 cable connection that is as cheap (or the same price) as their 56k dial-up. Many people, like the father-in-law, have swapped over to this setup.
Competition is hotting up at the moment. ASDL for £20 a month is £5 less than I'm paying. The 1Mbit line price came down by ~£15 around xmas time. When it drops again I'm upgrading.
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We had the same thing happen with Argos and TVs some time last year. Argos never honoured their commitment to sell cheap TVs though. They are the ones who have the final say in the matter; there is nothing to say that they must sell anything.
ASL? :)
Diesel in the UK smells. No, in fact it stinks. Both the raw fuel and the exhaust fumes smell really horrible.
How does BioDiesel compare?
I feel for you. I'm in the same situation far too often; only I am normally forced to get up out of my chair and walk over to their desk to look at something on their screen because they still forget about 'Print Screen' after I've shown them umpteen times.
The "I am far, far too stupid to respond to this in writing" part is true apart from I think that laziness has more to do with it. Most people, except me, have university degrees - it is not stupidity.
"I am far, far too lazy to actually think about constructing sentences. I am also far too lazy to actually read all of your email even though it looks like it might of taken you five to ten minutes to write. I will send a fresh email, without your previous email threaded or attached, because I'm too lazy to change the options. I think I'll leave the subject header blank too and email you an attachment of a Word document that I haven't read either." - sums it up better for me.
It's not particularly new, no.
I work for a UK power generator in a department that deals with burning fuels. I am no chemical scientist (I do the PC work) but I read about this sort of thing a lot. It's amazing what we try and burn at times.
Even since the UK Mad-Cow BSE scandal we have been experimenting with burning cows. Yes, whole cows, not just their manure. They are rendered first and I believe that the tallow is the most useful fuel we get from a cow. Everything is burnt though, nothing goes to waste.
I believe, although don't quote me on this, that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) funds a lot of these projects in the UK... - If you wanted to know more.
It runs great on the highest resolution with 32bit colour on my old PIII 450 with a 64MB GFX card running W98 using DX8.1
You tried new gfx card drivers?
The Slashcode puts a space in the middle; hence the invalid link.
The hash is correct. I've checked it against my download and on Jigle.
Of course we have spatulas. How else do you think we scrape the ice off our cars on cold winter mornings?
I thought it was a poem. Very nice it was too.
Drive-up ATMs?
You Yanks, please tell me that you are joking. Was it ever hard getting out of the car to press the buttons?
No wonder the majority of you lot have weight problems. I bet they even make the keys bigger on your machines because of stubby fingers...
...ah bollox. That's why you need eye scans and voice operated machines. Sorry, I'm mistaken again.
Fantastic idea. BoulderDash 1, 2, 3 and 4 I think. Maybe School Daze and Renegade too...
...or I could just climb into the loft and bring down the originals...
...then visit eBay!
Fantasic idea.
Are there really clocks that use the 60Hz frequency?
I stood watching a turbine spinning last week and it didn't stay at 3000rpm constantly (50Hz). Surely a sundial would be more accurate.
Man, that's a kid's site with MS Paint scribbles on it. Surely Google can't see this as a problem.
I too have had a hotmail address for a number of years. I only have it for instant messaging... ...I get no spam on this address apart from the monthly MS offers.
Why have they choosen not to sell my address?
You Yanks no nothing. Trying living on an island with the Atlantic one side, the North Sea the other and France below. You'll understand changable weather then.
I happen to play it at 1024x768 on my PIII 450 with a 64MB GF2.
Plays fine for me too.
Makes me wonder why people copy then crack and patch software.
I would like a Password key. A BIG password key that sits on the top of the keyboard, much like the spacebar sits at the bottom now.
I believe this would save me the most time in my working day. No longer would I have to waste 8 key strokes each time I walk away from my computer for more than 180 seconds. No longer would I have to scribble it down on a post-it note that is hidden under my phone. I could even let other people on my PC if they need important files.
Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
No!
:; and ~#. I like it there :)
On a British keyboard it is shift+', next to
It makes me feel better. I didn't ask you to read it. I didn't ask anyone to mod it up either. I sort of thought that this is the place to post my opinions, forgive me, I will not do it again.
True, it doesn't affect me at the moment but I did say that too.
The point is that I'm getting less for the same money. I'm getting less and I'm not one of the users that is hogging bandwidth. I'm getting less; not more.
Inda thinks that the "UK ISP [that] Imposes Download Limits" is an unfair ISP.
I've been with them for 5 years. Never been uphappy with the services they offer until now. I've even praised them up on here before. Apart from them closing down all their shops, reducing staffing numbers on the call desks, digging up the roads in my town for 3 years and forcing me to pay them three separate bills each month they are not bad.
The thing that makes me annoyed is that I first found out about them closing down alt.binaries through a friend. I knew they were on about upgrading their servers at some stage, I knew that they were thinking about charging extra for Usenet access - I filled in an online poll telling them I would consider paying extra. I would of paid if they had given me the option. I will now have to pay for another Usenet service which will only make bandwidth issues worse for them.
I found out about the 1Gb limit from Slashdot. Why have I not had a letter, a phone call, a god-damn-simple-email from them explaining this?
Now I'm one of these people that is connected to a P2P server 24/7. I'm not a leech, I don't download flat out at 600k all the time (impossible on most P2P networks). I am an average user. I get a 1 to 2 films each week and I like to evaluate some new software once or twice a month.
I pay a substantial part of my wages (7% of my gross income) to NTL for ALL my communication and entertainment needs. NTL is in the business of providing me with my needs - they don't do much else. What am I going to do now? Can they afford for me, as an average user, to switch to another provider? Another provider who would be cheaper and offer a higher upload speed as all ADSL providers seem to be doing at the moment. I am not getting the service I was getting last week, I am not getting the service I was getting when Usenet was functioning properly... and I'm still paying the same for it. I sorry but there are some simple sums for me to do as well now, even if I'm unlikely to go over the 1Gb per day limit. You get what you pay for, as the saying goes - or not in the case of NTL.
God damit, they even advertise on billboards about offering rich streaming media. More like poor steaming shit now.
We trialed Mondex in my home town many years ago. To coin a gaming phrase: It sucked.
I was given a card with £10 on it, a key-fob for reading it, and a residential phone that worked much like an ATM - you could credit your card by inserting it into a slot on the side and phoning the bank with a special button.
It took me 6 months to spend the money. The machines didn't always work, staff were not trained properly, IT WASN'T CASH and we all hated it.
6 months after that. They wanted to check the card for damage etc. They gave me another £10 to spend on it - I managed to turn this back into cash buy returning a previous purchase...
Cash is good. It is reliable and friendly.
I understand what you are saying but instead of special forces painting buildings with lasers for bomb targets they could just as easily plugin some wireless hardware...
With all that wanking I'm supprised you have the strength to type such a long post.
Being a gay virgin is nothing to be ashamed of though. I'm glad you found the 'inner' strength to post your deepest feelings on Slashdot. Keep up the good work.
Bless.
I was going to post this exact same thing.
The only people I know that are still on 56k dial-up are the casual weekend users. The ones who check their emails on a Saturday morning and visit a handful of websites - like my Dad for example.
NTL also do a 128/128 cable connection that is as cheap (or the same price) as their 56k dial-up. Many people, like the father-in-law, have swapped over to this setup.
Competition is hotting up at the moment. ASDL for £20 a month is £5 less than I'm paying. The 1Mbit line price came down by ~£15 around xmas time. When it drops again I'm upgrading.