Re: Well it will look so stylish...
Yeah I don't think he's watched many Louis Rossmann videos either.
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The machines will stay whatever.
Why?
The machines are a fantastic way to help rig elections by rationing them to areas that don't vote the way you want them to. Oh you good people can have 5 voting machines and all be done by 5pm. You folks in that district can have the one and you can get lucky if you get the chance to vote!
There is no excuse for not providing $50 worth of pencils and slips.
...there are more and more of us that just do not wish to pay more than £400 for a device that lasts 2-3 years maybe.
The gall of the likes of Google is thinking we are happy to spend £1000 on something to last a year to 18 months. I don't know of any other device where folks would consider that perfectly okay. Hence why I feel those that do this very thing are demented or just have more money than sense.
No BT were canny.
You get big Govt money to roll out a compromise solution.
You then get more Govt money to roll out yet another compromise solution.
You then get massive amounts of Govt money to rollout the solution they should have rolled out originally.
But you got three big bites of the cherry rather than one.
If nothing had been thrown at BT over the years they would still be happy to push ISDN to every home.
Well if a 'stealth plane' takes 20 years to become operational you don't think that radar technology hasn't also advanced in that time to take account of such things? I bet radar tech moves much faster.
The radar system just has to have an inkling of what to look for whether its a plane or a 'large seagull'
I've given up worrying about Android updates. Each version promises so much and then delivers pretty much the exact experience of the previous versions.
Meet the new OS same as the old OS.
As long as the 20 or so apps I use work, that's all matters.
As far as I am aware my phones has never been hit with anything. I only install the main apps (and no I don't use any Facebook stuff) and I restrict their feelers to only the functions I feel they should have.
Ahh yes the Company Boss that happily shows off the new Company Jaguar saloon he gave himself to drive the four miles to work and then got into a fainting fit when you tell him he needs to spend £600 to replace the 10 year old Vista heap that the business runs off mostly.
"Have you got something second hand or cheaper?"
And the other point I may mention to any proud self professed camera enthusiast is that -
It doesn't matter how good you are taking photos and how good your camera is...we really don't want to look at your 956 holiday photos from your latest trip to Asia or wherever.
We don't give a shit. Thank you.
That's sad.
Probably languishing in legal limbo in the estate of some failed deceased small time movie mogul wannabe.*
Such a shame.
*Edit - A google search says this -
"Director Jan De Bont's Blue Tulip Films, in collaboration with 20th Century Fox, bought the film rights to the adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat back in 2001."
...is the floating pen.
The effect was done with the then 'new' double sided sticky tape and a revolving sheet of clear plastic gel.
You can see the stewardess 'peel' it off.
Total cost maybe 6 shillings!
Today it would be done with CGI at a cost of $80,000 and three weeks work.
My other half had her 10 year old Gmail account have a brain fart last week.
It decided to download all her old emails again but this time marked all of them as SPAM.
The real shock was that 80% of it was deleted emails from the start of the account. Stuff that was sent to the Bin and emptied from the Bin.
Was all there fresh as the day it was supposedly deleted.
Google keeps it all.
Had it's own purpose built Data Centre in Norwich. I went in there a few times over the years and it was interesting to watch the amount of data go up but the size of the hardware go down. Even the tape robot vanished a long time ago. Now it's run by an independent firm that are doing very well with it. Looks very different now of course.
Smokes machine at 200%, two sets of Disco traffic lights and a medley just 10 minutes in does not create atmosphere. That was in 2006. Utterly terrible. We left halfway through This Corrosion. Yes it was that bad.
The most overrated live act ever. The albums are fine.
As for 55 Cancri e ...I reserve judgement.