Posts by jason 7 3181 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
In my experience customers don't want new machines. They want cheap machines. That means I pick up reconditioned Dell Core i5 machines with Win10 and 8GB for £200.00 a go.
I still sell older C2D machines by the dozen to a lot of businesses.
What do you need to run Office and Chrome? Not a lot.
I get maybe one custom PC request a year and that's from a gamer.
I've mentioned before I used to work for a huge insurance company in the UK. We were paying £300 a time for £30 of ram and had to wait 4 weeks for delivery when Crucial could do the same for next day. With our buying power we should have been paying £3!
I challenged this daft situation with the then head of IT. I got told to "shut the fuck up!" So I guess it was all about back handers.
Excellent! That's just the type of thing I would have said.
I once in an interview used the phrase "Well a cock-up on your part doesn't constitute a crisis for me!"
The face in front of me went through a kaleidoscope. I'd already decided to back out of that job application so was just enjoying the ride at that point.
I was in London with my Dad when the Labour manifesto* was released. My Dad just said "Huh he just wants to take us back to the 1970's etc. etc."
To which I replied sarcastically, "But Dad, the current system is just working so well for so many of us!"
The fact is that the world now runs on debt. The more debt you have the better. Has Greece been abandoned? No, it's still there. The deeper you look into the world economy and how it's run, basic common sense economics no longer apply.
Until we abandon this evil mutated form of Capitalism that just allows the top 1% to make all the profit instead of everyone involved getting a bite of the cherry, the craziness will just continue.
First step - Get all the money out of politics.
* - Manifestos just go straight in the bin by 7pm Election Day.
...some poor fool will have to stand up and state that pensions are no longer viable.
Pensions are another factor of life and finance that are slowly making less and less sense. When you look at what's going on in the world and how it works 90% of the worlds finance is a stupid joke. Going forward money, wages, profits etc. just don't make much sense. They were a 'fun' means to an end. It will all have to reverse when the 1% have finally sucked up all the money and then wonder why no one is buying their Big macs and Ford F-150s anymore.
The world seriously needs an economic rethink and reboot.
When 90+% of the worlds 'wealth' is debt...you know its one big joke. Unfortunately, not enough of us are in on it to make any changes.
...till the powers that be have pushed a few more nasty Exec orders for him to sign then they can throw him under the bus as they planned all along.
Trump was a real gift. A guy who has zero political experience or ambition other than to tick it off a list. He has no real authenticity or bedrock support in Congress or the Senate. He's not really a Republican or a Democrat. I think the hidden elite realised he was the perfect choice for implementing the biggest range of nasty legislation and theft from the US population that no one established politician would ever dare put their name to.
He can be disposed of with little comeback to the Washington clique. The biggest political patsy ever. He and his parasitic family will in the end probably walk away with a billion dollars though and that's the hard part to swallow.
"Well it was all Trump's doing!"
Tell me about it. I built a 5820k based rig last year. I bought all new kit apart from the two main 250GB SSDs that I had already.
This time last year it all came to £850.
The same kit today would cost £1000!
I've stopped buying SSDs to upgrade customers machines where possible. I was buying 120GB SSDs for 30-£35 a pop last year but now we are in the £55+ range.
"A Windows 10 Pro OEM license is £12 - surprised you have 'customers'"
I'm not Dell or HP. That and I don't get my license keys off Ebay either.
I sell/build maybe a dozen machines a year, mostly gaming rigs or video editing machines. Most of my work is support or consultancy.
But at the end of the day...folks still wont touch Linux with a bargepole.
Indeed. As I have said before I CAN'T GIVE LINUX AWAY!
I tell cash strapped customers they can save £100 on a box if they use Linux. I show them it will do Ebay, Facebook, Word docs etc. etc. but they all say no. They pay the extra £100.
Folks want Windows. Never had a customer take the Linux option.
And then if hundreds of millions of users switched and really started pounding Linux or any other...the same would be found I'm sure. Let's be realistic here.
Most modern software and code is pretty crap and built around the philosophy of "Don't worry about it, if a user finds a bug them fix it, if they don't...fine, don't worry about it!"
...bemoans weekly about another city pub thats been shut for 2+ years being sold up for apartments.
The local CAMRA rep always tries to get them listed as a local benefit whatever but they constantly all make the same mistake.
The fact is it's not 1972 anymore. People have other things to do with their time and money. I cannot afford to be in a pub 3-4 nights a week at £20 a go just for me or £40 if its with mates. I'm 46 and a member of CAMRA but even I can tell that half the pubs in my city are surplus to requirements. Even the pubs that thrived on lunchtime and after work drinking have gone due to changes in staff and work practices. The folks aged 18 to 25 haven't the cash either like they did 20 years ago. The nightclubs are closing rapidly too.
...aged 6!
I think one of my fave Dredd moments was when confronted by a man who could change into a man sized fly if he smelt rooting food. I can't quite remember all the exact dialogue.
Man turns into fly when confronted by Dredd, Lawgiver drawn.
Dredd - "In the name of the Law I sentence you to dea...
Fly Man's Wife (jumping in to try to stop Dredd) "Wait...why is turning into a fly against the law?"
Dredd - (Pausing, quizzical look on jaw) "Hmmm You know, I think you got me there!"
Trump was a brick in the pond moment. What it has done is expose the corruption, filth and lies in a way never seen before. It's so blatant now that its fully exposed.
This has made folks that either couldn't see it or didn't want to see it finally admit that something is wrong and it's time for change. People are waking up and realising the politicians haven't been working for them (in fact working against them) for decades.
Clinton was a prime example of that. As long as the money was flowing her way she didn't give a damn. Still doesn't.
Proof is the DNC is trying to do anything to either ignore or quash the progressive movement that wants to get rid of the corporate money in politics. Republicans with a different name.
Then just visit the Jimmy Dore page on You Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M7l8ved_rYQ45AVzS0RGA
People don't want corporate paid Democrats that don't work for them and will continue to maintain the staus quo. Clinton was just that.
Platitudes and 'values' won't cut it anymore. Single Payer or GTFO!
...2008 vintage machines. All went without a hitch. Yesterday was a 2014 laptop. All fine.
The only issue I've had was upgrading a Windows 7 machine with Office 2010 and Outlook 2013 installed. For some reason it wiped out the Outlook 2013.
Lucky I cloned before it was boned.
...kids being self appointed SJW types.
"Anything I don't believe in or agree with is wrong and should be destroyed!"
or
"If you don't believe in or agree with me you are wrong and should be destroyed!"
As mentioned on the failed US sitcom Joey.... Maybe we should go take a look in a few folders on their laptops?
...in a wave of 'companies' that are out to manipulate younger people who haven't had to fight for better working and pay conditions to say "Hey I think its cool to work like this and I'm cool with being exploited!" so the powers that be can use them to get rid of all the regulations and laws their fathers and grandfathers strove for.
Hail to the new serfdom!
Yeah it's like people saying "I don't know what those poor starving folks in Africa have to moan about, Waitrose had lobster for just £10 last week!"
My 'flagship' LG G4 is about 18 months old and now classed as a dinosaur. It got about 5 updates. Last was 12th August 2016.
The likes of HP/Dell Asus etc. can keep churning out BIOS updates and driver fixes for the dozens of models and products they produce for 3-4 years but Phone manufacturers struggle to go past 6 months.
Laughable.
After a few episodes I was going "Oh no...don't tell me...please...don't do a (insert movie trope here) on me...noooooo!"
And they did. Lazy.
I watched it to the end but I lost interest.
I too much prefer HaCF even if it does play very fast and loose with computing history. At least some of the characters are likeable.
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