Posts by Handel was a crank

Re: So, shoot the messenger is still well and alive

To be fair, he didn't say that said person would be operating] the deep fryer...

Musicians become obsolete? I doubt it, unless people suddenly prefer to see ChatGPT live instead of flesh and blood.

Re: What strikes us as odd...

About ten years ago I visited the air museum near York. There were four aircraft in their collection that I had worked on back when I was in avionics. (Is there a Zimmer frame icon?)

Re: Social media, the least social thing ever invented by the human race!

Why would we assume a Suffolk accent when you were in Kent?

Re: Randi died

Indeed Randi wasn't a good scientist, but then again he never claimed that he was. He was an accomplished stage magician that could see when somebody was using such techniques.

Re: No brainer

You missed out "chuckling at a colleague that tries to use your computer and wonders why the pointer fails to move as they push the mouse around your desk"

Re: Protection Quality

No, that isn't what Apple offers. My 2012 MacBook Pro stopped talking to internal drives earlier this year. Do I get repairs with quality spares from Apple? Do I fuck, I just get the option to buy a new MacBook.

Divide pizza? Sod that, this is my pizza, buy your own

Re: Big drinkers?

UK: "Er, actually can I have it back? And another. And another. And..."

Re: felt pad

Rest assured, you were not the only one to undergo that thought process

Re: ".....how much smartphones have become essential everyday tools in our modern lives"

A friend of mine is currently job hunting. Right now, try telling her that phone and internet isn't essential.

Re: Developer PC

"So, exactly how much pr0n could you view on a Model 30 ? Or did it take that long to generate one ascii image?"

Ha! This was in the days of the stash of a certain type of magazine in a colleague's desk, some of which featured a young lady who used to be a secretary in our department.

Re: What could possibly go wrong,..

Not to mention that the kids they are trying to 'protect' will be savvy enough to easily circumvent these restrictions anyway. Waste of time and money.

Re: Obviously...

That's ok, we don't want to work for someone that can't pluralise a simple word such as "hippy".

Re: Several approaches

I’ve recently cottoned on to the fact that all the “we’re calling about your accident” calls I get are automated, so I have a little fun now. Admittedly you do get some funny looks in the office when you are overheard saying something like “would that be the one involving a cheese grater and my lacerated penis”.

Well, it’s something to do, innit.

Anyone else for Pogle's Wood?

It probably wasn't, but I remember it being rather creepy

Re: Coincidence?

Somebody attempted to buy stuff on my credit card from Argos and train tickets from Thameslink three weeks ago, so that's explained now.

And thanks for storing my unencrypted information.

Luckily the bank spotted it.

Re: Actual accidents

I go with either "which one? I've had so many!" or "you'll be able to tell me my name then". Both of these are generally followed by "sorry to have bothered you" *click*.

Occasionally I just go with a foul mouthed rant though.

Re: Twelve =/= teen

ThirTEEN

FourTEEN

FifTEEN

SixTEEN

SevenTEEN

EighTEEN

NineTEEN

Re: So ?

I for one would like to welcome our new indefatigable sex-mad robot overlords.

Re: Freeview USB sticks

Yup, approximately three or four miles from Blue Bell Hill more-or-less line of sight, albeit through an aerial amplifier.

People who have better things to spend their money on.

My 32" in our reasonably large living room is plenty large enough, I can see enough detail from my usual viewing location. In fact I find those who have 60" screens on the wall of their tiny Victorian terrace or modern starter home utterly ridiculous and you end up with a cricked neck watching them because they require a viewing angle of nearly 45 degrees.

In fact most people I know don't have anything above about 36".

It doesn't make the programs any less shit either way.

Yes, almost exactly like Question Time but without the pretty pictures.

Yup, great isn't, reducing songwriters and musicians to unpaid monkeys for your sharing pleasure. Good luck with that. You get what you pay for.

Hmm, let me see. Perhaps in the interview they are trying to check what the actual depth of your knowledge is and that you haven't been embellishing the truth or outright lying on your CV?

not BS

I'm guessing you're on the lower IQ end of the Opera users as you clearly didn't properly read what the OP typed.

USB

I think if that were a problem inherent with USB interfaces that there wouldn't be so many available. Certainly never experienced audio dropout on any I have tried. My overiding impression of audio interfaces over the years is that often the interface type is less relevant than the quality of the drivers. I get a similar level of performance with my Focusrite Saffire 6 USB that I used to achieve with a Terratec Phase 24 Firewire.

@right wing paranoid nut

That's right, the Guardian was far worse for law breaking in the name of collecting news - you can tell by the acres and acres of stories in the Telegraph about it.

Er...

Erm...

Little bit worried that it appears from that message that you learned to drive on the right in the UK and are driving on the left in France....

Distractions

That's right, 'cause those special glasses you needed to wear for technicolor were so inconvenient...