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Last Thursday I received two small packages, where only the house number and town was the same as mine: the name, street and postcode were all clearly different. Obviously the system had collapsed overnight, or the postmen's guide dogs* were having an off day.
* - "seeing-eye dogs" for people who say that sort of thing
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viaducting wrote: * - "seeing-eye dogs" for people who say that sort of thing
I think that that's a very insensitive thing for people to say, as it implies "non-seeing eyes" to people who may feel very vulnerable.
Translation: What goes around, comes around, so casting out motes, an' all that...
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I received a letter a while ago from the company I work for, and they had forgotten to put the first line of my address on. So no house number or street, just my name, the name of the village, and the postal town. No postcode either.
It still got delivered, although I believe that postman* was swiftly dismissed for showing too much initiative.
* she was a woman, but still a postman.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Do you mind? I own £750, no sorry, £1000 worth of that company.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Not for long, soon only be £400 
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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But that's no reason why we shouldn't still blame Rob for everything.
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I'll send you an update tomorrow when I've sold out and cashed in!
Unrealistically bearish.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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£4.87 at present. £1105, but I'm holding on cos its not there yet...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Dalek Dave wrote: They have been a private company since Wednesday and the service has got worse!
surely they'd have to improve first!
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I'm fed up with hearing this ungrammatical and poorly conceived slogan, over the past weeks.
Does anyone in the world outside of MS buildings think that it even comes close to being a good idea?
Replacing everything with ribbons and baby-blocks might be fine for children's toys (and is actually OK for phones), but our livelihood relies on computerised equipment.
I don't want them all to have the same operating system/control interface; I want each to have an appropriate OS/interface.
What MS is saying is analogous to demanding that motorbikes and cars be given the same OS/interface as skateboards.
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As usual, it is a question of compromise. Some things are useful when standard (copy&paste or zooming keyboard shortcuts, for instance), some others are not (windows placement, for instance).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: copy&paste, menus, toolbars, or zooming keyboard shortcuts, for instance
You missed a bit.
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The pattern is that it takes MS about two attempts at anything new to make it useful, three to get it right. I think the one-OS thing is the correct way forward, just MS should have managed the transition from away from the "start" button a bit better/more gradually and allow a more "flavoured" UI specialising more in desktop or touch. The thing that has annoyed me most is the way MS has digged it's heels in, "we've done it this way because it's better, so we're going to ignore your feedback" seems to have been the response. I'm surprised MS hasn't learned from the Vista experience, where they were told a decent OS was being ruined by the security guff, when it went to market uptake was relatively bad because no-one wanted to authorise a program every time they used it. Eventually we got Windows 7 out of that, so hopefully when Windows 9 (or whatever) arrives it'll similarly be what Windows 8 should have been.
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Keith Barrow wrote: hopefully when Windows 9 (or whatever) arrives it'll similarly be what Windows 8 should have been
I'm actually holding off buying a new PC and laptop until I see what they do.
If it doesn't improve by a lot, I'm going with Linux.
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Me too, I'm not paying MS's R&D costs again, like I did with Vista only to have to buy Windows 7 later.
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Keith Barrow wrote: The thing that has annoyed me most is the way MS has digged it's heels in, "we've done it this way because it's better, so we're going to ignore your feedback" seems to have been the response.
It's odd that this is pretty much the exact opposite of what happened with the Xbox One. They tried to change the way that some fundamental console gaming things worked and people freaked out, so they changed it.
I, for one, was all for the changes that they were going to make because the features that were being introduced outweighed the things being sacrificed IMHO, but unfortunately, the majority of people did not agree with me... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Keith Barrow wrote: I think the one-OS thing is the correct way forward, just MS should have managed
the transition from away from the "start" button a bit better/more gradually and
allow a more "flavoured" UI specialising more in desktop or touch.
I'd argue that they moved in this direction even with Win 7. A whole slew of OS customisation options were suddenly very much harder to find - making the masses more likely to stick with the defaults, with Windows the way MS thinks it should look...
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If you look around, can see that people do not buy what they need. They look for the latest and greatest...
The One Windows should enable Microsoft to lock customers in (at least that what they learned from Apple success)...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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If MS pushes ahead with the "everything through our equivalent of itunes" thing, they'll lose me to the arms of Linux.
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In a way, I feel that this direction was chosen way back when the launched Win95. There is no reason, except for having stupid ops, for having a shiny UI on a server. Have the OS run the show and stick a UI on top; rather than making the UI party of the OS.
While we're at it, can we have all "my [insert hardware/software preference] rocks and your's sucks" lined up against a wall and shot? I don't like Apple [tried it, didn't like it], M$ is getting on my moobs but still works and everytime I try and move to Ubunto I get lost and have a hissy fit. They're all good for somethings and do Paris impressions with others. Right tool for the job is my motto.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: While we're at it, can we have all "my [insert hardware/software preference] rocks and your's sucks" lined up against a wall and shot?
Damned straight.
Having a preference is fine, but they all work, and other people are allowed to have preferences, too*.
* Unless they prefer iOS, of course.
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Yup.
The solution to an inferior operating system is to put a shell around it.
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I totally agree, there is no one OS that will serve every purpose although I do believe they can all play well together.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I do believe they can all play well together
They can play well with each other, too. My home network has six different OSes involved in it, and I happily shunt files around between them, in very not-difficult-technical-stuff ways -- the most difficult operation technically is connecting progs on iOS through itunes.
If that's not proof enough that they don't all have to be the same, then I don't know what is.
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