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They have been a private company since Wednesday and the service has got worse!
1.00pm and still no post delivered.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Mine came on time; Pat gets here around 11 every day. Everything's for me today, well they are bills. 
speramus in juniperus
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arnt they on strike (again)!
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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That's nothing.
I know of one private company that took weeks just to upload its web-site.
It would have been quicker to carry the files to the server in a bucket.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hey, that was technical issues beyond my control!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Ah, I see.
The wrong kind of leaves/snow/rain/workers (delete as applicable).
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They probably used a shopping cart instead of a bucket. This makes it more difficult to bring the files down the stairs to the server room...
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... And then he stuck a "Stannah" label on the shopping cart, and put it up for sale for 3,000 quid.
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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.
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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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