Why not spend a million euros on a printer that won't fit through your door?
spike_tt
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Best posts made by spike_tt
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
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Not very positive
Linda Rogers may be a great journalist, but she's not too good at sums.
Latest posts made by spike_tt
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
Why not spend a million euros on a printer that won't fit through your door?
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Not very positive
Linda Rogers may be a great journalist, but she's not too good at sums.
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RE: Would you?
Reminds me of the time we were driving down a quiet country road at about 2am and to my surprise we came across a traffic jam. We sat patiently for 5 or 10 minutes and then I got out and walked to the front of the jam to see what the problem was.
I found cars on both sides of the road just sitting looking at a tree that had fallen down blocking the road. I went back to my car (a Landrover Defender), drove past the waiting traffic and backed up to the tree. I hooked a rope around it and was just hooking the rope up to my towbar when the driver of the front car came across. "About *$%£ing time!" he shouted., "We've been waiting here for half a %$*#ing hour!"
I unhooked the rope chucked it in the back of my Landrover, drove across a ditch to bypass the fallen tree and left them all to their now extended wait.
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RE: Management Email WTF
If your supervisor sends you an email, does he have to CC himself?
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RE: Construction WTF
@savar said:
30 minutes with a hacksaw would fix that right up. but i guess 1 minute with the wood pallet is easier.
You wouldn't even need that. If you look closely you'll see that the railing across the gap appears to be secured with nothing more than a few twists of copper wire.
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Before the internet...
I was responsible for the X.25 network joining our worldwide affiliates together. An application developer came t me one day and asked "Is it possible for us to do a test to see how my application performs when the user is in a different country to the mainframe?"
"Yes" I replied, "I can set up a loopback in Amsterdam, you can connect via Amsterdam back to the application on our mainframe here in Brussels."
"But, wouldn't that be TWO international boundaries we'd be crossing? Not really representative of a user in another country accessing us directly?"
"Well I don't think that would make a lot of difference. but we can call a user in Amsterdam and ask them to do your tests against our mainframe here."
"No, I'd like to do the tests myself."
"Well we can send your application to Amsterdam and have it installed it there. Then you an access if from here and that will be one international boundary crossing."
"That sounds like a lot of work."
"Or, you could travel to Amsterdam and access the application on our mainframe here?"
"No, I don't want to travel."
"Well if you want exactly one international boundary crossed in the test then either you or the instance of the application are going to have to be in another country."
"Is there no other way?"
"No. It's called topology."The developer wandered away looking puzzled. I then realised my boss had been listening in to this conversation. He came up to me and said "If I was the customer in that interchange, I don't think I'd feel that I'd been well served."
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RE: Marketing - by - Insult
Truprint use an even better one. Marketing by blackmail. truprint is a UK photo printing service. You register an account with them, upload your pictures and then select the ones you want printed, pay, and they send you your printed pics.
I must say their service is cheap, good quality and fast. I planned to use them a lot. But then for a while I just didn't take any pictures.
Then one day I got an email from them basically saying "You haven't asked us to print any pictures recently. Unless you order some pictures through us within the next 30 days we will close your account."
I mailed them back "I'm not scared of you. Do your worst".
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RE: XXXXXXXXXXX
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But surely the BBC News home page is http://news.bbc.co.uk ?