Isolated Blurt Thread

[Hypoxia]

I really don't see the issue computers have with 20 or more open apps and 100 or more open windows. I mean, if you can't handle a little data, just don't call yourself a computer. Seriously!

Back in the day, a 'computer' was a woman with an adding machine.

 

[Handley_Page]

Back in the day, a 'computer' was a woman with an adding machine.

Would those be "comptometers"?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Long time no see

I've been lurking less and less lately.

TGP!
What gives? Any romance yet?

Hehehe... Nope. Can't even get a hookup through Tinder.

 

[legerdemer]

Back in the day, a 'computer' was a woman with an adding machine.

Would those be "comptometers"?

Hehe. Shades of the ladies of Bletchley Park.

 

[TxRad]

"Finding a Friend for the End of the World"

Weird movie but interesting.

 

[Handley_Page]

Hehe. Shades of the ladies of Bletchley Park.

Ah, the forgotten heroes.
Another group were the ladies at Los Alamos doing all those repetitive calculations.

"Finding a Friend for the End of the World"

Weird movie but interesting.

Never heard of it; sorry.

 

[oggbashan]

I lost a key fob for one of my ancient Volvos - not the key, but the remote door opener/closer that also operates the alarm system.

I tried five local locksmiths. The advice from all was 'Only Volvo Dealers can help'.

So last week I went to our local Volvo Dealership, and today I have a new, programmed key fob.

Cost?

£120 plus 20% Tax.

Ouch!

 

[Hypoxia]

I lost a key fob for one of my ancient Volvos - not the key, but the remote door opener/closer that also operates the alarm system.

I tried five local locksmiths. The advice from all was 'Only Volvo Dealers can help'.

So last week I went to our local Volvo Dealership, and today I have a new, programmed key fob.

Cost?

£120 plus 20% Tax.

Ouch!

Indeed. A new fob for our not-so-ancient Nissan Murano cost US$160 and that was from a discounter -- Nissan's retail was US$240. Yikes. And that's basically for US$1.95 worth of plastic and circuitry. We wuz robbed.

 

[Handley_Page]

I lost a key fob for one of my ancient Volvos - not the key, but the remote door opener/closer that also operates the alarm system.

I tried five local locksmiths. The advice from all was 'Only Volvo Dealers can help'.

So last week I went to our local Volvo Dealership, and today I have a new, programmed key fob.

Cost?

£120 plus 20% Tax.

Ouch!

Indeed. A new fob for our not-so-ancient Nissan Murano cost US$160 and that was from a discounter -- Nissan's retail was US$240. Yikes. And that's basically for US$1.95 worth of plastic and circuitry. We wuz robbed.

Oh how true.
I have a 10-year old Vauxhall. The key mechanism (the button) has broken and Vauxhall want £135 plus VAT, and the garage wants it's slice as well.

Why do the makers have to do things so complicated ?

 

[oggbashan]

Oh how true.
I have a 10-year old Vauxhall. The key mechanism (the button) has broken and Vauxhall want £135 plus VAT, and the garage wants it's slice as well.

Why do the makers have to do things so complicated ?

So their cars won't get stolen?

But who would want to steal your ancient Vauxhall and my ancient Volvo?

 

[Handley_Page]

So their cars won't get stolen?

But who would want to steal your ancient Vauxhall and my ancient Volvo?

An excellent point.
Even with fewer than 70 thou on the clock. . . .

 

[Hypoxia]

Why do the makers have to do things so complicated ?

Surely, you jest.

Money.

Money.

Money.

Customers can be forced to cough up hundreds of bucks-euros-quid for a few cents' worth of technology. That's free enterprise in action, folks. Steve Jobs would be proud.

 

[loquere]

"Hello darkness my old friend."

 

[respeito]

it's too early this morning for you to destroy my patience. i [literally] don't have the energy to play a game of semantics with you.

 

[loquere]

it's too early this morning for you to destroy my patience. i [literally] don't have the energy to play a game of semantics with you.

Why??

 

[Handley_Page]

Why??

Perhaps it's a marked lack of Lucozade ?

 

[stickygirl]

Unreadable news sites
wassat all about?
Autoplay loud video ads
wassat all about?
Katie Hopkins still alive
wassat all about?

 

[Handley_Page]

Unreadable news sites
wassat all about?
Autoplay loud video ads
wassat all about?
Katie Hopkins still alive
wassat all about?

Good Morning, girl,
R U Well ?

I suspect it's all about that ghastly time between loosing patience with 'politicos' on Radio /TV and being bored with their constant sniping.

 

[loquere]

Good morning, Lit!

 

[oggbashan]

I posted some of my older stories in a Yahoo Adult Group.

Within hours a member had noticed I had made a mistake in a character's name in the fourth to last paragraph of several Lit pages.

Someone was reading carefully.

I have now edited the version on that group, and submitted an edit to Lit.

It's great to have involved readers.

 

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[loquere]

I posted some of my older stories in a Yahoo Adult Group.

Within hours a member had noticed I had made a mistake in a character's name in the fourth to last paragraph of several Lit pages.

Someone was reading carefully.

I have now edited the version on that group, and submitted an edit to Lit.

It's great to have involved readers.

We all make mistakes, I don't say anything when I notice it in others work, because I can relate now that I write. Before I began writing I was a overly critical douche.

 

[oggbashan]

We all make mistakes, I don't say anything when I notice it in others work, because I can relate now that I write. Before I began writing I was a overly critical douche.

But I don't mind when the comment is "I loved it (because) but I noticed..."

 

[loquere]

But I don't mind when the comment is "I loved it (because) but I noticed..."

Yes, that's constructive criticism. The type we don't like are the opposite of constructive, and usually penned by lit trolls.

 

[Hypoxia]

Yes, that's constructive criticism. The type we don't like are the opposite of constructive, and usually penned by lit trolls.

Oh, you mean comments like DIE FUCKTARD or QUIT WRITING TILL YOU LEARN HOW, stuff like that? I take those as misplaced complements. They were so affected by what they read that they were driven to respond. I pushed their buttons. Zap.